Ep. 675 - Plunging The Depths Of Cultural Insanity
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Disney decides that Peter Pan is not appropriate for young children due to its racism. We seem to have developed some very strange ideas in our culture about what is and isn t appropriate for kids. Also, five headlines including Milo coming out as ex-gay, The Left says he s not allowed to do that, and a New York Times journalist says online harassment has destroyed her life. In our Daily Cancellation, we ll talk about the famous musician who apologized and stepped down from his band after committing the sin of reading a book.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Disney decides that Peter Pan is not appropriate for young children
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due to its racism. We seem to have developed some very strange ideas in our culture about
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what is and is not appropriate for kids, so we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines including
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Milo coming out as ex-gay. The left says he's not allowed to do that, apparently. And a New York
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Times journalist says online harassment has, quote, destroyed her life. In our Daily Cancellation,
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we'll talk about the famous musician who apologized and stepped down from his band after committing
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the sin of reading a book. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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It has, of course, been decided by the people who decide these things that the issue most urgently
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requiring our attention right now is that of offensive cartoons, even or especially cartoons
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that have been around for decades and never really offended anyone until right now. We have now a new
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salvo in this newly launched war on animated characters. KTLA.com has the story. It says,
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Disney Plus has removed several movies, including Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Aristocats, and Swiss Family
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Robinson from children's profiles on its service over negative depictions and stereotypes. The Walt
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Disney Company had previously placed content warnings on the films for, quote, negative depictions
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and or mistreatment of people and cultures in October, but now it has removed access to the
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films by children under seven, according to KTLA sister station WTVO in Rockford, Illinois. Adults
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with Disney Plus accounts can still access the films with the content warnings, which appear on screen
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for about 10 to 12 seconds, before the unedited content. That advisory reads, in part, this program
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includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were
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wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful
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impact, learn from it, and spark a conversation to create a more inclusive future together.
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Okay, now, any confused users of the streaming service are sent to the Stories Matter page on their
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website to learn more about why children under seven must be insulated from this objectionable content.
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If you're curious, the explanation they give for Peter Pan is, this is what they say,
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the film portrays native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of
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native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible
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language and repeatedly refers to them as redskins, an offensive term. Peter and the Lost Boys engage in
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dancing, wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes. Peter Pan and the Lost Boys are culturally
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appropriating. Those little bastards. I mean, literally, they're bastards. Anyway, this is a
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big problem, you know, you have to admit. You don't want the movie about a magical boy who flies around
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with a fairy named Tinkerbell and fights a pirate whose hand was eaten by a crocodile with a clock in
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its belly to have any absurd or silly depictions of Native Americans. I mean, well, the depiction of
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everyone in the movie is absurd and silly. It's a cartoon. That used to be like the whole point of a
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cartoon. Everyone is a caricature. Everyone is ridiculous. All of the depictions are cartoonish
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because, again, it's a cartoon. Why are you looking for authenticity in an animated film made for kids in
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1953? But this is a reasonable question and you cannot expect reasonable answers in an age
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of unreason. By the way, it's worth noting the reason that Swiss family Robinson had to be removed
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from the sight of children. Disney says the pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as
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a stereotypical foreign menace. Many appear in yellow face or brown face and are costumed in an
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exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, robes and overdone facial makeup and
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jewelry reinforcing their barbarism and otherness. Inaccurate? An inaccurate representation of whom
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exactly? From my memory of the movie, and it's been a long time, I admit, but these are just generic
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pirates with no specified cultural background. And if the foreign pirates in Swiss family Robinson
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represent a foreign menace, then why aren't we castigating Peter Pan because of Captain Hook representing
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a white menace? Again, reasonable questions, unreasonable age. Now, people who are determined to miss the
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point or distract from it will respond to all of this with a kind of a scoff and say, well, why do you
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care so much about these cartoons? Why are you making such a big deal about it? The answer, of course, is that
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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
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Le Pew or any of the rest of it. These are innocent and harmless things that I enjoyed as a child and
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my children enjoy now. That's the extent of the deal I made out of it. I never thought, never gave
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Peter Pan a second thought. I'm not the one doing that. It is Disney and the media and the left
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generally that have decided to make an issue out of these things. They're the ones who decided to find
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deep moral significance in all these different things. But here the left again pulls its favorite
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maneuver, which I'm always pointing out. They make a mountain out of a molehill and then accuse
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us of blowing everything out of proportion when we simply object to their blowing it out of
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proportion. The other counterpoint will be that that will be made about this latest development
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with Disney is that the films can still be viewed. You know, your child can still watch them. They
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haven't been erased, right? They're just not on the children's profiles. They're being put behind
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kind of a parental filter. Okay. Well, to that, I respond in two ways. Number one,
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for now, for now, Peter Pan still exists. But anyone who's been paying the slightest bit of
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attention already knows where this is headed. Give it another few months and these films will be taken
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out of circulation entirely. I don't need to look into the future to know that. Guaranteed that will
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happen. After all, Disney has itself said that the movies are hateful and racist. Disney is saying
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that. For now, they hope to have their woke cake and eat it too, labeling their own content racist,
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but still making money off of it. But that's not going to last for long. It can't last for long.
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The precedent has already been set. Number two, and by the way, just backing up there for a minute,
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what's going to, if I were to try to look into the future a little bit, I think what's going to
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happen is you're going to start having retail outlets that say, well, we're not going to carry
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Peter Pan, you know, merchandise anymore. We're not going to sell the kid's book bag with the Peter
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Pan image on it because it's, it's from a racist movie. And, you know, someone's, some big retail
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outlet's going to say that target or somebody. And then when that happens, then Disney is going to
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take all those movies away because then there's no reason for them to have them. The way they make
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their money on something like Peter Pan is through the merchandise. If they can't sell the merchandise
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anymore, um, then, then there's no reason to, and then they'll take their stand and say, you know
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what, actually this stuff is totally hateful. We're not going to let you watch it at all. So that's the
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first point. Second, um, the main point, it's not that the movies aren't available. The main point
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isn't even about these specific movies or Dr. Seuss or Looney Tunes. There's a larger principle at work
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here. A number of larger principles that matter. One of them is this as a culture, we are adopting
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a very backwards inverted idea about the nature of childhood and what sort of things are appropriate
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for children. As has been pointed out many times by myself and others, the very people who have
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panic over the objectionable content in innocent children's cartoons will defend with passionate
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intensity. The sewage spewed into our kids ears and minds by modern pop artists and modern pop
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culture. Generally, they'll mock us for worrying that 12 year old girls are listening to songs like
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WAP while in the next breath insisting that great damage is being done to these same children by like
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a cartoon French skunk. This reveals a deep confusion about what sorts of things children are equipped to
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handle, what kind of content they can process mentally and what they can't. And if I'm wrong about any of
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that, I'm only wrong in calling this the result of confusion rather than a deliberate effort to
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subvert and corrupt our children. And in fact, let me back up and say I was wrong about that. It's not
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confusion. It is deliberate, but it gets worse. Consider that Disney is a full on proponent and
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advocate for gender theory. What this means is that the company believes and many on the left believe
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that a five-year-old is old enough to choose his own gender, but not old enough to watch Peter Pan.
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A boy in kindergarten has the mental capacity to become a girl if he so chooses, but does not have
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the capacity to watch Swiss Family Robinson. The goal here is to entirely alter our view of
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childhood innocence so that they can destroy childhood innocence without us noticing. That's the point.
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If they get us focusing on something else, if they get us focusing on protecting the innocence of
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our kids with regards to Peter Pan and Looney Tunes and all this kind of totally innocuous stuff,
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then they can set out corrupting our kids and we're not going to notice because we're going to feel
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like, well, we're really manning the fort here and we're protecting our kids because we're making
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sure they don't watch Peter Pan. If all goes to plan, and it is so far, they'll have a generation
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of children who are emotionally and psychologically destroyed, corrupted beyond recognition, and all of
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the adults will look at these kids and see what they've done and what they've allowed to happen
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and still feel proud because at least the kids were protected from Dr. Seuss and Peter Pan.
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a crisis. It's worse now. A surge of illegals coming over, flooding the system, ending up in
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cages. I mean, not cages, what do we call them? Detainment facilities. It's almost like all of
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this could have been predicted. Almost. It always seems to happen with Democrats. That's why maybe
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you could predict it because this is the way it always goes. If you send the message that you're weak
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on border security and immigration enforcement, you'll end up with a lot more illegal immigration
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to enforce or to not enforce as the case may be. So here's Jen Psaki dodging, I was going to say
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addressing the issue, but not so much addressing it as dodging it yesterday. Let's watch.
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There are reports out there that the number of unaccompanied migrants detained at the border
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has tripled in the last two weeks to 3,200 plus. Is that number accurate?
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I'm not going to confirm numbers from here. Obviously, the Department of Homeland Security
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and others oversee the programs and the engagements that happen at the border. I will say that there
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are a couple of reasons. I know Amr asked about our kind of change in policy, but there are a couple
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of reasons why we think people are coming to the border. Of course, individuals are fleeing
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countries where individuals and families are fleeing prosecution, fleeing violence, fleeing economic
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hardships and other things. The region has also experienced two hurricanes in the fall, putting
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further stress on the conditions in these countries and the circumstances that are facing
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individuals. And all of this is taking place during a global pandemic that has impacted other countries'
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economies, placing undue hardships on its people, just as it did in the United States. So there are
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also a range of factors that are leading individuals to come to the border.
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Why won't you confirm that number? That's a very important number.
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I, I, I, we've been very clear that there is an increase, that there are more children coming
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across the border than we have facilities for at this point in time. Those numbers are tracked by
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the Department of Homeland Security. So I'm certainly, I'm just suggesting that you talk to them about
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But we've talked to them, Jen. They won't confirm the numbers.
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So she's not going to confirm. I, I, I, if I didn't hear her wrong, I think what she said,
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unless I misheard, uh, I think she said that the illegals are coming here to flee,
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to flee prosecution. Is that what she said? Now, I'm pretty sure she meant persecution,
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but prosecution was a little bit of a Freudian slip there because in fact, as Donald Trump famously
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said, you know, when he was announcing his campaign back in 2015 or 16, um, many of them
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that are coming here are criminals. So they are actually fleeing prosecution. So if that's what
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she said, that was a, that was an example of accidentally telling the truth. Uh, but when you
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think about this, you know, the, the main thing I always go back to with the situation on the border,
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what annoys me the most, and of course we always get this from Democrats where, um, all of their
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policies, even though their policies often lead to directly lead to immense human suffering,
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they still will say it's, it's compassionate. We're the compassionate ones. We have the compassionate
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policies with immigration or at the economy or anything else looking over all of the, just,
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just the, the devastation wrought by those same policies. No, this is not compassion. You look
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at what's happening at the border, border right now. It's not compassion to allow that to happen,
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to set the stage for that. And in fact, probably I don't want to get splitting hairs too much,
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but probably we should move away from the word compassion when we're talking about policies in
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general, because really compassion, and this is a word that's been, that's been overused to the
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point of, of, of meaninglessness out there, like so many other words, but the word compassion
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actually means co-suffering. That's what it means. And, uh, so, so what, what, what compassion
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actually means if you're really compassionate towards someone, it means that you're, you're suffering
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alongside them. You're taking on in some sense, they're suffering. You're doing something for
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them. Um, and, and, and so supporting a policy, whatever the policy is, that's not an act of
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compassion on your part because you don't have to do anything. It requires no sacrifice on your,
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on your end. Whatever your view is on immigration, most likely it's just a view that you have. It's,
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it's your opinion. You're not actually, most of us not actually doing anything one way or another.
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So there's no compassion in supporting a policy. That's the first thing, but so it's not really
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what, what policy is the most compassionate. The question is what policy is, we should be using
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words like, uh, the most prudent, what policy is the most wise, uh, what policy is most likely to
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minimize human suffering. So we can start thinking in those terms. And it's pretty clear that having
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a border, um, protecting that border, enforcing our laws, that is going to be the most prudent,
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the most wise thing to do. And it's in the, in the long run going to, uh, most minimize human
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suffering. All right. Number two, CBS brought out a trans journalist to talk about the issue of
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trans people in sports. Um, and the, the Republican state legislatures that are trying to bar men from
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women's sports, those bigots, how dare they actually the CBS tweet where I found this video
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says Republicans in at least 25 States have introduced over 60 bills, targeting trans youth,
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limiting access to school sports and gender affirming healthcare. Now that's totally wrong
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in every way. Every part of that is wrong. This is the way it's framed by the media, but we hear it's
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an anti-trans bill. No, it's not. If anything, it's a pro woman bill, um, a pro science bill,
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a pro sanity bill, but it's also in no way there, there are no bills. So far as I'm aware,
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someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think there are any bills in the works in any state
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anywhere that would stop trans people from competing in sports. No one is trying to do that. I've never
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met any conservative who advocates for that. I've never talked to a single conservative who says,
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you know what? I think we should just, I think trans people shouldn't be allowed to compete in
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sports period. No, if you're a biological male, however you identify, we're throwing up in the
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doors and saying, you are welcome to try out and compete over here with, with other biological
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males. You're welcome in the bathroom with other biological males, but we welcome all biological,
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but it doesn't matter how you identify. It's so that's a very equitable policy.
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To use the popular buzzword. So that's completely wrong. But, um, speaking of being completely wrong
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in every way, here's what the reporter says about these policies. So many of these bills Orion center
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around transgender student athletes. Uh, what's the argument for proponents of the bill, which attempt
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to exclude trans youth from teams that align with their gender identity? Um, and what evidence do they
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have, if any, to support their claims? Uh, I, I, I note that governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota has just
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Yes, exactly. Mississippi and South Dakota are the two states that look like they're going to pass these bills
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into law very soon. Both governors, both Republican governors have said that they plan to find these bills. Um,
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and the argument that lawmakers are bringing to this is that transgender inclusion in sports, uh, would harm
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women's equality, would harm equality for girls. But I would note that as the Associated Press has reported,
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they talked to over 24 lawmakers and the majority of them, uh, failed to bring evidence to actually
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find examples within their state to say, this has been a problem. We found students who say,
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this has been a problem. That's not to say there is zero evidence. As the lawsuit that I mentioned
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earlier, those three, uh, Connecticut high school runners said they were denied scholarship opportunities
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based on trans inclusion in sports. Right. So what the question was, what evidence do they have?
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What evidence do they, do they possibly have that says that, uh,
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quote unquote, trans girls shouldn't be competing in female sports? What, what, what, what evidence
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could they bring to the table? I don't know, a biology textbook. That's all the evidence they really
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need. I mean, I think they can still bring a biology textbook to the table. Uh, eventually the
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biology textbooks will, uh, you know, we'll, we'll eventually those, those books will go on the burn
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pile to, um, actual biology textbooks. But as far as I know right now, kids are basically still taught
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human biology in school. Um, so that's it. That's, that's the evidence. It's an obfuscation.
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What you heard there that the Republicans in most of these States, they haven't been able to bring
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evidence of, uh, girls really being harmed by these policies. Well, if there's been no evidence of that,
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and that's not the evidence we need, but yet what would the evidence we need again is, is simply the
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science of it to establish that girls are one thing. Boys are another thing. These are two
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categories of people. Boys have an unfair biological advantage, uh, in principle and girl sports. That's
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why they don't belong there. That's all the evidence you need. But in terms of evidence
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of girls being harmed by these policies, as was admitted, there is some really compelling evidence
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of that, like in States like Connecticut, but in other States, if there are no examples of that yet,
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it's because it hasn't happened yet. And these laws are trying to stop it from happening. The
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laws are looking to prevent this thing from happening. The whole point is we don't want to
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wait for the damage to be done. We don't want, we don't want to wait for a whole, uh, generation of
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girls to be deprived of athletic scholarships and all of that. And then we could circle back and say,
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see, I told you this is a foreseeable outcome. And so we're going to prevent that outcome with these
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laws. That's the point. Number three from the New York post, it says right-wing provocateur
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Milo Yiannopoulos has come out as ex-gay announcing that he would, um, quote, would like to help
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rehabilitate with a media calls conversion therapy over the next decade. According to the report,
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the 36 year old British political commentator, um, declared himself no longer gay and quote,
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sodomy free in a, in an interview with life site news. Yiannopoulos told the outlet that he is now
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leading a daily consecration online to St. Joseph. Now it's been a lot of chatter about this online.
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What I'll say is, first of all, I, the, the accusation is that this is all a giant troll
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on Milo's part. That's all this is. He was, he's looking for attention. I think that could be it.
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I don't know. How am I supposed to know? But also that's the point. How am I, how are you supposed
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to know? The internet has simply declared, this is what they've declared. When I say the internet,
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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.
00:23:40.620
It also, of course, it's like, it, there's no point even, even, even making this observation
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
00:33:15.280
I'm sure, but he didn't respond physically. And he knew that this is, this is female privilege
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
00:33:34.580
privilege, because what you just saw there, this is why I always go back to the need to weed out
00:33:42.220
dumb people from voting. That person right there probably votes. And that's exactly what we need
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,
00:34:38.700
Matt, do you think the creation of all those genders are an effort to regain some sort of
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
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,
00:35:37.680
then you're an allosexual. And I looked it up. There's even, I believe an allosexual pride flag,
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.
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
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
00:37:16.240
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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
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
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
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
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
00:42:24.080
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
00:43:28.180
witnessed was The Bachelor host Chris Harrison's apology for advocating forgiveness. Winston Marshall
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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