Ep. 671 - How To Cure Our Racist Babies
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The Arizona Department of Education is concerned that our babies might be racist. So what can we do about our racist babies? We ll talk about that today on The Matt Walsh Show. Also, five headlines including the creepiest COVID PSA you ll ever see, plus Joe Biden lashing out at people who are fed up with masks and lockdowns. And Andrew Cuomo addresses the sexual harassment scandal while mostly ignoring the real scandal. And in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the host of The Bachelor, who continues to debase himself in increasingly embarrassing ways in the hopes of earning forgiveness from the cancel mob.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Arizona Department of Education is concerned that our
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babies might be racist. So what can we do about our racist babies? We'll talk about that today.
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Also, five headlines, including the creepiest COVID PSA you'll ever see, plus Joe Biden lashing
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out at people who are fed up with masks and lockdowns. And Andrew Cuomo addresses the
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sexual harassment scandal while mostly ignoring the real scandal. And in our daily cancellation,
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we'll discuss the host of The Bachelor, who continues to debase himself in increasingly
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embarrassing ways in the hopes of earning forgiveness from the cancel mob. But that
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never works. We'll talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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For the latest now in racialized brainwashing, we turn to Arizona, where the Arizona Department
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of Education has developed an equity toolkit, which contains lots of surprising information,
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but nothing more surprising than this. According to the Arizona Department of Ed, babies are racist.
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Journalist Chris Ruffo has the material, which begins with a chart detailing the course of a
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young child's life from birth to about six years old. And at the top, it tells us that, quote,
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they're not too young to talk about race. Continuing, it says, young children notice and think about race.
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Adults often worry that talking about race will encourage racial bias in children, but the opposite is
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true. Silence about race reinforces racism by letting children draw their own conclusions based on what
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they see. Now, wait, let's stop right there for a moment, because so you're saying we're not supposed
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to let children draw their own conclusions. Really? But aren't these the same people who tell us that
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we have to respect the child's self-determined gender identity at the age of three? So we should
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let a three-year-old, a three-year-old boy, we should let him draw his own conclusions about whether or not
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he's actually a boy, but he can't draw his own conclusions about race. Okay, got it. All right.
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Back to the fact sheet. It says, well, not a fact sheet, but it is a sheet anyway. And it goes on.
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It says, teachers and families can play a powerful role in helping children of all ages develop
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positive attitudes about race and diversity and skills to promote a more just future, but only if
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we talk about it first. And from there, we follow the child over the course of his young racist life.
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First, we're told, quote, at birth, babies look equally at faces of all races. At three months,
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babies look more at faces that match the race of their caregivers. My God, those shameless bigots.
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See, I always suspected this, you know, when my youngest was a newborn and she would cry for mommy
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and I would always say to her, you only want mommy because she's white. I know your game. I'm on to
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you. See, it's very important to call out the Nazi babies when you see them, even if it's your own
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child. And I know it's, it can be a difficult thing. It can be a difficult thing to look at
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your three month, three month old and realize that she is a Nazi, but this is something that
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you have to do as a parent. Anyway, then it says children as young as two years old, um, use race
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to reason about people's behaviors. Then by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates.
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Side note, my primary problem here is that they said 30 months. Like I can't stand it when people
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identify their kids ages by months because it forces me to do math, which I don't want to have
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to do. So when someone says like, yes, my child is 87 and a half months old. Continuing, it says
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expressions of racial prejudice often peak at ages four and five. So this is like when it,
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when someone is the most racist is, is, is, is at four. And then it says by five black and latinx
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children in research settings show no preference towards their own groups compared to white.
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white children at this age remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness. Well, yeah, that I just
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flat out don't believe. Um, it's certainly exactly the result that the researchers hope to find.
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And that's why I don't believe it clearly bogus, but we'll keep going. Uh, it says by, by kindergarten,
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children show many of the same racial attitudes that adults in our culture hold hold. They have
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already learned to associate some groups with higher status than others. And finally, explicit
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conversations with five to seven year olds about interracial friendships can dramatically improve
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their racial attitudes in as little as a single week. Okay. Let's break this down. There are three
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problems here. Well, there's a lot more than three, but we only have a few minutes for this segment.
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So let's focus on three. First, contrary to what has become popular belief, at least popular belief
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among people who work for the school system, it is not actually the school system's job to combat
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racism or to make children more racially and morally enlightened or anything like that.
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It's job is to educate children in the subjects that parents send their children to school for
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math, history, science, et cetera, ABCs and one, two, threes. That's basically it.
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Now you might argue that it's not really possible in practice to separate factual and moral education.
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You might say that all education will inherently have the goal of making children into better people.
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That is better according to the standards and values of the educator. So I'm sympathetic to
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that view. In fact, I agree with it. That's just another reason to get your kids the hell out of
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the public school system. As I'm always urging everybody, moral formation is always a part of
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education. We may say that in the case of the public school system, it shouldn't be. That's not the
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system's job. It's not what you send your children there for. And that's all true, but the two will not be
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separated and never have been separated. So if you don't want your child to be morally formed or
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malformed by the system, you have to extract your child from that system. Second point on the issue
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of racist babies. Is it true that children show a preference for their own race? Yeah, probably to
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some extent. Sure. It's probably true, true that even very young children do three months old. They're
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told. Now, there really isn't any way to know what a three-month-old is thinking. We have no idea about
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the inner life of a three-month-old. We were all three months old at one time. Some of us act like
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we still are, but none of us can remember what that's like. So it's a strange thing that something
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we all experienced is so mysterious to us, but that's what it means to be human. That's part of the
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human condition. Yet to the extent that we can develop some ideas about how babies think and what
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they think, it's probably true that they have, quote, racial preferences. Why? Well, because they're
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going to gravitate towards people who look like their own families. It's that simple. A baby, when she
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first starts saying mama and dada, she's likely to say it to every woman who looks vaguely like her mama
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and every man who looks vaguely like her dada. She's drawing connections and correlations. She's
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noticing similarities, noticing patterns. She doesn't understand them. She doesn't assign moral
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value to anything, but she notices them. This is normal. This is fine. This is healthy. There's no
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problem here. It's not racism. I can't believe I have to explain this, but it's not racism.
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I shouldn't need to explain that your three-month-old has a preference for mommy and women who
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look like mommy and that it's not because she's racist. I shouldn't have to explain that, but
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apparently I do. See, racism is the belief that certain races are inferior. Racism is, for example,
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how BLM activists treat white people. That's racism. If you treat another race with animosity,
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hatred, vengeance, that's racism. Little kids don't have any of that. They just might feel most
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comfortable, feel safest around people who look the most like mama and dada. Not only is that not
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racist, but it's actually good. It's good that a child has a special connection with his tribe and
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his tribe for him is his family. This is biologically ingrained. It's supposed to be that way. It should
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be that way. When a child gets scared or nervous around a stranger, she runs and hugs daddy's leg,
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hides behind him. She wants to be closer to the person she knows, which she feels safe around.
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There's no reason to actively deprogram this instinct. Children will kind of grow out of it
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naturally, and that's fine too. But of course, the left can never let a child just grow naturally
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anymore. They cannot let that happen. And that brings us to the third point. We're told to talk
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with our children about race. And if we don't talk about race, then they'll be racist. That's the
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claim. But I think the opposite is the case. In fact, I prefer the advice given by Morgan Freeman
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years ago. I don't know if you, maybe you've heard this is a famous clip, but if you haven't,
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and I don't know if he would still say this now in our uber woke era, but 15 or 20 years ago,
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when asked about this subject, here's what he said.
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Black History Month, you find ridiculous. Why? You're going to relegate my history to a month?
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Oh, come on. What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month?
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Well, come on. Tell me. Well, I'm Jewish. Okay. Which month is Jewish History Month?
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There isn't one. Oh. Oh. Why not? You want one? No, no. No. I don't either.
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black History is American history.
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How are we going to get rid of racism and still? Stop talking about it.
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I'm going to stop calling you a white man. Yeah.
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And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know
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me as Marvin Freeman. Okay. Stop talking about it. There's more wisdom in that 55-second clip of a
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Hollywood actor than in all of the critical race theory toolkits and seminars that have ever been
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devised. I can say anecdotally, this was my experience as a child. I noticed when someone
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was a different race. If somebody looked different, I noticed that, obviously. I wondered about it.
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I may have asked questions like, why do they look different? The kinds of questions that all kids
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have. The questions that my kids have had. Totally normal. But it never occurred to me as a child to
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make a big thing out of it. I didn't draw any sweeping conclusions based on the fact that somebody
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looked different. As a kid, you play with whoever else happens to be on the playground. What does their
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race matter? That's the great thing about kids. I mean, mine will make a new best friend with anyone,
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some random child they meet in the food court at the zoo, whoever. As children learn to branch out
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a little bit and talk to and befriend people outside of their family units, they embark on that quest
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without baggage. They don't have all this baggage. They just go out there and kids are kids and all of
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that. The baggage is added later by garbage like this, by critical race theorists and other assorted
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race hustlers. See, kids don't naturally see race as a big deal. They see race. Of course, everybody
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does. They don't see it as a big deal. You have to make it a big deal. That's why the left has to work
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so hard to convince them to see it as a big deal. That's why they walk up and they say, oh, I see
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you two, a black and a white child are getting along. Well, let me tell you about the legacy of
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slavery and the evils of systemic racism. And then they walk away satisfied that they have just created
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racial animosity and suspicion where it hadn't previously existed. They say the goal is to defeat
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racism, but it's exactly the opposite. They are brainwashing kids into racism. They are introducing
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it, inculcating it, planting the seeds and watching it grow. And we all have to reap what they have
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sowed. Let's get now to our five headlines. Before we get to five headlines, I want to tell you about a
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Pope Francis. He apparently has a book, or he just released a book. This is the report anyway.
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Reportedly, he released a book in which he says, he warns that there might be a second great flood
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because of climate change, you know. And it does kind of remind me of Genesis 9-11. We all remember
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that verse. It says, I establish my covenant with you. Never again will all life be destroyed by the
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waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth unless you start driving
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SUVs, in which case the deal is off, folks. So that's right there in the Bible. And, you know,
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Pope Francis yet again staying true to scripture. And that's why we all love Pope Francis so much.
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All right, let's go to number one here. Joe Biden has some words for people who don't want to stay
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locked down and in masks anymore. How dare you? If after a year, you're a little fed up and you
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want to live a normal life, how dare you? This is what Joe Biden thinks of you.
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How do you do your question? Message to Texas and Mississippi. Texas and Mississippi.
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I think it's a big mistake. Look, I hope everybody's realized by now, these masks make a difference.
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We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the
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way in which we're able to get vaccines in people's arms. We've been able to move that
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all the way up to the end of May to have enough for every American to get every adult American to get
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a shot. And the last thing, the last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime,
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everything's fine. Take off your mask. Forget it. It still matters. I carry a card to me. I don't
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have it. I put it on my desk. As of last, as of yesterday, we had lost 511,874 Americans.
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We're going to lose thousands more. This will not occur. We'll not have everybody vaccinated
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until sometime in the summer. We have the vaccine to do it. Getting a shot in someone's arm and getting
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a second shot. You're going to take time. And it's critical, critical, critical, critical
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that they follow the science. Wash your hands. Hot water. Do it frequently. Wear a mask and stay
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socially distanced. And I know you all know that. I wish the heck some of our elected officials
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follow Neanderthal thinking, follow the science. So what's, what's the science? What, what science
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tells us that Joe Biden, who's wearing a mask in that clip, you know, we can't even understand what
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he's saying. It's already, it's already difficult enough to understand what this guy is saying. And
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he's muzzled himself. I can't even hear him. So what's the science that, that supports him wearing
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a mask. He's fully inoculated. He gets tested every day. So he's tested. He's fully vaccinated.
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Why is he wearing it? What's, what's, what's the reason for him to wear one? What's the scientific
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reason for him to wear one? And he's socially, he's fully vaccinated, tested and socially distanced
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from everybody else in the room. And he's still wearing a mask. There's no science behind that.
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That's performance. It's performative. It's for show. I mean, it is, it simply is. There's no denying
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that. Now you, we, we can argue about masks in general and everything, but in Joe Biden's case,
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and in the case, a lot of these other elected officials, they're vaccinated, they're tested.
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They know they don't have it. And, uh, yet they're wearing a mask anyway, definitely performance.
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Is that what you want from your elected officials turning this into a performance, which it has been
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for so long? Um, speaking of performance, number two here, the, the LA unified school district put
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out a PSA that is straight out of some kind of dystopian nightmare. Um, and we'll, we'll watch a
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little bit of this, but this is a lot of times when I, when I see this kind of thing, I think
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like, imagine if it was a year ago or a year and a half ago, and you could look into a crystal ball
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to see right now, just get a quick snapshot of right now with no context. So many things that you,
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you see, you would, you would be totally perplexed by, and you would think, do we really? Yeah.
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You think, okay, I knew we were headed toward this, toward a dystopian future, but did it really
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happen that quickly? Well, this is one of those things. If you saw that without context, even
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seeing it now, it's, it's very disturbing and creepy, but, uh, here it is.
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There's never been anything like this virus in our lifetime. Often it's hard to see the effects
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it's having on our children. Has this conversation taken place in your home?
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Mom, I'm scared about going back to school. I don't want to get sick, and I don't want to get
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you and dad sick. Our scientists tell us there are three things we must do to stay safe. Wear masks,
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make sure we social distance, and wash our hands. And now, your school, with the help of Microsoft
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Corporation, has created another. Introducing Daily Pass, your exclusive ticket for safely going back
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to school. Each week, you can schedule your free on-campus COVID test. The results are displayed
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in your Daily Pass. And if you choose to take your test off campus, you can post the results in your
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Daily Pass. And the moment vaccinations are available, you'll simply be able to schedule yours through your
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Daily Pass. But the real magic is your Daily Health Check. Just answer a few simple health questions
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every day. And like magic, your entrance ticket appears.
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The animation, the happy music, with help from our friends at Microsoft, all of that
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is supposed to make it not as creepy, but it makes it all the more creepy. Makes it so much creepier.
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Where you get your kid's smartphone app, Daily Pass, answer some, you know, keeping track of
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vaccinations and everything, answer health questions, and then you get entered into school.
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I think this should be obvious by now. This stuff is not going away. It is not going away.
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This is permanent. In many parts of the country, this will be permanent. In California, in Los Angeles,
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that's permanent. That's not going away. Daily Health Pass, I guarantee you, 10 years from now,
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they're still going to have, it's going to be worse. It's going to be more intrusive,
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but they're still going to have a Daily Health Pass.
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This is, this, from the perspective of our overlords, this is a great innovation.
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Gives them more access to your kids, more information about your kids,
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Tells, tells them more about your kids. Perfect. That's exactly what the system wants,
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the public school system. That's not going away. That's staying with us.
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All right, number three, Andrew Cuomo, embroiled in his scandal. Now, when I say embroiled in the
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scandal, there, remember, again, as we've been talking about, there are two scandals here.
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One scandal that, that, where he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of, of, of people in
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nursing homes. And another scandal where he made inappropriate comments to women at the work,
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in the workplace. And all of the, if, if, when you're looking at the media, all the headlines,
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all the condemnation from the media, from politicians, fellow Democrats, I mean, they're
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all lining up to condemn Cuomo. But every time you hear any of those people, media politicians,
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referring to Andrew Cuomo's scandal, they will always be referring to the inappropriate comments,
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not the fact that he killed all those people. And when he was finally forced to give a press
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conference and address and give the tearful apology, it was, again, for the inappropriate
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comments and not the fact that all those people are dead because of decisions that he made.
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So here is Andrew Cuomo on the much, much less serious scandal. Here's what he has to say.
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I fully support a woman's right to come forward. And I think it should be encouraged in every
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way. I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable.
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It was unintentional. And I truly and deeply apologize for it. I feel awful about it. And frankly,
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I am embarrassed by it. And that's not easy to say. But that's the truth. But this is what I want you
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to know. And I want you to know, and I want you to know this from me directly. I never touched anyone
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inappropriately. I never touched anyone inappropriately. Well, he's embarrassed. It's
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hard for him to talk about. Very difficult for him. Poor Andrew Cuomo. But he supports a woman's
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right to come forward. There's that shift of the goalpost from believe all women to I support a
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woman's right to come forward. Of course you do. Does anyone not support a woman's right to come
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forward? Is that a point of view that anyone has expressed at all? Does that exist? Is there an
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anti-coming forward position anywhere? Is anyone saying, no, you know what? I don't think women have
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the right at all. I don't think they have the right to come forward if they feel that something
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inappropriate is happening. They don't have the right. That's my opinion. Is anyone saying that?
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No. Yes, of course you support that right. Of course, these guys in this situation, they always
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have to pretend that they're grateful that women have come forward against them. I'm grateful that
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they've come out and said all these things. If you are saying that their claims are either untrue
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or that they have wildly misinterpreted your actions, then why would you be grateful they're
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saying it? I think it should be encouraged. I think women should be encouraged to come out and
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defame me. I think they should do it more often. I couldn't be happier. I could not be happier to be
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slandered and defamed in this way. I think it's just wonderful. I encourage more women to do it,
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in fact. So he's trying to strike a balancing act there that's impossible to strike. But
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again, it goes back to this really doesn't matter compared to the real scandal. This is like,
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and I, you know, when I've, when I've talked about this, I've heard from a lot of people that have said,
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well, they're both bad, you know, the sexual harassment, killing lots of elderly people with,
00:25:15.860
with the, the, the nursing home policy, both bad. We should contend them both.
00:25:21.940
You know, but that is, there is such a wide gap between these two offenses that it is like saying,
00:25:29.220
um, yeah, you know, Ted Bundy was, uh, was, uh, uh, or, you know, John Wayne Gacy was a, was a serial
00:25:38.040
killer, but he also stole a guy's parking lot at Walmart. And, and both of those things are bad.
00:25:46.420
Both of those are bad and they should both, we should condemn them both. We need to have a
00:25:50.520
conversation about both of those things because they're both bad. Yeah, they are both bad,
00:25:55.560
but there's really not to put them in the same sentence, to put them in the same category,
00:26:01.720
to lump them all together under the same umbrella, um, is absurd and insane.
00:26:10.980
So the fact that this is what's going to take them down, or, you know, at least even if it doesn't
00:26:14.540
take them down, that this is the thing we're talking about is ridiculous, but it's, uh, we know for the
00:26:19.020
Democrats, it's a pretty clever, um, strategy. It's an obvious strategy where they've got this
00:26:28.180
very serious scandal involving thousands of, of, of people lost their lives. Um, and it's due to a
00:26:38.160
policy that was not just in New York. This implicates other Democrat governors too. And so from the
00:26:46.360
Democrat party perspective, we cannot talk about that. These are policies they supported that were
00:26:53.040
adopted by several Democrat governors, prominent ones too, um, can't talk about that. So let's give
00:27:01.360
the public another scandal instead. Let's give them a scandal that doesn't matter, that Cuomo can easily
00:27:06.640
survive. And even if he does, at least he's not going to take every day, everyone down with him.
00:27:10.060
Uh, and so we'll go with the sexual harassment thing again instead. Yeah, I, I, that, that is clearly
00:27:16.700
the strategy. It's a brilliant strategy in, in, in an evil way, but it's, it's quite brilliant and
00:27:23.960
it's working. Even many conservatives from what I've noticed have changed. They have, uh, gone along
00:27:31.360
with this change of subject. And now when they, when, when they're condemning Andrew Cuomo, it's about the
00:27:36.720
sexual harassment stuff and not the dead people. All right. Number four, the New York post has this,
00:27:41.680
um, a, uh, it says a black Florida school, school resource officer was fired after he was caught on
00:27:50.920
his body camera using the N word multiple times. Delvin white and officer at Middleton high school
00:27:56.580
was dismissed Tuesday for violations of policy that prohibit discriminatory, discriminatory conduct.
00:28:02.460
The officer used the racial slur while on the phone and driving home from an off duty assignment
00:28:06.480
on November 13th. He repeated it again while on the phone with his wife.
00:28:11.860
Footage also captured white saying the N word twice while arresting someone for trespassing on
00:28:17.040
November 30th. White told his supervisors that he didn't intend for the word to be derogatory during
00:28:21.480
the arrest. Um, instead he claimed he was using it as quote, uh, commonly used in today's society as a
00:28:27.480
means of shared cultural and culture and experiences among the African-American community.
00:28:31.560
But he lost his job anyway for saying it. Now, this is one of those difficult things, um,
00:28:40.440
for opponents of cancel culture and all of this. It's like talk about difficult balancing acts
00:28:46.460
because on, on one hand, it's completely ridiculous that this man lost his job for that.
00:28:52.680
Totally absurd. Obviously he doesn't deserve to lose his job for that.
00:28:58.940
On the other hand, uh, we know that if he was a white police officer
00:29:03.380
saying the same things, he would absolutely lose his job and there would be no stopping that from
00:29:11.620
happening. So this is a case where it's a, it's a ridiculous standard, but it's being applied equally
00:29:20.000
in this case. And I am a fan. So I'm not a fan of cancel culture. I'm not a fan of people getting
00:29:25.980
fired for dumb reasons. I am a fan of consistency and equal standards. So that's, that's, I, you know,
00:29:34.660
that's, that's, that's the tough thing. You don't, you don't exactly know how to, how to,
00:29:37.820
how to balance it. But, uh, that's an interesting case. Number five, finally, a report from a local
00:29:42.980
journalist in North Carolina, Joe Bruno, who says, if you smoke or have previously smoked at least
00:29:48.680
a hundred cigarettes, you'll qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine in North Carolina, starting on March 24th.
00:29:56.660
If you smoked a hundred cigarettes, you get to, you get to move up in line for the vaccine.
00:30:02.360
So we're going to reward, not only, not only are we rewarding you for unhealthy,
00:30:07.180
destructive behavior, but it's, it is a, an incentive. Like basically if you have,
00:30:13.620
if you've smoked no cigarettes in your life, you have between now and March 24th to smoke a hundred.
00:30:19.260
That's what is that? That's a, how many cigarettes in a pack? 20? That's five packs. Can you do five
00:30:24.060
packs in about a month? Probably could. So go out and if you were thinking about becoming a smoker,
00:30:30.360
now's the time, see if you can squeeze a hundred in. What a, what a ridiculous policy.
00:30:40.060
Not to mention now, I, I know the, the justification for it will be that smokers are a high risk category.
00:30:47.620
And so we want to get them vaccinated, but a hundred cigarettes in your whole life. I've
00:30:53.080
probably smoked a hundred cigarettes in my life and I'm not a smoker at all. Just casually, you know,
00:30:57.500
through the years, maybe not a hundred, but I've gotten up there. So even if you've smoked,
00:31:03.380
if you've smoked a hundred cigarettes in your life, that doesn't actually make you a high risk
00:31:07.480
category. It doesn't make you a smoker at all. In fact, so shouldn't it be something like if you
00:31:12.020
smoke a pack a day or if you've smoked a pack a day for the last, however many years, now you're a
00:31:17.560
high risk risk category. Or how about we just don't do this at all. If you have lung disease,
00:31:25.600
smoker or not, you're a high risk category category, you move up in line. Maybe that should
00:31:30.920
be the policy, but I think that probably simply makes too much sense. And so we can't do that.
00:31:36.220
Let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. This is from Ethan Holiday says,
00:31:40.980
Matt Walsh, John Cena, and Keanu Reeves would make a great three dads together.
00:31:48.480
I can tell you, Ethan, I do not know how to take that.
00:31:50.440
Thanks, I guess. I'm not sure. Joseph Pinnell says, I understand your frustration, Matt. I
00:31:57.780
really enjoy how you discuss your topics. It'd be really cool to hear you talk more about major
00:32:01.260
issues outside of our country and China as well. You're very informative and to the point. I feel
00:32:06.040
you'd be the best source of information. I'm not the best source of information for foreign policy
00:32:12.820
issues outside of the country. That's not where my focus is. I'm probably not the best source of
00:32:18.920
information for anything, but certainly not for those issues. So I would go elsewhere for that.
00:32:26.860
Yo Monk says, hey, Matt, do you pronounce people's names wrong on purpose? Example,
00:32:33.580
Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jen Psaki. Pronounce their names wrong? I don't know what you're
00:32:40.460
talking about. Ali Boo says, I am keeping two meter distances. It's the best thing that's ever
00:32:45.900
happened to me. I hate people crowding my space and touching my body. Of course, I'm looking forward
00:32:50.180
to crowded places, i.e. gigs, et cetera, when you can be crowded by choice. But generally speaking,
00:32:55.780
back off. This is the thing. I mean, I even said at the very beginning of the pandemic, this was the
00:33:00.560
common joke among antisocial people where we all said, oh, we'll do great in the lockdowns because
00:33:05.560
we're antisocial. Anyway, we don't want to be around anybody anyway. So who cares? So I sort of
00:33:10.640
understand your feeling. But even I, as a thoroughly antisocial person, I am very much
00:33:22.140
looking forward to a normal existence where there are people around. That's why I talk about with the
00:33:27.800
masks. One thing that I didn't expect early on to be so unsettled by is simply going out in public
00:33:39.460
and never seeing anybody else's face. I didn't think that that was something I really appreciated
00:33:44.720
before. I never really thought of it as if I'm going to Walmart that it's so great to see a
00:33:49.000
stranger's face. I never thought of it that way. But you go a year and you never do. And you realize
00:33:53.640
this is a one basic facet of human existence that's been taken away. And it does matter. It
00:33:59.520
seems like a small thing, but it actually matters. And it matters even more to our kids
00:34:05.420
who never see anybody's face outside of the house.
00:34:11.680
And finally, Tea Leaf says, Matt, is it possible to have a girlfriend that doesn't agree with your
00:34:16.300
politics? I would say no. I mean, there are people who have done it. But if you're going into this
00:34:22.880
thing, like if you're already in, especially if you're married to someone and you find that you're
00:34:27.280
differing on political issues, well, you're in it now. And now you got to find a way to work
00:34:32.200
through it. You'll probably find a way. But if you're early on or if you're still looking for
00:34:38.800
someone, there's no reason to embrace that difficulty. Because, yeah, you might be able
00:34:46.320
to make it work. You probably won't. It's not worth the trouble. Now, it doesn't mean you have
00:34:51.980
to agree on every last single thing. But if you disagree fundamentally on basic, not even political,
00:34:58.920
but I would say more than political, because you could agree ideologically on a lot of things but
00:35:03.680
have political differences. But if you disagree ideologically on a fundamental level, you have
00:35:08.220
different value systems, different priorities, different basic beliefs. Is it possible to make
00:35:14.660
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00:35:21.240
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Today, we're going to cancel the host of The Bachelor or rather former host of The Bachelor,
00:37:47.860
Chris Harrison. It may seem a bit redundant to cancel him after he's already been thoroughly
00:37:51.260
canceled by the woke mob. I mean, why kick a man when he's down? You might say, well, because even
00:37:56.140
when you're down, especially when you're down, you should comport yourself with a little courage
00:37:59.780
and dignity. If you can't do that, you deserve to be doubly canceled. So backing up here for
00:38:06.000
a moment to review. Now we followed this story on this show, not because we care about The Bachelor.
00:38:10.180
In fact, the existence of a show like The Bachelor is one of the many reasons why I'll be on the first
00:38:14.420
ship to Elon Musk's Mars colony in the near future. But the reason this story matters is that it so
00:38:20.020
perfectly captures everything that is wrong and insane about cancel culture. If you recall,
00:38:26.200
one of the contestants on the show, Rachel Kirkconnell, became the target of the cancel mob after someone
00:38:29.920
dug through her past and discovered that she'd attended an Old South party three years ago,
00:38:36.140
an Old South themed, a antebellum themed party three years ago. This generated way more controversy than
00:38:43.160
it should have generated because it should have generated exactly zero controversy. And that's
00:38:47.400
what led the host, Chris Harrison, to sort of defend Kirkconnell in an interview with a former
00:38:52.480
bachelorette named Rachel Lindsay, who is black. In her defense, Harrison only made the point that
00:39:00.340
we should have some grace and forgiveness for this woman and not try to ruin her life over some frat
00:39:05.160
party she attended years ago. He went out of his way to stipulate that he was not defending her choice
00:39:10.600
to go to the party. So it was the weakest, most circumspect, least aggressive defense a person could
00:39:17.300
possibly offer of anything. And it was enough to get him canceled. Next thing you know, he's being labeled a
00:39:23.500
racist. He's getting thrown under the bus by the cast of the show, the media, the interviewer, his own
00:39:27.880
girlfriend. Then he has to step down from the show all while he all while he apologizes profusely, groveling,
00:39:34.940
sobbing, begging all to no avail. That brings us to this morning when Harrison appeared on Good Morning America
00:39:41.720
to continue his apology tour and to ramp up the groveling by a few more notches. Here's a here's
00:39:48.280
the report from page six. I'm an imperfect man. I made a mistake and I own that. He told co-anchor
00:39:54.720
Michael Strahan on Good Morning America. I believe that a mistake doesn't reflect who I am or what I
00:40:00.320
stand for. I'm committed to the progress, not just for myself, but for the franchise. Antebellum parties are
00:40:06.780
not OK, he said. Past, present, future. Knowing what that represents is unacceptable. He also again
00:40:14.100
apologized to 35 year old Lindsay, as well as the black community, for his words. Harrison made it
00:40:18.900
clear that he is not a victim and said he's committed to making changes for himself and the ABC franchise
00:40:23.640
going forward. I made a mistake and I own that, he said. Racism, oppression, these are big dynamic
00:40:29.800
problems and they take serious work. I am committed to that work. Harrison also said he's been
00:40:36.560
working with race educator Dr. Eric Dyson, who's taught him the idea of counsel, not cancel.
00:40:43.440
As a result, Harrison said he's taken full accountability for his actions and is learning
00:40:47.140
from the black community by listening. OK, a race educator. I imagine that a session with a race
00:40:53.760
educator means locking yourself in a stockade and yelling, I hate my whiteness while tomatoes and
00:40:58.200
rotten eggs are thrown at your face. Or maybe that's what they do at the graduation party after you
00:41:02.600
complete the course. I don't know. In any case, Harrison is continuing and continue.
00:41:06.560
And going to increasingly desperate lengths to performatively debase himself in hopes that he'll
00:41:11.880
be forgiven. Never mind the fact that he never did anything wrong in the first place. He has nothing
00:41:17.440
to apologize for, except for the fact that he was ever hosted The Bachelor to begin with.
00:41:21.320
And now for the fact that he's apologizing in the first place. So come to think of it,
00:41:25.700
the only thing in his life that he shouldn't be apologizing for is the one thing that he is
00:41:30.260
apologizing for. The one good and worthwhile thing he ever did apprehensively standing up to cancel
00:41:37.180
culture is now the thing that he expresses deep regret over. And it doesn't matter. It won't work.
00:41:45.640
He will never be accepted back into polite society. Never. Now, I haven't read the punchline of this
00:41:52.100
whole thing. The final sentence in the page six article is great. It says, following the interview,
00:41:59.780
Strahan described his conversation with Harrison as a, quote, surface response. So there it is.
00:42:06.920
Michael Strahan, by the way, a Hall of Fame defensive end for the New York Giants, and a guy
00:42:14.220
who almost certainly has said many things in the locker room and while lined up at the line of
00:42:18.180
scrimmage that a guy like Chris Harrison would never dream of saying. But now Michael Strahan is
00:42:24.040
so offended by Chris Harrison calling for forgiveness for someone else that two weeks of
00:42:28.800
tearful apologies doesn't cut it. It's a surface response. What more does Strahan want? What else
00:42:35.920
can Harrison do? Kill himself? I don't say that as a joke. I don't joke about suicide. I really mean
00:42:41.180
it. The cancel mob won't be satisfied until people start killing themselves over it.
00:42:46.040
And they will, by the way, if they haven't already. And this is all the more reason why people with
00:42:54.180
means, people in the public eye, people with wealth, Harrison is worth $25 million. They need
00:43:01.600
to stand up to this madness. Because when you grovel, when you whimper, when you fall to your
00:43:05.900
knees, you are emboldening the mob, empowering it, encouraging it, and making it worse for the next
00:43:11.180
guy who is canceled and who may not have the ability that you have to fight back and withstand it.
00:43:15.620
Chris Harrison is 50 years old and worth $25 million. If he invests that money well,
00:43:20.820
he's got more than enough to live comfortably. He could tell the cancel mob to kiss his ass and
00:43:25.780
ride off into the sunset, maybe write a best-selling book down the line about his experiences, make a
00:43:30.760
few more million. We'd even probably hire him. We'd hire him here at the Daily Wire probably.
00:43:35.760
We could do our own version of The Bachelor with him. Who knows? The point is, Harrison has options.
00:43:41.000
He doesn't have to do what he's doing, and it's not working anyway, and it will never work.
00:43:47.360
But he keeps trying. Having forfeited his dignity, there's nowhere else to go but down, I guess.
00:43:54.640
And he will keep plunging the depths of his own disgrace. And that's why he's canceled.
00:44:00.040
Again, just keeps coming. More and more cancellations until he grows a spine and stands up and says,
00:44:11.580
you know what? I take back all of my apologies. I don't apologize for any of this. You people are
00:44:16.360
crazy. Get out of my face. If he does that, I will rescind my cancellation. I mean, the other
00:44:24.660
cancellations won't be rescinded, but at least that will. And he'll have his dignity back.
00:44:28.300
And that's worth something. May not be worth a salary hosting The Bachelor, but it's worth
00:44:34.440
something. But for now, he's canceled. And that'll leave it there for us today.
00:44:39.820
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00:44:58.300
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