The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 555 - The Left's Racial Narrative Is Having Its Desired Effect

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a video of a white man being beaten with a brick in Baltimore is

00:00:04.380 uploaded to Instagram with the caption, White Lives Matter. This is the latest apparently

00:00:08.960 racially motivated assault on a white person. The media, of course, is ignoring it, but it's

00:00:13.340 happening. And the reason why it's happening is clear. We'll talk about that today. Also,

00:00:17.140 five headlines, including Trump getting in trouble for speaking truth about BLM and Joe Biden having

00:00:22.720 a mental breakdown on live TV. You have to see it. You really have to see the tape. And in our

00:00:27.160 daily cancellation, I will cancel everyone who is currently trying to cancel Adele for her

00:00:31.340 supposedly racist hairstyle. How can a hairstyle be racist? We'll find that out today. All of that

00:00:36.800 and much more on the way. We begin with this. The city of Baltimore lived up to its reputation yet

00:00:41.460 again this weekend when a white man was beaten over the head with a brick as he walked down the

00:00:45.160 street. It was all caught on film by another person who appeared to know that the attack was about to

00:00:49.660 happen and laughed when the victim was sent crashing to the pavement with a gash in his skull.

00:00:54.900 Footage was posted to Instagram with the caption, white lives do not matter. As of now, 0.93

00:01:00.460 the condition of the victim is not known. Last I saw, police arrived on the scene later to find only

00:01:06.080 a pool of blood on the sidewalk. Now that I've described it to you, I'll play the video for you

00:01:10.480 because no description can quite capture these sorts of things. So watch and listen to the reaction

00:01:16.120 of the people filming. Now think about the mindset you must have to actually think that bludgeoning

00:01:32.020 a random guy as he walks down the street is funny. We're talking about violent sociopathy at the level

00:01:38.380 of serial killers. Okay. Not that the people filming the attack or the attacker himself are serial

00:01:43.840 killers, just that morally and psychologically they're on that level. They take actual joy in

00:01:49.620 witnessing brutality against the innocent. Now, as far as white people being brutalized though, 0.51

00:01:55.280 this is not an isolated occurrence. It was only two weeks ago that a white man was beaten unconscious

00:01:59.880 by a Black Lives Matter protester in Portland. Last week, a man in Colorado yelled Black Lives Matter

00:02:06.520 before stabbing a white man in the lungs. That same week, a man in Georgia walked into an auto parts

00:02:11.640 store and knifed a white employee, later confessing that he felt the need to find a white male to kill.

00:02:17.720 Again, in the same week, an elderly white man was knocked apparently unconscious after trying to 0.95

00:02:21.760 stop looters from ransacking his business. This assault was met with approval by activist Tariq Nasheed,

00:02:29.320 who baselessly labeled the victim a suspected white supremacist and celebrated his attackers as,

00:02:35.500 quote, freedom fighters. Now, these can all be added to the growing list of assaults on white people

00:02:42.300 over the last few months, which includes the white female beaten with wooden boards by a group of

00:02:46.920 black men during the riots and the 92-year-old white lady casually pushed to the ground by a black man as

00:02:53.920 he walked past. She hit her head on a fire hydrant. And these are only the physical assaults we're 0.94

00:02:58.640 talking about. We haven't accounted for the Black Lives Matter demonstrators screaming at white diners in

00:03:02.860 D.C. or BLM activists elsewhere in the country engaging in all manner of harassment and intimidation,

00:03:09.620 often explicitly aimed at whites. Now, we'll be assured that these cases are not numerous enough 0.58

00:03:17.360 to count as a trend or an epidemic. But I note that almost everyone who would make that dismissive

00:03:24.340 argument about black on white violence will, in the next breath, insist that random videos of police

00:03:31.140 officers shooting black men do count as both a trend and an epidemic. And we could be quite certain 1.00

00:03:36.680 that if, in the span of seven days, a black man was kicked in the head and knocked unconscious by a 0.98

00:03:41.060 white supremacist, and then there were two separate stabbing attacks carried out by white men screaming 0.94

00:03:45.340 white lives matter, these same people would call you a racist in league with Nazis if you didn't conclude 0.99

00:03:53.780 that black people are being hunted in the street all across the country. Indeed, we're already told that

00:03:59.000 black people are, quote unquote, literally hunted, to use a LeBron James phrase, by white people, 0.99

00:04:04.220 even though the crime statistics clearly show that a black person is more likely to kill a white person 0.99

00:04:08.640 than a white person a black person. That's what the stats show. Now, whether you think these cases 0.98

00:04:14.240 listed at the top equate to a trend or just an unfortunate series of oddly similar events,

00:04:21.620 the main point is that they're not happening in a vacuum. When a group of people are cast as the

00:04:28.020 villain and labeled an existential threat to other groups, and then members of that villain group

00:04:35.860 wind up dead or beaten in, quote unquote, random attacks or accosted by angry mobs, it is simply

00:04:42.180 ludicrous to deny the obvious connection. In our culture, it is dogma that whites are all inherently 0.98

00:04:49.360 racist, that they are privileged and have earned that privilege by stealing from other races. Note the 0.98

00:04:55.240 BLM activists demanding that whites give up their homes and the BLM leader in Chicago announcing that 0.97

00:05:00.500 blacks can loot all they want because they're only taking what they're owed. That's dogma. It's dogma 1.00

00:05:06.560 that white people enter the police force so that they can stalk and murder black people for sport. 1.00

00:05:11.760 It's dogma that white people should be ashamed of their past and their ancestral heritage, that the 1.00

00:05:17.480 only thing they ought to feel about being white is guilt. This is a rough summary of critical race 0.83

00:05:23.220 theory. It's been force-fed to college students for decades, preached from every pulpit that the

00:05:27.880 left has available to it, to include many church pulpits, by the way. Now, if you're a non-white person 0.93

00:05:34.120 and you take all of this and you listen to it and you take it seriously, and you especially notice that

00:05:41.560 it's now considered normal and healthy to express racial resentments through violent outbursts under the

00:05:47.240 guise of protest, then what else are you going to do? Believing that whites are racist by their

00:05:53.000 nature and that everything they've done, everything that they have has been in some sense earned 0.99

00:05:57.860 unjustly or stolen, why wouldn't you attack and rob them? And if they're, quote-unquote, hunting you

00:06:04.220 or are in league with those who hunt you, then beating them senseless is practically an act of

00:06:08.900 self-defense. It's what they deserve, at least, what they would have done to you. It's not that every

00:06:14.820 non-white person buys this narrative. Obviously, most don't and most aren't doing these sorts of

00:06:19.740 things. But when a message like this is being broadcast from every corner of the culture and

00:06:24.880 powerful forces are working every day to advance this narrative and brainwash people, especially

00:06:29.900 young people, into it, it's simply inevitable that it will persuade some. And then there will be others

00:06:37.100 who are not necessarily persuaded but are happy to use the excuse given to them to act out violently.

00:06:42.060 You know, the rioters aren't necessarily angry at anybody. I doubt that most of them are sincerely

00:06:46.620 convinced of the rightness of their cause as they burn and loot and steal. They do it for fun and

00:06:52.280 because it's an opportunity to get a new pair of shoes and a TV and the narrative gives them the

00:06:57.420 excuse they need. This includes, of course, other white people who consider themselves to be the good

00:07:02.480 ones and thus they have an excuse as well to assault and burn and destroy. Now, keep in mind 0.98

00:07:09.220 that some of the people who committed some of the acts mentioned earlier are probably mentally ill. 0.97

00:07:16.920 The guy who stabbed the white man and shot at Black Lives Matter, well, he waited for police to show 0.98

00:07:21.320 up and then told them that he's, quote, I just stabbed someone. I'm a psychopath. Now, generally, if a man 0.99

00:07:27.260 stabs another man and identifies himself as a psychopath, he probably is. But that only proves my point

00:07:33.000 all the more. There are all kinds of people out there who, for one reason or another, will be

00:07:38.740 susceptible to this villain narrative about a whole race of people. When they take the narrative to

00:07:44.660 heart and act on it, the fault lies without a doubt, at least in part, with those advancing that

00:07:51.780 narrative. Now, if you want to know how bad it's gotten, then consider not any example of violence

00:07:59.240 already listed, but consider the simple fact that as I speak right now and talk about this subject,

00:08:04.200 many in the audience are wincing. Not because they disagree, but because they're uncomfortable

00:08:08.620 with this subject being discussed at all. That's where we are now. To simply make the statement

00:08:14.380 that white people are being assaulted and killed, which is obviously true, and that this is bad, 1.00

00:08:19.780 which is obviously true also, and that we're in an environment where there's a hyper-focus on the real 0.96

00:08:25.280 or imagined sins of white people, and that all of this must be logically connected in some way,

00:08:30.280 which is, again, all obviously true, to make all of these obviously true observations is provocative

00:08:35.420 and controversial. That alone tells you what you need to know. I mean, I was accused of race-baiting

00:08:42.960 because I posted that video of the white guy being beaten with a brick. Are we not supposed to even

00:08:47.460 talk about it? It's race-baiting to even bring up that a white guy was just bludgeoning with a brick

00:08:51.700 while he was walking down the street? The point here is that claims of there being some sort of

00:08:56.340 systemic conspiracy among white people to discriminate against and kill black people, 0.99

00:09:00.020 claims that white cops are white supremacist murderers, claims that white people living in 0.99

00:09:06.000 the year 2020 owe restitution for sins committed by white people a century and a half ago, all of 0.99

00:09:11.420 these claims, these are not mere virtue signals. These are not mere talking points. These are,

00:09:17.480 especially at this point, as America descends every day further into anarchy and violence.

00:09:23.180 These are incitements. These are calls to violence. These are cover for violent mobs.

00:09:29.340 The rich and powerful people who tell these fables, they know what they're doing,

00:09:33.780 and they sit in comfort, confident that the violence will never come to their doorstep until

00:09:38.240 one day it does. Because a fire, if it gets enough fuel, can no longer be controlled.

00:09:44.200 Let's get to five headlines.

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00:11:27.360 today. Okay. Well, here we go again. Protests in LA last night, more protests. This one started with

00:11:33.500 BLM Los Angeles sending out this tweet here. It says, Los Angeles County sheriffs killed a black

00:11:38.760 man, Dijon, on 109th and Bud Long and left his body face down in the dirt. We need all hands on

00:11:44.980 deck. Please get here ASAP. Notice how there's no information about the circumstances of the

00:11:50.920 shooting. Just that somebody was shot. That's because it doesn't matter. They don't care.

00:11:55.960 If police kill a black man for any reason, literally any reason now, they will riot. 0.99

00:12:01.140 That's the way this is going. And so it doesn't matter what the circumstances are. 0.99

00:12:08.160 But as far as they go, just for the record, as far as we know them anyway right now, the suspect

00:12:15.480 got into a fight with cops, punched the cops, had a gun, at one point produced the handgun and then was

00:12:22.460 shot. Still plenty of unknown details here. But based on what we know, there's of course no reason to be

00:12:28.180 protesting. If there is a reason, then we don't have that information yet. Armed man physically

00:12:34.920 assaults cops. OK, that's the headline so far. And if that's what happened, then guess whose fault it

00:12:42.940 is when the armed man assaulting the cops gets hurt or killed. Oh, you know, by the way, the cop who

00:12:49.240 pulled the trigger appears to be Hispanic on top of it. Although we're told white Hispanic, you know, 0.88

00:12:55.080 we're doing that trick again. He's Hispanic, but he's white Hispanic. So we can still make this about 0.98

00:12:59.440 white supremacy. Once again, though, you see how all agency and willpower is removed from the

00:13:05.700 suspects in these police shootings. It's the way it always goes. You know, they assault cops, draw

00:13:10.520 weapons, et cetera. And we act like they play no role at all in their own death. Like they couldn't

00:13:17.200 have been expected to not do that. But the thing is, you know, this is not a coincidence that almost

00:13:23.960 everyone in America, white, black, any other race who doesn't assault cops and use weapons on them

00:13:30.760 manages to not get shot by the police. Crazy coincidence, right? I don't think it is.

00:13:36.740 Like there's a there's a real connection here. I succeed in not assaulting cops every day of my life.

00:13:43.480 I it's it's you know, I I just did it again. Yes. Yesterday, I went through a whole day,

00:13:48.940 didn't assault any police officers. And I also was not shot by any police officers. I really think

00:13:54.180 there might be a connection. I got pulled over recently. And through the whole interaction,

00:14:01.140 I actually did not at any point punch the police officer. I did get a ticket. But the thing is,

00:14:08.120 if if I had decided to punch the police officer, there are basically two, you know, what would have

00:14:16.400 been a ticket. Now it's going to be different. I'll still get the ticket. But if I'm still alive.

00:14:23.200 But when I start that assault of the police officer, there's really only two directions I can go.

00:14:28.460 One is me to prison. I'm dealing with a much worse charge or infraction than what it would have

00:14:35.240 been otherwise. Or dead, you know, or in the hospital paralyzed. I mean, those are really the

00:14:42.760 only it's like, once you start doing that, there's there's no good result for you at all.

00:14:51.060 I mean, there might be good results for the hacks and race baiters and charlatans out there 0.93

00:14:55.580 who want to use your death or your maiming your injury to advance their own narrative and to so you 0.70

00:15:01.800 know, more division and everything. So for them, sure, but for you, no. This is like a really basic

00:15:08.920 message that somehow gets lost. We forget to mention it. Okay, let's go. Number two. Here's

00:15:17.560 another thing you wouldn't expect. But big surprise here. People are upset about something that Trump

00:15:22.040 said. They are. I know really surprising. So let's take a let's listen to this. He was on he was on

00:15:28.900 Laura Ingraham last night. And then he, you know, he was talking and everything that he said was

00:15:33.460 horribly offensive. This part right here was super offensive and upsetting, though. Listen to this.

00:15:39.100 Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization. You remember pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. 1.00

00:15:45.580 That was the first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter. I said, that's a terrible name. It's so 0.97

00:15:50.700 discriminatory. It's bad for black people. It's bad for everybody. And all of a sudden, it becomes like 0.98

00:15:56.700 sort of, although now, if you look, it's going way down because people are tired of this stuff,

00:16:00.960 what's going on. The Black Lives Matter, if you look at what's going on with the bats and 1.00

00:16:04.720 a lot of thugs. Running through D.C. last night. Oh, it's terrible what's going on.

00:16:10.000 My God. How dare you, Trump? How dare you say these things that are incontrovertibly and obviously

00:16:16.900 correct? Yes, Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization. Their founders have said so publicly.

00:16:21.100 Why are we still pretending that this is some sort of offensive? They've said it. Listen to them.

00:16:27.180 They're the ones who say it. We didn't say it. It's not our fault. I'd prefer if Black Lives Matter

00:16:31.900 was not in a Marxist organization, but it is. And that's what their own founders have said. So there

00:16:37.820 you go. Now that we've checked in with Trump, let's see what Biden is up to. COVID has taken this

00:16:45.300 year, just since the outbreak. It's taken more than 100 years. Look, here's the lives. It's just,

00:16:54.140 it's, I mean, think about it. More lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.

00:17:01.100 Okay. I have a transcript here. If you didn't follow that, the transcript is COVID has taken

00:17:05.840 this year just since the outbreak. It's taken more than 100 years. Look, here's the lives. It's just,

00:17:11.160 it's just, think about it. More lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.

00:17:17.120 I'm not trying to be funny. I really have no idea what he's even trying to say there. I can't decipher

00:17:20.900 it. This isn't one of those times where somebody stumbles or has a gaffe and you kind of know what

00:17:25.320 they were trying to say, but you pretend that you don't just, just to try to, just to, uh, you know,

00:17:30.100 just to dig the, um, dig the knife in deeper. I, but no, this is not that I really don't even know

00:17:35.940 what he was going for. It's taken more lives than at any other point in the last 100 years. Is that

00:17:40.040 what he's trying to say? COVID-19 is a new thing. It hasn't been around. So I don't know what that

00:17:45.760 means. And just so you know what you saw there, you know, um, cause it's tempting when you see

00:17:51.520 these kinds of things with Biden to say, well, look, he had a brain fart, you know, it stumbled

00:17:55.140 over his words. Everybody does it. Um, yeah, everyone does. I mean, I've had many brain farts in

00:18:00.060 my day. Uh, I have a particularly flatulent brain in that way. And I stumble over my words all the time, 0.68

00:18:06.520 but something like that, that's not normal. That is just not normal to complete in the middle of a

00:18:15.360 sentence. You completely lose everything you were going to say. And it's especially not normal when

00:18:22.420 it happens all the time. Like it does with Joe Biden. Uh, number four, JK Rowling still suffering

00:18:27.560 the consequences of publicly acknowledging that biology exists has now given back her Robert F.

00:18:34.240 Kennedy ripple of hope human rights award, which is good because now they have an extra one lying

00:18:38.800 around. So now I can finally win it, you know? Um, but she gave it back after the president of

00:18:44.600 the organization, Carrie Kennedy came out and attacked Rowling for believing that men can't 0.97

00:18:49.220 get pregnant. Very, you know, obviously very offensive thing to believe. And, uh, so I'm reading

00:18:53.980 now from Forbes. It says Carrie Kennedy published a statement this month to the RFK human rights website

00:18:58.880 displaying multiple statements made by Rowling in recent months and saying, um, on, uh, and, uh,

00:19:08.000 and, uh, okay, this is what she said. No, I'm losing track of what I said. No, I'm pulling a Biden.

00:19:11.360 Uh, so this is, this is Carrie Kennedy. She says, I have spoken with JK Rowling to express my profound

00:19:15.800 disappointment that she has chosen to use her remarkable gifts to create a narrative that diminishes

00:19:21.060 the identity of trans and non-binary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire 1.00

00:19:27.080 transgender community. Trans rights are human rights. JK Rowling's attacks upon the transgender

00:19:31.700 community are inconsistent with the fundamental beliefs and values of RFK human rights and represent

00:19:36.820 a repudiation of my father's vision. Um, okay. Can I just say if someone's opinion somehow undermines

00:19:50.000 the validity and integrity of your very existence, then you might have issues that go way beyond.

00:19:57.080 that opinion. I, in my life have never felt that the validity of my existence was undermined by

00:20:05.600 anyone's words or thoughts. And I've been insulted many times. I assure you, I have many very horrible

00:20:13.780 things have been said to me. Um, I would wager in fact that I have heard more horrible things said to

00:20:19.700 me and about my family than the average transgender person has heard in their life. I think I can feel

00:20:24.680 pretty confident in that. Um, but in, in any case, and sometimes it takes me off. It's annoying. I don't

00:20:32.660 like it. I've never felt that the validity of my existence was undermined. I don't even know what that

00:20:37.300 means. I exist. I'm sure of that. I don't need the, I don't need my validity or the integrity of my

00:20:45.120 existence to be affirmed by anyone. So this constant need for affirmation, this panic, um, that you see,

00:20:53.760 you know, uh, from LGBT activist folks, the way they panic, if anywhere said, if anywhere, if anyone

00:20:59.840 anywhere says anything that LGBT activists don't like, um, the fact that they always need everyone

00:21:06.440 all the time to validate them and we'll try to destroy anyone who fails to provide that validation

00:21:12.800 that might speak to some deeper things going on. I don't know. Just a thought, you know,

00:21:19.760 if you feel like you need your existence, your very existence, and what was it she said? The integrity,

00:21:27.000 the integrity of the entire community. If you feel like you need your existence to be validated and

00:21:34.600 the integrity of your community validated, whatever that means, then again, I would say maybe there's

00:21:40.120 some deeper things going on. Okay. Five. Finally, for our most important story of the day, residents of

00:21:45.080 an Alabama town are being terrorized by a goat who eats their mail. Um, this harrowing footage was

00:21:54.960 uploaded to Facebook. Uh, you take a look at it here. There's the goat. There he is. That bastard. Look at

00:22:02.840 him. That's a federal crime. By the way, this is not a joke. There could have been a coupon for 10%

00:22:08.200 off a new mattress in there. Now that's gone. It's that he's stealing money. That's money out the

00:22:13.900 window. Let me tell you, there's a reason that goats have always been considered satanic. They eat

00:22:19.420 your mail. They have weird looking eyes. They, they do other things. I mean, you may be wondering why I

00:22:29.200 take the goat issue so seriously, and you may wonder why I'm still talking about it right now.

00:22:34.120 And you may be thinking, Matt, the goat joke is over. Move on. Well, I'll tell you why. Because 1.00

00:22:40.260 my wife has been recruiting my children, my children, my own flesh and blood has been recruiting them.

00:22:46.900 And together they have been waging a pressure campaign against me for months now to get me to

00:22:51.060 consent to buying a goat. This is a serious thing. Now in my family, they want to go. I don't know why

00:22:57.040 the other day, my, my daughter came into the living room, started talking about the goat. Oh,

00:23:01.580 daddy, can we get a goat? I see my wife behind the door, like feeding her lines. Okay. It's a

00:23:06.320 conspiracy, but I'm not going to have this mailbox tampering scumbag anywhere near my home. That's 0.98

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00:24:47.080 cancelers of the British pop star, uh, Adele. Adele is the latest white celebrity to get herself 0.82

00:24:52.000 into trouble for the imaginary sin of cultural appropriation. Now the singer posted a picture of

00:24:56.960 herself sporting bantu knots, which is a traditional African hairstyle featuring, uh, multiple buns or

00:25:02.840 knots. Adele has presumably worn many hairstyles over the years. All of those styles have origins

00:25:08.680 somewhere. It's doubtful that any of them originate in modern Britain. Is she supposed to check an

00:25:13.540 encyclopedia every time she wants to put her hair up to ensure that she doesn't fashion it in a way

00:25:18.380 that bears similarity to hairstyles worn by non-white people? Apparently so. Racial justice demands it. 0.99

00:25:24.660 It's really not so much to ask when you think about it. So as, uh, as cities burn and our country deals

00:25:29.280 with multiple major crises at once, our friends on the left, you know, still had time to worry about

00:25:34.840 the way a woman across the ocean decided to fashion her hair. Ernest Owens, a self-described

00:25:39.840 award-winning journalist and rich guy on the Forbes list, spoke out valiantly on this important issue.

00:25:45.860 He said, um, if 2020 couldn't get any more bizarre, Adele is giving us bantu knots and cultural 0.78

00:25:51.300 appropriation that nobody asked for. This officially marks all of the top women in pop as problematic.

00:25:58.260 Now Owens, an alleged grown man, is himself appropriating from 19-year-old pink-haired gender

00:26:04.440 studies majors by calling an utterly innocuous thing problematic. Also, I didn't realize that

00:26:09.580 people had to ask for a certain hairstyle before we're allowed to wear it. Like who, who, who should

00:26:17.740 we ask before we wear, I got, are we supposed to be asking Ernest Owens every morning as you comb your

00:26:22.680 hair? Just shoot a quick message to Owens, explain what style you're thinking of going with for the day

00:26:26.340 and, you know, wait for him to give you the go-ahead. I mean, he has to ask you to wear it before

00:26:30.480 you're allowed to wear it. Other luminaries like Jameel Hill, last seen while claiming that the

00:26:35.480 United States is analogous to Nazi Germany, you might remember that from last week, um, also swooped 0.90

00:26:40.320 in to deliver a scolding to a woman who wore too many buns in her hair. I mean, I assume that is the 1.00

00:26:45.380 problem here. It's too many buns, not the bun itself because ancient Greeks wore buns. Yes, I actually

00:26:50.800 did look this up. Um, I mean, it's safe to assume even that, you know, many people in ancient times

00:26:56.540 probably wore hairstyles that included multiple buns. So the age old question, how many buns can

00:27:02.760 Adele have before she becomes racist? What is the bun threshold? Now I counted nine visible buns. Yes,

00:27:10.700 I did count. Would she be racist with just five buns? What about six? And by the way, are we certain

00:27:16.720 that the nine or 10 bun style originates with African women? I mean, do we know that no other 1.00

00:27:21.960 culture anywhere on earth ever thought of doing that many buns? These are questions that the 0.56

00:27:26.980 appropriation police never answer, can't answer. Uh, left-wing bloggers also leapt into action.

00:27:33.620 Uh, thankfully a writer for the website, the root wrote a lengthy article on the issue of Adele's

00:27:38.340 hair. And she lamented that the singer, you know, would do something so callous as to put her hair in a 0.99

00:27:43.000 bun. When Adele has been says the writer up to this point, among the least problematic faves of the

00:27:49.740 Caucasian persuasion. Now one might argue that labeling someone a least problematic fave of a

00:27:56.740 certain race is far more racist than wearing too many buns in your hair. But what do I know?

00:28:01.840 Rebecca Fishbein over at Jezebel proved that she's one of the good white people by joining the 0.98

00:28:07.660 pile on quoting from an Instagram comment, or this is a comment from the, from the person on Instagram.

00:28:11.680 Apparently this is a good point. Black women are discriminated against for wearing cultural 1.00

00:28:15.340 hairstyles like bantu knots and locks, but white people are not. That's not fair. And that's why 1.00

00:28:20.560 people are pissed off. But isn't Adele being discriminated against right now? Has any black 0.99

00:28:27.320 woman ever been criticized in publication publications across the entire globe for wearing 0.96

00:28:31.760 her hair in a bun? And even if some black women have been discriminated against for wearing the 1.00

00:28:35.800 hairstyle, why exactly does that mean other people can't wear it? We're told that some people of one

00:28:42.340 race are discriminated against for wearing something and therefore people of another race shouldn't wear 0.98

00:28:48.660 it. But we seem to have leapfrogged over a few of the steps in this logical progression because

00:28:52.980 there's no apparent connection between the premise and the conclusion. And no one has ever tried to

00:28:59.220 explain what the connection would be. The problem here and the reason why the appropriation police can

00:29:04.120 never quite explain what appropriation is and why it's wrong and why any of this matters

00:29:08.860 is that the whole concept is meaningless. I mean, you would think that the people who love to see

00:29:14.260 everything as fluid and on a spectrum and a human construct would understand that culture is by

00:29:20.020 definition the most fluid human construct of all. Culture is simply the customs, traditions, arts,

00:29:25.700 and institutions of any group of people. And those customs, traditions, arts, and institutions are always

00:29:30.440 evolving and changing. And they're in constant exchange with other cultures in this era of global

00:29:38.180 connectivity. That process is in hyperdrive. It happens quicker and more efficiently. This is why

00:29:44.400 even if it made sense to accuse one culture of stealing a style from another culture, which it

00:29:50.640 doesn't because theft deprives the victim of the thing being stolen, but nobody's being prevented from

00:29:57.400 wearing buns just because Adele was wearing them. You know, as if there's some sort of scarcity of buns

00:30:02.340 and Adele is hogging more than her share. But even so, even if it made sense, we still couldn't

00:30:08.740 identify who is actually guilty of stealing from whom. Humans have been making culture in some form

00:30:14.840 or another for tens of thousands of years. For most trends and fashions, therefore, it's not possible

00:30:20.820 to identify a definitive date or place of origin. Even if you could, what influenced the person who came up

00:30:28.500 with it and what influenced the influences of that person and so on and so on and so on.

00:30:33.780 This problem was illustrated recently when a white business owner in Seattle was forced to

00:30:38.580 issue an apology for wearing dreadlocks, which supposedly appropriated from African culture too.

00:30:44.080 But dreadlocks have been worn all throughout history by people of all different races and cultures and

00:30:49.760 traditions. Vikings wore dreadlocks. Hindus still wear dreadlocks. Who owns them? Answer, nobody. 0.99

00:30:57.380 Because style is not a thing that can be owned. We might as well say that whoever first baked a loaf

00:31:03.540 of bread now owns the concept of bread and only the direct descendants of that person are allowed to

00:31:09.920 experience its joys, which are considerable. Of course, you know, I'm trying to engage with the concept of

00:31:16.140 cultural appropriation honestly and logically, which means I'm missing the point. It is not supposed to make

00:31:20.600 sense. It is simply supposed to be accepted and obeyed. It is just another means of controlling people

00:31:25.840 and sowing division and discord in a society that I would say already has a surplus of both.

00:31:31.580 And that is why Adele's cancelers are canceled, and everyone who uses the phrase cultural

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 01, 2020

Ep. 555 - The Left's Racial Narrative Is Having Its Desired Effect

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