The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 739 - The Left Searches For A 'Cure' For Whiteness

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we will discuss the problem of whiteness.

00:00:03.980 I don't think whiteness is a problem, but we're told that it is.

00:00:06.940 In fact, a recent paper in the Psychoanalytic Journal argues that it's really a disease which has to be cured.

00:00:13.740 So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the cop who flipped a pregnant woman's car on the highway

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00:00:21.280 Is that proper procedure? And Dr. Fauci claims that he himself is science made flesh.

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00:00:30.120 And our Daily Cancellation will deal with the New York Times article that generated controversy

00:00:33.460 because it supposedly suggested that you shouldn't have a lot of obese or depressed friends.

00:00:38.320 People didn't like that for some reason, but I think it actually makes a good point.

00:00:41.540 I'll explain why. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:09.100 One of the most consequential and, as we'll see, most dangerous innovations of America's race hustler constituency is the invention of the term whiteness. 0.93

00:02:20.900 Now, we used to hear constant condemnations of alleged white supremacy, even though white supremacy as a belief system is nearly nonexistent in this country.

00:02:29.500 And as a legal principle, it's entirely nonexistent.

00:02:32.260 White supremacists, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and the like are small, scattered, insignificant.

00:02:36.320 And as for the law, there are no laws on the books today anywhere in any state or jurisdiction that enshrine or codify white supremacy, despite what you may have heard.

00:02:46.480 Of course, we still hear about this supposed problem of white supremacy, but many of those who once focused on fighting that make-believe scourge have moved on

00:02:56.220 and are these days intent on slaying the dragon known as whiteness.

00:03:01.880 Increasingly, advocates for so-called racial justice have widened their lens beyond white supremacy to now include this much broader category,

00:03:10.560 which would seem to encompass all white people.

00:03:14.660 White supremacy is a belief system.

00:03:16.500 It's a fringe belief system, but it's a belief system all the same. 0.68

00:03:19.380 Whiteness, on the other hand, in its most literal sense, simply means the state or quality of being white. 0.82

00:03:27.060 And this sheds disturbing light on, for example, all of the college courses with titles like

00:03:32.760 The Problem of Whiteness and the calls from academics and activists to, quote, abolish whiteness.

00:03:39.340 It's not simply white supremacy they're after anymore, but whiteness itself, the state and quality of being a white person.

00:03:50.260 Recall that now infamous segment with Mara Gay on MSNBC where she discusses her terror at seeing pickup trucks with American flags. 1.00

00:03:58.760 And everybody zeroed in on those comments because they were deranged and idiotic. 0.99

00:04:03.440 But I actually think the bigger problem was something that we kind of missed. 1.00

00:04:07.200 It was this part right here.

00:04:09.340 The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population.

00:04:16.280 I don't know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat

00:04:25.140 by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others.

00:04:29.060 I think as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. 0.58

00:04:39.460 We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy, but how to separate Americanness, America from whiteness. 0.76

00:04:50.380 Separate America from whiteness. 1.00

00:04:54.260 How do you intend to do that?

00:04:56.260 And what should be done with all of us white people once we've been separated? 0.58

00:05:01.240 This sort of talk begins to sound almost murderous.

00:05:04.820 And if you think that's an overstatement, keep listening because it gets worse.

00:05:07.600 The way that race activists get around the obviously horrific implications of this kind of talk is the same way they get around everything else,

00:05:14.380 by manipulating language to obscure the meaning of the words that they use.

00:05:18.280 And that's why if you go beyond the dictionary and you try to find a definition of whiteness from the people who use it so often,

00:05:24.720 you'll end up with a lot of hazy, indeterminate ramblings like this from the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center,

00:05:31.360 quoting a feminist sociologist named Ruth Frankenberg.

00:05:35.080 It says whiteness is, quote,

00:05:36.980 a dominant cultural space with enormous political significance with the purpose to keep others on the margin.

00:05:43.220 OK, if that doesn't clear things up, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture has this to say about the cancer known as whiteness.

00:05:52.960 Quote, whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people,

00:05:57.360 their customs, culture and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups are compared.

00:06:03.040 Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. 0.92

00:06:05.560 Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America's history have created a culture where non-white persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.

00:06:13.460 This white dominant culture also operates as a social mechanism that grants advantages to white people since they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. 0.71

00:06:22.160 Persons who identify as white rarely have to think about their racial identity because they live within a culture where whiteness has been normalized, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:30.080 Meanwhile, Dr. Monica T. Williams writes for Psychology Today that whiteness is, quote,

00:06:36.280 an unfairly privileged exclusionary category based on physical features, most notably a lack of melanin.

00:06:43.220 So that brings us back to whiteness as the state and quality of being white. 0.93

00:06:47.980 For this reason, the good doctor explains, white people are not allowed to be proud of their racial identity. 0.60

00:06:55.120 She says that she will, in her magnanomy, permit you to be proud of, say, your specific German heritage or because, you know,

00:07:06.420 there's nothing problematic there apparently, or your French Canadian culture, but you must not be proud to be white in general 0.57

00:07:15.280 because, quote, whiteness is a forced group membership that originated by oppressing people of color.

00:07:21.280 I mean, that whiteness itself, the physical state of whiteness originated through oppression. 0.83

00:07:30.540 That's what she says.

00:07:32.320 But can black people like herself be proud of their race?

00:07:35.980 Why? 0.94

00:07:36.200 Well, of course they can.

00:07:37.240 She says, quote,

00:07:37.800 Well, that's it then.

00:08:00.340 A hallowed mental health professional has spoken. 0.98

00:08:03.640 It's healthy for black people to be proud of who they are, but it's not healthy for white people. 0.99

00:08:09.040 The most healthy mental state for a white person is one of suffocating, never-ending guilt and shame. 0.97

00:08:15.820 This view has become especially common among psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.

00:08:21.980 The entire psycho industry seems to be fueled by two primary assumptions.

00:08:26.660 Number one, gender is fluid, and number two, whiteness is bad. 1.00

00:08:30.840 These are also the two primary assumptions of academia, the media, corporate America, and the United States government.

00:08:37.040 But it's especially hazardous in the mental health field because these are the professionals to whom the most mentally vulnerable people are entrusted.

00:08:44.820 And that gives us even more of a reason to be equal parts disgusted and terrified by a paper very recently published in the Distinguished, allegedly, and also peer-reviewed Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

00:08:59.580 In the paper, a guy named Dr. Donald Moss, who's a faculty member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, shares his thoughts on the topic of, quote, having whiteness.

00:09:11.560 Now, if the phrase having whiteness makes white identity sound like a disease, as if someone might have whiteness in the same way that they have cancer or chickenpox, well, that's exactly the point. 1.00

00:09:24.620 Here is the abstract.

00:09:26.940 It says, quote, 0.92

00:09:28.340 Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has, a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility. 0.99

00:09:40.520 The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world. 0.94

00:09:48.680 Parasitic whiteness renders its host's appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. 0.88

00:09:56.160 These deformed appetites particularly target non-white people. 0.96

00:10:01.380 Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.

00:10:05.220 Effective treatments of whiteness consist of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. 0.54

00:10:12.700 Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape whiteness's infiltrated appetites, 1.00

00:10:17.560 to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims towards the work of reparation.

00:10:23.460 When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as a warning, never again, or as a temptation, great again.

00:10:32.640 Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.

00:10:37.260 Listen to this part.

00:10:39.260 There is not yet a permanent cure.

00:10:41.600 A permanent cure for whiteness. 1.00

00:10:47.820 And you thought my choice of the word murderous was an exaggeration.

00:10:51.200 In fact, it was an understatement.

00:10:52.760 Probably should have said genocidal.

00:10:55.120 Here we have medical professionals speaking openly about finding a permanent cure for a certain racial identity. 0.62

00:11:02.400 They are just one half step away from calling it a final solution.

00:11:08.760 And if this was not all bone-shelling enough, I should mention that Dr. Moss has been delivering his thoughts on whiteness, 0.95

00:11:14.680 on having the whiteness disease, in talks to college students, psychoanalysts, and social workers.

00:11:20.700 Tickets are only $40, by the way, if you're interested.

00:11:23.980 Now, you don't really need to go back very far in history to see where this sort of thing leads.

00:11:28.740 Our fallen species has tragically attempted many experiments through the centuries

00:11:35.620 with casting an entire group or race of people as villains, as subhumans, as scapegoats,

00:11:42.120 as the cause of all social ills.

00:11:45.440 This has happened many times throughout history.

00:11:48.400 And so we know that it never results in anything but bloodshed and misery.

00:11:54.780 It can't possibly come to any other conclusion.

00:11:58.740 There is never a happy ending to this kind of thing.

00:12:02.340 It's impossible.

00:12:04.620 The final chapter of this book is written in advance.

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00:12:13.440 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:37.060 All right.

00:13:38.280 You know, one, I'm just realizing on a slightly less important topic,

00:13:42.460 one of the disadvantages of having our Stazzy new camera angle

00:13:45.880 is that they've taken away my fake Daily Wire family,

00:13:50.580 which I just realized they've been taking.

00:13:51.940 I had my, you know, my pictures here of my fake friends and family

00:13:55.200 that were assigned to me when I came to the Daily Wire.

00:13:57.020 I don't even, here's the, here's one of the pictures.

00:14:00.060 Why can't this still be on my desk?

00:14:02.660 There's my, there's Gertrude and Felix.

00:14:07.920 The guy is Gertrude.

00:14:09.200 Don't make assumptions.

00:14:10.820 On their tandem bicycle.

00:14:12.860 I would look at this picture every day and it would bring me,

00:14:15.280 it would warm my heart and bring me joy

00:14:16.800 to remember my times with these imaginary friends.

00:14:21.300 And now I can't have them.

00:14:23.260 All right.

00:14:24.860 I think I just broke it.

00:14:25.840 Okay.

00:14:26.620 So you guys know that we are defenders and supporters of the police over here on the Matt Wall Show.

00:14:33.500 And, um, obviously though, supporting and defending the police when they're being unjustly attacked,

00:14:43.060 which happens a lot.

00:14:46.620 Uh, but that also doesn't mean that there's never an occasion where a cop does a bad thing.

00:14:52.200 Obviously that does happen.

00:14:53.300 And when that does happen, they should be held accountable.

00:14:57.060 Now, the problem is that this, this, the word accountability,

00:15:01.880 we will remember LeBron James tweeted out the picture of a, of a cop who saved a black girl's life 0.74

00:15:07.420 by shooting another black girl who's trying to stab her to death.

00:15:11.460 And he had that word accountability, putting his, his, uh, the cop's picture out there, 0.98

00:15:16.420 putting his life in jeopardy, potentially.

00:15:20.340 So for the, the race hustlers and BLM and guys like LeBron James, uh, accountability for police means

00:15:28.360 that they're always wrong, no matter what they do, even if they act heroically and save someone's life,

00:15:34.320 they're still wrong and their lives should be destroyed.

00:15:35.980 That's what they mean when they say accountability.

00:15:38.820 And that's a problem because there is such a thing as actual accountability.

00:15:43.420 And it is important for everybody.

00:15:46.260 And especially for agents of the state and police officers are agents of the state.

00:15:50.460 That's their job.

00:15:51.800 And the badge and the gun confers power and authority as important for us as members of an

00:15:58.460 allegedly free society to hold agents of the state responsible and accountable when they actually

00:16:03.400 violate, um, you know, violate their, their, their duties and, and, uh, abuse their power.

00:16:09.700 So here's one such case.

00:16:12.200 This is from Fox.

00:16:13.540 It says an Arkansas woman is suing an Arkansas state police officer who she says, quote,

00:16:19.060 negligently performed a pursuit intervention technique, pit maneuver that resulted in her car 1.00

00:16:25.300 flipping over on the highway at 60 miles per hour in July of 2020.

00:16:28.940 We have the video.

00:16:29.640 We'll play it in a second here.

00:16:30.400 Her name is a Nicole Harper.

00:16:33.140 She was pregnant at the time and she was clocked going 84 miles an hour in a 70 mile

00:16:38.660 per hour zone last summer on the highway.

00:16:41.100 So she's going 84 to 70.

00:16:42.860 Uh, I confess I've gone, I have often, I'm not saying that you should do this.

00:16:48.400 This is not a recommendation, but, uh, when, when, when the, when the speed limit gets to

00:16:51.820 70, I kind of treat that as no speed limit at all.

00:16:54.640 I figure once you get to that point, the speed limit is more of a suggestion.

00:16:57.940 Again, I'm not saying that's actually the law.

00:17:01.000 I confess I will treat it that way.

00:17:02.900 So I've, have many times gone over 84, certainly in a 70, uh, it's not that, you know, it's to

00:17:09.560 be, especially on a sort of empty highway going 84 to 70.

00:17:13.660 It's, I guess the point is there's no reason to think by the fact that she's going 84 and

00:17:18.700 a 70, that she's some sort of violent, dangerous criminal. 1.00

00:17:22.660 There's no reason to think that this is anything more than a normal, usually law abiding American

00:17:28.740 who's just committing a rather minor traffic, traffic infraction.

00:17:31.880 But that's not how she was treated.

00:17:35.180 Within seconds of Arkansas state police officer, Rodney Dunn, turning on his patrol cruiser's

00:17:39.540 overhead lights, Harper pulled over to the right lane, turned on her emergency blinkers

00:17:43.240 and slowed to 60 miles per hour.

00:17:45.360 In fact, let's just play.

00:17:47.100 Let's start playing this now.

00:17:48.200 Nicole Harper was driving home on the I-67 and is alleged to have been clocked for speeding 0.73

00:17:54.180 by Senior Corporal Rodney Dunn, who claims that she fled.

00:17:57.560 But in the video, we see an obvious decrease in speed as Harper pulls into the right lane

00:18:02.300 and activates her turn signal. 0.95

00:18:03.900 She claims it was to indicate she was going to exit the interstate, as the area had a reduced

00:18:09.080 shoulder.

00:18:09.880 Regardless of Harper's actions and indications that she would stop, Corporal Dunn initiates

00:18:15.260 a pit maneuver. 0.97

00:18:18.200 Okay, so there he is going up.

00:18:24.440 He's going to tag, he's going to kind of ram into the car.

00:18:33.400 They just, yep.

00:18:35.080 And then it skid, this is on the highway.

00:18:40.800 Okay.

00:18:41.600 All right.

00:18:42.120 So he rams the car, he does the pit maneuver.

00:18:44.980 And this is something you see if you watch, you know, you see videos of high-speed chases

00:18:50.680 and they're pursuing a violent criminal.

00:18:54.800 In fact, I mean, I should say that oftentimes you watch these chases and they don't do that.

00:19:01.020 They'll follow a criminal, someone who they know is a violent felon, a fugitive or whatever.

00:19:04.860 They'll follow them for miles and miles and miles before they resort to something like that.

00:19:11.980 And sometimes it's not even a high-speed chase.

00:19:14.460 You'll see these, you'll see these, the cars are going away like 40 miles an hour and the

00:19:17.880 cops are all just following behind because oftentimes they're reluctant to execute a maneuver like

00:19:23.860 that, even if it is a known violent criminal, because you might kill someone doing it.

00:19:29.400 Here they did it, this, this officer did to this woman just because of a speeding violation.

00:19:35.600 And now we have, and this, this also makes it all the more disturbing.

00:19:38.280 I think we have, um, you can hear the audio now.

00:19:42.220 You don't really see it.

00:19:43.000 You don't see it, but here is the officer after this woman crawls out of the wreckage.

00:19:48.520 Here's how that interaction happened.

00:19:50.680 Why didn't you stop?

00:19:52.060 Because I didn't feel like it was insane.

00:19:54.260 Well, this is where you ended up.

00:19:56.080 Are you the only one in the vehicle?

00:19:57.360 Yes.

00:19:58.180 Okay.

00:19:58.740 I'm pregnant.

00:19:59.820 Well, ma'am, you've got to pull over when we stop. 0.99

00:20:02.120 When people don't stop for emergency vehicles, we end this right here, right now, before you

00:20:07.600 get further into congested traveling.

00:20:09.980 All you had to do was slow down and stop.

00:20:13.000 I did slow down.

00:20:14.920 I turned on my hazards.

00:20:17.600 Um, yeah, this is just completely insane.

00:20:21.240 Um, though, okay.

00:20:25.240 And you hear him that he doesn't even appear to be concerned.

00:20:29.280 It was a, she says she's pregnant. 0.99

00:20:31.120 You flipped her vehicle and he's not even saying, are you okay?

00:20:34.700 Or is it?

00:20:35.320 Well, Hey, this is what happens.

00:20:37.180 You didn't pull over right away.

00:20:39.500 And you can clearly see in the video that it is a, it's a reduced shoulder.

00:20:43.420 There's not a lot of room.

00:20:44.540 So she probably figured it's, it's, it's nighttime.

00:20:47.920 It's dark.

00:20:48.900 Uh, there's a reduced shoulder, not a lot of room.

00:20:51.600 Uh, it's not safe to pull over.

00:20:53.360 And so what she does instead, and you saw it in the video, she does, she, she goes into

00:20:57.640 the right lane.

00:20:58.600 She reduces her speed.

00:21:00.520 She puts on her hazards, clearly signaling that she is trying to comply.

00:21:05.660 She's just looking for a safe place. 0.95

00:21:07.340 And it's not like she went for 30 minutes, two minutes later, he rams the car and flips

00:21:13.640 her.

00:21:15.500 She hadn't even made it to an exit yet.

00:21:17.440 There was an exit a mile up the road when he flipped the car.

00:21:21.640 Clearly she's looking for an exit, obviously.

00:21:24.140 And he flips it by the way, before anyone would consider defending the police on this

00:21:29.460 one, um, here's the department of public safety in Arkansas.

00:21:35.020 They have a nice handy document telling you what to do when you are stopped by law enforcement

00:21:40.660 is the department of health of safety in Arkansas.

00:21:43.000 This is what they say, um, what to do when you're stopped by a law enforcement officer.

00:21:50.400 Number one, pull over to the right side of the road, activate your turn signal or emergency

00:21:55.540 flashers to indicate to the officer that you're seeking a safe place to stop.

00:22:00.900 That's it.

00:22:01.680 That's exactly what she did.

00:22:03.420 She put on the indication that she's seeking a safe place.

00:22:05.840 So the officer should know from that signal, which she is following the law and doing it,

00:22:10.820 that she's looking for a safe place.

00:22:12.080 And if she hasn't stopped yet, it's because she doesn't think this looks safe.

00:22:16.920 And I would agree with her.

00:22:18.160 If I was in her spot, I would have done exactly the same thing.

00:22:20.600 If there's a, if there's a small shoulder that barely fits a vehicle and it's dark on

00:22:25.720 a highway when other cars are going 70 miles an hour, I'm not pulling over right there.

00:22:30.300 It's not only unsafe for you and unsafe for the officer too.

00:22:32.720 It could get clipped because he's going to, while he's engaging with you, he's going to

00:22:35.820 be standing in the, in the highway in a lane.

00:22:38.240 If I were her, I would have thought for his sake, I need to go and pull somewhere where

00:22:45.620 there's enough room for him at least to stand next to the car and talk to me without standing

00:22:49.520 in a, in, in, in a lane on a dark highway.

00:22:53.220 This to me is totally unexcusable.

00:23:00.760 And I would put this in the, I, you know, I would put this in the category of, as far

00:23:04.380 as, and by the way, this, this cop still has a job.

00:23:06.080 I mean, this is one, not only should he lose his job, but he should be on, this should be

00:23:09.480 criminal charges.

00:23:10.280 There are a lot of people on lines.

00:23:11.480 This is attempted murder.

00:23:12.760 It's clearly not attempted murder.

00:23:13.900 I don't think he was trying to kill her, but it's criminal negligence because he obviously

00:23:18.000 didn't care that much if he did.

00:23:22.140 I would put this in the, in the, in the category, kind of just like a Daniel Shaver, Shaver, a

00:23:27.780 Titania Jefferson.

00:23:29.060 She was the woman who was sitting in her own house, minding her business, and she was shot

00:23:32.240 through the window by a cop.

00:23:33.860 Now, in both those cases, somebody was killed.

00:23:35.660 Nobody was here.

00:23:36.400 Thank God.

00:23:36.860 But, um, this is, this is like that, those cases in, in just in being completely indefensible

00:23:45.020 and obviously instances of a police officer abusing his power.

00:23:49.940 Um, so she's going to be a very rich woman after this and she deserves to be. 1.00

00:23:55.080 Thank God.

00:23:56.240 As far as I know, the baby was okay.

00:23:59.220 It's not mentioned in the article.

00:24:00.560 I assume if she suffered a miscarriage, that would be mentioned in the lawsuit.

00:24:03.200 So I, I, I, I've never seen anything like that.

00:24:10.300 And that's another important point though, right?

00:24:13.220 Because does, is this case, does this case mean that there needs to be sweeping reforms

00:24:17.180 to law enforcement across the nation?

00:24:19.440 Um, unless you're telling me this happens all the time, is this the first time I've ever

00:24:22.440 seen anything like that?

00:24:23.900 I don't know about you.

00:24:26.680 This seems to be one officer who did something that almost no other police officer would do

00:24:31.800 in that situation.

00:24:34.080 So the changes and penalties should fall to him specifically.

00:24:40.280 All right, let's go to, uh, number two.

00:24:47.340 We have footage.

00:24:48.040 I just want to show you this footage from a BLM protest in Chicago or whatever you call this.

00:24:55.100 I think we have the footage here.

00:24:56.300 This is from, um, a few days ago.

00:24:59.880 Okay, here we go.

00:25:00.760 I just want to show you this.

00:25:04.440 Now here, here's a police officer.

00:25:06.140 He's driving along.

00:25:07.040 He's going slowly.

00:25:09.440 This is a police officer who's actually trying to preserve human life.

00:25:11.720 Um, but you've got the, uh, the protesters, the activists for racial justice on top of

00:25:18.960 the police cruiser twerking.

00:25:20.860 There's like three, three of these, uh, women on top of the police cruiser twerking. 1.00

00:25:24.060 Um, and of course you see, you see footage like this all the time at these BLM protests slash

00:25:30.080 riots.

00:25:31.120 Um, and I don't even know what they were protesting over.

00:25:33.980 It doesn't matter. 0.99

00:25:35.180 It was almost certainly something stupid, but is you see that? 1.00

00:25:39.580 And the question is always, uh, is, is this how you behave when you're scared to death 1.00

00:25:45.120 of the police?

00:25:49.060 Because these are the same people.

00:25:50.300 The reason they're out there is that they're saying that the cops are hunting them and killing

00:25:53.340 them and everything.

00:25:54.400 Um, is, so if you're terrified of police officers, is that what you do?

00:25:58.400 Um, you get up on a police cruiser and twerk.

00:26:03.040 What is this twerking as a defense mechanism?

00:26:07.600 For me, I'll just say there have only been a few times in my life.

00:26:11.220 Maybe when I've gotten so scared that I twerked as a defense mechanism, it's not common.

00:26:20.300 And, and you might argue that the fact that they're behaving that way shows that they have

00:26:24.340 zero fear of the police at all.

00:26:27.200 Um, all right, number three, now let's get to this Dr. Fauci.

00:26:33.940 I don't think we need any real setup, uh, to this.

00:26:36.480 I just want to play this for you.

00:26:38.360 And, uh, it kind of speaks for itself.

00:26:40.940 Here it is.

00:26:42.020 What is your level of concern that we're going to discredit public health officials to the

00:26:46.400 point of, you know, look at Russia.

00:26:49.240 They actually have a good vaccine and none of their citizens will take it because they

00:26:53.280 don't trust their own government.

00:26:55.140 Right.

00:26:55.540 It's very dangerous, Chuck, because a lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite

00:27:01.720 frankly, are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently

00:27:08.160 from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science.

00:27:12.400 Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people and there was pushback against me.

00:27:19.160 So if you are trying to do, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist,

00:27:25.660 you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.

00:27:30.840 And anybody that looks at what's going on clearly sees that.

00:27:36.800 You have to be asleep not to see that.

00:27:40.020 That is what's going on.

00:27:42.120 Science and the truth are being attacked.

00:27:44.660 I am science.

00:27:48.800 I am science.

00:27:50.840 You attack me, you attack science.

00:27:54.340 My God in heaven.

00:27:57.980 This is full-blown megalomania.

00:28:00.620 Not a surprise coming from him.

00:28:03.040 We already knew that was the case for him.

00:28:05.800 But the only difference here is that usually Fauci, while he's clearly all along been a

00:28:12.140 narcissist and a megalomaniac, drunk on his own power and everything else, that's been

00:28:15.820 very clear all along. 0.96

00:28:16.500 Like, he would usually still try to hide behind this sweet old grandfather, I'm going to be the

00:28:23.400 reasonable guy thing.

00:28:25.500 And he'll do that while supporting, you know, policies and making statements that result in,

00:28:36.280 you know, untold suffering of millions of Americans.

00:28:40.100 But usually he hides behind that.

00:28:43.780 And this is one of those ripping the mask off moments where he just comes out and says,

00:28:48.380 if you attack me, you attack truth and science.

00:28:50.980 This is North Korea level stuff. 0.65

00:28:55.680 Where if you criticize a public official, someone who works for the government, you are

00:29:00.160 criticizing truth itself.

00:29:02.360 Just think about what it requires psychologically to not only think that, but to say it out loud

00:29:11.900 on TV. 0.99

00:29:18.460 I guess he's just done with it because he knows that he's Dr. Fauci, damn it. 0.98

00:29:26.120 And you're not supposed to criticize him. 0.98

00:29:28.740 And he's tired of being criticized because he's always right.

00:29:32.360 Even if he says contradictory things, even if he says one thing, one minute, a completely

00:29:41.640 contradictory thing, the next minute.

00:29:45.000 Meanwhile, he's emailing and sending private emails that contradict both of the things that

00:29:48.720 he just, that he said publicly.

00:29:52.260 It's all science.

00:29:53.180 It's all truth.

00:29:55.520 How does that work exactly?

00:29:56.780 Because if Dr. Fauci is contradicting himself and disagreeing with himself.

00:30:02.360 And we want to make sure that we agree with Dr. Fauci all the time.

00:30:07.020 Then inevitably, we're also going to, to agree with Dr. Fauci is also to disagree with him.

00:30:12.100 Because whatever he's saying now, it's almost certain that he said the opposite of that at

00:30:16.120 some other point.

00:30:17.920 So what do I do?

00:30:18.960 If I want to make sure that I'm a good cult member and I stay loyal to Dr. Fauci, I don't

00:30:26.360 know what I'm supposed to do.

00:30:29.380 If he's saying, you know, wear a mask now, but before he said, no, you don't need to wear

00:30:33.080 a mask and you shouldn't wear one.

00:30:35.180 So to agree with him now, I'm contradicting the Dr. Fauci of March 2020.

00:30:40.920 Well, I guess the answer to that riddle is that the truth and the science changes whatever

00:30:49.920 he says that it does.

00:30:52.920 This is total madness, of course, in reality, as we have tried to establish many times.

00:31:01.060 Science is a process.

00:31:04.200 Science is not an institution.

00:31:05.560 Okay, it is not a deity speaking from on high.

00:31:11.500 Science is not Mount Olympus.

00:31:15.180 Science is not a, you know, a sage or a guru that you climb a mountain and you consult, oh,

00:31:21.440 dear science, tell us the truth.

00:31:24.700 And science certainly is not a person.

00:31:28.360 And most certainly is not a person who works with government.

00:31:33.140 It's a process.

00:31:35.560 Of discovering the, the, uh, in understanding the way that the physical world works.

00:31:43.120 That's what science is.

00:31:46.660 And an important part of the scientific process is asking questions and being critical.

00:31:54.400 Critical, not in the sense of being insulting.

00:31:56.300 Although if you want to be insulting to Dr. Fauci, go for it.

00:31:58.260 There's a lot to insult, but critical in the sense of, you know, not simply accepting

00:32:03.040 everything that you're told.

00:32:04.000 That is the uns, that is an anti-scientific approach.

00:32:10.020 But that's how Dr. Fauci views himself.

00:32:12.560 And that's how he's been treated.

00:32:15.000 Where he is the science.

00:32:16.660 All right, next, this is from the Daily Caller.

00:32:21.340 It says, establishment media has been conspicuously silent on Hunter Biden's alleged use of the

00:32:26.540 N-word in text messages obtained by the Daily Mail and reported on Tuesday.

00:32:31.340 Searching NBC News, the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times returns no results

00:32:35.880 related to the text messages.

00:32:37.320 The story has been covered by the Daily Caller, Forbes, Fox News, the New York Post, and other

00:32:41.160 outlets.

00:32:42.440 NBC News, the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times did not respond to requests

00:32:45.600 for comment.

00:32:46.600 Just days after President Joe Biden delivered an emotional anti-racism speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

00:32:51.140 the Daily Mail published text messages where Hunter Biden allegedly called his white lawyer 0.99

00:32:55.480 the N-word and talked about his penis. 0.99

00:32:58.380 In one text message, Hunter Biden reportedly asked his lawyer, corporate attorney George 0.99

00:33:03.320 Mazires, how much money he owed and said, N-word, you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.

00:33:11.200 Mazires reportedly replied, that made me snarf my coffee.

00:33:15.580 Snarf?

00:33:16.880 I'm way more concerned by the use of the word snarf here than the N-word, because I don't

00:33:21.440 know what that word means exactly.

00:33:24.420 Um, Hunter Biden addressed his white lawyer as, uh, the N-word with an A at the end, multiple

00:33:32.880 times, um, used phrases like, true dat, N-word, and bantered, I only love you because you're 0.99

00:33:40.260 black. 0.79

00:33:42.500 Okay.

00:33:43.900 And these were text messages, I think that date back to like 2018.

00:33:46.780 And, uh, as of the writing of this Daily Caller article, this story had not been reported,

00:33:55.240 as they said, um, in any of these mainstream media outlets, they just ignored it completely.

00:33:59.700 It's not even like they reported it and then buried it, or they just tossed off a, uh, a

00:34:05.220 little short two paragraph story and then buried it.

00:34:09.120 No, they, they've ignored it entirely.

00:34:12.360 Um, and yeah, so I, I, I'm kind of of two minds on this because on one hand, if this was

00:34:20.280 Don Jr.

00:34:22.040 and his text messages saying the N-word, even, you know, he's using the N-word here in a

00:34:28.060 jovial, joking manner.

00:34:29.480 And he's talking to and about a white person.

00:34:34.120 Even so, we all know that if this was Don Jr.

00:34:37.260 or really any other prominent conservative, and, um, they were found to have used the N-word

00:34:41.860 in that context or any context, uh, it would be a huge story and their life would be destroyed

00:34:46.160 and everything else, right?

00:34:46.840 We, we all know that.

00:34:48.020 And we've been told many times by the cultural powers that be that context doesn't matter.

00:34:52.920 It doesn't matter what, uh, context you use the word in.

00:34:55.300 And Papa John lost his job.

00:34:58.860 He lost everything and is now a pariah because he used the N-word just in quoting somebody

00:35:04.700 else who used it.

00:35:06.560 And in the context of using it, he was actually, he was critical of the person for using it.

00:35:12.040 And he lost his job for that.

00:35:13.540 So, um, but we also know that Papa John was, uh, was, uh, I don't know if he's actually

00:35:19.020 Republican, but he was, he was a suspected Republican.

00:35:23.360 So there's a definitely a double standard here.

00:35:25.300 That's for sure.

00:35:27.260 However, um, it also doesn't matter at all what, what words Hunter Biden used in a text

00:35:36.200 message exchange.

00:35:37.180 I don't care at all.

00:35:39.000 It does not matter.

00:35:40.600 And I also have to confess to you, and I know I'm going to put myself in the minority a little

00:35:43.960 bit among conservatives and especially conservatives in media.

00:35:47.800 Um, and I've been saying this since the campaign.

00:35:50.260 I don't fully understand the rights focus on Hunter Biden.

00:35:57.780 Um, I think it's a bad political strategy.

00:36:00.280 I don't think it works because of course all, all the people on the right who are sort of

00:36:05.580 like feigning offense over this, they're not really offended because they know who cares

00:36:09.640 doesn't matter at all.

00:36:11.300 Um, but they're, they're kind of feigning it because they're trying to make a point.

00:36:15.980 And I get that. 0.99

00:36:18.680 But at the same time, I just, the, the focus on Hunter Biden, I think is, is kind of foolish. 0.99

00:36:25.360 Uh, you're not going to land any hits on Joe Biden by talking about his loser crackhead 1.00

00:36:32.540 son. 0.98

00:36:34.040 Who's, who's not a public official is not in the white house officially, right?

00:36:39.680 Or hasn't, or I should say has not been given a job in the administration.

00:36:42.760 As far as I know, you know, Donald Trump gave a lot of his kids job, official jobs in

00:36:49.680 the administration.

00:36:50.380 Hunter Biden hasn't been given that as far as I know. 0.99

00:36:52.160 Um, and, uh, we all understand that he's a loser. 0.98

00:36:57.260 So to keep going back to this, well, of look at this other loser thing that Hunter Biden 0.99

00:37:00.960 did. 0.90

00:37:01.240 It just doesn't, nobody cares.

00:37:04.940 Yeah.

00:37:05.300 The media is going to ignore it, but I'm kind of ignoring it too.

00:37:09.660 And I'm not left-wing media, but simply because I don't think it matters.

00:37:14.680 And whatever political advantage you think you get by talking about Hunter Biden, I don't

00:37:18.540 think it's there.

00:37:19.080 I said this during the campaign with, with, uh, the final weeks of the campaign and it's

00:37:24.940 time to make our, our closing argument against Joe Biden, right?

00:37:29.180 And what were so many people in right-wing media doing?

00:37:32.180 Their closing argument was all about Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:37:34.800 And I'm not saying that that wasn't a story.

00:37:36.580 I'm not saying there wasn't potentially a scandal there.

00:37:38.280 I just don't think that that should have been the closing argument.

00:37:41.500 And I said that, and I think I was proven right.

00:37:45.380 The arguments against Joe Biden should be about Joe Biden himself.

00:37:48.660 And there's a lot that could be said and about his administration.

00:37:54.360 All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:37:56.380 This one says, I don't understand why no one supports Matt's proposal to restrict access

00:38:04.200 to voting to those who can pass a test.

00:38:06.900 I might not even qualify and I'm still in favor of it.

00:38:11.120 Yeah.

00:38:11.360 I said that no one that I'm very much on, on the margins, on the, on the fringes, uh, as

00:38:16.340 someone who actually believes in restricting voting rights based on competence.

00:38:19.380 Um, I'm on the fringes in terms of, you know, people in the public eye, but just average

00:38:29.200 people on the street, I think, yeah, I think actually, if you talk to them, a lot of them

00:38:32.800 will say, um, that actually makes a lot of sense to have some sort of test, some sort 0.94

00:38:37.040 of way to weed out people from the voting booth who are absolute ignoramuses. 0.91

00:38:42.080 So I guess I should have qualified that. 0.95

00:38:44.800 Um, Mr. Train says, Mr.

00:38:49.380 Walsh, you're starting to, or M Train, I should say, you're starting to grow on me.

00:38:53.200 I didn't really care for your style in the beginning, your sarcasm and humor.

00:38:56.820 I find more necessary than originally realized.

00:39:01.080 Well, it took you this long to understand that.

00:39:05.420 And for that reason, you're banned.

00:39:08.240 Uh, but thanks.

00:39:09.180 Thanks for being here.

00:39:09.740 Anyway, big mama says, Matt, I've got four kids like you.

00:39:12.840 Our oldest is six and our youngest is almost two.

00:39:14.980 He woke up and started singing good God almighty from his crib and it quickly got them all

00:39:19.260 singing and dancing along.

00:39:21.080 It was the most glorious way to wake up.

00:39:23.840 It is, you know, uh, yeah, I talked yesterday about how my kids, my kids wake up singing every

00:39:28.360 single morning, early in the morning, like before, before, before sunrise sometimes.

00:39:32.660 And I, I realized objectively that it's a very sweet and innocent thing and a beautiful thing because

00:39:39.580 they're so excited.

00:39:41.120 And then I feel bad when I'm annoyed by it.

00:39:43.100 I feel bad being annoyed by my kids joy, but it's just when I'm woken up at 5 30 AM, even

00:39:49.720 if I'm being woken up by joy, it's hard to not be a little bit annoyed.

00:39:53.400 Um, and finally, Gregory Fairchild says, Matt, just watched two hours of history channel on

00:40:01.300 the Aztecs and they boast of them as a very moral society who took their religion very

00:40:06.000 seriously.

00:40:07.060 Well, they did take it seriously to the tune of, uh, you know, ripping out people's hearts

00:40:12.880 left and right.

00:40:14.160 They emphasized Aztecs were not savages.

00:40:17.160 Funny how they go through amazing acrobatics to downplay filleting the skin of people and 1.00

00:40:21.500 wearing it as a fertility ritual, not to mention cutting the beating hearts out of many, uh,

00:40:27.100 people who are young children that must be made to cry before killing no savages there. 0.96

00:40:34.060 What they would consider savage scares me.

00:40:37.560 Yeah, that's that, that is certainly savage behavior and it doesn't matter who's doing

00:40:42.640 it.

00:40:43.900 And we, we should be able to agree with that, but the, the real annoying thing with something

00:40:49.160 like the Aztecs, you look at the barbarity, um, the, uh, the oppression inflicted by civilizations

00:40:57.740 like the Aztec civilization, the real excuse that we're given from the left is that we should

00:41:04.120 see them in it.

00:41:06.400 We should see that in a historical context.

00:41:08.420 That's what we're told.

00:41:10.200 I mean, you know, we can't judge them by the standards of today.

00:41:13.060 So the Aztecs are capturing thousands and thousands of people at a time, dragging them up the temple 0.99

00:41:20.240 steps, putting them on the stone slab, pulling out the knife, ripping out their heart while

00:41:25.120 they're still alive.

00:41:26.520 Uh, yeah, they did that, but it's, you know, them doing that in the 1400s is different than

00:41:31.440 if someone did it today.

00:41:32.400 That's the argument.

00:41:35.500 And I could almost go along with that.

00:41:37.920 Now it was still evil in the 1400s and they should have known better, but I could go along 1.00

00:41:43.720 with the idea that we should apply some historical perspective, even to something as horrific as

00:41:48.440 that, if you were also applying historical perspective to everyone else.

00:41:55.700 But when it comes to the Spanish or any other European settlers, um, they don't get the advantage 0.79

00:42:03.840 of historical perspective.

00:42:04.720 So if we're talking about Indians, we, we should not judge them by the standards of

00:42:09.460 today.

00:42:09.740 If we're talking about white people of, uh, or Europeans of 500, 600 years ago, they get 0.99

00:42:15.740 judged by the standards of today.

00:42:16.780 That's the problem.

00:42:18.500 That is the definition of a double standard.

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00:44:15.340 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel all of the people who are outraged

00:44:19.060 by a certain New York times article, which was published at some point last week.

00:44:22.940 The title of the editorial is how to rearrange your post pandemic friendscape.

00:44:27.620 And it was written by someone named Kate Murphy.

00:44:29.760 Now in the article, Murphy talks about the changes we might consider making to our social

00:44:33.020 lives as we emerge from hibernation and enter back into the post pandemic world.

00:44:37.580 Before we get to the, um, controversial part, here's a little bit of what she has to say.

00:44:42.720 She says, as pandemic restrictions ease in the United States, and we may once again belly

00:44:47.360 up to an all you can eat buffet of social activity.

00:44:49.840 The question is, will we pile our plates and gorge or be more selective and stick to what

00:44:54.520 nourishes and sustains us?

00:44:55.900 Psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary anthropologists say it behooves us to take

00:44:59.600 a more curatorial approach when it comes to our friends, because who you hang out with

00:45:04.480 determines who you are.

00:45:05.880 Quote, we take it for granted, but having friends is exceedingly rare in the animal kingdom,

00:45:09.080 said Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of social and natural science at Yale University.

00:45:14.860 Friendship is an evolutionary advantage, he says, that allows us to form alliances, cooperate,

00:45:20.020 exchange ideas, and learn from one another.

00:45:21.540 Having friends who encourage, stimulate, and support you is associated with improved immunity,

00:45:25.680 lower blood pressure, and higher cognitive function.

00:45:28.000 Having no friends, toxic friends, or superficial friends, not only can make you feel insecure,

00:45:32.760 lonely, or depressed, but also can accelerate cellular aging and increase your risk of premature

00:45:37.700 death.

00:45:38.020 Now, the only thing I find objectionable here is the assumption that we've all been hiding

00:45:47.420 from the world for the past year, and now we have to find a way to rebuild our lives

00:45:51.060 from scratch.

00:45:52.000 That may be the case for some people, especially those living in liberal cities, but it's not

00:45:56.240 the case for me or a lot of other people.

00:45:59.140 I made absolutely no changes to my life over the past year, except for those that I was forced

00:46:03.980 to make.

00:46:04.480 Like, places closed down, and so I could not go into those places.

00:46:07.880 But outside of, you know, that's outside of my control.

00:46:12.100 As for the things I could control, I carried on exactly as I had before.

00:46:15.860 These kinds of articles are yet another indication that the people trying to speak to us, and in

00:46:19.760 many cases for us, in the mass media, are unable to successfully do either of those things

00:46:25.940 because they live in a different universe.

00:46:28.300 To use their language, they can't relate to our lived experience.

00:46:32.560 That's why we're getting all of these articles and cable news segments about how to reclaim

00:46:35.940 and restart our lives.

00:46:37.700 It's a little confusing because many of us never stopped living our lives in the first

00:46:41.600 place.

00:46:42.700 When somebody asks us what we'll do now that the pandemic is over, our response is that

00:46:47.380 we'll keep doing exactly what we've been doing this entire time.

00:46:50.960 No significant change, really.

00:46:53.340 But that's not why people were outraged over the article.

00:46:55.240 So the outrage came from this passage, quote, Indeed, depressed friends make it more likely

00:47:02.260 you'll be depressed.

00:47:03.420 Obese friends make it more likely you'll become obese. 0.98

00:47:05.960 And friends who smoke or drink a lot make it more likely you'll do the same.

00:47:09.180 The reverse is also true.

00:47:10.340 You'll be more studious, kind, and enterprising if you consort with studious, kind, and enterprising

00:47:14.260 people.

00:47:14.920 That's not to say that you should abandon your friends when they're having a hard time,

00:47:17.940 but it's a good idea to be mindful of who you're spending the majority of your time

00:47:21.460 with, whether on or offline, because your friend's prevailing moods, values, and behaviors

00:47:25.180 are likely to become your own.

00:47:27.340 What are the hallmarks of good foreground friends?

00:47:30.960 Foremost, they make you feel better about the world and yourself.

00:47:35.140 So there it is.

00:47:36.360 People were very upset about that.

00:47:37.560 They were upset specifically that the writer Murphy mentioned how you're more likely to 0.95

00:47:41.980 be depressed and obese if you surround yourself with a bunch of sad, fat people.

00:47:45.900 Not her words exactly, but that was the general point. 0.90

00:47:48.640 There was much outrage over that idea, so much so that the New York Times actually deleted

00:47:53.460 that passage that I just read and added this editor's note a few days ago.

00:47:57.380 It says, quote,

00:47:58.420 This article has been updated to remove references to studies that examined issues related to

00:48:02.340 friendships and obesity, depression, and tobacco, and alcohol use.

00:48:05.440 The article's references to those studies lacked sufficient context and attribution and did

00:48:09.700 not adequately convey their relevance to the issues discussed in the article.

00:48:14.860 But what's wrong with what she said?

00:48:16.780 It's true that we tend to mirror the behaviors and attitudes of the people we choose to spend

00:48:21.940 most of our time with.

00:48:23.840 It's true that you should consider that when deciding who you spend time with.

00:48:28.740 She specifically said that she's not urging people to ditch their depressed or obese friends

00:48:33.900 on the spot.

00:48:35.300 She isn't suggesting that you do like a weigh-in or something before you get together. 0.95

00:48:39.840 All right, you're too fat. 0.97

00:48:40.960 Get out of here. 0.99

00:48:41.360 She isn't saying that if your friend calls you up and says, hey, man, I'm feeling pretty

00:48:45.700 down lately, that you should respond, ew, get away from me.

00:48:49.640 I mean, that's not quite the point.

00:48:51.220 The point is simply that you should consider the influences that you allow into your life.

00:48:56.560 People who aren't striving to better themselves or not trying to improve as human beings are

00:49:01.540 content to simply wallow in their laziness and misery all the time.

00:49:05.480 Those are the people that you definitely don't need in your life.

00:49:07.560 That doesn't describe every person who's overweight or depressed, obviously, but it's a good general 0.80

00:49:13.200 rule to follow.

00:49:15.060 The problem, though, is that Murphy misses her own point.

00:49:18.400 You know, she says that our foreground friends, the technical term here is BFF, those friends

00:49:24.960 should make you feel better about the world and yourself.

00:49:28.620 Well, that's incorrect.

00:49:30.380 You shouldn't be looking for friends who simply make you feel better about yourself. 0.84

00:49:33.240 In fact, if that's all you want, then you'd probably surround yourself with more miserable, 0.98

00:49:38.080 ugly people because you look so good in comparison. 0.98

00:49:42.000 The job of a friend is not to make you feel good about yourself.

00:49:45.080 The job of anyone who loves you, whether it's a family member, a friend, a spouse, whoever,

00:49:48.960 is to make you a better person, to help you be a better person, to help you towards holiness.

00:49:55.020 St. Thomas Aquinas said that to love is to will the good of the other.

00:49:58.560 All people who love you should be willing the good for you.

00:50:01.800 It doesn't mean delivering lectures and sermons or anything like that.

00:50:05.340 It just means that they should want for you to be a good person and to live a truly good

00:50:09.520 and healthy and happy life.

00:50:11.160 And you need all of those things together.

00:50:13.480 Good, healthy, happy.

00:50:15.040 If you choose just happy and that's all you're focused on, oftentimes you'll end up with something

00:50:19.280 that is the opposite of healthy and good.

00:50:21.800 So good should come first and then healthy and happy.

00:50:24.220 That's what you should want for yourself and your friends.

00:50:26.700 A revealing indication of what sort of friends you have, and this is mentioned in the article

00:50:30.220 in fairness, is how your friends react when genuinely good things happen to you or when

00:50:36.780 you do a genuinely good thing and you're enjoying the rewards of that action, which you won't

00:50:41.020 always enjoy the rewards of a good action, but sometimes you do.

00:50:44.260 And a real friend will be happy for you, like really happy as if it had happened to them.

00:50:48.800 But some, quote, friends will make it about themselves.

00:50:51.380 They'll try to pull you down into their misery and their failure.

00:50:54.120 They'll make you feel almost guilty for experiencing the good in life.

00:50:59.140 Those are the people you don't need.

00:51:01.180 They should be dropped immediately and with little concern for their feelings.

00:51:05.900 A harsh wake-up call would probably do them well.

00:51:08.580 And I suspect that the people upset about the article are mostly the bad friend types.

00:51:14.160 They're the ones who bring nothing to their friendships, are nothing but a drain and a

00:51:19.340 strain on those around them.

00:51:20.540 And they're constantly trying to drag all of their supposed loved ones down into the

00:51:24.480 muck of their own dreary self-centeredness.

00:51:27.460 And they think they should have the right to act like that and still retain all of their

00:51:32.000 relationships.

00:51:33.640 Well, they don't.

00:51:35.460 And that is all generally the point the article was trying to make, I think, though it does

00:51:38.980 miss the mark in some important respects, but not in the areas that the critics are upset

00:51:42.040 about.

00:51:42.300 So for that reason, the critics are canceled.

00:51:45.560 And also, I guess the writer of the article is canceled.

00:51:48.080 And the New York Times is canceled.

00:51:51.640 And bad friends are canceled, too.

00:51:53.540 So throw them all out at once.

00:51:56.360 More efficient that way.

00:51:58.020 And we'll leave it there for today.

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