The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 729 - Only Democrats Are Allowed To Make Hitler Analogies, According To Democrats

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left has gone into spasms of outrage because Marjorie Taylor

00:00:05.060 Green made a Holocaust analogy. These are the same people who make Holocaust analogies every time 0.92

00:00:09.460 they open their mouths, but somehow we're supposed to take their outrage seriously this time. Well,

00:00:14.040 I don't. And I'll explain why. Also five headlines, including breaking news that the COVID vaccine is

00:00:19.420 100% effective in preventing COVID in kids. Do you know what else is nearly 100% effective in

00:00:26.360 preventing COVID in kids? Their immune system. Also, Minneapolis commemorates the anniversary

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00:00:35.440 in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the viral video, which seeks to prove that it's impossible

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00:02:02.300 when it comes to insurance, it's nice to get it right. The rules from the left are very clear.

00:02:08.700 Just because they get to do and say certain things doesn't mean you get to do or say the

00:02:13.280 same things. And this holds true across the board for in many areas, but especially it's true 0.90

00:02:18.620 for Hitler and Holocaust analogies. As you no doubt recall, Democrats and leftists across the spectrum

00:02:25.120 at every level spent the past half decade comparing Donald Trump to Hitler and his every executive

00:02:31.360 action or policy proposal to the Holocaust. They invoked the Nazis at every turn, reflexively

00:02:37.500 accusing their political opponents of being Nazis. I've been called a Nazi myself more times than I

00:02:42.480 can count in spite of the fact that I've never participated in any genocide of any kind to my

00:02:47.960 memory, nor have I ever expressed any allegiance to or affinity with the Nazi party. There's no factual

00:02:53.420 basis for calling me a Nazi or you or Trump, but it was never about facts. For them, when they say

00:02:58.920 Nazi, they simply mean that your opinions are bad in their opinion and the Nazis are bad. 0.85

00:03:05.460 And therefore, since you're both bad, you're the same. That's as far as the similarities have to go 0.82

00:03:11.080 in order to justify the comparison in their minds. And it's not just with the Nazis. These are the same 0.90

00:03:16.600 people who will accuse you of directly causing hundreds of trans people to commit suicide if you so 1.00

00:03:21.760 much as state that women don't have penises. These are people who will throw suicide, tragedy, 1.00

00:03:27.640 death, genocide, Holocaust around like their water balloons, whatever is required to land a hit on 0.91

00:03:35.140 their ideological opponents. And yet, as established, none of this gives you license to do the same.

00:03:41.080 They have different rules. They have a different lane that they run in. And you better stay in your

00:03:45.680 own lane or there will be hell to pay. Marjorie Taylor Greene learned that yesterday when she sent out a 0.93

00:03:51.680 tweet, comparing vaccine passports to the gold star that Jews were forced to wear under the Nazis,

00:03:58.520 Greene tweeted, quote, vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo, just like the Nazis forced Jewish

00:04:04.220 people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passports and mask mandates create discrimination against

00:04:09.400 unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.

00:04:14.800 Now, so that was a tweet. And that is, to my mind, a sort of silly comparison, overheated.

00:04:24.080 I am very opposed to vaccine passports, but this isn't the comparison that I would draw.

00:04:29.960 Yet Greene's point here, first of all, comparison aside, is correct. It is wrong to discriminate

00:04:35.560 against unvaccinated people. And vaccine passports are a terrible idea with all kinds of potentially

00:04:40.440 awful ramifications. Whatever you think of the Nazi tie-in, the analogy she draws here is utterly

00:04:47.160 par for the course. People do it all the time, Democrats especially, but not just them. People

00:04:52.640 everywhere across the internet are always invoking the Nazis and World War II and the Holocaust to

00:04:58.380 make their point. Is that because they're anti-Semites? No. If they're anti-Semitic and they're Nazi

00:05:05.720 sympathizers, then they would support the Holocaust and they wouldn't use it to illustrate how evil 0.79

00:05:11.100 something is. The whole point of the comparison is that the Holocaust was bad. That's the point. 1.00

00:05:19.320 The constant Nazi analogies are really just the result of not anti-Semitism, but a kind of

00:05:25.640 intellectual laziness and a lack of imagination. Nothing more sinister than that most of the time.

00:05:31.740 Certainly in this case, it's not sinister. It's not a big deal. It's not some great evil thing that

00:05:38.340 Marjorie Taylor Greene has done. She's just done what everyone on the internet is doing every day, 0.98

00:05:43.340 all day, all the time. In summary, who cares? Well, the left cares. They care about this hyperbolic

00:05:52.580 Nazi analogy. This one outraged them. The ones they make all day, every day, all the time, nonstop, 0.64

00:05:59.220 are okay. But this one was beyond the pale. Marjorie Taylor Greene's tweet set off a day's

00:06:05.700 worth, and now two days' worth, of over-the-top, hand-wringing, outrage, condemnations,

00:06:11.060 solemn conversations about the grave threat that Marjorie Taylor Greene poses to our democracy.

00:06:17.760 Her tweet was condemned by every Democrat, every media outlet, even the Auschwitz Museum felt the

00:06:22.900 need to chime in. Cable news yesterday featured many breathless segments like this one with John

00:06:29.940 Berman on CNN. Listen to this.

00:06:32.380 It is not only ahistoric, it is abhorrent. It's also apparently allowable under House Minority

00:06:38.780 Leader Kevin McCarthy, who hasn't commented on it and refused to punish Greene for past

00:06:43.460 anti-Semitic statements she made. Wearing a mask compared to the murder of 6 million people,

00:06:49.740 it's so far beyond the realm of decency, it could only possibly be made worse by comments from Marjorie

00:06:56.220 Taylor Greene. I stand by all of my statements. I said nothing wrong. And I think any rational Jewish

00:07:04.580 person didn't like what happened in Nazi Germany. And any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's 0.96

00:07:11.080 happening with overbearing mask mandates. Any rational Jewish person? I'm Jewish.

00:07:18.400 I'm not at all religious. And thank God my family made it to this country decades before the Holocaust. 0.67

00:07:22.660 But that's my heritage. And I promised you that Congresswoman Taylor Greene, she thinks I'm Jewish.

00:07:27.840 So as a rational Jewish person, let me just say to Marjorie Taylor Greene,

00:07:31.940 don't you dare speak for me. Not if you're going to compare health measures or anything

00:07:36.580 to the Holocaust. In a tweet last night, she said, I'm sorry if my words make people uncomfortable.

00:07:42.820 No, they don't make me uncomfortable. They make me sick. How dare you? Abhorrent. It makes me sick.

00:07:51.820 I'm a Jew myself, says John Berman. Sure, he doesn't care about his faith, he says. And he's never

00:07:56.600 said a single word of protest against any left-winger making a Holocaust analogy ever. But even so,

00:08:02.540 he is outraged. Offended. He's never heard of anything so terrible in his life.

00:08:09.380 And where are the Republicans? Why aren't they condemning this? They must condemn. Condemn it once.

00:08:15.120 Condemn this thing that we're pretending to be upset about. Condemn it.

00:08:19.100 Well, don't worry. Republicans are always ready to bark like dogs whenever the left snaps its fingers.

00:08:25.020 And right on time, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy issued a statement

00:08:27.840 condemning Marjorie Taylor Greene in no uncertain terms. He said, in part,

00:08:31.560 quote, Marjorie is wrong. And her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust 1.00

00:08:38.020 with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. 0.76

00:08:44.160 The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling. Americans must stand together

00:08:48.420 to defeat anti-Semitism in any attempt to diminish the history of the Holocaust. 1.00

00:08:54.400 What a pathetic little worm this guy is. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise also condemned. 0.99

00:09:01.560 So did Liz Cheney, of course, calling the comments vile and evil and lunacy.

00:09:08.300 Evil. It's evil now. I mean, there are a lot of evil, but everyone on the Internet is evil now.

00:09:15.940 You included. Everyone.

00:09:18.380 CBS has a report on other GOP leaders who joined in the condemnation parade.

00:09:24.760 Quoting now, it says, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi responded that the speaker, quote,

00:09:29.380 has for decades spoken out against anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic attacks, including just yesterday.

00:09:34.620 Citing a tweet from Pelosi announcing anti-Semitism.

00:09:37.820 Leader McCarthy waited days to even issue a statement in response to one of his members demeaning the Holocaust.

00:09:43.500 And he, hold on a second.

00:09:44.200 Like, demeaning the Holocaust?

00:09:47.380 But yeah, we wouldn't want to demean and insult the Holocaust.

00:09:53.440 What does that even mean?

00:09:55.900 Demeaning the Holocaust is a horrific, horrible thing.

00:10:00.140 We wouldn't want to demean it.

00:10:04.400 Quote, and he clearly intends to continue to welcome Marjorie Taylor Greene in the GOP

00:10:08.720 and shield her from any real consequences or accountability for her anti-Semitism.

00:10:13.860 This is according to Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hamill.

00:10:16.480 Leader McCarthy's silence has spoken volumes about his allegiance to the most extreme elements of the GOP conference.

00:10:22.320 Greene's recent comments may have precipitated a response from McCarthy following criticism from prominent Republicans.

00:10:27.020 Quote, please educate yourself so that you can realize how absolutely wrong and inappropriate it is to compare proof of vaccination

00:10:32.860 with the six million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. 0.99

00:10:35.580 You are an embarrassment to yourself and the GOP. 0.98

00:10:38.720 According to Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, 0.99

00:10:43.140 he said in a tweet on Tuesday morning,

00:10:45.180 Jeff Miller, a prominent GOP lobbyist and close friend of McCarthy who sits on the Holocaust Memorial Museum Council,

00:10:51.120 slammed Greene in a tweet on Tuesday saying he would be happy to arrange for her to visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

00:10:56.420 Quote, then maybe going forward, you wouldn't make any more disgusting, ignorant, and offensive tweets. 1.00

00:11:01.360 If I'm wrong and you're not ignorant about the Holocaust, then you are disgusting. 1.00

00:11:05.200 Now, you know, I could go and check to see if any of these blathering phonies and idiots ever said anything like this to any Democrat who has invoked the Holocaust or Hitler. 1.00

00:11:16.780 But I don't think I need to check because we all know the answer. 0.99

00:11:20.360 They didn't.

00:11:22.040 We also know that these Republicans being good little puppies and doing as they're told will never actually succeed in satisfying their masters,

00:11:28.400 even though Republicans condemned as they were instructed to and did it within hours of the offending tweet.

00:11:33.980 It still wasn't enough, wasn't fast enough, wasn't passionate enough, as Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash back on CNN made clear.

00:11:43.740 Why do you think it took these Republican leaders so long to condemn these outrageous comments from this Congresswoman?

00:11:50.280 It's a difficult question to answer, and we haven't been able to answer to ask any of the leaders themselves why it took them so long.

00:11:59.240 For you and me, it's not just political. It's not just the story we're covering.

00:12:03.520 This is a very personal issue, given the fact that both of us, we lost family during the Holocaust.

00:12:10.240 That's right. And none of this should be political.

00:12:13.060 This isn't about political party.

00:12:14.980 This is about right and wrong and ignorance and whitewashing something that was a stain on humanity and human history.

00:12:24.000 And, yeah, I mean, the fact that Auschwitz had to come out with this incredibly powerful tweet.

00:12:29.980 My grandparents were Nazi refugees.

00:12:33.780 My great grandparents perished at Auschwitz.

00:12:37.780 Yeah, you know, maybe a yellow star was something that was, you know, yellow star was horrible.

00:12:45.320 Being gassed, which is what my great grandparents were, is a whole different thing.

00:12:50.200 And to compare that to the notion of public health and wearing a mask is just beyond the pale.

00:12:56.960 I can't imagine what it's like for you, Wolf.

00:12:59.220 Your parents were in slave labor camp.

00:13:01.500 Yeah. 0.95

00:13:02.240 The really offensive thing is that these soulless sociopaths would use their own dead family members to score political points, 0.93

00:13:09.960 because that's what they're doing here. 0.66

00:13:11.260 Now, if you think I'm being harsh, then please, please just show me the clip from two years ago

00:13:15.960 when Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash sat there and tearfully condemned AOC for accusing Trump of running literal concentration camps,

00:13:24.100 which she did.

00:13:25.920 It wasn't even a comparison.

00:13:27.980 She wasn't saying, oh, it's the like.

00:13:29.360 She was saying he actually has concentration camps.

00:13:35.160 Blitzer, as a man whose family perished in real concentration camps,

00:13:38.840 must surely have been offended by that if he was offended by Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments,

00:13:43.660 which were innocuous in comparison.

00:13:45.540 But no such clip or segment exists.

00:13:49.600 And we all know it.

00:13:51.300 And that's why Republicans, though they will never stop playing this game, must stop playing this game.

00:13:58.400 What what what the when the left demands that you condemn your own side for doing the things that they do

00:14:04.280 and saying the things that they say?

00:14:07.260 The correct response is to laugh in their face or ignore them, if you like.

00:14:12.020 Or, you know what, outright defend whatever they want you to condemn purely out of spite.

00:14:17.080 That's fine, too, because, you know, really, any response, any response is better than doing as you're told and giving them what they want.

00:14:27.720 It is not principle.

00:14:29.020 There's no principle here.

00:14:30.100 You are cooperating with these disingenuous, dishonest frauds taking part in the charade, allowing yourself to be used,

00:14:40.520 emboldening them, supporting them implicitly or explicitly.

00:14:43.600 And none of that approaches the realm of principle.

00:14:46.160 Maybe you do it out of fear. 1.00

00:14:48.620 Maybe you do it out of stupidity. 1.00

00:14:49.900 Maybe you do it out of self-preservation. 1.00

00:14:51.700 Or maybe you do it because you haven't thought it through.

00:14:53.940 Whatever the motivation, it is not the more virtuous path.

00:14:58.180 If you're an elected Republican and you work with Marjorie Taylor Greene every day and she says something you disagree with,

00:15:05.300 you can go and speak to her directly, personally.

00:15:07.460 I'm not saying you have to agree with and support everything that everyone on your side says and does.

00:15:13.120 I'm saying that condemnation as a public display, as public ritual, has to stop.

00:15:20.160 It's the same principle that holds true for public apologies.

00:15:24.400 I'm against those, too.

00:15:25.840 I'm not saying that nobody should ever apologize ever again.

00:15:29.440 I'm not against apologizing in principle.

00:15:33.440 I'm saying that apologizing to the public in this ritualistic fashion because the mob told you to is never the right thing.

00:15:43.300 It also will never have the result you're hoping for.

00:15:46.580 You'll never receive forgiveness through a public apology.

00:15:51.160 Just as you'll never get any credit for a public condemnation.

00:15:54.840 So stop and grow a backbone and smarten up, please, dear God.

00:16:00.840 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:01.000 All right, as we get to our headlines, maybe the number one headline, this might be big news to you, celebrity gossip.

00:17:09.560 My wife was out with some friends two nights ago.

00:17:13.720 She came home and she said that she saw Tom Hanks out here in Nashville, like eating at a restaurant.

00:17:19.340 But then I was kind of offended because she's telling me this.

00:17:23.140 And she wasn't overly impressed, which is good.

00:17:26.300 But she said, oh, you know, this is the first celebrity that I've seen here in Nashville.

00:17:31.720 And I said to her, what do you mean?

00:17:33.680 You see me every day.

00:17:36.920 And she paused for a second and she stared at me blankly and then burst out laughing in my face. 1.00

00:17:42.460 And then she said, I'm going to tell everyone on Twitter you said that, which she did.

00:17:47.920 So not the response you hope for, but that's what it goes.

00:17:51.340 That's how it goes.

00:17:52.060 All right, let's go.

00:17:52.880 Number one, this is from The Hill.

00:17:54.140 Well, Moderna announced on Tuesday that studies had found that its COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective at stopping infection in adolescents aged 12 to 17 and that it planned on submitting the findings to global regulators in the coming days.

00:18:09.880 100% effective.

00:18:11.200 Big news there.

00:18:13.160 Continuing, this is from Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an announcement, quote,

00:18:18.460 We're encouraged that the mRNA-1273 was highly effective at preventing COVID-19 in adolescents.

00:18:23.340 It is particularly exciting to see that Moderna COVID-19 vaccine can prevent the infection.

00:18:29.660 We will submit these results to the U.S. FDA and regulators globally in early June and request authorization.

00:18:36.080 According to Moderna, 3,732 participants aged 12 to 17 were involved in the study.

00:18:41.180 No cases of COVID-19 were observed in any of the vaccinated participants and no significant safety concerns were identified.

00:18:47.560 The vaccine was shown to be 93% effective two weeks after the first dose was administered and 100% effective after the second dose, according to the pharmaceutical company.

00:18:56.760 So they say that no bad health effects were identified.

00:19:04.480 Of course, this study doesn't include any potential long-term effects one way or another because you have to wait for the long term to find that out.

00:19:15.660 So that isn't really known.

00:19:18.380 But, you know, something to keep in mind here as we hear about the testing being done with kids.

00:19:26.760 And now the push is really going to begin once all this is officially approved for kids.

00:19:31.740 The push is going to begin to vaccinate kids for this.

00:19:36.280 And when I say push, I mean, we can expect, I would imagine, mandates, especially if you want your kids to go to school and that sort of thing.

00:19:42.880 But once we have to keep in mind, we're told that the vaccine is 100% effective.

00:19:49.720 And what does that mean?

00:19:50.540 It means that these kids were given the vaccine and then they didn't contract the virus.

00:19:59.360 But here's another thing.

00:20:01.460 Most likely, none of those kids would have gotten the virus anyway.

00:20:05.180 Most likely, because do you know what else is nearly 100% effective in preventing COVID infection in kids 12 to 17?

00:20:16.140 Their immune system.

00:20:18.420 Their immune system is already almost 100% effective.

00:20:25.200 Because COVID infections in kids at that age is very rare.

00:20:29.180 And when it does happen, vast majority of cases, extremely mild.

00:20:35.180 What we know, this is a statistical fact.

00:20:38.500 Kids at that age range are under a greater threat from the flu, both in terms of the likelihood of getting affected and the severity of the illness if they do get infected than they are from COVID.

00:20:48.540 That's what we know.

00:20:51.980 Now, I have to be careful in how I phrase all of this so that YouTube doesn't come along and just shut down the entire show and take the video down.

00:21:00.500 But everything I've said so far is statistically correct.

00:21:02.500 And so, as parents, as these COVID vaccines are rolled out for kids and we are, quote unquote, encouraged to bring our kids in to get the shot, we have to think.

00:21:15.240 Like, okay, I can inject this substance into my child to prevent an illness that they are nearly certainly not going to contract already.

00:21:27.880 Or I can just let their immune system do its thing.

00:21:33.980 And by the way, when we talk, keep this in mind, too.

00:21:37.380 When we talk about the likelihood or unlikelihood of kids getting infected by COVID, we're also looking at that's based on, you know, statistics in a time period back when nobody was vaccinated and adults weren't vaccinated.

00:21:53.080 And even then, when nobody was vaccinated and everybody was potentially susceptible to the virus, even then, kids were hardly getting it.

00:22:03.520 Now, most adults are vaccinated.

00:22:08.800 And any adult who wants to be vaccinated can be.

00:22:10.880 So, what are the chances now, if all the adults get vaccinated or if the vast majority of adults are either vaccinated or they're immune because of prior infection?

00:22:22.300 And if even before then, kids were extremely unlikely to get infected by it, what are the chances now that they get infected?

00:22:29.800 It's even less likely.

00:22:30.900 It goes from extremely unlikely to even less than extremely unlikely.

00:22:36.820 So, are you going to bring your kids in to get that shot?

00:22:39.520 I would like to know what the scientific medical case for that is.

00:22:48.340 I don't mean, I don't need to hear the hectoring in all of that.

00:22:53.340 I'm not asking for platitudes of people shouting.

00:22:57.040 Give me the scientific medical data-driven reason to bring my kids in to get that shot.

00:23:04.280 Given that their immune system is already nearly 100% effective in preventing the infection.

00:23:13.660 If you can make that case, I'd like to hear it.

00:23:16.460 I'm not sure that you can.

00:23:18.420 All right, number two, this is from The Daily Wire.

00:23:19.780 It says, earlier this month, two black Penn State University professors reported seeing a noose in a tree behind their house.

00:23:26.160 They told PSU student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, that the incident was deeply distressing to them and their family.

00:23:33.480 Media outlet, the Center Daily Times, reported that the professors believed the alleged noose was deliberately placed on the tree to harass them.

00:23:41.500 The College Fix reported that the Patton Township Police Department found the noose and began investigating.

00:23:46.040 Before that investigation was complete, however, PSU President Eric Barron posted a statement condemning the alleged act of hate and accepting the professor's feelings as truth.

00:23:58.240 Barron wrote, quote,

00:23:59.420 The incident underscores the importance of our anti-racism work as a university and as a community of scholars.

00:24:05.340 It also underscores the importance of our town work to build a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment for all who live here.

00:24:12.760 When police spoke to the professor's neighbors, they learned the truth.

00:24:16.960 Okay, so that's the setup.

00:24:21.460 And just to review, okay, we've got two black university professors who see, quote-unquote, a noose in a tree behind them.

00:24:30.200 What they really saw, by the way, they saw a rope.

00:24:32.500 They just happened to see a rope.

00:24:33.900 And the immediate assumption now is that if you're black and you see a rope anywhere, it is a suspected noose.

00:24:43.900 And someone planted it there as a hate crime.

00:24:49.100 And so then we had the police investigating and the PSU president condemning the rope.

00:24:55.640 This is the worst rope.

00:24:57.480 This rope is hateful and bigoted.

00:24:59.680 Well, it turns out, after police investigated, that the rope was not a hate crime.

00:25:05.260 It was part of a swing set that had been attached to the tree.

00:25:10.680 It was just a swing set.

00:25:13.180 Which, you know, I don't have, we could probably find a picture of this rope.

00:25:17.000 I don't have it in front of me.

00:25:17.680 I'm not sure what it looked like.

00:25:20.740 But I'm guessing.

00:25:21.660 First of all, what we know is that if it was part of a swing set, it wasn't an actual noose.

00:25:29.220 Okay, it may have been a rope with kind of like a loop at the end of it, which is where you would attach the swing.

00:25:34.860 But that's not a noose.

00:25:36.640 Not every rope that's hanging from something is a noose.

00:25:40.120 In fact, I go this far.

00:25:42.460 Almost every rope.

00:25:45.300 There's no way for me to confirm this, but I'll make this statement anyway.

00:25:47.980 Pretty provocative.

00:25:48.540 Almost every rope that is currently hanging from something in this country right now is not a noose.

00:25:57.420 Now you go even further.

00:25:59.560 There's a high likelihood that none of them are hate crimes.

00:26:04.000 All of the ropes, probably thousands and thousands of ropes currently hanging from various things for various reasons.

00:26:10.900 And none of them are hate crimes.

00:26:13.880 Because there are so many practical reasons why human beings hang ropes from things.

00:26:18.540 One of them is a, so I gotta, I gotta wonder, these two, um, college professors.

00:26:27.280 You send your kids to be taught by these people, and they've never heard of a swing set in a tree?

00:26:34.440 They never encountered that in their life?

00:26:37.580 When they were told about the swing set, they said, what?

00:26:39.500 What do you mean a swing?

00:26:40.320 What?

00:26:41.400 Swing?

00:26:41.860 What is that?

00:26:44.820 You're saying that children will sit on this contraption and swing back and forth?

00:26:49.540 I've never heard of such a thing.

00:26:53.100 These two poor people, I mean, they've been going to playgrounds their entire lives and thinking that they're witnessing a Klan meeting.

00:26:58.960 They never heard of a swing before.

00:27:00.520 Or, you know, the other possibility is that they're not lunatics, and they damn well knew that most likely this rope that they saw has a perfectly innocuous explanation, like a swing, but they decided to run with it anyway in order to score some victim points.

00:27:17.300 That's the other possibility.

00:27:18.520 You know, it's really one of those two. 1.00

00:27:20.120 So, either they are absolute lunatic idiots, or they're just disingenuous frauds. 1.00

00:27:29.580 You know, to me, those are the two most likely possibilities. 1.00

00:27:34.200 And I say that again, I haven't seen the rope.

00:27:38.120 I guess every time I see one of the things, I wonder where we have heard of so many cases of ropes being mistaken for nooses that were supposedly hate crimes.

00:27:50.120 Including in Bubba Wallace's garage.

00:27:52.040 Remember, there was a garage door pull.

00:27:56.020 It's just a rope used to pull open a garage.

00:27:59.680 And the FBI, what did they send?

00:28:01.240 I think they sent 15 FBI agents to investigate the rope.

00:28:06.800 So that we've heard of that, many other cases like that.

00:28:10.980 And in every case that we hear about, it turns out that the rope had some innocuous purpose, like a swing, a garage door pull, whatever.

00:28:18.060 There was another case in Cracker Barrel.

00:28:20.740 It wasn't even a rope.

00:28:22.160 It was just a, it was a cord from like an, from like an antique soldering iron.

00:28:27.680 And it happened to be hanging there.

00:28:29.300 And the assumption was that it was a noose.

00:28:31.060 So a lot of cases like that, and they all turn out to be fraudulent or hoaxes or misunderstandings, has, where are the real cases of this?

00:28:44.600 Does this ever happen in reality?

00:28:46.480 In fact, the whole idea of a noose as a, as a racist symbol, has it ever been a racist symbol?

00:28:56.640 I don't think it has.

00:28:58.960 The left just invented this.

00:29:01.160 It's kind of like the okay sign, which I just did right there.

00:29:03.600 So, you know, Media Matters is going to be on top of that.

00:29:05.820 The okay sign.

00:29:06.560 The left just decided that this is now going to be a symbol of hate.

00:29:13.620 It never has been.

00:29:15.580 There's no precedent for that.

00:29:17.080 They, they, they just decided it and they did the same thing with the noose.

00:29:22.740 Yes.

00:29:23.240 Now it's true that, that historically nooses have been used in murderous and racist ways.

00:29:31.000 That's true.

00:29:32.720 Um, but going back for thousands of years, ropes and even nooses have had innocuous uses.

00:29:43.260 And also sometimes murderous uses or executing people and oftentimes has nothing to do with race at all.

00:29:51.620 So the idea that it's now exclusively a racist symbol, where does that come from?

00:29:56.480 It just, it mainly comes from the media.

00:29:58.120 It's a media invention.

00:29:59.920 All right.

00:30:00.460 From the Daily Wire, as a reporter, reading now it says, as a reporter discussed police reform changes since the death of George Floyd at what's now called George Floyd Square.

00:30:10.260 Gunshots could be heard ringing out, leaving the reporter to seek cover.

00:30:15.340 This is in Minneapolis.

00:30:16.840 Philip Crowther, an international affiliate reporter for Associated Press, GMS, was on scene covering the anniversary of the Floyd arrest when the gunfire interrupted his reporting.

00:30:25.400 There's just something so, um, appropriate, I guess, about this, given, given the context.

00:30:31.600 But let's, let's watch the footage now.

00:30:33.140 Well, look, it's not going to be signed in time, at least according to the timeline that the White House and U.S. President Joe Biden had.

00:30:41.480 They wanted this bill of comprehensive police reform to be, uh, just got to be careful here with some gunshots.

00:30:49.560 Excuse us, excuse us.

00:30:50.540 It sounds like gunshots.

00:30:58.740 I'll let you know what this is.

00:31:00.760 These seem to be gunshots.

00:31:02.040 Get down! 0.98

00:31:03.720 Where is that?

00:31:07.620 We're okay, we're okay, we're okay.

00:31:15.200 Uh, we're just going to go.

00:31:16.840 Uh, yeah, so it's just a, uh, drive-by shooting at the George Floyd Memorial to commemorate the solemn occasion.

00:31:27.320 Um, nothing to see there.

00:31:29.840 I think the most disturbing thing, if you watch that footage, and you have to watch it to appreciate it, uh, so you go to Daily Wire or the YouTube channel to watch this, at least to watch this segment of it.

00:31:42.240 Um, it's how, you see the reaction from the people standing around, and they're reacting like this is something that happens every day.

00:31:53.520 It wasn't the kind of reaction that you would expect.

00:31:55.340 I saw, I think, one person running.

00:31:58.220 A bunch of other people just kind of standing around, almost, they might as well be yawning.

00:32:01.940 Almost yawning, saying, uh, another drive-by shooting?

00:32:05.160 Yeah, what else, what else do you expect?

00:32:06.440 Uh, because it, why do they act like it happens every day?

00:32:12.180 Because it does happen every day.

00:32:14.720 In Minneapolis and in cities across the country.

00:32:19.140 Why does it happen every day?

00:32:21.920 Well, in large part because these cities are run by Democrats who have no interest whatsoever in, uh, in preventing crime.

00:32:29.400 Uh, or punishing the people who commit crime.

00:32:34.020 And it also has something to do.

00:32:36.720 We look at the spike in crime, a massive spike over the last year.

00:32:42.760 Well, where were they?

00:32:45.380 This was the George Floyd memorial on the anniversary of his death.

00:32:51.440 So we are commemorating his death like he's a canonized saint, like he's a war hero.

00:32:59.980 He's got a memorial right there.

00:33:02.580 So I wonder, can we draw some connections here?

00:33:07.180 We celebrate and memorialize criminals, bad people, who, whatever you think about the circumstances around his death,

00:33:16.820 there was nothing honorable about his life as far as we know.

00:33:20.060 Uh, so we celebrate and honor criminals, and then you end up with more crime.

00:33:27.160 Could you maybe draw a connection there?

00:33:30.160 If you romanticize, excuse, and celebrate criminals and crime, is it possible you end up with more of it?

00:33:36.780 I don't know.

00:33:37.140 Something to think about.

00:33:41.400 Um, all right.

00:33:43.980 Going to the Daily Mail, it says,

00:33:45.680 Australian basketball star Liz Cambage has taken to social media to flaunt her body after slamming a coach for making disrespectful comments about her weight. 0.73

00:33:57.760 The WNBA all-star who plays for the Las Vegas Aces.

00:34:02.120 I don't have to tell you that.

00:34:03.860 Right?

00:34:04.080 This is, this is Liz Cambage we're talking about. 0.55

00:34:07.140 The WNBA all-star plays for the Las Vegas Aces.

00:34:14.360 We all know who this person is.

00:34:16.140 We're all big fans, right?

00:34:19.640 Here I am giving you details.

00:34:21.020 I said Liz Cambage, and immediately you thought, oh yeah, plays of NBA, WNBA all-star, plays for the Las Vegas Aces.

00:34:27.180 My favorite athlete.

00:34:28.040 Um, so excuse me for explaining who she is.

00:34:31.200 I don't mean to insult your intelligence.

00:34:32.340 I know we all know.

00:34:33.120 We're all big WNBA fans.

00:34:35.100 Um, anyway, the WNBA all-star hit back at Connecticut Sun head coach, Kurt Miller, after he encouraged an official to call a foul against her while saying, come on, she's 300 pounds. 1.00

00:34:47.240 Um, the six foot eight all-star doubled down hours later by sharing a video in the gym showing off her phenomenal figure while listening to a song titled Big Body Bends. 0.58

00:34:56.640 Um, all right, we don't need to read all this, but we do have a clip of, of, who is this again?

00:35:02.900 Liz Cambage, sorry, Liz Cambage again, big fan, um, talking about this.

00:35:07.920 And, uh, anyway, listen to the language that she uses.

00:35:11.240 So, something went down, uh, in today's game, and I need to speak on it because if there's one thing about me is that I will never let a man disrespect me.

00:35:22.600 Ever! 0.89

00:35:23.360 Ever, ever, especially a little white one. 0.92

00:35:25.800 So, to the coach of Connecticut, I'm sorry, little sir man, I do not know your name, um, but the next time you try to call out a referee, um, you know, trying to get a call being like, come on, she's 300 pounds.

00:35:40.160 I'm gonna need you to get it right, baby, because I'm 6'8".

00:35:44.220 I'm weighing, I just double-checked, because I love to be correct and get facts.

00:35:49.380 I'm weighing 235 pounds, and I'm, I'm very proud of being a big b***h, big body, big Ben's baby.

00:35:58.040 Um, so, don't ever try to disrespect me or another woman in the league.

00:36:02.760 I don't know if that's how, like, coaches run.

00:36:06.400 Like, you just disrespect, you try to disrespect women like that from the sideline. 0.99

00:36:10.080 And you're so lucky.

00:36:10.860 It was during a game.

00:36:16.060 That whole part, you were so lucky that I was at my, doing my job.

00:36:20.540 So, anyway, to that little man, like, whole little, tiny, like, where is you?

00:36:27.980 Where is you?

00:36:29.460 Good question.

00:36:31.180 She says she doesn't know who he is.

00:36:33.720 I don't know his name.

00:36:34.480 Um, but, which, true, I don't know his name either, but, uh, all jokes aside, nobody knows

00:36:39.320 who you are either, Liz.

00:36:41.520 That's why you're a professional athlete, allegedly, and you make, like, $45,000 a year,

00:36:44.980 because nobody watches and nobody cares.

00:36:47.320 Um, your entire league is, uh, is, uh, basically a welfare program, kept, kept, uh, kept afloat

00:36:52.200 by the, the NBA.

00:36:53.160 So, a little bit of humility, I think, would be in order.

00:36:56.900 Um, your league has no right to really exist, because nobody cares, nobody watches it, because

00:37:01.620 it's awful.

00:37:02.140 Um, and the only reason it does exist is because the men's league keeps you afloat.

00:37:07.420 So, all I'm saying, that's all to say a little bit of humility would be nice, is all.

00:37:17.440 And I don't need to point out, but I will yet again, that, uh, she says, I won't let a man 1.00

00:37:22.860 disrespect me, especially a little white one. 0.99

00:37:25.000 No need to point out that if this was a white WNBA player talking about a black coach and 1.00

00:37:33.240 said, I will never let a man disrespect me, especially a little black one, this is a whole 0.93

00:37:38.400 different conversation, right? 0.96

00:37:40.380 That if she had said that, that's headline news everywhere.

00:37:44.620 She's apologizing.

00:37:46.100 She's kicked off the league, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth, and all of that. 0.77

00:37:49.600 We know that's what's going to happen.

00:37:51.880 But this is just blatant racism from this woman, and, uh, nobody cares. 1.00

00:37:57.660 It's allowed.

00:37:58.080 You're allowed to do that.

00:38:01.720 All right.

00:38:02.340 But, because those are the rules, as we've established.

00:38:04.440 Totally different rules, depending on who you are.

00:38:05.760 And we're supposed to cooperate with that, be okay with that.

00:38:10.760 In fact, um, as we'll talk about the daily cancellation coming up in just a minute, although

00:38:16.360 that sounds really racist, I'll never let a man disrespect me, especially a little white

00:38:23.000 one, a little white one sounds really racist, but it's not because she can't be racist. 0.51

00:38:30.340 It's impossible.

00:38:31.680 And we'll talk about that in the daily cancellation.

00:38:33.460 But before we do, let's get to, uh, reading the YouTube comments.

00:38:37.420 Andrew, Andrew Schnick says, Matt Walsh, why do you assume that the UFOs came from space?

00:38:44.500 Ever see the movie, The Abyss?

00:38:46.280 Maybe the UFOs are from deep in the oceans.

00:38:48.760 I have heard this theory.

00:38:51.200 Um, I like this theory.

00:38:53.740 The theory to me sounds credible.

00:38:55.180 And by credible, I mean, it sounds entertaining and fascinating, and I wish it were true.

00:39:00.040 Where can I, I've heard this before, um, that.

00:39:03.820 Maybe the UFOs are coming from the ocean.

00:39:07.120 So is there any literature I can, I did a little bit of research and by research, I just mean

00:39:11.280 I Googled UFOs in the ocean and I clicked on the first link that popped up and I believed

00:39:15.960 everything that I read.

00:39:16.700 But if anyone has more extensive research or literature on, uh, the issue of UFOs coming

00:39:22.940 from the ocean, I'd love to hear.

00:39:24.280 Are we talking about, uh, some sort of space portal in the ocean or is this an, it was sort

00:39:30.220 of like an Atlantis situation?

00:39:32.740 Um, Aquaman type of thing where there's a civilization down there.

00:39:37.460 Like 98% of the ocean is unexplored.

00:39:41.560 We, we, we actually have no idea really what's happening in the oceans, uh, especially at

00:39:45.940 its deepest points.

00:39:46.720 So who knows?

00:39:48.100 Um, but I'll tell you right now, I believe it.

00:39:53.960 Um, let's see.

00:39:56.000 The other one says very telling an overweight older man named Trump gets COVID.

00:40:00.840 He puts on a brave face, acts like he feels much better than he does and walks on his own

00:40:04.640 steam to Marine one, to the hospital and back walks up the balcony and tears his mask off

00:40:09.120 for all to see. 1.00

00:40:10.180 AOC was across the street from where some unarmed idiots made a ruckus for an hour. 1.00

00:40:14.680 She broadcasts her pain and feelings and need for therapy for the next five months. 1.00

00:40:18.620 Ronald Reagan was shot.

00:40:19.720 Can you imagine him whining about his trauma or how he needs therapy?

00:40:23.140 Uh, yeah, I do think that that's a, uh, a very telling comparison.

00:40:30.340 I, you know, AOC would tell us women are just as strong as men.

00:40:35.360 Well, not saying they aren't, but you're not doing yourself any favors in making that case.

00:40:43.180 Um, the other one says new strategy, dislike the video.

00:40:48.480 When you start then halfway through, like it, the algorithm might think, Oh, Matt,

00:40:53.080 really influenced that person.

00:40:54.500 Complete one 80 double points.

00:40:56.380 No, no, no.

00:40:56.720 That's, that's not how the algorithm works.

00:40:58.680 Please don't, don't do that.

00:41:00.780 I don't know how I, you're, you're, you're getting a little too cute, too smart for your

00:41:04.180 own good.

00:41:05.300 Just hit like, that's all you have to do. 0.96

00:41:07.340 Hit like, hit like, hit it now.

00:41:09.540 Um, let's see.

00:41:12.920 What else?

00:41:15.280 And finally, G Smith says, Matt, uh, Matt doesn't want women to have facial hair because

00:41:19.520 he's worried that one of them might try to rival his beard.

00:41:23.760 No, that's not true at all.

00:41:25.040 I generally am prejudiced against women who grow out their facial hair. 0.95

00:41:29.760 Um, but I would, with all that said, uh, a woman who could manage to have the sort of 0.99

00:41:36.740 majestic mane that I do, I would have, I would, I would respect that.

00:41:41.380 If you're going to go for it, I guess go all the way.

00:41:43.200 That's what I'm saying.

00:41:44.300 Well, after a year of lockdown, uh, prices across the country are rising in tandem with

00:41:48.300 leftist insanity.

00:41:49.200 And you're probably ready to hear some voices of reason, make a little sense of it.

00:41:53.160 So please throw out your mask and join me, Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles,

00:41:57.640 and Andrew Klavan tonight for another cigar and sanity packed episode of Backstage.

00:42:01.760 By the way, many people have, uh, said to me that they're hoping we talk about aliens

00:42:06.800 tonight on Backstage.

00:42:08.280 I don't really set the agenda for the Backstage shows, but I will do my damnedest to make sure

00:42:13.680 that that subject is brought up.

00:42:15.820 Um, you, I'm, I'm in your corner.

00:42:18.160 Don't worry.

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00:42:56.020 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:43:00.720 For our daily cancellation today, we must confront the perhaps counterintuitive and even disturbing

00:43:05.360 idea that just because someone is writing stuff on a whiteboard, that doesn't mean they're

00:43:09.280 right.

00:43:10.440 I know this could seem confusing at first.

00:43:12.060 It's sort of like how we all assume that anyone holding a clipboard must be a trustworthy

00:43:15.340 authority figure.

00:43:17.220 Anyone in a lab coat must be an expert on science and medicine.

00:43:21.420 Anyone wearing a yellow vest must have the authority to stop and redirect traffic. 0.81

00:43:26.240 Any man with a beard must be able to defeat a grizzly bear in close quarters combat.

00:43:30.280 That last one is actually true, but the rest are often incorrect assumptions as evidenced

00:43:34.600 by the target of our cancellation today.

00:43:37.000 This is a man who goes by the handle Jolly Good Ginger, and here he is in a recent viral

00:43:42.980 video standing in front of a whiteboard explaining why white people can never be the victims of

00:43:49.240 racism.

00:43:49.860 And he is white himself, we must acknowledge. 0.58

00:43:52.400 Lots of people find this kind of reasoning convincing.

00:43:54.440 I'm not as convinced, but let's give it a listen.

00:43:57.960 This is a question I get asked a lot.

00:44:00.000 Can white people experience racism in America?

00:44:03.720 First, let's understand the word, racism.

00:44:06.820 It ends with ism, much like capitalism, the same ism.

00:44:13.100 Communism, the same ism.

00:44:15.560 Socialism, the same ism.

00:44:17.820 So what does that ism mean?

00:44:19.780 Ism means a system put in place by those in power centered around a specific set of ideas.

00:44:26.660 For example, capitalism, a system put in place by those in power centered around capitalist

00:44:32.760 ideas.

00:44:34.340 Communism is a system put in place by those in power centered around communist ideas.

00:44:40.140 Socialism is a system put in place by those in power centered around socialist ideas.

00:44:45.800 So what is racism?

00:44:47.520 It's a system put in place by those in power centered around racist ideas.

00:44:55.040 Okay, let's pause there just for a moment.

00:44:57.300 Ism means a system put in place by those in power, he says.

00:45:01.600 Huh.

00:45:02.800 Well, maybe he's, he's right.

00:45:04.460 I mean, he did give us like four examples, but then what about, I don't know, transgenderism

00:45:10.840 is transgenderism a system put in place by those in power. 0.81

00:45:14.340 Well, come to think of it, it sort of is, but what about existentialism, romanticism, hypothyroidism 1.00

00:45:22.240 is a person's dysfunctional thyroid gland, really a system put in place by those in power.

00:45:27.100 What about lesbianism, narcissism, romanticism, surrealism, witticism, fatalism, eroticism,

00:45:32.320 masochism, hypnotism, deism, atheism.

00:45:34.860 It turns out there are literally hundreds of ism words and the vast majority of them

00:45:39.140 don't fit with the definition that the jolly ginger has provided.

00:45:42.620 I never thought I'd see the day when a ginger would prove himself untrustworthy. 1.00

00:45:47.580 I'm just kidding.

00:45:48.060 We see those all the time.

00:45:49.760 Never trust them.

00:45:51.060 As it turns out, the suffix ism does not mean a system put in place by those in power.

00:45:56.840 It can mean that.

00:45:58.460 That could be one potential usage for the term, but it doesn't necessarily mean that.

00:46:04.100 What ism actually signifies is a system or theory or principle or process or action.

00:46:10.720 So then what is racism?

00:46:13.700 Well, racism is a theory that one race is inferior to your own.

00:46:17.340 It's also a principle, a bad one, but a principle.

00:46:20.220 It's even an action.

00:46:22.780 Racism can be a lot of things and manifest itself in a lot of ways.

00:46:26.340 And white people can certainly be the victims of it. 0.58

00:46:29.980 But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

00:46:31.200 Jolly Ginger has more to say.

00:46:32.560 Let's keep listening.

00:46:35.000 So then can white people experience racism? 0.98

00:46:37.740 What you're saying is when somebody says to you, cracker, honky, I don't trust white people, colonizer, white devil, that you're experiencing racism. 0.98

00:46:47.340 Well, you're not. 0.97

00:46:48.380 Let me explain.

00:46:49.500 What you're experiencing is called prejudice.

00:46:52.900 Prejudice is when someone has an idea about you based purely on the way you look.

00:46:58.500 The reason that's not racism is this.

00:47:00.480 The black community is incarcerated at a rate three times higher than white people for the same crime. 0.87

00:47:07.080 Are shot by the police at a rate three times higher than white people. 0.79

00:47:10.820 A traditional black name on a resume will receive a callback five times less commonly than a traditional white name.

00:47:17.740 White people are not victims of racial profile and redlining, gentrification.

00:47:22.320 You see, the system targeting marginalized communities is racism.

00:47:26.560 So even though a white person may experience prejudice, they'll never have to worry about being targeted by the entire system.

00:47:34.940 And that's what racism is.

00:47:36.440 And racism is much worse than prejudice. 1.00

00:47:40.120 That was all a bunch of stupid bull crap. 1.00

00:47:43.840 Let me explain. 1.00

00:47:45.280 I turn to my own whiteboard now, but I don't have one.

00:47:47.740 And besides, frankly, his choice of a whiteboard instead of a blackboard is pretty racist in and of itself.

00:47:52.720 He says that the reason a racist comment against white people isn't racist is because black people are incarcerated at a higher rate than white people.

00:48:00.480 This is what we call a non sequitur.

00:48:04.120 I would ask him to put that on the board, but I doubt he can spell it.

00:48:07.580 It's hard to even debunk the argument or engage with it because it simply makes no sense.

00:48:12.560 It would be like if I if I slapped you in the face and you said, hey, you slapped me in the face.

00:48:16.560 And I said, no, I didn't. 0.90

00:48:18.420 My dog died last Tuesday.

00:48:19.800 Anyway, the fact that my dog died in no way proves that I didn't slap you in the face.

00:48:24.980 It also doesn't justify it as you personally were not the one who killed my dog. 0.96

00:48:29.840 Is it true that black people are incarcerated at a higher rate? 0.93

00:48:32.500 Yes. 0.99

00:48:33.760 It's also true that they commit crimes at a higher rate statistically.

00:48:37.500 So to prove that the higher incarceration rate is the result of racism, you'd have to prove that actually whites commit the same amount of crime or more crime and are let off the hook. 0.68

00:48:46.520 Or else that black people are, in the majority of cases, incarcerated for things they didn't do.

00:48:51.400 Now, if you could prove that.

00:48:53.520 Then you'd have a case that that's an example of systemic racism.

00:48:56.300 And if you can prove it, go ahead.

00:48:57.400 But you'll need a lot more than a dry erase marker and a whiteboard to do it.

00:49:01.520 And anyway, all that aside, none of that has anything to do with the definition of racism.

00:49:07.940 He's also wrong about white people never experiencing systemic prejudice.

00:49:11.280 They do all the time.

00:49:13.080 Affirmative action is one obvious and irrefutable example.

00:49:18.660 That is a system put in place by those in power, which is directly and explicitly prejudiced against white people, especially white males.

00:49:30.580 No denying it.

00:49:32.040 By his definition, that's systemic racism.

00:49:34.760 But again, all that's really beside the point.

00:49:37.920 Racism is not distinct from prejudice.

00:49:40.160 These aren't two different things.

00:49:42.580 Racism is but one form of prejudice.

00:49:46.400 Saying that's not racism, it's prejudice, is like saying that's not an elephant, it's a mammal.

00:49:52.180 Another non sequitur.

00:49:54.800 Racism in reality is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

00:50:03.740 That's racism.

00:50:04.700 The WNBA player talking about that little white one, that's racism. 1.00

00:50:11.440 Okay, that's what racism is.

00:50:12.940 That's always been racism.

00:50:14.620 That's what the words always meant.

00:50:16.120 Jolly Ginger here is going with a different definition.

00:50:19.000 He's using the racism is prejudice plus power formulation, which you've probably heard before, and it's the basis for critical race theory. 0.93

00:50:25.900 The problem with that definition is that, first of all, it assumes wrongly that black people have no power, an utterly ridiculous claim in a country that just elected a black president twice. 0.83

00:50:35.620 But more importantly, the definition is straightforwardly false. 0.94

00:50:40.780 Do you know where it comes from?

00:50:41.560 Well, we know who it comes from.

00:50:43.900 It comes from a specific person.

00:50:45.880 It was made up by a sociologist named Patricia Baydahl in the 1970s.

00:50:51.460 She came along and decided that racism would mean this other thing now.

00:50:56.500 And people like Jolly Ginger have decided that Patricia Baydahl is the sole and unquestioned authority on this subject.

00:51:01.980 So when the Jolly Ginger and his ilk give this definition, what they should say is not, you know, racism is power plus prejudice.

00:51:12.960 What they should say is, you know, Patricia Baydahl says racism is power plus prejudice.

00:51:18.320 To which we can respond, who the hell is she and who cares what she says? 1.00

00:51:24.080 That's exactly like if I said that the new definition of cold is the condition of being warm.

00:51:30.360 And you asked me to explain how I arrived at that conclusion.

00:51:33.860 And I said, well, this guy, Bill Jenkins, told me.

00:51:38.580 Who's Bill Jenkins?

00:51:40.020 Why should his opinion matter?

00:51:41.740 Who imbued Bill Jenkins with the godlike powers to redefine entire concepts with the flick of his magic wand?

00:51:50.100 Well, it doesn't matter.

00:51:51.040 Bill Jenkins decided this.

00:51:52.600 And now that's it.

00:51:53.540 Just as Patricia decided that black people can't be racist. 0.97

00:51:56.300 And so that means black people can't be racist. 0.92

00:51:58.420 This is all quite nonsensical, of course. 0.82

00:52:02.160 It's the very definition of ad hoc reasoning.

00:52:05.500 Ad hoc reasoning is when an answer, solution, definition or argument is invented out of the blue in order to achieve some particular end or to justify some specific claim.

00:52:15.800 Now, the great thing about the ad hoc approach is that you can keep changing it.

00:52:18.940 You keep adjusting it as your rhetorical or ideological needs require.

00:52:22.980 Which is what these people do.

00:52:26.140 They keep kind of, you know, tinkering with the definition of racism with the specific aim of making sure that whatever happens, no black person can be guilty of it. 0.77

00:52:39.120 And only white people can be guilty of it.

00:52:40.620 That's ad hoc. 0.99

00:52:43.600 That's what it means.

00:52:44.420 At least that's what ad hoc used to mean.

00:52:45.940 But I guess we'll have to check with Patricia Baidal to see if it still means that because she's the one who decides these things.

00:52:52.140 This, of course, is the leftist MO to try and win arguments by summarily changing what words mean.

00:52:58.880 The change is never justified or explained.

00:53:01.700 It's simply asserted.

00:53:02.700 And we're all meant to be quiet and go along with it.

00:53:06.980 Unfortunately, I'm not that cooperative.

00:53:09.160 So I must still insist that racism means what it means and has always meant, regardless of what some sociologist and some redheaded guy with a whiteboard have to say.

00:53:20.520 And that is why our jolly ginger friend today is sadly canceled.

00:53:25.300 And we'll leave it there.

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00:54:22.000 more black people are dying and not at the hands of the cops. 0.98

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Ep. 729 - Only Democrats Are Allowed To Make Hitler Analogies, According To Democrats

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