The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 730 - The Truth Is Hurtful

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, USA Today commits the most egregious form of Orwellian speech

00:00:06.040 manipulation that I think maybe we've seen yet. You have to hear it to believe it. And we'll talk

00:00:11.520 about that in a second. Also, five headlines, including a new study which seems to show that

00:00:15.780 mask mandates did absolutely nothing to slow the spread of COVID. Who would have thought?

00:00:20.740 And a white journalist is put on the spot in an interview when he's asked what he likes about

00:00:25.720 being white. It's an interesting exchange. We'll play that today. Also, a new proposal from Maxine

00:00:30.320 Waters to give down payment assistance to Americans to help them buy their first homes. But of course, 0.59

00:00:36.160 not all Americans will get help, especially not white Americans. We'll talk about that 0.88

00:00:39.660 and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. Chelsea Mitchell is a name that you may or may not know.

00:00:54.580 She would be a household name if we lived in a country and a culture where strong and brave

00:00:59.080 women were actually celebrated. We are told, of course, that such women are celebrated. We're

00:01:03.960 instructed to celebrate them. But it turns out that there's only a very specific type of female 0.95

00:01:09.500 bravery that we're supposed to recognize and honor. In fact, according to our cultural overlords,

00:01:14.940 the most honorable act of female bravery is that which is committed by males. Trans women,

00:01:21.320 quote unquote, are the most acclaimed sort of women in the country today. And they aren't really

00:01:26.060 women at all. Real women take a backseat. And real women who oppose the intrusion of so-called 1.00

00:01:32.140 trans women, quote unquote, aren't simply sent to the back. They're kicked off of the bus entirely. 1.00

00:01:37.380 That's been the case for Chelsea Mitchell, who, along with three other female athletes, 1.00

00:01:40.660 is suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for allowing males to compete

00:01:47.080 against them. You may have heard of this case. Almost everyone in the country today would claim

00:01:52.620 to stand for the rights of women, right? Everybody would say that. But few have had the courage to

00:01:58.580 remain standing when push really comes to shove. Mitchell and her fellow plaintiffs are among the few

00:02:04.420 who are actually standing up for women. And they have all of our cultural institutions,

00:02:09.580 especially the media, stacked against them. That point was made abundantly clear this week after

00:02:13.880 Mitchell wrote an op-ed for USA Today, where she's making her case, making her case against males

00:02:20.140 competing against females in sports. Now, the fact that USA Today would even publish that article in

00:02:25.320 the first place may seem like an encouraging sign. But that encouraging sign quickly turned creepy and

00:02:31.560 Orwellian. Before we get there, let's read some of what Mitchell wrote in her editorial. Or I should

00:02:37.380 say this was her original editorial as it first appeared. This is what she says.

00:02:44.640 Quote, it's February 2020. I'm crouched at the starting line of the high school girls 55 meter

00:02:50.940 indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I'm running in the state championship and

00:02:55.860 I'm ranked the fastest high school female in the 55 meter dash in the state. I should be feeling

00:03:00.600 confident. I should know that I have a strong shot at winning. Instead, all I can think about is how all my

00:03:06.100 training, everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because

00:03:11.060 there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage, a male body. I won that race 0.83

00:03:16.740 and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I've lost four women's state championship titles,

00:03:23.540 two all New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third

00:03:28.180 place in the 55 meter dash in 2019 behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder

00:03:33.580 to try to try again. That's a devastating experience. It tells me that I'm not good

00:03:38.200 enough, that my body isn't good enough. No matter how hard I work, I'm like, I'm unlikely, unlikely to

00:03:43.920 succeed because I'm a woman. That experience is why three of my fellow female athletes and I filed a

00:03:49.400 lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom Against Freedom against the Connecticut

00:03:53.500 Interscholastic Athletic Conference because girls and women shouldn't be stripped of their right to

00:03:58.300 fair competition. Okay. Now, everything that she's written here so far is factually correct, morally

00:04:06.720 correct, inarguable, inarguable, I would say. She is a woman. She was forced to compete against 1.00

00:04:13.600 people who are not women. They had unfair advantages because of their male bodies. Through those unfair 1.00

00:04:20.720 advantages, she was robbed of the achievements that she had earned. This is an utterly unassisted

00:04:28.280 and undeniable point. She also describes, and I want to read this because she talks about how bad

00:04:36.180 the situation has gotten. It's actually worse than I even realized. She says, quote, the CIAC allows

00:04:43.720 biological males to compete in girls and women's sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls

00:04:49.940 track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women's state track

00:04:57.960 championship titles, titles held in 2016 by nine different girls, and more than 85 opportunities

00:05:04.020 to participate in higher level competitions that belong to female track athletes. That's because 1.00

00:05:09.160 males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average 1.00

00:05:13.860 than female bodies. It's obvious to every single girl on the track. All right, 15 titles. 1.00

00:05:20.280 Two males took 15 titles that before had been split between nine different girls.

00:05:27.380 And these are males who, we should remember, wouldn't have even made it onto the track in a

00:05:33.280 championship meet against other males. These were mediocre, unimpressive male athletes who couldn't

00:05:40.080 hack it against the boys, and yet they dominated against the girls. And by the way, we can't see inside

00:05:45.980 their minds. We don't know their motivation, but I'm going to guess, I'm going to speculate

00:05:50.480 that this is not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence that they found that they were

00:05:55.520 mediocre and they couldn't really compete against the boys. And then they discover their female 0.60

00:06:01.140 identity. Well, what do you know? What a, what a fortunate coincidence. Can't compete against the

00:06:06.500 guys. Turns out I'm a girl. Well, here we go. I don't know, but I'm going to say probably not

00:06:13.760 a coincidence. And why do they have that advantage? Well, because the male body confers enormous

00:06:20.360 advantages in athletic competitions against females with female bodies, which are the only 1.00

00:06:25.000 kinds of females that exist. Chelsea Mitchell's point is that no matter how these boys identify,

00:06:31.380 no matter how they feel, no matter their perception of themselves, the biological facts remain.

00:06:38.280 And all that matters in a track meet are the facts, especially the biological facts, the physical facts.

00:06:47.880 That's one of the great things about running as a sport. I, I ran track when I was in high school.

00:06:54.000 And one of the things I like about it is that it's, it's, it's mano y mano, very, very simple.

00:07:01.320 Can I get to the finish line before you? That's all it comes down to. All that matters are the

00:07:07.300 physical facts. Am I stronger than you? Am I faster? Do I have more endurance?

00:07:13.280 And we're going to find out because whoever crosses the finish line first, that's the answer.

00:07:19.660 What doesn't really matter are your feelings. So if you have a biological advantage over somebody

00:07:26.200 else on the track, that advantage is not offset by your feelings or your self-perception.

00:07:31.300 And that's the case that Mitchell makes or made anyway in USA Today. That was until trans activists 0.98

00:07:37.800 read her piece and realizing that they could make no intellectual argument against it, resorted to

00:07:43.080 their favorite tactic, which is silencing the opposition. And they, they especially enjoy silencing

00:07:48.180 women. I mean, no, no, nobody, no group in America more aggressively silences women than trans activists.

00:07:59.600 It's not even close. But, um, if they want to silence women, they can't do that without the 0.93

00:08:06.660 acquiescence of cowards in positions of power. So they complained that the article hurt their feelings

00:08:11.980 and USA Today with little resistance on their part or pushback summarily changed the article after

00:08:18.260 publication and without notifying the author that they were doing it, they just changed it in order

00:08:24.420 to remove all, quote, hurtful language from it. Now, as you recall, let's go back again.

00:08:31.080 Read this one little paragraph again. In the original article, as written by Chelsea Mitchell,

00:08:36.400 which was originally published in USA Today, this is what it said. Again, quote, instead,

00:08:41.980 all I can think about is how all my training, everything I've done to maximize my performance

00:08:45.660 might not be enough simply because there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical

00:08:49.960 advantage. Remember that? Okay. After USA Today made post-publication editorial changes to appease

00:08:57.620 radical trans activists, it now says, instead, all I can think about is how all my training,

00:09:03.940 everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because there's a

00:09:08.620 transgender runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage. You spot the difference? Kind of 1.00

00:09:14.060 hard to miss. They removed the word male. Whereas before she says that the runner had the advantage 0.94

00:09:20.380 of a male body. Now it simply says that the transgender runner had an advantage. What kind

00:09:28.220 of advantage? Well, who knows? Maybe he was wearing more comfortable socks that day. Maybe she ate a

00:09:33.440 cheeseburger before the race and he didn't. All mention of the specific type of advantage has been

00:09:39.940 erased. Indeed, USA Today removed the word male from the entire article and didn't even acknowledge

00:09:47.000 that they'd done it, aside from an editor's note apologizing for their hurtful language.

00:09:53.720 And in this case, the hurtful language, again, was scientifically correct language.

00:10:00.140 And it was also the entire point of the article. Mitchell's original piece says the word male 10 times.

00:10:09.120 Every other sentence practically contains the word male because that's the entire point and premise.

00:10:17.180 There is no argument against trans runners in female sports except for the fact that they're male. 0.56

00:10:26.100 That's it. There's no other argument. That's the only one and it's all you need.

00:10:31.040 In fact, the argument has nothing to do with the fact that they're trans.

00:10:37.000 That's irrelevant. Their self-trans is self-perception. 0.98

00:10:43.260 Their self-perception is irrelevant. The whole point, the only point, the point is that they are male.

00:10:50.080 USA Today decided that it's happy to publish her argument as long as her argument doesn't contain

00:10:57.160 her actual argument. This is quite clearly, to my mind, one of the most egregious and outlandish cases

00:11:04.480 of media bias and Orwellian speech manipulation that we've yet seen. And it really matters.

00:11:12.220 This is more than just some dumb thing that we can roll our eyes about and say, 0.99

00:11:16.180 oh, there's the silly mainstream media up to its old tricks again. 0.98

00:11:19.100 Now, this is the kind of thing that influences people. The goal is pretty clear. It's to make 0.92

00:11:26.340 it seem as though the people who are opposed to males in female sports or female locker rooms

00:11:31.380 are really just opposed to trans people. And we hear this kind of, um, this is the way the media

00:11:38.540 presents it all the time. The only difference is that usually they don't, they don't make a change

00:11:41.740 post-publication. In most cases, the original thing they publish is going to be framed exactly like

00:11:47.140 the edited version of Chelsea Mitchell's piece, where they say things like, and you see all kinds

00:11:52.220 of headlines like this, that, uh, you know, uh, conservatives are opposed to trans people in

00:11:57.140 sports, or there's a bill being passed in Texas or, or wherever, uh, uh, that, that, that, um,

00:12:04.000 will ban trans people from sports. That's not the case. That's not the case at all. It's,

00:12:10.800 it's not about trans. Um, the average oblivious American who reads that, okay, they're going to 0.63

00:12:18.860 read that and think, well, what's the problem here? Who cares if the other runner is trans?

00:12:24.240 When in reality, it's Chelsea Mitchell who doesn't care if they're trans. 1.00

00:12:29.440 They can identify as however they want. It's the biological reality that matters.

00:12:35.960 And the goal of the left with a big assist from the media is to erase that biological reality.

00:12:44.320 Now, in truth, they can never actually erase a reality. Biology will remain biology, no matter

00:12:52.060 what anyone says about it or feels in relation to it, but they can create a society that fundamentally

00:12:57.460 fails to recognize or is hostile to reality. And unfortunately, towards that end, they are

00:13:04.880 succeeding. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:15.340 Well, as we just, I think made, made clear, um, in the opening there, this, the, the country's

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00:14:36.160 Well, I don't know if you tuned into backstage last night, we had our backstage, uh, monthly backstage

00:14:41.340 show. And fortunately, I think for the first hour, it was, uh, you know, it was a lot of boring stuff

00:14:49.620 about things happening on the globe, on the, on the earth. Who cares about that? But all that anyone

00:14:55.340 really cares about is what's happening in outer space. We're going to talk about the space aliens.

00:14:59.360 So finally, we did talk about the space aliens. If you didn't watch, well, you know what? If you

00:15:03.660 didn't watch the episode, um, I would say you, you don't even really need to watch it because

00:15:09.040 what I can tell you is that many people are saying, many people are saying that, um, I utterly demolished

00:15:17.440 everybody else on the subject of aliens. And I was outnumbered.

00:15:21.200 Clavin turns out is, is he's sort of alien curious. Um, he's alien questioning. He's open

00:15:29.540 to it. Alien fluid maybe, but Ben, Jeremy, Michael, very anti-alien. And so I was really

00:15:39.380 there. And the other thing that many people are saying, and who's saying this again, many

00:15:42.800 people. The other thing many people are saying is that, um, they were stunned, frankly, by

00:15:48.940 my bravery, um, as a marginalized identity, as an, as a, as a, as an alien believing American

00:15:55.320 ABA ABBA is what we call ourselves. I've decided. Um, so as the only ABBA on the stage of marginalized 0.86

00:16:02.120 identity and in a, in an, in an unsafe environment, but, uh, I, I did, I wiped the floor. I think I, I

00:16:11.540 basically proved not only that aliens exist in the universe, but that they are visiting earth.

00:16:19.680 And as I said, you, you don't need to even watch it. I would say don't watch it because there's no

00:16:26.140 point. Just take my word for it. Actually, after the, uh, the show concluded, and I shouldn't even

00:16:34.780 be talking about this, but the other three, Ben, Jeremy, Michael, they were, they were, they, they

00:16:40.100 were leaving in tears. Um, and they were saying that they were afraid that I embarrassed them

00:16:44.180 because my arguments were so good in comparison to their weak arguments.

00:16:49.860 And, uh, so it was a pretty emotional moment. No need to confirm any of what I'm saying right

00:16:55.240 now. Just trust me on this. All right. Um, and, uh, let's go. Number one from, from town hall.

00:17:04.880 This is, uh, this should be like breaking news, even though it's not a surprise perhaps to, to many

00:17:10.740 of us. It says new findings reported Tuesday in a university of Louisville study challenge.

00:17:15.880 What has been the prevailing belief that mask mandates are necessary to slow the spread of the

00:17:21.400 Wuhan coronavirus. The study notes that 80% of us States mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:17:27.700 And while mandates induced greater mask compliance, they didn't predict lower growth rates when

00:17:34.020 community spread was low or high. Um, among other things, the study conducted using data from the CDC

00:17:39.780 covering multiple seasons reports that mask mandates and use are not associated with lower

00:17:45.480 COVID spread among us States. Quote, uh, our findings do not support the hypothesis that

00:17:53.680 transmissions rates decrease with greater public mask use. Um, researchers stated that masks may

00:18:00.000 promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic, but risk compensation can also occur

00:18:06.740 because, uh, because, um, um, okay, let me read here from quoting from the actual study.

00:18:12.740 Now it says prolonged mask use around four hours a day promotes facial alkalinization.

00:18:24.440 And I certainly know what that means and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance

00:18:29.960 barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk. British clinicians have reported masks to increase

00:18:35.780 headaches and sweating and decrease cognitive precision survey bias. Notwithstanding these, uh,

00:18:41.740 are associated with medical errors by obscuring nonverbal communication. Masks interfere with

00:18:46.140 social learning and children. Likewise, masks can, uh, distort verbal speech and remove visual cues

00:18:52.420 to the detriment of individuals with hearing loss. Uh, and then it goes on from there. Um, in summary,

00:18:59.680 okay, I'll continue reading a little bit mask mandates and use for poor predictors of COVID-19 spread

00:19:04.220 in us States. Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread.

00:19:08.900 And mask use did not predict case growth during the summer or fall winter waves. Uh, strengths of our

00:19:15.080 study include using two mask metrics to evaluate association with COVID-19 growth rates, et cetera,

00:19:20.020 and so forth. This is, this is what the study says. This is what the research says. Um, I, who knows,

00:19:27.340 maybe YouTube will still ban this episode because I'm just reading what the study says,

00:19:30.440 but this is what I, what I keep going back to it. It it's good to get the scientific data.

00:19:38.240 And I'm glad that finally we're getting some studies and we're getting some, some, some science

00:19:41.920 on some of these issues. But at the same time, this is a, this is common sense. This was common sense

00:19:49.940 to a lot of us. Things like forcing people to wear masks all day for hours at a time. Most of us to

00:20:02.500 begin with, we knew that, you know, medical masks were never designed or never intended for that kind

00:20:09.680 of use to be an everyday accessory that you just put on your face all day and walk around everywhere

00:20:16.260 with just as a common sense judgment before looking at any data. People with common sense should know

00:20:25.860 that there are going to be problems there. Yeah, you're going to have dehydration. It's going to,

00:20:29.740 it's going to make you hotter. It's, it's, uh, it doesn't seem very sanitary. You have germs and sweat

00:20:36.620 and everything. And it also, and for, and for kids, taking aside even all the physical problems,

00:20:45.080 it seems there are psychological and emotional problems, especially for children, forcing them

00:20:51.100 to wear masks all the time, depriving them of the ability to see the faces of other people.

00:20:58.980 It creates social problems, even among adults, trying to communicate with people and you can't

00:21:03.360 even see their faces, faces. And all the while, you know, um, the, what, what we're being told is

00:21:12.760 that putting this piece of cloth on your face is going to provide you significant protection

00:21:18.860 against these microscopic, um, you know, this, this microscopic virus. I don't know. Again, common

00:21:26.640 sense, there would seem to be some serious questions that you might ask about, about that,

00:21:32.780 but you weren't allowed to ask the questions. You're not allowed to make common sense judgments.

00:21:38.540 You have to wait until the experts tell you now with the masking thing, we know with, uh, the Wuhan lab

00:21:47.760 in China, finally, the experts and the media who all of them consider themselves to be experts.

00:21:53.460 They're finally telling us that, Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Now you're, you're allowed to draw this

00:21:57.060 connection. You're allowed to speculate about what seems like the very real and likely possibility

00:22:01.980 that this came from a lab in China. You're allowed to do that for the last year. You weren't allowed to do

00:22:05.820 that because we hadn't told you yet that you're allowed to have that opinion, but now we've decided

00:22:10.780 that you're allowed to have that opinion. Will we get to that point with masks? I don't know.

00:22:19.520 Um, I, I, I kind of, in my, in my head, I kind of go back and forth on this.

00:22:24.620 Are masks here to stay at least in some places in America forever? That seems very, very likely,

00:22:30.580 very possible. Um, or, you know, it's also just as possible, I suppose that the media,

00:22:37.300 who knows, they could do it tomorrow or next month. They could just decide that, Oh, you know what?

00:22:43.060 Nevermind. You're not supposed to wear masks anymore. And in fact, they could decide all of

00:22:49.700 a sudden that not only are you not supposed to wear them, but if you do wear them, um, you're a 0.66

00:22:53.940 maniac, you're anti-science and all of this. It's all, but it's all up to them. They decide

00:23:00.840 and we follow along. The main thing though, the main lesson is do not use your own brain.

00:23:08.480 Don't try to sort through these things on your own. Don't look at the data and draw your own

00:23:13.840 conclusions. Don't listen to what they're saying and try to point to holes in their logic. Don't do

00:23:21.280 any of that. Just be a good and cooperative little boy or girl or whatever and, uh, and do as you're

00:23:29.420 told. All right. Number two, journalist, Chris Ruffo, who's been on the, uh, critical race theory

00:23:36.060 beat for last year or two. And it's done, I think easily one of the most important journalists in

00:23:43.440 America. Now that's kind of a low bar because there, there aren't very many journalists at all

00:23:47.120 that are doing real journalism, but he's one of the ones doing real journalism, especially when it

00:23:50.840 comes to critical race theory. Uh, he was invited on a show with Mark Lamont Hill. I'm not sure what

00:23:57.220 show this is black news tonight. Okay. That's the name of the show on, I don't know what network,

00:24:02.380 but anyway, at the end of the interview, there's what I think is a really interesting exchange. So

00:24:08.220 let's, uh, let's just start watching this. And if I were to say to you right now, Christopher,

00:24:12.040 what do you like about being white? What would you say? I don't know. I, again,

00:24:18.360 again, it's such an amorphous term. It's like a census term or a, uh, can you, can you, can

00:24:22.840 you, can you indulge me for one? It just, we're running out of time. Indulge me for a minute. I

00:24:27.340 understand you see it as, as all these things, but you surely recognize that the world sees you

00:24:31.460 as white. You know, the world reads you as white. And if you were to ask me some things I like about 0.98

00:24:35.260 being black, I could talk about cultural norms. I could talk about tradition. I could talk about

00:24:38.900 the kind of commonalities I feel around the diaspora. If I were to ask you what, particularly if you're

00:24:42.820 saying whiteness is a thing that is being constructed as negative and shouldn't be name, name,

00:24:46.880 name something positive that you like about being white. Well, sure. I, I, you know, I'll, I'll answer 0.84

00:24:52.620 with a, with a thing there. There's a lot of documents that are floating around public schools

00:24:57.500 that say things like, uh, timeliness showing up on time is a white supremacist value or a white value,

00:25:03.360 white dominant value, things like rationality, things like the enlightenment, things like, uh, you

00:25:08.620 know, uh, uh, objectivity. And, uh, these are very strange things to be ascribed to a racial identity.

00:25:14.940 My view is that these are actually should be ascribed to every individual human being,

00:25:19.280 every individual human being, regardless of whatever racial category we impose on them.

00:25:23.660 That doesn't answer the question. No, you're, you're telling, you're, you're telling me you're

00:25:28.940 making strong men about things that are ascribed to whiteness that you think are wrongfully ascribed

00:25:32.340 to whiteness. I'm saying if whiteness isn't a negative thing and there's something that you 0.98

00:25:35.460 actually, and that whiteness actually shouldn't be constructed as all negative name, something

00:25:39.020 positive about being, that you believe is positive about being white.

00:25:44.040 Again, I don't buy into the framework that the world can be reduced into these metaphysical

00:25:48.340 categories of whiteness and blackness. I think that's wrong. I think we should look at people 1.00

00:25:52.360 as individuals. I think we should celebrate, uh, different people's accomplishments. And,

00:25:56.380 uh, again, I think the idea you, you mentioned Ignatieff, Ignatieff says the goal is to quote, 0.96

00:26:00.880 abolish the white race. Um, in any other context, this would be interpreted as a near genocidal slur.

00:26:07.360 I don't buy into it. The reason I'm not going to answer your question is I reject that

00:26:11.420 categorization. I think of myself as an individual human being, uh, with my own capabilities. And I

00:26:16.440 would hope that we could both judge each other as individuals, uh, and, uh, come to common values

00:26:20.880 on that basis. Okay. So it seems like a lot of people on the right, this, this video is being shared

00:26:27.740 yesterday, kind of went viral. In fact, Mark Lamont Hill is quite proud of this exchange and he's the

00:26:32.520 one who, who, who originally put it on Twitter. I don't know if very many people would have seen it

00:26:37.360 had he not. And a lot of people on the right were upset about the question and we're saying that

00:26:43.920 it's kind of a racist question, which, which it is, um, because of, of what's being implied

00:26:51.100 kind of in a vacuum, just saying, well, what do you like about being white? And that's not 0.59

00:26:55.920 necessarily a racist question, but the implication, the insinuation from, uh, Mark Lamont Hill is that

00:27:01.460 it's bad to be white. So you could almost, it, it's what he was really asking is what could you

00:27:08.780 possibly like about being white, which is a racist question, but, um, it's also a smart strategy.

00:27:16.460 It's a smart tactic. And it's the kind of thing you're going to step into the ring with someone

00:27:20.700 like, like Hill, you have to be prepared for that. And I, and I, and I thought Chris Ruffo handled it,

00:27:26.080 handled it well. I thought he handled it really well. I'm not saying he wasn't prepared,

00:27:28.680 but it is, it's, it's a, it is a clever trick for Mark Lamont Hill because what's the point?

00:27:36.380 Well, the point is if, if you refuse to answer what you like about being white,

00:27:43.300 then Hill can say, you've proved his point that, well, you can't even, you're white. You can't even 0.67

00:27:49.020 say anything you like about being white. Apparently being white's a bad thing. But if you answer the 0.93

00:27:53.740 question and say, well, here's, I'll give you a list. Here's 20 things I love about being white.

00:27:58.160 Now you're a white supremacist. And, uh, and people, and, and Hill knows that this is what 0.95

00:28:04.440 would happen. People are going to come in and they're going to, they're going to, they'll take

00:28:07.740 the question out, but that, cause context doesn't matter. We know that, especially with the racial,

00:28:12.720 uh, the race hustlers, context never matters, whether it's a police shooting or anything else.

00:28:17.800 So it just creates almost like this mean template for people to come in, take the question aside,

00:28:23.740 get rid of all the context, and then take just that 20 second clip, which starts with you saying,

00:28:30.560 yeah, what I like about being white is X, Y, Z. And then that lives forever in infamy, uh, on the 0.64

00:28:36.840 internet as proof that you're a white supremacist. So that's the trick. That's the ploy. It's a clever 0.94

00:28:42.360 one. It's pretty despicable, but it's also clever as a, as just a strategy. Um, I think what,

00:28:51.020 what Chris Ruffo is doing there, he's rejecting the framework. He's saying, I'm not going to play

00:28:56.360 that game with you. Perfectly good way of doing it. Um, and one other strategy though,

00:29:03.240 could be to, to turn it around. If you can put the other guy on the defensive

00:29:10.480 and you could ask, you could say to Mark Lamont Hill, well, what do you, why are you asking me

00:29:16.880 that question? That's a really strange question to ask. I mean, can, can you name anything good

00:29:23.940 about being white? Are you assuming that there's nothing good about being white? White is who I am

00:29:29.700 part of my identity. It's who it's part of who I am. Are you saying there's nothing good about that

00:29:36.820 part of my identity? Can you name anything good about being white? I would like to see how he 0.68

00:29:47.220 would handle that because maybe he could list a few things. You know, he, he, if he lists a couple

00:29:53.400 of, uh, of, of positive things, which he probably wouldn't, then you could say, okay, yeah, I mean,

00:29:56.820 that's what I like about being white too, but he probably wouldn't be able to do that. No,

00:30:01.840 he wouldn't be willing to. And so now you've put him in a position where he's saying, well,

00:30:06.880 I don't see anything good about being white, which of course is incredibly racist. So all

00:30:12.300 you're doing is proving that he's a racist, that he can't see anything good. That's why

00:30:15.980 he's asking the question. Again, what's implied and not said is what could you possibly like

00:30:23.080 about being white? So that's another way of doing it is to, is to, is to flip it around

00:30:29.200 or, you know, a third option. Um, Mark Lamont Hill said, if you ask me what I like about being

00:30:38.760 black, I would say, uh, cultural norms, tradition, heritage, but you could, you could easily say,

00:30:45.340 okay, well, that's what I like about being white. Or, I mean, unless you're going to tell me that

00:30:49.760 only white people aren't allowed to like those things about themselves. Are you saying that you're

00:30:55.560 allowed to, to like culture, tradition, your, your heritage as a person feeling proud of your

00:31:03.140 ancestors and where you came from? Are you saying that you're allowed to be proud of that and happy

00:31:08.940 about that and like that? And I'm not. So there's a, there's a number of different ways to go about

00:31:16.260 it. I think that, uh, Chris to Rufo handled it pretty well. Um, but you just know, of course,

00:31:22.940 it's not an honest question. It's this, this is not, this is not an attempt to really understand

00:31:28.400 at all. This is an attempt to trap and you know, that going in. All right. Um, number three. Okay.

00:31:38.260 I got to read. This is from the Sunday express. I hate to go back to UFOs. Actually, I don't,

00:31:41.880 but I just want to read this to you very briefly. It says that I don't even know what the Sunday

00:31:46.240 express is. Let's just assume they're a reputable news source. The U S Navy has picked up sonar

00:31:52.900 data showing mysterious fast moving objects underwater that cannot be explained by experts

00:31:59.240 or current technology. Washington examiner's Tom Rogan said the U S Navy has the data to prove

00:32:03.620 the bizarre encounters. Some of these encounters could be included in the U S government task

00:32:07.560 force, which is preparing to brief, uh, Congress on its UFO findings next month. This comes amid

00:32:13.540 a flurry of footage showing bizarre encounters between U S pilots and Navy officers and unexplainable

00:32:18.160 objects. So now we've got, uh, unidentified, unidentified flying objects, but that's not

00:32:23.180 this cause they're underwater. So I guess unidentified swimming objects, the U S O. Well, that acronym

00:32:29.300 is already taken, but now you have, um, objects underwater as well that are unexplained.

00:32:36.240 And, you know, we, we do know very little about our oceans or what's happening down there.

00:32:43.120 Could there be civilizations living under the ocean? It's possible. Here's, here's probably,

00:32:51.780 that's probably not the case at all. Um, so I'm not quite ready to come out as a believer in Aquaman,

00:32:58.460 but I will say, and I think someone, someone brought this up in the YouTube comments yesterday,

00:33:03.040 the thing about civilizations under the ocean, but it is, here's, here's what you talk about the oceans

00:33:09.340 and we live on the earth alongside the ocean. And yet we know very little about it. So much of it is

00:33:16.560 unexplored. That probably doesn't mean that there's Atlantis down there somewhere, but it's fascinating

00:33:23.500 to think about just how little we know. And, um, and that explains, if anyone's wondering, that is my

00:33:29.500 personal fascination with UFOs and aliens and everything. Uh, just because we, we know so little

00:33:35.740 about outer space. I mean, we, we, we know you could fill a thimble really with what we know about

00:33:42.400 it in comparison to how vast of an expanse it actually is. I mean, it's essentially infinite

00:33:48.620 for all intents and purposes. Uh, and that to me is, uh, is, is just fascinating to think, to think

00:33:55.040 of the possibilities. And I don't understand how people could be, could fail to be fascinated by that

00:34:01.260 or bored by the discussion. Um, all right. Number four, this, uh, photo has been floating around for

00:34:10.000 a couple of days. I just want to show this to you. The website pop crave shared a photo of Ellen page,

00:34:15.300 now Elliot page. Um, and here's the picture you haven't seen. Um, there's Elliot page shirtless

00:34:24.340 breasts removed. Uh, there's been some speculation that there are some ab implants going on there. 0.97

00:34:30.160 I think there might be something to that speculation, but putting that aside, I don't

00:34:34.340 know. You see a photo like this, we're supposed to applaud this, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's

00:34:41.920 actually intensely sad and disturbing. I mean, this is a person that has totally rejected

00:34:49.420 themselves. This is self mutilation. You know, applauding a picture like this, it is no different

00:34:59.620 from seeing an emaciated anorexic and applauding that and say, Oh, doesn't she look fantastic? 1.00

00:35:08.180 She looks beautiful. She's, uh, she looks exactly how she wants to look. She's living her truth,

00:35:14.140 living out her identity. Yeah. She's destroying her body, but, uh, it's a beautiful thing.

00:35:22.200 In fact, I don't have to, that's not even really a hypothetical. We're, we're already doing that with

00:35:27.220 not with, maybe not anorexics, but people who are morbidly obese. It's the same kind of thing.

00:35:31.460 We see a morbidly obese person destroying themselves

00:35:34.940 and, uh, we're supposed to applaud it. And it's the same sort of thing here.

00:35:41.300 A woman who has chopped off parts of her body,

00:35:48.340 foreclosed entire biological functions permanently. And we're meant to applaud that.

00:35:58.080 That, uh, that, uh, that I, I certainly could never do.

00:36:01.980 I, I, I, I find it sad and I'm, I'm moved with a pity. Honestly, when I see photos like that,

00:36:07.220 I don't understand how you could have any other reaction.

00:36:12.660 All right. Finally, a number five, I mentioned this briefly a few days ago. We never got to it,

00:36:17.200 but it's, this is from Buzzfeed. It says in a national effort to get through to horny,

00:36:22.340 but vaccinate vaccine hesitant Americans. The white house announced Friday that it is joining

00:36:26.920 forces with dating apps to encourage people to get their COVID-19 vaccines so that, so that they

00:36:31.780 can go forth and F freely this summer. This is a, that's not the language from the white house,

00:36:38.360 but this is the language in a Buzzfeed news article. I want to talk about where what's happened with

00:36:45.120 American journalism. There you go. Vaccinated users on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Badoo. I 0.92

00:36:51.360 haven't even heard of most of these apps. Well, Tinder, I know about Bumble, Hinge.

00:36:56.480 They'll have access to some premium features for free. OkCupid, Chispa, BLK, and Match are giving

00:37:04.000 out a free boost to those who've been vaccinated so that their profiles are more likely to be seen

00:37:07.680 first. Plenty of Fish is also offering free credits to vaccinated members for its live streaming

00:37:12.880 feature. Uh, and so the idea is to get people, you know, a lot of these, I guess, are, are not so

00:37:18.560 much apps people use to find other individuals to have relationships with, but, uh, more just hookup

00:37:24.320 apps. So I guess, and that's really the good news here is that, um, when you're, when you're hooking

00:37:31.640 up with random strangers that you meet on a, on an app and you just learned their name an hour ago

00:37:38.220 and already you're in bed with them. Yeah. The good thing is that the only disease

00:37:43.020 or negative outcome you ever had to worry about was COVID. And so now I guess we're hearing from

00:37:49.360 the white house, just get that COVID vaccine, throw caution to the wind again. What could possibly go

00:37:55.140 wrong except for everything as we've seen in society over the last several decades. All right,

00:38:01.400 let's move now to reading the YouTube comments. Um, major Tom Fisher says, holy crap, I think I might

00:38:07.900 actually be slightly moderately, maybe intrigued a tiny bit by the WNBA. If there are six foot, 1.00

00:38:14.200 eight inch women in it, where the heck do you find women that tall? Yeah, that is, that is pretty 1.00

00:38:23.260 fascinating in a way, but the thing is they still can't dunk, which is kind of sad. Unidentified,

00:38:29.700 unidentifiable reviewer says Matt Walsh react to the Menendez brothers trial case. It's all over

00:38:35.120 tick tock. I see this a lot in the comments where people are trying to get me to talk about something.

00:38:40.500 And, uh, and so they, they always mention as a qualifier, Oh, you know, they're talking about

00:38:45.420 this on tick tock because they know my tick tock obsession. So if you want to get me to talk about

00:38:50.020 it, all you have to do is mention that the cool kids are talking about it on tick tock. And it worked

00:38:53.940 here too. I don't know a lot. I I'm, I'm, I'm vaguely aware there's something going on, going on with

00:38:58.700 this. And there's some sort of on internet trend. The men, so I guess I really shouldn't be talking

00:39:04.500 about it at all. Uh, because I don't, I know almost nothing about it. I do know the Menendez

00:39:09.080 brothers. They were 30 years ago or something. It was a famous case of these brothers who I think

00:39:14.820 were both teenagers at the time. Maybe one was in his early twenties and they, uh, they killed their

00:39:19.240 parents in a horrific and brutal crime, including, I think they shot their, their, their mother

00:39:26.320 multiple times with like a shotgun. And, uh, they went to jail forever, no possibility of parole.

00:39:34.320 Um, and what we were told by prosecutors is that they had done this in order to collect life

00:39:40.080 insurance from their parents. Cause their parents were really wealthy. So this is all a, this is all

00:39:43.960 a plot to make money off their parents. Um, and now sort of randomly two or three decades later,

00:39:52.180 I think people on Tik TOK are kind of reopening this case, at least online in their own way. Uh,

00:39:59.240 and, and, uh, saying that these brothers should be freed from, from prison, not because they were

00:40:04.340 innocent, but because they claim that, um, the Menendez brothers were being sexually abused.

00:40:10.260 And so that this was them sort of in an act of self-defense or after years of abuse, uh, they,

00:40:15.260 they just had enough of it. And I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know anything about it.

00:40:18.820 If it were true, let's just say, I mean, hypothetically, and I have no idea if that's

00:40:25.200 the case, if this is the case here, if it were true, I'm talking in a hypothetical case,

00:40:28.800 you've got kids who were sexually abused by their parents for years.

00:40:34.120 And finally, after years of this, they killed their parents. Um, yes, I would, I would not give

00:40:40.980 someone in that case life in prison without parole. I'd be looking at more of like a manslaughter

00:40:46.920 or charge or something. Is that the case here? I have, I have no clue at all. So that is my

00:40:51.980 analysis. I hope it lived up to your expectations. I'm sure that it didn't. Um, and finally,

00:40:58.880 another comment says the Holocaust isn't even the greatest atrocity of the 20th century.

00:41:03.180 Mao's cultural revolution and Stalin's purges slash gulags come to mind throughout history.

00:41:08.120 There have been many events worse than the Holocaust. Genghis Khan and his crew were responsible 1.00

00:41:11.720 for so many deaths that the global temperature dropped. Like there's, there's no, you get to a

00:41:17.560 certain level of atrocity and there's no point in ranking them. Okay. When you get to, people do

00:41:23.980 this sometimes who, who was the greater villain of the 20th century, Stalin or Hitler? Um, Stalin

00:41:31.300 is responsible for more deaths. I think that's pretty inarguable, but who's more evil. They're equal

00:41:37.280 in like as, as evil as a person can possibly be. They both reached that level. They both plunged,

00:41:44.620 plunged to that depth. I think we could say, um, though it is, it is funny that, that, um,

00:41:53.460 if you, I think if you compared something, when you talked about how Marjorie Taylor Greene got into

00:41:58.460 so much trouble because she made a Holocaust analogy, even though the left, they make Holocaust and Hitler

00:42:02.920 analogies all the time. But if you compare something to almost any other historical atrocity,

00:42:07.840 even probably more recent ones, you're not going to get the same outraged reaction as you would with

00:42:13.640 a Holocaust analogy. If you're someone on the right. And again, if you're on the left,

00:42:17.600 then you can get, you can say whatever you want. But I think a lot of this comes down simply to

00:42:21.900 historical ignorance. Um, and that's one of the reasons why people always go right to the Holocaust 0.82

00:42:28.140 analogy, the Hitler analogy. It's not anti-Semitism that, that charge doesn't even make any sense,

00:42:33.780 but this, this comes simply from, I think in most, in a lot of cases, historical ignorance.

00:42:40.740 The Holocaust is, is one of the only historical events that people these days, especially who've

00:42:47.940 been through the public school system actually know anything about. And even with that, I mean,

00:42:52.240 these are not experts on world war two, but they know in broad strokes that this happened and that

00:42:58.400 it was a terrible thing. Um, and I think that's why Hitler comes up so much, even in cases when

00:43:05.420 they're, you know, depending on the point trying to be made, there might be another historical villain

00:43:09.800 who's a bread, who's a better analog, but most people don't know about those other people.

00:43:16.100 I don't think you can overstate the historical ignorance in America today. It's a big problem.

00:43:24.340 You see all these man on the street interviews, which are really funny and we could all have fun

00:43:28.360 with them where you go to a college campus and you, and you, you know, you have a camera phone

00:43:34.320 or a microphone and a camera, a camera phone. And, uh, you know, you ask college students questions

00:43:41.180 like, what century did the civil war happen in? And they have no idea. And we all laugh about that.

00:43:48.720 And it is funny, but it's also terrifying. You have an entire generations of Americans who know

00:43:54.840 nothing about their own history and are then are very easily manipulated. As we've seen,

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00:45:48.660 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:53.800 Today for our daily cancellation, Maxine Waters enters the ring. It may seem surprising that

00:45:57.600 Maxine Waters has been canceled. I think maybe only once or twice in this segment.

00:46:01.540 She could of course be canceled every day and that explains why she rarely is. It'd be 0.99

00:46:05.660 sort of redundant to cancel her every time she deserves it. We have to pick our spots.

00:46:10.080 The thing about representative Maxine Waters is that she is equal parts stupid, evil, and 1.00

00:46:13.920 racist. And this can make it especially difficult to figure out whether any particular thing she 1.00

00:46:18.600 does or says or policy she proposes was motivated more by her stupidity, her wickedness, or her 1.00

00:46:24.080 racism. Often it's an equal and equitable mix of all three. I think that's probably the case 1.00

00:46:28.780 here. Waters has proposed a plan to give Americans some help in making a down payment on their

00:46:35.720 first homes. This may or may not sound like a good idea to you at first blush, but before

00:46:41.380 you draw any conclusions, you have to remember this is Maxine Waters we're talking about here.

00:46:45.960 This is the modern Democrat party we're talking about. Their plans to help Americans are never

00:46:51.240 plans to help all Americans. That's why as a Politico headline puts it, the real purpose of

00:46:56.700 this proposal is to, quote, close the racial wealth gap. Of course, everything is always 0.99

00:47:02.920 racial for these people. Just as there's only ever six degrees of separation between any

00:47:07.300 Hollywood actor and Kevin Bacon, there's only ever at least or most two degrees of separation

00:47:12.960 between any Democratic policy proposal and their racial obsessions. It always comes back to that.

00:47:18.040 Always. So let's read now from the Politico article to get the gist of this plan.

00:47:22.680 It says a $10 billion proposal by House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters would give homebuyers

00:47:29.440 up to $25,000 for a down payment. President Joe Biden's top housing official, HUD Secretary

00:47:34.320 Marsha Fudge, which is just a great name for a bureaucrat, says such assistance is a priority

00:47:41.740 for the administration. Okay, pausing there for a second. $10 billion. Well, what's $10 billion

00:47:47.900 between friends? There are reports this morning that Biden is about to unveil a $6 trillion budget.

00:47:54.740 $6 trillion. Now, as Ben pointed out on Twitter, $6 trillion is actually $12 trillion when you factor

00:48:01.840 in the COVID stimulus, his family's plan, et cetera. That's all of the proposed spending in just six

00:48:09.360 months. He's proposing an average of $2 trillion a month he has proposed on average. By the end of

00:48:17.420 his tenure at this rate, he'll have spent, I don't know, what, $96 trillion if my math is right, which

00:48:23.160 it probably isn't. Either way, the fact remains, these are astronomical amounts of money. These are

00:48:28.380 such large amounts of money that you can't even really call them amounts of money. These numbers

00:48:34.300 are so large, they effectively don't exist. There's no way to conceptualize them. Biden is spending

00:48:41.380 money as if there is no such thing as money. I would say he's spending money like it grows on

00:48:46.060 trees, but we'd need more trees than exist on earth to harvest this much. So $10 billion, that is

00:48:51.840 pocket change, I suppose. But even so, it's a terrible plan for reasons that should already be

00:48:57.440 clear, but will only become clearer as we keep reading. It says Waters' plan has triggered concern in

00:49:02.640 the mortgage industry that, because it would require lenders to identify and direct aid to

00:49:06.700 first-generation buyers, those whose parents don't own homes. And by the way, I have no idea how they

00:49:12.520 would even identify that group, and they don't really have any idea how they would either. There

00:49:18.160 isn't some database out there, as far as I know, of Americans who've never bought homes before.

00:49:26.080 Anyway, and it would also direct aid to socially and economically disadvantaged groups.

00:49:30.600 The move is also stirring broader criticism about how much it would help buyers and whether it would

00:49:35.720 even put them at risk. Quote, we are simply providing first-generation homebuyers, largely

00:49:39.740 people of color, what white first-time homebuyers have been receiving for years in the form of

00:49:43.540 the daddy down payment loan, family assistance that is almost never repaid, said David Dworkin,

00:49:50.240 president and CEO of the National Housing Conference and Advocacy Group. The plan with the most

00:49:54.700 traction, the $10 billion proposal in a housing infrastructure bill by Waters, would give state housing

00:49:59.500 finance agencies grants to award up to $20,000 in down payment assistance to first-generation

00:50:04.540 homebuyers below a certain income threshold and up to $25,000 if the homebuyer is from a socially

00:50:09.200 and economically disadvantaged group. Waters' bill includes the provision alongside massive

00:50:13.560 investments in public housing and the National Housing Trust Fund. The bill defines socially

00:50:17.440 disadvantaged homebuyers who would require or who would qualify for larger credit as individuals

00:50:22.100 identifying as black, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian American. But quote, such presumption may be

00:50:29.600 rebutted with credible evidence to the contrary, according to a discussion draft of the legislation.

00:50:35.700 So there it is. If you didn't know any better and you hear someone say that they want to help the

00:50:40.440 socially disadvantaged, you might think that sounds like a fine idea. But then you learn that socially

00:50:46.040 disadvantaged is just a slightly more sanitized way of saying anyone who isn't white. The plan here isn't

00:50:53.600 so much to help black people or minorities, it's to not help white people. They are, after all, the only 0.98

00:50:59.960 group left off the list. Even Asians are on the list of socially disadvantaged, but Asians have a higher 1.00

00:51:05.660 median household income than whites in this country. Asians are doing better than white people and by a pretty 1.00

00:51:12.420 significant margin. Whites are, in fact, more, quote, disadvantaged than Asians. The fact that they qualify, 1.00

00:51:21.420 that Asians qualify for assistance and white people don't, proves, if it wasn't clear already, that the real 0.99

00:51:26.540 point here is simply to exclude whites because they're white. It's racist and illegal. The Constitution guarantees 0.99

00:51:35.700 equal protection under the law, regardless of race. Laws that dole out perks based on race

00:51:41.940 while leaving whites in the cold are unconstitutional by definition. Now, the argument that activists give

00:51:47.940 for this racist plan, as you heard, is that white people have been getting help from their parents on

00:51:53.480 their down payments. And so it's only fair if black people get help from the government. The problem with 1.00

00:51:57.840 that argument is, first of all, not all white people have parents who give them money to make down

00:52:03.160 payments. Mine didn't. I've bought three homes. I don't own three homes, but we've moved, you know,

00:52:10.240 three times in the last four years and I bought homes in each place. I didn't get any help on any

00:52:15.140 of those down payments. And besides, here's a concept that more people need to understand.

00:52:21.940 The government is not your daddy. There are plenty of things that parents do or can do,

00:52:27.920 which the government can't do or shouldn't do. And anyway, whatever the government is doing,

00:52:33.640 it is racist and illegal to favor certain groups based on race while excluding others on the same

00:52:39.940 basis. Aside from the racial component, though, the whole idea of down payment assistance from the

00:52:45.580 government is catastrophically awful on its own merits, even the race stuff aside. A pretty good 1.00

00:52:52.760 general principle is this. If you can't afford to make a down payment on a home, then you can't afford

00:53:00.340 the home. If you need 25 grand from daddy government in order to afford even just the down payment,

00:53:06.220 how are you going to pay your mortgage going forward? What about utilities? HOA fees, if you

00:53:11.660 have, will you have money to fix a leaky pipe or a broken HVAC unit? Many expenses come with

00:53:17.960 homeownership. Believe me, we're going through that right now as people just recently bought a home.

00:53:23.720 Throwing people into homes they can't afford all in the name of racial equity is a disaster waiting to 0.66

00:53:28.500 happen, especially now as the housing market is challenging enough for buyers. It's very hard to

00:53:33.560 find a house right now. Again, I know what I'm talking about because the demand is through the

00:53:37.120 roof and the houses that are available are all more expensive, expensive than they'd be in a normal

00:53:42.000 market. And they're getting more expensive every day. Now throw a bunch of homeowners or potential

00:53:46.740 homeowners with a check from the government into the mix. And you just made it harder for buyers,

00:53:51.740 not easier, more expensive, not more affordable. It's a bad idea on every level. Foolish,

00:53:58.960 short-sighted, ridiculous, also racist. Exactly what we've come to expect from Maxine Waters and 1.00

00:54:06.180 friends. And that is why she is today, of course, canceled, as she is every other day, whether I say it

00:54:13.680 or not specifically. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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Ep. 730 - The Truth Is Hurtful

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