The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 539 - Public School Teachers Are Afraid That You'll Hear Them Brainwashing Your Kids

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a teacher admits publicly that he's afraid online learning will

00:00:04.880 interfere with his ability to brainwash his students, and many other teachers chimed in

00:00:09.140 to agree with him. When the school system says this sort of thing out loud, we should listen.

00:00:15.160 Also, five headlines, including more looting in Chicago and a controversy over a troll's doll

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00:02:41.840 supplies last. Okay. In one of the creepiest yet most revealing Twitter threads ever to be posted

00:02:49.840 on the platform, I think, a teacher recently fretted out loud that virtual classes might allow parents

00:02:56.820 to hear him brainwashing their kids. And he's very afraid of that. Matthew R.K., an educator and author

00:03:03.640 of a book called How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom, worried that, quote,

00:03:10.180 conservative parents would be able to interfere with the, quote, messy work of indoctrinating children 0.99

00:03:16.660 into critical race theory, gender theory, and other left-wing dogmas. Here's the entire thread, which has

00:03:23.200 since been set to private, but here's a screenshot of it. It says, so this fall, virtual class discussions

00:03:30.380 will have many potential spectators, parents, siblings, etc., in the same room. We'll never be

00:03:35.940 quite sure who is overhearing the discourse. What does this do for our equity slash inclusion work?

00:03:41.900 How much have students depended on the somewhat secure barriers of our physical classrooms to

00:03:46.680 encourage vulnerability? How many of us have installed some version of what happens here stays

00:03:52.220 here to help with this? While conversations about race are in my wheelhouse and remain a concern in

00:03:58.780 this no-walls environment, I am most intrigued by the damage that helicopter slash snowplow parents

00:04:05.220 can do in the host conversations about gender slash sexuality. And while, quote, conservative parents

00:04:13.300 are my chief concern, I know that the damage can come from the left, too. If we are engaged in the

00:04:18.280 messy work of destabilizing a kid's racism or homophobia or transphobia, how much do we want their

00:04:24.540 classmates' parents piling on? That's what he had to say. It's important to note that while some

00:04:33.360 teachers responded to Kay's comments with the appropriate level of horror and disgust, many

00:04:40.140 others chimed in to share their own strategies for brainwashing during a pandemic. Apparently,

00:04:45.640 this is something that the teachers have thought about and have come up with strategies for. One teacher

00:04:50.860 said that she'd also been, quote, thinking about the problem that Kay described and had decided that

00:04:56.180 she'd ask her students about their preferred pronouns via survey, though she still worries that, quote,

00:05:03.540 caregivers might see it and learn something about their children that they weren't supposed to know,

00:05:08.140 apparently. Another teacher said that students last semester would sometimes, quote, type secrets into the

00:05:14.840 chat whenever the discussion turned to, quote, anti-racism and gender-inclusive content. Another

00:05:20.240 complaint that a white parent, she made sure to specify white, in her district recorded a Zoom

00:05:25.900 class and then, quote, filed a complaint against the teacher for anti-racist, for an anti-racist read

00:05:33.160 aloud, saying the teacher's commentary was inappropriate and biased. And this, the teacher says, is going to

00:05:40.000 be an issue. A ninth grade teacher shared in the commiseration saying that her class required

00:05:47.240 students to, quote, read and respond to a news article, this is part of her class, but that participation in this

00:05:52.760 exercise is stunted now because, quote, outsiders are listening. The outsiders, to be clear, are the children's

00:06:01.300 parents. And another teacher with pronouns listed in her Twitter handle, so you know what she's up to, said that she 0.99

00:06:07.720 plans to use the chat function more than voice lectures because she wants children to, quote, share that

00:06:14.080 information with her in a, quote, parentless way. And a science teacher agreed with all the sentiments expressed

00:06:19.860 here, but summarized it bluntly, saying, parents are dangerous. And these are just the comments that were

00:06:28.460 captured in screenshots before the tweets were all made private. Presumably, there is more where this came

00:06:34.880 from. A lot more. Now, I think several points should be made here in response. First, this may seem like a

00:06:46.820 side issue compared with the very large problems unwittingly or maybe not so unwittingly exposed by

00:06:51.860 the thread, but it should be said that classrooms are certainly not safe places for children to be

00:06:58.140 vulnerable. Students may say and do things when they're with their peers in school that they wouldn't

00:07:04.820 say and do at home, but only a fool who doesn't understand the first thing about child psychology 0.82

00:07:10.020 and the effects of peer pressure would assume that the child's at-school version of himself is the 0.95

00:07:15.140 most authentic, much less the most healthy. The pressure to conform to the values and opinions of

00:07:22.120 your peers in the classroom is immense and overwhelming and often suffocating for these kids.

00:07:29.020 There's a reason why rejection and alienation by peers has contributed to a true epidemic of suicide

00:07:34.020 among young people. Suicide is skyrocketing among young people. And in fact, the very same people 1.00

00:07:40.100 who extol the classroom as a safe place for vulnerability will also tell us on different days and in

00:07:46.100 different contexts that bullying is a major problem at school for today's youth, and many of them are

00:07:52.420 driven to self-destruction because of it. So, which is it? Is the classroom a place for open and genuine

00:07:58.600 dialogue where children can safely express their truest feelings and beliefs? Or is it a place

00:08:04.840 rife with bullying and mockery where rigid conformity is demanded and those who fail to meet the demands

00:08:10.080 are severely punished? It certainly can't be both of those things. And the answer is that it's much more

00:08:17.120 the latter than the former. Second point, an adult keeping a secret with a child and helping the

00:08:27.720 child conceal that secret from his parents, especially when the secret has anything to do

00:08:32.380 with sexuality, is acting in a way that is nothing short of predatory. Now, if you heard a strange man

00:08:38.480 on the playground whisper to your child, this will just be our little secret, okay? Don't tell your mom

00:08:43.580 and dad. You would assume that the man is some kind of sex offender and respond accordingly.

00:08:48.720 Does this behavior suddenly transform from disturbing to admirable if the strange man is a teacher?

00:08:54.260 No, it doesn't. But this is a sort of license that society has given to teachers on the theory

00:09:00.080 that they cannot do the work of educating unless they have more power over an intimate knowledge of

00:09:06.220 their students than the students' own parents do. Which brings us finally to point three, which is that

00:09:12.840 a public school teacher is not supposed to be and should not try to be educator, parent, shaman,

00:09:21.640 spiritual guide, therapist, friend, confidant, and sex counselor all rolled into one. He is meant to

00:09:27.840 fill only the first role of educator and only in the subject that he's been assigned to teach,

00:09:33.160 so it's very limited. A child's actual parents can only become to be viewed as dangerous and intrusive

00:09:40.880 and outsiders when teachers begin to view themselves in the school system as the true guardians and

00:09:47.060 conservators of the children that are temporarily in their care. And that ultimately is the problem

00:09:53.340 with the modern education system. Children are not old enough to be emancipated. They can't go out and

00:10:01.900 live their own lives. They can't make every decision for themselves or even most decisions for

00:10:07.680 themselves. They must belong to someone, not to say owned like objects, but cared for and protected

00:10:16.300 like the vulnerable and relatively helpless human beings they are. The fundamental question is who do

00:10:22.560 they belong to? Different cultures and different times and places have had different answers to that

00:10:28.360 question. Here in contemporary American society, there are generally two ways of looking at it.

00:10:33.520 Children belong to their parents or they belong to the school system, which is to say the government.

00:10:42.140 In one vision, a child is a son or daughter. In the other, the child is a ward of the state.

00:10:48.920 Only one of these visions is healthy, natural, and humanizing. Only one can properly facilitate

00:10:53.960 a child's emotional, mental, intellectual, and spiritual growth. The school system doesn't just have a wrong

00:11:00.360 and harmful idea of what education is. It has a wrong and harmful idea of what a child is and what

00:11:06.900 its fundamental role in a child's life is supposed to be. And that is why I will not be sending my kids

00:11:14.320 into the education system's clutches and neither should you. Let's move on to our five headlines.

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00:13:11.360 Okay, number one, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was out this weekend serving and protecting the

00:13:17.520 citizens of Chicago. And Lightfoot found a dangerous group of lawbreakers who she was sure must be brought

00:13:26.660 to justice. And, well, let's just take a look. Here's what she tweeted. It's a picture of a bunch

00:13:32.940 of shirtless guys and speedos standing around in the grass near a lake, I guess. And she says,

00:13:39.040 it's called a pandemic, people. This reckless behavior on Montrose Beach is what will cause

00:13:44.640 us to shut down the parks and lakefront. Don't make us take steps backwards. And then she follows

00:13:50.420 up, in case you were wondering, I stopped by to see for myself. It's being addressed. Yes,

00:13:56.380 the shirtless speedo guys at the lake. They're the problem here. Take care of them. You know,

00:14:03.820 because that's the real issue. It's them and not this. What you're seeing here is looting in Chicago.

00:14:12.140 Again, last night, they were looting all over the city. No cop in sight in many of these videos

00:14:18.360 because Lightfoot has them focus, you know, on the speedo problem and not the looting and rioting

00:14:23.080 problem. You know, not the problem of anarchy and destruction raining down on the street again

00:14:28.580 and again and again and again and again, night after night after night after night. If you're

00:14:33.620 curious, by the way, they're doing this ostensibly because police shot a guy who had a gun and had shot

00:14:41.000 at them. The guy didn't even die as far as I know. But there was a guy with a gun shot at police.

00:14:46.540 Police shot back. He got hit. And now they're rioting because of it. Because police, I guess,

00:14:55.720 are supposed to at this point, they're supposed to just drop their guns and just offer themselves 0.74

00:15:00.480 up to be killed. Just walk up to the bad guy and say, OK, I'm here. Do what you will. Anything less

00:15:07.480 than that is oppression. But you just look at these and you see these these the footage here

00:15:16.420 you know, this is. This is obviously this is a fascist dictatorship where cops murder people in 0.53

00:15:24.020 the street and all of these poor protesters live in fear because of it. Yet every night people

00:15:30.300 casually riot and loot and stroll aimlessly out of burned out retail outlets with armfuls of stolen

00:15:37.160 shoes. Does that make a lot of sense to you? Does it make a lot of sense for for, you know, a woman 0.76

00:15:43.120 who's who's who's wandering out of a coach store with a box of stolen purses saying, I live in fear

00:15:49.800 of the police? I live in fear that the police will come any time and kill me. Is that what you do?

00:15:56.340 I mean, if you're being oppressed and you live in a fascist dictatorship. And you're worried about

00:16:01.780 police who are prowling the streets just looking for an excuse to kill somebody. This is how you

00:16:06.620 respond. We are these people who who really seem to be afraid of authority. No, it would seem like

00:16:15.100 the problem is very much the opposite. Number two, let me just give you the headline here from the

00:16:21.760 Daily Wire. It says Hasbro pulls troll doll amid concerns that toy normalizes sexual exploitation.

00:16:28.160 That's the headline. And I have to tell you, my wife, um, informed me of this controversy the other

00:16:35.840 night and, and, uh, said that there was some kind of thing about a troll's doll. And my immediate

00:16:41.920 reaction upon hearing that was to think this is just another example of people being hypersensitive

00:16:46.180 and dramatic. Uh, not to mention, I thought if somebody actually sees a troll's doll and ties it into

00:16:53.500 anything sexual, well, that's just a reflection of their own perverse mind. Okay. That's like, 0.86

00:17:00.680 get your mind out of the gutter. That's what I thought until I saw the video of the doll in action.

00:17:07.320 And, uh, it kind of changed my perspective a little bit. In order to take it out of demo mode,

00:17:13.280 you have to, the instructions say to sit the doll. Um, so you put her legs out and you sit

00:17:23.320 her down for five seconds, which by doing that, um, pushes the button, but now, 1.00

00:17:33.040 like, I cannot believe that. Like, this is insane.

00:18:00.700 Yeah, that's, that's, uh, disturbing. That is definitely disturbing. Now, Hasbro claims that

00:18:11.400 they place the button there because it's, it's, it's supposed to make those noises when it sits

00:18:15.440 down. But first of all, why would it make those noises when it sits down? Is that, does that make

00:18:21.180 sense? Since when does sitting down elicit sounds like that from, from anyone, even a troll?

00:18:28.480 Second, even if there was, uh, you know, even if there were innocuous intentions behind this,

00:18:35.460 how could it be that nobody at Hasbro through the whole process of manufacturing and distributing this

00:18:41.840 thing, how could it be that nobody anywhere ever went, uh, guys, this is a button in the doll's

00:18:50.220 crotch area that causes it to squeal when you touch it? That's, uh, that's weird guy. Like,

00:18:58.700 how did nobody think of that? How did nobody point that out? See, here's the thing. I'm, I'm never

00:19:03.360 perplexed by, uh, individual people doing stupid things. That doesn't ever surprise me. And I'm also 0.97

00:19:11.060 not surprised by whole groups of people doing stupid things all at once. Like we've seen in our streets 1.00

00:19:16.040 across the country, uh, and in Chicago last night. So none of that, like stupidity and mass hysteria. 1.00

00:19:22.160 Okay. Neither of those surprised me. I get it. That's how people are. But what, what always does 0.99

00:19:27.440 surprise me a little bit is when you've got a succession of individuals making a considered 1.00

00:19:33.380 choice and that choice right down the line is horrendously, insanely stupid. That's when I scratch 1.00

00:19:42.100 my head because you don't really have the mass hysteria element and it's not just one person.

00:19:46.500 So there's a right, there's checks and balances here and right down the line. I mean, literally

00:19:51.580 down the conveyor belt, nobody noticed anything wrong with that. Um, now some people are saying

00:19:57.280 that this was done to intentionally advocate child sex traffic or whatever. I, you know, I think that

00:20:02.080 theory is a little bit intense. Um, I go back to Hanlon's razor, which is never a tribute to malice.

00:20:09.400 What could easily be explained by stupidity. And so I think that probably applies here, but either 0.97

00:20:14.620 way, it is, uh, very weird to say the least. Number three, I'm going to play this for you with

00:20:21.700 no setup. Just, just watch. If you look at like the 1990s and the way that Rush Limbaugh and others

00:20:29.360 sort of sharpened their teeth on Bill Clinton, this has been the way they've built audiences for

00:20:33.800 three decades now. Yeah. I don't want to claim it's new. I just am arguing that it's getting worse.

00:20:38.440 It's getting more severe. Uh, Aaron, your, your view of this, you know, when you see, um,

00:20:43.860 entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on

00:20:49.280 the left tearing down Trump? Uh, there really isn't. And you know, what I would say it's a,

00:20:56.020 it's really a diet of, of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting. A lot of

00:21:01.420 the voters that I talk to, I can, uh, you know, when I interview them, I do hear, uh, them saying a lot

00:21:06.660 of the talking points that sound very familiar from, from some of these shows, which I try to

00:21:10.280 listen to when I'm out on the campaign trail or when I'm at home, uh, you know, watching TV,

00:21:14.660 you know, you can, you can hear these, uh, these comments being echoed, uh, by, by voters. And you

00:21:19.200 know, that this is the diet that they're on, uh, you know, AM radio, uh, you know, conservative talk,

00:21:24.580 uh, also social media. I mean, the Trump campaign is running a full blown campaign on social media

00:21:29.780 that is completely off the radar for, for a lot of, a lot of, uh, you know, regular media,

00:21:34.700 uh, is not covering this, but I mean, you have folks, Laura Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle,

00:21:39.140 Katrina Pearson, the campaign is, is running, you know, kind of a parallel campaign online. And,

00:21:44.820 and if that's all they're getting, you know, to the exclusion of, of kind of the more traditional

00:21:49.120 legacy media, uh, you know, then it, it really is no surprise kind of, of what their understanding

00:21:53.860 is, uh, of this country and of our politics. Such an important point though. Simply amazing

00:21:59.020 that they could keep a straight face throughout that exchange is astounding. I mean, this is really,

00:22:06.760 this is like a guy dumpster diving naked, chowing down on like a soiled diaper maggots all around 0.82

00:22:16.000 old banana peel on his head, comes back up and says, you know, when you see people in drive-thru 0.92

00:22:21.820 lines at Sonic, I mean, that's really unhealthy. That's, that's, that's gotta be the most unhealthy

00:22:26.900 diet in the world, right? Takes another chomp of the diaper. Just the self-awareness level here is

00:22:33.580 Arctic levels. This is sub-zero. Okay. Self-awareness. Uh, number four, CNN is trying to whip up a race

00:22:40.580 controversy. And I know that you hear that statement and it's rather evergreen. Okay. You hear that and

00:22:45.460 you think, oh, so it's Monday. Okay. But let's be more specific. Uh, here, here's the latest fake

00:22:50.680 race controversy from CNN. Reading now from their article, it says a black student was forced to

00:22:55.360 take off his black lives matter face mask in order to graduate. His family says Dean Holmes, a student

00:23:01.180 at York Catholic high school in York, Pennsylvania, put on a black lives matter mask under his face

00:23:05.420 shield at his July 28th graduation ceremony. As students lined up before the ceremony started,

00:23:10.640 the school's principal pulled him away in front of the other students and told him to take off the

00:23:14.860 mask. Holmes had previously been told by, uh, by another school official to take the mask off. So

00:23:21.420 he eventually relented for fear of not being able to walk across the stage. He said, uh, Holmes said,

00:23:25.700 quote, I was so mad. I was shaking during the graduation, tapping my leg on edge. When it was

00:23:30.080 over, I couldn't believe it. York Catholic had opted to give every student a face shield instead

00:23:34.760 of a mask for the ceremony. Holmes, his father, John took to Facebook on Saturday saying that

00:23:39.060 the school stifled his freedom of expression and jeopardized his health.

00:23:44.020 The capricious, this is John now, the capricious action taken against my son demonstrates that

00:23:47.940 York Catholic high school has miles to go before they can put the ugliness of unconscious bias and

00:23:52.400 racism to sleep. As a parent, I will not stand for my son being humiliated publicly, having his basic

00:23:57.960 human dignity crushed on what should have been one of the happiest days of his young life.

00:24:01.840 Okay. A few things to cover here. First of all, John Holmes, calm down. You drama queen,

00:24:10.380 basic human dignity crushed because he couldn't wear his favorite face mask to graduation.

00:24:16.760 His human dignity is crushed because of it. That's how you crush a person's dignity. Really?

00:24:21.960 Well, if your sweet, precious child's dignity is hinged on something as superficial and weird as his

00:24:27.940 face mask. That's a different issue. Okay. He needs counseling for that. Also, Dean Holmes,

00:24:35.940 calm down. You drama queen. You were shaking. Really? You were so sad and upset you were shaking

00:24:42.680 because of this, because you couldn't wear your favorite face mask. What kind of man shakes when

00:24:48.640 he's upset, much less admits it publicly? You're the one crushing your own dignity. I agree your dignity

00:24:55.440 has been crushed, but by you, not by the principal. Also, most importantly, just so you know,

00:25:03.360 the school has a policy. Nobody is allowed to wear anything to graduation that has any kind of message

00:25:11.200 on it. Nobody. That's been the rule at the school since always. And it makes sense. They don't want

00:25:18.800 graduation to turn into an event to advertise political viewpoints or any other viewpoint. And

00:25:23.960 they want uniformity. That's every graduation I've ever been to. And I've been to quite a few.

00:25:28.580 That's how it is. Everybody looks exactly the same. There was a hubbub, I don't think it was at this

00:25:34.180 school, but at some school a couple of years ago, when a student, I think it was at a college,

00:25:39.500 wasn't allowed to wear his military dress blues across the stage at graduation. And even there,

00:25:46.200 I would say, I mean, obviously it's a wonderful thing that he has the uniform and that he serves his

00:25:51.160 country. But at the graduation, this is, it's a different uniform and everybody's supposed to

00:25:55.840 look the same. That's the point. So there's a dress code is the point. And everybody is held to

00:26:03.080 it. No exceptions. It's a dress code. You have to just follow the dress code. Like everybody else,

00:26:08.620 you're not special. Why should Dean have gotten an exception? Because he is, is he special? Why is

00:26:13.940 he special? Because I know he's daddy's special boy, but does, does that mean why should anyone

00:26:19.580 else care about that? Give me one good reason why this particular person should be exempt from the

00:26:25.920 dress code that everyone has always been expected to follow. That's what Dean's father, that's what

00:26:31.920 John Holmes is saying here. What he's saying is, yes, there's, there are rules and there's a,

00:26:37.500 there's a dress code, but my son is special. He shouldn't have to follow the rules. This is my special

00:26:43.040 son. Oh, shut up. This is, this is the, I mean, among other things, this is terrible parenting. 1.00

00:26:51.640 You're the father. You should be the one, your son is crying and shaking because he had to follow

00:26:58.280 a dress code. As the father, you're supposed to be the one smacking some sense into him.

00:27:03.960 Instead of going to Facebook, you'll never believe what happened to my boy. Shut up. 0.99

00:27:13.040 Number five. Finally, the national park service posted to Facebook a couple of days ago, 0.99

00:27:17.920 giving advice on what to do if you come across a bear. And they say, if you come upon a stationary

00:27:25.460 bear, move away slowly and sideways. And this allows you to keep an eye on the bear and avoid

00:27:29.960 tripping. Moving sideways is also non-threatening to bears. Do not, they say run, but if the bear

00:27:35.580 follows, stop and hold your ground. Like dogs, they will chase fleeing animals. Do not climb a tree.

00:27:39.800 Both grizzlies and black bears can climb trees. Do not push down a slower friend, even if you think

00:27:44.200 the friendship has run its course. Now, I know this last comment about the slow friend was meant to

00:27:49.540 be a joke, right? But I just want to say this, you know, this is not a joking matter and they

00:27:55.380 shouldn't be making light of it. Yes, you absolutely, obviously you absolutely should not push down your

00:28:02.440 slow friend. If you come across a bear, that would be an awful thing to do. Um, because if you push him

00:28:09.960 down, then he'll be in a submissive pose and the bear might not attack him and may keep pursuing you

00:28:15.480 instead. So if, and this is, this is really a point. If your friend is slow, there's no reason to push

00:28:21.480 him down. Let his slow dumb ass keep running. You go off in the other direction and the bear is going to 1.00

00:28:28.440 go for him. I mean, this is just basic. Now, if there's something you can do to slow your friend

00:28:33.620 down further without stopping him from running. So let's say for example, you're in a lake or

00:28:37.800 something and you come out of the lake and, uh, there's a bear there. Um, so one thing you could

00:28:42.820 do is grab his shoes and run off. And now that's going to slow him down, hinder him a little bit.

00:28:48.060 And then when he gets mauled and killed by the bear, the bonus is, uh, you also now have a new pair of

00:28:53.000 shoes. So, I mean, these are things you could do. I, I just, I was really disappointed that the

00:28:57.080 national park service had an opportunity for a real teaching moment here, but instead they went

00:29:01.160 for the joke. And that is, uh, as I said, just really, really disappointing. We're going to go

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00:29:52.360 we're going to be canceling NASA. It seems that with Elon Musk and other private entrepreneurs

00:29:56.820 taking over the job of actual space exploration, NASA has had to find other things to do rather than

00:30:03.460 explore the vast unknown of space going where no man, woman, or non-binary person has gone before

00:30:09.440 and expanding humanity's understanding of its own place in the cosmos. NASA now has plunged itself into

00:30:14.980 a different sort of lethal vacuum. And that is far left activism. Two examples of this shift.

00:30:21.220 Um, one hilarious and stupid, the other, even hilarious or and stupider first, a far left 0.99

00:30:27.060 professor, Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote a book about, um, systemic racism called how to be anti-racist, 0.99

00:30:33.600 which that teacher also wrote a book just like that. So it's, I mean, there's a lot of books,

00:30:37.640 a lot of books on this subject. And, uh, he was invited to buy NASA to give a talk to its employees.

00:30:42.940 Uh, just to be clear, Kendi is an expert on critical race theory, which is like being an expert on

00:30:49.660 the Greek gods or any other mythology, but he is not an astronaut, nor does he appear to have any

00:30:55.140 expertise on subjects that astronauts would really need to know unless they happen to encounter

00:30:59.220 institutional racism on the moon, I suppose. Here's the email that NASA sent around to its

00:31:04.100 employees. Uh, the email was obtained by the daily wire and, uh, it says, and this again was sent by

00:31:09.140 NASA to its, uh, employees. It says the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and

00:31:16.220 describe it and then dismantle it, writes professor Ibram X. Kendi. That is the essence of anti-racism,

00:31:22.880 the action that must be followed, both emotional and intellectual awareness of racism. Ibram X. Kendi

00:31:27.260 is a renowned historian and author of how to be anti-racist. Professor Kendi will speak to the NASA

00:31:32.260 workforce on Wednesday, October 12th or August 12th, rather from 1230 to 130 via Ustream. Now,

00:31:38.980 if you're wondering how these eight anti-racist strategies will be employed, well, here they are

00:31:45.340 in action. NASA, uh, tweeted, I guess, kind of, you know, practicing what it preaches. NASA tweeted

00:31:52.480 this over the weekend. Here's the tweet. It says, and this, this by the way, is not a joke. Okay. Just

00:31:57.420 so you know, this is not Photoshop. As we work to identify and address systemic discrimination and

00:32:02.100 inequality in all aspects of the scientific community, we are re-examining the use of unofficial

00:32:06.600 terminology for cosmic objects, which can be not only insensitive, but actively harmful. The link

00:32:12.400 brings us to an article on the, uh, nasa.gov website, which we'll go through a little bit of

00:32:17.900 this article here, because like I said, it is hilarious. Uh, it says in part, distant cosmic

00:32:23.640 objects, such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community

00:32:29.380 with unofficial nicknames. As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic

00:32:34.040 discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become clear that certain

00:32:37.740 cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful. NASA is examining

00:32:42.640 its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity,

00:32:47.040 equity, and inclusion. And then it continues as an initial step. Uh, NASA will no longer refer

00:32:53.800 to planetary nebula NGC 2392, the glowing remains of a sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers

00:33:01.000 at the end of its life as the Eskimo nebula. Eskimo is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist

00:33:07.060 history imposed on the indigenous people of the Arctic regions. Most official documents have moved

00:33:12.060 away from its use. Yes. Okay. Side, sidebar here for a sec. You notice, uh, the phrase widely viewed as.

00:33:20.780 They didn't say that Eskimo actually is a colonial term because, well, it definitely isn't.

00:33:25.660 It is, according to the Alaska Native Language Center, an Inuit term, which means netter of snowshoes.

00:33:32.200 It is not offensive. It is not a slur. It is not colonial. It is not racist. But it's widely viewed

00:33:38.820 as racist, and therefore we're told it is racist. But this is not how reality works. Okay? Look at it

00:33:46.260 this way. There are two adults and four kids in my family. It would be accurate to say that, in my house,

00:33:52.640 ice cream is widely viewed as a magical food source that you could eat for breakfast, lunch,

00:33:57.620 and dinner every day forever and still live a long and healthy life. Those who hold that opinion

00:34:03.080 outnumber the alternative perspective by two to one. Yet, despite how it's viewed, if my kids were able

00:34:10.040 to live according to their views on this point or, frankly, on any other point, they'd be dead in a

00:34:14.580 month. Okay? Because that's how reality works. It doesn't matter how it's viewed. The reality is the

00:34:21.340 reality. In any case, the name of the nebula has been changed. And so now, finally, those who have

00:34:28.000 been traumatized by the existence of an Eskimo nebula 36 quadrillion miles away can rest easy, 0.99

00:34:33.320 knowing that the sky above them as they sleep is a little less racist. Other changes are also being

00:34:39.440 made. Going back to the article, because, you know, there's a lot of offensive, bigoted names in

00:34:46.820 space, apparently. It says NASA will no longer use the term Siamese twins galaxy to refer to NGC 4567

00:34:53.780 and NGC 4568, a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Moving forward, NASA will

00:34:59.920 use only the official International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are

00:35:04.200 inappropriate. Okay, another sidebar. How is this offensive? Siamese twins is a name that comes from

00:35:10.760 a famous set of conjoined twins in the 19th century, Siamese referring to their land of origin.

00:35:16.220 What's offensive here exactly? Is the name racist because it refers to a place? Is it that, I mean,

00:35:23.180 is that all it takes for it to be racist now? Or is it offensive to actual Siamese twins?

00:35:28.620 Why would it be offensive to Siamese twins for them to be acknowledged in this way? I thought it was

00:35:32.280 offensive not to acknowledge marginalized people. So which is it? Should we honor the marginalized by

00:35:38.760 taking their names off of stuff? Or should we honor them by putting their names onto stuff? Or both?

00:35:44.960 Or maybe we employ one strategy on even days and another on odd days? I mean, how does this work

00:35:49.240 exactly? But it gets even more ludicrous, if you can believe it, okay? It gets even worse. 0.74

00:35:55.680 Listen to this. It says,

00:35:57.480 Nicknames are often more approachable and public-friendly than official names for cosmic

00:36:02.240 objects, such as Bernard 33, whose nickname the Horsehead Nebula invokes its appearance,

00:36:07.280 but often seemingly innocuous nicknames can be harmful and detract from the science.

00:36:12.760 Okay, wait a second. It's not clear to me here exactly, but are they saying that Horsehead Nebula

00:36:18.940 is offensive too? Is that? I'd like to say no, they're not. They're clearly saying that it's

00:36:23.720 approachable and friendly. But I just, I don't know anymore. You can never assume. You can't assume

00:36:29.480 any ounce of rationality or common sense when it comes to leftists. You just can't.

00:36:34.800 So it seems that they might be saying that Horsehead Nebula is offensive to

00:36:39.480 who exactly? Deformed freaks with horseheads? Is it offensive to them or actual horses? Or is it 1.00

00:36:47.520 offensive to the nebula itself because it's body shaming? I don't know. Well, all we know is that

00:36:52.620 Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's science mission Dictoriate, or directorate Dictoriate,

00:36:59.960 I can't speak. But you can't point that out because that's offensive to me. At headquarters

00:37:04.200 in Washington says, our goal is that all names are aligned with our values of diversity and inclusion

00:37:10.640 and will proactively work with the scientific community to help ensure that science is for

00:37:15.980 everyone and every facet of our work needs to reflect that value. And you see, this is the rub right

00:37:21.100 here. NASA's values are diversity and inclusion. Why? I mean, I know why. I ask why rhetorically as

00:37:31.060 a figure of speech. So, I mean, why? In what way does diversity and inclusion help NASA to fulfill

00:37:37.940 its proper function? Its proper function, which is, according to its own website, to, quote,

00:37:43.120 drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge,

00:37:47.880 education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth? That's a good function, 0.58

00:37:53.560 if you ask me. It would be great if NASA did that stuff. I remember when NASA did do that stuff.

00:37:59.260 And if that, that being exploration and innovation, is its mission and its goal,

00:38:04.720 then in what way precisely does diversity and inclusion advance it? In what way does a greater

00:38:10.560 focus on political correctness advance it? In what way is it advanced by a commitment to social justice?

00:38:16.340 If anything, all of that only interferes with proper functioning. It certainly doesn't aid it

00:38:24.200 by any stretch of the imagination. But just think about it. What sort of attitude do you need to go

00:38:29.980 out into the great unknown and explore? Well, just look at Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. These were

00:38:36.180 brilliant, highly skilled men, but they were also extremely tough men. And men who, especially in

00:38:43.160 Armstrong's case, didn't care much for other people's feelings. This is the profile of pretty much

00:38:49.860 every explorer ever in history. Brilliant, courageous, tough, even at times brutal, ambitious,

00:38:58.860 single-minded, perhaps obsessive. This is the kind of attitude and approach that's necessary to achieve

00:39:04.660 great things and to do what has never been done and to go where no one has gone before.

00:39:08.380 What about innovation? I mean, what do you need in order to innovate? What sort of people do you need

00:39:13.920 for that? Well, you need, again, brilliant, skilled people. Also, you need courage, different kind of

00:39:18.880 courage often, but you need courage. You need people who are focused, who are driven, people who think

00:39:23.620 differently, people who can look at problems from an entirely new perspective. So once again, if you're

00:39:31.440 NASA, how does a focus on diversity and inclusion help you find those kinds of people? It doesn't at

00:39:39.400 all. If you want to find those kinds of people, you look for those kinds of people, whatever they

00:39:46.540 happen to look like, whatever of the 198 genders they happen to be. You find people who can do the job,

00:39:53.160 and that's it. I can't think of any arena in which diversity and inclusion matter less

00:40:00.060 than in the arena of space exploration. It is the most irrelevant and ridiculous consideration,

00:40:07.520 as it always is, in all contexts, but especially in this one. So NASA is canceled.

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