The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 653 - Stop Saying Sorry

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the cancel culture claims three victims last week.

00:00:04.700 Prolific week for the cancel culture. We'll talk about the latest cases and discuss

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00:02:07.580 This past week was one of the cancel culture's busiest and most productive to date. It began

00:02:13.720 with the country superstar Morgan Wallen getting suspended by his record label, pulled from hundreds

00:02:18.420 of radio stations, and disqualified from receiving country music awards after he was caught saying the

00:02:23.000 N-word on tape. And it ended with Donald McNeil Jr., famed science reporter, veteran journalist of 45

00:02:30.960 years, being forced out of his job at the New York Times after a revelation that he had also used

00:02:35.360 similar, quote unquote, racist language. And in between, old accusations of inappropriate behavior

00:02:40.640 by another New York Times staff member, Andy Mills, prompted him to also resign in disgrace. Now,

00:02:47.220 getting into these specific cases, in Mills' case, he had apparently engaged in some inappropriate

00:02:52.480 flirting with women at a previous job several years ago. Now, this was all known. This was known and it

00:02:57.820 was dealt with at the time, apparently. But after it was decided by some people on Twitter and some of

00:03:02.980 his colleagues that Mills had not received his fair portion of the blame for a separate incident in which

00:03:09.140 the Times had to retract key portions of a hit podcast that he had helped produced, these other

00:03:14.480 unrelated allegations were made to, as they say, resurface. As for Morgan Wallen, as we covered on the show on

00:03:20.700 Friday, he did say the N-word, but it was uttered drunkenly in jest to a friend and secretly recorded by a

00:03:28.300 neighbor and then sent immediately to TMZ. Donald McNeil used the same word, though it turns out that

00:03:35.580 he said it one time two years prior while on a trip with students to South America, and he didn't so

00:03:40.600 much as use the slur as refer to it. Now, as he explained in his resignation letter, he, quote,

00:03:47.000 was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a

00:03:51.520 video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video,

00:03:56.500 I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title.

00:04:01.740 In asking the question, I used the slur itself. Now, this incident was investigated internally by

00:04:08.760 McNeil's employer right after it happened, and it was determined that he had no malicious or racist

00:04:13.640 intent. He was just referring to the word. He was talking about it and trying to be understood, and in

00:04:19.780 the process, he used the word, or rather referred to it. But once this was all made public two years after

00:04:25.580 the fact, the Times brass quickly lost their nerve. Now, adding to the pressure from the social media

00:04:31.260 mob were 150 Times staffers who sent a letter to their leadership professing to be outraged and in

00:04:36.880 pain. Outraged and in pain because someone had referred to a racial slur two years ago. They

00:04:43.900 demanded his removal, quickly got what they wanted. Executive editor Dean Beckwett, who initially defended

00:04:50.580 McNeil but collapsed like a folding chair the moment real pressure was applied, wrote a letter to his

00:04:55.280 colleagues on Friday announcing McNeil's departure and stating that the company does, quote, quote,

00:05:00.600 does not tolerate racist language regardless of intent. This is the common thread between both

00:05:07.020 Wallen and McNeil's cancellation. The insane, unjust, wholly indefensible notion that intent

00:05:14.800 doesn't matter in human communication. All that matters to the cancel culture and to the quaking, 0.98

00:05:22.100 gutless jellyfish who cater to it is how a word or action makes somebody feel. Now, in second thought,

00:05:29.980 I should rephrase. It's not that the feeling matters more than the intent. You know, that would assume

00:05:35.840 that those 150 staff members who said they were in pain because of a word that Donald McNeil said two

00:05:41.380 years ago were being sincere. If we say that all that matters is their feelings, then that is to assume

00:05:48.380 that they were actually feeling in pain. It's to assume that they are merely oversensitive, emotionally

00:05:54.660 unstable babies whose psychological fragility has driven them close to madness. But that's not the

00:06:00.680 case. See, one of the hallmarks of the cancel culture, what makes it distinct and also modern,

00:06:05.840 is that the angry pitchfork mob is rarely angry. They ruin lives, they ruin reputations, they ruin careers 0.83

00:06:14.120 as a matter of course, more indifferent to their victims than angry at them. They're motivated by

00:06:20.460 cruelty, callousness, ideological conviction, and they're empowered by the institutions that run our

00:06:27.080 society. That's the other thing about the cancel culture that must be understood. It is inherently 0.52

00:06:31.600 a left-wing phenomenon. You cannot really cancel anyone, that is, ruin their career and turn them

00:06:38.480 into social pariahs. That's what canceling means, right? Unless you control the institutions and the

00:06:43.460 culture itself. As covered last week, the right may complain, and justifiably so, about, for example,

00:06:49.460 Nick Cannon calling white people animals and savages. But the reason he got his job back after a brief 0.77

00:06:55.300 vacation is that the institutions don't really care what conservatives think or how they feel.

00:07:01.160 The institutions do care very much about what leftists think and how they feel or pretend to feel.

00:07:07.580 And this is a fact that the leftist mob is well aware of and uses to its advantage.

00:07:13.460 That's how cancel culture works and what it looks like. It is cruel. It is callous. It is vengeful.

00:07:19.760 It is emotional only in a performative sense, and it is intensely ideological.

00:07:25.820 What cancel culture is not, what it is the opposite of by definition, is forgiving, merciful.

00:07:34.060 And that's precisely why the groveling public apologies from its victims are always so impotent,

00:07:40.860 as they were in the most recent cases. Morgan Wallen sent a statement to TMZ saying that he was

00:07:46.280 embarrassed and sorry and apologizing and promising to, quote, do better. McNeil published his own

00:07:52.480 statement conceding that he originally thought he could defend the use of the word based on context,

00:07:56.840 but now he realizes that context doesn't matter. He now realizes how, quote, deeply offensive and

00:08:02.980 hurtful his language was, and he's sorry to his colleagues and regrets letting them down.

00:08:08.460 But what McNeil should have said, and might as well have said, is the truth. As an adult,

00:08:15.980 a professional, and a human with a rational brain, he knew in the past and still knows that context

00:08:22.040 matters when it comes to language or anything else. In fact, when it comes to language, especially

00:08:26.780 context is the only thing that matters, or it's one of the only thing that matters.

00:08:31.300 You can't possibly know what someone is trying to say, what they're trying to convey, unless you do

00:08:38.260 an honest assessment of the context of that language. He also knows that his colleagues who lined up to

00:08:44.720 stab him in the back and feed him to the wolves after nearly five decades in the business are not

00:08:50.020 deserving of an apology. They are the ones who should apologize to him for their wretched, 0.99

00:08:56.320 callous, evil, manipulative behavior. As for Wallen, the neighbor who filmed him was obviously 0.98

00:09:03.780 not so traumatized as to prevent him from immediately sending the video to TMZ. You know,

00:09:08.720 traumatized people, that's not what they do. They don't send videos to TMZ. And the social media mob,

00:09:15.360 if you read what they've been saying about Wallen, they don't appear to be upset or injured at all.

00:09:21.240 Their attitude is more of a, ha, we got another one, variety. So who was he apologizing to exactly?

00:09:30.000 You'll notice that ever since the advent of the cancel culture, there has never been one apology 0.51

00:09:36.000 accepted. There has never been one example of reconciliation and forgiveness. And that's because

00:09:43.100 the apology doesn't matter. It's all part of the performance. The mob does not listen to it.

00:09:49.880 They don't consider it. They just claim it as a trophy and a scalp to nail to their walls. That's

00:09:56.020 all it is. The apology is coerced under public pressure, delivered to parties who are not injured

00:10:03.080 by the offense, if there even was an offense to begin with, and then gloated over or else snidely

00:10:08.300 disregarded by the people who demanded it. I can't say what will end cancel culture, or if anything

00:10:16.320 ever will. But what I do know is that it certainly will never end and will only get worse as long as

00:10:23.200 its victims keep apologizing. As long as they keep laying down and offering themselves up as carcasses

00:10:29.960 for the vultures to pick apart. Now, I believe in apologizing in the correct context. That is,

00:10:38.240 when you've done or said something to actually hurt another person, and the apology is given sincerely

00:10:44.760 and voluntarily to the injured party. But this ritualistic public apology thing has to stop.

00:10:53.540 Even if you were wrong for whatever you did or said to provoke the mob, still, you should not

00:11:00.640 apologize to them. Not to them. Never to them. You should be as indifferent to the mob's fraudulent

00:11:08.820 displays of offendedness as they are to your whole life and reputation and career and existence.

00:11:14.780 They don't care about you at all. They'd be fine seeing you destroyed. They don't care if you go 0.84

00:11:22.520 off and kill yourself. They really don't. And you care about their feelings? Why? 0.99

00:11:30.960 The only way this ends, if it ever does, is if the targets of the cancel mob stand up for themselves

00:11:37.960 and display the righteous indignation they certainly feel and have every right to feel.

00:11:42.900 And if they absolutely refuse to submit and kiss the feet of people who are the real villains here.

00:11:51.480 The cancel culture mob, they're the real villains.

00:11:55.860 In the movie The Crucible, after John Proctor refuses to sign a false confession admitting to

00:12:02.500 witchcraft, thereby signing his own death warrant, right before he's taken off to be hanged,

00:12:08.660 he kisses his wife and he says to her, give them no tears, show them a stony heart and sink them with

00:12:14.340 it. Those are his last words to his wife. Pretty great last words. And this is the advice that I

00:12:20.920 give anyone targeted by the mob. Show them no tears. Don't pretend to care about the emotional

00:12:26.900 well-being of sociopaths who want to ruin your life just for fun. Many people in your life may deserve

00:12:35.000 apologies from you for many things that you've done. God knows, I know that's the case for me.

00:12:40.580 But not these people. Never them. So stop apologizing. And this may not stop. This may not

00:12:50.440 stop your life from being ruined. If your time comes up on that stage that nobody wants to be on,

00:12:56.560 where you're getting torn apart, yeah, I mean, your career, your reputation, it might all be done.

00:13:01.760 And there might not be anything you could do about that. So at least keep your dignity

00:13:07.500 and respond the right way. And if enough people do that, then eventually, maybe, this ends.

00:13:20.800 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:31.920 podcasts. Okay, the Super Bowl happened on Sunday, in case you didn't hear. Patrick Mahomes loses in a

00:14:39.620 blowout. I mean, it really might be time for the Chiefs to consider moving on from him. I don't know.

00:14:44.520 I think that they tried it. It's not working. Probably offer him up for a trade. Might be able

00:14:48.640 to get a third and fourth rounder for him or something like that. We'll see. Meanwhile, Tom

00:14:52.700 Brady wins his seventh Super Bowl, which I think definitely cements his status as the second best

00:14:59.220 quarterback of all time behind Colin Kaepernick. So he's right there behind him at this point.

00:15:05.480 But, you know, here's the main thing, though. As I was watching the game and I was, you know,

00:15:10.980 looking at some of the reaction on social media, because the game itself was not very

00:15:14.220 interesting. So, you know, you look for other things to be interested by. The commercials

00:15:20.180 also weren't great. We'll have more on that a little bit later in the headlines. But looking

00:15:25.260 at some of the reaction and everything, and there's a lot of discussion about the game,

00:15:30.680 everything associated with it. But for me, the thing that stands out and that I'm troubled

00:15:34.380 by, frankly, is that a lot of very upset Chiefs fans are complaining about the officiating,

00:15:41.980 right? They're saying that the Bucs were getting too many pass interference calls going their way

00:15:45.720 and so on. And you hear this complaint anytime Tom Brady's involved in a game. There's always the

00:15:49.840 claim that the refs are on his side and everything. Well, I couldn't help but notice that this was 0.56

00:15:55.420 also the first Super Bowl to have a female ref. So the sexism of Chiefs fans is just unbelievable

00:16:05.120 here. To complain about the job that the refs are doing only because a woman is doing it? 1.00

00:16:14.720 I mean, you're telling me this is a coincidence? First time a woman is officiating and now all of a 0.99

00:16:20.220 sudden people are complaining about the refs? Never heard those complaints before.

00:16:23.000 Strikes me as sexist. The sexism in Kansas City is

00:16:27.920 really upsetting to me on a deeply personal level. All right, moving on. Number two,

00:16:35.580 this is from KSL News. It says, investigators are struggling to build a federal murder case

00:16:40.820 regarding fallen U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, vexed by a lack of evidence that could

00:16:46.580 prove someone caused his death as he defended the Capitol during last month's insurrection.

00:16:53.000 Authorities have reviewed video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the

00:16:57.860 siege, but have yet to identify a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries. This,

00:17:02.480 according to law enforcement officials familiar with the matter. Soon after Sicknick died on January

00:17:06.200 7th, prosecutors in Washington opened a federal murder investigation dedicating a team inside the

00:17:10.020 U.S. Attorney's Office to build out a case. To date, little information has been shared publicly

00:17:14.340 about the circumstances of the death of the 13-year veteran of the force, including any findings from

00:17:19.440 an autopsy that was conducted by the D.C.'s medical examiner. And it goes on a little bit later. It

00:17:25.940 says, according to one, this is very interesting, according to one law enforcement official, medical

00:17:30.600 examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma. So investigators

00:17:36.920 believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher are not true.

00:17:41.080 Uh, one possibility being considered by investigators is Sicknick became ill after interacting with a

00:17:46.060 chemical irritant like pepper spray or bear spray that was deployed in the crowd. But investigators

00:17:52.060 reviewing video of the officer's time around the Capitol haven't been able to confirm that in the

00:17:55.500 tape. Um, or at least they haven't been able to do that so far. So this is a, this is a case that

00:18:01.460 it's, it's, it's odd how little we've, we've heard at least when you, when you consider the assumption or

00:18:11.780 the reports early on, as mentioned here, that officer Sicknick was, you know, in fact, you, you still see

00:18:18.100 the way it's portrayed on social media, the way the media talks about it, you know, the phrase that

00:18:22.940 we've seen is, uh, is Brian Sicknick was, was beat to death by the rioters or something like that.

00:18:28.980 And you hear about that. And it's of course, awful. Either way, it's a terrible tragedy because a

00:18:34.280 police officer lost his life. But if he was beat to death by a crowd in DC, you, you would think

00:18:42.200 there'd be video of it. I mean, hundreds of video cameras all around people in the crowd filming

00:18:47.300 security cameras. I mean, there's just cameras everywhere. And it sounds like there's plenty of

00:18:52.300 tape for the investigators to look at involving Sicknick. And they've been looking at it and they

00:18:56.200 haven't, and they haven't been able to find this particular incident. Um, so it's just, it's

00:19:02.120 strange how little we've heard. And then you consider it, what makes it harder, at least for us

00:19:10.620 in the public to sort of sort through is of course, we, we know how the media, we know what conclusion

00:19:16.600 the media wants. After all the media, what they've done is they've actually tied three officer deaths

00:19:23.440 to the riot. There's officer Sicknick and then two others that they've tied to the rioting.

00:19:30.280 Even though there's two other cases, those were officers who committed suicide in the days and

00:19:34.340 weeks after the riot. Now to turn that into a riot death is just so cynical and misleading that it's

00:19:43.760 almost unbelievable. It's almost, it almost is shocking that you would have people doing that

00:19:49.240 with no basis. I mean, what, what even is the insinuation there? You're, you're assuming that

00:19:54.340 they committed suicide because they were so upset by what happened at the riot. I mean, that's,

00:19:58.240 that is quite an assumption to make without having any information. There are unfortunately lots of

00:20:04.700 reasons why people do this. Um, and without knowing anything about these, uh, these officers to just

00:20:11.100 assume that it was connected somehow to the riot is, as I said, cynical and totally dishonest and

00:20:16.380 disgusting, but this is what the media is doing. You know, they want to get the riot body count up

00:20:22.200 and they want to be able to say that it was a deadly riot, which is what they are reporting.

00:20:27.540 Now we know first of all, that, that no matter what, it was a deadly riot, because we do know for

00:20:31.820 sure, at least one person, we have video evidence that at least one person was directly killed by

00:20:38.600 violence in the riot, but that was Ashley Babbitt who was a rioter herself and she was shot and

00:20:45.800 killed. She was an unarmed woman who was shot and killed by a police officer. But I think when the

00:20:50.880 media calls it a deadly riot, they don't want that to be the only fatality they can directly connect

00:20:56.940 to the rioting. And there were three other people who were at the protest to, um, who, and I say

00:21:03.300 protest because there's, you know, not everybody there was engaged in a riot. Okay. Despite again,

00:21:08.680 how it's portrayed by the media, there were three other individuals who were at least part of the

00:21:13.080 protest who died. And I believe we know in two of those cases, those were medical emergencies

00:21:17.700 after the fact, someone had a stroke. There was someone with a heart condition. The third case,

00:21:22.460 I'm not sure, but that's sort of the point that there's just, it's just, we're hearing five people

00:21:26.060 died in the riot, but we're just not being told very much information about any of these cases,

00:21:31.220 except for Ashley Babbitt, who's just sort of being ignored completely. And it does matter.

00:21:37.940 Now I talked about this on Twitter yesterday, and there were some people getting upset for some

00:21:41.760 reason and saying, well, how dare you ask these questions about officer Sicknick? Well, what do

00:21:45.520 you mean? Of course it matters. Either way, it's a terrible tragedy. Nobody denies that. I least of

00:21:51.100 all deny that. Now, in fact, people on the left who are mourning Sicknick, in fact, I actually don't

00:21:57.960 believe that they see it as a terrible tragedy because he is the only dead police officer that these

00:22:02.620 people have ever mourned. They have never shown any concern ever for any other police officer except him.

00:22:07.500 So I do actually doubt the sincerity of their feelings. But as for me, I am supportive of the

00:22:13.840 police, always have been. So I, of course, it's a terrible tragedy. But why he died and how he died,

00:22:21.000 I would say that matters very much. It would matter to me if I was the family. It matters legally. It

00:22:26.340 matters in every sense. And yet the way the media reports it is, well, he died, rioters killed him.

00:22:32.400 Don't ask any questions. Okay, number three, let's see here. Ibram X. Kendi, anti-racist expert,

00:22:41.840 got himself into some hot water with the woke crowd. That's his crowd because of some comments

00:22:47.360 he made about gender recently. This was during some sort of Zoom meeting or seminar that he was

00:22:55.320 involved in. Now, you all know, I've talked about before, the victim hierarchy and how that works on

00:23:00.400 the left and Ibram X. Kendi, you know, his position on that hierarchy, that gives him the freedom to say

00:23:07.060 a lot of things, but it does not give him the freedom to speak freely about gender, the way the

00:23:11.940 hierarchy works. So he's not at the top of the hierarchy. And that's how he got in trouble for

00:23:16.560 saying this. You know, obviously talking about race, even talking about gender, you know, I think it was

00:23:23.080 last week, my daughter came home and said she wanted to be a boy, you know, which was horrifying

00:23:29.820 for my wife to hear, myself to hear. And so, of course, you know, we're like, okay, what affirmative

00:23:38.860 messages about girlhood, you know, can we be teaching her to protect her from whatever she's hearing in

00:23:46.100 our home or even outside of our home that would make her want to be a boy? And I suspect it's the

00:23:52.100 same thing with, you know, kids of color in which they're regularly hearing these messages that may

00:23:57.000 may want them to want to be white or even white children who are like, I'm happy I'm white. 0.80

00:24:02.520 Right. You know, what affirmative messages are we teaching them to break down those ideas?

00:24:08.760 Now, the thing is almost everything he said there was correct, except for the last part at the end.

00:24:13.860 I didn't quite understand what he meant at the end. It sounded like he was saying

00:24:18.100 that it's a problem for a white child who's happy to be white. Taking that aside, everything else he 0.82

00:24:27.080 said, you know, if your daughter comes home and says she wants to be a boy, yeah, that is horrifying.

00:24:35.260 That is horrifying because number one, this is your child saying that she doesn't want to be who she

00:24:42.840 is. She's not happy with who she is at such a fundamental level. As a parent, of course,

00:24:47.840 that's a problem. And that's what he's touching on here. It's a very good point. It's a point that

00:24:52.560 I've made, many of us have made many, many times that if your child, you know, we hear so much about,

00:24:58.480 well, we have to help kids accept themselves for who they are and be themselves and all these things.

00:25:03.260 And yeah, you're right. But if a boy is saying that he's a girl, telling him that, yeah, you're a

00:25:11.540 girl, that is not helping him accept himself. That is helping him reject himself. So the problem that

00:25:20.600 he has is that he's not happy with who he is, or he doesn't fully understand who he is, especially if

00:25:27.020 we're talking about a kid who's like four years old saying, a boy saying, I'm a girl. This is a

00:25:31.320 child who just doesn't understand. There's nobody's talking about. Doesn't really know anything about

00:25:35.760 the world and very little about himself and his own identity. So he's confused. As you get older,

00:25:42.840 the child comes home from public schools and middle school or high school and is saying this,

00:25:46.240 well, this is someone who's, this is a child who's dealing with something, dealing with despair,

00:25:51.340 dealing with confusion, dealing with, you know, self-loathing, all of these things.

00:25:58.640 And if you really love them and care about them as a parent, then what you're going to do is help

00:26:03.700 them to accept who they are. Your daughter comes home and says, I wish I was a boy. What's the correct

00:26:09.980 message from a loving parent? The correct message is, no, you're a girl. That's a beautiful thing.

00:26:16.060 That's a wonderful thing. It's wonderful to be a girl. That's the message.

00:26:21.340 But of course, not allowed to say that. Even Ibram X. Kendi isn't allowed to say that.

00:26:30.120 And he has participated in making this woke brainwashed culture where those kinds of

00:26:37.700 very common sense and important insights are not allowed to be uttered.

00:26:45.280 Number four, Biden, President Biden on Friday was talking about the need for another stimulus

00:26:50.180 and I still think somehow that these people are missing the point. Here's what he had to say.

00:26:57.300 There's only 6,000 private sector jobs have been created. And at that rate, it's going to take

00:27:04.140 10 years before we get to full employment. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact. We're going to be in a

00:27:11.080 situation where it's going to take a long, long time. And I appreciate you all coming over because

00:27:18.400 and the urgency with which you're moving. This is about people's lives. This is not just about

00:27:23.320 numbers. This is about people's lives. People are, I don't tell any of you, they're really hurting.

00:27:28.360 People are being evicted. Just look at all the number of people who are needing and seeking mental

00:27:34.800 health services now. Suicide's up. People are very, really, really drug abuse, violence against

00:27:41.640 women. People are really feeling the hold. They don't know how to get out. You've given them a lot 0.99

00:27:45.960 of hope, a lot of hope. And with the, as they say in Southern Delaware, the grace of God, the good

00:27:51.500 will of neighbors are quick, not rising. We can really begin to do something consequentially.

00:27:55.660 Yeah. This, the way that the people who lead this country don't understand anything about human

00:28:02.820 beings and human nature, that, that is, it's troubling to say the least. I mean, he's, he's

00:28:08.920 right that suicides, drug abuse, all these things are on the rise. Obviously they're tied to the

00:28:16.620 lockdown. The fact that people have been isolated, the fact that people have had their careers and

00:28:22.120 businesses destroyed or kids that I just, just, we just ripped them away from their education,

00:28:27.420 from their friends, from their lives, from, from sports. You know, there's so many elements,

00:28:32.580 especially to what we're doing to kids that it's, it's hard to focus, to give all, to give each

00:28:36.740 specific element the focus it deserves. But even just that, I mean, I, I, I, I've been talking about

00:28:41.180 this for a long time with what we're doing to kids with the lockdowns. And I realized that I hadn't

00:28:45.860 thought much about this particular element of it, even just the sport part of it.

00:28:51.000 I mean, you take a kid who's, uh, maybe a junior in high school when all this started,

00:28:57.040 been working at a particular sport, maybe hoping for a scholarship. They've been, you know, working

00:29:01.740 for a, for a long time, 10 years of starting in little league or whatever it is and rec league

00:29:06.720 and then going in high school. And then we just, we just take that away from them. Well, what happens

00:29:12.720 now? Can they still get the sports scholarship? Can they go back and maybe the last one or two years

00:29:17.880 playing the sports, take it away? So that's one, one thing along with everything else we've taken

00:29:23.720 from kids and from people generally. Yeah, that's a, that's a huge problem, but you're not going to

00:29:30.240 solve that problem by simply continuing to give people money. I'm in favor of, of giving financial

00:29:41.100 help, the government giving financial help to the people that it has financially ruined because they

00:29:45.920 owe that help. I'm in favor of that, but that's not the solution. Especially if you're something

00:29:51.500 like despair, loneliness, a $2,000 check is going to do absolutely nothing for that. Not one thing.

00:30:02.400 The way to solve that problem is to open up the country again and let people get back to their

00:30:06.160 lives. That's the way you solve that problem. Although you can never totally undo the damage

00:30:10.980 that's been done. Number five. Okay. Back to the Superbowl. A couple of the things I wanted to

00:30:15.860 mention. Um, first of all, the, uh, there was a big deal being made about, um, a show debuted on CBS

00:30:24.680 after the game, a reboot of the equalizer. And that was originally a show, I think from the eighties

00:30:31.300 about a retired kind of ass kicking guy who uses his special skills to, you know, bring bad guys to

00:30:37.100 justice equalize to equalize things. And then there was the film with Denzel Washington. And that film

00:30:44.240 had the, a real gritty kind of violent vibe to it with Denzel as the no nonsense, take no prisoners

00:30:50.360 hero. Um, and now the TV reboot and the person in that role, which debuted yesterday after the show.

00:30:57.280 And I watched, I think I watched maybe, um, 75 seconds of it before I turned it off. But the, in the

00:31:03.260 reboot, the person in that role that was most recently filled by Denzel Washington is, uh, Queen

00:31:08.760 Latifah. And I know we're not supposed to say this, even though we all think it, but I cannot take a 50 0.91

00:31:17.780 year old woman seriously in the role of a gritty, violent, ass kicking action hero. I can't, I just 0.99

00:31:25.580 can't. Um, I'm, I'm sorry. We've got the woke PC stuff and girl power stuff. It's like, there's a limit 0.96

00:31:32.600 with it. And I think we've now reached that limit when Queen Latifah is stepping in for, for a, you 0.93

00:31:38.560 know, a role most recently filled by Denzel Washington. Um, in the preview, the first scene

00:31:43.360 of the preview, she walks into a room with a bunch of gun toting bad guys and beats them all up with 1.00

00:31:48.760 her bare hands. This 50 year old woman. I mean, you know, I understand it's, it's fiction. Okay. I get 0.71

00:31:54.940 that. But the problem with putting women in all these roles is that when you do that, all semblance of 1.00

00:32:01.180 reality must be removed from the story. And yeah, it's a, it's fiction, but you want it to be,

00:32:07.380 especially if you're going for gritty action kind of thing, drama and all that, you want it to be

00:32:12.820 related to reality in some way. You want it to exist in a universe that's recognizable to the viewer.

00:32:21.120 Otherwise it's hard to really get invested in the story. And so in order to turn all of these things

00:32:26.300 into girl power type shows and movies, you have to make them glossy and cartoonish.

00:32:34.300 There's another scene in the preview where, um, uh, Queen Latifah standing up on a roof

00:32:39.340 where we know in shows that that's where all the important meetings happen for some reason

00:32:43.620 is on a roof. I've never had a, I've never had a meeting with anybody on a roof ever, but, uh,

00:32:48.280 I'm not sure I've ever even been on a roof really, but she's on a roof and another guy comes up

00:32:52.940 and, uh, and she says to the other guy, well, what are you doing up here? Why'd they send you?

00:32:59.060 And he, and he says to Queen Latifah, well, you would just kill anybody else who came up here. 0.98

00:33:04.040 And you're looking at it. It's like Queen Latifah. It's, it's hard to take that seriously.

00:33:07.300 We're supposed to be intimidated. It's supposed to be intimidating sort of figure. You could buy

00:33:11.680 that for Denzel Washington, tough, no nonsense guy. All right. That's the first part. The other thing,

00:33:17.800 um, that was after the show, before the show, Amanda Gorman, who's the slam poet,

00:33:25.060 who we were told was a sensation because she performed at the inauguration. And now apparently

00:33:31.200 we're doing slam poetry before Superbowls too. And so she performed before the Superbowl. And

00:33:35.480 here's a little bit of that. Today, we honor our three captains for their actions and impact in a

00:33:42.900 time of uncertainty and need. They've taken the lead, exceeding all expectations and limitations,

00:33:50.640 uplifting their communities and neighbors as leaders, healers, and educators. James has felt

00:33:57.860 the wounds of warfare, but this warrior still shares his home with at-risk kids. During COVID,

00:34:05.260 he's even lent a hand live streaming football for family and fans. Tremaine is an educator who works

00:34:13.100 nonstop, providing his community with hotspots, laptops, and tech workshops. So his students have

00:34:20.080 all the tools they need to succeed in life and in school. I mean, isn't that, so that's talking.

00:34:28.440 She's talking. Good job with the talking. It's not bad talking, you know, as far as talking goes,

00:34:37.080 pretty good. I give it a solid B plus in the talking department, but that's, you're talking

00:34:44.060 with emotional, with an emotional background music. That's it. That's just not poetry at all.

00:34:52.640 There's, there's, there's, in no way is that poetry. I don't know. I just, so I, I continue,

00:35:00.160 I continue to be flummoxed by, by, uh, by this. Cause yeah, like I said, pretty good talking,

00:35:06.900 but I'm supposed to be, I'm supposed to be impressed. I don't, what am I supposed to be

00:35:10.880 impressed by? Maybe someone can explain it to me. I don't quite see it. I also not sure what I'm

00:35:15.960 supposed to be impressed by here. The, um, this is making a lot of waves. Bruce Springsteen

00:35:20.600 was, uh, involved in a Jeep ad. And, uh, this is supposed to be, we all, we all love the inspiring

00:35:27.640 commercials. A lot, a lot of inspiring statements made by the corporations. Corporations always make

00:35:32.580 inspiring statements. They made a lot of inspiring statements during the Superbowl. For example,

00:35:36.340 before we get to the Jeep ad, um, Anheuser-Busch, the, uh, the makers of Budweiser beer, they made a

00:35:42.420 big deal before the Superbowl that they were not going to play any, they were not buying any time for

00:35:47.220 Budweiser ads during the Superbowl because they wanted to make a statement about the severity of,

00:35:52.400 uh, COVID-19. They were going to dedicate all that money to raising awareness about the vaccine.

00:35:57.220 Um, and so they weren't going to play any Budweiser ads and it was a great, great thing,

00:36:01.500 but they still had Bud Light ads. And they also ran an ad for Anheuser-Busch.

00:36:08.100 And in the ad, it featured people drinking Anheuser-Busch products. So that might be the

00:36:14.320 emptiest and most pointless example of corporate virtue signaling I think we've ever seen, which is

00:36:20.080 saying quite a lot. Make a big deal about not running ads for this one product, but then the

00:36:26.020 company that makes the product still ran an ad for itself and for its other products. So very

00:36:31.420 inspiring. Um, this too from Jeep and, uh, Bruce Springsteen. I don't know. You tell me if you're

00:36:35.900 inspired by it. Let's watch. There's a chapel in Kansas standing on the exact center of the lower 48.

00:36:52.600 It never closes. All are more than welcome to come meet here in the middle. It's no secret.

00:37:04.600 The middle has been a hard place to get to lately between red and blue, between servant and citizen,

00:37:12.600 between our freedom and our fear. Now fear has never been the best of who we are. And as for freedom,

00:37:23.160 it's not the property of just the fortunate few. It belongs to us all. Whoever you are,

00:37:32.100 wherever you're from, it's what connects us. And we need that connection.

00:37:38.100 Okay. There you go. Yes. It's what connects us. Uh, we, we all have to come together by buying a

00:37:45.300 Jeep. See, that's the thing. Even if I were to be, even, even, even, even, even if I were tempted to

00:37:50.140 be inspired, it always comes back to the fact that, yeah, well, they're trying to sell a Jeep though.

00:37:55.000 That's, that's really what this is about. They're just trying to sell a car, a vehicle. Um,

00:38:00.480 and so it kind of, it kind of detracts from the inspiring message, but also this is, this is,

00:38:07.220 of course, nonsense coming from Bruce Springsteen from a corporation when they say, Oh, let's meet

00:38:13.520 in the middle. Let's unite. Let's, let's come together. What they mean is where we're meeting

00:38:18.980 is not really in the middle. It's on the left. That is always what it means. What they are inviting

00:38:26.260 you as someone who is wrong and backwards and stupid, they are inviting you to give up all of 1.00

00:38:32.120 your wrongness and your backwardness and your stupidity and to come join them, um, in all of 1.00

00:38:36.980 their rightness and the, in the glory and light of their rightness. That, that, that's what that 1.00

00:38:40.500 means. But then the thing is, even that is not really sincere because we've, we found that, that

00:38:45.860 even if you were to do that and abandon all, all of it and try to come join them, they're not really

00:38:50.860 going to let you be part of the club or at least before they'll let you, you have to, you have to,

00:38:56.060 you know, uh, express your, your, there, there are, there's atonement that needs to be done

00:39:02.780 for all of the horrible things you have done in the past. And by horrible things you've done in

00:39:06.460 the past, we mean just the fact that you have disagreed with them for so long.

00:39:12.420 So that's the real message. We're not meeting in the middle. We're meeting on the left.

00:39:17.620 You're invited to come over to the left. Maybe if first you atone for all of your sins and even then

00:39:24.720 you still might not actually be allowed. Not as inspiring when you put it like that.

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00:42:32.400 Okay. Today for our daily cancellation, um, come on down, Jamie LH Goodall. You're next up for

00:42:42.500 cancellation. Jamie Goodall is a staff historian at the U S army center of military history. But what

00:42:47.880 brings the cancel hammer down on her today is a piece she wrote for the Washington post a couple

00:42:52.300 of days ago in the lead up to the super bowl. The headline was the Buccaneers embody Tampa's love

00:42:59.080 of pirates. Is that a problem? And then the subheading, how brutal outlaws became romanticized.

00:43:06.460 Yes. Good, uh, Goodall is, is concerned that we're romanticizing and normalizing pirates.

00:43:11.720 She is after all an expert on this subject as she has a giant tattoo of a sexy pirate on her arm.

00:43:17.020 And no, I'm not making that up. She really wrote about the problem of romanticizing pirates

00:43:21.280 with a romanticized image of a pirate imprinted permanently on her body. But I'm not going to focus

00:43:27.400 on that aspect of the issue too much. After all, we can't expect her to have a consistent view on

00:43:32.500 the crucial issue of pirate romanticization. I mean, it's something we've all wrestled with

00:43:37.400 and found ourselves on different sides of, I think. Um, I myself went through a heavy

00:43:42.480 pro romanticization phase. I used to walk around with an eye patch and everything. I told everyone

00:43:48.200 to call me captain Brownbeard, even spent a few years swashbuckling, buckling on the high seas,

00:43:53.440 just a normal teenage phase. And I have grown out of it, uh, as so many kids do,

00:43:58.780 but I still prefer to be called captain Brownbeard if you don't mind for the record.

00:44:02.200 But in any case, uh, Goodall writes of Tampa's pirate mascot. She says,

00:44:07.540 while this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in the local culture,

00:44:12.860 there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade

00:44:18.300 when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes between the Americas,

00:44:21.840 Africa and Great Britain. Why? Because it takes these murderous thieves who did terrible things

00:44:26.660 like locking women and children in a burning church and makes them a symbol of freedom and

00:44:30.720 adventure, erasing their wicked deeds from historical memory. These were men and women

00:44:35.220 who willingly participated in murder, torture, and the brutal enslavement of Africans and indigenous

00:44:40.240 peoples. Goodall then finishes with this thought. She says, perhaps time has dulled us to the

00:44:47.760 atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws, which side note, I mean, yeah,

00:44:53.360 it has, it's actually really normal and healthy for the emotional impact of atrocities to be dulled

00:44:58.680 after 400 years. I mean, you really shouldn't be actively upset about anything that happened

00:45:05.300 four centuries ago, which isn't to say that you should approve of everything that happened four

00:45:10.140 centuries ago. It just means that 400 years is a very long time and it's not where we should focus

00:45:14.940 our emotional energy. Anyway, she continues. Um, or perhaps it's the fact that if pirates of the

00:45:21.620 golden age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them. They willingly and

00:45:25.880 purposefully massacred millions of African and indigenous peoples in the name of colonization.

00:45:30.340 Pirates then are seen as romantic heroes, the underdogs fighting the establishment,

00:45:34.540 whom historian Marcus Redeker refers to as proto-democratic, egalitarian, and multicultural.

00:45:40.820 Should we celebrate their complicated legacy? It's a question Tampa Bay has to contend with as we

00:45:46.340 collectively contemplate other major sports mascots with dubious legacies like their Super Bowl rivals

00:45:51.800 in Kansas City. Okay. Um, no, Tampa does not have to contend with that. They really don't. There are a lot

00:46:00.280 of things that Tampa does have to contend with, like alligators and mosquitoes, but the legacy of

00:46:06.420 piracy. No, not really. See, there's a term we're starting to hear more and more often on the left,

00:46:13.140 especially among academics. And the term is problematize. Okay. And what this means literally

00:46:20.400 is to make something into a problem, to take, to take something that is not a problem, or they would

00:46:26.420 say is a problem, but isn't seen as a problem and get people to see it that way. The left believes that

00:46:33.040 it must do a lot of problematizing because we're all too stupid to see when something's a problem. 1.00

00:46:37.960 We're so dumb and so clueless that we go about our daily lives completely oblivious to the great 1.00

00:46:43.100 threat posed by 17th century pirates. And that's why we need them to explain to us that this is a 0.99

00:46:50.920 problem in our lives, even if all evidence points to the contrary. But in truth, of course,

00:46:56.420 there is no problem. Not until they create one. You know, most people don't think much at all about

00:47:03.280 pirates, I assume. But if they do think about pirates, they're quite aware that pirates were

00:47:09.280 humans, not actual cartoons. They're aware that pirates were criminals and killers and thieves and

00:47:13.880 so on. People know this. People might also be fascinated by the idea of adventure on the high seas.

00:47:19.820 People can be fascinated by that while also intellectually recognizing the moral shortcomings

00:47:27.120 of pirates. These are thoughts that the average person can hold in their head at the same time.

00:47:32.580 It's not a problem. And if the average person enjoys reading stories about pirates,

00:47:37.560 it's because they're interested in that period of history and yes, the people in it. So what?

00:47:44.060 See, that's really the point here. And it's one of the big problems, real problems. I mean,

00:47:48.220 not manufactured, problematized problems with this never-ending effort to remove all popular

00:47:53.400 reference to historical characters and historical periods. The problem is that if anyone is actually

00:47:58.580 influenced by a reference to a pirate or let's say a Viking, because we'll get around to the Vikings,

00:48:04.060 of course, they were unsavory characters too sometimes, or a cowboy or a civil war general for

00:48:09.500 that matter. If people are influenced by these references, they aren't going to be influenced to

00:48:14.820 imitate whatever bad things those people may have done. If they're influenced, they'll be

00:48:20.060 influenced to discover more about these people and the era in which they lived and to learn more

00:48:24.860 about them and therefore develop a fuller understanding of history and their own place

00:48:28.260 in it. If there's any influence, that is what the influence will be. The mascots, the monuments,

00:48:33.800 the school names, all of these references to history, cartoonish or otherwise, for most people,

00:48:38.320 you know, these things have no impact or resonance at all. Most people pass by the monument every day

00:48:44.060 without noticing it. They see the mascot. They don't think about it. They attend a school named

00:48:48.220 after a historical figure and never wonder who that guy was. But for the 5% who do stop and look at the

00:48:54.800 statue or consider the mascot or wonder about the dead guy whose name is on the building, they're going

00:48:59.660 to be influenced to read, to research, to learn. That's a good thing. That should be encouraged.

00:49:05.060 You see, that's the opposite of a problem. The problem is the absence of that, the lack of

00:49:11.800 learning, the disinterest in history. And the people who want to get rid of the mascots and

00:49:17.880 statues and building names and so on, what they really want is a population that lives as though 0.97

00:49:21.720 human history started five years ago. They're trying to breed ignorance and disinterest, which

00:49:27.700 might seem like an odd claim to make about, you know, the writer of this article, as she's a historian

00:49:31.880 who apparently specializes in pirates. But it seems that that wokeness has deluded her to the 0.57

00:49:37.080 point that she deluded her so much to this point that she wants to reduce public exposure to the 0.96

00:49:43.100 very subject she spent her life studying. An even better example would be the San Francisco School

00:49:50.500 Board, which recently voted to change the names of over 40 different schools, effectively canceling

00:49:55.780 dozens of historical figures all at once, including Abraham Lincoln. Well, the New Yorker has an

00:50:00.400 interview with the head of the San Fran Board of Education, Gabriela Lopez. And it's clear through

00:50:06.080 the course of the interview that this woman, Gabriela Lopez, simply has no clue about the people

00:50:13.660 that she wants taken off the school. She doesn't really know anything about them or about American

00:50:17.640 history in general. And she wants to make sure that the kids in her schools are as ignorant as she 1.00

00:50:22.680 is. So here's a sample question and answer from the interview. Question. I think a lot of the 0.98

00:50:28.680 commentary about the school names is focused specifically on Lincoln. It seems to be the

00:50:33.060 thing that a lot of people are the most upset about. Do you have any thoughts about Lincoln and how we

00:50:37.660 should view him? Here's the answer from the head of the Department of Education. She says, I think that

00:50:46.280 the killing of indigenous peoples and that record is something that is not acknowledged. It's something

00:50:51.120 that people are now learning about and due to this process. And so we just have to do the work of that

00:50:56.220 extra learning when we're having these discussions. And later she continues, I think Lincoln gets more

00:51:01.160 praise than the, how can I say this? Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that, well, Lincoln is not

00:51:08.060 someone that I typically tend to admire or see as a hero because of these specific instances where he

00:51:11.980 has contributed to the pain of the decimation of people. That's not something that I want to ignore.

00:51:16.200 It's something that I'm learning about and that I know is not spoken enough about.

00:51:19.620 Now, weeding through that, that just jumble of buzzwords and nonsense, the translation here is 0.99

00:51:29.020 this moron doesn't know a damn thing about Abraham Lincoln. And she's typical of the people waging 1.00

00:51:35.640 this battle against American history. They are utterly ignorant of the thing they want to erase. 0.97

00:51:40.200 And ignorance is the goal. Disinterest, apathy, anything that makes history intriguing, 0.98

00:51:49.700 any figure who committed the sin of being interesting or important, all of that must be forgotten.

00:51:56.160 Just erase American history completely. Of course, for schools and for historians,

00:52:03.000 their goal should be the opposite of that. But again, they've been so deluded by wokeness that they're now

00:52:08.800 doing the opposite of what they should be doing. And for that, the history cancelers are themselves

00:52:14.660 canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 08, 2021

Ep. 653 - Stop Saying Sorry

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