The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 712 - It's Time To Get Over Your White Guilt

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we often hear, especially from the left, that slavery is America's original sin.

00:00:05.980 It's the reason why we're supposed to be overcome with guilt as Americans and constantly apologizing.

00:00:10.060 But today I want to talk about, I want to talk about this idea of slavery as original sin and explain why it's totally wrong.

00:00:15.840 Also, our five headlines, including Biden's move to ban menthol cigarettes.

00:00:19.760 The Democrats want to defund the police while also passing more petty laws for the police to enforce.

00:00:25.720 Maybe a little bit of a conflict there.

00:00:27.320 Speaking of the police, a teacher in a Zoom call berates a student for saying that police are heroes.

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00:00:33.340 In our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the truly insane and almost unbelievable story of the Jeopardy! contestant

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00:02:05.420 During Senator Tim Scott's Republican rebuttal to Joe Biden's speech on Wednesday night, he used a term that comes up quite often in our political discourse these days.

00:02:14.780 He spoke, albeit in a sort of hopeful, positive, forward-looking context, about America's original sin.

00:02:21.580 Here's that part again.

00:02:22.420 The original sin that he's referencing is, of course, slavery.

00:02:46.940 We hear quite a lot about this supposed national original sin.

00:02:51.960 But whereas Tim Scott wants to move on from that sin and live in the present, most of the people who speak of it don't wish to move on.

00:02:59.600 They want to obsess over it.

00:03:00.840 They want our society to revolve around it.

00:03:03.300 They want to keep our gaze directed at it.

00:03:06.360 They want Americans, white Americans anyway, to feel immense guilt for it and to constantly beg forgiveness and to feel only shame when they think of our history as a nation because of it.

00:03:14.560 The message from politicians, the media, Hollywood, the school system, all other institutions, even the churches now, is that America is a country rooted in oppression, racism, and bigotry.

00:03:25.080 And although those sins can never be expiated, we, white Americans anyway, must keep trying, must keep atoning, must keep groveling on our knees in self-mortification.

00:03:36.200 A couple of days ago, Representative Ayanna Pressley, who really hates this country, perhaps more than anyone else in Congress, and there's stiff competition for that title, spoke about the Chauvin verdict, but began with a soliloquy about America's original sin, or sins, and how we still have not overcome those sins even today.

00:03:55.660 Here's what she said.

00:03:56.960 Let me just stop for a moment and just be blunt and talk about how we arrived here.

00:04:03.440 Black lives have not mattered.

00:04:07.020 They've not mattered since the very inception of this country, the original sin of slavery.

00:04:14.720 And so for that reason, because black lives have not mattered, our humanity has never been seen.

00:04:19.740 That is why our black children are adultified.

00:04:22.640 That is why our skin color is criminalized.

00:04:25.380 That is why our very existence is criminalized.

00:04:27.440 Now, if you're like me, you heard her say adultified and thought, wait, did she just say adultified?

00:04:35.800 She did.

00:04:36.580 And I now know, after Googling it, that adultification is when children are exposed to things that are too mature for them and are treated by society as if they're older than they really are.

00:04:48.440 Now, this is indeed a real problem in our society.

00:04:50.880 I don't think we need a word like adultification to describe it, but it is a real thing.

00:04:56.800 We can start with the fact that many kids as young as eight and nine are accessing hardcore pornography on sites like Pornhub.

00:05:04.240 But as we know, everything has to be about race these days.

00:05:07.620 So the people who use the term adultification or adultified, they usually mean it in a racial context and will claim that it's a problem which especially or only affects racial minorities.

00:05:18.700 Forget about those dumb white kids.

00:05:21.140 We don't care about them.

00:05:22.660 This is all a problem among racial minorities only.

00:05:26.620 And they're probably right that it does affect racial minority children in a somewhat unique way.

00:05:36.080 Just think of Adam Toledo, 13 years old, out in the streets at 3 a.m., hanging out with a 21-year-old gangbanger, playing with a loaded gun, shooting at cars.

00:05:45.960 Many such cases in our cities among minority children.

00:05:48.700 But who's to blame for that?

00:05:51.020 If children are exposed to things they shouldn't be exposed to and allowed to act in ways they shouldn't act, I would say the blame begins with, oftentimes, the parents who may not be caring for and looking out for their own children.

00:06:09.060 Ayanna Pressley and her fellow race hustlers would, however, put the blame on white people somehow.

00:06:14.300 It's our fault if a black father abandons his family and the mother allows her child to join a gang or go out and hang out with gangs at 3 a.m.

00:06:25.960 The rest of what you heard there was equally nonsensical and false.

00:06:31.340 A black person's existence is not criminalized.

00:06:35.000 Pressley is hallucinating.

00:06:36.240 And she's not alone.

00:06:36.940 She's part of the largest group hallucination in history.

00:06:39.220 The entire American left is experiencing it.

00:06:41.900 But back in reality, Bill, black people are not arrested and charged with the crime of being black.

00:06:47.100 What you'll find in most every case is that a black person in prison is there because they engaged in some sort of criminal activity.

00:06:54.300 Same reason every white person, most every white person is in prison.

00:06:58.840 You know, it's activity that would be just as illegal if a white person had done it.

00:07:04.320 There is no black person currently in jail on charges of being black.

00:07:08.800 That's not happening in America.

00:07:11.020 Pressley is telling fairy tales.

00:07:13.020 She may as well be reading us Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

00:07:16.240 Her version of reality is about as real as that.

00:07:20.060 But what about this idea of America's original sin?

00:07:23.420 I think there's a few points to be made about that.

00:07:25.080 First, no, slavery is not America's original sin.

00:07:32.780 Slavery was a sin, a big one, but it's not America's original sin.

00:07:38.380 The original sin of every American, just like every other member of every other country, is original sin.

00:07:43.820 Our original sin is original sin, at least according to the Christian doctrine.

00:07:47.700 If you're not a Christian and don't subscribe to any traditional religion at all,

00:07:51.960 then the concept of original sin just makes no sense.

00:07:56.400 The concept of sin generally makes no sense in that case.

00:07:59.580 In fact, if you're a moral relativist, as most leftists are,

00:08:03.240 then morality is determined by culture and environment and by the subjective experience of each individual.

00:08:09.720 And that all means that slavery was not actually a sin to the cultures that didn't consider it a sin.

00:08:14.480 Slavery is a sin now because we see it that way, but it wasn't a sin to the people who did not see it that way.

00:08:21.360 That's the implication of moral relativism.

00:08:25.200 That's the funny thing about moral relativists.

00:08:27.160 They're the primary ones going back and condemning people in history,

00:08:29.780 but they have no basis upon which to do it by their own philosophy.

00:08:34.740 Most of the evil things done in history weren't really evil by their own way of looking at things

00:08:42.620 because the people doing it didn't see it that way.

00:08:46.240 So to review, if you are a Christian,

00:08:49.740 then you know that our original sin is original sin as described in the Bible.

00:08:54.760 It predates American slavery.

00:08:56.280 Indeed, slavery is a result of original sin, a product of our fallen nature as humans.

00:09:02.620 It's not itself the original sin.

00:09:05.240 But if you're not a Christian and don't really subscribe to any monotheistic religion at all,

00:09:09.280 then the whole concept of original sin has no basis and meaning.

00:09:12.680 Whichever way you go, nobody should be calling slavery the original sin.

00:09:18.540 With that said, if slavery is any sort of original sin,

00:09:23.220 it is the original sin or an original sin of the whole human race.

00:09:27.400 Slavery was an institution everywhere across the whole world for thousands of years.

00:09:32.020 Slavery existed in North America, all over North America, before the white man even showed up.

00:09:37.980 Not just slavery, but slavery in perhaps its most brutal and violent form.

00:09:41.380 As slaves, especially in Mesoamerica, often met their end on the sacrifice stone

00:09:45.120 when their hearts were ripped out of their chests

00:09:47.300 and their limbs were hacked off and sometimes eaten.

00:09:51.840 America didn't invent slavery.

00:09:53.160 America bears no special or unique guilt for slavery.

00:09:55.920 What's unique about America in relation to slavery is that we abolished it so quickly,

00:10:01.780 less than a century after our official formation as a country.

00:10:04.420 Whereas other countries on the globe took millennia to do it.

00:10:07.740 Some places still have not really effectively abolished slavery.

00:10:12.880 See, the real reason that people like Presley call slavery our original sin

00:10:16.980 is because they want to give the impression that we essentially invented the practice.

00:10:21.760 And some on the left, the really ignorant ones, actually believe that and will say so.

00:10:27.780 But that's a lie.

00:10:29.100 It's one of the many lies that has turned us into one of the most guilt-ridden countries

00:10:34.400 on the face of the earth.

00:10:36.680 Few nations are as focused on the sins of its past as we are.

00:10:40.460 Is that because other countries have no sins?

00:10:44.100 Obviously not.

00:10:45.720 Many of them have done much worse and done it for much longer.

00:10:50.380 Yet they live in the present and we stay stuck in the past.

00:10:55.600 Most countries, the functional ones anyway,

00:10:58.500 you know, they have their national heroes,

00:11:00.620 their national myths,

00:11:02.160 their stories, their triumphs,

00:11:04.560 their sources of pride and patriotism.

00:11:07.140 Even if their heroes weren't perfect

00:11:09.700 and their stories were more complicated than they tend to acknowledge,

00:11:13.400 it's good that they have those things.

00:11:15.160 It provides a sense of shared identity and history and accomplishment.

00:11:18.980 It grounds them in the present as a people, as a nation.

00:11:23.520 But here we've torn down all of our heroes,

00:11:26.640 tossed out our myths,

00:11:28.800 rewritten the stories,

00:11:30.040 and it's had the intended effect.

00:11:33.520 Which is instead of binding people together as one nation

00:11:36.740 with a shared heritage and identity,

00:11:38.440 it divides us,

00:11:39.220 balkanizes us,

00:11:40.280 deprives us of what we need to be a real functioning country and society.

00:11:45.700 A nation that hates itself can't thrive

00:11:48.780 and ultimately can't survive.

00:11:52.360 A nation that hates itself for, you know,

00:11:55.300 no real reason,

00:11:56.240 a nation obsessed with sins from centuries ago,

00:12:00.140 sins that the whole human race shares

00:12:01.900 and yet no other country worries about or talks about.

00:12:05.240 That sort of nation will not only fail to survive,

00:12:08.260 but will be driven into collective madness before the end comes.

00:12:12.300 And that, again, is the point.

00:12:14.100 It is the intended result.

00:12:17.120 It's what people like Ayanna Pressley are trying to do.

00:12:21.280 That's the game.

00:12:22.940 And our only hope is to realize that it is the game

00:12:25.680 and stop playing it before it's too late.

00:12:28.400 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:55.580 Yeah, I do realize

00:13:56.880 if you're watching the show right now

00:13:58.700 on dailywire.com or YouTube,

00:14:00.240 you probably noticed

00:14:01.460 that Polka Dot Friday,

00:14:04.040 sadly, today was canceled.

00:14:06.020 Mostly because I forgot the Polka Dot shirt.

00:14:10.580 And you know what?

00:14:11.620 I'm not going to apologize for that.

00:14:14.600 I don't think I owe an apology.

00:14:15.820 And here's what's going to happen.

00:14:17.000 I just can't win.

00:14:17.860 This is how persecuted and victimized

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00:14:21.860 That first I get attacked

00:14:23.220 for wearing the Polka Dot shirt.

00:14:26.200 And now I'm going to get attacked

00:14:27.300 for not wearing it.

00:14:29.040 You know,

00:14:29.460 this is the persecution that I suffer.

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00:14:35.800 all Polka Dot wearers suffer

00:14:37.480 on a daily basis.

00:14:38.960 And it's not talked about enough.

00:14:41.400 All right.

00:14:41.640 This is from CBS.

00:14:43.040 It says,

00:14:43.480 the Biden administration

00:14:44.320 announced this intention Thursday

00:14:45.600 to ban menthol cigarettes

00:14:47.400 and flavored cigars,

00:14:50.860 including menthol.

00:14:52.520 Reading now from a statement

00:14:54.340 from the FDA Commissioner

00:14:57.160 Janet Woodcock.

00:14:59.340 She says,

00:15:00.180 quote,

00:15:00.380 banning menthol,

00:15:01.220 the last allowable flavor

00:15:02.740 in cigarettes

00:15:03.480 and banning all flavors

00:15:04.680 in cigars

00:15:05.320 will help save lives,

00:15:07.700 especially among those

00:15:08.680 disproportionately affected

00:15:09.660 by these deadly products.

00:15:11.320 With these actions,

00:15:12.160 the FDA will help significantly

00:15:13.340 reduce youth initiation,

00:15:14.900 increase the chances

00:15:15.540 of smoking cessation

00:15:16.520 among current smokers

00:15:17.780 and address health disparities

00:15:18.880 experienced by communities

00:15:19.860 of color,

00:15:20.920 low income populations

00:15:21.920 and LGBT individuals.

00:15:24.080 What?

00:15:24.820 How?

00:15:26.320 How do we,

00:15:27.100 how do we,

00:15:27.780 how did the LGBT individuals

00:15:29.280 get involved here?

00:15:31.480 So menthol cigarettes,

00:15:34.900 especially popular

00:15:38.200 among black Americans.

00:15:39.200 So that's how,

00:15:40.200 that's,

00:15:40.960 that's how they're included.

00:15:41.840 But LGBT individuals?

00:15:45.720 This is just for leftists,

00:15:47.220 it's a reflex.

00:15:48.020 Once they start naming

00:15:48.980 the victimized groups,

00:15:50.100 they throw them all in there

00:15:51.260 because why not?

00:15:52.960 The FDA pointed to studies

00:15:54.180 suggesting that a menthol ban

00:15:55.640 would help people quit smoking,

00:15:57.320 noting that menthol

00:15:58.160 makes tobacco more palatable

00:15:59.620 and facilitates progression

00:16:01.580 to regular smoking.

00:16:03.960 The FDA said,

00:16:05.220 one study suggests

00:16:05.920 that banning menthol cigarettes

00:16:07.220 in the U.S.

00:16:08.100 would lead to an additional

00:16:09.180 923,000 smokers quitting,

00:16:12.840 including 230,000

00:16:14.480 African-Americans.

00:16:16.820 And then it goes on,

00:16:18.400 last year,

00:16:18.880 the House passed a bill

00:16:20.480 banning all flavored

00:16:21.760 e-cigarettes and menthols,

00:16:23.140 but the legislation

00:16:23.700 didn't pass the Senate.

00:16:25.480 The bans will not be put

00:16:27.040 in place immediately

00:16:27.780 since they're subject

00:16:28.580 to a potentially years-long

00:16:29.600 rulemaking process.

00:16:30.600 Matthew Myers,

00:16:31.880 president of the Campaign

00:16:32.720 for Tobacco-Free Kids,

00:16:33.980 said that the move

00:16:34.660 would be historic

00:16:35.340 in protecting kids

00:16:36.180 from tobacco addiction

00:16:37.440 and advancing health equity,

00:16:39.380 particularly among

00:16:40.000 black Americans.

00:16:40.820 Health equity.

00:16:43.160 Now,

00:16:44.560 there's plenty

00:16:47.240 that could be said about this,

00:16:48.260 but let me focus

00:16:49.020 on one aspect of this.

00:16:51.740 And I've commented before

00:16:53.200 about the perversity

00:16:54.940 of having

00:16:57.880 specifically

00:16:59.400 our lawmakers

00:17:00.560 constantly attacking

00:17:03.000 and undermining

00:17:03.980 our law enforcers.

00:17:06.380 Because that's the situation.

00:17:07.880 You want to talk about

00:17:08.480 a non-functional society?

00:17:12.980 Well,

00:17:13.480 this is how you get

00:17:13.800 a non-functional society

00:17:14.640 and especially

00:17:15.100 a non-functional government.

00:17:18.600 When you've got

00:17:19.340 the people making laws,

00:17:21.720 throwing the people

00:17:23.040 enforcing those laws

00:17:24.300 directly under the bus

00:17:25.600 for enforcing those laws

00:17:27.680 and dealing

00:17:29.760 with the ramifications.

00:17:32.580 So,

00:17:33.100 here is

00:17:33.520 a classic example

00:17:35.120 of that.

00:17:36.540 Where this is a move

00:17:38.160 supported mostly by,

00:17:39.500 I'm sure plenty of Republicans

00:17:40.400 are going to sign on board

00:17:41.320 with it

00:17:41.620 because they love

00:17:42.960 the nanny state BS also.

00:17:45.740 But this is a move

00:17:46.540 we're getting from

00:17:46.880 the Biden administration

00:17:47.700 and from Democrats

00:17:48.720 banning menthol cigarettes.

00:17:50.840 And what does that mean?

00:17:51.920 Now,

00:17:52.140 yes,

00:17:52.980 they're going to try

00:17:53.700 to enforce this

00:17:54.700 before it gets

00:17:56.660 to the consumer level.

00:17:59.080 But there's also

00:17:59.900 going to be,

00:18:00.560 we can assume

00:18:01.720 some consumer level

00:18:03.160 enforcement.

00:18:06.040 What is that

00:18:06.720 going to entail exactly?

00:18:07.680 Well,

00:18:08.020 who knows?

00:18:08.680 We'll find out.

00:18:11.580 But this is,

00:18:13.740 all you're doing

00:18:14.600 is you're giving

00:18:15.860 petty

00:18:16.580 nanny state laws

00:18:18.660 for the cops

00:18:20.000 to enforce

00:18:20.640 on some level.

00:18:24.240 And that's how

00:18:25.080 you end up with

00:18:25.920 a lot of these

00:18:27.200 cases that

00:18:28.080 often are wrongly

00:18:29.340 described as police

00:18:30.100 brutality.

00:18:31.460 The cops are doing

00:18:32.440 their job,

00:18:32.900 they're trying to

00:18:33.320 enforce a law.

00:18:36.020 The person that

00:18:36.940 they're dealing with

00:18:38.600 responds violently

00:18:39.940 and then the cops

00:18:41.860 have to escalate

00:18:42.540 in response

00:18:43.180 and then next thing

00:18:44.860 you know,

00:18:45.240 there's rioting

00:18:45.760 in the street.

00:18:47.200 Rinse and repeat

00:18:48.040 over and over

00:18:48.660 and over again.

00:18:50.740 Think about the,

00:18:51.560 what was it,

00:18:52.280 the Eric Garner case

00:18:53.820 in,

00:18:54.480 I think that was

00:18:54.880 in New York.

00:18:57.620 And he died

00:18:58.740 during the process

00:18:59.680 of an arrest

00:19:00.300 and the crime

00:19:03.300 that he had committed

00:19:04.280 was he was

00:19:06.240 selling loose cigarettes.

00:19:09.660 Okay,

00:19:10.100 well that's,

00:19:11.320 now if you don't

00:19:12.100 want the cops,

00:19:14.180 loose cigarettes

00:19:14.720 meaning he bought

00:19:15.620 a pack

00:19:15.960 and he was

00:19:16.240 selling individual

00:19:16.900 cigarettes.

00:19:17.640 That's against

00:19:18.360 the law apparently

00:19:19.120 and at least

00:19:20.080 it was in New York.

00:19:21.660 Now,

00:19:22.100 if you don't

00:19:24.520 want the cops

00:19:25.260 arresting people

00:19:26.240 for that

00:19:26.700 and if you don't,

00:19:28.980 if you don't,

00:19:29.600 if you can't

00:19:30.360 tolerate the possibility

00:19:31.560 that even some

00:19:33.340 citizens will die

00:19:34.360 in the process

00:19:35.040 of that enforcement,

00:19:36.340 then don't

00:19:38.240 pass the law.

00:19:41.180 But if you

00:19:41.880 pass the law,

00:19:42.680 I've seen

00:19:44.740 people put it,

00:19:45.460 I think a good

00:19:45.960 way of putting it

00:19:46.440 is if,

00:19:46.900 if you don't,

00:19:47.640 if you don't

00:19:49.840 want people

00:19:50.140 to die over

00:19:50.820 this potentially,

00:19:51.760 then don't

00:19:52.280 pass the law.

00:19:53.840 Doesn't mean

00:19:54.360 we should have

00:19:54.700 no laws,

00:19:55.420 but when you're

00:19:56.500 passing a petty

00:19:57.540 nanny state law,

00:19:58.760 stopping people

00:19:59.300 from selling a,

00:20:00.220 you know,

00:20:01.160 a single cigarette

00:20:01.940 for 50 cents

00:20:02.700 or whatever they're

00:20:03.220 doing or smoking

00:20:04.760 menthol cigarettes,

00:20:05.500 then don't pass it.

00:20:08.620 That's what Democrats

00:20:09.500 do.

00:20:09.760 They pass a whole

00:20:10.260 bunch of these,

00:20:10.880 of these kinds of

00:20:11.540 laws.

00:20:12.100 They send the

00:20:12.820 cops out to

00:20:13.340 enforce them.

00:20:14.840 Cops do that

00:20:15.540 and it gets messy.

00:20:17.200 Enforcing laws

00:20:18.060 is a messy deal.

00:20:21.440 It's not like,

00:20:22.640 and you could say,

00:20:23.700 well,

00:20:24.320 they're just

00:20:25.320 enforcing the law

00:20:26.260 doesn't mean you

00:20:26.660 go kill someone

00:20:27.280 for,

00:20:27.660 Eric,

00:20:28.180 the,

00:20:28.580 you know,

00:20:29.700 the lawmakers

00:20:30.260 never said that

00:20:30.820 you should go

00:20:31.280 execute a citizen

00:20:32.340 for selling

00:20:33.240 loose cigarettes.

00:20:34.680 Well,

00:20:34.800 yes,

00:20:35.160 right,

00:20:35.840 but that's not

00:20:36.340 what happened.

00:20:38.400 They're trying

00:20:39.100 to enforce it.

00:20:39.860 the person

00:20:42.040 they're dealing

00:20:42.340 with is,

00:20:42.740 is resisting

00:20:43.440 that enforcement

00:20:44.220 and then what

00:20:44.860 do you do?

00:20:46.320 Do you just say,

00:20:47.180 okay,

00:20:47.420 well,

00:20:47.560 nevermind.

00:20:47.960 If you don't

00:20:48.200 want this law

00:20:48.620 to be enforced

00:20:49.080 on you,

00:20:49.460 then we're

00:20:49.660 going to go

00:20:49.920 home.

00:20:50.320 Forget it.

00:20:51.100 Sorry to

00:20:51.560 have bothered

00:20:51.940 you,

00:20:52.280 sir.

00:20:54.440 No,

00:20:54.840 they're resisting.

00:20:55.940 Now you have,

00:20:56.660 now the state

00:20:57.080 has to impose

00:20:57.840 its will.

00:20:59.200 If it's not

00:20:59.740 willing to impose

00:21:00.400 its will,

00:21:00.820 then again,

00:21:01.100 the law

00:21:01.420 shouldn't be

00:21:01.780 there.

00:21:03.200 And that's

00:21:03.740 how the

00:21:03.940 escalation

00:21:04.400 happens and

00:21:05.340 sometimes

00:21:05.940 it turns

00:21:07.420 deadly.

00:21:10.560 And often

00:21:11.200 the fault

00:21:11.640 for that

00:21:12.000 doesn't fall

00:21:12.500 on the

00:21:12.680 cops.

00:21:13.240 It can

00:21:13.620 fall on

00:21:13.900 the perp

00:21:14.260 and it

00:21:15.480 also falls

00:21:16.060 on the

00:21:16.460 lawmakers

00:21:16.800 who made

00:21:17.460 those laws

00:21:17.840 to begin

00:21:18.160 with.

00:21:21.720 All right.

00:21:24.180 It's just

00:21:24.760 like the

00:21:25.220 case,

00:21:27.040 another case

00:21:27.540 Dante Wright.

00:21:29.100 We were told

00:21:29.820 initially,

00:21:30.320 and we know

00:21:30.680 that this is

00:21:31.100 false now,

00:21:31.620 but we were

00:21:31.940 told initially

00:21:32.440 that he was

00:21:32.860 pulled over

00:21:33.440 for having

00:21:35.240 an air freshener

00:21:36.040 in his car.

00:21:38.360 And people

00:21:38.700 were saying

00:21:39.000 how absurd

00:21:39.580 it is that

00:21:40.060 somebody would

00:21:40.360 be pulled

00:21:40.680 over for

00:21:41.080 that.

00:21:41.580 Well,

00:21:41.720 that's not

00:21:42.240 what actually

00:21:42.840 happened,

00:21:43.380 right?

00:21:43.680 So that

00:21:44.840 was a

00:21:45.380 falsehood.

00:21:47.220 He was

00:21:47.440 pulled over,

00:21:48.080 I think it

00:21:48.380 was,

00:21:49.580 I forget,

00:21:51.380 but there was

00:21:51.560 some other

00:21:51.880 traffic violation

00:21:52.500 that he was

00:21:52.760 pulled over

00:21:53.120 for originally

00:21:53.720 and then they

00:21:54.320 found out

00:21:54.660 that he had

00:21:55.080 a warrant

00:21:55.480 for his

00:21:55.740 arrest stemming

00:21:56.680 from an

00:21:56.960 armed robbery

00:21:57.480 and they

00:21:57.720 tried to

00:21:58.000 arrest him

00:21:58.440 as you do

00:21:59.420 with someone

00:21:59.900 with a

00:22:00.220 wanted

00:22:00.760 armed

00:22:01.120 robber.

00:22:02.240 But even

00:22:03.300 if it

00:22:03.600 was,

00:22:04.580 let's just

00:22:04.960 pretend for

00:22:05.440 a minute

00:22:05.640 that he

00:22:05.900 was pulled

00:22:06.260 over for

00:22:06.840 having an

00:22:08.240 air freshener

00:22:08.740 hanging from

00:22:09.100 his car.

00:22:10.720 Well,

00:22:10.900 who would

00:22:11.120 you blame

00:22:11.400 for that?

00:22:12.940 See,

00:22:13.200 the Democrats

00:22:13.720 in the left,

00:22:14.440 they were

00:22:14.640 blaming the

00:22:15.040 cops,

00:22:15.400 saying,

00:22:15.520 well,

00:22:15.580 why would

00:22:15.840 you pull

00:22:16.120 someone over

00:22:16.400 for that?

00:22:17.380 They didn't

00:22:17.920 pass the

00:22:18.420 law.

00:22:19.240 If there

00:22:19.740 is a law

00:22:20.220 against having

00:22:20.580 an air freshener

00:22:21.160 hanging from

00:22:21.920 your car,

00:22:22.500 don't blame

00:22:22.920 the cops.

00:22:24.620 Blame the

00:22:25.160 idiots who

00:22:25.640 passed the

00:22:26.080 law like

00:22:26.440 that.

00:22:30.580 Do we

00:22:31.000 want to,

00:22:31.880 are we saying

00:22:32.460 to cops we're

00:22:32.960 going to put

00:22:33.160 them in a

00:22:33.400 position where

00:22:33.960 they decide

00:22:34.640 what laws

00:22:35.040 they enforce?

00:22:37.680 Is that,

00:22:38.380 is that the

00:22:38.860 kind of

00:22:39.040 police reform

00:22:39.580 we want?

00:22:42.180 All right,

00:22:42.700 number two,

00:22:43.200 speaking of the

00:22:43.620 cops,

00:22:43.900 a student at

00:22:44.660 Cypress College

00:22:45.580 was in a

00:22:46.540 Zoom class,

00:22:48.440 and he was

00:22:49.360 trying to explain

00:22:50.000 to his teacher

00:22:50.580 why it's okay

00:22:51.680 for cops to be

00:22:52.540 portrayed positively

00:22:53.760 in children's shows

00:22:54.620 and why cops

00:22:55.240 even are heroes.

00:22:56.720 And I don't know,

00:22:57.160 listen to this

00:22:57.660 discussion,

00:22:58.560 this is a student

00:22:59.520 and a teacher

00:23:00.720 and you tell

00:23:01.820 me who is

00:23:02.320 the more

00:23:02.600 reasonable one.

00:23:04.420 Which of the

00:23:05.020 people here,

00:23:05.620 if you had to

00:23:05.940 pick one to

00:23:06.580 be the teacher

00:23:07.120 of the class,

00:23:07.720 which one

00:23:08.000 would you

00:23:08.240 choose?

00:23:09.560 Let's listen.

00:23:10.940 I think cops

00:23:11.860 are heroes and

00:23:12.580 they have to

00:23:12.960 have a difficult

00:23:13.560 job, but we

00:23:14.220 have to have

00:23:14.660 a fine life.

00:23:16.540 Oh, I'm not,

00:23:17.520 I mean, I'd

00:23:18.080 say a good

00:23:19.200 majority of them.

00:23:19.940 You have bad

00:23:20.440 people in every

00:23:21.160 business and

00:23:21.800 every part.

00:23:23.820 A lot of

00:23:25.100 police officers

00:23:26.200 have committed

00:23:26.740 atrocious crimes

00:23:27.560 and have gotten

00:23:28.040 away with it

00:23:28.600 and have never

00:23:29.100 been convicted

00:23:29.660 of any of it.

00:23:31.280 And I say

00:23:31.880 to the person

00:23:32.640 who has family

00:23:33.580 members, who

00:23:34.700 are police

00:23:35.240 officers.

00:23:36.920 Yes, I

00:23:38.240 understand.

00:23:40.280 And this is

00:23:41.220 what I believe.

00:23:41.800 This is my

00:23:42.200 opinion.

00:23:42.560 And this is,

00:23:43.240 you know, not

00:23:43.840 popular to say,

00:23:44.720 but I do

00:23:46.140 support our

00:23:46.860 police and we

00:23:47.420 have bad

00:23:47.820 people and the

00:23:48.400 people that do

00:23:48.900 bad things should

00:23:49.860 be brought to

00:23:50.380 justice.

00:23:50.840 I agree with

00:23:51.320 that.

00:23:52.100 But I think

00:23:52.540 that,

00:23:52.800 I'm saying

00:23:55.180 it again.

00:23:55.720 They haven't.

00:23:57.180 Well, I agree

00:23:57.960 with you on that

00:23:58.640 point of they

00:23:59.240 should, right?

00:24:00.240 So what is your

00:24:01.060 bottom line point?

00:24:01.980 You're saying

00:24:02.400 police officers

00:24:03.100 should be revered,

00:24:04.160 viewed as heroes,

00:24:06.020 people on TV

00:24:07.040 shows with

00:24:07.820 children.

00:24:08.900 I think they

00:24:09.360 are heroes in

00:24:10.060 a sense because

00:24:10.620 they come to

00:24:11.180 your need and

00:24:11.900 they come and

00:24:12.460 help you and

00:24:13.200 they have a

00:24:14.760 problem just like

00:24:15.520 every other

00:24:15.940 business, but we

00:24:17.240 should fix that.

00:24:18.160 But I think

00:24:18.700 they're heroes.

00:24:20.440 Well, I think

00:24:20.840 that's the problem

00:24:21.540 is looking at it

00:24:22.220 as a business

00:24:22.740 because they're

00:24:23.440 actually supposed

00:24:23.900 to protect and

00:24:24.840 serve.

00:24:26.660 Yeah, it

00:24:27.120 actually, that's,

00:24:27.840 it gets even

00:24:28.740 worse from there.

00:24:30.900 But the

00:24:32.080 question we

00:24:32.380 started with

00:24:32.780 here, who do

00:24:33.380 you think is

00:24:33.600 the more

00:24:33.820 reasonable one

00:24:34.500 in that exchange?

00:24:35.140 If you had to

00:24:36.060 hire one of

00:24:37.140 those people to

00:24:37.680 teach a class,

00:24:38.260 who would you

00:24:38.540 choose?

00:24:39.280 Because I'm

00:24:39.520 choosing the

00:24:39.860 student.

00:24:41.600 Here he is,

00:24:42.340 here's the

00:24:42.720 student talking

00:24:44.700 to a college

00:24:45.640 professor and

00:24:46.880 trying to

00:24:47.360 break things

00:24:48.680 down in a

00:24:50.020 very logical

00:24:50.480 way and

00:24:51.860 say, what

00:24:53.640 he's trying

00:24:54.240 to communicate

00:24:54.660 and he did

00:24:54.960 a good job

00:24:55.360 of communicating

00:24:56.200 it, is

00:24:58.540 that policing

00:25:00.880 is a noble

00:25:01.700 line of work.

00:25:03.540 Many cops

00:25:04.380 do the job

00:25:05.200 heroically.

00:25:06.300 There are some

00:25:07.100 bad ones and

00:25:07.640 they should be

00:25:07.940 punished.

00:25:08.480 That's it.

00:25:09.140 That's the

00:25:09.520 whole thing.

00:25:11.740 And this

00:25:12.020 somehow confuses

00:25:13.520 her.

00:25:14.800 She doesn't

00:25:15.060 understand what

00:25:15.740 he's trying

00:25:17.520 to get

00:25:18.300 across.

00:25:19.320 Think about

00:25:19.640 how sad

00:25:20.080 it is.

00:25:22.200 You notice

00:25:23.000 how he

00:25:23.220 qualified the

00:25:23.820 statement.

00:25:24.220 I don't

00:25:24.380 blame him

00:25:24.800 for doing

00:25:25.160 that.

00:25:26.400 But he

00:25:26.600 said, this

00:25:27.540 is not a

00:25:27.900 popular opinion,

00:25:29.180 but most

00:25:30.220 cops do a

00:25:30.740 good job.

00:25:32.920 He's right,

00:25:33.540 it's not a

00:25:33.820 popular opinion,

00:25:34.500 but this is

00:25:35.620 what is

00:25:35.900 controversial now

00:25:36.620 to say

00:25:36.840 something like

00:25:37.240 that.

00:25:40.220 I can

00:25:41.560 remember

00:25:41.960 10 years

00:25:43.200 ago, even

00:25:44.300 7 or 8

00:25:44.860 years ago,

00:25:45.740 when everybody

00:25:46.300 thought that.

00:25:48.640 It used to

00:25:49.420 be popular

00:25:50.480 across the

00:25:51.540 whole political

00:25:51.920 spectrum to

00:25:53.060 celebrate police

00:25:53.640 officers.

00:25:55.980 And back in

00:25:56.860 those days,

00:25:57.340 nobody ever

00:25:57.960 claimed that

00:25:58.560 every cop was

00:25:59.240 good.

00:25:59.620 It's just we

00:26:00.060 generally

00:26:00.820 understood that

00:26:02.420 it's a tough

00:26:02.840 job, society

00:26:04.080 needs people to

00:26:04.900 do this job,

00:26:05.900 and we respect

00:26:07.320 the people who

00:26:07.840 do it.

00:26:12.620 But you

00:26:14.560 send your kid

00:26:14.940 to college,

00:26:15.420 this is what

00:26:16.740 you're paying

00:26:17.040 for, plunging

00:26:18.380 into your

00:26:19.480 cell for your

00:26:20.480 child into

00:26:21.320 potentially decades

00:26:22.480 of debt for

00:26:23.740 that.

00:26:25.720 All right,

00:26:26.200 number three,

00:26:26.620 this is from

00:26:26.940 the New York

00:26:27.280 Post.

00:26:28.120 It says,

00:26:29.760 a seven-year-old,

00:26:30.700 this is a

00:26:30.980 terrible story,

00:26:31.600 a seven-year-old

00:26:32.120 girl was killed

00:26:32.860 and her mother

00:26:33.280 injured after

00:26:33.920 pit bulls

00:26:34.560 attacked them

00:26:35.060 in a North

00:26:35.400 Carolina backyard.

00:26:37.640 The mother and

00:26:38.300 daughter were

00:26:38.560 taking care of

00:26:39.220 their neighbors

00:26:39.660 to pit bulls,

00:26:40.540 and at one

00:26:41.720 point they

00:26:42.060 attacked.

00:26:44.100 Garner Police

00:26:45.020 Lieutenant Michael

00:26:46.600 McIver says,

00:26:47.600 this is a

00:26:48.060 horrible tragedy

00:26:49.380 for all involved.

00:26:50.240 Our thoughts and

00:26:50.740 prayers go out to

00:26:51.560 both families and

00:26:52.240 all those who

00:26:52.600 responded.

00:26:53.860 Dogs were

00:26:54.540 reportedly taken

00:26:55.140 to an animal

00:26:55.600 shelter, and it's

00:26:56.340 unclear what

00:26:56.840 sparked the fatal

00:26:57.500 attack.

00:26:58.920 You want to talk

00:26:59.540 about unpopular

00:27:00.440 views?

00:27:01.400 Here's one of my

00:27:02.520 many unpopular

00:27:03.920 views, that

00:27:06.340 it's, I think

00:27:09.820 it's ridiculous

00:27:10.580 and reckless to

00:27:11.340 own pit bulls.

00:27:12.500 I do think pit bulls

00:27:13.980 should be banned

00:27:14.480 from communities

00:27:16.020 and neighborhoods.

00:27:18.960 You see these

00:27:19.920 kinds of stories

00:27:20.540 every year.

00:27:23.300 Yeah, most pit bulls

00:27:24.480 aren't out mauling

00:27:25.220 people, but

00:27:25.780 pit bulls are

00:27:27.440 perfectly capable

00:27:28.500 of mauling

00:27:30.040 especially child

00:27:30.620 to death.

00:27:32.520 And you're just

00:27:33.040 kind of hoping

00:27:33.720 if you have a

00:27:34.320 pit bull that

00:27:34.820 they're not

00:27:35.600 going to be one

00:27:35.920 of the pit bulls

00:27:36.320 that does that.

00:27:39.920 And how do you

00:27:41.660 achieve that?

00:27:42.320 It's by suppressing

00:27:44.440 their innate,

00:27:46.440 wild, aggressive

00:27:48.080 nature.

00:27:49.240 And if you don't

00:27:49.960 appropriately suppress

00:27:50.980 that, then they're

00:27:52.780 going to maul a

00:27:53.800 child to death.

00:27:56.420 I guess I don't

00:27:57.600 understand why

00:27:58.500 take that risk.

00:27:59.420 There are a couple

00:28:03.680 of dogs, two or

00:28:04.440 three dog species

00:28:05.260 that are responsible

00:28:06.300 for pretty much

00:28:07.420 all of the maulings

00:28:08.340 and all of the

00:28:09.860 deaths.

00:28:11.740 Why take that

00:28:13.180 risk?

00:28:13.540 If you really feel

00:28:14.420 the need to have a

00:28:14.940 pet in your house,

00:28:16.840 why choose one

00:28:18.040 that could, if it

00:28:19.020 decides to, kill a

00:28:21.360 child in the

00:28:21.820 neighborhood?

00:28:22.080 I need a good

00:28:25.540 reason.

00:28:26.080 And if your

00:28:26.700 reason is, well, I

00:28:27.520 think the animals

00:28:28.020 are cute.

00:28:28.640 So?

00:28:30.180 Is that a good

00:28:30.980 enough reason to

00:28:31.560 take that risk?

00:28:34.980 I just don't.

00:28:35.860 I don't get it.

00:28:37.480 I don't understand

00:28:38.340 bringing pit bulls.

00:28:40.780 Your hope, and

00:28:41.480 what you always hear

00:28:42.220 from pit bull

00:28:42.700 owners, right, is

00:28:43.760 well, my pity would

00:28:46.120 never do that.

00:28:47.300 You don't know what

00:28:48.140 your pit bull will

00:28:48.800 do.

00:28:49.600 It's a dog.

00:28:50.800 It's an animal.

00:28:52.300 You know almost

00:28:53.420 nothing about what's

00:28:54.380 going on inside that

00:28:55.640 creature's head.

00:28:57.720 It's a mystery, dude.

00:28:58.680 It's a mystery to

00:28:59.140 everybody.

00:29:01.520 It could snap at any

00:29:02.920 time if it wanted to,

00:29:04.060 and if it decides to,

00:29:05.140 it could kill somebody

00:29:05.780 or disfigure them for

00:29:08.480 life.

00:29:11.320 I don't see it.

00:29:12.160 I don't see the

00:29:12.600 point.

00:29:13.000 All right.

00:29:14.300 I want to play this

00:29:15.060 for you.

00:29:15.320 One of Chauvin's, one

00:29:16.860 of the jurors in the

00:29:17.880 Chauvin trial was

00:29:18.700 interviewed by CBS,

00:29:20.060 and he said that he

00:29:21.620 felt no pressure to

00:29:22.680 reach a guilty

00:29:23.160 verdict, and here's

00:29:24.880 how he explained his

00:29:25.820 reasoning.

00:29:26.400 Let's watch.

00:29:27.340 Did you feel pressure

00:29:28.580 because you knew the

00:29:29.660 world was watching

00:29:30.500 that, you know, we

00:29:31.800 have to reach a guilty

00:29:33.260 verdict here?

00:29:35.640 Not at all, and I

00:29:36.580 don't think any of us

00:29:38.300 felt like that.

00:29:40.360 I for sure did not.

00:29:41.980 I for sure did not

00:29:43.200 feel like that.

00:29:43.860 The pressure more so

00:29:47.240 came from just being

00:29:48.000 in the room and being

00:29:48.720 under stress, but it

00:29:50.540 wasn't pressure to come

00:29:51.580 to a guilty verdict.

00:29:53.960 What were you stressed

00:29:54.820 about?

00:29:55.380 What were you all

00:29:55.900 stressed about?

00:29:58.000 We were just stressed

00:29:58.760 about just the simple

00:29:59.480 fact of, I mean,

00:30:00.220 every day we had to

00:30:00.820 come in and watch a

00:30:01.500 black man die.

00:30:02.460 That alone is

00:30:03.280 stressful.

00:30:03.920 Yes.

00:30:05.400 Okay, so maybe that's

00:30:07.260 true.

00:30:08.920 I don't know.

00:30:09.540 It's what he has to

00:30:10.580 say, of course.

00:30:11.620 The jurors can't

00:30:12.520 come out and say,

00:30:13.460 oh, yeah, we only did

00:30:14.180 this because we were

00:30:14.760 under pressure.

00:30:15.520 Obviously, they're not

00:30:16.240 going to say that.

00:30:16.700 They can't say that.

00:30:19.100 So who really knows?

00:30:20.320 I will say that I

00:30:22.300 would find it more

00:30:24.380 believable if he said

00:30:26.020 something like, yeah,

00:30:27.940 I felt pressure, but

00:30:30.420 we put that to the

00:30:31.640 side and we got down

00:30:33.040 to work.

00:30:34.940 See, that I'd find

00:30:36.240 more believable, but

00:30:37.080 claiming that you felt

00:30:38.360 no pressure, none.

00:30:41.180 Felt no pressure at

00:30:42.320 all.

00:30:43.540 While there are mobs

00:30:44.760 in the street, in your

00:30:46.460 own community that you

00:30:47.360 have to drive by and

00:30:49.760 through on your way

00:30:51.200 home every day,

00:30:54.440 threatening to burn

00:30:56.240 down the city

00:30:56.900 explicitly if there's

00:30:58.340 not a guilty verdict,

00:30:59.980 I just find it

00:31:00.420 difficult to believe

00:31:00.880 that you would feel

00:31:01.380 no pressure at all.

00:31:02.640 Any human would feel

00:31:03.940 pressure.

00:31:05.100 It's not a weakness.

00:31:06.640 I would feel pressure.

00:31:07.580 Any person would feel

00:31:08.500 pressure.

00:31:09.000 Whether or not you

00:31:09.480 cave to it is a

00:31:10.580 different story, but

00:31:11.180 you would certainly

00:31:11.560 feel it.

00:31:13.920 So when you hear

00:31:14.600 from the jurors

00:31:15.240 that are trying to

00:31:15.640 hear now that, oh

00:31:16.760 no, that wasn't a

00:31:17.660 factor at all.

00:31:18.500 We didn't even, we

00:31:19.280 didn't even notice.

00:31:21.500 Eh, I find that very

00:31:24.340 hard to believe.

00:31:27.100 Does that mean, even

00:31:28.360 if they're being

00:31:30.740 dismissive of the

00:31:33.180 pressure and not

00:31:34.560 telling the full story

00:31:35.680 there, does that mean

00:31:36.700 that they reach their

00:31:37.620 conclusion because of

00:31:38.460 pressure?

00:31:38.860 No, but it's still, it

00:31:42.000 leaves, it leaves that

00:31:42.920 question unanswered.

00:31:46.100 All right, finally,

00:31:47.200 studyfinds.org reports

00:31:49.720 this, despite its

00:31:50.660 negative reputation, a

00:31:51.740 new study finds that

00:31:53.200 gossip can actually be a

00:31:54.860 good thing for people

00:31:55.740 to spread.

00:31:56.380 So gossip is good,

00:31:57.260 according to a study.

00:31:58.980 Study authors say

00:31:59.820 gossip isn't just about

00:32:00.880 passing on rumors and

00:32:01.960 saying bad things about

00:32:02.820 others.

00:32:03.080 In fact, their report

00:32:04.280 reveals it also serves to

00:32:05.360 create social connections

00:32:06.420 and even helps people

00:32:07.360 learn new things and

00:32:09.080 the world, about the

00:32:10.720 world that they haven't

00:32:11.440 experienced for

00:32:12.060 themselves.

00:32:13.020 So gossip is a, it's a,

00:32:14.300 it forms social

00:32:15.260 cohesion.

00:32:15.680 It's a good thing.

00:32:16.460 Go out and gossip about

00:32:17.980 your coworkers and your

00:32:18.920 neighbors and everything.

00:32:19.620 It's a perfect thing to

00:32:20.200 do.

00:32:20.600 The only reason I read

00:32:21.300 this is that it actually

00:32:22.620 rings somewhat true to

00:32:24.500 me.

00:32:25.360 You know, I've always

00:32:26.380 thought about gossiping

00:32:29.160 and the reason why

00:32:30.460 gossiping is common

00:32:31.240 among women is that,

00:32:33.560 is that they're, they're

00:32:35.320 more empathetic than men

00:32:36.720 generally.

00:32:38.500 So gossip to me is kind

00:32:40.560 of like the, the, it

00:32:42.460 stems maybe from a, a

00:32:46.540 positive instinct of

00:32:48.120 empathy and gossip is

00:32:49.900 kind of the ugly side of

00:32:51.020 empathy.

00:32:52.800 Because when you're

00:32:53.420 gossiping about somebody,

00:32:54.460 even if it's negative, the

00:32:56.060 point is you, you care

00:32:57.300 about what's going on in

00:32:58.420 this other person's life,

00:32:59.220 even in a negative way.

00:33:00.360 So there is a, there's

00:33:02.960 sort of an element of

00:33:03.780 empathy.

00:33:04.260 It's like empathy turned

00:33:05.260 upside down.

00:33:08.080 Um, kind of like hate is,

00:33:09.600 is, you know, the other

00:33:10.600 side of love.

00:33:11.620 Now for me, I know that I

00:33:13.820 don't gossip at all really,

00:33:15.420 but I realized that the,

00:33:17.220 the reason is not because

00:33:18.500 I think gossip is wrong,

00:33:19.260 although I do think it's

00:33:19.900 wrong.

00:33:20.720 It's that I just don't

00:33:21.920 really care what's

00:33:22.900 happening in anybody

00:33:23.440 else's life.

00:33:24.760 So when you come up to

00:33:25.580 me and gossip is, oh,

00:33:26.340 I guess what's happening

00:33:26.880 with this person.

00:33:28.640 Yeah, I know it's wrong

00:33:29.620 to gossip.

00:33:30.880 But also I simply don't

00:33:32.180 care what's happening in

00:33:32.840 that person's life at all.

00:33:34.980 So don't tell me about

00:33:37.440 it.

00:33:39.100 That's my, that's sort of

00:33:40.640 my defense of gossiping,

00:33:41.660 I guess, in case you were

00:33:42.720 curious about it.

00:33:44.200 Uh, all right, let's go

00:33:45.360 to reading the YouTube

00:33:46.120 comments.

00:33:47.040 This is a engineer or

00:33:48.940 bust says Matt Walsh's

00:33:50.440 hair is too shiny and

00:33:51.660 prim these days.

00:33:52.800 I miss when he looked

00:33:53.760 like a maniac and was

00:33:54.860 ranting in his car.

00:33:56.540 You know, I like to think

00:33:57.460 I still look like a

00:33:58.120 maniac and I'm still

00:33:58.880 ranting, even if not in

00:34:00.100 the car.

00:34:00.720 The spirit of those

00:34:01.660 days is still within me.

00:34:04.860 Um, oh, wait a second.

00:34:06.620 They just put it up on

00:34:07.420 the screen.

00:34:07.700 I forgot.

00:34:08.020 I almost, I moved on to

00:34:08.980 the comments.

00:34:09.420 I forgot.

00:34:09.840 We had another, we had

00:34:10.560 another TikTok video we

00:34:11.520 have to play.

00:34:12.040 I can't believe I forgot

00:34:12.760 this.

00:34:13.760 Thank you control room for

00:34:14.660 reminding me.

00:34:15.600 Um, yes, we have another

00:34:16.360 TikTok video tradition now.

00:34:19.800 And there's so many that

00:34:20.680 sometimes we've got to, we've

00:34:21.260 got to play more than one a

00:34:22.040 day sometimes to get all

00:34:22.900 these videos out here.

00:34:24.180 Uh, here's another one.

00:34:25.340 And, uh, this is, I

00:34:26.700 believe, an ode to Fauci that

00:34:28.560 we all are now going to

00:34:29.520 experience.

00:34:30.660 Here it is.

00:34:31.060 Mr. Biden, bring my

00:34:42.760 vaccine.

00:34:44.620 Keep me protected from

00:34:46.440 COVID-19.

00:34:48.600 Tell me the trick to how I'm

00:34:51.360 Moderna.

00:34:52.940 Fix of that magic Pfizer or

00:34:55.500 Moderna.

00:34:56.940 Biden, give me a pose.

00:35:00.880 They call you sleepy, but

00:35:03.480 you're pretty woke.

00:35:05.580 I'm so tired of quarantine.

00:35:09.220 Mr. Biden, bring my

00:35:11.400 vaccine.

00:35:13.220 Please bring me

00:35:14.020 Jane.

00:35:14.880 Jane for four.

00:35:15.420 Jane for four.

00:35:16.500 Jane for four.

00:35:17.020 Come on, come on.

00:35:18.560 I've been going to

00:35:19.600 say I've worn pants.

00:35:21.320 Dareware.

00:35:22.080 Here's Joe Biden.

00:35:23.860 Okay.

00:35:24.500 Where's my vaccine?

00:35:25.400 Let's just stop.

00:35:26.540 I'll just go on.

00:35:28.840 Let TikTok videos.

00:35:29.800 It's just, I think he does

00:35:31.980 the entire song.

00:35:34.700 This is the first time I've

00:35:35.520 actually watched the entire

00:35:36.360 thing.

00:35:37.000 I saw one second of it and

00:35:39.600 okay, we can turn it off.

00:35:41.720 I still hear it.

00:35:42.480 Please.

00:35:42.960 Please stop.

00:35:44.420 Get that out of my ear.

00:35:45.480 I watched one second of that

00:35:48.800 really.

00:35:49.600 And I knew that it was

00:35:50.600 something I had to inflict on

00:35:51.600 the audience, but I hadn't

00:35:52.980 watched more of it.

00:35:54.580 And then I just did, I wasn't

00:35:57.280 expecting the sexual

00:35:58.600 undertones there, but there

00:36:02.180 they were.

00:36:02.720 This is, you know, the people

00:36:07.780 who are making these, these

00:36:09.120 songs about vaccines, their

00:36:13.320 odes to vaccines and Dr.

00:36:16.100 Fauci, what would they have

00:36:19.180 thought about themselves?

00:36:22.760 Like in the year 2019, if

00:36:25.420 someone had shown them in a

00:36:26.420 crystal ball that this is what

00:36:27.700 they would be doing in a year

00:36:28.540 and a half, it is a pretty

00:36:33.620 disturbing stuff, but there you

00:36:34.700 go.

00:36:35.300 You're welcome.

00:36:36.380 All right.

00:36:37.200 Moving back now to the

00:36:38.600 YouTube comments.

00:36:39.180 Here's another one says, Hey

00:36:40.540 Matt, love your show.

00:36:41.460 If a man is not attracted to a

00:36:42.940 woman sexually, but they share

00:36:44.380 common interests, why can't

00:36:47.060 they be friends?

00:36:49.360 Well, yeah, we talked yesterday

00:36:50.480 about why men and women can't

00:36:51.480 be friends, but there, there

00:36:52.960 is some qualification to that

00:36:53.940 statement.

00:36:54.260 Like I said, that in, in, in a

00:36:56.500 many women can be friends in

00:36:58.120 certain contexts in when, when

00:37:02.200 it's kind of mediated, right?

00:37:04.800 Married couples are friends

00:37:06.100 and each member of each couple

00:37:07.720 is friends with each member of

00:37:08.900 the other.

00:37:10.020 So that's the way where men and

00:37:11.400 women are friends.

00:37:12.140 It could be friends.

00:37:12.960 They could, they could get

00:37:13.580 along as friends at work.

00:37:15.600 What I'm really talking about

00:37:16.900 are, are, you know, a deeper

00:37:18.960 friendship bond, like a

00:37:21.460 fraternal bond.

00:37:23.280 Is it possible for a man and a

00:37:25.080 woman to have a deeper

00:37:26.860 platonic

00:37:28.160 fraternal bond

00:37:30.000 that involves, especially

00:37:33.500 them getting together one-on-one

00:37:35.240 outside of these kinds of

00:37:36.240 contexts.

00:37:36.920 And there I'm saying, no, it's

00:37:38.180 not really possible, but when it

00:37:39.360 can happen, like you're talking

00:37:40.400 about here, what if they're not,

00:37:41.820 what if the man's not sexually

00:37:42.760 interested in the woman?

00:37:45.180 Even there, I don't think it

00:37:46.480 really works, but if it does,

00:37:48.600 it's because, as I said

00:37:49.900 yesterday, it's sort of like the

00:37:51.540 man is, is seeing the woman as

00:37:54.720 another man.

00:37:55.420 So he can make it work if he

00:37:57.300 almost sees her that way.

00:37:59.020 If he can fit her into the

00:38:00.420 context of a man-man

00:38:01.760 friendship.

00:38:06.120 And that's why you hear

00:38:07.280 women who talk about how they

00:38:10.580 have a lot of male friends, a lot

00:38:11.700 of times they'll talk, they'll

00:38:13.020 brag about all the manly type

00:38:14.620 things they like to do.

00:38:17.180 Because that's what they have to

00:38:18.400 do in order to fit in, is to sort

00:38:20.220 of pretend to be a man, at

00:38:24.080 least for the purposes of the

00:38:24.940 relationship.

00:38:27.180 Another comment says, I see no

00:38:28.300 problem with being anti-abortion

00:38:29.680 and also anti-elephant slaughter.

00:38:31.920 Humans are morally more

00:38:33.040 significant than elephants, but

00:38:34.220 elephants are arguably higher on

00:38:36.000 the continuum of living beings,

00:38:37.820 shall we say, than our cows,

00:38:39.800 pigs, or chickens.

00:38:40.880 Yeah, I have no problem with

00:38:41.640 that.

00:38:43.240 I have no problem with any

00:38:44.200 aspect of that.

00:38:44.960 That's not how I feel.

00:38:45.940 I don't really care if people

00:38:46.920 hunt elephants, frankly.

00:38:48.400 But I can totally respect that.

00:38:52.040 As long as you are pro-life for

00:38:55.000 humans, and you also understand

00:38:57.520 that there is a hierarchy, or as

00:38:58.860 you say, continuum of living

00:39:00.040 beings.

00:39:01.340 But I agree with you that there

00:39:02.340 is an implication there where it's

00:39:03.800 not like, okay, if we say that

00:39:05.360 human beings are the most

00:39:07.540 valuable and the most significant

00:39:08.680 life forms on earth, which they

00:39:09.980 are, it's not like it's human

00:39:12.460 beings and then every other life

00:39:14.260 form is lumped together in terms

00:39:15.560 of their importance and value and

00:39:17.080 all of that.

00:39:17.740 Well, we know that's not the

00:39:18.520 case.

00:39:20.020 I think everybody would agree

00:39:21.280 that, you know, a gorilla is

00:39:23.740 more important than a cockroach.

00:39:26.660 Almost nobody gets upset when you

00:39:28.140 step on a cockroach.

00:39:29.660 If you just walked up to a

00:39:30.880 gorilla and shot it in the head,

00:39:32.220 I think most people would be

00:39:33.360 upset about that.

00:39:36.060 So, yeah.

00:39:37.200 So I'm fine with that.

00:39:38.760 And then if you say that, you

00:39:40.500 know, as you get higher in that

00:39:42.060 hierarchy, it becomes more morally

00:39:44.640 problematic to kill those animals.

00:39:46.060 Yeah, that's, that's

00:39:47.380 understandable.

00:39:47.880 I think that's a perfectly

00:39:48.460 rational viewpoint.

00:39:52.180 Was there another one?

00:39:53.700 Okay, here's one more.

00:39:56.000 Says, fine, I'll be banned.

00:39:57.920 But Matt, Matt has entered

00:39:59.220 jerkdom here with his take on

00:40:00.920 children COVID vaccines.

00:40:02.840 The vaccines aren't for keeping

00:40:04.000 the kids from getting sick,

00:40:05.280 therefore making sure those

00:40:06.640 mobile Petri dishes become a part

00:40:08.500 of herd immunity so their

00:40:10.300 grandparents can visit them

00:40:11.400 again.

00:40:12.100 Stop being a jerk, Matt.

00:40:13.340 Matt, you're better than that.

00:40:14.500 No, I'm not.

00:40:15.140 First of all, how could you

00:40:16.400 watch this show and think that

00:40:17.500 I'm better than being a jerk?

00:40:19.000 Have you not been paying

00:40:19.860 attention at all?

00:40:23.520 And he said, well, will my kids

00:40:25.180 get the shot?

00:40:25.800 Of course, because I don't want

00:40:27.160 them to be the vector that killed

00:40:28.240 off grandma.

00:40:29.260 As for consent, didn't you make

00:40:30.760 the argument a few weeks ago

00:40:31.520 that kids didn't have, don't

00:40:32.760 have the mental capacity of

00:40:33.820 giving rational consent, but for

00:40:36.160 a COVID-19 shot, they need to

00:40:37.680 give their consent a bit

00:40:38.560 duplicitous, Matt.

00:40:39.420 Are you sure you aren't

00:40:40.560 becoming a Democrat?

00:40:43.240 Your selective logic is

00:40:44.600 beginning to make you sound

00:40:46.100 like one.

00:40:46.520 Okay.

00:40:48.000 A few things here.

00:40:49.300 First of all, we were talking

00:40:50.240 yesterday about children who

00:40:51.680 are being signed up for their

00:40:52.680 parents for vaccine trials.

00:40:55.100 Okay.

00:40:55.220 So they're, they're kind of like

00:40:57.020 the lab rats that are being

00:40:58.080 experimented on to find out how

00:41:00.320 it works with kids, what the

00:41:01.360 side effects are, how effective

00:41:02.440 it is.

00:41:03.240 Um, we were talking

00:41:04.240 specifically about that and

00:41:06.300 no, I would not sign my, I

00:41:07.560 would not sign my kid up for

00:41:08.480 any medical trial period.

00:41:10.160 I don't care what it is, but

00:41:13.280 then what about once we get

00:41:14.260 past the trials and kids are

00:41:15.720 getting it and everything, and

00:41:16.740 it's been deemed safe by the

00:41:18.120 powers that be.

00:41:19.280 Um, well, a few things here.

00:41:21.980 First of all, you say, well, we

00:41:22.940 want to make sure they don't

00:41:23.500 kill grandma.

00:41:24.720 Grandma can get the vaccine.

00:41:26.620 Hopefully your grandma already

00:41:27.740 has it.

00:41:29.040 So they're already vaccinated.

00:41:31.660 And we know that kids, the

00:41:33.560 studies have shown, not only are

00:41:35.620 kids far less personally

00:41:36.920 affected by it, but they're far

00:41:38.020 less likely to spread it and

00:41:39.500 carry it on.

00:41:40.960 So what is the chance that an

00:41:43.060 unvaccinated child, child who is

00:41:44.760 already very low risk for, for,

00:41:46.540 for spreading and, and being

00:41:48.380 affected by COVID, what's the

00:41:50.040 chance that they, that they

00:41:51.060 spread it to a vaccinated, to a

00:41:54.100 fully vaccinated adult.

00:41:56.620 And then that, that adult then

00:41:57.900 gets very sick.

00:41:59.080 What are the chances of that?

00:42:01.320 Now, I don't know exactly.

00:42:02.920 That's the point.

00:42:03.560 I don't know what the exact

00:42:04.260 percentage point chances, but

00:42:06.500 it's very, very vanishingly

00:42:08.380 low.

00:42:09.000 We do know that.

00:42:12.140 As I've been saying all week,

00:42:13.420 the CDC says that something

00:42:15.220 like of all vaccinated people who

00:42:17.200 have gone on to, to get, to

00:42:19.520 actually contract the virus, it's

00:42:21.160 like 0.008%.

00:42:23.700 So you're going to, you're going

00:42:26.900 to get your kid vaccinated on the

00:42:29.500 0.008% chance that they get

00:42:33.320 someone sick.

00:42:33.700 It's actually probably lower than

00:42:34.580 that because those, those adults

00:42:37.160 who are fully vaccinated and got

00:42:38.200 sick anyway, first of all, how,

00:42:39.380 how sick did they get?

00:42:41.580 And, um, and who did they get it

00:42:44.380 from?

00:42:44.580 We could probably, probably not

00:42:45.560 children for the most part.

00:42:48.340 So you're probably talking about a

00:42:49.320 less than 0.008% chance.

00:42:50.960 Are you going to inject this, you

00:42:55.300 know, uh, substance into a child

00:42:56.980 based on that?

00:43:01.080 You're going to make your own

00:43:01.760 decision as a parent.

00:43:03.740 I can tell you me personally as a

00:43:05.220 parent, the answer is no.

00:43:07.040 You know, as you all know, the

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00:43:14.760 Gina Carano and launched a new

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00:43:17.520 all within the last six months.

00:43:18.780 That's six months of activity.

00:43:20.000 Only imagine what we have to do

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00:43:22.120 Uh, we've been moving at the

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00:44:51.740 cancellation.

00:44:55.220 For our daily cancellation today,

00:44:56.420 we must discuss a story that in

00:44:58.380 another time and another place

00:45:00.120 you would assume is parody.

00:45:01.340 It starts with a man named Kelly

00:45:02.720 Donahue, a contestant on the now

00:45:05.020 Trebekless Jeopardy, uh, Donahue

00:45:07.100 on Tuesday appeared on the game

00:45:09.240 show after his third win while

00:45:12.000 being introduced by the host.

00:45:13.120 He briefly flashed three fingers

00:45:14.760 to the camera.

00:45:15.400 You can see it three fingers,

00:45:17.560 um, signifying that he'd won

00:45:19.020 three times.

00:45:19.620 We know that this is the meaning

00:45:20.500 behind the three fingers because

00:45:21.500 the day before he had flashed two

00:45:22.920 fingers and before that one.

00:45:24.640 Now I'm no math whiz, but I'm

00:45:26.140 starting to sense maybe a pattern

00:45:27.640 here.

00:45:29.140 Now, if you're a normal person, a

00:45:30.820 well-adjusted person, you might

00:45:32.000 see the three fingers, not

00:45:34.500 understand the context and not

00:45:36.760 do any research into the issue

00:45:38.100 because it doesn't matter.

00:45:39.720 Such a person, the normal,

00:45:40.880 well-adjusted type, if you see

00:45:41.960 someone hold up three fingers

00:45:42.980 and doesn't know why, we'll

00:45:44.460 think, oh, well, I guess there's

00:45:45.540 some banal reason why it's

00:45:46.580 holding up three fingers.

00:45:47.680 Hmm.

00:45:47.980 Okay.

00:45:48.500 Well, I guess I'll just continue

00:45:49.440 on living my life now.

00:45:51.680 But the problem, of course, is

00:45:52.700 that we live in a country overrun by

00:45:54.060 people who are not normal or

00:45:55.200 well-adjusted.

00:45:55.740 Many people, sadly, are

00:45:57.260 emotionally stunted lunatics

00:45:58.600 with the IQs of doorknobs.

00:46:00.880 And so the fact that a guy on

00:46:02.140 Jeopardy held up three fingers

00:46:04.060 became a problem, a

00:46:06.020 controversy, a source of

00:46:07.280 outrage.

00:46:08.540 It was decided by the doorknob

00:46:10.260 clan that Kelly's three-finger

00:46:12.160 salute was actually a secret

00:46:13.520 message to his fellow white

00:46:15.440 supremacists.

00:46:17.520 Kelly Donahue may seem like a

00:46:19.580 mild-mannered Jeopardy

00:46:20.940 contestant, but beneath that

00:46:22.160 facade, he's a skinhead and a

00:46:23.880 terrorist.

00:46:24.660 And we know this because he

00:46:26.100 moved his finger fingers in a

00:46:27.800 certain way.

00:46:28.920 That's what the mob decided.

00:46:31.200 As the controversy grew, a post

00:46:33.120 appeared on Medium, purportedly

00:46:34.900 from a group of former Jeopardy

00:46:36.400 contestants, almost, almost 600

00:46:39.260 former contestants apparently

00:46:41.620 signed this letter, denouncing

00:46:44.120 Kelly Donahue for holding up

00:46:45.380 three fingers.

00:46:46.860 Again, I'm not making this up.

00:46:48.600 This is not a parody.

00:46:49.980 This is real.

00:46:51.620 This is a lengthy letter posted,

00:46:53.640 apparently signed by 600 people

00:46:56.880 condemning someone for arranging

00:46:59.680 their fingers in a certain way.

00:47:02.680 The letter first condemned Donahue

00:47:04.500 for apparently saying the word

00:47:05.760 gypsy on Monday, so the day before

00:47:07.840 the three-finger assault.

00:47:11.480 He said the word gypsy in response

00:47:13.280 to a clue.

00:47:15.320 The word gypsy is now offensive,

00:47:17.300 apparently.

00:47:18.060 I'm not sure what else you're

00:47:18.760 supposed to call gypsies.

00:47:19.820 I also don't care.

00:47:20.700 But the gypsy kerfuffle was not the

00:47:22.740 biggest problem.

00:47:23.360 As the letter says, reading now,

00:47:24.700 it says, quote,

00:47:26.540 Tuesday, April 27th, was a more

00:47:28.880 widely felt misstep.

00:47:30.920 During his on-camera introduction,

00:47:32.500 Kelly made a gesture with his hand

00:47:34.120 that he has since claimed was an

00:47:35.660 indication that he had won three

00:47:36.860 games.

00:47:37.760 He had on previous episodes

00:47:38.920 indicated with one finger and

00:47:40.160 two fingers that he had won one

00:47:41.880 and two games, and no reasonable

00:47:43.100 person would have interpreted

00:47:44.020 those gestures differently.

00:47:46.020 However, this gesture was not a

00:47:48.700 clear-cut symbol for the number

00:47:49.860 three.

00:47:50.160 He held his thumb and forefinger

00:47:52.160 together with his other three

00:47:53.400 fingers, extended and palm-facing

00:47:55.520 inward, and he tapped his chest.

00:47:57.800 This, whether intentional or not,

00:47:59.620 resembled very closely a gesture

00:48:00.960 that has been co-opted by white

00:48:02.640 power groups, alt-right groups, and

00:48:04.320 an anti-government group that calls

00:48:05.900 itself the Three Percenters.

00:48:07.840 In a public Facebook post that has

00:48:09.260 since been deleted, Kelly states,

00:48:11.260 that's a number three, no more,

00:48:12.660 no less.

00:48:13.740 His public Facebook profile also

00:48:15.220 features a cover photo of Frank

00:48:16.640 Sinatra making a similar gesture.

00:48:18.200 This was either erased or made

00:48:20.380 private on Wednesday morning,

00:48:21.480 along with hundreds of public

00:48:22.440 comments on his few Jeopardy-

00:48:23.620 related posts.

00:48:25.200 Regardless of his stated intent,

00:48:27.380 the gesture is a racist dog

00:48:29.000 whistle.

00:48:30.200 Some of the first people to notice

00:48:31.300 this were not affiliated with

00:48:32.340 Jeopardy in any way.

00:48:33.300 They were viewers who couldn't

00:48:34.200 believe what they'd seen,

00:48:35.760 captured it on video, and

00:48:36.800 shared it on Twitter.

00:48:38.060 Among them were people of color

00:48:39.220 who, needless to say, are attuned

00:48:41.320 to racist messaging and not

00:48:43.040 appreciative that the show allowed

00:48:44.420 this symbol to be broadcast.

00:48:45.660 Oh, but wait, it gets dumber.

00:48:50.800 Continuing, most problematic to us

00:48:53.940 as a contestant community is the

00:48:57.180 fact that Kelly has not publicly

00:48:58.640 apologized for the ramifications of

00:49:00.680 the gesture he made.

00:49:02.300 If something has been misconstrued,

00:49:03.800 an apology and a total disavowal of

00:49:05.580 any connection to white supremacist

00:49:06.760 doctrines is called for.

00:49:08.720 Oh my gosh.

00:49:09.560 Um, we saw that gesture, we saw

00:49:16.360 that gesture air on television.

00:49:18.100 We are among the public it affected.

00:49:20.980 And we are a diverse group of

00:49:22.640 people, people of color, religious

00:49:24.880 minorities, and other marginalized,

00:49:26.480 marginalized groups already live in

00:49:28.560 the United States and in Canada that

00:49:30.060 have structural institutional racism,

00:49:31.820 sexism, anti-Semitism, ableism,

00:49:33.680 homophobia, and transphobia embedded

00:49:35.500 into their history and function.

00:49:36.680 These people deal with microaggressions

00:49:38.820 nearly every day of their lives

00:49:39.920 through words, actions, and

00:49:41.280 assumptions that remind them on a

00:49:42.740 constant basis that they are not

00:49:44.560 the default, they are not the

00:49:46.180 mainstream, they are not real

00:49:47.580 citizens.

00:49:48.400 And that is hard enough.

00:49:49.980 That is enough for them to bear and

00:49:51.660 enough for us to keep trying to

00:49:53.200 recognize, to address, and to fight.

00:49:55.180 That is already a series of walls and

00:49:57.060 fences that keeps us from truly

00:49:59.600 reaching the American ideal of e pluribus

00:50:02.800 unum.

00:50:03.120 We cannot stand up for hate.

00:50:05.760 We cannot stand next to hate.

00:50:07.520 By the way, this is all still about

00:50:08.700 the fingers, okay.

00:50:09.700 We cannot stand on stage with

00:50:11.160 something that looks like hate.

00:50:13.020 We are ashamed to be associated with

00:50:14.480 brands and identities that suffer the

00:50:16.280 taint of hateful statements and

00:50:17.500 actions, particularly if they go

00:50:19.660 unchallenged by those at the top.

00:50:23.120 All right.

00:50:26.180 It's hard to know where to begin in

00:50:28.320 dissecting this abject madness.

00:50:32.320 In encountering the leftist

00:50:35.240 mindset, I feel much as I feel when

00:50:36.780 walking into one of my kids' rooms and

00:50:38.340 seeing the chaos of toys and debris

00:50:40.300 strewn all over the place, I don't

00:50:42.780 know where to begin in cleaning it up.

00:50:45.400 Fortunately, I don't have to.

00:50:46.480 I tell them to do it.

00:50:47.220 It's their room, knowing full well that

00:50:49.160 they're just going to stuff everything

00:50:50.100 under the bed.

00:50:51.320 I have a don't ask, don't tell policy on

00:50:53.540 those sorts of things.

00:50:54.780 Just get the mess out of my sight.

00:50:56.840 I don't care where it goes.

00:50:59.500 Mommy feels differently.

00:51:00.440 You know that if she's telling you, but

00:51:02.160 for me, just, I don't want to see it.

00:51:04.280 Any case, back on subject.

00:51:06.900 In trying to sort through the mess of

00:51:08.840 leftist psychosis on display here, I

00:51:10.820 suppose we could start with the fact

00:51:11.940 that the three finger symbol is not a

00:51:15.440 white power symbol and never was.

00:51:17.180 The left simply decided at some point

00:51:19.220 that it is or should be and announced

00:51:21.300 that heretofore, if you around, if you

00:51:22.900 arrange your fingers in that way, you're

00:51:24.860 a racist, whether you meant to be or not.

00:51:26.440 And we could also note the truly

00:51:29.100 diabolical lunacy inherent in the idea

00:51:31.560 that intent doesn't matter.

00:51:34.180 The outraged members of the contestant

00:51:36.400 community, the newest marginalized group

00:51:39.360 on display, on the scene here, maybe

00:51:41.300 they'll get added to the LGBT acronym,

00:51:43.560 you know, LGBTQIACC for contestant

00:51:47.760 community.

00:51:48.760 But they say that even if he didn't mean

00:51:50.840 to flash a white power sign, he should

00:51:52.580 still apologize for their misinterpretation.

00:51:57.200 Of course, the truth is exactly the

00:51:59.680 opposite.

00:52:01.060 If you wildly misconstrue someone else's

00:52:03.780 meaning and intent and accuse them of

00:52:05.780 saying something they didn't say, it's

00:52:08.360 you who should apologize.

00:52:09.940 You're at fault.

00:52:11.780 I don't have to apologize to you for

00:52:13.900 your false accusations against me.

00:52:16.260 We might also mention the, you know,

00:52:20.780 incredible fragility demonstrated here.

00:52:23.520 We hear so much about white fragility,

00:52:26.100 but what can we say about a person who

00:52:28.280 feels traumatized and attacked by the

00:52:31.920 number three?

00:52:34.740 And how do these people ever watch Sesame

00:52:36.140 Street?

00:52:39.480 Today's number is number three.

00:52:42.100 They go screaming out of the rooms, hide

00:52:43.560 under the bed, make it stop.

00:52:46.880 What is there to be said about people who

00:52:48.460 are suffering PTSD because of the way a

00:52:50.640 Jeopardy contestant positioned his fingers?

00:52:54.060 This is a maniacal level of fragility.

00:52:57.320 These are people who in saner times would

00:52:59.060 be committed to asylums.

00:53:00.560 I'm not even kidding.

00:53:02.360 These are people who should be in lunatic

00:53:04.280 asylums.

00:53:05.740 They are psychotic.

00:53:08.900 Now, these are all things that we might

00:53:10.480 say if we wanted to defend Kelly Donahue from

00:53:14.000 these outrageous attacks.

00:53:14.860 But I have a policy that I've told you

00:53:16.800 before about defending people from the

00:53:18.100 cancel mob.

00:53:18.700 I only defend those who are willing to

00:53:20.760 defend themselves.

00:53:21.400 And there's a reason for that.

00:53:22.720 I can't defend you if you're going to

00:53:24.940 kneecap me in mid-defense by apologizing

00:53:27.420 for doing the very thing that I was just

00:53:29.300 defending.

00:53:31.080 And so I can't defend Donahue, sadly.

00:53:33.360 I can't defend him because of this, which

00:53:35.800 he posted to his Facebook yesterday.

00:53:37.420 Here's what he said.

00:53:37.900 I'm truly horrified with what has been

00:53:42.040 posted about me on social media.

00:53:43.920 I absolutely, unequivocally condemn white

00:53:46.280 supremacy and racism of any kind.

00:53:48.500 People who know me personally know that

00:53:49.880 I'm not a racist, but for the public at

00:53:51.420 large, it bears repeating.

00:53:52.560 I am not a racist and I reject and condemn

00:53:54.180 white supremacy in all forms of bigotry for

00:53:55.720 the evil they are.

00:53:57.100 It's shameful to me to think anyone would

00:53:58.620 try to use the stage of Jeopardy to

00:54:00.280 advance or promote such a disgusting agenda.

00:54:03.360 During the taping of my fourth episode, I was

00:54:04.840 simply raising three fingers to mark my

00:54:06.380 third win. There was nothing more I was

00:54:08.080 trying to indicate.

00:54:08.960 I deeply regret this terrible

00:54:10.880 misunderstanding.

00:54:12.120 I never meant to hurt a soul and I assure

00:54:13.580 you, I am no friend of racists and white

00:54:15.420 supremacists.

00:54:16.580 I removed the previous post because the

00:54:18.080 comments were more than I could bear.

00:54:19.600 I stand by the statements itself and you

00:54:21.280 could find it reported in other media.

00:54:22.460 I did, however, understand the fair

00:54:23.620 criticism that I didn't include a

00:54:25.580 forceful condemnation of white supremacy

00:54:27.420 in my initial statement.

00:54:29.140 I hope my feelings on that matter are

00:54:30.620 clear now.

00:54:31.180 Okay.

00:54:33.040 Well, Kelly, you're on your own, bud.

00:54:36.920 With that, you're on your own.

00:54:39.520 Not going to get a defense.

00:54:41.600 Not going to get any sympathy because I

00:54:44.000 am tired of this.

00:54:45.600 I'm tired of it.

00:54:47.440 I know it can be overwhelming when you've

00:54:49.300 got thousands of people coming after you,

00:54:51.320 accusing you of being racist, saying all

00:54:52.920 things, these things that aren't true

00:54:54.140 happens to me a lot.

00:54:57.540 But, but we, we need to require of each

00:54:59.880 other a little bit of a spine, just a

00:55:02.140 little bit, not asking for much.

00:55:07.340 Apologizing and, and, and barking on

00:55:09.800 command like a dog because these

00:55:13.020 scumbags told you to.

00:55:16.440 Condemning white supremacy like there's

00:55:18.380 any reason for you to do it as if there

00:55:21.000 was ever any indication at all that you're

00:55:23.120 a white supremacist.

00:55:24.740 No.

00:55:26.700 Now I, you know, now I, I lump you in

00:55:28.560 with them.

00:55:31.220 Now I feel the same way about you as I do

00:55:32.740 about the rest of them.

00:55:34.000 I do.

00:55:36.060 Now, here's the thing.

00:55:36.620 When you, when you apologize for something,

00:55:40.020 you admit guilt.

00:55:43.540 Now you're not guilty.

00:55:45.040 Obviously, all you did was hold up three

00:55:46.600 fingers, but you've admitted guilt for

00:55:49.460 something you didn't do because you can't

00:55:52.660 apologize for something.

00:55:54.160 You can't actually apologize for something

00:55:56.260 that you didn't do.

00:55:57.180 Right?

00:55:58.900 Well, the apology doesn't mean anything.

00:56:01.720 It's like if someone, you know, if, if

00:56:03.660 Bob comes up to you and tells you that

00:56:05.780 Jim just punched him in the face, are you

00:56:09.980 going to say, oh, I apologize for that?

00:56:13.000 What do you, you didn't do it.

00:56:14.240 What are you apologizing for?

00:56:16.720 Or better yet, because in this case,

00:56:18.140 nothing happened at all.

00:56:19.160 It's better if, if someone, if someone

00:56:20.220 comes up to you and says that, um, you

00:56:21.920 know, and, and, and accuses you of

00:56:24.100 sending your invisible dragon over to

00:56:26.160 their house to burn it down.

00:56:29.320 And you say, oh, oh, I, I apologize for

00:56:31.740 that.

00:56:33.120 You didn't do it.

00:56:34.520 So by apologizing, you're admitting, you

00:56:38.680 can't, in order to apologize, you must

00:56:40.640 admit guilt.

00:56:41.180 It comes with, with the territory inherent

00:56:43.520 in the apology is an admission of guilt.

00:56:47.360 And that's why it becomes impossible to

00:56:48.700 defend you.

00:56:49.020 You aren't, you said you were guilty

00:56:50.020 basically.

00:56:53.020 Now the appropriate response to this, Kelly

00:56:55.100 is to say to the people accusing you of

00:56:59.340 this, F you, uh, I apologize for nothing.

00:57:05.740 You people owe an apology to me, you

00:57:08.220 lunatics.

00:57:09.840 And by the way, I'm going to sue you for

00:57:11.940 defamation.

00:57:12.520 I need all of you personally to apologize

00:57:16.420 to me publicly and beg for my

00:57:19.740 forgiveness or I will not stop until I

00:57:21.780 have bankrupted you all in court.

00:57:24.700 That's what the response should have

00:57:25.780 been, but it wasn't.

00:57:28.340 So Kelly Donahue was canceled.

00:57:30.120 All the people trying to cancel him are

00:57:31.400 canceled.

00:57:31.980 And again, we end the week with a, with a

00:57:34.240 round, a round of cancellation for everyone,

00:57:36.540 which is always a fun way to end it.

00:57:38.160 All right.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 30, 2021

Ep. 712 - It's Time To Get Over Your White Guilt

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