The Matt Walsh Show - July 20, 2020


Ep. 524 - Public School Teachers Insist That Public School Is Not Essential. They’re Right.


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A public school teacher says she won t return to the classroom until there's a cure for the coronavirus. Plus, Kanye West's pro-life plea, and whether a Black woman should get an exemption from cultural appropriation.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats, the media, and many public school teachers themselves are now, in response to the coronavirus, in effect arguing that public school is inessential and expendable.
00:00:12.900 And although I disagree with their take on the coronavirus, I agree with them on this point that public school is inessential, and I think we should take them at their word, actually.
00:00:21.300 Also, five headlines, including Kanye's powerful pro-life plea, and in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss whether a black woman doing Irish dance should get an exemption from the cultural appropriation charge, or should everybody be held to the same cultural appropriation standard, or should we just do away with the whole concept of cultural appropriation because the concept is itself absurd, stupid, insane, and many other things as well.
00:00:49.200 We'll talk about all that coming up, but first, we'll start here.
00:00:51.760 An article in the New York Times really captures the heroism and courage of our sainted public school teachers.
00:01:00.080 This is the article written by a public school teacher named Rebecca Martinson, and it says,
00:01:06.880 I won't return to the classroom, and you shouldn't ask me to.
00:01:09.860 Please don't make me risk getting COVID-19 to teach your child.
00:01:13.440 As I said, just incredible courage and heroism on display there from Rebecca Martinson.
00:01:22.000 Let's read a little bit of this.
00:01:23.140 She says,
00:01:23.640 Every day when I walk into work as a public school teacher, I am prepared to take a bullet to save a child.
00:01:28.680 In the age of school shootings, that's what the job requires.
00:01:31.640 But asking me to return to the classroom amid a pandemic and expose myself and my family to COVID-19 is like asking me to take that bullet home to my own family.
00:01:41.360 I won't do it, and you shouldn't want me to.
00:01:44.220 Okay, so she claims that she would happily jump in front of a bullet, but she won't go to work when there's a pandemic that poses almost no risk to children and only a very moderate risk to middle-aged adults.
00:02:02.700 Okay, I became an educator after a career as a nurse.
00:02:07.400 I teach medical science and introduction to nursing to 11th and 12th graders at a regional skills center that serves students from 22 different high schools and 13 different school districts.
00:02:15.600 My school district and school haven't ruled out asking us to return in person to in-person teaching in the fall as careful and proactive as the administration has been when it comes to exploring plans to return to the classroom.
00:02:25.720 Nothing I have heard reassures me that I can safely teach in person.
00:02:29.160 Now, she doesn't say what she would need to hear that reassures her that she can safely teach in person.
00:02:36.740 I guess what she needs to hear is that the virus has gone away or that there's a cure, that there's a vaccine or something.
00:02:45.080 But, you know, as I've been saying now for a while, there's no guarantee that this virus will ever go away.
00:02:52.540 There's no guarantee that there will ever be a vaccine that's even close to 100% effective.
00:02:58.200 Now, we keep reading headlines about how they're working on a vaccine, they're making progress.
00:03:02.620 Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.
00:03:05.420 But we're still really far away from a vaccine that we know actually works.
00:03:12.480 So what is she saying exactly?
00:03:16.700 Is she saying that she doesn't want to go back to teaching until there's a vaccine, no matter how long that takes?
00:03:24.660 Let's say, hypothetically, it takes two years to have an effective vaccine on the market.
00:03:32.120 She's saying we should shut down schools for two years.
00:03:35.060 Well, she doesn't say that exactly.
00:03:36.680 But this is, reading this entire article and many other articles making this case that we shouldn't open schools up,
00:03:43.500 the one thing that's almost always missing is a suggestion for another plan.
00:03:53.620 So we get a lot of complaints about the plan of opening up schools,
00:03:56.700 but none of these people will ever say what they think we should do.
00:04:00.720 All they will say is, I don't like that.
00:04:02.900 I'm going to complain and whine about that.
00:04:04.520 But in terms of what we should be doing, well, that I can't say.
00:04:08.700 Or at least I won't say.
00:04:10.400 Because they know how crazy and paranoid and selfish it would sound if they said,
00:04:15.980 yes, I think we should keep schools closed down indefinitely, even if it's for two or three years.
00:04:21.160 We should just forfeit, an entire generation of kids, we should forfeit their education.
00:04:26.940 Because I'm afraid of the virus.
00:04:28.660 They don't want to come out and say that, but that is apparently what they really think.
00:04:31.540 Let's see.
00:04:34.040 She says, if I'm asked to return to the classroom as the pandemic rages, I will have to walk away.
00:04:38.280 As deeply as I love teaching, I will not risk spreading this virus in a way that could hurt a child or a family member of a child.
00:04:43.320 While children make up a small proportion of U.S. coronavirus cases and they are less likely to become seriously ill than adults,
00:04:49.300 the virus might be linked to multisystem inflammatory system syndrome in children.
00:04:54.820 Plus, many of my students struggle with poverty or are from multigenerational households.
00:04:58.460 I will not risk passing a virus to them that they might pass to their vulnerable loved ones.
00:05:03.420 I won't do it.
00:05:05.200 It isn't fair to ask teachers to buy school supplies.
00:05:07.800 We aren't the government, but we do it anyway.
00:05:09.680 It isn't fair to ask us to stop a bullet.
00:05:11.680 We aren't soldiers, but we go to work every day knowing that if there's a school shooting, we will die protecting our students.
00:05:17.280 But this is where I draw the line.
00:05:18.700 It isn't fair to ask me to be a part of a massive, unnecessary science experiment.
00:05:22.400 I am not a human research subject.
00:05:24.000 I will not do it.
00:05:25.200 Okay.
00:05:26.340 So that's a little sample of that.
00:05:29.560 Now, first of all, for the record, no teacher anywhere has ever been asked to stop a bullet.
00:05:39.360 That is melodramatic nonsense.
00:05:42.280 And we get this kind of thing a lot from teachers.
00:05:44.300 Constantly making these self-aggrandizing exaggerations.
00:05:47.260 Obviously, there is no school system anywhere that tells teachers to dive in front of live bullets.
00:05:54.960 That's not happening.
00:05:56.420 That is not the lockdown procedure at any school where the teachers are required to be human shields.
00:06:03.080 Yes, some teachers have died in school shootings, and some have chosen to be heroic and sacrifice themselves.
00:06:09.460 There have been cases of that.
00:06:11.200 We honor the teachers that do that.
00:06:13.160 That is, they really are heroes.
00:06:15.220 There's absolutely no exaggerating there.
00:06:16.740 I mean, that is heroism.
00:06:21.720 But a person choosing to be a hero isn't the same as asking every teacher to be a hero.
00:06:30.060 Part of the whole point of being a hero, in fact, is that you're doing what you're not asked to do.
00:06:33.580 You're going well above and beyond what you've been asked to do.
00:06:37.240 You're going beyond the call of duty.
00:06:40.080 And by the way, we don't ask soldiers to jump in front of bullets either.
00:06:44.220 I won't jump in front of a bullet.
00:06:46.360 I'm not a soldier.
00:06:47.140 Well, we don't tell soldiers to do that either.
00:06:49.740 We ask them to kill the bad guys.
00:06:51.500 But they aren't required to dive in the line of fire on purpose.
00:06:54.680 Again, some do heroically, and those are the ones we rightfully reward with the, you know, posthumously with the Medal of Honor and other honors as well.
00:07:01.900 But they aren't asked to.
00:07:04.940 And that's a distinction that really matters.
00:07:07.680 Because this is a mischaracterization, a kind of hyperbole that's meant to emotionally manipulate.
00:07:14.220 We're meant to see teachers as literal martyrs who are always asked and required to be superheroes.
00:07:20.280 And I guess the idea is now they're fed up, and they've had enough, and we've asked too much of them, and they're drawing the line.
00:07:26.080 That's the idea.
00:07:26.860 That's how it's being presented, and it's just not true.
00:07:29.020 And by the way, I'm sorry, I don't, the idea, this woman, I don't know anything about her.
00:07:34.500 I'm sure she's a perfectly nice woman. 1.00
00:07:35.800 But the idea that she, her claim that she would willingly jump in front of a bullet for her students, but she won't go to school during coronavirus, I don't buy that.
00:07:48.040 I'm sorry.
00:07:48.720 I don't buy it.
00:07:49.780 On one hand, you're claiming that you will sacrifice your very lives for your kids and for the sake of education, but you're too scared to go teach during coronavirus.
00:07:59.560 Don't buy it.
00:08:00.680 Not true.
00:08:01.640 And don't try to pass this off.
00:08:02.900 Oh, no, I'm not worried about myself.
00:08:04.180 I'm worried about passing this on to the kids.
00:08:06.240 Oh, baloney.
00:08:07.400 That's not it at all.
00:08:08.460 Kids, we'll show you the numbers here in a minute.
00:08:11.660 But as this woman well knows, and she briefly mentions and then moves on from, kids only very rarely contract this, and even more rarely is it fatal for them.
00:08:22.660 Let's go to the, in fact, we went over this last week.
00:08:25.060 Let's look at the comparison between how COVID affects especially kids as compared to the flu.
00:08:34.500 But let's look at this chart from the CDC, and you see the total death counts.
00:08:39.540 And this really puts things into perspective.
00:08:41.020 As of July 15th, there had been around 120,000 COVID deaths.
00:08:48.180 31 of those deaths were kids age 0 to 14.
00:08:52.900 That's about 0.03% of the total.
00:08:58.920 The flu killed three times as many kids in that age range in that same amount of time.
00:09:05.680 Now, if you look up, if you look up the age bar, you see the vast majority of deaths are in the 75 and up bracket.
00:09:18.300 And a great preponderance of those deaths were in nursing homes and were due oftentimes to horrible policy decisions made by people like Andrew Cuomo.
00:09:26.300 The 65 and up bracket accounts for, you know, you add that up.
00:09:31.260 So you've got 75 and up bracket.
00:09:32.980 That's where most of the deaths are.
00:09:35.340 If you go down to the 65 and up, so retirement age on up, that's going to be almost, what, 100,000 deaths right there.
00:09:44.120 So 65 and up, that's almost all of the deaths.
00:09:47.620 That's 80 to 85% of the deaths.
00:09:50.860 Most teachers are going to be in the 35 to 44 range.
00:09:54.960 The average age of a teacher in America is, I think, 41.
00:09:57.980 I looked it up last week.
00:09:58.800 I'll look it up again.
00:09:59.260 But I think it's 41 is the average age of a teacher.
00:10:02.180 So they account for, and by they I mean that entire age group, accounts for less than 2% of all COVID deaths.
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00:11:50.080 Okay, so we're just going through the numbers here.
00:11:53.400 And, you know, they're very clear.
00:11:54.980 We have plenty of data at this point to make some determinations.
00:11:58.680 One of which is that COVID is not even close to a significant threat to children.
00:12:07.640 They're very unlikely to spread it, very unlikely to contract it, even more unlikely to die from it.
00:12:13.160 And before you get into the, well, even one death is too much, are you saying that, you know, 30 deaths is okay with you?
00:12:21.980 No, no death is okay with me.
00:12:24.020 If it were up to me and I could make the decision, of course, I wouldn't want to see anyone die at all, obviously.
00:12:30.840 Every death is a tragedy, especially when it's a child.
00:12:32.740 But you can't argue that, okay, you can't argue for shutting down schools on the basis of the threat it poses to children because of COVID and then justify it by saying even one death is too much.
00:12:49.020 You cannot do that if you haven't also argued for shutting schools down during flu season, which is a disease, again, that kills three times as many children.
00:13:00.880 This is an inescapable, logical conclusion.
00:13:05.720 If at least part of your reason for wanting to shut down schools is that it's killed, you know, a few dozen children, school-aged children, if that's even part of your reason, then you should have been advocating for shutting down schools during flu season.
00:13:27.360 And probably you haven't.
00:13:29.440 Now, yes, you have isolated cases when the flu season gets really bad or hits a particular area really hard.
00:13:37.520 You have isolated cases around the country every once in a while where a school system shuts down temporarily.
00:13:42.500 But something like this, where we shut down the schools indefinitely across the entire country, 50 million kids no longer going to school, we've never done anything even close to that for the flu.
00:13:55.500 Even though for the third time, and I'm going to keep saying it, the flu is a much, much, much greater threat to children than COVID, even with a vaccine, still is.
00:14:07.700 And I think we have to keep emphasizing this because there's no getting around it.
00:14:14.660 If you're someone advocating for shutting schools down and you haven't advocated it for the flu, it doesn't make any sense.
00:14:20.400 You're being a hypocrite.
00:14:21.280 And you know it.
00:14:22.100 You know it.
00:14:23.040 You know your position doesn't make any sense.
00:14:25.060 Now, you know, someone on Twitter, and of course we also acknowledge, though, that this is, we're talking about the threat it poses to kids.
00:14:40.400 And the reason I'm emphasizing that is because that's the emphasis we're getting from the media and from a lot of school teachers and people that are advocating for shutting schools down.
00:14:51.280 Yes, they're also saying it's a threat to adults, but what they're emphasizing is the threat to kids.
00:14:57.820 And they're saying that we cannot put our kids in harm's way.
00:14:59.820 They're using the kids as the excuse. 0.98
00:15:02.480 And if you're doing that, then we have just, you have just, then the flu is going to enter the chat because that is a very relevant aspect of this.
00:15:11.060 Now, it is substantially more dangerous to adults than to kids.
00:15:13.960 That's true.
00:15:15.120 It's still not fatal to well over 99% of adults who are likely to be working in schools.
00:15:21.500 Yes, any adult whose retirement age or over should probably just retire.
00:15:26.520 But if you're 30, 35, 40, you'll probably be okay.
00:15:30.620 I'm 34 myself.
00:15:32.460 I haven't gotten COVID yet, as far as I know.
00:15:36.220 But I probably will eventually.
00:15:38.640 You know, somebody on Twitter said to me today, you know, watch what happens to you when you get it.
00:15:42.640 Then you'll be sorry for saying all this.
00:15:45.300 And I said, yeah, I probably will get it.
00:15:47.680 You're right.
00:15:48.060 But it's probably going to be endemic like the flu.
00:15:51.460 I've had the flu.
00:15:52.520 Had it recently.
00:15:53.780 Wasn't fun.
00:15:55.520 And yes, I'll probably get this too eventually.
00:15:58.120 So will you, whoever you are out there watching this.
00:16:01.520 I hate to tell you, you're probably going to get coronavirus eventually if you haven't already.
00:16:05.540 Doesn't mean I want to.
00:16:08.000 Doesn't mean I'm going out to try to infect myself.
00:16:10.040 I'm not going to a coronavirus party to intentionally infect myself like they used to do with the chicken pox parties and stuff. 0.97
00:16:18.320 I'm not doing that.
00:16:21.620 But I probably will get it.
00:16:24.340 The point is, I'm going to have to function in society in spite of that risk.
00:16:31.260 And society is going to have to function in spite of that risk.
00:16:39.480 One way or another, eventually, we're all going to have to just figure out how to continue on with our lives, even knowing that this threat, this risk is out there.
00:16:48.520 Because what's probably going to happen is that the coronavirus is going to become one of the many threats that we all face as we go about our daily lives.
00:16:59.440 One of the many things that could kill us as we go about our daily lives.
00:17:03.180 One of the many things that eventually will kill us because we're all going to die.
00:17:09.420 For the umpteenth time, that doesn't mean that we're okay with it or we're nihilistic or we're saying, oh, just take me coronavirus, I don't care if I die.
00:17:15.320 No one has that view.
00:17:17.160 Of course not.
00:17:18.520 But either we're going to function as a human society or not.
00:17:25.300 The only other option is what exactly?
00:17:30.680 The total abandonment of human society?
00:17:34.460 But here's the greater point to all of this, I think.
00:17:37.120 And this cannot be emphasized enough.
00:17:40.540 That what schools are doing here, I mean, what that article I just read to you.
00:17:45.100 It's one long article basically making the case that schools are not essential.
00:17:51.660 Grocery store workers have been working this entire time.
00:17:57.220 You know, we can think of many different bus drivers and we can think of many different people working public transportation, which is pretty damn high risk.
00:18:11.860 We can think of many different types of jobs where they've been going to work.
00:18:16.360 People working at Walmart have been going to work this entire time, have been granted status of essential workers.
00:18:24.040 And the interesting thing is there hasn't been nearly as much hand-wringing over grocery store employees and the risk that they're in as it is now over teachers.
00:18:33.040 And I think part of the reason for that is that, you know, even though I'm opposed to the government being able to stand up there and declare who is essential and who isn't.
00:18:47.220 And, of course, every job is essential, at least to the people that are working that job.
00:18:52.680 It's essential to their families, so essential in a very real way.
00:18:55.460 I don't like the idea of the government declaring who's essential and who isn't.
00:18:58.520 But certainly, I don't think anyone disagrees that grocery stores are essential.
00:19:04.880 And that's why there wasn't nearly as much hand-wringing, because we all said, well, grocery stores need to stay open.
00:19:12.860 And, you know, if you choose to work for a grocery store, then you're going to go to work and you're going to have a job, you're going to have a salary.
00:19:18.080 A lot of people don't.
00:19:19.980 If you decide that that's too much of a risk, then, you know, you can quit that job.
00:19:24.040 But there hasn't really been anyone, there's been hardly anyone arguing that we should just shut down grocery stores, right?
00:19:31.380 Because we say we need it for society.
00:19:35.460 Now, up until this, most of the people arguing for shutting down schools, up until the coronavirus, they would have been the ones saying, yeah, schools are absolutely essential.
00:19:47.200 They're even more than grocery stores, if anything.
00:19:49.960 We, you know, we have to have schools open.
00:19:52.080 Kids need it.
00:19:55.540 There's no way to replace that educational experience that they get inside the schools.
00:20:00.620 That's what we've been told for years.
00:20:03.960 Everyone who opposes homeschooling, and there used to be a lot of people who opposed homeschooling.
00:20:10.300 I should know, as a homeschool advocate for years, I've been dealing with these people.
00:20:13.320 And they all said, there's no replacing this.
00:20:17.420 You've got to send them into the schools.
00:20:18.740 It's an essential need that kids have to go to school and be a part of that school experience.
00:20:23.940 Now, all at once, it seems like, all the people that have been arguing that for years are saying, oh, never mind.
00:20:32.340 Actually, schools aren't essential.
00:20:33.520 We can shut them down indefinitely.
00:20:36.580 You know, we shut them down for half the school year last year.
00:20:38.680 Shut them down for another school year.
00:20:40.860 They'll be fine.
00:20:42.420 You know, the kids, it's not going to hurt the kids much.
00:20:44.720 They'll be okay.
00:20:45.160 And the thing is, I agree.
00:20:50.660 You know, I agree that the public school education system is not essential.
00:20:55.000 Even more than not essential, it is oftentimes actively harmful.
00:21:01.220 But I've been saying that for a long time.
00:21:02.780 That's always been my position.
00:21:04.220 I think that parents can step in and fill the gap and do, in fact, an even better job, a much better job, oftentimes,
00:21:10.820 than the public school system can do in educating children.
00:21:13.080 When you're educating your own child, nobody knows your child better than you do.
00:21:19.280 And no one can give your child a more personalized, customized education than you can.
00:21:28.740 You put a kid into a classroom with 30 other students, and they go from classroom to classroom.
00:21:33.080 They have a teacher for 45 minutes or an hour.
00:21:34.760 They go to the next one.
00:21:35.600 You know, you're putting them on the factory assembly line and just sending them down the conveyor belt.
00:21:43.840 And everybody has to fit into that particular mold.
00:21:46.980 And all the kids who don't fit into the mold are basically abandoned by the system and have no chance of really learning anything.
00:21:54.340 That's a terrible way to educate kids.
00:21:56.480 They'd be much better off at home.
00:21:58.300 I believe that.
00:21:59.000 But the point is that most of the people who would have strenuously objected to that idea are now saying public school system is not essential.
00:22:10.440 And we should remember that.
00:22:11.500 Because eventually, whenever it happens, you know, whether it's a vaccine or whatever, and they start opening up the schools again, and a lot of the people that were saying schools are not essential will go right back to saying, oh, yeah, there's nothing more important than education.
00:22:28.800 Got to get the kids into the schools.
00:22:30.540 No.
00:22:31.500 We can't allow them to do that.
00:22:33.620 We have to remember what they've been saying and hold them to it.
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00:24:01.040 All right, let's go to five headlines.
00:24:08.880 Number one, Kanye West appears to actually be running for president.
00:24:12.280 It seems.
00:24:13.180 I admit that that comes as a bit of a surprise to me.
00:24:15.120 I assume that this was all a stunt to sell albums, which I'm still not convinced it isn't.
00:24:20.960 I think maybe that is what this is.
00:24:22.760 But he did hold an actual campaign rally of sorts this weekend.
00:24:27.700 And he's got petitions to get him on the ballots in various states.
00:24:31.640 I don't know what the end game is.
00:24:33.520 Maybe the end game is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:24:36.020 Who knows?
00:24:37.520 The Kanye doubters, like myself, it's as if we've already forgotten that a reality TV game show host won the presidency in 2016.
00:24:48.380 Despite how improbable that seemed at the time to people like me.
00:24:52.760 In any case, the highlight of Kanye's event, without question, I think, was his very emotional and compelling discussion about abortion.
00:25:01.180 And he reveals some things that was new to me.
00:25:06.600 I'd never heard this before.
00:25:07.580 I'm not sure if he talked about it publicly in the past or not.
00:25:09.580 But he reveals why the issue is so important to him and why he takes it so personally.
00:25:15.060 Watch this.
00:25:15.460 And she said, I'm pregnant.
00:25:20.620 And I said, yes.
00:25:21.940 And I said, no.
00:25:22.820 No, I'm not going to tell you what was in my mind.
00:25:29.680 She was crying.
00:25:31.240 She said, I just came to her doctor.
00:25:32.840 I was like, oh my God, what's in my day?
00:25:34.420 I'm going to eat.
00:25:35.240 Because I was having my adult in the breakfast life.
00:25:38.200 So she said, she said, she was pregnant.
00:25:42.240 And for one month and two months and three months, we talked about her not having this child.
00:25:50.900 She had the pills in her hand.
00:25:52.720 People know these pills where you take the pills.
00:25:55.380 And if you take it, it's a wrap.
00:25:56.900 The baby's gone.
00:25:57.700 My mom saved my life.
00:26:00.940 My dad wanted to abort me.
00:26:05.540 My mom saved my life.
00:26:08.740 There would have been no Kanye West.
00:26:11.060 Because my dad was too busy.
00:26:27.700 Now, Kanye has obviously sustained a lot of criticism recently when he put out the Christian album.
00:26:54.120 And he was coming out in support of Donald Trump, even though I guess he's backtracked from that recently and said he doesn't support Trump anymore.
00:27:01.120 But all of that criticism was nothing in comparison to what's coming to Kanye now.
00:27:08.900 Because once you start talking about abortion, and especially you talk about it the way that he is, that's a powerful testimony.
00:27:15.020 Not only as a man who, as he says, almost was never born, and his life was saved by his mother, but he is admitting that he himself, if it were up to him, would have aborted his child.
00:27:34.120 And his wife stepped in and said, no, we're not going to do that.
00:27:36.380 But now he's looking at his daughter and is obviously grateful every day that he didn't make such a horrible choice.
00:27:41.980 That is, that's a very powerful testimony to hear from someone, a man, a black man, you know.
00:27:52.360 And the left cannot tolerate that.
00:27:54.820 They simply, they can't have someone going around saying this kind of thing about abortion, their holy sacrament.
00:28:01.720 So just watch, if you thought it was bad before, you're going to see the treatment now that Kanye gets, and it's going to be, it already has been ugly.
00:28:13.380 Number two, as we get close to, I guess, our third straight month of leftist violence and chaos, there are no signs of it letting up.
00:28:20.700 Here are just some examples over the weekend.
00:28:22.620 Here are a leftist in Seattle breaking into an Amazon store to steal stuff.
00:28:31.720 And then we go over to Portland, there's rioting in Portland featuring the familiar serial arson.
00:28:37.400 And here are some Antifa terrorists trying to start fires in the city.
00:28:44.500 And it's not just Portland and Seattle either.
00:28:46.580 Let's be clear about that.
00:28:47.520 18 officers were injured while protecting a Christopher Columbus statue from being torn down in Chicago.
00:28:53.340 And you could see how they were injured.
00:28:57.300 Here are the, quote, unquote, protesters throwing rocks and bottles and other assorted projectiles at the officers.
00:29:03.180 Remember two things, though, folks.
00:29:27.920 Number one, first of all, all the people you've seen in those videos, those are poor, starving children who just want some bread, according to AOC.
00:29:35.560 They just want bread, that's all.
00:29:37.340 Why won't someone give them some bread?
00:29:38.740 That's all they're looking for.
00:29:40.020 They're going into an Amazon store looking for bread.
00:29:41.980 I don't think they're going to find any there.
00:29:43.700 But that's it.
00:29:44.520 These are starving people who desperately are, they're just committing crime out of desperation because they're on the brink of starvation.
00:29:52.040 And they figure the only way to survive is to throw bottles at police officers.
00:29:57.960 Makes a lot of sense.
00:29:59.340 And second, also remember that even in spite of everything you've seen there and everything we've seen over the last two or three months, we should really be worried about the real problem.
00:30:09.880 The real threat is that federal law enforcement officers in scary camo uniforms are, quote, unquote, abducting people off the street, otherwise known as making arrests.
00:30:19.640 That's what an arrest is.
00:30:49.640 Are we now saying that arrests have to be consensual?
00:30:53.140 Is this a no means no situation where the person could say, no, officer, I prefer not to be arrested today, in fact.
00:30:59.940 Maybe try back tomorrow, but I'm just not in the mood for an arrest.
00:31:03.160 Oh, okay, if you don't want to be arrested, then never mind.
00:31:05.320 Have a great day.
00:31:07.440 And we laugh about it, but that is really actually what the left wants.
00:31:11.460 That's basically their vision of how policing should work.
00:31:13.940 Number three, reading from The Daily Wire, it says,
00:31:18.820 A pair of doctors in Australia want to do away with terms like Adam's apple and Achilles tendon, with one doctor calling them misogynistic.
00:31:28.600 Dr. Kristen Small, a Queensland specialist, obstetrician, gynecologist, and anatomy lecturer, calls for the terms to be phased out, saying that they represent older generations.
00:31:37.660 I think we have personal choice to decolonize our language, and these historical terms will fade out, says Small.
00:31:44.580 She still teaches the terms known as eponyms for exam purposes, but notes that there are alternatives for the dead man's names.
00:31:51.940 She says the century-old anatomical terms are named after old men, kings, and heroes.
00:31:57.600 And I guess we've got to get rid of Adam's apple, because it's believed to be named after the biblical figure of Adam, okay?
00:32:05.100 Of course, Achilles tendon named after the Greek hero of the Trojan War.
00:32:08.600 I don't know why that's sexist exactly, but apparently it is.
00:32:12.240 We have to get rid of that.
00:32:13.400 You know, this is another thing that we kind of laugh about because it's so silly, and it is silly,
00:32:18.500 but there is, we always have to remember with these PC name changes, there's something nefarious under the surface of this,
00:32:26.060 and because it's all about control.
00:32:27.480 It's about controlling what we say, how we speak, controlling the language.
00:32:31.840 It's something the left has been doing for a long time, and they've been very successful.
00:32:36.460 It's been one of their most successful ploys and tactics.
00:32:41.120 Let's go to number four.
00:32:43.740 Well, we call this segment five headlines, so here is the headline.
00:32:46.820 Claremont 13-year-old dies after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
00:32:54.280 This is the headline from Los Angeles, the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles.
00:33:00.440 That's it.
00:33:01.580 Claremont 13-year-old dies after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
00:33:05.800 And other outlets like the Daily Mail have picked this up and had almost exactly the same headline.
00:33:11.320 Now, you read that, you think that's obviously horrible.
00:33:16.820 And you read through it.
00:33:19.080 Now, I read the article.
00:33:20.560 It's not until you get to, let's see, one, two, three, four, five.
00:33:25.720 You have to get six paragraphs in before you get to this.
00:33:29.580 On July 9th, Mac, the boy's mother, took him to get tested for COVID-19.
00:33:34.620 That test came back negative.
00:33:37.960 The mother says his symptoms matched, but then the test came out negative,
00:33:40.860 so we were a little bit confused.
00:33:42.080 Okay, so what we have here, put it in the headline, dies after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
00:33:48.040 Don't tell us until six paragraphs in.
00:33:49.740 He tested negative for the virus.
00:33:52.580 So all we have from this story, all we know is that this was a child.
00:33:58.280 He had COVID symptoms, which means what?
00:34:01.280 Fever, coughing, that sort of thing.
00:34:03.340 And then he died.
00:34:05.000 So what we know for sure is that it's a terrible tragedy.
00:34:08.080 But that's all we know for sure.
00:34:11.240 And we also know he tested negative for COVID-19.
00:34:14.300 Now, that doesn't mean he didn't have it.
00:34:16.800 You could get a false negative.
00:34:18.460 That does happen.
00:34:20.540 But there's no reason at all to assume he had a false negative.
00:34:23.820 In fact, based on the reporting, there's no reason to assume that his symptoms had anything to do with his death.
00:34:28.340 We don't know.
00:34:28.760 They said they're going to do an autopsy.
00:34:30.560 We don't have the results of that yet.
00:34:33.640 So what we have the media doing here is blatantly, explicitly exploiting the death of a 13-year-old child for their own purposes.
00:34:43.880 For clicks and ratings and for political reasons, too.
00:34:48.100 Because they want to scare people.
00:34:49.560 They desperately want to scare people, especially when it comes to...
00:34:51.920 There's no coincidence here that they're taking this headline and they're reporting in an extremely, let's call it, misleading way.
00:34:59.680 Right when we're in the middle of debating, you know, opening schools or not.
00:35:03.580 And Trump, obviously, is out in favor of opening them up.
00:35:07.680 The media, they're looking for, and they want to find, stories of kids dying of COVID-19.
00:35:14.500 And if they can't find it, then they're going to do this.
00:35:17.300 Which is grotesque and disgusting and evil.
00:35:19.900 And they know exactly what they're doing.
00:35:22.780 By the way, COVID symptoms, those are also flu symptoms.
00:35:28.260 And since we know that flu kills three times as many kids in his age bracket,
00:35:33.480 why not assume that it was the flu if we're going to make any assumptions at all?
00:35:37.200 You can just as easily assume that he died of the flu.
00:35:39.620 Or here's a better case.
00:35:41.440 Here's a better idea.
00:35:42.400 Don't make any assumptions.
00:35:44.700 Make zero assumptions.
00:35:47.140 Wait for the autopsy to come back.
00:35:48.720 And then, you know, wait for actual information about what killed this child.
00:35:54.020 Number five.
00:35:55.140 I have no idea of the context here, but I've seen some people talking about this on social media.
00:35:59.880 I guess in New York, people are getting this alert on their phone.
00:36:03.080 Here it is.
00:36:03.780 There's one person on Twitter.
00:36:05.120 It says, report of man armed with banjo.
00:36:10.980 There's a man armed with a banjo somewhere.
00:36:13.340 I guess the police are responding.
00:36:14.540 I don't know what's happening.
00:36:15.800 Details are very sketchy.
00:36:16.940 What I want to say, first of all, is that the attempts that have been made to connect me to this incident are baseless and libelous.
00:36:24.700 I was not involved in this event.
00:36:26.260 I have no knowledge of it.
00:36:28.280 Second, though I was not involved, let me say that I understand why this happened.
00:36:34.800 Whatever happened, I understand why it happened.
00:36:37.200 And we banjo players, we members of the banjo community, we banjoists, as we call ourselves, have been minimized and otherized and stigmatized and marginalized and dehumanized and vaporized and cauterized.
00:36:59.440 All the eyes.
00:37:01.200 For too long, that's happened to us.
00:37:03.940 There's only so much you can take after a while.
00:37:05.660 I mean, when you hear banjo, okay, the word banjo, you hear the sound of a banjo, the glorious, beautiful sound.
00:37:15.140 What's the first movie you think of with the banjo?
00:37:18.580 Right?
00:37:18.900 You think of Deliverance.
00:37:20.200 This is how my community has been portrayed on film for decades.
00:37:24.960 Hillbilly, backwoods rapists.
00:37:26.840 So, is it any wonder that a community which has been the target of such degrading stereotypes and prejudices would lash out in this way, in whatever way this was, whatever happened?
00:37:40.560 Can you blame us for communicating our anger and our sorrow in a way that gets your attention?
00:37:45.900 I'm not justifying it, whatever happened.
00:37:51.460 I'm just saying.
00:37:53.000 A little bit of empathy, I think, would be necessary.
00:37:56.000 We're going to go to our daily cancellation.
00:37:57.220 But first, you know, in the midst of all this news we've been talking about, Ben Shapiro has a new book out called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:38:05.960 And, you know, he really, this is a prophetic book in a lot of ways because we're seeing a lot of what he's been writing about, a lot of what he wrote about in the book, coming to life all around us.
00:38:16.320 The book goes on sale Tuesday, July 21st at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific.
00:38:22.460 And Ben will be doing a virtual live signing event on the day of the release.
00:38:26.240 With your purchase of a signed book, you can write in a question which may be read and answered as he signs your books live on air.
00:38:31.780 You can preorder your signed copy and write in your questions at dailywire.com slash Ben.
00:38:36.360 As far as the book itself, you know, it covers two fundamentally different visions of America that are on the table right now.
00:38:40.960 One vision is unifying, finds our unity in shared philosophy and culture and history.
00:38:46.560 The other disintegrates our culture and our country in the name of fundamental change.
00:38:52.280 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps details how this alternate worldview has gained so much cultural ground so quickly.
00:38:59.200 How has this happened? Why is it happening?
00:39:01.260 That's all covered in the book.
00:39:02.200 Again, go to dailywire.com slash Ben, order your signed copy, and join Ben's live signing on Tuesday, July 21st.
00:39:09.260 Okay, today for our daily cancellation, I have to issue a cancellation begrudgingly, not because I want to, with no personal animosity behind it.
00:39:18.800 In fact, in performing this cancellation ritual, I am following the rules and customs of our modern society.
00:39:26.740 I am enforcing the rules, their rules, not my own. These are not my rules.
00:39:32.260 The subject today is a young woman by the name of Morgan Bullock, and she was profiled by the BBC recently.
00:39:38.640 That profile has gotten some attention online.
00:39:41.580 Let me, it's about a five minute video, we won't play the whole thing, but let me play just a clip of that for you.
00:39:45.660 Watch this.
00:39:47.040 People saying that I shouldn't be Irish dancing because I'm black and I don't look like most Irish dancers.
00:39:55.340 But I saw it for the first time at a recital, and it was just the coolest thing ever to me.
00:39:59.740 When you went into those Irish dancing classes, were you the only African American girl in the class? 1.00
00:40:10.660 Yeah, I was always the only one in my class.
00:40:12.800 Did that ever have any effect on you, or how did that make you feel?
00:40:15.620 I mean, obviously it's hard to miss someone who's actually, their face matches their legs at the competitions.
00:40:23.180 Because, you know, there's like the tanner you like.
00:40:25.800 There's a lot of time.
00:40:26.500 Yeah, a lot of tanner.
00:40:27.920 But it's hard to miss someone who's African American.
00:40:31.040 I don't think I ever considered it an issue.
00:40:33.420 It was definitely something that I took note of, but I'd grown up in a predominantly white area.
00:40:40.200 So it wasn't something that I was uncomfortable about.
00:40:48.840 After going viral with her Irish dancing, the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.
00:40:54.660 But there were a few who thought that what she was doing was inappropriate.
00:40:59.780 The negative comments that people were leaving under the video, what were people saying?
00:41:04.200 Just early on, like shortly after posting it,
00:41:06.660 some people were saying that what I was doing was cultural appropriation,
00:41:10.560 just because I don't look like what you would typically picture an Irish dancer to look like.
00:41:15.780 But, I mean...
00:41:17.320 So were they saying because you weren't Irish, and because you were not white,
00:41:21.480 that you shouldn't be performing Irish dancing?
00:41:24.380 Yeah, basically that's what they were saying.
00:41:26.220 You were misappropriating the Irish dancing culture.
00:41:29.620 I mean, my understanding of the term is that it means when you're taking something from another culture,
00:41:35.380 claiming it as your own without recognizing where it comes from,
00:41:38.440 and that couldn't be further from what I'm doing.
00:41:41.120 Like, it's important for people to recognize that there's a difference between appropriation and appreciation.
00:41:46.920 I think people use the term appropriation without knowing what it really means.
00:41:51.600 Okay, so she's an Irish dancer, a black woman from, what do they say, Virginia. 0.76
00:41:56.220 Now, first of all, they didn't show an example of the supposed negative comments that this woman has received,
00:42:02.520 but it's obvious that the negative comments were way, way, way outnumbered by the positive, which is good.
00:42:08.100 And let me be clear about this.
00:42:09.680 I agree with everything she said.
00:42:12.280 I agree that she's not guilty of appropriation.
00:42:14.940 I agree that this is appreciation.
00:42:17.120 I agree that if you see a type of dance, you know, for example, and you like it,
00:42:21.380 and you admire it, and you want to do it,
00:42:23.000 that is by definition appreciation and should be embraced.
00:42:26.620 I also agree that if cultural appropriation means anything at all,
00:42:31.260 it must mean taking something from another culture
00:42:33.960 and pretending that you came up with it,
00:42:36.920 or that your culture came up with it.
00:42:39.120 So if she did an Irish dance
00:42:40.900 and, like, claimed that she invented the style or something,
00:42:45.240 or that it's a style she inherited from her ancestors,
00:42:47.680 or whatever,
00:42:49.780 then, yeah, that would be, I suppose, appropriation.
00:42:53.040 But, of course, she didn't do that, 1.00
00:42:54.380 and almost nobody would do that,
00:42:55.820 because that would just be bizarre.
00:42:57.240 You know, she likes Irish dance. 0.91
00:43:00.020 That's why she got involved in it.
00:43:02.080 And she's not trying to,
00:43:03.320 she has no interest in trying to degrade Irish dance
00:43:07.220 or hide from the history of it.
00:43:09.540 She likes it.
00:43:10.260 That's the whole point here.
00:43:11.520 She admires it.
00:43:12.960 You wouldn't give so much of your life
00:43:15.460 and so many hours of your day
00:43:17.480 to practicing it if you didn't admire it.
00:43:19.260 However, everything she's saying
00:43:24.160 and the definitions she's giving,
00:43:26.240 even though she's right
00:43:27.280 and she's being reasonable,
00:43:29.720 none of that is actually what the left says
00:43:32.180 about cultural appropriation.
00:43:33.900 According to the left,
00:43:34.860 it doesn't matter if you appreciate the culture.
00:43:37.180 It doesn't matter if you think that it's cool
00:43:40.000 or beautiful or whatever else.
00:43:42.400 to do a dance or to take a style
00:43:45.220 or anything else from another culture,
00:43:47.120 if you are not of that culture,
00:43:49.540 is appropriation.
00:43:50.800 Those are the left's rules.
00:43:51.980 And since they're the left's rules,
00:43:53.160 those are the rules of society.
00:43:55.320 In fact, here's an example.
00:43:56.480 This is also from the BBC.
00:43:57.980 Just to frame this here.
00:44:02.180 This is an example also from the BBC
00:44:03.940 a couple of years ago.
00:44:05.980 Another thing of,
00:44:07.020 another cultural appropriation controversy.
00:44:09.220 But you'll notice that
00:44:11.240 though the BBC defended Ms. Bullock,
00:44:15.340 they take a very different tone here.
00:44:17.680 If you look at this headline,
00:44:20.220 prom dress prompts cultural appropriation row.
00:44:24.760 And then it goes on.
00:44:26.120 I'm not going to read the entire article,
00:44:27.520 but maybe you remember this case.
00:44:28.820 A white girl, high school student in Utah,
00:44:33.840 decided to wear a traditional Chinese dress
00:44:37.160 to her prom.
00:44:38.220 And she posted pictures
00:44:40.500 because she was proud of it
00:44:41.400 and she thought it was cool
00:44:42.380 and she liked the style and everything.
00:44:44.980 And it went viral in a negative way.
00:44:48.580 I mean, overwhelmingly negative response.
00:44:52.440 One widely shared response
00:44:54.560 from a Twitter user, Jeremy Lamb,
00:44:56.320 said,
00:44:56.640 my culture is not your effing prom dress.
00:44:59.800 And a lot of criticisms like that.
00:45:01.560 And finally,
00:45:02.740 the girl was forced to take down the pictures. 1.00
00:45:06.060 She tried to say that
00:45:07.440 she didn't mean it to be negative.
00:45:08.660 She was appreciating Chinese culture,
00:45:10.220 but she had to take it down
00:45:11.440 and she apologized.
00:45:13.320 Now,
00:45:13.920 if wearing a Chinese dress to prom
00:45:16.660 is appropriation from the Chinese,
00:45:18.720 then doing an Irish dance
00:45:21.020 and performing in Riverdance
00:45:22.300 is appropriation from the Irish.
00:45:25.300 There's no way around it.
00:45:26.440 Now,
00:45:27.400 I know the way around it,
00:45:29.040 the attempted way around it,
00:45:31.680 is,
00:45:32.120 in fact,
00:45:35.040 they,
00:45:36.280 in one of the articles,
00:45:37.900 I think in the BBC article,
00:45:40.220 they say that appropriation
00:45:42.620 is oftentimes
00:45:43.520 when a dominant culture
00:45:45.740 takes from a minority culture.
00:45:47.840 But first of all,
00:45:50.120 that's just ad hoc silliness.
00:45:51.880 Okay,
00:45:52.040 you're inventing definitions
00:45:53.460 as you go along,
00:45:55.100 adjusting the terms
00:45:56.440 as you go along
00:45:58.560 according to
00:45:59.240 what it will be politically useful to you.
00:46:01.220 So that's not a legitimate way
00:46:03.340 of going about this anyway.
00:46:05.160 But secondly,
00:46:05.880 Irish culture
00:46:06.640 is not dominant
00:46:08.180 or in the majority
00:46:09.800 anywhere,
00:46:11.360 except for maybe in Ireland,
00:46:13.280 even though,
00:46:13.720 even there,
00:46:14.060 it's debatable at this point.
00:46:19.140 And I would submit
00:46:19.980 that black culture 0.83
00:46:21.040 in America
00:46:21.540 is quite a bit more dominant
00:46:23.160 and has quite a bit more power
00:46:25.000 in America
00:46:25.480 than Irish culture.
00:46:27.020 I don't think there's any denying that.
00:46:28.820 So no matter how,
00:46:29.460 no matter how you slice it
00:46:30.480 or try to define it,
00:46:31.500 this is appropriation
00:46:32.580 and cancellations
00:46:34.480 must be handed out,
00:46:35.440 I'm afraid.
00:46:36.540 I don't want to do it,
00:46:37.740 but those are the rules.
00:46:40.000 Unless,
00:46:40.540 of course,
00:46:42.080 we want to all admit
00:46:43.560 that the whole idea
00:46:44.780 of cultural appropriation
00:46:46.300 is nonsense.
00:46:48.680 A culture actually
00:46:49.800 cannot be appropriated.
00:46:52.560 Like,
00:46:52.840 even if I were to become a Hindu
00:46:54.400 and give myself a Hindi name
00:46:57.360 and wear the traditional attire
00:46:59.460 that Hindus wear 1.00
00:47:00.840 and I were to celebrate Diwali
00:47:02.160 and other Hindu holidays,
00:47:04.240 all the rest of it,
00:47:05.380 I wouldn't be appropriating anything
00:47:07.240 from the people of India
00:47:08.300 because I'm not depriving them
00:47:10.380 of their culture
00:47:11.180 by partaking in it myself.
00:47:13.560 This is not a zero-sum game
00:47:15.320 with cultures.
00:47:16.160 A culture doesn't lose something
00:47:17.680 just because someone
00:47:18.920 outside of it
00:47:19.900 is influenced by it
00:47:21.700 or imitates it.
00:47:23.040 I mean,
00:47:23.220 they used to say
00:47:23.660 imitation is the highest form
00:47:25.980 of flattery.
00:47:27.120 That's all.
00:47:27.500 It's not appropriation.
00:47:30.060 It is,
00:47:30.640 at worst,
00:47:31.500 imitation.
00:47:33.060 Okay,
00:47:33.360 what I would really say
00:47:34.280 it is,
00:47:34.600 you're partaking in it.
00:47:36.000 It's,
00:47:36.520 I would say
00:47:37.080 it's more participation
00:47:38.700 than even imitation,
00:47:40.440 but fine.
00:47:40.820 If you want to call it imitation,
00:47:41.760 that's fine too.
00:47:43.760 And not only
00:47:45.160 do cultures
00:47:46.000 not lose anything
00:47:47.540 by having other people
00:47:48.920 imitate it,
00:47:49.880 they actually gain.
00:47:51.020 Cultures gain influence.
00:47:52.420 They gain power.
00:47:53.420 They gain recognition
00:47:54.440 by being,
00:47:55.820 you know,
00:47:56.100 quote-unquote,
00:47:56.540 appropriated in this way.
00:47:58.820 And this is really obvious
00:47:59.860 with the Irish dance thing.
00:48:01.340 Okay,
00:48:02.260 you know,
00:48:02.720 Irish dance,
00:48:03.480 traditional Irish dance,
00:48:05.300 now it's being performed
00:48:07.780 by,
00:48:08.400 you know,
00:48:09.060 a black woman in America
00:48:10.140 and it's getting media attention
00:48:11.820 because of that.
00:48:13.260 Anyone who's a fan
00:48:14.120 of Irish dance,
00:48:15.160 whether you're Irish or not,
00:48:16.300 you're not going to see that
00:48:17.040 as a negative.
00:48:17.600 That's great.
00:48:18.300 Just more attention,
00:48:19.220 more people getting involved in it.
00:48:20.420 You have younger generations,
00:48:22.620 more diverse generations
00:48:24.700 of people getting involved.
00:48:25.840 Fantastic.
00:48:26.740 Great stuff.
00:48:27.240 Why would anyone
00:48:28.080 have a problem with that?
00:48:30.000 Well,
00:48:30.260 it should be the same thing
00:48:31.160 with a Chinese prom dress.
00:48:34.500 It's just,
00:48:35.240 it's spreading the influence
00:48:36.720 of that culture.
00:48:38.020 More people are getting exposed to it.
00:48:39.720 More people are saying,
00:48:40.600 oh,
00:48:40.720 this is a beautiful dress.
00:48:42.080 What could possibly be
00:48:43.320 the problem with that?
00:48:44.440 To have someone seeing a dress,
00:48:46.320 a traditional Chinese cultural dress,
00:48:50.360 it's like,
00:48:50.840 that's beautiful.
00:48:51.760 I want more people to see
00:48:52.640 this beautiful dress.
00:48:54.380 There's no way
00:48:55.320 for a sane person
00:48:56.600 to interpret that
00:48:57.600 in a negative way.
00:48:59.440 But of course,
00:49:00.020 there are a lot of insane people
00:49:01.160 in this culture.
00:49:01.700 So it's one way or the other.
00:49:03.160 You know,
00:49:03.300 if we don't want to cancel
00:49:04.320 this young woman
00:49:06.280 for doing Irish dance,
00:49:09.420 which I certainly don't want to,
00:49:10.880 then the only other option
00:49:11.880 is to say,
00:49:12.500 we're going to cancel
00:49:13.200 cultural appropriation.
00:49:14.580 The whole concept is canceled.
00:49:15.860 We're getting rid of it
00:49:16.480 because it's nonsense.
00:49:17.560 And if you like a part
00:49:20.180 of someone else's culture
00:49:21.180 and you want to imitate it,
00:49:22.740 partake in it,
00:49:23.400 whatever,
00:49:24.520 go for it.
00:49:25.340 That's how cultures work.
00:49:27.640 Perfectly fine.
00:49:28.880 And we'll leave it there
00:49:30.060 for now.
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