Ep. 739 - The Left Searches For A 'Cure' For Whiteness
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we will discuss the problem of whiteness. I don t think whiteness is a problem, but we re told that it is. In fact, a recent paper in the Psychoanalytic Journal argues that it s really a disease which has to be cured. So we ll talk about that. Also, a cop who flipped a pregnant woman s car on the highway because she didn t pull over fast enough during a traffic stop. And Dr. Francis Fauci claims that he himself is science made flesh.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we will discuss the problem of whiteness.
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I don't think whiteness is a problem, but we're told that it is.
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In fact, a recent paper in the Psychoanalytic Journal argues that it's really a disease which has to be cured.
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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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because she didn't pull over fast enough during a traffic stop.
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Is that proper procedure? And Dr. Fauci claims that he himself is science made flesh.
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And our Daily Cancellation will deal with the New York Times article that generated controversy
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because it supposedly suggested that you shouldn't have a lot of obese or depressed friends.
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People didn't like that for some reason, but I think it actually makes a good point.
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I'll explain why. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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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.
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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.
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And as a legal principle, it's entirely nonexistent.
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White supremacists, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and the like are small, scattered, insignificant.
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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.
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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
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and are these days intent on slaying the dragon known as whiteness.
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Increasingly, advocates for so-called racial justice have widened their lens beyond white supremacy to now include this much broader category,
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which would seem to encompass all white people.
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It's a fringe belief system, but it's a belief system all the same.
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Whiteness, on the other hand, in its most literal sense, simply means the state or quality of being white.
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And this sheds disturbing light on, for example, all of the college courses with titles like
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The Problem of Whiteness and the calls from academics and activists to, quote, abolish whiteness.
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It's not simply white supremacy they're after anymore, but whiteness itself, the state and quality of being a white person.
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Recall that now infamous segment with Mara Gay on MSNBC where she discusses her terror at seeing pickup trucks with American flags.
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And everybody zeroed in on those comments because they were deranged and idiotic.
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But I actually think the bigger problem was something that we kind of missed.
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The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population.
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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
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by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others.
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I think as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue.
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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.
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And what should be done with all of us white people once we've been separated?
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This sort of talk begins to sound almost murderous.
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And if you think that's an overstatement, keep listening because it gets worse.
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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,
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by manipulating language to obscure the meaning of the words that they use.
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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,
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you'll end up with a lot of hazy, indeterminate ramblings like this from the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center,
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quoting a feminist sociologist named Ruth Frankenberg.
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a dominant cultural space with enormous political significance with the purpose to keep others on the margin.
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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.
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Quote, whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people,
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their customs, culture and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups are compared.
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Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Monica T. Williams writes for Psychology Today that whiteness is, quote,
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an unfairly privileged exclusionary category based on physical features, most notably a lack of melanin.
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So that brings us back to whiteness as the state and quality of being white.
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For this reason, the good doctor explains, white people are not allowed to be proud of their racial identity.
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She says that she will, in her magnanomy, permit you to be proud of, say, your specific German heritage or because, you know,
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there's nothing problematic there apparently, or your French Canadian culture, but you must not be proud to be white in general
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because, quote, whiteness is a forced group membership that originated by oppressing people of color.
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I mean, that whiteness itself, the physical state of whiteness originated through oppression.
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But can black people like herself be proud of their race?
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A hallowed mental health professional has spoken.
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It's healthy for black people to be proud of who they are, but it's not healthy for white people.
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The most healthy mental state for a white person is one of suffocating, never-ending guilt and shame.
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This view has become especially common among psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
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The entire psycho industry seems to be fueled by two primary assumptions.
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Number one, gender is fluid, and number two, whiteness is bad.
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These are also the two primary assumptions of academia, the media, corporate America, and the United States government.
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But it's especially hazardous in the mental health field because these are the professionals to whom the most mentally vulnerable people are entrusted.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has, a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility.
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The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world.
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Parasitic whiteness renders its host's appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.
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These deformed appetites particularly target non-white people.
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Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.
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Effective treatments of whiteness consist of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions.
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Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape whiteness's infiltrated appetites,
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to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims towards the work of reparation.
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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.
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Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.
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And you thought my choice of the word murderous was an exaggeration.
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Here we have medical professionals speaking openly about finding a permanent cure for a certain racial identity.
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They are just one half step away from calling it a final solution.
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And if this was not all bone-shelling enough, I should mention that Dr. Moss has been delivering his thoughts on whiteness,
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on having the whiteness disease, in talks to college students, psychoanalysts, and social workers.
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Tickets are only $40, by the way, if you're interested.
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Now, you don't really need to go back very far in history to see where this sort of thing leads.
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Our fallen species has tragically attempted many experiments through the centuries
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with casting an entire group or race of people as villains, as subhumans, as scapegoats,
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This has happened many times throughout history.
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And so we know that it never results in anything but bloodshed and misery.
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It can't possibly come to any other conclusion.
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You know, one, I'm just realizing on a slightly less important topic,
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I would look at this picture every day and it would bring me,
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to remember my times with these imaginary friends.
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So you guys know that we are defenders and supporters of the police over here on the Matt Wall Show.
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And, um, obviously though, supporting and defending the police when they're being unjustly attacked,
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Uh, but that also doesn't mean that there's never an occasion where a cop does a bad thing.
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And when that does happen, they should be held accountable.
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Now, the problem is that this, this, the word accountability,
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we will remember LeBron James tweeted out the picture of a, of a cop who saved a black girl's life
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by shooting another black girl who's trying to stab her to death.
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And he had that word accountability, putting his, his, uh, the cop's picture out there,
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So for the, the race hustlers and BLM and guys like LeBron James, uh, accountability for police means
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that they're always wrong, no matter what they do, even if they act heroically and save someone's life,
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they're still wrong and their lives should be destroyed.
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That's what they mean when they say accountability.
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And that's a problem because there is such a thing as actual accountability.
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And especially for agents of the state and police officers are agents of the state.
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And the badge and the gun confers power and authority as important for us as members of an
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allegedly free society to hold agents of the state responsible and accountable when they actually
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violate, um, you know, violate their, their, their duties and, and, uh, abuse their power.
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It says an Arkansas woman is suing an Arkansas state police officer who she says, quote,
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negligently performed a pursuit intervention technique, pit maneuver that resulted in her car
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flipping over on the highway at 60 miles per hour in July of 2020.
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She was pregnant at the time and she was clocked going 84 miles an hour in a 70 mile
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Uh, I confess I've gone, I have often, I'm not saying that you should do this.
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This is not a recommendation, but, uh, when, when, when the, when the speed limit gets to
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70, I kind of treat that as no speed limit at all.
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I figure once you get to that point, the speed limit is more of a suggestion.
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So I've, have many times gone over 84, certainly in a 70, uh, it's not that, you know, it's to
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be, especially on a sort of empty highway going 84 to 70.
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It's, I guess the point is there's no reason to think by the fact that she's going 84 and
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a 70, that she's some sort of violent, dangerous criminal.
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There's no reason to think that this is anything more than a normal, usually law abiding American
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who's just committing a rather minor traffic, traffic infraction.
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Within seconds of Arkansas state police officer, Rodney Dunn, turning on his patrol cruiser's
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overhead lights, Harper pulled over to the right lane, turned on her emergency blinkers
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Nicole Harper was driving home on the I-67 and is alleged to have been clocked for speeding
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by Senior Corporal Rodney Dunn, who claims that she fled.
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But in the video, we see an obvious decrease in speed as Harper pulls into the right lane
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She claims it was to indicate she was going to exit the interstate, as the area had a reduced
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Regardless of Harper's actions and indications that she would stop, Corporal Dunn initiates
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He's going to tag, he's going to kind of ram into the car.
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And this is something you see if you watch, you know, you see videos of high-speed chases
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In fact, I mean, I should say that oftentimes you watch these chases and they don't do that.
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They'll follow a criminal, someone who they know is a violent felon, a fugitive or whatever.
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They'll follow them for miles and miles and miles before they resort to something like that.
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And sometimes it's not even a high-speed chase.
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You'll see these, you'll see these, the cars are going away like 40 miles an hour and the
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cops are all just following behind because oftentimes they're reluctant to execute a maneuver like
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that, even if it is a known violent criminal, because you might kill someone doing it.
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Here they did it, this, this officer did to this woman just because of a speeding violation.
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And now we have, and this, this also makes it all the more disturbing.
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I think we have, um, you can hear the audio now.
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You don't see it, but here is the officer after this woman crawls out of the wreckage.
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Well, ma'am, you've got to pull over when we stop.
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When people don't stop for emergency vehicles, we end this right here, right now, before you
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And you hear him that he doesn't even appear to be concerned.
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You flipped her vehicle and he's not even saying, are you okay?
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And you can clearly see in the video that it is a, it's a reduced shoulder.
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So she probably figured it's, it's, it's nighttime.
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Uh, there's a reduced shoulder, not a lot of room.
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And so what she does instead, and you saw it in the video, she does, she, she goes into
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She puts on her hazards, clearly signaling that she is trying to comply.
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And it's not like she went for 30 minutes, two minutes later, he rams the car and flips
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There was an exit a mile up the road when he flipped the car.
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And he flips it by the way, before anyone would consider defending the police on this
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one, um, here's the department of public safety in Arkansas.
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They have a nice handy document telling you what to do when you are stopped by law enforcement
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is the department of health of safety in Arkansas.
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This is what they say, um, what to do when you're stopped by a law enforcement officer.
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Number one, pull over to the right side of the road, activate your turn signal or emergency
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flashers to indicate to the officer that you're seeking a safe place to stop.
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She put on the indication that she's seeking a safe place.
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So the officer should know from that signal, which she is following the law and doing it,
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And if she hasn't stopped yet, it's because she doesn't think this looks safe.
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If I was in her spot, I would have done exactly the same thing.
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If there's a, if there's a small shoulder that barely fits a vehicle and it's dark on
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a highway when other cars are going 70 miles an hour, I'm not pulling over right there.
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It's not only unsafe for you and unsafe for the officer too.
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It could get clipped because he's going to, while he's engaging with you, he's going to
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If I were her, I would have thought for his sake, I need to go and pull somewhere where
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there's enough room for him at least to stand next to the car and talk to me without standing
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And I would put this in the, I, you know, I would put this in the category of, as far
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as, and by the way, this, this cop still has a job.
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I mean, this is one, not only should he lose his job, but he should be on, this should be
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I don't think he was trying to kill her, but it's criminal negligence because he obviously
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I would put this in the, in the, in the category, kind of just like a Daniel Shaver, Shaver, a
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She was the woman who was sitting in her own house, minding her business, and she was shot
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But, um, this is, this is like that, those cases in, in just in being completely indefensible
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and obviously instances of a police officer abusing his power.
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Um, so she's going to be a very rich woman after this and she deserves to be.
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I assume if she suffered a miscarriage, that would be mentioned in the lawsuit.
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So I, I, I, I've never seen anything like that.
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And that's another important point though, right?
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Because does, is this case, does this case mean that there needs to be sweeping reforms
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Um, unless you're telling me this happens all the time, is this the first time I've ever
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This seems to be one officer who did something that almost no other police officer would do
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So the changes and penalties should fall to him specifically.
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I just want to show you this footage from a BLM protest in Chicago or whatever you call this.
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This is a police officer who's actually trying to preserve human life.
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Um, but you've got the, uh, the protesters, the activists for racial justice on top of
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There's like three, three of these, uh, women on top of the police cruiser twerking.
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Um, and of course you see, you see footage like this all the time at these BLM protests slash
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Um, and I don't even know what they were protesting over.
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It was almost certainly something stupid, but is you see that?
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And the question is always, uh, is, is this how you behave when you're scared to death
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The reason they're out there is that they're saying that the cops are hunting them and killing
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Um, is, so if you're terrified of police officers, is that what you do?
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For me, I'll just say there have only been a few times in my life.
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Maybe when I've gotten so scared that I twerked as a defense mechanism, it's not common.
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And, and you might argue that the fact that they're behaving that way shows that they have
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Um, all right, number three, now let's get to this Dr. Fauci.
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I don't think we need any real setup, uh, to this.
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What is your level of concern that we're going to discredit public health officials to the
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They actually have a good vaccine and none of their citizens will take it because they
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It's very dangerous, Chuck, because a lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite
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frankly, are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently
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from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science.
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Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people and there was pushback against me.
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So if you are trying to do, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist,
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you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.
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And anybody that looks at what's going on clearly sees that.
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But the only difference here is that usually Fauci, while he's clearly all along been a
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narcissist and a megalomaniac, drunk on his own power and everything else, that's been
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Like, he would usually still try to hide behind this sweet old grandfather, I'm going to be the
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And he'll do that while supporting, you know, policies and making statements that result in,
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you know, untold suffering of millions of Americans.
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And this is one of those ripping the mask off moments where he just comes out and says,
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if you attack me, you attack truth and science.
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Where if you criticize a public official, someone who works for the government, you are
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Just think about what it requires psychologically to not only think that, but to say it out loud
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I guess he's just done with it because he knows that he's Dr. Fauci, damn it.
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And he's tired of being criticized because he's always right.
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Even if he says contradictory things, even if he says one thing, one minute, a completely
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Meanwhile, he's emailing and sending private emails that contradict both of the things that
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Because if Dr. Fauci is contradicting himself and disagreeing with himself.
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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
00:30:18.960
If I want to make sure that I'm a good cult member and I stay loyal to Dr. Fauci, I don't
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If he's saying, you know, wear a mask now, but before he said, no, you don't need to wear
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
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This is total madness, of course, in reality, as we have tried to establish many times.
00:31:15.180
Science is not a, you know, a sage or a guru that you climb a mountain and you consult, oh,
00:31:28.360
And most certainly is not a person who works with government.
00:31:35.560
Of discovering the, the, uh, in understanding the way that the physical world works.
00:31:46.660
And an important part of the scientific process is asking questions and being critical.
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
00:32:04.000
That is the uns, that is an anti-scientific approach.
00:32:16.660
All right, next, this is from the Daily Caller.
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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.
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Searching NBC News, the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times returns no results
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The story has been covered by the Daily Caller, Forbes, Fox News, the New York Post, and other
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NBC News, the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times did not respond to requests
00:32:46.600
Just days after President Joe Biden delivered an emotional anti-racism speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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the Daily Mail published text messages where Hunter Biden allegedly called his white lawyer
00:32:58.380
In one text message, Hunter Biden reportedly asked his lawyer, corporate attorney George
00:33:03.320
Mazires, how much money he owed and said, N-word, you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.
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Mazires reportedly replied, that made me snarf my coffee.
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I'm way more concerned by the use of the word snarf here than the N-word, because I don't
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
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
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little short two paragraph story and then buried it.
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
00:34:22.040
and his text messages saying the N-word, even, you know, he's using the N-word here in a
00:34:37.260
or really any other prominent conservative, and, um, they were found to have used the N-word
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in that context or any context, uh, it would be a huge story and their life would be destroyed
00:34:48.020
And we've been told many times by the cultural powers that be that context doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter what, uh, context you use the word in.
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He lost everything and is now a pariah because he used the N-word just in quoting somebody
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And in the context of using it, he was actually, he was critical of the person for using it.
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.
00:35:27.260
However, um, it also doesn't matter at all what, what words Hunter Biden used in a text
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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.
00:36:00.280
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
00:36:11.300
Um, but they're, they're kind of feigning it because they're trying to make a point.
00:36:18.680
But at the same time, I just, the, the focus on Hunter Biden, I think is, is kind of foolish.
00:36:25.360
Uh, you're not going to land any hits on Joe Biden by talking about his loser crackhead
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
00:36:50.380
Hunter Biden hasn't been given that as far as I know.
00:36:52.160
Um, and, uh, we all understand that he's a loser.
00:36:57.260
So to keep going back to this, well, of look at this other loser thing that Hunter Biden
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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
00:37:19.080
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.
00:37:36.580
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.
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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.
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This one says, I don't understand why no one supports Matt's proposal to restrict access
00:38:06.900
I might not even qualify and I'm still in favor of it.
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
00:38:37.040
of way to weed out people from the voting booth who are absolute ignoramuses.
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.
00:39:09.740
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
00:39:23.840
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
00:39:43.100
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
00:40:07.060
Well, they did take it seriously to the tune of, uh, you know, ripping out people's hearts
00:40:17.160
Funny how they go through amazing acrobatics to downplay filleting the skin of people and
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.
00:40:37.560
Yeah, that's that, that is certainly savage behavior and it doesn't matter who's doing
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
00:41:10.200
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
00:41:20.240
steps, putting them on the stone slab, pulling out the knife, ripping out their heart while
00:41:26.520
Uh, yeah, they did that, but it's, you know, them doing that in the 1400s is different than
00:41:37.920
Now it was still evil in the 1400s and they should have known better, but I could go along
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
00:42:04.720
So if we're talking about Indians, we, we should not judge them by the standards of
00:42:09.740
If we're talking about white people of, uh, or Europeans of 500, 600 years ago, they get
00:42:21.100
You know, it's no secret that the amount of content from the daily wire is growing rapidly,
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel all of the people who are outraged
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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
00:44:55.900
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
00:45:05.880
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,
00:45:21.540
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
00:45:38.020
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
00:45:52.000
That may be the case for some people, especially those living in liberal cities, but it's not
00:45:59.140
I made absolutely no changes to my life over the past year, except for those that I was forced
00:46:04.480
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
00:46:28.300
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
00:46:37.700
It's a little confusing because many of us never stopped living our lives in the first
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.
00:46:53.340
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
00:47:03.420
Obese friends make it more likely you'll become obese.
00:47:05.960
And friends who smoke or drink a lot make it more likely you'll do the same.
00:47:10.340
You'll be more studious, kind, and enterprising if you consort with studious, kind, and enterprising
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
00:47:27.340
What are the hallmarks of good foreground friends?
00:47:30.960
Foremost, they make you feel better about the world and yourself.
00:47:37.560
They were upset specifically that the writer Murphy mentioned how you're more likely to
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.
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.
00:47:58.420
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.
00:48:16.780
It's true that we tend to mirror the behaviors and attitudes of the people we choose to spend
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
00:48:35.300
She isn't suggesting that you do like a weigh-in or something before you get together.
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.
00:48:51.220
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
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.
00:49:30.380
You shouldn't be looking for friends who simply make you feel better about yourself.
00:49:33.240
In fact, if that's all you want, then you'd probably surround yourself with more miserable,
00:49:38.080
ugly people because you look so good in comparison.
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
00:50:15.040
If you choose just happy and that's all you're focused on, oftentimes you'll end up with something
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.
00:51:01.180
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
00:51:20.540
And they're constantly trying to drag all of their supposed loved ones down into the
00:51:27.460
And they think they should have the right to act like that and still retain all of their
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
00:51:45.560
And also, I guess the writer of the article is canceled.
00:52:19.620
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