The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 61 - The PC Mob Gets Another Head For Its Trophy Case

00:00:00.000 So this is a case that I think provides us with a helpful illustration of the PC mob and how it operates and why it operates the way that it does.

00:00:13.300 The CEO of, I'm going to make sure I turn my mic on.

00:00:17.220 I did, which you probably already knew because you can hear me.

00:00:20.440 The CEO of Papa John's, John Schnatter or Schnader or Schnatter.

00:00:27.140 Anyway, we'll just call him Papa John.

00:00:30.880 Papa John was forced to resign this week after saying the N-word during a conference call a few months ago.

00:00:37.900 And this happened, I think it happened back like in April or May, and it's just now coming out for some reason.

00:00:43.360 So he resigned. He also resigned from the University of Louisville's Board of Trustees.

00:00:49.360 The MLB canceled a promotion that it was supposed to be doing with Papa John.

00:00:53.480 And I believe I also saw that a gymnasium named after him in his hometown is now being renamed, all because of this.

00:01:04.680 And after all of that, the final penitential act is that he's going to be strapped to a donkey and covered in pizza sauce and sent out into the wilderness to be devoured by wolves.

00:01:16.240 But even that will not be enough to assuage his guilt for saying a word.

00:01:24.280 And what was, you know, why did he say it?

00:01:27.300 It's being reported that Papa John used a racial slur.

00:01:32.420 And think about the phrasing there.

00:01:34.060 He used a racial slur.

00:01:36.260 But what actually happened is that he was having a conversation with a marketing agency and they were talking about the NFL and racial issues.

00:01:49.640 And so in that context, he pointed out that the founder of KFC would often say really terrible things about race and yet never faced any backlash for it.

00:02:01.680 And so Papa John said, well, Colonel Sanders called black people the N-word, only he didn't say the N-word.

00:02:10.140 He actually said the word itself.

00:02:11.560 So he was he was quoting Colonel Sanders.

00:02:16.540 And and not in a positive light.

00:02:19.260 But as I said, the media is is reporting that Papa John used a racial slur.

00:02:28.720 Which is, you know, that's like if that's saying that he used it when all he was doing is it was he was quoting somebody else.

00:02:36.280 But saying that he used it, that'd be like if if I if I was trying to tell you about the dangers of heroin addiction and in the effort to educate you, I pulled out a heroin needle and I showed it to you and said, this is what a heroin needle looks like.

00:02:50.200 OK, you don't want to you don't want to inject this into your body.

00:02:53.020 And then later on, you told everybody that you caught me using a heroin needle, which is true in one sense. 0.64

00:03:02.060 I was using it. I mean, I was using it in an effort to educate you about it.

00:03:07.880 But it's not true in the sense that you are clearly implying in an effort to slander me.

00:03:14.620 And so when the media reports that Papa John used the racial slur, they're obviously trying to imply in the headline that he was saying it himself, not as a quote, but in an effort to communicate his own racism.

00:03:28.460 And this gets even crazier, because during the call, apparently, Papa John was, you know, like I said, they were just talking about race and he he was he he mentioned some of the racial violence that he saw growing up or heard about growing up.

00:03:45.460 And, again, he talked about this in the context of condemning racism.

00:03:52.140 But some media reports have taken that.

00:03:56.180 And they've said that, well, John Schnatter used the racial slur and described graphic scenes of violence against African-Americans.

00:04:06.200 Obviously trying to imply that this was some kind of like Michael Richards racist meltdown when it was nothing of the sort.

00:04:13.900 I've even seen some leftist blogs accusing him of launching into a racist rant.

00:04:23.700 Rant?

00:04:25.160 That I mean, that's like if I walked into your house and I said, hey, it's a nice day outside.

00:04:31.360 And then later on, you told all your friends that I barged through the door ranting about the weather.

00:04:37.960 It's not a rant and there's nothing racist about it.

00:04:40.280 But but but here's the thing.

00:04:42.780 In reality, we all understand that in that context, there's there was nothing racist going on.

00:04:51.280 But according to the rules, according to the arbitrary social rules that our culture has set up.

00:04:59.500 Saying a word, saying that word especially in any context is enough to make you racist.

00:05:07.160 So Papa John is now a secondhand racist. 0.60

00:05:11.840 He he flew. 0.81

00:05:12.820 He came too close to racism and thus became racist himself.

00:05:17.660 It was it was it's like some kind of plague or disease that he contracted by coming too close to it.

00:05:25.940 Right.

00:05:26.480 But by quoting a racist, he became racist, even though the intent and the context were not racist and were actually anti-racist.

00:05:36.200 Still, he became racist by some kind of some kind of sorcery.

00:05:42.780 This is this is it's it's it's it's it's like Harry Potter or it's a magical spell or if you if you say a certain word, it has this effect to transfer.

00:05:56.100 So I don't know.

00:05:56.540 I've never seen a read Harry Potter, but because I have what do you call it?

00:06:01.560 Good taste.

00:06:02.020 But it's so maybe in Harry Potter, he says a spell and someone turns into a frog or something.

00:06:07.320 I don't know. So with now, if you say this word, it's like a magical spell that turns you into a racist.

00:06:13.080 It turns you into a racist frog. 0.98

00:06:15.940 Traditionally, you see. 0.90

00:06:18.040 Outside of Harry Potter and outside of the.

00:06:23.020 Fevered minds of leftists, that's not how human communication works. 0.67

00:06:28.880 You know, usually intent and context are very important.

00:06:35.360 They are, in fact, indispensable aspects of communication in that you cannot analyze or understand what someone's saying unless you have also also taken into account the context in which they said it and their intention behind saying it.

00:06:51.360 So the words themselves also matter, but you can't evaluate somebody's words without understanding the intent and context behind them.

00:07:03.920 This is one of the reasons why text messaging can be so confusing, because often with a text message, all you have are the words and you don't have intent.

00:07:13.380 You don't have context. You don't have tone, because with a text message, people don't usually take the time to to write full sentences that may also communicate all that stuff.

00:07:25.120 So they just you just have a few words to go on.

00:07:28.980 And that's why you could read a text message and it could simply say, OK, and the word OK could seem like this passive aggressive or angry thing because you don't have.

00:07:40.360 Especially if there's a period, especially if there's a period, but we all know that and any time you send a text, a one word text message with a period is passive aggressive.

00:07:49.340 I think we all I think I think we all should understand that by now, but there are some people still seem not to.

00:07:55.660 The problem, though, is that the PC mob, they want to treat everything.

00:07:59.760 They treat all communication like a text message.

00:08:04.720 Where they take the words themselves separated from intent and context, and they analyze those words on their own, kind of in a vacuum.

00:08:15.520 And the N word especially is treated like this word.

00:08:21.080 That somehow transcends intent and context.

00:08:25.160 It is, I guess, probably the one word in the English language that is just beyond intent and beyond context.

00:08:34.700 And so it carries with it this this mystical power to to turn into racists all who happen to utter its syllables.

00:08:45.980 Well.

00:08:47.240 Of course, I got to back up for a minute.

00:08:48.660 It can turn you into a racist if you say it, provided you have a certain skin pigmentation. 0.97

00:08:55.200 So if your skin looks like mine and you say this word, regardless of context or intent, then you're racist.

00:09:03.100 But if your skin is darker than mine and you say the word, then it's not racist.

00:09:08.560 Those that's the rule.

00:09:10.380 Those are the ingredients.

00:09:11.800 So skin pigmentation, a lighter skin pigmentation, combined with these syllables arranged in this particular way, create racism.

00:09:24.820 That's the that's nobody can explain how the process works that way.

00:09:30.400 But we've all just decided that it does.

00:09:34.020 And it's madness, of course.

00:09:36.740 Words are not actually magical spells.

00:09:39.520 Words are just words.

00:09:43.200 Words themselves cannot be racist.

00:09:46.420 A word is just a word.

00:09:47.560 It can't be anything.

00:09:48.540 It's just it's just a word.

00:09:51.040 Intentions can be racist.

00:09:52.700 People can be racist.

00:09:54.840 But if a non-racist person with a non-racist intent says a word.

00:10:01.340 Well, then there's nothing racist about the word, no matter what the word was.

00:10:06.040 That's how it works.

00:10:07.180 But we've what we've done is we've turned the English language into this kind of game.

00:10:15.760 Where certain words have to be avoided by certain people for reasons that nobody can really justify.

00:10:22.640 And if the word is said by the wrong person, then they're going to face the prescribed penalty just because that's the way it goes.

00:10:29.560 So in Monopoly, if you roll doubles three times in a row on one turn, you go to jail.

00:10:35.480 Why?

00:10:36.040 Well, just because that's the rule of Monopoly.

00:10:38.200 I mean, there's no other reason for it besides that's just how you play Monopoly.

00:10:42.600 And in life, if a person with a light skin color says this word in any context, they lose their job.

00:10:51.180 Why?

00:10:51.920 Well, just because.

00:10:52.860 That's just that's just that's those are the rules.

00:10:55.280 That's all.

00:10:56.760 You know, that's that's what we use.

00:10:58.440 It's just how we play the game.

00:11:00.720 Now, to be clear.

00:11:02.520 I'm not arguing that white people ought to be able to say the N word.

00:11:08.360 OK, I have no interest in saying it.

00:11:10.920 I I think it's a nasty word that nobody ought to say.

00:11:14.440 I do not have within myself any deep desire to say it.

00:11:20.060 There are certain words that I do have a desire to say that sometimes I'll even just say if there's nobody around just because they're fun to say.

00:11:26.860 Like flabbergasted, for instance, is a word like that.

00:11:29.260 But the N word is not is is not a word in that category.

00:11:33.720 It is a vulgarity like many other vulgarities.

00:11:36.600 And I think it's it's best if we all try to avoid vulgarities and profanities.

00:11:42.120 But I also think it's completely insane.

00:11:48.280 That even now, as I speak, I have to find ways to refer to the word without saying the word itself for fear that my very livelihood could be destroyed.

00:12:00.660 Should I make the mistake of articulating the actual word that I'm already conveying to you by using euphemisms for it?

00:12:08.820 I think that's crazy.

00:12:10.800 And we all know that it's crazy.

00:12:14.280 And yet there are people probably watching this video and they're just they're waiting for me to slip up because I'm talking about the word so much and they're waiting to get me on the technicality.

00:12:24.940 Am I going to slip up and say the word itself?

00:12:27.320 And then, oh, he said it.

00:12:28.240 His life's over.

00:12:29.200 Take his job away.

00:12:30.480 He's done.

00:12:31.020 That's just that's not how society is supposed to work.

00:12:38.380 And it's purely semantics anyway.

00:12:40.800 And, you know, I really I think this when it comes to not just the N word, but.

00:12:46.780 But honestly, any word that we we say, oh, the the F word, the S word, the it's all kind of dumb, because if I say the F word or if I say the N word.

00:13:01.020 I am still conveying the word to you. 0.55

00:13:04.740 Right.

00:13:05.580 If I say if I say to you the phrase the F word.

00:13:09.100 If you're an adult, I have just put that word into your head.

00:13:12.640 Have I not?

00:13:13.140 I've communicated it to you.

00:13:14.860 I have successfully communicated the word to you without saying it.

00:13:18.480 So what was the point of not just saying it?

00:13:23.440 I am causing you to think it.

00:13:25.100 I mean, isn't this what it means to communicate for me to communicate with you?

00:13:28.920 What that means is that I'm I'm taking a thought.

00:13:31.540 And I'm taking words that are in my head.

00:13:35.540 Right.

00:13:35.780 These that are floating around in the ether in my mind.

00:13:39.120 And I'm taking them and I'm funneling them through my vocal cords.

00:13:42.580 And then I am putting them into your mind.

00:13:45.560 I'm trying to get thoughts from my mind into your mind.

00:13:48.740 That's what it means to communicate.

00:13:50.040 And so if I have communicated the N word to you, then what's the difference between saying

00:14:01.480 the N word and thus communicating the N word and actually saying the word itself and thus

00:14:05.900 communicating the word itself?

00:14:08.180 Either way, I'm communicating the same word.

00:14:10.500 Am I not?

00:14:12.280 So what we're saying is it's OK to communicate it, to convey it, to put it across.

00:14:20.040 Yet it's not OK to actually say the syllables themselves.

00:14:25.000 Because the syllables themselves have this magical power, I guess.

00:14:30.540 It's just it's so.

00:14:33.280 The only time that this whole game makes sense to say, oh, the blank word rather than just

00:14:38.420 saying the word, the only time it makes sense is when there are children around who maybe

00:14:42.080 have never encountered this word.

00:14:43.560 And so you're trying to, you know, spare them for a while.

00:14:47.520 Now, the inevitable process of them being corrupted by these vulgarities.

00:14:52.600 But when you're around adults and they all know the words you're talking about, what is

00:14:59.040 the point of dancing gingerly around it when in the end the result is the same because I

00:15:08.520 have put the word in your head?

00:15:09.540 And now, as I'm saying this, and I wrote about this yesterday, and there were people

00:15:15.400 who accused me of cowardice because they said, well, well, why don't you have the courage

00:15:21.780 of your convictions?

00:15:23.240 I mean, just come out and say it.

00:15:25.280 Your intention isn't racist.

00:15:26.940 You're talking about the word.

00:15:28.860 We're all adults here.

00:15:30.140 However, you think people should be able to talk about a word without dancing around the

00:15:36.140 word they're talking about. 0.92

00:15:37.980 You think that we shouldn't have to follow these completely arbitrary and ridiculous

00:15:41.800 social customs of avoiding certain words in any context whatsoever.

00:15:45.600 So why don't you go first and just come out and say it?

00:15:50.260 Well, I'll tell you why.

00:15:52.400 Maybe I am a coward.

00:15:54.020 I don't know.

00:15:55.500 But I tell you this, I'm not willing to have my whole life destroyed over it.

00:15:59.440 That's why.

00:16:01.480 It's always been clear to me that to do this job, this job, you know, if you're going

00:16:06.900 to have a job where you're getting up publicly and giving your opinions and taking stands and

00:16:13.220 so on, if you're going to do that, you have to be willing to lose it all.

00:16:19.560 You have to be willing to lose the job if you're going to have this job.

00:16:23.600 To do it effectively and to do it with integrity, you can't be too attached to it.

00:16:29.440 And you have to be willing to face potentially a backlash that could end with you being fired

00:16:35.280 or potentially even worse consequences.

00:16:38.260 And I've always realized that and I've accepted it.

00:16:42.200 And I am willing to face that penalty if need be.

00:16:45.960 And plenty of times in the past, I have said things that I thought maybe could destroy my

00:16:52.160 career and my livelihood, potentially.

00:16:54.960 And there have been a few things that almost did, but then not quite.

00:16:59.980 But this is just not one of those things. 0.88

00:17:02.080 You know, because we live in an environment where so many dumb things can ruin you. 0.98

00:17:10.640 And there are so many dumb, arbitrary, ridiculous rules that have been set up by the PC brigade 0.98

00:17:18.580 that, you know, you have to exercise some prudence. 0.96

00:17:23.040 And you have to say to yourself, is this particular thing, is this stand worth losing everything for?

00:17:31.460 And I think it really is cowardice if you ask yourself that question and you always come to

00:17:38.540 the conclusion that, no, it's not worth it.

00:17:40.700 Because some things are worth it.

00:17:42.160 But there's a reason why the left, there's a reason why they take, they like to take really petty

00:17:51.940 and insignificant things and attach this huge significance to it.

00:17:58.520 So there's a reason why they make these rules, these really arbitrary rules like this one where

00:18:04.980 don't say this word in any context.

00:18:07.660 And then the penalty for breaking that rule is catastrophic.

00:18:11.120 Like you could lose everything if you break that rule.

00:18:14.520 And I think from the outside, sometimes we tend to look at that and we say, what's, why?

00:18:18.460 Like, what do you care?

00:18:19.220 Why are you doing?

00:18:20.240 Well, because it's about control.

00:18:22.480 Because they know that they can control you.

00:18:26.080 You know, they know that if they say, if they take some really huge, important thing,

00:18:30.440 and they say, well, don't do this, or you're going to face this consequence.

00:18:35.520 Well, there are people who will do that because they're saying, you know what,

00:18:37.940 that's a hill I'm willing to die on because that is big, that's important,

00:18:40.740 that's significant.

00:18:43.280 And then you create martyrs, basically, when you do that.

00:18:46.760 So the smarter strategy from the less perspective is to take a lot of different small things

00:18:51.280 and to say, and to say, well, no, to set a lot of little small landmines. 0.91

00:18:57.340 Because then it's, it's, it's really easy just to walk over them and not bother with it.

00:19:06.740 Another example, when it comes to language is, is all this stuff with, with pronouns,

00:19:14.140 where, you know, you're not allowed to say certain pronouns.

00:19:18.980 You know, if somebody, people have their own pronouns now, and they make up even fake pronouns,

00:19:23.860 and you have to figure out what's someone's pronoun and refer to them by that pronoun.

00:19:28.320 And, and if you break this rule, especially in a professional setting, you could lose your job,

00:19:33.420 you could lose everything. 0.99

00:19:34.460 So it's a small, stupid, insignificant thing to which they have attached a huge penalty. 0.98

00:19:39.980 And so I think a lot of people look at that, and they say, fine, I'll just play the game, 0.99

00:19:44.460 because it's not worth it.

00:19:45.940 It's not, you know, I'm not, I'm not gonna lose my job over this.

00:19:50.320 Personally, I think when it comes to manipulating language, that is a hill worth dying on.

00:19:54.800 Because with that, what the left is asking you to do is, or telling you to do, requiring you to do,

00:20:00.700 is to tell a lie.

00:20:02.260 When they say, yeah, this person's a biological woman, but refer to this person as a he.

00:20:06.580 I think a lot of us will just play the game and say, fine, I'll do it, because I don't want to,

00:20:11.560 you know, if I don't, then I could, the penalty is too severe.

00:20:15.900 I think that is a hill worth dying on, though, and potentially losing your job over.

00:20:20.940 Because to play the game in that case is to tell a lie.

00:20:25.300 And when the left can get you to tell lies for them, well, then they, they own you.

00:20:30.100 I mean, they have your soul at that point.

00:20:32.320 But something like this with the N-word, it's, you know, it's not telling a lie to just say, 0.94

00:20:36.580 the N-word, and to play the ridiculous game. 0.68

00:20:40.080 And so, and so I play it. 0.86

00:20:43.380 But it is, I think we all do recognize that it is just a game.

00:20:48.420 And it is a game that has pretty severe consequences.

00:20:51.120 And it did for John Schnatter, in this case, who is, who's been completely, I think, unfairly

00:20:57.620 slandered and maligned and is now suffering severe consequences for it.

00:21:02.320 That's what it's like to live in a world governed by the politically correct mob.

00:21:07.500 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:21:08.540 Thanks for listening.

00:21:09.980 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 13, 2018

Ep. 61 - The PC Mob Gets Another Head For Its Trophy Case

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