The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 647 - The Age Of The Snowflake

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, college students get a professor placed on indefinite leave for

00:00:04.540 referring to a racial slur, not using one, referring to it on an exam. That was enough

00:00:10.800 to get him on leave. We'll talk about that. Also five headlines, including AOC proving that she

00:00:14.080 wants unity by accusing Ted Cruz of attempted murder. And in our daily cancellation, I'm afraid

00:00:20.040 we do have to talk about COVID anal swabs. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:56.980 So I want to begin today by discussing two stories that may at first seem basically unrelated. First,

00:02:01.740 we go to Politico where earlier in the week, over 100 staffers signed a letter and sent it to their

00:02:07.880 CEO, further expressing their outrage and grief over the fact that Ben Shapiro wrote a newsletter for

00:02:13.260 them that one time weeks ago. Uh, yes, you remember that from weeks ago. They're still talking about it.

00:02:18.400 Even though two or three weeks had passed since the offensive newsletter, which was not offensive

00:02:23.020 or provocative at all. Still, these staffers have not overcome the trauma that it caused them. They

00:02:29.100 demanded an apology from their boss, along with treatment for their PTSD, which they say must include

00:02:34.860 a dozen therapeutic bunny rabbits in the office, which they can pick up and cuddle anytime they feel

00:02:38.960 scared. Um, that last part is a joke, but only barely in the irony of all ironies. The letter also

00:02:45.500 insists upon, I'm not kidding, greater workplace diversity. Yes, they are shouting for more

00:02:52.660 diversity while in the very same breath shouting for less diversity. They are upset that somebody

00:02:59.220 with different views was allowed to write a newsletter. And the reason they're upset, they

00:03:03.620 say, is that they want more diversity. But of course we understand what they mean by diversity.

00:03:08.740 For them, the perfect image of diversity, what diversity is, perfect image is a room full of

00:03:16.340 dozens of people of different races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual proclivities, all saying the

00:03:21.960 exact same thing in unison. It's the kind of diversity that will be best achieved once we're all replaced 0.97

00:03:27.900 by robots, which frankly, at this point can't happen soon enough. So that's one story. Let's look

00:03:33.080 at another. Like I said, these are, these are related and I'll explain why. The daily wire has

00:03:37.320 a report about a university of Illinois, Chicago law professor, Jason Kilbourne. The professor has

00:03:42.140 been indefinitely suspended after a campus controversy that stems originally from a question

00:03:47.840 on an exam. Now in the exam, Kilbourne presented to the students, a hypothetical case dealing with

00:03:54.500 race and gender discrimination. Okay. Now I imagine this is the kind of thing that students in law,

00:04:00.920 law school, uh, encounter a lot, hypothetical situations and cases that they have to analyze.

00:04:06.260 Right? So in this hypothetical case, in an employee quit her job after, um, and now I'm going to read

00:04:13.400 directly from the exam text. This is what it says. After she attended a meeting in which other managers

00:04:19.120 expressed their anger at plaintiff, calling her an N blank and B blank. That's what it says on the exam.

00:04:28.740 N N N B. It does not say the word themselves. It just says N N B with a little blank space next to

00:04:35.800 each letter. This was enough to provoke outrage. The black law students association spoke out claiming

00:04:41.400 that students were shocked and distracted by the slur on the exam. They couldn't even take the test

00:04:46.720 because they were so, they were so upset. Even though again, the slur was not written out.

00:04:51.360 One student said she had heart palpitations just from seeing the letter N on the page.

00:04:56.900 Let's hope that she never watches Sesame street when they get to, you know, today, today the letter

00:05:01.240 is in, um, a petition was, was, was circulated. It gained 400 signatures demanding among other

00:05:08.080 things that Kilbourne be forced to take cultural sensitivity training for writing the letter N on an

00:05:15.320 exam. Now you might ask how the hell can a law professor even teach his students about racial

00:05:22.300 discrimination cases. If he can't so much as refer to a racial slur, if he can't even refer to a racial

00:05:27.520 slur, then how can you communicate what to do legally in these situations? What if, what if he

00:05:35.320 was, what if this was a, uh, an oral, uh, uh, lecture and he had, he had just said the N word, not the

00:05:41.260 actual word, but he had said, quote, the N word. Would that have been shocking and traumatizing too?

00:05:45.980 I suppose so. Meanwhile, of course, most of these students listen to music every day where the full

00:05:51.680 word is said shouted really over and over again. That causes them no emotional pain, but, but someone

00:05:56.520 with the wrong skin pigmentation, even so much as refers to the word, however, indirectly it'll cause

00:06:01.800 them to collapse into tears, barely able to breathe. Sure. It's all completely absurd and it only gets

00:06:06.900 more absurd. Here's what happened next. Kilbourne in the midst of the great outrage over the letter N

00:06:12.240 had a zoom meeting with a member of the black law students association. During the course of that

00:06:17.220 conversation, Kilbourne was asked why the Dean of the school had not given Kilbourne the petition

00:06:23.360 from the BLSA so that he could read it himself. And to that Kilbourne joked that he hadn't been given

00:06:30.780 the letter quote because, uh, is a quote, I suspect she's afraid if I saw the horrible things said about

00:06:36.280 me in the letter, I would become homicidal. Obvious joke. But the BLSA member who heard this promptly

00:06:43.800 reported that comment to the school's behavioral threat assessment team, at which point Kilbourne

00:06:48.840 was placed on indefinite leave for threatening the students. Now, how does this relate back to the

00:06:55.720 political situation? Because in the case of Politico, these are alleged adults in the real world behaving

00:07:01.160 as though they are so emotionally fragile that they might dissolve into a puddle if you so much as

00:07:06.400 give them a funny look. In the case of the law professor controversy, these are college kids with

00:07:12.260 the same level of emotional fragility. This yet again demonstrates an important point that I've made

00:07:17.560 before and I'll make again. We assumed and declared for years that the so-called snowflakes on college

00:07:24.720 campuses would, would, would, would leave the pampered confines of academia, go out into the real world,

00:07:30.880 uh, experience a rude awakening. And then after some painful adjustment, become mature and well-adjusted

00:07:38.560 adults. That's, that's what, you know, that's what we assumed. Oh, wait, wait, wait till they get out

00:07:44.560 into the real world. Oh, they're going to see how it really works. Won't they? But that's not what

00:07:49.400 happened. Instead, snowflakes have gone out into society and remade it in their own image. As painful

00:07:56.620 as it is for us to acknowledge, they have not gotten the rude awakening that we hoped and that

00:08:02.560 they so much deserve. And there's no reason to think they ever will, at least not in the way we

00:08:08.400 thought they would. This should have been an easy thing to foresee in hindsight. A lot of things are easy

00:08:14.500 to foresee in hindsight. After all, each generation inherits the earth and makes society into what 1.00

00:08:20.040 they want it to be. If a bunch of emotionally stunted, overgrown babies take over, why would 1.00

00:08:25.540 we think that they'd all magically become mature adults? And besides, this is not a process that

00:08:30.440 happened overnight and it didn't begin with the millennial generation. The boomers, collectively

00:08:34.660 speaking, as a generation, as much as they complain about the millennials, largely have been 0.99

00:08:39.600 incompetent, immature, and selfish themselves. That's why they've ruined every institution they've 0.98

00:08:43.740 touched and they're leaving the country in a much worse state than it was when they inherited it.

00:08:48.440 The point simply is that many of the rules that make up the real world are determined by society.

00:08:55.840 Now, physical rules, the laws of physics and so forth, are independent of our whims and attitudes,

00:09:01.280 obviously, as much as we these days like to pretend otherwise. But a rule like society rewards

00:09:07.900 maturity and self-sufficiency, that kind of rule is certainly not universal or innate.

00:09:13.740 You have to build and maintain a society that operates by that rule. If you don't, then it

00:09:19.960 won't. Unfortunately, in our case, we increasingly live in a society that rewards and caters to

00:09:26.180 the loudest, whiniest, most selfish and immature people. It's not just college campuses anymore

00:09:32.560 that work that way. One other point about this as I'm thinking about it, you know, we've probably

00:09:37.660 also made a mistake in using phrases like snowflakes, as I have here, to describe the college kids

00:09:43.520 crying over a letter they read on an exam or staffers at Politico writing a letter to complain

00:09:49.620 about a Ben Shapiro article. We call them snowflakes. Well, this implies that they're merely sensitive,

00:09:55.320 right? They're too sensitive. And we've said that many times. But the truth is actually almost the

00:10:02.320 opposite of that. Because the sensitivity is performative. What drives this is not sensitivity,

00:10:09.380 but rather hatred, resentment, a desire for power. Was the Black Law Students Association

00:10:15.860 actually traumatized by the letter N on a piece of paper? Do we really, do we believe that they

00:10:21.660 actually, the student who said she had heart palpitations, does anyone really believe that

00:10:26.040 she's sincere when she said that? Or did they see it as an opportunity to vindictively assert their

00:10:31.880 dominance over and destroy a man they despise and despise, in this case, largely for the color of

00:10:37.520 his skin and what they believe that color represents? I would say the latter. The snowflake act is just 0.98

00:10:44.580 that. It's an act. It's a tool used by these so-called snowflakes to get what they want. It's a power play 0.99

00:10:49.260 and an extremely effective one, it turns out. So where do we go from here? What do we do with all

00:10:56.080 this? What does it mean? Well, all it means is that our problem is how society is fundamentally

00:11:02.140 constructed. No big deal. That's it. We just have to reconstruct society from the ground up. We can't

00:11:08.020 wait for the real world to solve the problems. The real world has been reshaped by these very same

00:11:12.720 people. So we have to reconstruct it from the ground up. That's all. It should only take several

00:11:16.540 generations to do. That's the good news. And also the bad news. But there's no time like the present

00:11:22.980 to get started. Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:11:32.580 Man, I don't know if you guys saw this preview for Godzilla vs. King Kong, that movie. Or maybe

00:11:37.440 it's King Kong vs. Godzilla. I can't remember who gets top billing. But it looks completely stupid.

00:11:43.240 Really entertaining also. And I put it on for my kids yesterday. I put the preview on. 1.00

00:11:51.160 And my boys, seven and four, they lost their minds watching it. And I thought back, I wish when I was

00:11:57.520 seven years old. When I was seven, it wasn't all that long ago. Well, it was still so long ago, I

00:12:02.560 guess. But when I was seven, you know, King Kong, if they made a King Kong movie, it still would have

00:12:06.820 been a guy in a suit. What I wouldn't have done to see a movie like this. King Kong vs. Godzilla.

00:12:11.560 Can you remember, can you imagine being a seven-year-old boy in a movie like this is coming

00:12:14.580 out? But it also brings to mind, because I'm letting them watch this. And I think this is

00:12:19.420 something, maybe it's just me, but I actually think that all parents, at least talking to

00:12:24.320 parents and thinking about my own parents, all parents really struggle to come up with

00:12:28.340 a coherent movie policy for their kids. And I think all parents end up making these weird

00:12:35.280 decisions where there are certain movies or shows you won't let your kid watch. And then

00:12:39.080 other ones that are definitely inappropriate, you do let them watch. Like my parents, for

00:12:42.420 example, you know, there are so many shows they wouldn't let, like cartoons, they wouldn't

00:12:46.160 let us, they wouldn't let us watch The Simpsons when I was a kid. But I think I saw The Exorcist

00:12:50.960 when I was like nine. And so with my kids, it's kind of a similar thing. I'm very strict

00:12:55.320 about certain movies, but I'll put on King Kong vs. Godzilla. I put on the Peter Jackson

00:13:00.760 King Kong that came out like in the early 2000s for my son when he was about five. I forgot

00:13:06.580 there was a scene in that movie where King Kong literally bites a guy's head off and

00:13:09.740 spits it out. Didn't remember that. Put it on. I don't know. As a parent, you just, you

00:13:15.660 just, you sort of fumble your way through these things and figure it out as you go along.

00:13:20.820 All right. This is number one from the Daily Wire. It says, New York's, New York's death

00:13:23.800 toll from the coronavirus, from coronavirus related nursing home deaths may be much higher

00:13:29.380 than what was reported by the state, especially in the months after Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a

00:13:33.720 mandate requiring facilities to accept COVID positive patients, regardless of whether those

00:13:38.240 facilities were equipped to handle them. You've heard a lot about that on this show and other

00:13:41.740 shows. A report from New York Attorney General Letitia James. Now, so we knew this was bad,

00:13:48.480 but we knew that thousands of elderly people died because of this policy. What we're finding out now

00:13:54.500 is that it's even worse than we thought. So Attorney General Letitia James has determined that

00:13:59.960 COVID-19 resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York appear to be undercounted by the

00:14:06.840 DOH by approximately 50%. That 50% refers to a narrow slice of data. And it goes on from there,

00:14:16.360 getting into specifics about it. But the headline here is that it's worse than we thought. It's a lot

00:14:22.180 worse than we thought. And we already knew it was pretty bad. This prompted CNN with their own

00:14:27.160 headline, an article today, it says, Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 performance may have been less stellar

00:14:33.200 than it seemed. Oh, you think so, CNN? Yeah, less stellar than it seemed to you and to other deluded

00:14:40.580 morons. But to those of us with our eyes open, it was very clear from the beginning that it was not 0.99

00:14:44.040 stellar at all. Because, yeah, he was giving press conferences and he had his, you know, his whole act

00:14:53.120 in the press conference where he pretended to be this straightforward, tough-talking guy. But those of us

00:14:58.980 who are not extremely stupid realize that that has nothing to do with what he's actually doing in relation 0.93

00:15:03.740 to the coronavirus. But especially with CNN, see, you say this now, but during the height of this, 0.95

00:15:14.280 when this was actually happening, when there were thousands of COVID patients being put into these

00:15:23.000 nursing homes and this was going on, CNN, this was known. We talked about it on this show. We talked,

00:15:28.100 other shows talked about it. We had articles about it on The Daily Wire. But CNN, rather than reporting on

00:15:34.520 that, they had Andrew Cuomo come on the air several times a week with his little brother. And they had these

00:15:42.140 cutesy little back and forths. You know, what was it? The one time he brought out a, I think it was a

00:15:49.100 propped, a prop Q-tip to make fun of the fact that Andrew Cuomo has big ears. And they had a big laugh

00:15:54.100 about that while elderly people were dying in nursing homes due to Andrew Cuomo's policies.

00:16:01.720 So nice job, CNN. Number two, a moment of unity. Moment of unity ruined again. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 0.97

00:16:10.120 tweeted yesterday in response to a news about Robinhood locking down their app to stop users

00:16:16.620 from buying more GameStop stock. She said, this was her original tweet. She said,

00:16:22.500 this is unacceptable. We now need to know more about Robinhood app's decision to block retail

00:16:27.000 investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see it.

00:16:31.080 As a member of the Financial Services Committee, I'd support a hearing if necessary.

00:16:34.720 Okay. That's what she said. And I agree. I think most people, this has been one issue where it seems

00:16:42.920 like most people agree, which is pretty impressive. Because prior to this, I wasn't sure if there was

00:16:52.780 anything ever again that we could all agree on. But with this issue, most people do. Well, Ted Cruz

00:17:00.140 tweeted in agreement. Uh, and all he said was, I agree. I think that was what his tweet was

00:17:04.580 and kind of maybe extending a little bit of an olive branch. AOC proceeded to take that olive

00:17:11.020 olive branch and throw it in the incinerator. This is what she tweeted in response. She said,

00:17:15.640 I'm happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there's common ground,

00:17:18.840 but you talking to Ted Cruz almost had me murdered three weeks ago. So you can sit this one out.

00:17:25.060 Happy to work with almost any other GOP that aren't trying to get me killed. In the meantime,

00:17:28.940 if you want to help, you can resign. That's what she thinks of unity. Now, by the way,

00:17:36.080 when she said, well, I'm happy to work with any other GOP who didn't try to get me killed.

00:17:40.080 What she fails to mention is that she thinks they all tried to get her killed. She blames all of them

00:17:43.760 with very, maybe with the exception of like Mitt Romney, um, and a few others, she, she thinks they

00:17:50.960 all did. So what she means is I'm happy to work with any other GOP except for all of the GOP.

00:17:58.940 You know, and this is what, there are two things we take away from this. First of all,

00:18:04.420 this is the point we've gotten to now where a, a sitting member of Congress accuses another member

00:18:11.440 of trying to have her murdered. And it's like, it's barely even news. I mean, even, even 10 years ago,

00:18:20.200 this would be unheard of to have a claim like this, completely unsubstantiated.

00:18:30.120 There's no basis for this whatsoever. She can't explain it in what way. So you're,

00:18:35.460 you're accusing him of attempted murder. And that seems to me to be defamation

00:18:39.740 or libel, whichever one it is when you're, when you're saying it, or I guess in this case,

00:18:44.260 is a tweet. I'll let the lawyers figure that out. But it seems to me that a claim like this,

00:18:48.900 completely baseless, false, smearing somebody, uh, trying to do them damage.

00:18:54.920 That doesn't seem legal to me, but we're at the point now where this it's, it's absolutely expected

00:19:02.140 and, uh, doesn't even, doesn't even make any waves. Oh yeah, sure. Just a Congresswoman

00:19:07.600 accusing a Senator of trying to have her killed. Eh, par for the course. But also it shows again,

00:19:14.020 um, what many on the left, especially Democrats, especially Democrats like AOC, what they actually

00:19:20.500 think of unity, which is that they have no interest in it whatsoever. So there's really no point,

00:19:25.660 even when you agree with them, there's no point in even saying it. There's, there's, there's,

00:19:32.320 there's no point in trying to find common ground because you try to stand on the common ground with

00:19:38.580 them. They're just going to pull the rug out from under you and kick you while you're down. That's 0.54

00:19:41.780 what's going to happen. Number three, from the Hill, we knew this was coming. Here it is. Um,

00:19:47.300 resident Biden on president Biden. I said resident resident Biden actually works. I kind of like that

00:19:53.840 like a nursing home resident. I think I stumbled on the resident Biden. I like that. Let's go with 0.61

00:20:00.320 that. Resident Biden on Thursday signed two executive actions focused on healthcare, describing

00:20:05.420 the directives as a necessary effort to undo the damage done by former president Trump. Um,

00:20:11.880 Biden signed an order directing federal agencies to open a special enrollment period for the affordable

00:20:16.020 care act. Then he also signed a presidential memorandum rescinding the Mexico city policy,

00:20:21.640 preventing federal funds, uh, from going to organizations that fund abortion overseas.

00:20:27.260 And this is the great Catholic, the great decent Catholic, Joe Biden, who is now going to force

00:20:32.480 taxpayers. He's going to take food out of your kids' mouths to pay for abortions overseas is what's 1.00

00:20:38.780 going to happen. Now we got, here he is signing this order, uh, but you'll notice something and

00:20:43.440 he's kind of explaining why he's signing it, but you'll notice something about this explanation.

00:20:47.160 Maybe it'll jump out of you. Listen, the second order I'm going to be signing also changes what

00:20:53.660 the president has done, the president, what former president has done. And it, uh, a memorandum

00:21:00.880 reversed the, my predecessor's attack on women's health, excuse me, health access. And, um, as we

00:21:09.260 continue to battle COVID-19, even more critical Americans have meaningful access to healthcare.

00:21:15.340 If we could just move past the irony of him hacking up a lung while he says the word health,

00:21:20.420 uh, but moving past that he, he's talking about funding abortions overseas, but he won't say it.

00:21:26.440 He won't even say the word abortion said he talks about women's health,

00:21:29.320 talks about it in a very roundabout way. And one of the reasons that, that he still comes from that

00:21:36.920 old school Democrat mentality, uh, old school, meaning like 20 years ago,

00:21:42.640 where radically pro-abortion, but they won't say it. They won't, they won't say the word.

00:21:50.100 And I think it's because they still have a little bit, they still have a little bit of shame in them

00:21:53.960 and they realize that it's a shameful thing. So they don't want to openly acknowledge it.

00:22:00.040 Now the newer Democrats have no problem talking about abortion. They're proud of it. 0.96

00:22:03.720 In the end, it, it all ends with the same policies and it ends with the same body count of children

00:22:10.440 being killed. So it doesn't matter that much, but for him, he won't even just come out and say,

00:22:15.740 Oh yeah, this is for, so we're going to fund abortions overseas.

00:22:19.980 And that should tell you something when there's a certain policy in the people and many of the

00:22:25.460 people who support the policy and the guy who's signing the policy and acting it doesn't want to

00:22:31.960 talk about it. Doesn't even want to say the word. Well, that should tell you something.

00:22:39.080 You notice that with a interesting dichotomy, right? Between pro-lifers and pro-abortion people

00:22:43.680 because with pro-lifers, we don't, we don't use any euphemisms. We speak about this issue directly.

00:22:49.440 We are not afraid at all to say what we really think. And to, to, to, to just talk about this issue

00:22:54.260 in a direct, straightforward manner. It's always been the pro-abortion side. Many of them anyway, 0.98

00:23:02.220 though I say not all of them. It's always been many of them that they feel that we need to dance

00:23:06.320 around it, to find all these different euphemisms, these different terms, women's health, reproductive

00:23:11.180 health. And anytime you see that, even if you don't know anything about the issue, you know nothing

00:23:18.420 about the issue, but you don't even know what abortion is. And you hear two sides arguing about it.

00:23:22.620 And one side is talking about it directly. And the other side is, is, is doing anything they can to

00:23:28.440 not speak about it directly. That's enough right there to tell you who's on the right side.

00:23:34.380 All right. Number four, I have to do this. I'm sorry. I have to do it. I take no pleasure in this

00:23:38.880 at all. Um, but I got to, I have to play it for you because I was subjected to it. This is Kristen

00:23:43.960 Chenoweth. She's a Broadway actress. Uh, and she, she made a song, a Broadway style song about Kamala

00:23:52.320 Harris. And I'm going to play it for you just because here it is. Her name is Kamala. It's

00:24:04.840 someone named Kamala. And truly, since I've begun to learn all she's done, I see she deserved

00:24:11.840 that spot. And also I learned it's no, not Kamala. So think of it like Kamala. Because Kamala,

00:24:19.840 Kamala, she's good for America. And popular as she was, well now, Kamala's popularity will

00:24:28.840 grow. Because we know how much she's gonna be helping Joe. After all, there is nobody astuter

00:24:37.840 when she was a prosecutor. Tough but fair. She really found her niche. And then she fought 0.89

00:24:46.840 for rights and justice when it came to serving in the Senate. Where I come from, she'd make 0.99

00:24:54.120 a very good witch. I agree with the last part. Very good witch. I lost my will to live while

00:25:03.760 watching that. I felt myself plunging into the depths of despair. I can't even, there's something

00:25:11.720 about that that's so horrendously depressing. And they're still trying to do this with,

00:25:20.120 it will never stop being funny to me. This enthusiasm they're trying to generate for this

00:25:26.140 woman that they didn't care at all about. She could have been president. If you care so 0.83

00:25:34.220 much about, I mean, you're literally singing songs about her now. You're so excited. But where

00:25:39.500 was this excitement a year ago? Now she's only the pseudo-president. Now she's the president

00:25:44.800 behind the scenes. While senile Joe is there as the figurehead. But she could have been the

00:25:50.180 main person. She could have been the boss. Officially. Top of the ticket. But you guys chose

00:25:57.620 the old 78-year-old white man. And now you want to pretend you're excited about her. Sorry,

00:26:04.420 I don't buy it. I especially don't buy it in that form. All right, number five.

00:26:10.900 This is from the New York Post. It says, two California women claim that Subway's tuna 1.00

00:26:15.040 sandwich actually contains not a scintilla of the fish that they were duped by the fast food

00:26:20.380 joint's claims. And they're saying this in a $5 million lawsuit. Karen Donawa and Nalima Amen,

00:26:30.020 both of Alameda County, California, say they ordered tuna from the sandwich giant,

00:26:33.980 locations near their home as recently as last year. This is according to the federal lawsuit.

00:26:38.580 But independent testing has repeatedly affirmed the products are made from anything but tuna.

00:26:43.640 The filing of the products has no scintilla of tuna at all, the suit claims. In fact,

00:26:47.840 Subway's tuna is made from a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna,

00:26:52.320 that have been blended together by the defendants to imitate the appearance of tuna.

00:26:56.300 This is a kind of a form of, is a cultural, is an appropriation of tuna by this imposter.

00:27:03.940 The filing alleges that Subway has done this in an effort to save money since the blended non-tuna 0.98

00:27:08.580 product costs less. I'm trying to get to the point in this article where they explain

00:27:13.440 why they deserve $5 million because they got fake tuna. I mean, have they bought $5 million worth of

00:27:21.280 tuna sandwiches? Because if they have, then I would say they, apparently they don't hate the tuna that

00:27:26.360 much. But I'm, I'm okay with this. If, if you're going to file the lawsuit against Subway though,

00:27:32.700 the only thing I'll say, if we're filing a lawsuit against Subway, uh, I would rather,

00:27:38.140 or maybe this is something that would come out in the discovery phase. I don't know, but,

00:27:40.840 but, uh, one way or another, I want to know what the smell is in a Subway sandwich shop.

00:27:46.740 When you walk in, there is a smell. And I've asked this question before. I've asked it in

00:27:52.720 Subways before, uh, what the smell is. You know what I'm talking about? If you've ever been in a

00:27:56.500 Subway, there's a very distinct smell and it's not terribly pleasant. It's this kind of, it's this,

00:28:03.460 it's, it's, it's, it's not, it's not exactly like walking into a, into a, you know, a dumpster,

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00:28:34.080 I don't know what it is, but that's what I want to know with a lot, with a Subway. One of the most

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00:31:39.420 I never thought I had to say this, but today we're going to cancel anal swabs. 0.91

00:31:49.320 The media has been reporting that China in order to test for COVID is now using both throat and

00:31:55.100 anal swabs, though not on the same person, or at least not with the same swab. One would hope. 1.00

00:32:02.120 In any case, the Washington post has this. They say the people of China could be forgiven for thinking 1.00

00:32:05.740 they'd seen at all during the coronavirus pandemic, but now they face a new indignity. The addition of

00:32:10.060 anal swabs, Chinese state media outlets introduced the new protocol in recent days, prompting widespread 0.88

00:32:14.900 discussion and some outrage, uh, only some outrage apparently in China. Some Chinese doctors say the

00:32:20.480 science is there recovering patients. They say have continued to test positive through samples from

00:32:24.020 the lower digestive tract, uh, days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative yet for many,

00:32:30.500 it seemed a step too far in government intrusion after a year and counting of a dignity eroding pandemic.

00:32:35.740 Everyone involved will be so embarrassed. One user of, um, the Chinese social media app Weibo said,

00:32:41.900 even Chinese doctors who support the new test said the methods inconvenience meant it made sense

00:32:46.080 for use only in select groups, such as at quarantine centers. That's what they say. But it seems the

00:32:52.280 anal swab technique is not only being used on people in quarantine centers, even airline passengers are

00:32:58.920 apparently required to subject themselves to this experience. The Hill reports quote, nose and anal swabs were

00:33:04.720 taken from a group of passengers on a flight from, uh, Changchum, China to Beijing on Monday. Other

00:33:10.380 travelers arriving in Beijing have also been asked to use anal swabs. One woman who was not identified by 0.79

00:33:16.040 name, thankfully for her, was asked to use an anal swab in a mandatory hotel quarantine in Beijing 1.00

00:33:22.660 alongside several nose and throat tests and a blood test. Again, we hope that they use different

00:33:28.580 equipment for all those different tests. It's not clear to me whether this swabbing is happening in the

00:33:33.100 airport or on the plane in most cases or somewhere else, perhaps they do it while you're waiting in

00:33:37.580 line at the food court, Burger King for efficiency sake, at least the mask will help hydra shame a 1.00

00:33:42.240 little bit. Um, there's been a video making the rounds, which appears to be some sort of Chinese

00:33:47.280 official or doctor in an airport demonstrating the anal swab technique. Thankfully he's using a dummy 0.91

00:33:53.700 in this case. Um, the good news is that this is all only slightly more invasive than what the TSA already

00:34:01.860 does. I mean, it's hard to believe that a little more than 20 years ago, you could walk into an

00:34:08.820 airport, get right on a plane, carrying a baseball bat and a knife. If you wanted, I mean, literally you

00:34:14.540 could actually bring that stuff on a plane. Now they confiscate your water bottles and, uh, subject you to a

00:34:19.480 rectal probe. We have come a long way in the wrong direction. Now I haven't done any official polling

00:34:28.680 on this, but based on informal conversations, it appears that it appears that most people are rather

00:34:34.140 opposed to the anal swab method. The approval rating for anal swabs is rather low. It's almost as low as

00:34:41.420 the approval rating for Congress. Why is that? I mean, why do people recoil at the idea? Well, I think

00:34:47.920 they recoil at it for a few reasons. One of them though, perhaps the number one is that dignity

00:34:53.940 matters as it turns out. And that's the takeaway here. If there's any lesson to be learned from anal 0.93

00:35:00.600 swabs, anal swabs are an extreme example, but why, you know, do most people reject the idea? Because 0.67

00:35:06.860 they want to preserve their dignity. Even if that form of testing is more accurate, even if it would make

00:35:12.580 us safer, who knows, maybe it would, I don't know. Doesn't matter. Most of us would say because we have

00:35:18.820 our dignity and we would like to preserve it. Thank you. There have to be limits. Okay. There are things

00:35:24.640 that I will not have, that I will not subject myself to things. I will not cooperate with simply because

00:35:30.420 I'm a human being and I have dignity. Dignity is actually a more important consideration than safety.

00:35:37.700 If there's a choice between staying safe and forfeiting your dignity or keeping your dignity

00:35:44.820 and forfeiting your safety, you should go through door number two every time. 0.99

00:35:50.480 So we see that, I think, with extreme and absurd things like anal swabs. I just wish we could see 1.00

00:35:55.520 it with things that are only slightly less extreme and absurd, like wearing a mask while walking outside

00:36:01.200 or wearing two masks or three masks or wearing a mask and a visor when you, when you go to Walmart.

00:36:12.180 Maybe you'll be a little safer if you do that. Maybe the person with the mask and the gloves and the

00:36:16.840 visor is a little safer. Maybe you're, maybe if you wear a mask while you go for a jog, you're a little

00:36:20.260 bit safer. I'm not convinced that's true actually, but, but maybe it is for the sake of argument.

00:36:23.820 Let's say it is. You're a little bit safer. So what? I still won't do it because it's undignified.

00:36:28.540 It's ridiculous. It's humiliating. That's my reason. My reason is actually not, oh, it's, 0.98

00:36:33.680 it's, it's because of the science. It's actually got nothing to do with science. I just think it's

00:36:37.500 humiliating and ridiculous and it looks stupid and it's undignified. That's why I'm not going to do it. 0.99

00:36:43.580 We've been told that that's, that's, that's not a good reason. You need a better reason. No,

00:36:46.700 I think that's the best reason. I think it's the, one of the best reasons you can have for doing or

00:36:51.500 not doing something. Now, if you don't think it's a good reason, dignity isn't a good reason.

00:36:58.680 To not do something. Okay. Well then ask for the anal swab next time you're getting tested. 0.98

00:37:05.080 Next time you're at CVS getting the COVID test, ask if they have the anal swab. It'll make you 0.97

00:37:09.140 safer. Dignity doesn't matter. Does it? I say it does, which is why anal swabs along with so many 1.00

00:37:16.640 other anti-COVID measures are canceled. And incidentally, I have now used the term anal swab 0.62

00:37:22.800 more times in the last five minutes than I had through my whole life to this point. These are 0.94

00:37:27.080 not the sorts of personal milestones that I set out to achieve, but, uh, what can we do? That's where

00:37:33.140 we are. And we'll leave it there for today. Great notes to end on, um, for the week. Have a great

00:37:39.940 weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 29, 2021

Ep. 647 - The Age Of The Snowflake

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