The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 542 - Attacker In Macy's Assault May Only Get Probation

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is an update to the story of the black man who assaulted a

00:00:04.220 white Macy's employee, and it's outrageous, so stick around for that. Also, five headlines,

00:00:08.920 including the cancer-stricken two-year-old who was stranded at a cancer center while it was

00:00:14.160 being attacked by rioters in Chicago. And in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the feminists 0.99

00:00:18.500 who claim that, you know, normal human interactions are sexist microaggressions. So we've got to

00:00:24.460 discuss that. All of that on the way, and more. There's actually a lot to cover today, so bear

00:00:28.240 with me. But we'll start with this. If you are in the unfortunate habit of relying on the national

00:00:35.260 media for your news and information, you probably didn't hear about the brutal assault of a white 0.84

00:00:40.700 Macy's employee by a black man in June. The attack happened at the Genesee Valley Mall in Michigan on

00:00:46.140 June 15th. Here it is, if you haven't seen it. Watch this.

00:00:49.380 The assailant there is an 18-year-old man named Demir Palmer. His brother filmed the attack,

00:01:14.060 reported it to the media, which happily ran with the story, uncritical as always,

00:01:19.340 reported that the employee had used a racial slur. At the time, the brother, an alleged rapper

00:01:25.780 who goes by the name F.T. Quay, said that they were innocently shopping for a new shirt when the

00:01:31.220 employee, in full hearing of the two brothers, referred to them using the N-word. This is what

00:01:37.260 the brother told the New York Post. Quoting now from him, he said,

00:01:39.660 I just want people to know the real story of what really happened and what's in the description of

00:01:44.820 me and my brother just walking into Macy's, just minding our own business. And yes, we made a petty

00:01:49.720 joke and asked the guy, was the shirt too little? When he could have asked me, he was just being

00:01:55.820 funny. And just the fact of the remark that he said that we all heard, and just what else were we

00:02:01.220 supposed to do in this age and time? He didn't know what else to do. That was just his instinct.

00:02:06.040 Of course, it shouldn't matter if the employee said a bad word or not. That would in no way

00:02:13.180 justify felony assault. But it was obvious to anybody with two brain cells rubbed together

00:02:18.360 that the story from the brothers was bogus. And I said as much right away, right after this

00:02:23.020 happened. I said, I guarantee you, the word was not actually said. And indeed, what do you know?

00:02:28.740 It was bogus. It was made up. It was a lie. He never said the N-word. But I'm getting ahead of

00:02:33.280 myself a little bit. We'll get back to that in a second. All right. Let's back up again.

00:02:37.660 Remember, this happened on June 15th. The local prosecutor, David Lighton, did not file charges

00:02:42.620 against Demir Palmer until June 26th. That's over 10 days later. It took 10 days to decide

00:02:48.160 that pummeling a man while he's crawling on the ground begging for mercy is, in fact, illegal.

00:02:53.840 Here's Lighton on June 26th announcing the charges. Listen to him.

00:02:57.740 He shook up and he's emotionally upset, as well as physically upset. But he's emotionally upset

00:03:04.980 to think that, you know, anybody would think he said the alleged vile, racial, provoking slur

00:03:12.260 because he says he didn't say it. And his history suggests he didn't say it. We're charging

00:03:18.520 Demir Canal Palmer with a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

00:03:26.620 It's a felony assault charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. This was an unprovoked attack.

00:03:35.800 The internal video for Macy's shows the suspect approaching from behind. The victim, the store

00:03:45.340 manager, appears unaware that he's even there. The suspect then sucker punches him from behind,

00:03:53.420 knocks him to the floor, continues to punch him while he's on the floor. There is no evidence

00:04:00.020 of provocation whatsoever. Even if there were verbal provocation, which we have no evidence of,

00:04:10.520 violent retaliation is not permitted by the law.

00:04:14.180 Vile, racial, provoking slur. That's what Lighton is focused on.

00:04:19.320 You see how, in the context of announcing charges against a man who committed a barbarous assault

00:04:24.940 against another human, he feels the need to begin by denouncing a word that there's no reason to

00:04:29.960 think anyone even used. By the way, no charges were filed against the brother who filmed it.

00:04:36.020 Okay, so fast forward two months. That was about two months ago. Two months forward,

00:04:41.100 and the obvious has now been confirmed. The racial slur was not said. It was a lie. It was a hoax,

00:04:46.540 yet again. But Demir Palmer blames his brother. So no honor among thieves, or in this case,

00:04:52.560 among people who randomly assault retail employees. Palmer said that his brother told him the N-word

00:04:58.300 was used, and that's what led to the assault. Now, here's where we get to the inevitable and yet no

00:05:03.840 less outrageous part. Palmer's brother still has not been charged with any crime, and Palmer himself

00:05:10.020 is looking at quite possibly getting off with probation. Probation. And not only probation,

00:05:16.640 but he won't have a criminal record in this scenario. This will be expunged from his record,

00:05:21.840 like it never happened. Palmer pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm,

00:05:27.840 but the assistant prosecutor, Patrick McCombs, says that he'll be sentenced under something called

00:05:32.440 the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. Now, I had to Google that,

00:05:40.360 and it took me to a website of Tannis and Schultz, Michigan-based lawyers. Here's what they tell

00:05:45.240 us about the Holmes Youthful Training Act. It says, the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, more commonly known

00:05:51.320 as HYTA, provides individuals between the ages of 17 and 24 with a second chance. Under the act,

00:05:57.500 an individual charged with a crime may petition the court for status as a youthful trainee.

00:06:03.680 The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act states, if an individual pleads guilty to a criminal offense

00:06:07.400 committed on or after the individual's 17th birthday, but before his 24th birthday,

00:06:12.900 the court of record having jurisdiction of the criminal offense may, without entering a judgment

00:06:16.540 of conviction and with the consent of that individual, consider and assign that individual

00:06:22.680 to the status of youthful trainee. If the court grants the individual status under the Holmes

00:06:27.940 Youthful Trainee Act, he or she will be placed on a probationary term. If he or she successfully

00:06:32.320 completes the probationary term, the criminal conviction will not be entered into his or her

00:06:36.720 record. The court will dismiss all charges, and his or her criminal record will remain clean.

00:06:43.220 Okay. Dismiss all charges. That's where this is very likely headed. Official sentencing is not until

00:06:50.240 September. Technically, Palmer could still get 10 years in prison, and at the conclusion of that

00:06:54.480 sentence, then his record is wiped clean. But I think we all know that's not going to happen.

00:06:59.440 The sentence can be anything from probation to 10 years, and all signs are pointing to probation here,

00:07:05.720 or something much closer to that end of the spectrum. And then, clean slate, like magic,

00:07:09.840 like it never happened. Until it happens again. Which it will, because men who pummel other men for fun

00:07:15.940 don't just wake up one day as decent human beings. That doesn't happen. Except maybe in fairy tales.

00:07:22.640 Now, according to the ABC 12 report, a local affiliate in the town, much of the court,

00:07:29.440 the court hearing over this case, had to do with the issue of the phantom N-word,

00:07:33.640 and how upset that made poor Demir Palmer. Reading from the AP report, it says,

00:07:37.640 after pleading guilty to the 10-year felony against him, assault with intent to do great bodily harm,

00:07:43.840 less than murder, Palmer shared with the judge what led to the assault inside the Genesee Valley

00:07:49.520 Mall on June 15, 2020. And then, this is Palmer now. He says, I asked him a question about some

00:07:55.400 clothes, Palmer said. I asked him about the jacket type that I was about to get. Palmer said the man

00:07:59.700 answered him. They laughed, and then his brother told him the store manager had called him the N-word.

00:08:05.720 He admitted that he since learned his brother lied to him. Big shocker there.

00:08:09.520 Now, we continue. The assistant prosecutor questioning the brother says,

00:08:15.040 why would your brother do that? And he says, I wouldn't know. I honestly wouldn't. Palmer replied.

00:08:20.420 The assistant prosecutor, okay, now listen to this part. The assistant prosecutor

00:08:23.520 told Palmer he understands the anger that would fuel the assault, but he said the store manager

00:08:29.720 has asked that the charge does not stay with Palmer forever. Okay. He understands. He understands

00:08:36.280 how a person might be so mad about a bad word that he would beat another person senseless in the

00:08:41.360 middle of a Macy's. He understands. And yes, the victim in this case apparently has expressed his

00:08:47.000 consent to the lenient sentence, and that's the human shield that the prosecutors are hiding behind

00:08:51.940 here by saying, well, it's what the victim wants. But the fact that the victim who'd already been

00:08:56.700 attacked once didn't want to come out and demand a harsher sentence is completely irrelevant here.

00:09:02.060 We can think of many reasons why he might express that point of view, even if it's not how he really

00:09:07.660 feels. All right. So a lot needs to be covered here. First of all, once again, who gives the

00:09:14.580 slightest damn whether he said the bad word or not? It is in fact not understandable for an adult to

00:09:20.760 commit felony assault in response to a word. Not understandable at all. The implication from the

00:09:26.800 way this sentencing is working out is that felony assault is legal, or at least not very illegal,

00:09:32.100 if a black man even so much as believes a racial slur was said. I mean, what if the slur had been

00:09:37.700 said? What then? Would they have simply let him walk, no questions asked, not even probation?

00:09:43.220 Second, and I'm sounding like a broken record here, but we have another incident in this case that

00:09:48.360 if the races were reversed, would be headline news. The assailant will be looking at hard time behind

00:09:54.520 bars on federal charges, hate crime charges. Now, I don't think that the hate crime designation

00:10:00.180 should exist at all. I think the whole category as a matter of law is absurd. But if we're going to

00:10:05.300 have it, then it ought to be evenly applied. And this is a hate crime. In fact, Demir Palmer admits

00:10:11.580 as much. He told on himself in his excuse, he admits that it's racially motivated. Think about it.

00:10:17.460 He assaulted the store clerk because he thought that the clerk had said a word. Now, side note,

00:10:22.260 I don't actually believe him about this. I don't think that he thought that the word was used. I

00:10:26.440 think that this was something both brothers decided to do for fun and for viral fame. That's

00:10:31.540 my theory. But in any event, going based on his testimony, he assaulted the Macy's guy because he

00:10:36.320 thought that the Macy's guy had said a word. We can assume that Demir Palmer would not have assaulted

00:10:41.800 a black man for saying that. In fact, we know he wouldn't because he himself uses the word he's

00:10:47.580 supposedly mad about the employee allegedly using while he's assaulting the employee for using the

00:10:52.060 word, which he didn't actually use, if you're following me. In other words, he assaults the

00:10:57.100 employee because the employee is a white man who he thought used a certain word. He assaulted him

00:11:04.280 for being a white man using a certain word. This is not an argument that the word is the same when

00:11:11.060 used by white people as by black people. That's not my point. It's an argument that this assault 0.56

00:11:15.380 was undeniably motivated by the combination of the alleged word and the race of the person who

00:11:21.760 said it. That is by definition a racially motivated attack, a hate crime. He should be going to federal

00:11:29.240 prison for this. But we know that everything is in two tiers in this society. The media puts black

00:11:35.980 on white assaults and murder on one tier, a low tier, white on black on another, and the justice system

00:11:41.100 does the same. Third point, speaking of the justice system, we see here the actual type of reform that

00:11:49.200 is necessary. Put aside all the racial stuff and the double standard, all of that. Think about this

00:11:53.580 youthful trainee nonsense. The justice system in Michigan, home to Detroit, one of the most violent

00:11:58.040 cities in America, considers adult violent criminals to be trainees and will release them back into society

00:12:07.080 without even any indication that they are actually violent and dangerous. There's no justice here

00:12:13.220 because there's no punishment. And they're failing to protect society on two levels. First, by releasing

00:12:18.900 violent criminals back into communities and then by refusing to tell the communities that these are

00:12:23.140 violent criminals. So a law like this fails in every conceivable way to ensure that the justice system

00:12:29.980 does what it's supposed to do. You know, we don't have a large scale problem in this country of the

00:12:35.620 justice system system coming down too hard on the bad guys. There may be, there's some examples of

00:12:40.660 that, sure, but there are many, many, many more examples of the justice system putting on, you know,

00:12:46.340 its kid gloves and slapping violent, dangerous people on the wrist and then patting them on the

00:12:51.860 head and sending them on their way. Practically inviting them to continue committing crimes until they've 0.63

00:12:56.460 finally done something so heinous that even the most lenient and henpecked prosecutor has no choice but to

00:13:01.780 take the book and throw it at them rather than doing what they normally do, which is to take the book

00:13:05.480 and throw it out, allowing criminals to continue along in their criminal ways. The streets of our

00:13:12.080 cities are overrun by dangerous, violent people who are known to the system, known to be dangerous and

00:13:19.940 violent and yet are permitted to stay out on the street, free, unencumbered. And the story often has

00:13:27.120 a predictable, infuriating, and tragic ending. And something tells me that the story of Demir Palmer

00:13:32.900 Veri may have the same sort of ending. Let's go to five headlines.

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00:15:54.260 um, two-year-old Owen Buell and you could see him right there. Uh, Owen has cancer stage four

00:16:01.300 neuroblastoma. Owen, along with his family has been staying at the Ronald McDonald house near

00:16:07.320 Lori children's hospital in Chicago. Ronald McDonald house was targeted by looters and rioters during the

00:16:12.600 riots a few days ago. Yes. A place with cancer stricken children, um, was attacked. The glass

00:16:20.940 was shattered. Dora was shattered to make matters worse. Owen was supposed to go home to have his

00:16:25.280 birthday party. And he just, he just turned two. This little guy has earned his birthday party more

00:16:30.640 than, than, than certainly I've ever earned a birthday party. Um, and he apparently is a big fan

00:16:35.680 of llamas who isn't, I'm a big fan of llamas too. And so his, his mom had had a big three foot tall 1.00

00:16:41.280 stuffed llama shipped to the house as part of the birthday celebration. She was looking forward to

00:16:45.160 bringing him home. So you can see that. Um, but the party had to be canceled because of the riots.

00:16:51.780 They couldn't discharge any children in the middle of this. So Owen missed his birthday party.

00:16:57.840 Meanwhile, as Owen's mother describes it, they could hear, I mean, just imagine that these children,

00:17:02.460 they could hear the noise, they could hear the, the, the sirens and the gunshots and everything and

00:17:05.940 all the chaos. And while they're trapped at this place, imagine the fear and the terror for these

00:17:11.160 kids who are already going through something that no kid should have to endure. So if you need

00:17:18.560 another reason to despise the rioters and BLM, here it is just reprehensible, awful, self-obsessed 0.99

00:17:27.740 people who don't give the slightest damn about anyone but themselves. Remember something, remember, 0.97

00:17:34.200 remember we played this yesterday, the BLM activists in Chicago justifying looting by saying that they

00:17:40.940 should be able to take whatever they want because they're entitled to it. Let's play that again. 0.65

00:17:44.340 I don't care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike because that makes sure that

00:17:51.740 that person eats, that makes sure that that person has clothes, that makes sure that that person can

00:17:56.900 make some kind of money because the city obviously doesn't care about them. Not only that, that's

00:18:01.420 reparations. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have

00:18:08.040 insurance. They're going to get their money back. My people aren't getting anything.

00:18:12.820 So BLM is taking whatever they want because they're entitled to it. While cancer stricken toddlers

00:18:17.980 are deprived of their birthday parties. Because there's a direct correlation. Because BLM had to

00:18:26.200 take what it is owed, apparently, that meant that cancer stricken toddlers out of luck.

00:18:31.280 By the way, positive note here, if you go to my Twitter right now, I've got a link up to the GoFundMe

00:18:38.680 for Owen. And it's a GoFundMe for, you know, for, of course, his medical expenses and whatever else

00:18:46.220 the family needs the money for. And so you can go there and if you have it in, if you're able to

00:18:51.280 donate, then do that. Someone sent me the GoFundMe page yesterday. It had raised $20,000

00:18:56.500 when they sent it to me since February. And then I put it up and we all kind of rallied together.

00:19:03.740 And overnight, we doubled it for another $20,000. So go to my Twitter if you can and donate there.

00:19:11.280 All right. The manager of a bakery in Chinatown was trying to talk to Mayor Bill de Blasio about

00:19:16.920 how the shutdowns and the COVID policies have affected, have destroyed his business. And he's

00:19:21.160 getting quite emotional in this clip, understandably. But let's look at de Blasio's

00:19:25.920 response to him. Watch.

00:19:27.920 We've been taking a hit since January. We lost our Chinese New Year, our busiest day of our community.

00:19:35.720 The most festive holiday that we have, then COVID happened. Now we're all hurting ourselves.

00:19:41.320 What we need is more confidence. I know Margaret Cheney, but we need help. We need more confidence.

00:19:52.660 My merch is going to be more confidence.

00:19:55.040 All right.

00:19:56.600 Everybody, please, step aside.

00:19:58.380 A little bit of space, please. Thank you very much.

00:20:02.880 Yeah, he just doesn't care at all. Speaking of self-obsessed, not giving the slightest damn

00:20:07.700 about anybody but yourself, there's de Blasio. I mean, de Blasio, the rioters, BLM, Antifa,

00:20:14.220 these are all matches made in, well, not heaven, but in the other direction anyway.

00:20:19.100 Um, they're all, they're all sort of peas in a pod. Very, very similar in that way. He just,

00:20:24.820 he doesn't care at all. This guy's, this guy, you know, this, this, this business owner,

00:20:29.860 life, business destroyed. De Blasio couldn't, couldn't possibly care less, just walks away from

00:20:34.540 him. Number three, an article in the LA Times, uh, here's the headline says, want more diversity

00:20:39.180 in camping? Start with the gear. And then the article goes into detail talking about how fewer

00:20:44.840 black people go camping. Uh, and this, you guessed it is due to historical injustice and racism.

00:20:50.360 You know, all those laws on the books forbidding black people from camping. It's, well, you have 1.00

00:20:55.460 to admit those laws would be pretty bad if they existed. Now I, I'm, I, and let me say, I am

00:21:02.060 totally against those non-existent laws. I, those laws don't exist. And I say they should continue

00:21:07.240 not existing. Now, as for the question in the headline, I just thought, I know it's a rhetorical

00:21:11.880 question. I thought I'd answer it anyway. Want more diversity in camping. Allow me to answer that

00:21:15.620 question. No, I don't actually. Uh, I don't want more diversity in camping. I also don't want, I 0.89

00:21:20.400 don't, I don't not want more diversity in camping. I don't want more. I don't not want more. I just

00:21:25.520 have no feeling at all about the racial makeup of the camping community. It doesn't matter to me at

00:21:30.980 all. Shouldn't matter to anyone. People will camp if they want to. Uh, if they don't want to camp,

00:21:36.880 they won't. If more white people than black people want to go camping. Okay. Why would that 1.00

00:21:44.660 matter? Why does every single facet of society need to have a certain predetermined fill a certain

00:21:52.880 quota of a racial diversity quota? Who cares that this something like camping as with so many other 1.00

00:21:59.320 things in, in society, it really comes down to do people want to do it or not. It's like that with

00:22:06.300 the sexism claims. And we'll talk about more about this in a second, but we look at certain

00:22:10.660 industries and we say, well, there's, there's not enough women doing this job. But have you ever 0.99

00:22:14.980 thought that maybe there's not more women doing the job because women don't want to do that job? 1.00

00:22:21.000 Yeah, there's, there's a lot of, uh, there's not a lot of gender diversity in the roofing industry.

00:22:28.440 Okay. Most roofers on a hot roof in July, almost all of them men. In fact, I don't think I've ever

00:22:34.080 seen a female roofer. Maybe a few of them exist. Is that because females are excluded from root from, 1.00

00:22:39.700 from roofing? No, it's just because they don't want to do it. And so they don't, uh, I suspect

00:22:45.180 there's something similar going on with camping. All right. Uh, number four, huge news here. Um,

00:22:50.300 finally, we'll get to something important. Farmers in Botswana have come up with a, uh, an incredible

00:22:55.420 innovation. They figured out that you can prevent predators, lions, leopards, et cetera,

00:22:58.720 from attacking your cows. If you draw eyes on the cows, but, uh, you can see right here,

00:23:05.340 eyes on the butt. And they don't have to be very realistic eyes either. Apparently

00:23:10.540 even these lackadaisical eyes will work. Why do they work? Well, uh, they've done a whole study

00:23:18.160 to figure out why this works. I can tell you why it works. Would you want to eat a hamburger with,

00:23:22.680 with eyes on it? If you picked up your hamburger at Applebee's and there's, and there are eyes

00:23:28.760 staring at you, would you eat it? I mean, I still would because I'm hungry, but it would freak me

00:23:33.960 out. No question. Uh, all I can say is that this so far though, is a massive missed opportunity.

00:23:40.040 If these, if these farmers are drawing eyes, I know you probably thought the same thing as me,

00:23:45.300 right? We're putting eyes on the cow's butt. Okay. I'm with you there. Sounds good. Why aren't we 0.99

00:23:50.400 putting googly eyes? Go to Joanne Fabrics. If they have that in Botswana, get the googly eyes, 1.00

00:23:58.360 put that on the butt of the cow. More realistic, a lot funnier. Let's go. Number five. Finally,

00:24:05.300 a new study says that a certain mind controlling fungus can infect cicadas and turn them into zombies.

00:24:12.720 And to be honest with you, I'm really just mentioning the story, uh, as an excuse to

00:24:16.380 transition into a story about my kids. This is, that's the only reason. So we're putting that to the

00:24:19.840 side. Enough about the cicadas. Uh, I thought this was pretty great and I don't have anywhere else to

00:24:24.500 put it in the show. So I'm just going to tell you here. I, uh, yesterday, while I was out of the

00:24:28.200 house, our, our three-year-old son got mad at his brother, uh, because, uh, he, he wouldn't play

00:24:35.460 with toys with him. So our three-year-old took one of the toys, plastic shark, threw it at his older

00:24:41.500 brother, hit him in the eye, actually ended up giving him a nice little cut beneath the eye, like right

00:24:45.400 here. Um, and I guess my, my younger son's logic was, listen, if you don't want to play with the

00:24:50.540 toys with me, then I will beat you with them. That was his logic. Now he got punished for that,

00:24:55.360 of course. But when I got home, I decided that I should have a talk with him about it. And I was

00:24:59.800 talking to him about it and I asked him why he did it, even though I knew the answer, but I asked him

00:25:05.920 anyway. And he told me this was his, his excuse. All right. He told me that he was worried that his

00:25:12.000 older brother might be a zombie. So he threw the toy at him. That's what he said. And you know, I,

00:25:20.020 I didn't expect his excuse to be persuasive. I knew he'd have some excuse. I didn't expect it to

00:25:26.300 be so persuasive, but I heard that. And I thought, all right, fair. Who, I mean, who can, what do you

00:25:33.620 want him to do? He, I, he thought his brother was a zombie or not even that. See what I liked about it

00:25:38.000 was it wasn't, he didn't come out and outright accuse his brother of being a zombie. He said

00:25:43.080 might be. So, so it was, it was more of like a plausible theory that he couldn't rule out

00:25:49.060 without further investigation. And the investigation involved throwing a plastic shark at his eye. I

00:25:55.700 don't totally understand the connection there, to be honest with you, but I don't have any experience

00:25:59.300 battling zombies. Do you? So I don't think that we can really pass any judgment there. And I thought

00:26:04.600 that was, that was good. Kids will always, kids always coming up with the, it's one of the great

00:26:08.100 joys of being a parent is listening to all the excuses from your kids. I use the word joy. There

00:26:15.160 are other descriptions you could probably use, but I'm going with joy for right now. All right,

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00:27:07.420 I will be canceling women. Not all women, don't worry. In fact, if you are a woman, I hope that you 1.00

00:27:13.260 do not fall into the category of being canceled this afternoon. I am canceling women who have a 1.00

00:27:18.360 tendency to claim that relatively normal yet uncomfortable or irritating social interactions

00:27:23.280 are sexist. Now, I suppose I could simplify by saying I'm canceling feminists, but I think that

00:27:28.420 there may be some women who don't identify as feminists and yet still fall into this trap. 1.00

00:27:32.760 So now, look, I'm not talking here about things, words, behaviors that are actually abusive or

00:27:38.200 degrading to women. In fact, just this week, we've discussed the latest Cardi B song, which is

00:27:42.420 intensely degrading and dehumanizing to women. Yes, it was a woman who produced it, but even so, 0.89

00:27:47.580 it amounts to an attack on the dignity of women. And there's plenty of this sort of thing in the 1.00

00:27:51.480 culture. And if you're a woman who has spoken out about that, God bless you. To you, I say,

00:27:56.540 girl power. I will join you at the protest march for that. That's not what I'm talking about. What

00:28:01.800 I'm referring to here are, as I said, the more ordinary, everyday, social interaction-based sexism

00:28:09.560 claims. If you want examples of this kind of thing, just go to Google and type in sexist microaggressions

00:28:15.100 or everyday sexism or similar keywords. You'll be greeted with volumes and volumes, just like this.

00:28:20.400 One random example from Yahoo Finance. This is just one article that popped up, of many.

00:28:28.040 And the headline, why sexist microaggressions are holding women back at work. So just reading a

00:28:32.940 little bit of this, it says, around 64% of women are supposed to be exposed to this kind of

00:28:36.720 discrimination, according to the report, with black and lesbian women facing an even greater

00:28:40.080 variety of microaggressions in the workplace. And then it continues. So what are examples of

00:28:46.240 microaggressions experienced by women? That's a very good question. According to the Women in the 1.00

00:28:51.320 Workplace report, the most common issue is women having to provide more evidence of their competence 1.00

00:28:55.660 than men. And they are more likely to have their judgment questioned, even on things that they're

00:29:00.460 an expert in. And then the article goes into anecdotes from various women. Here's one. It says,

00:29:07.100 one Asian woman who had worked four years at a company told the report authors of her experience of

00:29:12.120 a microaggression. She said, I was in an elevator and pressed the button for the executive office.

00:29:16.140 Someone said to me, um, no, honey, that's for the executive offices. The interns are going to this

00:29:20.600 floor. That's not funny, but I, another Middle Eastern woman, uh, the vice president of a company

00:29:25.360 added, I walked into a meeting where I was the only woman in a very large room of men. And when I sat

00:29:30.340 down, an older white man from another company turned to me out of nowhere and, uh, said, could you take

00:29:36.080 notes for the meeting? Which was a little bit odd because I was the lawyer in the room, uh, the one

00:29:42.100 I'm doing the negotiating. Okay. So those, and then it goes into other anecdotes and so on and so

00:29:47.400 forth. Um, and then it, it's, it stipulates importantly, microaggressions can be hard to

00:29:52.420 pinpoint. They might be brief comments or small actions such as interrupting or talking over

00:29:56.520 someone in a meeting. No matter what form they come in, microaggressions can have a serious impact

00:30:01.980 and create a toxic working environment. They might seem innocuous, but over time, these incidents

00:30:06.280 and comments can lead to self-esteem, uh, or rather to low self-esteem, feelings of alienation and

00:30:11.480 impact on mental health. All right. So a few classic examples there of alleged micro sexism,

00:30:18.500 uh, that you find. There are other classics that you've no doubt heard being told the smile is one

00:30:24.160 women will sometimes complain that others remark on their lack of smiling and, uh, and they'll chalk 1.00

00:30:29.920 that up to sexism. Of course, there's the old favorite mansplaining and mansplaining is anytime a 1.00

00:30:35.880 man explains something in a condescending or patronizing way, I'm doing mansplaining right now. In fact,

00:30:40.700 unwelcome advice, a cousin of mansplaining is another example. So questioning of judgment,

00:30:46.280 interrupting, talking over, talking to a, uh, telling a woman to smile, explaining things,

00:30:50.180 doling out advice, unwelcome touching, unwelcome flirting. All of these are commonly considered

00:30:55.780 sexism and they're used to promote this, this, this narrative of a, of a patriarchal and male

00:31:01.320 privileged society. But it's all bogus, almost entirely bogus. Might there be some occasions

00:31:11.040 where a man interrupts or explains or says you should smile more because he has a low opinion

00:31:16.700 of women? Sure. I suppose so. I can't see inside anybody's mind. I don't know. What I do know is

00:31:22.000 this, that all of these things, all that I just listed, all of these supposed sexist anti-woman

00:31:27.940 aggressions, however micro they may be, happen to men all the time. All the time. None of this is

00:31:35.980 unique to women, nor is there any credible reason to assume that they, that they're experienced more

00:31:40.140 often by women. All we know, and save yourself the trouble of sending me links to studies. Look at the 0.94

00:31:46.080 studies. The studies say, the studies have declared. All we know is that women more often report and

00:31:52.640 remember these incidents and interpret them as sexism. What we do not know is that women actually 0.99

00:31:58.620 experience these events more often. And I submit that there's no good reason to assume they do.

00:32:06.500 Now, this is all anecdotal, of course, but that, you know, all of this is, the claims from feminists

00:32:10.660 are anecdotal. It's all anecdotal. So let me add my own anecdote. Okay. I am told to smile all the time.

00:32:15.580 I have just never cared enough to make note of it or, or of any specific incident and to store it

00:32:22.500 away in my head as a traumatic sex experience, sexist experience, because ultimately I don't care

00:32:27.220 what other people think of my demeanor or my personality. A lot of people hate me and hate

00:32:31.420 my demeanor and personality. Fine. Doesn't matter to me. Your opinion of me is irrelevant. I don't care.

00:32:38.180 What about being talked over? What about being interrupted, condescended to? Men experience that all the

00:32:43.600 time, all of that. Though men who learn to assert themselves will experience it less, but that's true 1.00

00:32:49.180 for women too. The point is that if you have a more submissive personality, you're more likely to be

00:32:54.960 ignored or overridden, especially in a work environment, in a competitive environment. That's not an anti-woman

00:33:00.560 thing. That's an, that's a human society thing, like it or not. What about unwelcome advice? Are you

00:33:05.960 kidding me? I would wager here that 95% of all the unwelcome advice given in a day across the world,

00:33:12.300 cumulatively, is supplied by women. Now this is partly a positive reflection of women though. 0.97

00:33:18.580 Women give advice, nag we used to call it, for the same reason that they gossip. It's the downside of 1.00

00:33:24.360 the more positive attributes more common in women, of sensitivity and empathy. Women are more likely to 0.94

00:33:30.500 care what other people are doing, thinking, saying, and feeling. Yes, this can lead them to gossip. It can

00:33:35.720 lead them to nag, but can also lead them to be wonderfully caring and invested in other people 0.86

00:33:40.320 and, you know, and very empathetic. Now men, we're less likely to care all that much about what other

00:33:46.600 people do. The plus side is that we don't nag very often. We're less prone to gossip. But the negative

00:33:51.880 side is that we can sometimes lack sensitivity. We can lack empathy. We can perhaps err on the side of

00:33:56.600 indifference more often than we should. This is a difference between the sexes and one of the reasons 0.99

00:34:01.840 why our differences are complementary and one of the reasons why it's so great to have a mom and dad in

00:34:05.940 the home to balance each other out. You need sort of both sides of this. But the point here is that

00:34:11.080 is simply that because of the masculine and feminine tendencies just described, some of this everyday

00:34:17.200 sexism is far more likely to come from women. So why does it seem like women experience these things 1.00

00:34:25.780 more? How could it be possible that somehow men have been become known in modern society as the nagging

00:34:32.380 busybodies while women are suddenly the aggrieved and frustrated victims of this behavior? 0.98

00:34:37.660 I mean, it's absurd. Well, I think it has a lot to do with another difference between men and women. 0.89

00:34:43.060 Men only articulate about 10% of their emotions and experience. For women, the number is closer to

00:34:48.600 225%. These are not scientific figures, I admit. But the point is that men don't talk as much about what

00:34:56.320 they're feeling and going through and are especially unlikely to go home and tell their wives elaborate

00:35:00.800 stories about, you know, being interrupted at a meeting or being told to smile and how upset it

00:35:06.580 made them. Not because it doesn't happen, but because for one thing, a man might feel embarrassed

00:35:11.160 that he was emasculated and therefore be more likely, if anything, to tell a story about some other

00:35:15.800 incident in the day when he was assertive and in control just to assuage his bruised ego. Also,

00:35:21.580 he won't bring it up because men are more practical, even about emotional matters and admittedly to a

00:35:27.500 fault sometimes. So a man will calculate in his mind whether the story about his day is actually

00:35:33.260 useful or relevant to anyone. And if he decides that it isn't, he won't say it. Women don't perform 1.00

00:35:39.880 those calculations as often for better or worse. Now, that's where the confusion comes from. It is

00:35:49.700 like so much of the confusion between the sexes, a matter of miscommunication or lack of communication.

00:35:55.540 And now I'm starting to sound like my wife, who, for the record, has never in her life said the

00:36:00.580 phrase microaggression or even sexism, unironically. I don't think I've ever heard her call anything

00:36:05.080 sexist ever, which is awesome. And so this time she is not the one being canceled, but a bunch of 0.67

00:36:11.460 other women are, I'm afraid, being canceled, which I'm sure they will hasten to say is sexist on my part.

00:36:17.940 So be it. The cancellation stands. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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Ep. 542 - Attacker In Macy's Assault May Only Get Probation

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