The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 671 - How To Cure Our Racist Babies

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Arizona Department of Education is concerned that our

00:00:03.840 babies might be racist. So what can we do about our racist babies? We'll talk about that today.

00:00:08.560 Also, five headlines, including the creepiest COVID PSA you'll ever see, plus Joe Biden lashing

00:00:14.060 out at people who are fed up with masks and lockdowns. And Andrew Cuomo addresses the

00:00:18.500 sexual harassment scandal while mostly ignoring the real scandal. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:22.420 we'll discuss the host of The Bachelor, who continues to debase himself in increasingly

00:00:26.740 embarrassing ways in the hopes of earning forgiveness from the cancel mob. But that

00:00:30.720 never works. We'll talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:40.680 For the latest now in racialized brainwashing, we turn to Arizona, where the Arizona Department

00:00:45.580 of Education has developed an equity toolkit, which contains lots of surprising information,

00:00:50.840 but nothing more surprising than this. According to the Arizona Department of Ed, babies are racist.

00:00:56.740 Journalist Chris Ruffo has the material, which begins with a chart detailing the course of a

00:01:03.120 young child's life from birth to about six years old. And at the top, it tells us that, quote,

00:01:08.540 they're not too young to talk about race. Continuing, it says, young children notice and think about race.

00:01:15.060 Adults often worry that talking about race will encourage racial bias in children, but the opposite is

00:01:19.700 true. Silence about race reinforces racism by letting children draw their own conclusions based on what

00:01:26.280 they see. Now, wait, let's stop right there for a moment, because so you're saying we're not supposed

00:01:31.880 to let children draw their own conclusions. Really? But aren't these the same people who tell us that

00:01:37.400 we have to respect the child's self-determined gender identity at the age of three? So we should 0.58

00:01:42.620 let a three-year-old, a three-year-old boy, we should let him draw his own conclusions about whether or not

00:01:46.560 he's actually a boy, but he can't draw his own conclusions about race. Okay, got it. All right.

00:01:53.220 Back to the fact sheet. It says, well, not a fact sheet, but it is a sheet anyway. And it goes on.

00:01:58.100 It says, teachers and families can play a powerful role in helping children of all ages develop

00:02:02.060 positive attitudes about race and diversity and skills to promote a more just future, but only if

00:02:07.820 we talk about it first. And from there, we follow the child over the course of his young racist life.

00:02:13.260 First, we're told, quote, at birth, babies look equally at faces of all races. At three months,

00:02:19.480 babies look more at faces that match the race of their caregivers. My God, those shameless bigots. 0.99

00:02:26.240 See, I always suspected this, you know, when my youngest was a newborn and she would cry for mommy 0.99

00:02:30.180 and I would always say to her, you only want mommy because she's white. I know your game. I'm on to 1.00

00:02:36.240 you. See, it's very important to call out the Nazi babies when you see them, even if it's your own 1.00

00:02:42.220 child. And I know it's, it can be a difficult thing. It can be a difficult thing to look at

00:02:45.220 your three month, three month old and realize that she is a Nazi, but this is something that 0.68

00:02:49.420 you have to do as a parent. Anyway, then it says children as young as two years old, um, use race

00:02:55.320 to reason about people's behaviors. Then by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates.

00:03:03.160 Side note, my primary problem here is that they said 30 months. Like I can't stand it when people

00:03:09.040 identify their kids ages by months because it forces me to do math, which I don't want to have

00:03:12.940 to do. So when someone says like, yes, my child is 87 and a half months old. Continuing, it says

00:03:19.880 expressions of racial prejudice often peak at ages four and five. So this is like when it,

00:03:25.060 when someone is the most racist is, is, is, is at four. And then it says by five black and latinx 0.98

00:03:31.660 children in research settings show no preference towards their own groups compared to white.

00:03:36.580 white children at this age remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness. Well, yeah, that I just 0.89

00:03:42.900 flat out don't believe. Um, it's certainly exactly the result that the researchers hope to find.

00:03:48.260 And that's why I don't believe it clearly bogus, but we'll keep going. Uh, it says by, by kindergarten,

00:03:55.520 children show many of the same racial attitudes that adults in our culture hold hold. They have

00:04:00.040 already learned to associate some groups with higher status than others. And finally, explicit

00:04:06.120 conversations with five to seven year olds about interracial friendships can dramatically improve

00:04:11.340 their racial attitudes in as little as a single week. Okay. Let's break this down. There are three

00:04:18.180 problems here. Well, there's a lot more than three, but we only have a few minutes for this segment.

00:04:21.480 So let's focus on three. First, contrary to what has become popular belief, at least popular belief

00:04:26.840 among people who work for the school system, it is not actually the school system's job to combat

00:04:31.920 racism or to make children more racially and morally enlightened or anything like that.

00:04:37.500 It's job is to educate children in the subjects that parents send their children to school for

00:04:42.560 math, history, science, et cetera, ABCs and one, two, threes. That's basically it.

00:04:47.000 Now you might argue that it's not really possible in practice to separate factual and moral education.

00:04:54.460 You might say that all education will inherently have the goal of making children into better people.

00:04:59.620 That is better according to the standards and values of the educator. So I'm sympathetic to

00:05:04.900 that view. In fact, I agree with it. That's just another reason to get your kids the hell out of

00:05:09.260 the public school system. As I'm always urging everybody, moral formation is always a part of

00:05:15.820 education. We may say that in the case of the public school system, it shouldn't be. That's not the

00:05:21.880 system's job. It's not what you send your children there for. And that's all true, but the two will not be

00:05:27.660 separated and never have been separated. So if you don't want your child to be morally formed or

00:05:32.580 malformed by the system, you have to extract your child from that system. Second point on the issue

00:05:39.480 of racist babies. Is it true that children show a preference for their own race? Yeah, probably to

00:05:47.540 some extent. Sure. It's probably true, true that even very young children do three months old. They're

00:05:53.940 told. Now, there really isn't any way to know what a three-month-old is thinking. We have no idea about

00:06:02.060 the inner life of a three-month-old. We were all three months old at one time. Some of us act like

00:06:08.180 we still are, but none of us can remember what that's like. So it's a strange thing that something

00:06:13.200 we all experienced is so mysterious to us, but that's what it means to be human. That's part of the

00:06:18.320 human condition. Yet to the extent that we can develop some ideas about how babies think and what

00:06:25.160 they think, it's probably true that they have, quote, racial preferences. Why? Well, because they're

00:06:31.100 going to gravitate towards people who look like their own families. It's that simple. A baby, when she

00:06:38.740 first starts saying mama and dada, she's likely to say it to every woman who looks vaguely like her mama 1.00

00:06:44.560 and every man who looks vaguely like her dada. She's drawing connections and correlations. She's

00:06:50.220 noticing similarities, noticing patterns. She doesn't understand them. She doesn't assign moral 0.66

00:06:55.940 value to anything, but she notices them. This is normal. This is fine. This is healthy. There's no

00:07:02.660 problem here. It's not racism. I can't believe I have to explain this, but it's not racism.

00:07:09.380 I shouldn't need to explain that your three-month-old has a preference for mommy and women who

00:07:14.460 look like mommy and that it's not because she's racist. I shouldn't have to explain that, but

00:07:18.600 apparently I do. See, racism is the belief that certain races are inferior. Racism is, for example,

00:07:26.360 how BLM activists treat white people. That's racism. If you treat another race with animosity, 0.51

00:07:31.660 hatred, vengeance, that's racism. Little kids don't have any of that. They just might feel most

00:07:38.740 comfortable, feel safest around people who look the most like mama and dada. Not only is that not

00:07:45.560 racist, but it's actually good. It's good that a child has a special connection with his tribe and

00:07:51.740 his tribe for him is his family. This is biologically ingrained. It's supposed to be that way. It should

00:07:58.840 be that way. When a child gets scared or nervous around a stranger, she runs and hugs daddy's leg,

00:08:04.380 hides behind him. She wants to be closer to the person she knows, which she feels safe around.

00:08:11.120 There's no reason to actively deprogram this instinct. Children will kind of grow out of it

00:08:17.420 naturally, and that's fine too. But of course, the left can never let a child just grow naturally

00:08:22.840 anymore. They cannot let that happen. And that brings us to the third point. We're told to talk

00:08:29.980 with our children about race. And if we don't talk about race, then they'll be racist. That's the

00:08:36.060 claim. But I think the opposite is the case. In fact, I prefer the advice given by Morgan Freeman

00:08:41.860 years ago. I don't know if you, maybe you've heard this is a famous clip, but if you haven't,

00:08:46.000 and I don't know if he would still say this now in our uber woke era, but 15 or 20 years ago,

00:08:52.720 when asked about this subject, here's what he said. 0.95

00:08:55.480 Black History Month, you find ridiculous. Why? You're going to relegate my history to a month? 0.91

00:09:04.060 Oh, come on. What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? 0.85

00:09:09.900 Well, come on. Tell me. Well, I'm Jewish. Okay. Which month is Jewish History Month?

00:09:17.980 There isn't one. Oh. Oh. Why not? You want one? No, no. No. I don't either.

00:09:25.480 I don't want a Black History Month. Black History is American history. 1.00

00:09:32.180 How are we going to get rid of racism and still? Stop talking about it.

00:09:38.180 I'm going to stop calling you a white man. Yeah.

00:09:42.520 And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know

00:09:48.980 me as Marvin Freeman. Okay. Stop talking about it. There's more wisdom in that 55-second clip of a

00:09:56.240 Hollywood actor than in all of the critical race theory toolkits and seminars that have ever been

00:10:00.720 devised. I can say anecdotally, this was my experience as a child. I noticed when someone

00:10:05.800 was a different race. If somebody looked different, I noticed that, obviously. I wondered about it.

00:10:10.840 I may have asked questions like, why do they look different? The kinds of questions that all kids

00:10:16.900 have. The questions that my kids have had. Totally normal. But it never occurred to me as a child to

00:10:24.480 make a big thing out of it. I didn't draw any sweeping conclusions based on the fact that somebody

00:10:31.100 looked different. As a kid, you play with whoever else happens to be on the playground. What does their

00:10:36.840 race matter? That's the great thing about kids. I mean, mine will make a new best friend with anyone,

00:10:43.460 some random child they meet in the food court at the zoo, whoever. As children learn to branch out

00:10:49.940 a little bit and talk to and befriend people outside of their family units, they embark on that quest

00:10:54.620 without baggage. They don't have all this baggage. They just go out there and kids are kids and all of

00:11:01.480 that. The baggage is added later by garbage like this, by critical race theorists and other assorted 0.99

00:11:10.500 race hustlers. See, kids don't naturally see race as a big deal. They see race. Of course, everybody 0.99

00:11:16.480 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 0.75

00:11:24.640 so hard to convince them to see it as a big deal. That's why they walk up and they say, oh, I see

00:11:30.780 you two, a black and a white child are getting along. Well, let me tell you about the legacy of

00:11:35.280 slavery and the evils of systemic racism. And then they walk away satisfied that they have just created

00:11:41.060 racial animosity and suspicion where it hadn't previously existed. They say the goal is to defeat

00:11:46.660 racism, but it's exactly the opposite. They are brainwashing kids into racism. They are introducing

00:11:52.640 it, inculcating it, planting the seeds and watching it grow. And we all have to reap what they have

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00:13:21.460 Pope Francis. He apparently has a book, or he just released a book. This is the report anyway.

00:13:27.580 Reportedly, he released a book in which he says, he warns that there might be a second great flood

00:13:34.440 because of climate change, you know. And it does kind of remind me of Genesis 9-11. We all remember

00:13:42.060 that verse. It says, I establish my covenant with you. Never again will all life be destroyed by the

00:13:46.700 waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth unless you start driving

00:13:51.400 SUVs, in which case the deal is off, folks. So that's right there in the Bible. And, you know,

00:13:57.260 Pope Francis yet again staying true to scripture. And that's why we all love Pope Francis so much.

00:14:04.960 All right, let's go to number one here. Joe Biden has some words for people who don't want to stay

00:14:11.060 locked down and in masks anymore. How dare you? If after a year, you're a little fed up and you

00:14:18.720 want to live a normal life, how dare you? This is what Joe Biden thinks of you.

00:14:23.700 How do you do your question? Message to Texas and Mississippi. Texas and Mississippi.

00:14:28.320 I think it's a big mistake. Look, I hope everybody's realized by now, these masks make a difference.

00:14:36.000 We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the

00:14:44.160 way in which we're able to get vaccines in people's arms. We've been able to move that

00:14:49.000 all the way up to the end of May to have enough for every American to get every adult American to get

00:14:53.740 a shot. And the last thing, the last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime,

00:15:00.160 everything's fine. Take off your mask. Forget it. It still matters. I carry a card to me. I don't

00:15:06.940 have it. I put it on my desk. As of last, as of yesterday, we had lost 511,874 Americans.

00:15:16.420 We're going to lose thousands more. This will not occur. We'll not have everybody vaccinated

00:15:22.120 until sometime in the summer. We have the vaccine to do it. Getting a shot in someone's arm and getting

00:15:27.100 a second shot. You're going to take time. And it's critical, critical, critical, critical 0.98

00:15:33.460 that they follow the science. Wash your hands. Hot water. Do it frequently. Wear a mask and stay

00:15:43.280 socially distanced. And I know you all know that. I wish the heck some of our elected officials

00:15:49.380 follow Neanderthal thinking, follow the science. So what's, what's the science? What, what science

00:15:58.740 tells us that Joe Biden, who's wearing a mask in that clip, you know, we can't even understand what

00:16:05.980 he's saying. It's already, it's already difficult enough to understand what this guy is saying. And

00:16:09.020 he's muzzled himself. I can't even hear him. So what's the science that, that supports him wearing 0.97

00:16:15.380 a mask. He's fully inoculated. He gets tested every day. So he's tested. He's fully vaccinated.

00:16:27.280 Why is he wearing it? What's, what's, what's the reason for him to wear one? What's the scientific

00:16:32.400 reason for him to wear one? And he's socially, he's fully vaccinated, tested and socially distanced

00:16:38.640 from everybody else in the room. And he's still wearing a mask. There's no science behind that.

00:16:44.520 That's performance. It's performative. It's for show. I mean, it is, it simply is. There's no denying

00:16:50.580 that. Now you, we, we can argue about masks in general and everything, but in Joe Biden's case,

00:16:58.200 and in the case, a lot of these other elected officials, they're vaccinated, they're tested.

00:17:03.020 They know they don't have it. And, uh, yet they're wearing a mask anyway, definitely performance.

00:17:10.920 Is that what you want from your elected officials turning this into a performance, which it has been

00:17:19.220 for so long? Um, speaking of performance, number two here, the, the LA unified school district put

00:17:27.500 out a PSA that is straight out of some kind of dystopian nightmare. Um, and we'll, we'll watch a

00:17:35.300 little bit of this, but this is a lot of times when I, when I see this kind of thing, I think

00:17:40.340 like, imagine if it was a year ago or a year and a half ago, and you could look into a crystal ball

00:17:49.760 to see right now, just get a quick snapshot of right now with no context. So many things that you,

00:17:55.540 you see, you would, you would be totally perplexed by, and you would think, do we really? Yeah.

00:18:00.460 You think, okay, I knew we were headed toward this, toward a dystopian future, but did it really

00:18:03.880 happen that quickly? Well, this is one of those things. If you saw that without context, even

00:18:08.960 seeing it now, it's, it's very disturbing and creepy, but, uh, here it is.

00:18:16.200 There's never been anything like this virus in our lifetime. Often it's hard to see the effects

00:18:21.880 it's having on our children. Has this conversation taken place in your home?

00:18:26.260 Mom, I'm scared about going back to school. I don't want to get sick, and I don't want to get

00:18:32.480 you and dad sick. Our scientists tell us there are three things we must do to stay safe. Wear masks,

00:18:40.380 make sure we social distance, and wash our hands. And now, your school, with the help of Microsoft

00:18:46.420 Corporation, has created another. Introducing Daily Pass, your exclusive ticket for safely going back

00:18:53.580 to school. Each week, you can schedule your free on-campus COVID test. The results are displayed

00:18:59.380 in your Daily Pass. And if you choose to take your test off campus, you can post the results in your

00:19:04.580 Daily Pass. And the moment vaccinations are available, you'll simply be able to schedule yours through your

00:19:10.360 Daily Pass. But the real magic is your Daily Health Check. Just answer a few simple health questions

00:19:16.500 every day. And like magic, your entrance ticket appears.

00:19:27.500 Welcome back.

00:19:29.400 Okay.

00:19:31.780 All right.

00:19:34.300 So there you see it.

00:19:35.920 The animation, the happy music, with help from our friends at Microsoft, all of that

00:19:46.820 is supposed to make it not as creepy, but it makes it all the more creepy. Makes it so much creepier.

00:19:54.780 Where you get your kid's smartphone app, Daily Pass, answer some, you know, keeping track of

00:20:01.700 vaccinations and everything, answer health questions, and then you get entered into school.

00:20:08.480 I think this should be obvious by now. This stuff is not going away. It is not going away.

00:20:14.820 This is permanent. In many parts of the country, this will be permanent. In California, in Los Angeles,

00:20:22.800 that's permanent. That's not going away. Daily Health Pass, I guarantee you, 10 years from now,

00:20:27.180 they're still going to have, it's going to be worse. It's going to be more intrusive,

00:20:30.500 but they're still going to have a Daily Health Pass.

00:20:34.880 This is, this, from the perspective of our overlords, this is a great innovation.

00:20:41.220 Gives them more access to your kids, more information about your kids,

00:20:47.040 more, a better way to keep, keep tabs on them.

00:20:51.540 Tells, tells them more about your kids. Perfect. That's exactly what the system wants,

00:20:55.820 the public school system. That's not going away. That's staying with us.

00:21:00.800 All right, number three, Andrew Cuomo, embroiled in his scandal. Now, when I say embroiled in the

00:21:08.840 scandal, there, remember, again, as we've been talking about, there are two scandals here.

00:21:13.620 One scandal that, that, where he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of, of, of people in

00:21:19.620 nursing homes. And another scandal where he made inappropriate comments to women at the work,

00:21:24.540 in the workplace. And all of the, if, if, when you're looking at the media, all the headlines,

00:21:31.720 all the condemnation from the media, from politicians, fellow Democrats, I mean, they're

00:21:36.040 all lining up to condemn Cuomo. But every time you hear any of those people, media politicians,

00:21:41.520 referring to Andrew Cuomo's scandal, they will always be referring to the inappropriate comments,

00:21:47.420 not the fact that he killed all those people. And when he was finally forced to give a press

00:21:54.680 conference and address and give the tearful apology, it was, again, for the inappropriate

00:21:58.760 comments and not the fact that all those people are dead because of decisions that he made.

00:22:03.680 So here is Andrew Cuomo on the much, much less serious scandal. Here's what he has to say.

00:22:08.860 I fully support a woman's right to come forward. And I think it should be encouraged in every

00:22:18.960 way. I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable.

00:22:31.140 It was unintentional. And I truly and deeply apologize for it. I feel awful about it. And frankly,

00:22:48.400 I am embarrassed by it. And that's not easy to say. But that's the truth. But this is what I want you

00:23:00.000 to know. And I want you to know, and I want you to know this from me directly. I never touched anyone

00:23:08.640 inappropriately. I never touched anyone inappropriately. Well, he's embarrassed. It's

00:23:20.100 hard for him to talk about. Very difficult for him. Poor Andrew Cuomo. But he supports a woman's 1.00

00:23:25.760 right to come forward. There's that shift of the goalpost from believe all women to I support a

00:23:34.000 woman's right to come forward. Of course you do. Does anyone not support a woman's right to come

00:23:39.280 forward? Is that a point of view that anyone has expressed at all? Does that exist? Is there an

00:23:47.700 anti-coming forward position anywhere? Is anyone saying, no, you know what? I don't think women have 1.00

00:23:52.880 the right at all. I don't think they have the right to come forward if they feel that something

00:23:55.540 inappropriate is happening. They don't have the right. That's my opinion. Is anyone saying that?

00:23:59.100 No. Yes, of course you support that right. Of course, these guys in this situation, they always

00:24:06.580 have to pretend that they're grateful that women have come forward against them. I'm grateful that 1.00

00:24:14.260 they've come out and said all these things. If you are saying that their claims are either untrue

00:24:21.460 or that they have wildly misinterpreted your actions, then why would you be grateful they're

00:24:28.960 saying it? I think it should be encouraged. I think women should be encouraged to come out and

00:24:36.020 defame me. I think they should do it more often. I couldn't be happier. I could not be happier to be

00:24:41.000 slandered and defamed in this way. I think it's just wonderful. I encourage more women to do it, 0.99

00:24:46.560 in fact. So he's trying to strike a balancing act there that's impossible to strike. But

00:24:52.840 again, it goes back to this really doesn't matter compared to the real scandal. This is like,

00:25:05.080 and I, you know, when I've, when I've talked about this, I've heard from a lot of people that have said,

00:25:09.700 well, they're both bad, you know, the sexual harassment, killing lots of elderly people with, 0.51

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. 0.99

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. 0.97

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 1.00

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 that work? Yes. Is it worth the trouble to go into a relationship knowing that you're going to have

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00:37:43.480 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 1.00

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 0.95

00:39:00.340 we should have some grace and forgiveness for this woman and not try to ruin her life over some frat 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.98

00:40:53.760 educator means locking yourself in a stockade and yelling, I hate my whiteness while tomatoes and 0.99

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 0.95

00:42:41.180 it. The cancel mob won't be satisfied until people start killing themselves over it. 0.98

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 1.00

00:43:25.780 ride off into the sunset, maybe write a best-selling book down the line about his experiences, make a 1.00

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 1.00

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.

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Ep. 671 - How To Cure Our Racist Babies

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