The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 716 - Biden's Administration Systemically Discriminates Against White People

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration is explicitly discriminating against white people and men as it doles out COVID relief.

00:00:07.040 This is what systemic racism actually looks like. So we'll talk about that today.

00:00:10.340 Also, five headlines, including Trump's Facebook ban is upheld.

00:00:13.840 Southwest kicks a three-year-old off a flight because although he was wearing a mask, they were afraid he might take it off at some point in the future.

00:00:20.740 So they kicked him off. And South Carolina brings back the good old-fashioned firing squad, which I think is a positive development. 0.98

00:00:26.840 We'll talk about that, plus our daily cancellation and so much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:59.160 It's not as easy as you may think to find a simple definition of the term systemic racism.

00:02:05.560 Given that we hear it so often, wielded with such blithe certainty, you'd be forgiven for assuming that the phrase actually, well, I don't know, means something.

00:02:13.960 But it takes some digging to discover what that meaning is, if there is any meaning to discover at all.

00:02:18.380 An article in USA Today, published during the height of the BLM riots last summer, appears intent at first on answering the question.

00:02:24.700 The headline says, what is systemic racism?

00:02:28.180 Here's what it means and how you can help dismantle it.

00:02:30.620 Okay.

00:02:31.520 Simple enough.

00:02:32.160 The piece surveys various civil rights leaders and advocates, including the head of the NAACP and also the president of the racial justice advocacy group Race Forward.

00:02:41.760 Between these authoritative sources, the following definitions of systemic racism are offered.

00:02:47.300 And I'm quoting now.

00:02:47.960 The complex interaction of culture, policy, institutions that holds in place the outcomes we see in our lives.

00:02:56.000 Also, systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantage African-Americans.

00:03:02.540 And also, systemic racism is naming the process of white supremacy.

00:03:06.520 Okay, so to summarize, systems and structures have procedures and policies which interact with cultures and institutions to create outcomes which lead to disadvantages caused by the process of white supremacy.

00:03:19.820 Well, that clears things up.

00:03:22.220 But the ambiguity, of course, is the point.

00:03:24.180 If systemic racism has no clearly discernible definition, then the definition could be whatever the activist needs it to be in any given moment.

00:03:30.940 Systemic racism, like so many other terms these days, C, gender, whiteness, privilege, human rights, etc., means anything and also everything and also nothing all at the same time.

00:03:42.740 But if you're not satisfied with the fluidity of the term and you would like to settle on something more solid so that you can actually apply it to the real world in a meaningful way,

00:03:51.100 then perhaps this definition that I found from the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center will suffice.

00:03:57.700 This is what they say.

00:03:58.520 Systemic racism includes the policies and practices entrenched in established institutions which result in the exclusion or promotion of designated groups.

00:04:07.980 Now, this is still wordier and vaguer than it needs to be, and it seems to dissemble a bit with the word includes, you know, but it gets us closer to the answer.

00:04:16.440 All we really need is the last part with a couple of additional qualifiers.

00:04:19.400 Systemic racism, if it means anything, must mean the explicit and purposeful exclusion or promotion of designated racial groups by a powerful institution.

00:04:30.560 That's a coherent and self-contained definition, which may render it useless to the racial justice activists,

00:04:37.960 but makes it useful to those of us who are actually concerned about finding and exposing true examples of systemic racism in our society.

00:04:45.460 And there are examples of it.

00:04:47.560 On that note, here's an example that may be worth our attention.

00:04:51.480 Breitbart reports, quote, restaurants and venues owned by white men will be last in line for federal relief under President Joe Biden's restaurants revitalization fund,

00:05:02.000 prioritizing funds for women and minority groups.

00:05:04.200 As part of Biden's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Small Business Administration is opening the application process by which owners of restaurants, bars and other venues can apply for federal relief to help make up for the loss of revenue

00:05:16.040 as a result of economic lockdown spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

00:05:20.740 The plan allows business owners to apply for relief of up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location.

00:05:28.500 Business owners do not have to repay the funds so long as the money is spent by March of 2023.

00:05:34.200 The relief, though, is being prioritized based on race, gender and whether or not business owners are considered socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

00:05:42.780 That's the report from Breitbart.

00:05:43.960 We can refer to the Small Business Administration website to confirm Breitbart's reporting.

00:05:49.540 The website lays out the process and the timeline for restaurant owners to apply for relief.

00:05:54.000 The first three weeks are designated the priority period, kind of like priority boarding on Southwest Airlines before you get kicked off for not having a mask on.

00:06:03.080 And only the priority groups are going to be processed and funded during that priority period.

00:06:11.020 Now, to discover what qualifies as a priority group, we are told to see below.

00:06:15.820 And you got to scroll down a little bit.

00:06:17.420 And then it clarifies that a priority group is a small business concern that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are women or veterans or socially and economically disadvantaged.

00:06:29.740 But who counts as socially and economically disadvantaged?

00:06:33.540 Once again, we're told to see below.

00:06:35.720 So you do a little bit more scrolling, continuing the goose chase, and then we find this stipulation.

00:06:40.600 Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.

00:06:48.560 Economically disadvantaged individuals are those socially disadvantaged individuals whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.

00:07:04.520 In other words, as long as you're not a white man who never served in the armed forces, you get to enjoy priority status.

00:07:11.980 White men can go to the back of the line. 0.83

00:07:13.600 How is it fair or legal to penalize business owners for their race and sex?

00:07:20.500 And what in God's name does any of this have to do with COVID?

00:07:24.420 Those are questions that you simply are not supposed to ask.

00:07:27.420 There's no answer for them that they're going to give you anyway.

00:07:30.660 The Small Business Administration is being straightforward in its discrimination against men here, but they're being a bit more coy about the racial component.

00:07:37.660 So it doesn't actually say anything about race specifically.

00:07:41.540 It doesn't lay out the races that are included and not included.

00:07:44.540 It doesn't explicitly state that white people are excluded.

00:07:47.700 You need to read the subtext.

00:07:49.540 But the subtext is written in big, bold, blinking letters.

00:07:53.500 And so you really can't miss it.

00:07:55.820 On the other hand, the USDA is handing out its own COVID relief under Biden's direction.

00:08:02.860 And that agency is not in the slightest bit shy about the racial bigotry embedded into the process.

00:08:10.740 Here's a report from CBS.

00:08:12.920 It says a group of Midwestern farmers sued the federal government Thursday, alleging they can't participate in a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program because they're white.

00:08:22.200 The group of plaintiffs include farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Ohio.

00:08:27.060 According to the lawsuit, the Biden administration's COVID-19 stimulus plan provides $4 billion to forgive loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are black, American Indian, Hispanic, Alaskan native, Asian American, or Pacific Islander.

00:08:43.880 White farmers aren't eligible, amounting to a violation of the plaintiff's constitutional rights, the lawsuit contends.

00:08:50.320 Yes, the lawsuit contends that.

00:08:52.340 But again, the agency's website confirms these contentions.

00:08:55.800 An article on USDA.gov titled FAQs on American Rescue Plan Debt Relief for Socially Disadvantaged Borrowers begins with this.

00:09:06.180 It says, earlier this week, we posted important information about the American Rescue Plan Debt Relief Payments for Socially Disadvantaged Producers.

00:09:13.500 The American Rescue Plan includes provisions for USDA to pay up to 120% of loan balances as of January 1st, 2021 for Farm Service Agency direct and guaranteed farm loans and farm storage facility loans.

00:09:25.080 And then it says, if you are a black Native American slash Alaskan native, Asian American or Pacific Islander, or are of Hispanic slash Latino ethnicity, with one of the loans listed above, you are eligible for the loan payment.

00:09:39.760 All right.

00:09:41.000 So whites need not apply. 0.99

00:09:44.740 I mean, literally need not apply because you're not going to get it because you're white. 0.98

00:09:47.900 Of course, the claim that all minority farmers are socially disadvantaged and that only minority farmers are socially disadvantaged is absurd on its face.

00:09:59.340 One of the plaintiffs joining the lawsuit is a man named Adam Faust.

00:10:05.580 Okay.

00:10:05.720 He's a disabled cattle farmer with spina bifida who lost one leg to a farming accident and the other leg to diabetes.

00:10:13.920 The Biden administration offers him no relief at all on the basis that a legless, disabled, diabetic farmer has no social disadvantages because his skin pigmentation is slightly lighter than some other farmers.

00:10:30.000 This is not only insane and grotesque, but it's out and out racism, systemic racism, to be exact, because you have a powerful institution, namely the United States government, the most powerful, excluding one group based explicitly on their race while elevating other groups based explicitly on their race.

00:10:52.240 Now, in our country today, there are no policies or laws, none, that expressly and intentionally elevate white people over racial minorities.

00:11:05.620 You cannot give me one current example of that.

00:11:10.220 Something like this in the reverse, where you've got a government policy that says, here's an advantage, and if you're white, you qualify for it, but if you're not, you don't. 0.59

00:11:22.240 There are plenty of current examples of laws that reserve special privileges for those who are not white, but not for those who are white.

00:11:31.800 Examples of the reverse, and these are just two of the most recent.

00:11:37.280 So systemic racism, yeah, it is indeed a problem in the United States.

00:11:42.060 It's just, it's not the sort of systemic racism that the racial justice activists want to talk about.

00:11:49.600 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:12.320 All right, so, you know, my wife and kids are away for a few days visiting my sister-in-law, and that means I was on my own last night.

00:13:22.240 And, you know, you know me.

00:13:24.020 You know what that means, okay?

00:13:25.880 Things are about to get pretty crazy, especially down here, Nashville, nightlife.

00:13:33.080 I mean, forget about it.

00:13:33.960 It was party time, to put it lightly.

00:13:37.540 So, basically, I ended up watching a documentary about volcanoes, and then I fell asleep.

00:13:42.320 And that was it.

00:13:43.720 It was really a pleasant evening, actually.

00:13:45.140 See, that's the thing.

00:13:45.820 When you're married and you have kids, and then you get a night to yourself, at first, you always get that sort of, like, tinge of mischievous excitement, similar to how you felt when you were 17, and your parents made the cataclysmic mistake of leaving you alone for a weekend.

00:14:01.000 And you could feel that way for a second, and then you say to yourself, oh, yeah, never mind.

00:14:05.920 I'm old and boring.

00:14:06.840 I forgot.

00:14:08.220 It's all quite sad, really.

00:14:09.300 But the documentary was interesting, Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno.

00:14:14.720 If you're looking for a documentary on volcanoes, I would recommend that one.

00:14:17.560 All right.

00:14:17.820 This is from Reuters.

00:14:18.940 It says, Facebook Incorporated's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump, but said the company was wrong to make the suspension indefinite and gave it six months to determine a proportionate response.

00:14:31.120 Trump called the decision and his banning across tech platforms a total disgrace and said the companies would pay a political price.

00:14:39.200 And so he's still banned, at least for six months.

00:14:46.040 And Trump is upset about that and says they're going to pay a price.

00:14:48.620 Right.

00:14:49.080 Well, first of all, two things here.

00:14:52.320 It obviously is absurd to ban the former president from any social media platform, especially all of them, as he currently is.

00:15:04.480 It's absurd.

00:15:05.520 It's dangerous.

00:15:09.740 It's pretty terrifying.

00:15:10.700 The kind of power these platforms have to have to have effectively erased a former president.

00:15:20.300 He leaves office and he's gone.

00:15:23.700 And that's why they're doing it.

00:15:25.360 And I think I think everyone knows that.

00:15:29.220 Even if they won't admit it, this is this is obviously politically motivated.

00:15:32.680 And they don't want to give him the platform back, especially if he's thinking about running again in 2024, because and they also don't want to be blamed by the media.

00:15:43.660 It's the thing if Facebook and Twitter let Donald Trump back on.

00:15:48.820 And then he runs in 2024 and wins.

00:15:52.280 They're going to get blamed for that.

00:15:54.960 By by the sorts of people that they don't want blaming them for things.

00:15:59.880 So the whole thing is is totally wrong.

00:16:02.680 However.

00:16:04.240 The reason why I can't.

00:16:07.300 Generate a lot of anger and outrage over this.

00:16:10.320 To the same degree as other conservatives and other and other, you know, conservatives and media, especially very, very upset about the Trump Facebook ban and all of that.

00:16:18.960 I can't get myself to feel all that upset about it, because as I have argued many times.

00:16:24.860 Trump had the chance to do something to rein in big tech and he didn't do anything.

00:16:30.300 Or even try.

00:16:34.340 And so now here he's he's he's here.

00:16:36.820 He is impotent and powerless.

00:16:38.520 He's hanging out at Mar-a-Lago promising that they're going to pay a price.

00:16:45.300 No, they're not going to pay a price.

00:16:46.600 Actually, you have no power.

00:16:49.560 Right now.

00:16:50.360 None.

00:16:50.860 Doesn't matter what you say.

00:16:51.880 You could have made them pay a price when you were the president of the United States.

00:16:57.500 Republicans could have done something when they controlled the entire government with Trump at the top of it for two years.

00:17:07.700 They didn't do anything.

00:17:09.760 Nothing.

00:17:10.380 What do they do during those two years when they control the whole government?

00:17:12.880 What do they do about big tech?

00:17:14.340 Did they do anything?

00:17:16.880 Nothing.

00:17:17.440 No.

00:17:17.660 Not just about big tech.

00:17:20.060 They didn't do anything about anything.

00:17:23.220 They just didn't do it.

00:17:24.620 They passed a tax cut.

00:17:26.380 That's what they did.

00:17:28.000 Well done, fellas.

00:17:29.300 Great job.

00:17:30.260 Gave us a tax cut.

00:17:33.360 And that was it.

00:17:35.500 With Republican control of Congress for two years and then Republican control of the White House for four years.

00:17:41.120 What do we get at the end of it?

00:17:42.260 We get tax cuts and then some other policies, all of which were erased by the Biden administration like that.

00:17:51.920 Gone.

00:17:54.680 As far as making a lasting impact, doing something big and important and difficult, like reigning in big tech, for example, didn't even try.

00:18:08.620 They talked about it.

00:18:10.340 Republicans are talking about it again.

00:18:11.580 Now, when they have no power to do it, that is the Republican move.

00:18:17.600 It's to wait until you have no power and then to start talking a big game about all these things.

00:18:22.980 Ah, let me at them.

00:18:24.820 If all, yeah, let, let, let, you know, it's like the kid in high school or middle school, you know, who starts talking a big game in class, acting like he wants to fight another kid.

00:18:40.640 When the teacher is right there and he knows the teacher is going to stop him.

00:18:43.940 And then you find that kid outside of the classroom, like at the bus stop and he's, he's running for the hills.

00:18:50.860 That's what the Republican Party is.

00:18:54.820 That's what they are.

00:18:55.440 They talk a big game. 0.91

00:18:58.320 They become big, tough fighters and warriors when they know they can't do a damn thing anyway.

00:19:03.900 Because they got the teacher in the class that's going to stop them.

00:19:05.960 Put them in charge of the class.

00:19:09.660 They actually have some authority now.

00:19:13.380 And they become pushovers, biding their time until they have no authority again.

00:19:17.960 So, you know, I'm, I'm not, I'm not in the mood to cry any tears for, um, any of them.

00:19:27.300 This is what happens.

00:19:30.720 You fed the alligator and then, uh, it ate you like that's, that's, that's how that goes.

00:19:35.880 All right.

00:19:40.380 Here's something that does provoke, um, my anger.

00:19:44.700 This is a story from nine news in Denver.

00:19:46.760 I want to play the local news report and it's worth bringing to your attention.

00:19:50.960 I'm actually hesitant to bring it to your attention a little bit because I may have trouble

00:19:54.480 refraining from screaming obscenities, um, at the conclusion of this clip.

00:19:58.880 So I'll try my best, but let's, let's give it a listen.

00:20:02.900 Traveling anywhere with a family has always been tough, but traveling these days is even

00:20:08.620 tougher.

00:20:09.360 The CDC says everyone aged two and up has to wear a mask on board a plane at all times.

00:20:15.740 Orion, can you say hi?

00:20:16.960 Three-year-old Orion Scott does pretty well with it, especially when you consider how difficult

00:20:21.140 it might be for him.

00:20:22.440 My son has sensory processing disorder, which means that sometimes he gets overwhelmed by

00:20:26.320 different, um, sensations like touch texture.

00:20:29.400 His mom, Caroline says sometimes the mask can be too much.

00:20:32.900 It's why she's got a doctor's note saying he might have a problem with his mask, but mom

00:20:37.460 and dad know how to handle it.

00:20:39.160 It's why she called Southwest's customer service department ahead of the family's flight out

00:20:43.820 of DIA to visit Orion's 94-year-old great grandma in Florida.

00:20:49.360 She was told everything would be fine.

00:20:51.160 When we actually got to our flight, we were told, um, that there was an issue and they had

00:20:57.060 to ask the supervisor to ask the captain's permission for us to board.

00:21:01.080 All this time, his mother says Orion was doing fine, wearing the mask, seatbelt buckle.

00:21:06.920 Came onto the plane and said that we needed to deplane because the captain did not feel

00:21:10.520 comfortable with my son on the plane.

00:21:12.460 And that was it.

00:21:13.420 She says they were removed from the flight simply because she took that precaution to

00:21:18.020 warn the airline about what might happen.

00:21:20.800 We were trying to do the right thing and we were punished for it.

00:21:23.260 The family spent nearly $2,000 booking new flights on a different airline for the next day.

00:21:28.280 She says Orion was fine on that flight.

00:21:31.080 In a statement today, Southwest told us they regret the inconvenience on the family and

00:21:35.360 that customer service was reaching out to them.

00:21:40.280 Hold on.

00:21:40.900 I'm cycling through all the things I can't say right now, landing on something I can say.

00:21:44.680 Um, yeah.

00:21:50.980 Okay.

00:21:52.160 I told you we shouldn't have played that.

00:21:53.080 This just makes me so angry.

00:21:54.500 It's, it is, it infuriates me.

00:21:56.920 It's such a deep and visceral way to treat people that way, to treat kids that way, especially

00:22:02.980 you kick them off the flight. 1.00

00:22:06.000 He, he was obeying the rules that this, the stupid, useless, um, rules that there's no 1.00

00:22:14.440 reason for those rules to be in place in the first place, especially for a child. 0.99

00:22:19.380 That the kid already poses basically no risk to anyone as it is.

00:22:25.960 And everybody else on the flight, by the way, like children, as we've said a million times,

00:22:30.980 low risk group, you really don't have to worry about them.

00:22:33.480 Um, statistically speaking, in terms of COVID, but also everyone else on a flight, if you're

00:22:38.940 an adult, you're wearing your mask and we're at the point now in America where most people,

00:22:45.220 you know, in, in, for most regions of the, of, of the country, if you wanted to get the

00:22:49.960 vaccine, you've, you've, you've probably gotten it by now.

00:22:54.060 So anyone on that flight who really wanted a vaccine probably has it.

00:22:59.860 Um, the people who haven't had the vaccine yet for the most part are people who,

00:23:03.480 you know, either they don't want it or they're a little more hesitant about it, or they're

00:23:07.680 not that, or they're just not that eager for whatever reason.

00:23:13.080 So if you're an adult worried about COVID, uh, you wear your mask, you got your vaccine.

00:23:21.480 It's even more of a reason. 0.79

00:23:22.600 Why the hell does this kid need to wear a mask for your sake? 1.00

00:23:29.220 But then on top of it, he's obeying the rules, the stupid oppressive rules. 1.00

00:23:37.240 He's obeying them. 0.99

00:23:38.060 And you kick him off the flight out of the, the, the fear that he might not obey them in

00:23:44.660 the future because he's a three-year-old with sensory processing issues.

00:23:51.340 Talk about discrimination.

00:23:53.480 I mean, I hope, yeah, yeah.

00:23:55.000 I'm sure Southwest is reaching out, you know, they're going to offer a, uh, you know, they'll

00:24:00.700 offer a rebate or something and, and, and they'll give you a, you know, a couple of free

00:24:06.620 flights in the future, uh, that's not going to be enough.

00:24:11.760 This family should own that airline when this lawsuit is done.

00:24:17.520 This is a blatant case of discrimination and there's no way that's legal.

00:24:23.320 There is no way that it's legal for a, for a, for a company to refuse service to a child

00:24:31.200 on the basis that he's a child with sensory processing issues.

00:24:34.220 And so, uh, you're, you're worried about what he might do and he might not follow, follow

00:24:37.980 the rules at some point in your, uh, in the future is, there's no way that's legal.

00:24:47.940 So I hope she, I hope this is what needs to happen.

00:24:51.600 These, these kinds of rules need to fight them in the courts, take Southwest to the court, 0.99

00:24:56.720 sue them for all they're worth.

00:24:57.780 There's no defending this.

00:25:03.920 All right.

00:25:04.760 Um, and I, and I really hope that captain is, is fired.

00:25:10.900 And I, that's not something that I say very often.

00:25:13.320 I don't often call for people to lose their jobs, but, uh, this is someone, I don't know

00:25:19.420 anything about the person.

00:25:20.360 Um, they may have served the company with distinction for years, for all I know, but

00:25:26.340 they should be fired for that.

00:25:28.720 That is unforgivable.

00:25:32.500 Um, all right, let's move to, let's see, Liz Cheney. 1.00

00:25:36.900 Um, sorry, I just really don't care about this story at all.

00:25:41.100 I had this Liz Cheney thing to talk about and I don't care at all.

00:25:45.460 So we'll move to this instead from, uh, from CNN.

00:25:48.020 It says the South Carolina house of representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing

00:25:52.580 squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes elect, elect, elect, elect, electrocution.

00:25:59.060 That's what I can't speak.

00:26:01.460 Um, a more likely means of execution.

00:26:03.400 Electrution.

00:26:03.980 It makes electrocution.

00:26:05.720 Uh, the potential change in South Carolina law comes as states nationwide have hit barriers,

00:26:10.980 executing those on death row, uh, due to problems administering lethal injections, the

00:26:15.080 widely preferred method in the U S difficulties, finding the required jurisdiction.

00:26:18.020 Drugs have essentially paused executions in many States, including South Carolina, which

00:26:22.180 has not had an execution since 2011.

00:26:25.760 And now with the, uh, the bill, they're going to allow firing squad.

00:26:31.060 That's going to be like the default option.

00:26:33.440 But then you also have that, you have that option and also electrician, as I like to put

00:26:37.660 it, you know, I think this is a good bill.

00:26:39.860 Um, and the firing squad is far more efficient.

00:26:48.240 And I also think it's far more humane and it's not just a matter of it's sufficient and

00:26:54.800 it's more cost effective, right?

00:26:56.360 Because when we're dealing with something like execution, that, that, that shouldn't be

00:27:00.040 the primary concern.

00:27:01.060 Um, but I think it's far more humane and dignified than lethal injection because the whole point

00:27:10.000 of a, of lethal injection, the reason why we've been doing it that way for so many years is

00:27:16.580 just to make us feel better.

00:27:18.420 That's really what it's about.

00:27:19.520 It's not about, it's not about the person being executed.

00:27:23.300 We, we didn't, we didn't shift over from firing squad, hanging, you know, those kinds of methods

00:27:29.380 to lethal injection for the sake of the accused.

00:27:33.640 It's all for society so that we can feel better about it.

00:27:39.020 And it feels a little bit less like a person is being killed.

00:27:44.180 We talk about medicalization.

00:27:45.980 I was talking about the medicalization, um, of anxiety yesterday, this problem of medicalizing

00:27:51.060 things.

00:27:51.540 Well, uh, with lethal injection, we sort of medicalized the process of execution.

00:27:58.340 You put them down in a gurney, you have the, you know, you have the, the needle there

00:28:02.720 and it's just to kind of sanitize it and medicalize it.

00:28:07.840 And again, make us, make us feel like someone isn't being executed, but they are.

00:28:13.720 Someone is being killed.

00:28:14.860 It's, it's, it's a, it's a messy, difficult thing.

00:28:22.280 We're taking a life away and I support it.

00:28:25.140 I support the death penalty. 0.90

00:28:26.200 I think it's necessary.

00:28:27.140 It's a, it's a necessary tool for society to have, but, um, you are killing someone and

00:28:34.360 I think we should have to face that.

00:28:35.440 And firing squad is, you know, it's quick.

00:28:39.420 And I would imagine it's as, it's as painless as an execution method can possibly be.

00:28:44.280 But most importantly, it doesn't hide from what it is and doesn't allow us to hide from

00:28:49.520 what it is.

00:28:49.980 Uh, so I think that makes a lot of sense, but here's something that doesn't make sense.

00:28:55.660 Number four, mayor Bowser at DC has banned dancing in a move straight out of footloose

00:29:01.860 or really out of my own campaign platform when I run for dictator of the world.

00:29:06.880 But here she is, you know, I I'm banning.

00:29:09.700 I ban dancing in principle because I'm, I'm opposed to dancing in principle as a theocratic

00:29:16.440 fascist.

00:29:17.580 Uh, I certainly wouldn't ban it for the reasons that she gives, but here she is justifying 0.89

00:29:21.720 her dancing ban on CNN.

00:29:24.200 Let's listen.

00:29:25.360 I want to ask you about your new guidelines, um, for reopening DC.

00:29:29.020 It's getting a lot of attention.

00:29:30.600 Um, here's what you're saying.

00:29:31.600 Beginning May 1st, multi-purpose facilities and venues may host events such as weddings

00:29:37.000 provided that there may be no more than 25% capacity in any room or up to 250 people.

00:29:44.180 Here's what's getting a lot of attention.

00:29:46.240 Standing and dancing receptions are not allowed.

00:29:50.000 What good is a wedding without dancing, mayor?

00:29:52.380 And why no dancing?

00:29:54.980 Well, I think there's a lot of good to a wedding, like people starting off their, their lives

00:30:00.120 together and doing it in a safe way, uh, and not doing it in a way that puts themselves

00:30:05.480 or their guests in danger.

00:30:06.900 And let me be clear, uh, on May 1st, we were proud of our residents and businesses who make

00:30:13.360 conditions in DC such that we can start opening up these facilities.

00:30:16.900 An alternate headline may be now you can host a wedding, uh, in Washington, DC, a regional

00:30:23.320 meeting.

00:30:24.120 Uh, you can have, uh, your friends and family for a family reunion and birthday parties at

00:30:29.620 our hotels and restaurants.

00:30:31.680 And just like our restaurant guidelines suggests is that you have to be, uh, seated to, uh,

00:30:37.900 enjoy the restaurant.

00:30:39.980 Um, I see that.

00:30:41.180 I see that.

00:30:41.880 Um, we'll give you a minute for your, your earpiece there.

00:30:44.940 Thank you.

00:30:46.380 Thank you.

00:30:47.200 Your eminence.

00:30:48.040 Thank you.

00:30:48.660 You're, you're allowing, you're, you're allowing your subjects to have a wedding.

00:30:53.780 Thank you so much.

00:30:55.300 We bow before you in gratitude.

00:30:57.200 Empress, Empress Bowser for your magnatomy.

00:31:04.080 You are so generous.

00:31:05.560 Empress Bowser.

00:31:08.060 That's what she's saying.

00:31:09.020 She's saying, well, you bet you better be, at least I'm letting you get married. 1.00

00:31:12.260 You little brats. 1.00

00:31:13.440 You should be grateful. 0.99

00:31:15.760 I'm letting you get married.

00:31:17.300 I'll let you have a regional meeting, a regional meeting, not just a local meeting, but regional.

00:31:23.460 The entire region is invited.

00:31:28.620 I'll even let you have a family reunion.

00:31:31.720 As long as you're masked and, uh, maintaining social distancing.

00:31:34.540 But other than that, you could have a family reunion.

00:31:38.540 Make sure the infants and newborns are wearing masks now, of course.

00:31:44.300 Speaking of which, I'll let you have a baby in our city as well.

00:31:47.340 Make sure you put that mask on the baby as soon as it emerges from the birth canal.

00:31:50.380 Safety first.

00:31:51.000 You know, she never explains and isn't asked to explain, um, how exactly, or rather, why, um, the dancing ban was put in place at weddings. 0.96

00:32:07.140 That question is not insisted that she answer that question, which that would seem to be like the number one question when it comes to this issue we would want answered.

00:32:16.720 Why exactly did you ban dancing?

00:32:21.000 You know, all she says is that, uh, well, we, we want to have weddings and we want to do it in a way that's safe and is not going to put your guests in danger.

00:32:28.820 Okay.

00:32:29.460 Explain to me how dancing puts your guests in danger.

00:32:34.260 It puts them in danger of being embarrassed.

00:32:39.640 Like myself, if I'm dragged to the dance floor, uh, it puts me in danger.

00:32:44.940 It's like a sort of a social danger of, of intense embarrassment, which is why I'm in favor of banning dancing for, for that reason.

00:32:52.680 Um, but what you mean, it puts them in, in like some sort of medical danger.

00:32:58.640 How, how does dancing spread COVID?

00:33:02.520 Can you explain that Empress? 1.00

00:33:05.300 Now she can't explain it.

00:33:07.240 She's not asked to explain it.

00:33:09.060 They never are.

00:33:09.720 Seems like a fair question.

00:33:14.380 Like lay out the, the process.

00:33:17.620 Exactly.

00:33:20.180 Someone dances.

00:33:22.120 So step one, someone dances.

00:33:26.300 Step three, everyone in the room dies of COVID.

00:33:29.760 What happens in step two?

00:33:31.500 You've skipped over something.

00:33:32.580 I need to know what happens there.

00:33:34.460 How did you get from one to three here?

00:33:36.260 She was pressed a little bit more, um, lightly.

00:33:40.560 And she said that she's still, uh, given, given more, actually she's, she's pressed on whether she would allow dancing in the future, even after everyone is vaccinated.

00:33:51.500 And she still wouldn't commit even then.

00:33:53.520 Uh, let's listen to that.

00:33:54.940 Is there dancing allowed in New Mexico, governor?

00:33:58.760 Well, I'll tell you what, if you're socially distanced and you're wearing a mask and you meet the other requirements with our level of vaccinations,

00:34:06.260 um, yes, but I will, right.

00:34:09.520 And I want to, I want to give the mayor, uh, it takes courage to be really clear about what constitutes high risk activities and behaviors.

00:34:18.640 And it is something that democratic governors are leading in this country evidence-based.

00:34:23.000 I, I hear you, but, but mayor, just, just, is there any way that you would reconsider with masks on and say a, a, a, a card that shows fully vaccinated that you'd allow dancing?

00:34:32.800 Um, we're absolutely considering opening more activity, uh, as our case rates go down and our vaccination rates go up and that's in our hotels, uh, and that's in our other venues.

00:34:47.820 Understood.

00:34:48.560 Uh, mayor Bowser, governor, uh, Lujan Grisham, thank you very much for, uh, covering all of these topics with us.

00:34:54.200 Great to see you.

00:34:54.760 Why did I choose all of the most infuriating video clips to play in one show?

00:35:01.920 I'm going to have an aneurysm.

00:35:03.040 I'm going to have a heart attack right here in front of all of you.

00:35:06.500 We are actually listening to governors and mayors talk about whether people in their states and cities should be allowed to dance.

00:35:17.220 That's what we're talking about here.

00:35:18.840 That's what's happening in the United States of America circa 2021.

00:35:21.980 Everyone, even if people are wearing a mask and they present a card showing they're fully vaccinated, Empress Bowser says they still can't necessarily dance.

00:35:37.840 And then the other woman there on the panel gives Bowser credit, says it, it takes courage to be clear about what behavior constitutes high risk activities.

00:35:47.320 How is she being clear?

00:35:49.720 She's not being clear at all.

00:35:52.640 Oh, but at least the other woman, what was it? 0.94

00:35:54.340 The New Mexico governor.

00:35:56.580 In her generosity, she will allow you to dance as long as you're masked and socially, masked, socially distanced dancing.

00:36:06.720 I mean, you might as well not have any dancing at all.

00:36:08.580 I cannot imagine how absolutely creepy it must that look.

00:36:14.300 I want to see what that even looks like.

00:36:15.840 If any, if any, you know, any, any, any, any people who are so cowed and submissive that they would listen to these, to these edicts when they have a wedding reception.

00:36:32.380 Because, of course, the right thing to do, by the way, if you're having a wedding reception in D.C. is to ignore this completely and do what you're going to do and let her send the goons in to break up your wedding and start arresting people for dancing.

00:36:45.700 Let her do that. 0.99

00:36:47.440 Force her to do that.

00:36:50.020 Force her to send people into a wedding reception and arrest and cite them for dancing. 0.95

00:36:55.200 But those who are actually pathetic enough to listen to this, if they're, you know, in New Mexico, I want to, I would like to see what that looks like. 0.92

00:37:08.000 Just because I haven't had the aneurysm quite, quite yet. 0.97

00:37:10.640 And I want to, I want to be pushed over the edge.

00:37:12.120 What does it look like?

00:37:13.980 Socially distanced, masked dancing.

00:37:18.440 You got to present your vaccine card on your way up to the dance floor.

00:37:21.260 There's a, there's a bouncer standing there.

00:37:24.120 Present your card.

00:37:26.200 And then you, maybe there's like hula hoops on the ground and you have to dance within them.

00:37:30.940 You know, you each, you each have your little circle where you can dance.

00:37:34.980 I don't know if they, if they prescribe specific dance moves you're allowed to do and not do because certain dance moves might spread COVID more than others.

00:37:45.940 Twerking, for example.

00:37:47.880 I'm not sure if that's a high risk or low risk dancing activity.

00:37:50.760 I don't know.

00:37:51.380 You know, these are, we need to get, maybe we need to get Fauci in here to talk about that.

00:37:54.240 Tell us.

00:37:54.520 Can you twerk and not spread COVID or will that spread COVID?

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00:39:45.300 All right, let's move now to, I actually have other headlines.

00:39:48.720 I just got to, I got to move on to reading the comments.

00:39:51.200 If I have them here.

00:39:53.600 Yes, I do.

00:39:54.500 Erica says, I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in high school.

00:39:57.440 Now I see that my anxiety was not irrational, but a natural reaction to the cesspool that public schools are.

00:40:02.980 My body and mind were responding to being indoctrinated.

00:40:05.640 Yeah, and you raise a really important point because, you know, as I said yesterday, it's 50 million adults have been diagnosed with mental disorders.

00:40:14.780 Like, that amounts to one in five.

00:40:18.220 And then it's one in six or one in seven children have been diagnosed.

00:40:22.600 And we're pushing towards 20 million.

00:40:24.780 I think we're at 17 or 18 million children who have been diagnosed with mental disorders.

00:40:27.920 And a great many of them are, of course, in public school.

00:40:30.460 And it's their experience in public school, their lack of, you know, their inability to acclimate or to thrive in that context of public school that leads to them being diagnosed as mentally disordered.

00:40:42.960 Which is outrageous and horrific that we're doing that to kids.

00:40:48.700 Because, yeah, public school is a very specific and tailored sort of environment that is not suited for all kids.

00:40:59.200 In fact, lots of kids naturally will not acclimate to it and will not thrive in it.

00:41:03.920 They won't thrive in it academically and they won't thrive in it socially.

00:41:07.900 You're really the exception as a child if you do.

00:41:11.220 Most kids struggle.

00:41:12.960 And rather than considering whether there's a problem with the system itself and with the environment and with the way we're approaching education, instead we say, oh, no, if kids don't do well in this environment, clearly they're diseased.

00:41:29.280 So let's put them on pills.

00:41:33.440 Another comment says, Matt, for what it's worth, I agree with your stance on anxiety and your comments on mental disorders.

00:41:38.200 There is now a mental disorder called oppositional defiance disorder.

00:41:41.580 So it is now considered a mental disorder if one has a child or teen who is angry, defiant, and argues a lot.

00:41:47.740 Apparently the experts who came up with this have never been a parent.

00:41:50.240 I suspect there will be an oppositional chore disorder to be declared in the near future as well.

00:41:55.420 Yeah, oppositional defiance.

00:41:56.440 That's why I say 300 mental disorders listed in the DSM.

00:42:01.380 It might be more than that now.

00:42:02.840 I think there was a DSM-4 that had 300 and now it's DSM-5.

00:42:06.280 But about 300 mental disorders listed and so many of them are things like this, oppositional defiant disorder.

00:42:14.880 So a child who's defiant and opposes his parents' authority has a disorder.

00:42:22.200 And of course we'll be told, like we're told with all of these things, that no, it's, yes, it's normal for kids to be defiant sometimes.

00:42:32.000 But there's an imaginary line that we've drawn here and if the kids are defiant beyond that line, so defiance on this side of the line is okay and natural.

00:42:44.500 But if they're too defiant, if they cross that defiance line, now it's a disorder.

00:42:49.720 Who decides that?

00:42:52.840 Who decides where the line is drawn?

00:42:54.800 Why should we listen to whoever drew that line?

00:43:00.780 More questions that are not answered.

00:43:04.920 Jose Herrera says, hey Matt, are you a fan of avocados?

00:43:08.720 I am indeed a very pro.

00:43:11.720 We are pro avocado in my household.

00:43:14.120 We fly a avocado pride flag, very, very, very open to avocados.

00:43:21.980 Truth Seeker says, honestly, in regards to the child being paddled, I think this punishment should be normalized again.

00:43:29.240 Lord, that brought back memories for me.

00:43:31.260 I was paddled religiously, K through 8th grade.

00:43:34.100 Granted, I was born in 82.

00:43:35.920 Spare the rod, spoil the child.

00:43:37.300 But that's why I distinguish between corporal punishment, spanking in the home and at school.

00:43:47.480 And I think those are two, talk about environments, those are two very different environments and contexts.

00:43:52.400 If you want to use corporal punishment as a parent, that's one thing.

00:43:57.260 But it is simply a power and a tool that I wouldn't entrust to the government school system.

00:44:01.640 I'm not giving government employees the authority to strike my child, to hit my child.

00:44:08.340 I do not trust them with that authority.

00:44:10.340 I don't know about you.

00:44:11.480 I don't.

00:44:13.780 Joe Wright says, Matt is showing that he's just a liberal.

00:44:17.280 He was, that's me, all right.

00:44:18.680 Such a liberal.

00:44:20.260 Everything I say, right?

00:44:23.400 He was raised in a big city with a liberal mindset.

00:44:27.420 I wasn't raised in a big city, but okay.

00:44:29.080 I come from small town America where you could whip any kid you see misbehaving.

00:44:33.260 It didn't matter if they were your kid or not.

00:44:35.460 And if you found out that your kid was whipped by another parent when you gave them, well,

00:44:38.840 then you gave them another whipping because you know they deserve it.

00:44:43.500 Yeah, big city Walsh.

00:44:44.940 That's me.

00:44:45.340 Big city liberal.

00:44:48.080 You know, I got my head.

00:44:50.080 My hair is dyed pink.

00:44:51.220 Usually I, if it weren't for the show, it'd be dyed pink.

00:44:55.200 Big time liberal.

00:44:56.140 Everyone knows that about me.

00:44:57.020 Uh, yeah, no, let me just say, if you assault my child, if you lay a hand on my child, then 0.99

00:45:05.760 I'm going to lay my hands on you. 0.99

00:45:07.420 That's going to be my, my attitude.

00:45:11.300 If I, if my kid comes home and tells me that another adult in a neighborhood hit him, I'm 0.99

00:45:16.360 going to find that adult and I'm going to hit you harder. 1.00

00:45:18.440 That's the way that's going to go. 0.97

00:45:22.360 That's not a liberal mindset.

00:45:24.120 Okay.

00:45:24.800 That is a father's mindset.

00:45:27.180 I'm a father.

00:45:27.880 The idea that you'd let just any old creepy stranger lay hands on your child.

00:45:34.580 That's insane.

00:45:36.460 Could a parent would do that?

00:45:38.440 You say, but oh yeah.

00:45:39.540 Hey, yeah.

00:45:39.920 Here's my kid. 0.80

00:45:40.500 Any of you want to hit him? 0.83

00:45:41.220 Go ahead.

00:45:41.660 It's fine.

00:45:43.620 Do you see how crazy that is?

00:45:46.560 Do you?

00:45:47.100 If that's the way things were growing up for you, it was wrong and it was crazy.

00:45:54.780 And if that's the attitude your parents had, it was a bad attitude.

00:45:58.720 Really bad.

00:46:01.980 I'm old fashioned in a lot of things, but I will say that just because things were done

00:46:07.720 a certain way a long time ago, that doesn't automatically make them better.

00:46:11.460 So if this was the way things were growing up for you, then you were being neglected and

00:46:18.720 abused, I hate to tell you.

00:46:21.060 So that's something you might want to work through.

00:46:23.120 But no, I do not grant permission to any stranger to just walk up and hit my kid.

00:46:28.380 You do that and there's going to be serious consequences that you're going to pay.

00:46:34.980 And finally.

00:46:39.300 Oh, yeah.

00:46:39.780 So a couple of we played that clip yesterday of juror number 52, Brandon Mitchell, and when

00:46:47.140 he was being interviewed and he was revealing how he ended up on on the jury, he wanted to

00:46:52.680 be on the jury because it was a historic moment and he wanted to push for social change.

00:46:56.400 And then, of course, we find out that he was attending BLM rallies and George Floyd t-shirts

00:47:00.820 and everything.

00:47:01.780 But a few commenters pointed out like DT Barnes here leads a comment that says, did he call

00:47:07.120 the other jurors a cast, like a cast of actors?

00:47:11.340 And I did notice that and I forgot to mention it.

00:47:13.820 When we played the clip in the interview, Brandon Mitchell is talking about the other jurors.

00:47:20.320 And I'm pretty sure that's what I heard, too.

00:47:22.400 He actually calls them the cast, like cast members in a play.

00:47:26.420 Very revealing about his attitude and perhaps the attitude of the other jurors, although

00:47:33.500 we haven't heard from them yet.

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00:49:05.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:08.360 Today, our daily cancellation refers back to yesterday's cancellation, though we will

00:49:13.800 not rehash that subject.

00:49:15.160 Yesterday, in this segment, we discussed anxiety disorder, and I explained why I believe that

00:49:20.820 anxiety disorder is a category error.

00:49:22.580 I don't think that anxiety is a disorder or a mental illness, just as I don't think that

00:49:26.520 ADHD is a disorder.

00:49:28.460 And since I'm already pissing people off, I might as well tell you that I also don't think

00:49:31.220 that depression is a mental illness or disorder.

00:49:33.420 I think that a great many of the things which we have decided to call mental disorders actually

00:49:37.740 don't belong under that umbrella.

00:49:39.360 As I argued, we are medicalizing and disease-ifying, yes, I'm making that word up, fine, normal,

00:49:46.000 if painful and difficult, aspects of the human condition and the human experience.

00:49:49.860 Anxiety is an essential facet of being human.

00:49:53.020 It's a fundamental aspect of consciousness.

00:49:54.920 It comes with being a conscious being.

00:49:58.560 It comes with the territory.

00:50:00.080 It's not an illness.

00:50:01.360 And we shouldn't call it that, which isn't to say that those who struggle with it shouldn't

00:50:03.900 seek help or should be dismissed.

00:50:05.260 Far from it.

00:50:05.700 My argument actually empathizes with the people struggling with anxiety.

00:50:09.280 I would argue that calling them mentally ill is what creates stigma.

00:50:13.420 That is what is isolating.

00:50:15.860 And it does that unnecessarily as anxiety is not a sickness, except in the philosophical

00:50:20.420 or spiritual sense that someone like Kierkegaard would have described it.

00:50:23.640 That was the argument for yesterday.

00:50:25.880 And you can go back and listen to that segment if you want to hear me flesh it out in excruciatingly

00:50:29.520 long detail.

00:50:30.560 Today, I'd like to address and, of course, cancel the most common response I've heard

00:50:36.100 to that argument.

00:50:37.860 And it's worth addressing because this is the most common response you'll hear to almost

00:50:41.160 any argument you make on almost any subject these days.

00:50:45.000 People have been conditioned to react a certain way to ideas that they find objectionable or

00:50:50.360 discomforting.

00:50:50.960 The response, paraphrased, goes like this.

00:50:54.440 Well, Matt, you're only saying that because you've never experienced anxiety like I have.

00:50:59.180 If you only had my experience, you'd be saying something totally different.

00:51:02.980 Anyone who's had my personal experiences, which are so much more profound and enlightening than

00:51:06.540 your experiences, would, of course, come to all the same conclusions as me.

00:51:10.440 That's the basic paraphrase.

00:51:11.700 Just for fun, I'll give some real examples of this, quote unquote, argument from my Twitter

00:51:17.380 and YouTube comments.

00:51:18.460 Probably not necessary because you know what I'm talking about, but here are a few anyway.

00:51:23.000 One, there's varying forms of anxiety, Matt.

00:51:25.980 Just because you live your perfect, comfortable, cookie cutter life doesn't mean everyone else

00:51:29.980 has the same privilege.

00:51:32.340 Two, I literally have moments where I have to repeat things to get anxious thoughts out of

00:51:36.600 my head.

00:51:37.600 I've been struggling with panic attacks and anxiety my entire life.

00:51:40.540 You're lucky you haven't had to deal with anxiety disorders because they're hell.

00:51:44.000 Please educate yourself.

00:51:46.340 Three, sounds like you don't have a lot of experience with the human condition.

00:51:49.240 Being covered with privilege will do that.

00:51:52.240 Four, I challenge Matt to live a day in my shoes and then spew this BS.

00:51:56.440 Five, this piece of S has never known anyone with debilitating panic attacks and it shows.

00:52:03.140 But hey, he knows about the human condition, so he's more qualified than doctors apparently. 0.74

00:52:07.960 And six, man, F you. 0.99

00:52:09.820 Eat my entire a**. 1.00

00:52:11.280 You clearly don't live with an anxiety disorder, you ableist effing pile of dog S. 1.00

00:52:17.520 Okay, you get the idea. 0.98

00:52:19.020 As I said, hundreds of people have responded to me just like that.

00:52:21.740 And you'll hear a version of this response to nearly any topic or any argument you make

00:52:26.560 on any topic.

00:52:27.980 The person who counters in this way is doing three things, right?

00:52:31.940 First, he is making completely baseless assumptions about your personal experience based on the

00:52:39.900 point of view that you've expressed.

00:52:41.980 Second, he's declaring that his own personal experience grants him special authority that

00:52:46.200 automatically supersedes your own.

00:52:47.640 And third, for good measure, he's using emotional blackmail to shut down the conversation.

00:52:52.040 He's presenting his own victimhood as sort of a trump card.

00:52:55.800 It's the old, my life is harder than yours, which means I'm right. 1.00

00:52:58.720 But even if it's, but even if I'm not right, how dare you say that I'm not right, given that

00:53:02.340 my life is so hard already tactic.

00:53:05.340 So here's what I'll say to all of that.

00:53:06.760 And I'm addressing this now directly to all of those who have used this strategy in response

00:53:10.620 to me or in response to anyone.

00:53:13.160 To begin with, you have no idea what I have experienced.

00:53:18.460 You have, you assume that I have not had experiences like yours because your mind is so shallow

00:53:24.740 and narrow that you can't even conceive of the possibility that a person might have similar

00:53:29.320 experiences and yet draw different conclusions from it.

00:53:32.660 You're also a narcissist.

00:53:33.800 So you assume that your struggles are harder than everyone else's struggles and your pain

00:53:38.140 is so much deeper than everybody else's pains.

00:53:40.540 And your, and your life is more complex and dramatic than everybody else's life.

00:53:45.000 All of that might be true, but it's probably not.

00:53:49.360 Most likely your struggles are about on par with most people in the modern world,

00:53:53.220 which isn't, which isn't to say that you've experienced no pain.

00:53:57.560 Life is pain as the saying goes, but you hold yours up like a trophy and you brag of its

00:54:04.380 immensity and complexity.

00:54:05.620 And that's what makes me suspect that it's not all you crack it up to be.

00:54:11.060 As a general rule, people who really suffer don't use their suffering to win arguments on

00:54:16.380 Twitter.

00:54:18.040 But all of this is really beside the point.

00:54:20.840 We're talking about a general issue.

00:54:23.900 See, we're not talking about you specifically.

00:54:28.180 Believe it or not, not every conversation is about you.

00:54:31.540 In fact, almost every conversation that has ever been had on this planet or ever will be

00:54:36.380 had has not been about you and will not be about you.

00:54:39.620 You are irrelevant to almost everything that has ever been said by anyone.

00:54:44.980 Same goes for me.

00:54:46.400 Same goes for any individual person.

00:54:48.260 It's a tough pill to swallow, but it'll do you good.

00:54:51.420 In this case, we're having a mostly philosophical conversation.

00:54:54.440 We're debating the nature of anxiety and of the human condition.

00:54:57.360 And we're trying to figure out what the word disorder really means and how and whether a

00:55:01.720 thought process can be properly called disordered.

00:55:05.180 You're perfectly free to disagree with my take on all these questions.

00:55:08.040 I might be totally wrong.

00:55:09.320 I realize I'm in the minority here.

00:55:10.940 I realize that almost the entire psychiatric industry is on the other side of this issue.

00:55:14.400 I realize that most doctors are on the other side of this issue.

00:55:16.920 I realize that most people in general are on the other side of this issue.

00:55:20.520 That's fine.

00:55:22.120 I'm happy to hear your argument.

00:55:24.000 If I didn't want to hear opposing views, I wouldn't be saying stuff like this out loud.

00:55:27.360 So I'm happy to hear any counter-argument, especially ones that make me question my

00:55:32.200 assumptions.

00:55:33.560 Those are interesting.

00:55:34.740 Those are exciting.

00:55:36.560 I actually like it when someone presents a counter-argument to me that makes me go,

00:55:41.900 wait a second, was I wrong about everything I just said?

00:55:46.160 I like that.

00:55:47.540 I think that's fun.

00:55:48.620 But if you're only able to engage in this conversation through a mixture of straw man

00:55:55.100 fallacies and emotionally manipulative personal anecdotes, then I would ask you to sit this

00:56:00.640 one out.

00:56:02.000 In fact, I would say, can you sit out every conversation until you learn how to have a

00:56:06.880 conversation that doesn't revolve around your own self-obsession?

00:56:09.940 Because you're boring me.

00:56:13.240 And you are the kind of person who makes it impossible for people to have interesting,

00:56:18.920 thoughtful, productive dialogues in this country.

00:56:21.760 Because in every conversation, anytime anyone makes any principled, generalized point, here

00:56:31.400 you come in riding on your horse saying, what about me?

00:56:35.460 Here's my anecdote.

00:56:37.280 Well, this doesn't apply to me personally.

00:56:39.380 Let me tell you all about me and what I've been through.

00:56:41.280 Not relevant.

00:56:45.440 You're ruining the conversation.

00:56:47.660 Please stop.

00:56:49.720 Also, you're canceled.

00:56:51.120 So there's that too.

00:56:53.740 And we will leave it there for today.

00:56:56.000 Thanks for watching.

00:56:56.800 Thanks for listening.

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