The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 558 - Facts Don't Matter To Black Lives Matter

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, BLM lies and fabrications lead to more protests.

00:00:04.720 And as we have learned, of course, facts don't matter to Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:00:07.520 But here's a really crazy idea.

00:00:09.700 Maybe instead of blaming police for choices that criminals make,

00:00:13.340 we should start at some point to consider blaming the people who actually make the choices.

00:00:17.760 I don't know.

00:00:18.420 Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden race baiting,

00:00:21.220 California Democrats moving to decriminalize pederasty,

00:00:24.300 and Harry and Meghan sign a Netflix deal and promise to make

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00:00:30.840 Finally, in our daily cancellation, we're going to talk about the black college professor

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00:02:10.500 That's what this is about.

00:02:11.340 Now, I would say that protests erupted in D.C. this week

00:02:16.460 over the officer-involved shooting of a black man,

00:02:18.480 but that would be the wrong way to put it.

00:02:20.280 Protests could not erupt because they were already happening.

00:02:23.120 Cities across the country have been in a state of perpetual protests

00:02:26.460 for weeks and months now.

00:02:28.540 New events are simply tossed like more logs into the fire.

00:02:32.680 Protests are not really in response to the events.

00:02:35.860 It is more that the events are fabricated to feed the protest.

00:02:39.540 So this time, word was spread on social media

00:02:42.480 that a, quote, child had been shot, quote, in the back by police.

00:02:48.420 BLM activists took to the streets,

00:02:50.320 ranting and raving about the cold-blooded execution of an innocent kid.

00:02:53.780 Witnesses on the ground, well, not witnesses of the event,

00:02:57.140 but witnesses to other alleged witnesses who supposedly saw it

00:03:00.800 or heard about it or heard from someone who talked to someone who saw it,

00:03:04.500 they said that the, quote, child was also, quote, unarmed.

00:03:08.580 So here's one such witness, thrice removed,

00:03:11.460 reporting what she saw or rather what she heard about

00:03:14.500 from other people who supposedly saw it.

00:03:17.680 Listen to this.

00:03:19.280 I'm actually servicing a group of students

00:03:21.400 and we heard shots fired

00:03:23.360 and we came over to see different police

00:03:27.600 and we found out a 72-year-old was shot by the police officer.

00:03:31.480 And do we have any details from the community on what happened?

00:03:38.080 One thing is the young man was unarmed.

00:03:40.860 That's one detail.

00:03:42.180 And everyone is just heartbroken right now

00:03:45.000 in disbelief that a police officer would take a young man's life.

00:03:50.780 Some people were saying he was shot in the back.

00:03:53.720 Is that something that can be verified or is it too early to say?

00:03:55.860 I guess it's too early to say.

00:03:58.440 Because there's been some things where he was shot in the back

00:04:00.820 and then we've also heard that he was shot in his chest.

00:04:03.240 So it's too early to say.

00:04:05.700 Yes, the one thing we know for sure is that he was unarmed.

00:04:09.360 That's the one detail we know.

00:04:10.740 That's the one thing we can say for sure

00:04:11.880 based on the unassailable testimony

00:04:13.320 of some random people on the street

00:04:15.240 who I just talked to 12 seconds ago.

00:04:17.080 But as we are, of course, stuck here in this eternal time loop

00:04:20.340 like Groundhog Day,

00:04:21.340 but with more racial strife and less Bill Murray,

00:04:24.140 the next part of the story unfolded exactly as expected.

00:04:28.280 Almost everything we heard from the activists

00:04:30.480 and supposed witnesses was false.

00:04:33.320 D.C. police held a press conference on Thursday,

00:04:35.580 released the body cam footage of the officer

00:04:37.380 who filed the fatal shot.

00:04:39.020 In fact, let's go to the press conference.

00:04:41.340 Here's the police chief describing what actually happened.

00:04:45.300 Yesterday at about 3.49 p.m.,

00:04:48.760 uniformed members of the 7th District

00:04:51.480 were in the area of the 200 block of Orange Street Southeast

00:04:55.660 to investigate the report of a man in possession of a gun.

00:05:00.780 Officers had seen a live stream video

00:05:03.840 on social media of the man with the gun

00:05:06.240 and knew him from previous contacts.

00:05:09.620 As officers exited their patrol car

00:05:11.900 to approach a parked car that was occupied by multiple men,

00:05:16.180 two individuals fled on foot, and officers pursued them.

00:05:20.940 One of those men brandished a firearm from his waistband

00:05:23.900 as he was fleeing.

00:05:25.700 In response, an MPD officer just discharged his service weapon,

00:05:30.540 firing a single shot at the individual.

00:05:33.360 The individual sustained a single gunshot wound to his chest.

00:05:38.160 Officers initiated first aid to the man,

00:05:40.740 and members of the D.C. Fire and E.M.S. transported him

00:05:44.060 to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

00:05:47.440 The decedent has been identified as 18-year-old Dion Kaye

00:05:51.280 of Southeast D.C.

00:05:53.680 Officers did recover a firearm that we believe

00:05:57.760 that Mr. Kaye was in possession of at the time of the incident.

00:06:01.000 In fact, he actually understates the case there.

00:06:03.420 The body cam clearly shows that the suspect, Dion Kaye,

00:06:06.240 18 years old, by the way, not a child,

00:06:07.800 is running towards the officer with his gun drawn.

00:06:11.480 Let's take a look at that body cam footage right now.

00:06:20.540 Don't move!

00:06:23.100 Don't move! Don't move! Don't move!

00:06:26.320 Get down! 0.98

00:06:27.260 Don't get down there! Don't get down there!

00:06:34.040 Hey, shot's fired. Shot's fired. 0.97

00:06:37.800 Where is it? Where is it?

00:06:45.800 I don't know. I'm looking for the gun. He's up there.

00:06:50.300 Who shot that truck?

00:06:51.360 I did.

00:06:56.540 Over me! Over me! 1.00

00:06:58.600 So, he was not unarmed.

00:07:00.300 He was not shot in the back.

00:07:01.900 He had been spotted earlier in the day,

00:07:03.800 driving around town, brandishing his guns.

00:07:06.500 Kaye had shot a live stream video of himself and his friends waving their guns around.

00:07:11.480 We're told that officers recognized Kaye,

00:07:13.880 knew him to be, as they put it, a, quote,

00:07:16.220 validated gang member.

00:07:18.100 But none of this matters in our post-truth society.

00:07:21.080 Those who claim that Kaye was an unarmed, innocent child,

00:07:23.620 shot in the back by a white supremacist,

00:07:25.140 only to find out that Kaye was actually an armed adult gang member,

00:07:27.900 shot in the chest by a Hispanic officer while brandishing his weapon,

00:07:30.640 simply ignored the new revelations or else seamlessly transitioned into a

00:07:34.800 new story about a remorseful suspect who was just about to throw his gun away

00:07:39.580 before a callous officer shot him dead.

00:07:42.140 Little effort is made anymore to come up with a plausible narrative.

00:07:45.900 You know, we've reached a point where the facts simply do not matter, period.

00:07:51.500 This was evidenced elsewhere this week when protests began,

00:07:54.320 again, the word began is used loosely here,

00:07:56.160 in Rochester over the death of Daniel Prude.

00:07:59.440 Now, he died several months ago after asphyxiating with a hood over his head

00:08:04.400 while in police custody.

00:08:06.860 Prude was in custody because he was running naked through the streets

00:08:10.300 at three o'clock in the morning while high on PCP.

00:08:13.140 The hood was placed over his head because he was spitting on the arresting officers

00:08:16.540 after telling them that he had COVID.

00:08:18.500 Remember, this was also in March, in the early days of the COVID hysteria.

00:08:22.380 Um, the medical examiner report lists delirium and PCP intoxication

00:08:28.020 as contributing factors in his death.

00:08:29.720 Once again, though, facts don't matter.

00:08:32.040 What matters is how people feel.

00:08:34.380 Well, certain people anyway.

00:08:36.860 Doesn't matter how the police officers feel.

00:08:38.620 Doesn't matter how business owners and residents feel

00:08:40.740 when their livelihoods are destroyed by looters and rioters.

00:08:43.400 NPR just published an interview with Vicki Osterweil,

00:08:46.580 who's the author of a book called In Defense of Looting.

00:08:48.980 One of the dissent defenses she offered for the looting in the interview,

00:08:52.460 I'm not making this up, is that looting feels good.

00:08:55.460 She says, direct quote,

00:08:57.780 It provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure.

00:09:01.980 It helps them imagine a world that could be.

00:09:04.660 And I think that's part of it that doesn't really get talked about.

00:09:08.900 That riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory. 0.99

00:09:13.880 Yes, it isn't talked about because it's insane, Vicki, you psychopath. 1.00

00:09:18.980 So, the people victimized by looting, their feelings don't matter. 0.98

00:09:22.820 That doesn't matter.

00:09:23.960 It also doesn't matter how the past victims of lionized criminals like George Floyd feel,

00:09:28.900 or Jacob Blake, how their victims feel,

00:09:31.560 when they see their tormentors and abusers hailed as civil rights martyrs.

00:09:35.720 As it turns out, feelings matter about as much as facts.

00:09:40.640 All that really counts is the far-left ideological agenda.

00:09:45.020 Feelings and facts are weighted according to their usefulness to that agenda.

00:09:49.180 And I actually think this is an important point to emphasize,

00:09:51.420 because if somebody valued feelings over facts, they'd be wrong and irrational.

00:09:57.200 But if they use that scale consistently and applied it to everyone,

00:10:00.260 we'd have to at least admit that they're empathetic, which is a positive trait.

00:10:03.660 Empathetic to the point of madness, I grant you, but empathetic nonetheless.

00:10:07.300 Yet, when you look at BLM militants or rioters or looters, do you see empathy?

00:10:12.720 Do you see any great concern for the feelings of others?

00:10:15.900 When you look at Antifa, is that what you see?

00:10:17.660 No.

00:10:19.020 They are not only dismissive of facts, but also dismissive of the impact their actions have on others.

00:10:24.700 If they care about feelings at all, it is only their own feelings, nobody else's.

00:10:29.120 Now, in a world where meaningful reflection is possible, it would be worthwhile to step us to the side here

00:10:37.600 and consider why events like the Dion Kaye shooting actually happen.

00:10:42.140 So, pretending for a moment that we live in such a world, let me suggest that

00:10:45.300 these events have very little to do with police officers.

00:10:50.180 All of the police reform in the world won't stop men like Dion Kaye from getting themselves hurt or killed,

00:10:56.140 if not by police, then by somebody else.

00:10:59.120 Amid the panic over police shootings and the never-ending dissection and second-guessing

00:11:05.200 of the actions of police officers, rarely does anyone stop to ask questions about the suspect.

00:11:11.520 And that's too bad, because several very good questions could be asked.

00:11:15.760 Speaking specifically of Dion Kaye, though similar questions arise in many of these situations,

00:11:19.580 we might ask, why was he riding around town waving his gun around?

00:11:24.300 Why did he advertise his crimes on a public forum for all to see?

00:11:29.120 Why did he run when the police arrived?

00:11:31.020 Why did he draw his gun?

00:11:32.860 If he had made different choices anywhere along that chain, he'd still be alive today.

00:11:38.760 If the police did anything wrong, which they didn't,

00:11:42.560 it would be in their reaction to the bad choices of Dion Kaye.

00:11:47.200 With extremely rare exception, this is almost always the case in police shootings.

00:11:52.720 Even the bad ones are, in nearly every case, a bad reaction to a bad choice by the other guy.

00:12:00.040 Yet we're never supposed to question those choices, the first choices, the other guy's choices.

00:12:04.200 We're supposed to start our investigation further down the line. 0.95

00:12:07.900 And this is why it's always concluded that officers are horrible sociopathic murderers,

00:12:12.260 because we assess their reaction independent of the thing they're reacting to.

00:12:17.200 Which is like, if I'm driving recklessly and I swerve into oncoming traffic,

00:12:21.240 and you happen to be in the oncoming traffic, and so you swerve too and kill someone,

00:12:25.200 but the accident investigators completely ignore my role in it. 0.91

00:12:28.580 That'd be great for me, but you're screwed, because now it will automatically look like you were drunk or reckless, 0.92

00:12:33.420 when really the drunk and reckless person was me. 0.99

00:12:36.220 And even if you were drunk and reckless, making the whole thing much worse than it had to be,

00:12:40.160 it still wouldn't be fair to arbitrarily absolve me of all blame and act like I had nothing to do with it.

00:12:46.040 And it's even more important in cases like this to try and uncover the reasons behind Dion Kaye's behavior,

00:12:52.040 because there are a lot of Dion K's in D.C. and every other major city in America.

00:12:57.780 There is, if you like, a systemic problem, an underlying problem.

00:13:01.520 But it has nothing to do with the police.

00:13:05.040 And the symptoms of this problem are well known.

00:13:06.780 Crime, violence, murder, drugs, all these things that plague these communities.

00:13:10.820 That's why the police are more involved in these communities and more interactive.

00:13:16.220 And why police interactions are more likely to turn violent.

00:13:20.280 Only a vanishingly small percentage of arrests turn deadly,

00:13:23.260 but the more crime you have in a community, the more arrests, the more people killed by cops.

00:13:28.760 It's a very simple formula, really. It's not confusing.

00:13:32.820 So again, the conversation must go back to the crime.

00:13:35.460 Why is the crime happening?

00:13:37.660 If you have an 18-year-old guy running around town, brandishing gums,

00:13:40.500 live streaming it on Instagram, pretending like real life is a rap video,

00:13:44.580 that he draws his gun on police and gets shot,

00:13:46.780 it is just the height of absurdity to suggest that the problem is the police

00:13:50.860 and not the culture and upbringing that led him to make those choices.

00:13:55.540 Now, I don't know Deon Kay's specific family situation.

00:13:59.640 I think I could make a pretty educated guess.

00:14:01.540 But what I can say is that for many guys like Deon Kay,

00:14:06.000 they grow up without fathers in the home.

00:14:09.040 They are missing a strong male role model,

00:14:11.640 someone to show them what to do with all of that masculine energy and aggressiveness,

00:14:18.200 someone to direct them towards healthy outlets for the innate need they have

00:14:22.700 to be seen as tough and strong and intimidating, a desire that all boys have,

00:14:27.160 a desire that should not be suppressed, but rather directed.

00:14:31.720 If it's not directed, or perhaps harnessed is a better word,

00:14:35.740 that's when very bad things happen.

00:14:38.520 So in these crime-ridden communities in the city,

00:14:41.380 if a boy has no male role model, no one to direct and harness his masculine energy,

00:14:47.080 he will end up looking in two places for that direction.

00:14:51.040 One, to his peers, who are just as lost as he is,

00:14:54.120 and two, to the media, pop culture, especially rap music.

00:14:58.920 In those Instagram videos, Deon Kay is literally acting out rap music while listening to it.

00:15:03.920 He is imitating it in real time.

00:15:06.680 And that's unfortunate because the music explicitly glorifies drugs, violence, and criminality.

00:15:11.820 What happens then when a kid with no father, no male role model,

00:15:17.840 pumps those kinds of messages into his ears all day, every day, all throughout his formative years,

00:15:24.460 and lives in an environment that, in all the wrong ways, mirrors those same messages?

00:15:30.540 Well, we see what happens.

00:15:32.640 Baltimore happens.

00:15:33.680 Chicago happens.

00:15:34.760 D.C. happens.

00:15:36.240 But we aren't supposed to talk about the culture, the upbringing, or lack thereof.

00:15:39.640 No, no, when a kid has no father figure, no male role models,

00:15:43.800 and his mind spends all of its formative years marinating in messaging that expressly glorifies suicidal criminal behavior,

00:15:52.540 and then he actually goes and commits suicidal criminal behavior,

00:15:55.000 the issue is the police somehow.

00:15:57.300 Just the police.

00:15:59.160 It's not a problem of culture.

00:16:00.380 It's not a problem of bad upbringing.

00:16:01.840 It's not a problem of bad choices.

00:16:03.760 Nothing and no one else is to blame but the police.

00:16:06.640 A man can make 100 bad choices in a day, all leading to the final bad choice of drawing a gun on a cop,

00:16:12.900 and somehow the cop is to blame for everything, all of it, the whole chain of events?

00:16:17.380 Nobody else.

00:16:18.460 Nothing else.

00:16:19.600 Nothing else to see here, folks.

00:16:21.020 Just the police.

00:16:22.540 That's the only thing to talk about.

00:16:25.060 Right.

00:16:26.620 No.

00:16:27.500 No, that's not the only thing to talk about.

00:16:29.680 There's a lot more to talk about, and I think it's time we start talking about it.

00:16:33.640 Let's get to five headlines.

00:16:42.140 So Joe Biden went to Kenosha yesterday.

00:16:44.220 We'll get right to the inevitable Joe Biden moment while speaking to people at a church.

00:16:50.460 He got away from race baiting and throwing police under the bus for a moment to talk about taxes for some reason,

00:16:56.220 but then he stopped himself, and this happened.

00:17:00.540 Nineteen corporations making a billion dollars apiece don't pay a single penny in taxes.

00:17:09.200 I'm not going to punish anybody, but everybody should pay a fair share.

00:17:13.300 I can lay out for you.

00:17:14.440 I won't now because they'll shoot me.

00:17:16.200 But here's the deal. 0.99

00:17:17.480 They'll shoot me. 0.95

00:17:19.620 Yeah, Joe, not the best joke given the circumstances.

00:17:21.580 Earlier in the day, the Biden campaign, speaking of race baiting, released an ad, and it is—I almost hesitate to say it because there's so much competition,

00:17:34.360 but it is perhaps the most disingenuous and misleading political ad I've ever seen in my life.

00:17:42.060 Here's how that went.

00:17:44.120 Why in this nation do black Americans wake up knowing that they can lose their life in the course of just living their life?

00:17:52.280 Part of the point of freedom is to be free from brutality, from injustice, from racism, and all of its manifestations.

00:18:00.560 We have to let people know that we not only understand their struggle,

00:18:04.560 but they understand the fact they deserve to be treated with dignity.

00:18:07.860 They've got to know we're listening.

00:18:10.200 Reforming policing in this country means creating a national standard on use of force

00:18:16.340 and conditioning federal funds for police departments on adoption of that standard.

00:18:22.180 It's about reining in qualified immunity.

00:18:24.440 We hold police officers accountable.

00:18:26.700 We can't turn away.

00:18:28.300 Now is the time for racial justice.

00:18:30.840 I believe with every fiber in my being,

00:18:33.420 we have such an opportunity now to change people's lives for the better.

00:18:37.600 It's about who we are, what we believe, and maybe most importantly, who we want to be.

00:18:43.180 Now is the time for racial justice, he says, at the age of 78.

00:18:47.860 After spending like five decades in public service.

00:18:50.720 Now is the time?

00:18:51.960 It wasn't before, Joe?

00:18:53.140 You're just deciding right now is the time? 0.99

00:18:55.020 I mean, you've just now decided that white supremacist police officers are out murdering black people in droves, 0.99

00:19:00.420 and we should stop them? 0.98

00:19:01.420 Did you not want to stop them before?

00:19:03.420 Or did you only recently decide that this problem existed?

00:19:07.540 If so, what made you decide that, Joe? 0.98

00:19:11.160 I can ask the same question about when you exactly decided that women can have penises and men can get pregnant, 0.98

00:19:16.180 because that apparently you believe now also. 0.97

00:19:18.660 That seems to be a, you know, a rather new point of view,

00:19:21.520 and kind of a strange point of view for a person to adopt in their 70s.

00:19:25.700 Biden lived his whole life, then got to the age of like 75. 0.96

00:19:28.180 Suddenly he woke up in a world where racist cops are murdering black people and men are running around having babies. 0.89

00:19:34.080 He never mentioned anything about any of this before. 0.98

00:19:36.900 Now, all of a sudden, though, he's talking about it.

00:19:41.260 This has got to be the weirdest flip-flop in American history, and the media never asks him about it.

00:19:46.200 He's never asked to justify it.

00:19:47.680 Never.

00:19:48.760 They never say, hey, Joe, when do these hallucinations begin?

00:19:51.640 Also in the ad, Joe asks, why in this nation do black Americans wake up knowing that they could lose their life in the course of just living their life?

00:20:00.820 That, what?

00:20:02.600 That's the case for all Americans and all people.

00:20:06.260 Everyone eventually loses their life in the course of living their life.

00:20:09.420 When else are you going to lose it?

00:20:10.740 Are you going to lose your life after you've already lost it?

00:20:13.300 Are you going to lose your life while not in the course of living it?

00:20:16.620 Makes no sense. 0.99

00:20:17.480 But, of course, what he means to imply is that racist cops are prowling the streets, executing black people en masse. 0.99

00:20:25.200 That's what he means to say there. 0.98

00:20:26.880 That's what he's getting at.

00:20:28.700 And, again, we go back to when did Joe Biden develop these paranoid delusions?

00:20:35.040 He never mentioned it before.

00:20:36.980 Now it's a thing. 1.00

00:20:37.920 Because, of course, these claims about racist, you know, black people have to live in fear because racist white people are out hunting and killing them. 0.99

00:20:49.060 You know, completely disconnected from reality. 0.99

00:20:52.500 There is no evidence of any kind, period, to support it.

00:20:58.280 Joe Biden knows that, though.

00:20:59.580 But, you know, if he has to inflame racial tensions and, you know, all of that in order to grasp onto power so he can live the last few years of his barely sentient life at this point, you know, having the power that he's thirsted for his whole life, then he's fine.

00:21:19.680 He'll do that.

00:21:21.440 He'll help just destroy the country on his way out the door.

00:21:24.100 Great guy.

00:21:25.160 Great guy, Joe Biden.

00:21:26.140 What a decent, decent man that Joe Biden is.

00:21:29.660 Such a decent man.

00:21:33.220 Number two, speaking of decent men, Michael Reinhold, the man who murdered the Trump supporter in Portland, was shot dead by law enforcement yesterday while they tried to arrest him.

00:21:44.260 U.S. Marshals say that he pulled a gun while they were trying to apprehend him and he was killed.

00:21:50.740 And now I say this in all sincerity.

00:21:52.280 You know, I really am curious to see if Reinhold is the first white man killed by law enforcement that BLM decides to get outraged about.

00:22:00.660 I really don't know.

00:22:01.480 I have no idea.

00:22:02.220 It's kind of 50-50.

00:22:03.160 If they, not that there's any reason to be outraged by it, but that hasn't generally stopped BLM in the past.

00:22:08.440 So I'm just curious if they'll break their policy of ignoring white death entirely for Reinhold. 0.69

00:22:14.120 I guess we'll see.

00:22:15.700 All right.

00:22:16.000 Now to the Daily Wire.

00:22:18.340 The California State Senate passed a controversial reform to its sex offender registry Monday that would allow a young adult who has gay sex with a minor to escape registering, in some cases, for the sex offender registry, based on a judge's discretion.

00:22:36.700 SB 145 finally passed the 40-member State Senate by a vote of 23 to 10 after being introduced by California State Senator Scott Weiner.

00:22:47.200 Weiner argued that the current law discriminates against LGBT youth because, as the Chronicle explained, under current law, a judge could decide whether to place a man who has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case.

00:22:59.040 But if anal or oral sex or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender. 0.55

00:23:05.920 Under SB 145, if a young adult has gay sex with a minor 14 or older who is less than 10 years younger, a judge will have the discretion whether to place the individual on the sex offender registry. 0.96

00:23:19.260 Okay, and as you heard there, the justification being given for this is that in some cases, when a heterosexual man vaginally rapes a child, they are not put on the sex offender registry.

00:23:37.300 And so, as Weiner is arguing here, the same should go for gay men.

00:23:42.460 I don't think I, I really don't think I need to spend time explaining the problem with this logic.

00:23:53.260 But, you know, I spend most of my show explaining logic that probably doesn't need to be explained, so we'll do it here, too.

00:23:58.540 The obvious problem here is if you're going to pass a bill to address this disparity,

00:24:05.720 the bill should be one that ensures that men who vaginally rape children go to jail and are treated more harshly than they are.

00:24:16.320 That's the problem, okay?

00:24:18.820 That's what we need to address.

00:24:20.520 If, if in California, there could be cases where a 24, because this is the implications,

00:24:27.760 you could have a 24-year-old man raping a 14-year-old child,

00:24:33.260 and they might not go in the sex offender registry for that.

00:24:37.200 That's the way the law is set up. 0.98

00:24:39.240 At least if it's vaginal rape, you know, man-woman vaginal rape. 1.00

00:24:45.940 Or man-child, I should say. 0.99

00:24:47.440 Okay, well, yes, I agree.

00:24:50.840 Let's pass a law about that.

00:24:52.560 But let's pass a law that does away with that insanity and ensures that a man who does that goes to prison.

00:24:58.360 How about, I don't know, forever?

00:25:00.380 You know, at a minimum?

00:25:02.080 I can think of harsher penalties also that we could consider.

00:25:05.380 But no, what the Democrats are saying is, no, let's make it even.

00:25:09.780 What they're saying is, if this kind of child rape is legal, 0.98

00:25:13.900 then this kind of child rape over here should also be legal. 0.98

00:25:17.440 What kind of degenerate lunacy is that? 0.84

00:25:22.040 And this guy has, you know, he's going around in the media complaining and making a martyr of himself

00:25:26.320 because of all the death threats he's getting.

00:25:28.240 Of course, death threats are bad.

00:25:29.880 Nobody supports death threats.

00:25:33.280 But if people are angry at him, it's because he's trying to decriminalize certain forms of child rape.

00:25:40.240 And the argument he's making in favor of it is that, well, that kind is legal. 1.00

00:25:46.700 Disgusting, ridiculous, repulsive. 1.00

00:25:51.020 But that's the Democrat Party for you. 1.00

00:25:52.880 That's the Democrat Party. 0.54

00:25:53.980 Not just in California, but everywhere.

00:25:56.160 All right, let's move on.

00:25:58.500 Number four.

00:26:01.240 I actually forgot number four.

00:26:02.600 I have number four written down here for my five headlines, and I never wrote a number four.

00:26:06.420 This is a professional operation.

00:26:07.880 So we're going to skip right over number four.

00:26:10.220 Maybe we could talk.

00:26:11.020 Maybe number four was going to be the Atlantic story about Donald Trump. 0.90

00:26:17.200 You've probably heard by now where they're claiming, unnamed sources claiming that Donald Trump was insulting, you know, wounded veterans and calling them losers.

00:26:25.640 And he didn't want to visit a grave of a veteran cemetery because he said they're losers because they died.

00:26:33.600 All unnamed sources, no one on the record.

00:26:35.700 And it's, you know, if something like that actually happened and he actually said that, and you're in the administration or you heard it, then you go on the record and tell your story.

00:26:53.320 The unnamed sources thing, no.

00:26:55.320 And by the way, at least five named sources have come out and denied this and said, so you've got all the named sources are saying it didn't happen.

00:27:03.220 Only the unnamed sources are saying it did.

00:27:06.060 So you decide how to interpret that.

00:27:07.860 But I'll tell you how to interpret it.

00:27:09.380 It's BS.

00:27:10.540 Okay.

00:27:11.120 Number five, Prince Harry and Meghan have signed apparently a mega Netflix deal.

00:27:15.800 They're going to be producing a whole bunch of documentaries and other shows.

00:27:18.940 Most of the content about themselves, presumably.

00:27:23.840 I'm just wondering who would want to watch this?

00:27:26.280 I don't know.

00:27:27.640 Aren't these two of the most boring people on earth?

00:27:31.440 And I say this, I'm sincerely perplexed here.

00:27:34.240 Why would anyone care what they're doing with their lives?

00:27:38.020 Who wants to hear from these two?

00:27:39.900 Could there be anything less interesting than the story of two rich people who don't have jobs?

00:27:45.460 I mean, nothing against them.

00:27:49.280 If I could have a life like that, I'd take it.

00:27:51.680 But I'm not going to pretend that my life is interesting.

00:27:55.100 But what a reality show of these two consists of.

00:27:57.500 What would be the conflict that drives the narrative?

00:28:01.260 They have a disagreement about what kind of caviar to serve at their two-year-old's birthday party.

00:28:07.160 I don't know.

00:28:08.320 Anyway, the LA Times has a statement from the couple.

00:28:10.360 This is what the statement says.

00:28:11.680 Oh my gosh.

00:28:41.680 Did they just call themselves courageous and resilient?

00:28:46.160 Did they just say the lesson that they've taken from their life experiences is the value of courage?

00:28:52.600 They did, didn't they?

00:28:54.080 And it goes on.

00:28:54.840 Harry and Megan, whose son Archie is 15 months old, added that making inspirational family programs is important to them as is, quote, powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens.

00:29:04.360 They said that Netflix's reach will help them, quote, share impactful content that unlocks action.

00:29:11.480 What?

00:29:12.560 They're also committed to amplifying diverse voices in the front of and behind the camera, as well as diverse hiring practices for roles they're filling at their production company.

00:29:20.600 I'm going to be sick.

00:29:21.200 I would honestly rather be skinned alive and thrown into a fire filled with snakes, burning snakes, burning snakes with hepatitis. 0.97

00:29:33.360 I would rather that than spend five seconds watching anything these two produce.

00:29:42.160 But congrats to them on their Netflix deal.

00:29:44.860 I'm sure it'll be great.

00:29:46.120 Let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:29:49.000 For our daily cancellation, let's consider the story of a woman named Jessica Krug.

00:29:53.940 It's a story that throws a great many leftist narratives into chaos all at once.

00:29:58.520 And I, for one, am enjoying the spectacle.

00:30:00.640 So Jessica Krug is a professor of African and Latin American studies.

00:30:04.520 She's an author and teacher and activist.

00:30:06.420 She's written and spoken over the years about her black identity.

00:30:09.220 She wrote a book called Fugitive Modernities, which I'm pleased to inform you is available in hardcover on Amazon for only $84.

00:30:16.920 In her bio, apparently, she describes herself as an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood.

00:30:24.600 The only problem is that the hood was a suburb in Missouri, it turns out.

00:30:28.100 And when she called herself African and black all those years, what she really meant to say is that she's white and Jewish.

00:30:33.220 Krug published a lengthy confession on Medium yesterday titled The Truth and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.

00:30:41.420 And here's what she says.

00:30:42.360 To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas

00:30:51.120 under various assumed identities within blackness that I had no right to claim.

00:30:55.920 First, North African blackness, then U.S.-rooted blackness, then Caribbean-rooted Bronx blackness. 0.74

00:31:02.460 So she really covered the gamut here.

00:31:03.620 I have not only claimed these identities as my own when I had absolutely no right to do so,

00:31:08.340 when doing so is the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation,

00:31:12.320 of the myriad ways in which non-black people continue to use and abuse black identities and cultures, 1.00

00:31:17.280 but I have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me

00:31:21.940 when I have deserved neither trust nor caring.

00:31:25.000 People have fought together with me and have fought for me,

00:31:27.500 and my continued appropriation of a black Caribbean identity is not only in the starkest terms wrong,

00:31:33.740 unethical, immoral, anti-black, colonial,

00:31:36.040 but it means that every step I've taken has gaslighted those whom I love. 0.95

00:31:42.260 Okay, so you see how she tries subtly to get the rest of white people to share the blame with her? 0.55

00:31:50.220 She says that what she's done is the epitome of the myriad ways in which non-black people use black identities. 1.00

00:31:55.560 Please, first of all, speak for yourself there, Jessica.

00:31:58.380 Don't try to drag the rest of us into this.

00:32:00.300 It reminds me of the men who are caught up in the Me Too net, you know, the actual guilty ones anyway,

00:32:04.360 all three or four of them, and how they would always try to spread the blame around, you know,

00:32:10.220 and say things like, well, I'm realizing now that there's a problem with how men treat women.

00:32:15.320 No, Chief, there's a problem with how you treat them.

00:32:18.300 Inviting a woman up for a meeting in your hotel room and coming to the door naked except for an open bathrobe, 0.86

00:32:23.740 that's a you problem.

00:32:25.720 That's a you move, okay?

00:32:26.800 Most of us have never done that or even considered doing it,

00:32:29.820 so don't try to implicate the rest of us.

00:32:32.780 And it's the same thing here with Krug.

00:32:34.420 A lot of her statement, she talks a lot about what white people do and whiteness this and white.

00:32:39.020 No, this is about you.

00:32:40.460 This is what you did.

00:32:41.940 Later in her confession, Krug says, 0.68

00:32:43.560 No white person, no non-black person, has the right to claim proximity to or belonging in a black community 0.64

00:32:49.940 by virtue of abuse, trauma, non-acceptance, and non-belonging in a white community.

00:32:54.240 The abuse within and alienation from my birth family and society are no one's burden but my own,

00:32:59.140 and mine alone to address. 0.77

00:33:00.440 Black people and black communities have no obligation to harbor the refuse of non-black society. 1.00

00:33:06.000 I have done this. 0.96

00:33:07.040 I know it is wrong, and I have done this anyway.

00:33:09.280 Anyway, you read this, and you do feel sorry for her while reading it

00:33:14.820 because this is a woman driven completely mad by left-wing identity politics. 1.00

00:33:20.460 Really, she's been driven into lunacy by it.

00:33:23.580 And obviously, though she tries to spread the blame around unfairly, 0.80

00:33:29.260 it is true that she's not the first white person to pretend to be black.

00:33:32.560 Rachel Dolezal is the obvious other example, Sean King.

00:33:35.220 And then related examples, too, like Elizabeth Warren pretending to be Native American. 0.83

00:33:40.220 Then also, according to the left anyway, there's a far more wide-ranging problem.

00:33:46.760 There's the ever-present threat of cultural appropriation, right?

00:33:50.680 And this threat is why centuries must stand around the gates of blackness 0.97

00:33:55.560 to prevent the enemy called whiteness from infiltrating under the cover of night 0.91

00:33:58.900 and stealing, you know, a hairstyle or whatever.

00:34:02.000 If a woman is caught, if a white woman is caught in dreadlocks, 1.00

00:34:04.900 the trumpet is sounded, she's stolen the hairstyle! 0.87

00:34:08.100 It's been stolen! 0.84

00:34:09.820 As if when a white person steals a hairstyle, it means that a non-white person is going to wake up 0.99

00:34:13.500 in the morning bald, wondering who took their hairstyle.

00:34:15.860 Which doesn't make sense, but regardless, cultural appropriation, we're told, is a serious problem.

00:34:20.920 And that raises a question.

00:34:24.780 If all of the privilege in America belongs to white people, 0.85

00:34:28.560 then why would they reject that identity? 0.99

00:34:32.280 If white people are the oppressors,

00:34:34.480 then why are so many of them trying to assume the identity of the oppressed?

00:34:39.180 Can you think of any historical precedent for this?

00:34:41.360 Can you think of any example in history of a member of an oppressed group,

00:34:45.860 of an oppressor group pretending for years to be in the oppressed group?

00:34:50.620 Can you think of an example where the oppressed group is also at the same time

00:34:54.200 so admired and sought after that one of their biggest problems

00:34:57.020 is how the oppressors want so badly to adopt their styles and customs?

00:35:01.160 This is not at all what you would expect in a systemically racist country

00:35:04.660 where whites are the beneficiaries of inherent privilege.

00:35:06.760 It's almost like America is not systemically racist

00:35:13.420 and white privilege is a left-wing fable

00:35:15.780 that falls apart upon further inspection.

00:35:18.120 Almost.

00:35:19.200 Now, there's another problem for the left here,

00:35:21.140 and that is the matter of self-identity.

00:35:23.480 Another obvious question comes to mind.

00:35:25.780 Why can't Krug or Dolezal or anyone else identify as black?

00:35:30.540 Why isn't their self-identity legitimate?

00:35:33.300 If they say they feel like they're black

00:35:35.920 and they identify most with that community,

00:35:38.320 who's to say they're wrong?

00:35:39.640 I mean, I can say they're wrong.

00:35:41.640 I can.

00:35:42.540 But I can say it because I happen to believe

00:35:44.340 that our fundamental identity is not something

00:35:46.640 that can be changed on a whim.

00:35:48.580 It's not subjective.

00:35:49.640 Our perception of our identity is subjective,

00:35:52.500 but the identity itself, our demographical makeup,

00:35:56.180 those basic facts about us are simply facts,

00:35:58.480 no matter how we feel about them.

00:36:00.800 But that's not the position the left takes.

00:36:02.520 They say that, for example,

00:36:04.300 a man might be born a man with a male body,

00:36:06.800 male DNA, male bone structure, male everything else,

00:36:09.640 and yet if he finds within himself

00:36:10.940 some sort of vague, undefinable feeling of woman-ness,

00:36:14.340 then he's a woman.

00:36:16.020 So what if he finds a vague, undefinable feeling of blackness? 0.81

00:36:19.160 Why is he not then a black?

00:36:20.500 Why is he not then black? 0.92

00:36:22.860 Short, you could say, 0.94

00:36:25.060 well, how would he know that he feels as black people feel? 0.80

00:36:29.800 To say he knows it because he feels it is begging the question.

00:36:33.100 It's circular reasoning.

00:36:34.820 He's not black, and so his feeling of being black 0.88

00:36:37.580 must be wrong.

00:36:39.620 And you're right.

00:36:40.780 But then I point you back to the man-woman situation. 0.87

00:36:43.360 Same exact thing can be said.

00:36:45.360 Or you could answer that our race is not a changeable part of us.

00:36:49.380 We're born with it.

00:36:50.140 Again, true, but again, I point you back to the man-woman dichotomy. 0.86

00:36:53.680 You might say that it's offensive for a white man to call himself black,

00:36:57.380 that he's making a caricature of that identity,

00:36:59.720 that he's claiming something that doesn't belong to him.

00:37:02.180 Again, yes, true, definitely.

00:37:04.160 But again, man-woman, same thing. 0.99

00:37:07.840 See, there just is no valid argument, none at all,

00:37:11.300 for denying a white person's right to be black,

00:37:14.680 but not a man's right to be a woman. 0.91

00:37:18.920 In fact, between sex and race,

00:37:21.660 if any one of those things can be called fluid or on a spectrum,

00:37:24.960 it would have to be race.

00:37:27.180 Certainly, race can make a much more plausible claim to fluidity than sex.

00:37:32.680 You can, in fact, mix races.

00:37:34.560 A white man and a black woman make a mixed-race child. 0.99

00:37:37.100 A man and woman, though, don't make a mixed-gender child.

00:37:40.460 So this is yet another leftist narrative

00:37:42.640 blown to smithereens by Jessica Krug.

00:37:45.480 Multiple narratives.

00:37:47.720 And it is why she is not canceled, actually.

00:37:51.140 Far from it.

00:37:51.640 I appreciate her service in exposing these narratives.

00:37:53.860 It's the narratives.

00:37:56.640 Which are all now, of course, canceled.

00:38:00.740 I didn't even do it.

00:38:01.900 Jessica Krug did it.

00:38:03.340 She's the one who canceled it.

00:38:04.460 I am just noticing it

00:38:05.980 and passing along the message to everybody else.

00:38:09.440 That's going to do it for today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 04, 2020

Ep. 558 - Facts Don't Matter To Black Lives Matter

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