The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 675 - Plunging The Depths Of Cultural Insanity

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Disney decides that Peter Pan is not appropriate for young children

00:00:05.020 due to its racism. We seem to have developed some very strange ideas in our culture about

00:00:08.980 what is and is not appropriate for kids, so we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines including

00:00:13.060 Milo coming out as ex-gay. The left says he's not allowed to do that, apparently. And a New York

00:00:17.880 Times journalist says online harassment has, quote, destroyed her life. In our Daily Cancellation,

00:00:23.460 we'll talk about the famous musician who apologized and stepped down from his band after committing

00:00:28.000 the sin of reading a book. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:43.500 It has, of course, been decided by the people who decide these things that the issue most urgently

00:01:48.140 requiring our attention right now is that of offensive cartoons, even or especially cartoons

00:01:53.700 that have been around for decades and never really offended anyone until right now. We have now a new

00:01:59.480 salvo in this newly launched war on animated characters. KTLA.com has the story. It says,

00:02:05.520 Disney Plus has removed several movies, including Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Aristocats, and Swiss Family

00:02:11.440 Robinson from children's profiles on its service over negative depictions and stereotypes. The Walt

00:02:16.700 Disney Company had previously placed content warnings on the films for, quote, negative depictions

00:02:20.620 and or mistreatment of people and cultures in October, but now it has removed access to the

00:02:25.740 films by children under seven, according to KTLA sister station WTVO in Rockford, Illinois. Adults

00:02:32.540 with Disney Plus accounts can still access the films with the content warnings, which appear on screen

00:02:37.100 for about 10 to 12 seconds, before the unedited content. That advisory reads, in part, this program

00:02:42.760 includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were

00:02:46.760 wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful

00:02:50.500 impact, learn from it, and spark a conversation to create a more inclusive future together.

00:02:55.920 Okay, now, any confused users of the streaming service are sent to the Stories Matter page on their

00:03:02.440 website to learn more about why children under seven must be insulated from this objectionable content.

00:03:08.460 If you're curious, the explanation they give for Peter Pan is, this is what they say,

00:03:13.720 the film portrays native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of

00:03:19.180 native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible

00:03:23.580 language and repeatedly refers to them as redskins, an offensive term. Peter and the Lost Boys engage in

00:03:29.340 dancing, wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes. Peter Pan and the Lost Boys are culturally

00:03:34.420 appropriating. Those little bastards. I mean, literally, they're bastards. Anyway, this is a 1.00

00:03:41.960 big problem, you know, you have to admit. You don't want the movie about a magical boy who flies around

00:03:47.240 with a fairy named Tinkerbell and fights a pirate whose hand was eaten by a crocodile with a clock in 0.90

00:03:51.600 its belly to have any absurd or silly depictions of Native Americans. I mean, well, the depiction of 1.00

00:03:57.320 everyone in the movie is absurd and silly. It's a cartoon. That used to be like the whole point of a 0.92

00:04:04.140 cartoon. Everyone is a caricature. Everyone is ridiculous. All of the depictions are cartoonish

00:04:12.660 because, again, it's a cartoon. Why are you looking for authenticity in an animated film made for kids in

00:04:20.660 1953? But this is a reasonable question and you cannot expect reasonable answers in an age

00:04:27.300 of unreason. By the way, it's worth noting the reason that Swiss family Robinson had to be removed

00:04:33.620 from the sight of children. Disney says the pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as

00:04:38.660 a stereotypical foreign menace. Many appear in yellow face or brown face and are costumed in an 1.00

00:04:44.520 exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, robes and overdone facial makeup and

00:04:50.100 jewelry reinforcing their barbarism and otherness. Inaccurate? An inaccurate representation of whom 0.99

00:04:57.480 exactly? From my memory of the movie, and it's been a long time, I admit, but these are just generic

00:05:03.460 pirates with no specified cultural background. And if the foreign pirates in Swiss family Robinson

00:05:09.760 represent a foreign menace, then why aren't we castigating Peter Pan because of Captain Hook representing 0.97

00:05:15.400 a white menace? Again, reasonable questions, unreasonable age. Now, people who are determined to miss the 0.63

00:05:23.800 point or distract from it will respond to all of this with a kind of a scoff and say, well, why do you

00:05:28.780 care so much about these cartoons? Why are you making such a big deal about it? The answer, of course, is that

00:05:34.420 I am not the one making a big deal about it. I made nothing at all out of Peter Pan or Dr. Seuss or Pepe

00:05:40.880 Le Pew or any of the rest of it. These are innocent and harmless things that I enjoyed as a child and

00:05:46.760 my children enjoy now. That's the extent of the deal I made out of it. I never thought, never gave

00:05:52.980 Peter Pan a second thought. I'm not the one doing that. It is Disney and the media and the left

00:05:59.620 generally that have decided to make an issue out of these things. They're the ones who decided to find

00:06:05.220 deep moral significance in all these different things. But here the left again pulls its favorite

00:06:10.220 maneuver, which I'm always pointing out. They make a mountain out of a molehill and then accuse

00:06:14.800 us of blowing everything out of proportion when we simply object to their blowing it out of

00:06:19.060 proportion. The other counterpoint will be that that will be made about this latest development

00:06:25.560 with Disney is that the films can still be viewed. You know, your child can still watch them. They

00:06:30.380 haven't been erased, right? They're just not on the children's profiles. They're being put behind

00:06:36.720 kind of a parental filter. Okay. Well, to that, I respond in two ways. Number one,

00:06:41.520 for now, for now, Peter Pan still exists. But anyone who's been paying the slightest bit of

00:06:47.920 attention already knows where this is headed. Give it another few months and these films will be taken

00:06:52.200 out of circulation entirely. I don't need to look into the future to know that. Guaranteed that will

00:06:59.520 happen. After all, Disney has itself said that the movies are hateful and racist. Disney is saying

00:07:04.820 that. For now, they hope to have their woke cake and eat it too, labeling their own content racist,

00:07:11.580 but still making money off of it. But that's not going to last for long. It can't last for long.

00:07:16.640 The precedent has already been set. Number two, and by the way, just backing up there for a minute,

00:07:25.420 what's going to, if I were to try to look into the future a little bit, I think what's going to

00:07:29.240 happen is you're going to start having retail outlets that say, well, we're not going to carry

00:07:34.900 Peter Pan, you know, merchandise anymore. We're not going to sell the kid's book bag with the Peter

00:07:41.120 Pan image on it because it's, it's from a racist movie. And, you know, someone's, some big retail

00:07:47.440 outlet's going to say that target or somebody. And then when that happens, then Disney is going to

00:07:53.120 take all those movies away because then there's no reason for them to have them. The way they make

00:07:57.260 their money on something like Peter Pan is through the merchandise. If they can't sell the merchandise

00:08:00.960 anymore, um, then, then there's no reason to, and then they'll take their stand and say, you know

00:08:05.960 what, actually this stuff is totally hateful. We're not going to let you watch it at all. So that's the

00:08:10.300 first point. Second, um, the main point, it's not that the movies aren't available. The main point

00:08:18.800 isn't even about these specific movies or Dr. Seuss or Looney Tunes. There's a larger principle at work

00:08:24.860 here. A number of larger principles that matter. One of them is this as a culture, we are adopting

00:08:29.640 a very backwards inverted idea about the nature of childhood and what sort of things are appropriate

00:08:36.260 for children. As has been pointed out many times by myself and others, the very people who have

00:08:41.520 panic over the objectionable content in innocent children's cartoons will defend with passionate

00:08:46.600 intensity. The sewage spewed into our kids ears and minds by modern pop artists and modern pop

00:08:53.100 culture. Generally, they'll mock us for worrying that 12 year old girls are listening to songs like

00:08:58.700 WAP while in the next breath insisting that great damage is being done to these same children by like

00:09:04.920 a cartoon French skunk. This reveals a deep confusion about what sorts of things children are equipped to

00:09:12.540 handle, what kind of content they can process mentally and what they can't. And if I'm wrong about any of

00:09:20.040 that, I'm only wrong in calling this the result of confusion rather than a deliberate effort to

00:09:25.920 subvert and corrupt our children. And in fact, let me back up and say I was wrong about that. It's not

00:09:30.240 confusion. It is deliberate, but it gets worse. Consider that Disney is a full on proponent and

00:09:37.100 advocate for gender theory. What this means is that the company believes and many on the left believe

00:09:43.440 that a five-year-old is old enough to choose his own gender, but not old enough to watch Peter Pan.

00:09:51.500 A boy in kindergarten has the mental capacity to become a girl if he so chooses, but does not have

00:09:57.880 the capacity to watch Swiss Family Robinson. The goal here is to entirely alter our view of

00:10:05.140 childhood innocence so that they can destroy childhood innocence without us noticing. That's the point.

00:10:13.440 If they get us focusing on something else, if they get us focusing on protecting the innocence of

00:10:19.940 our kids with regards to Peter Pan and Looney Tunes and all this kind of totally innocuous stuff,

00:10:26.580 then they can set out corrupting our kids and we're not going to notice because we're going to feel

00:10:31.580 like, well, we're really manning the fort here and we're protecting our kids because we're making

00:10:38.460 sure they don't watch Peter Pan. If all goes to plan, and it is so far, they'll have a generation

00:10:45.500 of children who are emotionally and psychologically destroyed, corrupted beyond recognition, and all of

00:10:52.080 the adults will look at these kids and see what they've done and what they've allowed to happen

00:10:58.380 and still feel proud because at least the kids were protected from Dr. Seuss and Peter Pan.

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00:12:21.000 the smartest way to hire. Number one, there's a crisis on the border. Well, there's always been

00:12:25.800 a crisis. It's worse now. A surge of illegals coming over, flooding the system, ending up in 1.00

00:12:30.760 cages. I mean, not cages, what do we call them? Detainment facilities. It's almost like all of

00:12:38.740 this could have been predicted. Almost. It always seems to happen with Democrats. That's why maybe

00:12:44.980 you could predict it because this is the way it always goes. If you send the message that you're weak

00:12:48.440 on border security and immigration enforcement, you'll end up with a lot more illegal immigration

00:12:53.160 to enforce or to not enforce as the case may be. So here's Jen Psaki dodging, I was going to say 1.00

00:13:00.320 addressing the issue, but not so much addressing it as dodging it yesterday. Let's watch.

00:13:04.220 There are reports out there that the number of unaccompanied migrants detained at the border

00:13:08.100 has tripled in the last two weeks to 3,200 plus. Is that number accurate?

00:13:13.080 I'm not going to confirm numbers from here. Obviously, the Department of Homeland Security

00:13:18.240 and others oversee the programs and the engagements that happen at the border. I will say that there

00:13:22.980 are a couple of reasons. I know Amr asked about our kind of change in policy, but there are a couple

00:13:28.100 of reasons why we think people are coming to the border. Of course, individuals are fleeing

00:13:33.400 countries where individuals and families are fleeing prosecution, fleeing violence, fleeing economic

00:13:39.720 hardships and other things. The region has also experienced two hurricanes in the fall, putting

00:13:44.600 further stress on the conditions in these countries and the circumstances that are facing

00:13:49.280 individuals. And all of this is taking place during a global pandemic that has impacted other countries'

00:13:54.420 economies, placing undue hardships on its people, just as it did in the United States. So there are

00:13:59.060 also a range of factors that are leading individuals to come to the border.

00:14:02.240 Why won't you confirm that number? That's a very important number.

00:14:05.160 I, I, I, we've been very clear that there is an increase, that there are more children coming

00:14:10.920 across the border than we have facilities for at this point in time. Those numbers are tracked by

00:14:16.100 the Department of Homeland Security. So I'm certainly, I'm just suggesting that you talk to them about

00:14:19.720 specifics.

00:14:20.180 But we've talked to them, Jen. They won't confirm the numbers.

00:14:22.560 So she's not going to confirm. I, I, I, if I didn't hear her wrong, I think what she said,

00:14:27.540 unless I misheard, uh, I think she said that the illegals are coming here to flee,

00:14:31.780 to flee prosecution. Is that what she said? Now, I'm pretty sure she meant persecution,

00:14:38.000 but prosecution was a little bit of a Freudian slip there because in fact, as Donald Trump famously

00:14:44.200 said, you know, when he was announcing his campaign back in 2015 or 16, um, many of them

00:14:50.240 that are coming here are criminals. So they are actually fleeing prosecution. So if that's what

00:14:54.040 she said, that was a, that was an example of accidentally telling the truth. Uh, but when you

00:14:58.020 think about this, you know, the, the main thing I always go back to with the situation on the border,

00:15:02.360 what annoys me the most, and of course we always get this from Democrats where, um, all of their

00:15:07.880 policies, even though their policies often lead to directly lead to immense human suffering,

00:15:14.660 they still will say it's, it's compassionate. We're the compassionate ones. We have the compassionate

00:15:22.040 policies with immigration or at the economy or anything else looking over all of the, just,

00:15:31.680 just the, the devastation wrought by those same policies. No, this is not compassion. You look

00:15:39.140 at what's happening at the border, border right now. It's not compassion to allow that to happen,

00:15:46.740 to set the stage for that. And in fact, probably I don't want to get splitting hairs too much,

00:15:53.000 but probably we should move away from the word compassion when we're talking about policies in

00:15:57.780 general, because really compassion, and this is a word that's been, that's been overused to the

00:16:02.580 point of, of, of meaninglessness out there, like so many other words, but the word compassion

00:16:06.260 actually means co-suffering. That's what it means. And, uh, so, so what, what, what compassion

00:16:10.860 actually means if you're really compassionate towards someone, it means that you're, you're suffering

00:16:14.900 alongside them. You're taking on in some sense, they're suffering. You're doing something for

00:16:19.520 them. Um, and, and, and so supporting a policy, whatever the policy is, that's not an act of

00:16:25.820 compassion on your part because you don't have to do anything. It requires no sacrifice on your,

00:16:30.500 on your end. Whatever your view is on immigration, most likely it's just a view that you have. It's,

00:16:35.420 it's your opinion. You're not actually, most of us not actually doing anything one way or another.

00:16:40.640 So there's no compassion in supporting a policy. That's the first thing, but so it's not really

00:16:45.680 what, what policy is the most compassionate. The question is what policy is, we should be using

00:16:52.360 words like, uh, the most prudent, what policy is the most wise, uh, what policy is most likely to

00:17:01.120 minimize human suffering. So we can start thinking in those terms. And it's pretty clear that having

00:17:10.260 a border, um, protecting that border, enforcing our laws, that is going to be the most prudent,

00:17:19.700 the most wise thing to do. And it's in the, in the long run going to, uh, most minimize human

00:17:24.600 suffering. All right. Number two, CBS brought out a trans journalist to talk about the issue of

00:17:29.900 trans people in sports. Um, and the, the Republican state legislatures that are trying to bar men from

00:17:35.220 women's sports, those bigots, how dare they actually the CBS tweet where I found this video 1.00

00:17:40.200 says Republicans in at least 25 States have introduced over 60 bills, targeting trans youth,

00:17:46.440 limiting access to school sports and gender affirming healthcare. Now that's totally wrong

00:17:51.520 in every way. Every part of that is wrong. This is the way it's framed by the media, but we hear it's

00:17:57.860 an anti-trans bill. No, it's not. If anything, it's a pro woman bill, um, a pro science bill,

00:18:05.800 a pro sanity bill, but it's also in no way there, there are no bills. So far as I'm aware,

00:18:12.920 someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think there are any bills in the works in any state

00:18:17.500 anywhere that would stop trans people from competing in sports. No one is trying to do that. I've never

00:18:23.540 met any conservative who advocates for that. I've never talked to a single conservative who says,

00:18:28.200 you know what? I think we should just, I think trans people shouldn't be allowed to compete in 1.00

00:18:31.260 sports period. No, if you're a biological male, however you identify, we're throwing up in the 0.95

00:18:39.340 doors and saying, you are welcome to try out and compete over here with, with other biological

00:18:44.140 males. You're welcome in the bathroom with other biological males, but we welcome all biological,

00:18:49.340 but it doesn't matter how you identify. It's so that's a very equitable policy.

00:18:53.540 To use the popular buzzword. So that's completely wrong. But, um, speaking of being completely wrong

00:19:00.820 in every way, here's what the reporter says about these policies. So many of these bills Orion center

00:19:07.580 around transgender student athletes. Uh, what's the argument for proponents of the bill, which attempt

00:19:14.060 to exclude trans youth from teams that align with their gender identity? Um, and what evidence do they

00:19:19.620 have, if any, to support their claims? Uh, I, I, I note that governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota has just

00:19:26.660 recently introduced a bill.

00:19:30.340 Yes, exactly. Mississippi and South Dakota are the two states that look like they're going to pass these bills

00:19:36.420 into law very soon. Both governors, both Republican governors have said that they plan to find these bills. Um,

00:19:43.100 and the argument that lawmakers are bringing to this is that transgender inclusion in sports, uh, would harm

00:19:50.380 women's equality, would harm equality for girls. But I would note that as the Associated Press has reported,

00:19:56.780 they talked to over 24 lawmakers and the majority of them, uh, failed to bring evidence to actually

00:20:03.500 find examples within their state to say, this has been a problem. We found students who say,

00:20:09.900 this has been a problem. That's not to say there is zero evidence. As the lawsuit that I mentioned

00:20:13.740 earlier, those three, uh, Connecticut high school runners said they were denied scholarship opportunities

00:20:20.220 based on trans inclusion in sports. Right. So what the question was, what evidence do they have?

00:20:27.740 What evidence do they, do they possibly have that says that, uh,

00:20:30.700 quote unquote, trans girls shouldn't be competing in female sports? What, what, what, what evidence 0.57

00:20:37.820 could they bring to the table? I don't know, a biology textbook. That's all the evidence they really

00:20:42.220 need. I mean, I think they can still bring a biology textbook to the table. Uh, eventually the

00:20:48.140 biology textbooks will, uh, you know, we'll, we'll eventually those, those books will go on the burn

00:20:52.940 pile to, um, actual biology textbooks. But as far as I know right now, kids are basically still taught

00:20:59.260 human biology in school. Um, so that's it. That's, that's the evidence. It's an obfuscation.

00:21:06.940 What you heard there that the Republicans in most of these States, they haven't been able to bring

00:21:12.540 evidence of, uh, girls really being harmed by these policies. Well, if there's been no evidence of that,

00:21:19.740 and that's not the evidence we need, but yet what would the evidence we need again is, is simply the

00:21:23.420 science of it to establish that girls are one thing. Boys are another thing. These are two

00:21:28.860 categories of people. Boys have an unfair biological advantage, uh, in principle and girl sports. That's 1.00

00:21:34.220 why they don't belong there. That's all the evidence you need. But in terms of evidence

00:21:37.340 of girls being harmed by these policies, as was admitted, there is some really compelling evidence

00:21:43.260 of that, like in States like Connecticut, but in other States, if there are no examples of that yet,

00:21:47.740 it's because it hasn't happened yet. And these laws are trying to stop it from happening. The

00:21:53.500 laws are looking to prevent this thing from happening. The whole point is we don't want to

00:21:58.060 wait for the damage to be done. We don't want, we don't want to wait for a whole, uh, generation of

00:22:03.340 girls to be deprived of athletic scholarships and all of that. And then we could circle back and say,

00:22:07.900 see, I told you this is a foreseeable outcome. And so we're going to prevent that outcome with these

00:22:15.100 laws. That's the point. Number three from the New York post, it says right-wing provocateur

00:22:19.740 Milo Yiannopoulos has come out as ex-gay announcing that he would, um, quote, would like to help 0.90

00:22:25.340 rehabilitate with a media calls conversion therapy over the next decade. According to the report,

00:22:29.900 the 36 year old British political commentator, um, declared himself no longer gay and quote,

00:22:35.260 sodomy free in a, in an interview with life site news. Yiannopoulos told the outlet that he is now

00:22:41.100 leading a daily consecration online to St. Joseph. Now it's been a lot of chatter about this online.

00:22:47.580 What I'll say is, first of all, I, the, the accusation is that this is all a giant troll

00:22:54.140 on Milo's part. That's all this is. He was, he's looking for attention. I think that could be it.

00:22:58.780 I don't know. How am I supposed to know? But also that's the point. How am I, how are you supposed

00:23:07.740 to know? The internet has simply declared, this is what they've declared. When I say the internet,

00:23:12.300 mostly the left, although not just the left, a lot of people on the right too, from what I've seen,

00:23:16.460 uh, on social media, what, what, what has been declared is that, um, no, Milo is not allowed to

00:23:20.940 do this. He he's just, he's not allowed to not be gay anymore. He can't that, that he can't make that

00:23:25.500 choice. And we in the public, we know more about Milo's sexual orientation, uh, than he does.

00:23:34.940 That's the attitude from many in the public. And it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:23:40.620 It also, of course, it's like, it, there's no point even, even, even making this observation 0.70

00:23:44.780 anymore, but I will, the double standard here is, is quite, um, quite apparent.

00:23:51.020 I thought what we've heard from the left for so long is, you know, someone's private life is their

00:23:57.980 private life. Who, who, the, the people they choose to be in a sexual relationship with,

00:24:02.460 that's, that's up to them, right? Consenting adults. So who are you to have any opinion at

00:24:08.940 all about this? If the, if he says this is the lifestyle that he wants to lead now, we're supposed

00:24:14.940 to accept that. Who are you to have any opinion or to say, no, I don't really think, I don't think

00:24:19.900 that's true. I don't think he's right about his own orientation. I mean, the arrogance is pretty 0.51

00:24:28.700 astounding. Yeah. You can't see inside someone's heart and mind to know they're real, but that's,

00:24:34.140 that's true for Milo. That's true for anybody. I can't see inside. You can't see inside my heart

00:24:38.380 and mind. You know what my, what my motivations are. I don't know what your motivations are.

00:24:44.020 And that's precisely the point here. Uh, number four, and of course mixed in with, uh, with this

00:24:53.020 reaction, this mixed into the reaction to the story about Milo, there's also a lot of anti-Catholic

00:24:58.220 stuff thrown into it because he says he's consecrating his life to St. Joseph, which is a perfectly 0.98

00:25:02.400 wonderful thing for anyone to do. Uh, and so there's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry being

00:25:07.000 tossed into it as well. All right. Number four, Taylor Lorenz, a journalist for the New York

00:25:11.860 Times has gotten some attention recently for some claims that she's made about the ways that online

00:25:16.460 harassment have impacted her. So she tweeted this on international women's day, which hopefully, 0.54

00:25:22.340 as you know, is a couple of days ago. I hope that you commemorated and celebrated it as, as I did.

00:25:27.340 She said for international women's day, please consider supporting women enduring online harassment.

00:25:32.400 It's not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign campaign I've had to endure

00:25:36.400 over the past year has destroyed my life. No one should have to go through this. It's not an,

00:25:41.740 it's not an exaggeration. Taylor, are you sure about that? I think it is. It sounds like an

00:25:46.260 exaggeration to me. She says, I'm slightly open about some of what I deal with, but the scope of

00:25:50.960 attacks has been unimaginable. There's no escape. It's taken everything from me. The only mild solace I've

00:25:57.400 found is with other women who have had their lives destroyed in the same way we've developed deep

00:26:03.020 trauma bonds, deep trauma bonds. Um, because by the way, the trauma bonds sounds like maybe like a

00:26:11.440 indie band. Anyway, I'll return to that later. Um, trauma because of mean comments on the internet.

00:26:20.020 And this is what you so often get from feminists, especially feminist journalists, where they 1.00

00:26:27.620 really seem to believe this is not a put on much of what they're doing here is a put much of this

00:26:33.800 is performative, but the part that's not performing is I think she really believes that she is uniquely

00:26:43.200 suffering this, or at least that women and especially women journalists uniquely suffer

00:26:48.840 this kind of thing. It doesn't happen to the rest of us. Certainly doesn't happen to men. Men never

00:26:54.440 have to endure any of this. No men, anyone in the public eye. I'm not saying it's a good thing. I have

00:27:02.980 no doubt that Taylor Lorenz gets a lot of really mean comments, really vile comments. I have no doubt 1.00

00:27:10.080 about that. I'm sure she gets many messages that are, that may be quite upsetting to her. I have

00:27:16.540 no doubt. Now I have no doubt because I get that kind of stuff all the time myself. Most of the time

00:27:24.520 it's not upsetting to me because I don't allow myself to be upset. And that's really what it comes

00:27:30.260 down to. It's, it's a question of how are you going to respond to this? What is your reaction going

00:27:37.060 to be? Cause you're going to get it on the internet. All you could decide is how you'll respond.

00:27:45.820 If it really has destroyed your life, I don't even know how that could be the case. If it is the case

00:27:50.860 that it's destroyed your life, then why don't you simply get off the internet and go do something

00:27:57.840 else for a living? Now I wouldn't normally say that you should do something else for a living simply to

00:28:03.120 avoid mean comments on the internet. But if you're saying it's destroyed your life and cause trauma

00:28:08.800 and you can't get over it and it's unimaginable and there's no escape. Well, there isn't. You know

00:28:13.620 what the, you know what the escape is from, from comments on the internet? Um, the escape is this.

00:28:18.320 I'll show you demonstration. Here's the escape. Watch. I'll show you.

00:28:24.160 That's how you escape. I'll show you again. If you're watching. Um, so to escape mean comments

00:28:27.840 on the internet, you do this, put the phone down. That's it. And all of that stuff, it's happening

00:28:34.740 here and I can put it down and live my life. That's the great thing. This has happened to me

00:28:42.740 many times where people are attacking me on Twitter and all of this stuff. And it's so great that I can

00:28:48.280 just click off, put it down, go read a book to my kids. Doesn't matter. Let the internet freak out.

00:28:55.600 Doesn't matter to me. So there is an escape, but it happens to all of us. Um, if,

00:29:02.660 if there's an impression that it doesn't happen to men as often, I think the reason is that we don't

00:29:08.740 talk about it as much. You know, that has to be the reason I don't go around talking about it all

00:29:17.540 the time and talk about how it's destroyed my life. It doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

00:29:20.140 All right. Fine. Uh, finally, number five, an Uber driver was assaulted by a group of women 0.66

00:29:27.120 after he requested that one of them put on a face mask. Now I'm not a big fan of the mask thing,

00:29:35.160 as you know, but I fully respect the guy's right to tell you the rules for riding in his car.

00:29:40.240 Fully respect that. If you don't like it, get out of the car. Really simple to me. It's his car.

00:29:47.520 He has every right to, to, to, to set the rules. Don't like it. Don't ride in the car. She didn't

00:29:52.560 like it. This woman. Um, but she refused to get out of the, out of the car. And instead she

00:29:57.200 communicated her, um, dislike for this policy by assaulting him. Let's watch that video. 0.96

00:30:02.240 I don't give a, you don't buy it. I don't give a, you don't buy it. I work hard for it.

00:30:29.240 I'm in the middle of nowhere. I think you get the idea there. These women, these women are, 1.00

00:30:48.860 are surely scholars. Uh, so he, he asked her to put the mask on. She didn't want to. So she

00:30:55.760 started coughing in his face, ripped his mask off and tried to steal his phone. Perfectly reasonable

00:31:02.520 reaction. Right. Um, and here she is now. She, she's not, uh, she's not apologizing for that. Here

00:31:10.560 she is addressing this controversy and kind of explaining why she reacted the way that she did.

00:31:17.260 Let's, let's listen. My boyfriend taught me, he taught me, don't let nobody play with you. Smack

00:31:24.860 the, that's what I was taught. So if y'all boyfriends told y'all to let this Uber, let y'all get out

00:31:31.620 the car and get robbed or whatever the f**k would've happened. And I saw y'all. I don't know. 0.98

00:31:38.380 And he lucky as hell. I ain't have nothing on me on mamas. Cause if he would've played with me,

00:31:42.900 bruh, it would've been a whole different story for real. You not about to kick me out on the freeway.

00:31:48.520 I, everybody I know, 75% of people I know would've smacked the s**t out of him or done some crazy 0.98

00:31:54.700 off the wall. All I did was smack, take his mask off and cough a little bit, but I ain't even have 0.95

00:32:02.720 Corona. So at the end of the day, sorry, I just got, I get so wrapped up listening to her because

00:32:07.820 she's so eloquent. Um, and I, I, I, I just enjoy listening to her express her, express herself in,

00:32:15.620 in, in that really poetic and profound way. Um, two, two observations. Well, number one, I guess it's

00:32:23.520 nice. Anyway, there's a little bit of chivalry going on here. A little bit of old fashioned

00:32:26.280 chivalry talking about her boyfriend is teaching her the things that her boyfriend teaches her.

00:32:31.820 I think I'd prefer to hear like the things that her father taught her. It sounds like maybe

00:32:35.320 there's, there's a lack of that, which is, which is how this happened in the first place.

00:32:39.960 Well, the other two, the other things, number one, what you see here is female privilege. 1.00

00:32:45.600 Okay. That she's, she's walking around saying, I'll smack anyone. I don't care. I'll smack you. 1.00

00:32:49.320 Uh, well, just about any man, any, any, any male over the age of like 12 could beat the hell out of 0.93

00:33:00.160 her in a second if they wanted to, but they're not going to for the most part. And so she knows

00:33:06.220 that she could walk around smacking whoever she wants. I mean, we can be pretty sure that's not 1.00

00:33:09.300 the first time she's done that. And she smacked that guy who could easily take her in a boxing match, 0.61

00:33:15.280 I'm sure, but he didn't respond physically. And he knew that this is, this is female privilege 0.92

00:33:19.440 because he knew, even though he was the one being attacked, he knew that if he had responded

00:33:23.080 physically, he'd be the one in jail. And she knows that he knows that. And so that's why she's

00:33:28.360 assaulting him. Female privilege. Um, and number two, we need to talk a little bit about dumb person 1.00

00:33:34.580 privilege, because what you just saw there, this is why I always go back to the need to weed out 0.99

00:33:42.220 dumb people from voting. That person right there probably votes. And that's exactly what we need 0.98

00:33:49.100 to address in this country. There is no hope for the future. As long as people like that are helping

00:33:56.100 to determine it. Really simple. Fifth grade level civics exam. She's not going to pass that.

00:34:05.080 Easily done. Something to think about. All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:34:10.940 First comment says Matt is cynical, paranoid, unwilling to take responsibility, pessimistic,

00:34:16.740 uncaring, overly cancel happy, unfeeling, and completely awesome. Well, thank you for that.

00:34:22.300 But you also forgot that I am ill-tempered. So I'll make sure to put that in there. Nick Miller says

00:34:27.360 I'm a Walshio sexual. I'm in love with the Matt Walsh show. I'll take that. You know, if we're

00:34:31.720 inventing sexualities, then, uh, that one, that one needs its own pride flag. Lindsay Rhodes says, 1.00

00:34:38.700 Matt, do you think the creation of all those genders are an effort to regain some sort of 1.00

00:34:42.320 individuality by these people? The left is always trying to strip away individuality and lump everyone

00:34:47.300 into broad categories. Is it really surprising then that the people would grasp at the opportunity

00:34:51.980 to distinguish themselves the only way that the left has deemed acceptable? Totally crazy. Yes,

00:34:56.040 but not surprising to me. Oh, you've put your finger on it. I think that's exactly right. Uh, that's,

00:34:59.760 that's what drives a lot of this. The, the need, the desire to be an individual, uh, which we all

00:35:07.420 desire to be individuals and to, to, to differentiate ourselves from the crowd, to assert ourselves

00:35:12.920 individually. And this is what the way that they've been conditioned to do that. And that's why we went

00:35:20.960 through yesterday. Some of the new, the newer invented sexualities, including allosexual. I think 1.00

00:35:26.060 that's what it was allosexual. And that's a sexuality where if you're sexually attracted,

00:35:31.680 period, if you have any sexual attraction at all to any individual person or any group of people, 0.51

00:35:37.680 then you're an allosexual. And I looked it up. There's even, I believe an allosexual pride flag, 0.89

00:35:45.100 demisexual, you know, that's someone who needs an emotional attachment, which again, that's those,

00:35:50.180 that's women. Okay. Women need emotional attachment in order to really feel that attraction. 1.00

00:35:53.920 Um, and so the reason that we're making up all these sexualities is partly because there's real

00:36:02.920 privilege in being included in the LG, under the LGBT umbrella, but also I think it makes people

00:36:08.280 feel like they're more of an individual. Uh, they're more interesting. You know, it's too boring. You

00:36:13.540 don't want to say that you, uh, you're, you're simply a quote, cisgender straight person. You want to be a

00:36:19.680 more complicated and interesting person with more gray areas. And obviously the irony is that in this

00:36:28.060 rush to be an individual and to be so interesting, they end up just like everybody else.

00:36:34.540 Um, little Polly says, Matt, you're missing the most important point about BLM. They aren't harassing

00:36:39.220 random people on the street. They're harassing random white people on the street. It's a racist,

00:36:43.080 anti-white movement. I agree. I don't think I've missed that at all. I think that's a point I've 1.00

00:36:46.920 made many times, but certainly I agree. Um, William Ferrario says, isn't cow cuddling prohibited in

00:36:53.520 Leviticus somewhere toward the back or in a footnote, or did Moses just figure it wasn't worth

00:36:57.680 mentioning? Well, I don't know. Cow cuddling certainly violates the spirit of many biblical

00:37:02.120 laws. I would think it's an attack on nature and attack on God. You might say, I mean, God made cows

00:37:09.840 big and fat and slow and not so that you could cuddle with them, but so that they could more easily be

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00:37:32.140 and you're thinking, Oh my gosh, am I going to, am I going to, am I going to have to ask them to pull

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00:38:49.600 appropriately titled Candace, will premiere next Friday, March 19th. You may remember Candace from,

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00:39:28.720 Just when you think we've made it to the furthest reaches of cultural lunacy and of the cowardice that

00:39:33.160 enables that lunacy, we find still deeper depths to plunge. Winston Marshall plays, or did play,

00:39:39.620 rather, the banjo and the lead guitar for Mumford & Sons, a group famous for being everyone's third

00:39:45.400 favorite band in the summer of 2011. And this past weekend, Marshall ignited controversy and

00:39:51.000 accusations of bigotry and Nazism by publicly confessing to having read a book. Yes. The musician

00:39:58.840 tweeted an endorsement of journalist Andy Ngo's Antifa expose, which is called, by the way, if you

00:40:04.040 want to pick it up, Unmasked Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. The tweet addressed to Ngo 0.87

00:40:09.820 said, finally had the time to read your important book. You're a brave man. That was it. That was the

00:40:15.020 tweet. And it was enough to set the cancel wheels in motion. Fans, the media, fellow musicians came out

00:40:21.580 swinging, labeling him a racist, calling for him to be fired, so on and so on and so forth. They made it

00:40:26.140 clear that there is essentially no difference between reading and enjoying a book critical of

00:40:29.900 Antifa and pledging allegiance to Hitler after reading Mein Kampf. To hint at even the mildest 0.80

00:40:36.320 disagreement with the most radical fringes of the far left is to profess far-right views, which is to be

00:40:42.100 a bigot, which is to reveal yourself unworthy of inclusion in civilized society. That's the formula,

00:40:47.780 clear and simple and totally insane. In fairness to the cancel mob, we should say, this is not Marshall's 0.61

00:40:56.060 first infraction. He has, in the past, showed other ominous signs of possessing a mind of his

00:41:01.900 own. An article in The Hollywood Reporter notes, quote, this is not the first time Marshall and

00:41:06.300 Marshall and Mumford & Sons have courted controversy for associating with notorious right-wing

00:41:10.400 personalities. Back in 2018, the band invited Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, who has been

00:41:16.120 accused of transphobia, misogyny, and Islamophobia, to visit their London studios. After pictures of

00:41:22.180 Peterson and members of the band appeared on social media, Marshall told a Canadian radio station,

00:41:25.560 I don't think having a photograph with someone means you agree with everything they say.

00:41:29.840 Primarily, I'm interested in his psychological stuff, which I find very interesting.

00:41:33.800 There you have it. One minute, Marshall is taking a picture with a famous psychologist.

00:41:38.620 Three years later, he's reading a book. I mean, the left could not allow this dangerous dissident

00:41:43.440 a strike three. If they didn't cancel him now, who knows what he'd do next. He might go out and

00:41:48.440 misgender a potato head toy. You never know what this guy will do. There's no telling what sort of 1.00

00:41:53.460 dastardly deeds this villain might get up to. Fortunately, the cancel mob was able to rein him

00:41:59.920 in then without much trouble. After deleting the offending tweet, and then apparently deleting all

00:42:05.700 of his other tweets. So he deleted that tweet. And then it seems, if you go to his page, he deleted

00:42:10.140 all of his tweets along with it. Marshall then issued the standard order apology. This is what he said in

00:42:17.620 his statement. First of all, you almost know exactly what he's going to say before you hear

00:42:22.280 me say it. But he said,

00:42:24.080 Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed.

00:42:30.380 I have offended not only a lot of people I don't know, but also those closest to me, including my

00:42:35.040 bandmates. And for that, I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions, I am taking time away from

00:42:39.700 the band to examine my blind spots. For now, please know that I realize how my endorsements have the

00:42:45.720 potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior. I apologize, as this was not at all

00:42:50.860 my intention. Now, if you thought you would live your whole life and never encounter the phrase

00:42:55.020 pain caused by the book I endorsed, you were sadly mistaken. Indeed, I feel it must be emphasized

00:43:02.620 and really cannot be emphasized enough that this man is begging for forgiveness and stepping down

00:43:08.000 from his position because he read and recommended a book. He has come to believe, or at least is

00:43:15.700 pretending to believe, that his decision to read a book caused not only offense, but actual damage to

00:43:22.220 other human beings. Prior to this, the most pathetic and deranged bit of groveling we'd ever 0.98

00:43:28.180 witnessed was The Bachelor host Chris Harrison's apology for advocating forgiveness. Winston Marshall 0.97

00:43:33.260 managed to show a level of stomach-churning obsequiousness that outdid even that. And I have

00:43:40.280 faith that some brave pioneer will come along in the very near future to debase themselves and

00:43:44.380 surrender their dignity in such a way as to make Marshall look like Davy Crockett defending the

00:43:48.780 Alamo by comparison. It's all for naught, of course. As always, the groveler gains nothing from his

00:43:54.540 masochistic performance. He is no less canceled at the end of it. The emotional blackmailers who

00:43:59.660 demanded an apology for something that did not affect them or harm them to begin with have no plans

00:44:04.240 to actually accept that apology. Like any schoolyard bully, they get off on the act of imposing

00:44:09.860 their will on another person. If you let yourself become a source of this perverse high, they're

00:44:16.200 going to keep coming back for more hits. You can't get them to stop taking your lunch money by giving

00:44:21.480 them your lunch money. Your only hope then is to stand up for yourself, stand your ground, refuse to

00:44:27.880 play their game, and to send that message with a punch in the nose. Now, admittedly, in the case of

00:44:33.100 the cancel mob, this is much easier said than done. There's certainly no guarantee that they'll leave

00:44:38.580 you alone just because you have made it clear that you're not going to be an easy target. It's quite

00:44:42.540 possible that no matter how you respond, they will still come and take your job and your livelihood

00:44:47.980 and your reputation away. But the one thing they can't take is your dignity. They can't take that.

00:44:55.140 That is something that a man must willfully forfeit. If everything else is taken from you,

00:45:02.740 that is, you could take solace in knowing that they absolutely, no one can take that from you ever.

00:45:08.620 You have to give it up. You have to offer it. You have to say, here you go, here it is.

00:45:15.840 Winston Marshall is not the first and certainly won't be the last to offer up his dignity on a silver

00:45:21.280 platter and get nothing in return. And for that, he's canceled. And he is doubly canceled for being

00:45:28.400 a disgrace to the banjo playing community, which, as you know, I am going to take that especially

00:45:33.400 personally. So, canceled again for that. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching.

00:45:37.720 Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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Ep. 675 - Plunging The Depths Of Cultural Insanity

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