The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 741 - The Hallucinatory World Of The Critical Race Theorist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an MSNBC host claims that most American school kids are being taught that slavery is okay.

00:00:07.760 That's what she thinks is happening in school rooms today.

00:00:10.780 This is the kind of hallucinatory world that the critical race theory proponents live in.

00:00:14.880 So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including a new report about the rash of suicide attempts by adolescent girls during lockdown.

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00:02:05.780 You know, the odd thing about the defenders of critical race theory is that they don't often defend it.

00:02:10.540 Maybe you've noticed that.

00:02:11.940 It's a common tactic of the left generally.

00:02:14.320 Rather than outright defend whatever idea they put forth or whatever dogma they indoctrinate our children into, 0.98

00:02:20.480 they instead accuse its critics of being, you know, brainless bigots who don't understand it.

00:02:25.080 The tactic almost always is to make the idea more obscure, more vague. 0.88

00:02:30.400 The more obscure and vague the idea, the more insulated from criticism it is.

00:02:35.040 If you object to it, then they simply scoff and inform you that this is a topic for academics and scholars and educated people,

00:02:42.340 and you're simply too uneducated to engage in the discussion.

00:02:44.940 This is why, while CRT proponents accuse its opponents of being unable to define CRT,

00:02:51.880 they themselves are unwilling or unable to define it.

00:02:55.480 A very similar tactic has been used with Antifa, you've noticed.

00:02:59.100 We've been told that those who criticize Antifa simply don't understand what Antifa is or what it stands for.

00:03:06.680 And yet, those who offer this rationalization are always very reluctant to paint any kind of definite picture themselves.

00:03:13.820 It's appropriate that Brandi Zedrozny, NBC News senior reporter that is propagandist, 0.98

00:03:20.940 compared the two things in an effort to defend both.

00:03:23.140 She wrote on Twitter a couple days ago, quote,

00:03:25.380 Critical race theory is the new Antifa,

00:03:27.660 and it's just so frustrating to see this boogeyman political tactic work over and over again.

00:03:33.360 Antifa and CRT are boogeymen.

00:03:35.060 Does that mean they don't exist?

00:03:38.260 No, they do exist, we're told, but they just, they're not what we think they are.

00:03:43.100 Okay, so then what are they?

00:03:45.920 Well, we wouldn't understand.

00:03:47.880 For another example of this strategy, CRT guru Ibram X. Kendi was interviewed by Slate a few days ago,

00:03:53.800 and the very first question posed to him, I mean, it was an interview about critical race theory.

00:03:59.120 First question, very simple, what actually is critical race theory?

00:04:03.300 He's the expert on the subject, allegedly.

00:04:06.200 He says the critics don't understand it, can't define it.

00:04:09.420 Now it's his chance to offer the real definition.

00:04:12.740 Sounds good.

00:04:13.960 This is what he said.

00:04:14.940 This was his answer.

00:04:16.380 Critical race theory emerged among lawyers and legal scholars who recognized

00:04:20.120 that despite being in this post-civil rights America, racial inequality, or rather, sorry,

00:04:24.840 racial inequity and disparity still existed and persisted.

00:04:28.540 For them and for critical race theorists, the aim was to examine those structures, those laws,

00:04:32.920 those policies, so that we can uncover the structures of racism.

00:04:36.280 And obviously, critical race theory has extended out to other disciplines.

00:04:39.660 Personally, I think the Republicans specifically chose to attack critical race theory because

00:04:43.420 they felt that they could define it more easily than other terms.

00:04:45.780 Since they couldn't come out and say, oh, those people who are challenging systemic racism

00:04:50.240 are a problem, they couldn't say those anti-racists are a problem, so they're defining critical

00:04:55.280 race theory at the same time that they're attacking it.

00:04:57.680 And critical race theories, theorists are like, that's not how we define it.

00:05:03.180 Okay, Ibram, then how do you define it?

00:05:07.120 Because that wasn't a definition.

00:05:08.960 That was a bunch of words, but it wasn't a definition.

00:05:13.860 See, this should be your first clue that something is wrong.

00:05:16.400 When the people advancing an idea don't want to explain it to you,

00:05:20.260 or they insist that they can't explain it because you wouldn't understand it if they did.

00:05:24.920 That's a common strategy, not only among leftists, but also among cult leaders.

00:05:31.540 Scientologists are also very reluctant to tell you what Scientology actually is.

00:05:36.140 Now, what does that tell you?

00:05:39.300 In this case, they don't want to explain it straightforwardly because, in truth,

00:05:44.780 critical race theory is simply the idea that everything in America is racist,

00:05:49.940 and all white people are racist, and all minorities are victims, 0.94

00:05:53.920 and vengeance must be enacted on the racist white people in order to settle the score. 1.00

00:05:59.920 That's what it is. 0.99

00:06:00.740 I mean, we can dance around and use lots of bigger words if we want,

00:06:03.240 but I think when it comes down to it, that's the most accurate distillation of critical race theory.

00:06:09.160 Four basic points. 0.96

00:06:10.260 America is racist. 1.00

00:06:11.520 Two, white people are racist. 1.00

00:06:12.960 Three, minorities are victims. 1.00

00:06:14.200 Four, vengeance.

00:06:16.240 Right?

00:06:17.240 CRT cultists will object to that definition, I'm sure,

00:06:20.920 but even when they object, you'll notice that they won't disagree with any of those four points.

00:06:27.180 They'll only say that I'm simplifying, which I am,

00:06:29.580 because unlike them, I actually want people to understand what I'm saying.

00:06:34.280 For all the reasons so far outlined,

00:06:36.520 when trying to understand what critical race theory is in practice,

00:06:40.820 it's better to look at examples of it.

00:06:43.520 I mean, what does it do to a person's mind?

00:06:46.020 What sort of things does a person come to believe

00:06:49.260 once they've sacrificed their brain to this cult?

00:06:52.700 Well, for a case study and people who've given up their brains,

00:06:55.080 there's probably no better place to look than to Joy Reid on MSNBC. 0.56

00:06:59.980 Providing some very illuminating insight into the worldview of a CRT religionist,

00:07:05.640 Joy recently tweeted the following.

00:07:07.100 She said, quote,

00:07:08.540 Open question to those who are afraid of critical race theory,

00:07:11.880 which isn't being taught in K-12 schools.

00:07:13.920 It's, of course, offered in law schools,

00:07:15.700 but you clearly are conflating it with the 1619 Project.

00:07:19.180 What do you want taught about U.S. slavery and racism?

00:07:22.760 Nothing?

00:07:23.160 Or what?

00:07:24.900 Currently, listen to this,

00:07:27.780 most K-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate race theory,

00:07:32.740 whereby the daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history 0.77

00:07:36.500 wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the Civil War

00:07:40.700 and lynchings and violence never happened.

00:07:43.520 Is this about continuing to teach Confederate race theory

00:07:46.220 and continuing to omit things like the founders owning slaves

00:07:50.380 or the facts about the mass extermination of the indigenous?

00:07:53.980 Are you insisting that those things continue to be omitted?

00:07:57.500 If so, why?

00:07:58.940 Or is it about adding more empty praise to the teaching of history

00:08:01.800 and completing the sanitization of history that already is the case?

00:08:04.760 If so, why?

00:08:06.160 How does that make children smarter?

00:08:08.100 And don't you think kids will eventually find out the facts anyway?

00:08:10.680 Would love a response.

00:08:11.680 Well, okay, I'll give you a response.

00:08:15.460 Before we get the response, though, as requested, I will give that.

00:08:19.900 But we should note that she's far from alone in this point of view.

00:08:23.740 Another quick example, Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor,

00:08:27.800 current Berkeley professor, so you kind of know what you're going to get from him,

00:08:31.720 made a slightly more toned down version of Joy Reid's argument in a recent video.

00:08:36.480 Let's watch that.

00:08:37.080 The so-called party of free speech is now going after academic freedom.

00:08:41.700 A host of Republican-controlled states have passed or are gearing up to pass

00:08:45.680 bills that ban teaching the role race has played in the history of American politics, policy, and law.

00:08:52.720 Conservatives lob the term critical race theory against the nation's tragic racial history

00:08:57.400 they don't want students to know, calling it indoctrination or brainwashing.

00:09:01.480 Well, as an educator, I can tell you that the real indoctrination in brainwashing

00:09:05.760 is in leaving out this history and only teaching children the myths that we've always been a

00:09:11.280 perfect country, always lived up to our ideals, and there's no need to reckon with our past.

00:09:16.180 That's dangerous.

00:09:17.100 Unless our children know all of our history, including the anguished role racism has played

00:09:22.580 in shaping this country, they can't possibly understand why we are where we are today

00:09:27.100 and what we can and must do to better live up to our ideals.

00:09:31.260 The stories we tell about ourselves matter, and it's about time we started telling the truth.

00:09:37.200 Well, first of all, none of this has anything to do with free speech.

00:09:42.740 Public school teachers don't have free speech rights to teach kids whatever they want.

00:09:48.520 So this whole, this, this, what the left is doing here by painting this as a free speech issue

00:09:52.960 is absurd. Now, leftists right now are pretending to think otherwise, pretending to think that,

00:09:58.840 you know, this is a, this is free speech and public school teachers have free speech rights

00:10:02.480 and they should be able to teach whatever they want. And they're taking that approach now because

00:10:06.080 it suits them. But let's see how they react if an eighth grade social studies teacher begins class

00:10:11.100 by informing her students that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior. That's a religious conviction

00:10:18.060 that they will say in that case has no place in the classroom. And in that case, that teacher

00:10:23.860 should be fired, should maybe go to jail, there should be lawsuits. CRT is also a religious 0.73

00:10:30.840 conviction. It's a cult belief that has no place in the classroom. I mean, the very idea that state

00:10:36.320 governments can't pass laws to determine what will be taught in government schools is, is just asinine. 0.81

00:10:42.380 But asinine doesn't even begin to describe the rest of what we heard from both Robert Reich and Joy 0.94

00:10:48.840 Reed. In what school, in what universe are kids not already being taught about racism? Where is that

00:10:57.860 happening or not happening? What school is giving kids a mythical version of American history where

00:11:04.040 racism doesn't exist at all and never existed and played no factor? To the contrary, one of the

00:11:12.380 the only facts that most Americans seem to know about American history is that there was racism and

00:11:18.100 there was slavery and both of those things are bad. Every American knows that. Every American has been

00:11:23.700 taught that in school. That's been the case for a very long time. But Reed goes even further. She

00:11:29.380 claims that most American school children are being taught that slavery isn't so bad.

00:11:33.680 She wants to know if if CRT critics think that kids should continue to be taught that the answer

00:11:43.220 is no, they shouldn't continue to be taught that slavery isn't bad, just as they shouldn't continue

00:11:47.460 to be taught that cannibalism is an acceptable dietary practice. And just as, you know, cows should

00:11:53.240 not continue flying over the moon. I think they should stay down here on earth, frankly.

00:11:58.080 See, nothing can continue to happen if it isn't already happening anywhere at all, period.

00:12:06.600 There are no slavery apologetics or slavery justifications being offered in any school

00:12:14.220 or any classroom anywhere in America at all. And I'll even go out on a limb and say there are

00:12:22.020 zero exceptions to that because usually, you know, with it's hard to make any blankets. Like you can

00:12:27.360 always find an anomalous case somewhere of someone doing something crazy. But in this case, you know

00:12:33.980 what? I'm going to say you won't even find one example anywhere of anything like what Joey Reed

00:12:39.040 describes. Indeed, once again, one of the only facts about America that every U.S. citizen knows

00:12:47.100 is that slavery happened and it was very bad. You can walk up to any person on the street and they can

00:12:53.620 tell you that. In fact, I again, I'll go further and say, walk up to any person on the street and

00:13:01.000 just ask them, tell me a fact about American history. The majority of them, that's one of the

00:13:06.700 first things they're going to tell you. They can also probably tell you that we landed on the moon

00:13:13.140 at some point and there was a guy named George Washington who may or may not have been around when

00:13:18.240 the moon landing happened. Those are all the facts that most Americans know about their country.

00:13:23.500 Slavery is definitely among the facts. CRT cultists think that school kids aren't being told enough

00:13:31.860 about America's racist past. Meanwhile, in reality, that's about the only thing that school kids are

00:13:37.660 reliably told about their country's history. At least it's one of the only things they retain

00:13:41.620 because it's emphasized so much. And that's exactly how we ended up in a country where something like

00:13:48.400 critical race theory is so prominent and powerful. That's the great irony here that some people I

00:13:54.660 think have missed. Critical race theory is disproven by its own existence. If we lived in the kind of

00:14:03.040 country that Joy Reid described, where millions of American school kids are being indoctrinated to

00:14:07.420 believe that slavery is good or not so bad, critical race theory could have never come into existence

00:14:15.740 and certainly wouldn't have the prominence it does today. No, CRT exists because kids are being

00:14:24.280 indoctrinated into the opposite extreme. That's the reality of the world we currently live in.

00:14:31.400 But CRT, as we've seen, has no interest in dealing with reality. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:04.900 three-day week because I'm going on vacation, leaving on Thursday. You probably still have to

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00:16:15.220 this is only for me, is that because we're going on vacation and it's going to be a late vacation,

00:16:19.900 that gives me an excuse to go to Bass Pro Shops today, which I'm very excited about. People accuse

00:16:27.380 me all the time of not smiling. I think that's a slight, I think that's fake news because I do

00:16:33.580 smile at least once or twice a week, but if you really want to see me smile, then you got to see

00:16:36.540 me in a Bass Pro Shops. That's like a kid in a candy shop. And the thing is, you know, I was explaining

00:16:42.960 this plan to my wife. I said, well, we're going on vacation. I got to go buy some more fishing

00:16:48.260 tackle and stuff. And she said, well, don't you have enough tackle, enough lures? And what I try

00:16:57.340 to explain to her is that, no, that doesn't, that's not a thing. That doesn't exist. That

00:17:00.700 doesn't compute. You can't have enough. What do you mean enough? That doesn't, enough fishing

00:17:05.880 tackles. That's not a thing. It's like saying, and she's also told me this, that, well, you have

00:17:11.140 enough ammo. You don't need to buy more ammo. There's no enough. That's not a thing. You can't

00:17:16.100 have enough. There are certain things in life you can't have enough of. Fishing tackle, ammo.

00:17:21.980 Those are two other things. I'm sure there are a few others. All right. Let's start with

00:17:29.100 this from the New York Post back into something very serious and depressing, but also not at all

00:17:38.860 unexpected. Says from the New York Post, says suicide attempts by adolescent girls surged during

00:17:45.360 the COVID-19 pandemic, worsening as the second wave wore on, according to a new study. The number

00:17:52.360 of emergency room visits for suspected suicide attempts for those 12 to 17 began to rise in May

00:17:57.760 2020, especially among girls, according to a study by the CDC. The mean number of weekly such visits

00:18:05.360 by girls during a month long period in the summer of 2020 was 26% higher than during the same period in

00:18:11.960 2019, 26% higher. By the winter of 2021, the number of ER visits for suspected suicide attempts was 50%

00:18:19.860 higher than 2019. Among the, among boys, the number of visits rose by 3, 3.7%. Uh, so that, that is,

00:18:29.400 that's an interesting disparity. Um, the study theorized young people were at higher risk because

00:18:34.980 they might've been hit hard by COVID-19 safety measures, such as physical distancing and may

00:18:39.300 have felt increased anxiety about family health and economic concerns. Um, the CDC said, quote,

00:18:46.060 the findings from this study suggested more severe distress among young females than has been

00:18:51.500 identified in previous reports during the pandemic, reinforcing the need for increased attention

00:18:55.740 to and prevention for this population. Um, females are more likely to report self-harm or suicide

00:19:01.940 attempts than males, which may account for the increased ER visits by girls. Also, I, you know, if we're

00:19:08.460 going to speculate about, about the, the disparity, uh, girls and women are also more, are, are more, are

00:19:16.240 more relational, you know, and, and, um, I think need that interpersonal connection. I mean, boys do also,

00:19:23.240 but, um, girls are even tend even more in that direction. So I could see how they'd be even more 1.00

00:19:29.860 affected by, by the isolation though. Again, it affects everybody and especially kids. Now this is

00:19:37.820 horrible and infuriating and it's made even more infuriating by anyone who acts surprised by it

00:19:45.720 because this was entirely foreseeable.

00:19:52.400 The people who were behind these quote unquote safety measures like the CDC, for example,

00:19:57.340 they can't act surprised. This, this, you, 100% you knew this was going to happen.

00:20:05.340 Knew it like looking into a crystal ball. You knew it with that clarity. We all did.

00:20:10.260 But if you have any understanding of human beings and how humans operate, especially kids,

00:20:19.000 you can't rip their entire lives away from them and isolate them. Isolation has an effect on people,

00:20:25.700 a devastating effect. And if you have kids that are already struggling emotionally, um, and then you

00:20:33.060 isolate them on top of all of the, the, the, the fear and anxiety that you're heaping on top of it,

00:20:41.740 telling them you have to wear a mask every time you leave the house. That's how afraid you should be.

00:20:50.220 And it can't be emphasized enough. We did all of this in spite of the fact that, um,

00:20:56.120 there was never any serious risk to kids. That's the one thing I, I can never get over.

00:21:05.360 It's like blinding rage. When I think about it, we can't even claim, although the, the people who

00:21:12.180 push these policies will claim you cannot credibly claim that we did it for them.

00:21:17.580 This was something that was done to kids, knowing ahead of time, the effect that would have on them.

00:21:27.780 Again, you can't claim you didn't know because there were those of us saying all along,

00:21:32.200 you cannot do this to kids. You're going to destroy them. You're going to have,

00:21:35.680 you're going to have suicide epidemics. You're gonna have kids in emergency rooms. That is going to happen.

00:21:39.280 We said that. So knowing what would happen, we did this anyway, because we were scared for our own safety.

00:21:54.320 And by we, I mean the general universal we, I don't include myself, hopefully not you.

00:22:01.160 Um, maybe I shouldn't be saying we at all. They, you know, I'll put it that way. They,

00:22:05.200 they did this knowing what, knowing, knowing the effect it would have on kids.

00:22:11.760 It's completely backwards.

00:22:15.120 Is, I mean, is anyone, does anyone want to step up to the plate? Let me ask you,

00:22:19.320 does anyone want to step up to the plate? Anyone in the they category? Anyone, anyone who,

00:22:23.140 who supported these policies? You want to step up to the plate and tell me that this cost is worth it.

00:22:29.620 You want to tell me that?

00:22:30.680 Look at the, uh, we'll just, we'll just take one data point, one statistical fact here,

00:22:38.600 26% rise in suicide attempts among adolescent girls. And we're only, we're only, we're zoning in

00:22:45.220 on one group here, adolescent girls. What was it? 12 to 17, 26% rise in a suicide attempts. Is that,

00:22:55.180 is that worth it? Was it worth the trade-off? Whatever safety we allegedly gained over the

00:23:05.560 last year, was it worth a 26% rise in suicide attempts among kids? Because I got to tell you,

00:23:14.140 I can't think of anything that would be worth it. That would be worth that cost. I can't think of

00:23:19.540 any public policy that could be put in place in any situation that would be worth the cost

00:23:27.440 of a massive rise in suicide attempts among children. Like I would rather have anything but

00:23:35.700 that. And if you tell me that, well, if we didn't have all these policies, it means that maybe more

00:23:46.100 people would have died of COVID. I don't think that's, that's, I don't think that's true at all

00:23:53.160 because kids were not, were not a high risk factor to spread or, or contract it. But even sake of

00:24:00.160 argument for the sake of argument, let's say that that's true. These measures that led to a 26% rise

00:24:06.100 in a suicide attempts among, among young girls. Let's just say that, uh, yeah, it did that,

00:24:12.560 but it also prevented some people from dying of COVID who otherwise would have. Um, I gotta tell

00:24:20.080 you, I, I, I would take the COVID deaths over thousands of more kids trying to kill themselves.

00:24:31.460 So I don't think the trade is worth it at all. But if anyone wants to step up and say that they

00:24:37.480 think it is, say, yeah, you know, that's kind of rough, but, uh, it was worth it.

00:24:44.900 Maybe Fauci. I want Fauci to get on TV and say it was worth it. Yeah. 26% rise in suicide

00:24:51.040 attempts among kids. It was worth it because if you're defending the lockdowns, even now,

00:24:57.580 then that's what you think. And I want you to say it.

00:24:59.760 Here's someone who thinks it was definitely worth it. Andy Slavitt, um, Biden's COVID czar,

00:25:08.480 which I don't know what he has to do now. I don't know. I don't know what his job,

00:25:12.040 I don't know what his job ever was. I'm certainly not sure what it is now. He says that, uh, the

00:25:16.760 lesson that he takes over the, from the past year is, uh, that Americans didn't sacrifice enough.

00:25:24.400 Let's watch. How much of this pandemic was preventable and how?

00:25:32.140 Well, of course we would have had a pandemic here in the U S no matter what. Um, but, but look,

00:25:38.220 we can count the, the, the mistakes. And I think it's important that we do it for nothing else.

00:25:42.480 So we don't repeat them. We obviously had a set of technical mistakes with the testing and the PPE

00:25:48.620 that we know about. But if we're honest, we also had two other, two other types of mistakes that

00:25:53.360 caused a lot of loss of life. One were just plainly political leadership mistakes. Um,

00:25:57.880 there was a lot, we denied the virus for too long out of the Trump white house.

00:26:01.480 There was too much squashing of dissent and playing on divisions, but I'd also think we all need to

00:26:05.780 look at one another and ask ourselves, um, what do we need to do better next time? And in many respects,

00:26:10.700 being able to sacrifice a little bit for one another, um, to get through this and to save more

00:26:15.960 lives is going to be, it's going to be essential. And that's something that I think we could all have done

00:26:19.860 a little bit better on. Oh yeah. We didn't sacrifice enough. Not, not enough sacrifice.

00:26:27.500 Millions of people lost their job. Kids lost a year of education, uh, which it shouldn't have

00:26:37.560 gone that way. Even if you shut down the schools for a year, there's no reason why kids should

00:26:40.600 lose education because you can teach them at home. But the reality is that a lot, many kids just didn't

00:26:46.240 really didn't get an education of any kind for a year or more, more than a year. Uh, so sacrifice

00:26:51.840 that year of education, millions of jobs, um, lives of people committing suicide, including kids,

00:27:01.080 not enough. That's the lesson he takes this tyrannical sociopathic scumbag. The lesson he takes is that 1.00

00:27:11.620 next time he wants more of that, more jobs gone, more kids killing themselves. That's what he wants.

00:27:21.140 These people are pure evil. You realize that pure evil we're being, we're being led by, by people who

00:27:27.260 are absolute pure evil to their bones.

00:27:29.900 Speaking of which, um, mayor, Lori Lightfoot on CNN was, was on CNN a couple of days ago and she 0.99

00:27:38.680 was, uh, trying to just, she was discussing and, and, and, and attempting to justify the racist

00:27:43.520 policy that she had in place about interviews. You remember, we talked about this on the show a

00:27:49.080 couple of times. She put a policy in place for a period of time where, um, she would only accept

00:27:55.180 interviews from journalists who were, uh, who were non-white. Although she didn't say that she

00:28:00.820 didn't, she didn't come out and say, I don't want to talk to any of you white devils. What she said 0.99

00:28:04.860 was, uh, she wants to prioritize interviews from journalists of color and, uh, clearly racist,

00:28:11.820 illegal. You can't do that as a public official. You can't say, I'm only going to talk to journalists

00:28:15.540 of a certain race. Um, so she's being sued for that rightfully. So she was on CNN, uh, but she's not

00:28:21.120 backing down or apologizing. In fact, you know what? Uh, the people who are criticizing her,

00:28:24.960 they are her, oh, her an apology. She's the victim here. Of course. Let's listen to her defense. 0.55

00:28:30.520 I want to ask you about a lawsuit that you're the target of and acknowledge that you are talking

00:28:34.160 to me this morning and I, by all accounts, I'm a white guy. Uh, and we're doing this interview

00:28:38.360 together on one day on the anniversary of, of, of your inauguration. You, uh, gave interviews to only

00:28:45.340 reporters of color and you're being now sued for that, uh, on the basis of discrimination. Your reaction?

00:28:51.220 Well, the, the, the lawsuit is completely frivolous. Um, I'd use a more colorful term

00:28:57.460 if we weren't on TV, but here's the thing. I'm the mayor of the third largest city in the country.

00:29:02.920 I'm an African-American woman to state the obvious every day. When I look out across my podium,

00:29:08.820 I don't see people who look like me, but more to the point, I don't see people who reflect 0.99

00:29:13.560 the richness and diversity of the city. So yes, I started a long overdue conversation

00:29:20.040 about diversity in newsrooms and coverage. You all are the mirrors on society. You reflect

00:29:27.200 with a critical and important lens, the news of the day, you hold public officials like me

00:29:32.820 accountable. You must be diverse. It can't be that in a, in a city like Chicago with all the talent 0.99

00:29:39.960 that we have that we can't find diverse journalists of color. Of course we can. What they need is

00:29:46.440 opportunity. And I hope my conversation has pricked the consciousness of the people who do

00:29:51.460 the hiring decisions in media rooms all across the city and hopefully across the country. We got to do

00:29:57.060 better. Oh, so you're just starting the conversation. What I love about that is, uh, first of all,

00:30:04.240 justifying outright bigotry as I'm just trying to start a conversation. That's all. Uh, but also

00:30:13.420 the insinuation that we, that we're not already having this conversation. You know what I was

00:30:19.360 looking to do? I was looking to start a conversation about race. You know, I, I figured we're not having 0.99

00:30:26.560 enough of those conversations. Hey, look, I did this and now everyone's talking about race.

00:30:32.520 Coincidence? I think not. Yeah, that's, you know, cause that's, that's a, that's a conversation we

00:30:38.560 really need to get started. Can we, you know what? Can we finally talk about race in this country?

00:30:44.360 I've had enough of the silence. Um, but she, uh, I I'm, I'm glad that she went on CNN to give that

00:30:55.560 interview while the lawsuit is still making its way through the process. I, the lawsuit is still

00:31:02.720 active and she went, cause she just incriminated herself. What's the first thing she said? You can

00:31:08.200 tell that she, she kind of noticed what she said and she, she pivoted with the, the more to the point

00:31:13.300 pivot. But she started by saying her first point of justification was, uh, I look from the podium

00:31:19.340 and I don't see people who look like me. So, so what, what you're saying that you're only going to

00:31:27.800 talk to people who look like you? Yeah, we know that. And that, see, that's, that's racism.

00:31:35.980 That's excluding people. You're a public official being racist, excluding people who don't look like you.

00:31:43.300 And that's illegal. You can't do that. Uh, I'm sure the, um, you know, the lawyers that are

00:31:52.720 in charge of this lawsuit, I'm sure they noticed that interview there because that, that to me is,

00:31:57.520 that's like a, that's a confession of guilt. I don't see people who look like me, me. So what?

00:32:04.680 Get over yourself. Who cares that they don't look like you? That's not their job. And what do you, 1.00

00:32:09.480 what is this? We stuff? Oh, we, we, we can find reporters of color and diverse. What do you mean?

00:32:15.240 We, who is the, I don't know what the, who the we is here. You're in the government. It's not your

00:32:21.880 job to find reporters. I can understand how you'd have this confusion, right? Who you think that they

00:32:30.000 literally work for you. And I mean, they basically do, but they don't literally work for you all intents

00:32:35.900 and purposes. They do. But in reality, legally, it's not your job or your place or your authority

00:32:43.540 to find reporters who you deign worthy of talking to you.

00:32:51.280 So just some outright bigotry there. Always fun. Now we have a, another fun video. This

00:32:57.160 went viral from a, my favorite site, TikTok. And this is a, a coming out

00:33:02.100 sort of event to a group at a school, I think a college, but, uh, I'm not sure.

00:33:09.340 Could be a high school. I don't even know how you tell the difference these days,

00:33:11.940 but, um, anyway, let's watch the, uh, this is a, a female coming out and announcing that in fact, 1.00

00:33:20.200 she's, she's male. Um, this is kind of scary because I only realized this a couple of days ago

00:33:26.060 and I've only come out to a few people. I'm a guy.

00:33:38.060 Um, I used he, they pronouns and I'm going to go by CEO.

00:33:47.240 Um, I told my mom today and I have to go home every day and be called my dead name.

00:33:55.080 Um, and have she, her pronouns used every time I go home and no one realizes how hurtful it is.

00:34:02.560 It's like a slap in the face. And I dyed my hair last night so I could feel more masculine.

00:34:09.120 And I was afraid I was going to get thrown out of the house. We love you. See you.

00:34:14.420 Okay. She realized, talk about a cult, right? She realized a couple of days ago that she's a guy.

00:34:25.080 Um, and already, so I'm just going based on what she said there, but so she's been a girl, um, her,

00:34:35.160 her whole life to this point. And then a couple of days ago, she realized, Oh, you know what? I'm a guy.

00:34:39.900 And already it's hurtful if her parents continue to see her as the girl that, that they, they birthed and have raised.

00:34:48.400 But she thinks she could go home and say, Hey, by the way, everything you've ever known about me is completely wrong.

00:34:56.200 Um, and you must immediately adapt to what I am saying right now. And if you don't, it is devastatingly hurtful.

00:35:02.060 It wasn't yesterday, but it is today.

00:35:07.180 And of course, no one with these kinds of statements, like no one can ever ask

00:35:11.080 really obvious questions that aren't gotcha questions. They're not attacks.

00:35:19.440 And they're the kind of questions you would ask if you really wanted to understand what someone is saying.

00:35:22.780 And as I've said all along, I would, this stuff that we're hearing about gender, when people come out as, Oh, I'm a girl, I'm a guy, I'm non-binary, I'm whatever.

00:35:35.700 I, I can only speak for myself. I actually want to understand what you're trying to say. I really do.

00:35:42.920 Um, and so when someone is a girl and they wake up one morning and they, they realize that they're a guy, how like describe the process of realizing this, what do you mean exactly?

00:36:02.040 And follow up question, whatever feelings you were experiencing that you have decided are evidence that you're actually a guy, how do you know that those are guy feelings given that you haven't been one?

00:36:24.480 These, these are basically, are these basic questions, really fair questions? Nobody asks them. I mean, I do, but nobody else seems to.

00:36:32.040 And so they don't get answered. Um, but this is a, as I said, this is another cult. It's all part of the, you know, leftism itself is one big cult and there are, there are kind of offshoots from it that diverge slightly in their emphasis, but this is another version of it.

00:36:52.380 And this is someone who's been indoctrinated into it. A young, young girl. I don't know how old she is. Not very old.

00:37:03.560 And, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and I feel bad for them. You know, I, the, the blame that I put for all this, the gender madness, I put it on the adults who are pushing this stuff. 0.75

00:37:13.740 I don't put it on the kids. You know, because they've, they, there are really normal sorts of emotions that you experience as a kid and as a person in general.

00:37:29.700 But speaking about kids, they're, they're very normal emotions. There, there's, there's confusion, which is really normal.

00:37:37.680 You know, there's anxiety where it was this kind of unsure. You're not, you're unsure of yourself. You're unsure of the world. You're unsure of your place in the world, uh, discomfort with your body.

00:37:51.440 All of that is super normal, especially for kids. And especially once they had teenage years and they're going through puberty and beyond that, and the hormones are raging and everything else.

00:38:01.340 All of that is really normal. But kids now have been given a framework for understanding these normal feelings.

00:38:11.280 And it's a tempting framework, especially for girls, which is why this, this stuff is much more common among adolescent girls and it is among adolescent boys.

00:38:20.380 But, uh, they've been given a framework and it's, it's, it seems very clarifying in the moment where they're told, oh yeah, you're feeling all that way, uh, because you actually,

00:38:31.160 you're a guy and you don't worry about what that means exactly or how that could possibly be the case. Uh, anyone who, who questions it is just a bigot.

00:38:38.440 Don't worry about them, but it means you're a guy and you could start a whole new life and have a whole new identity.

00:38:43.200 You don't like your current identity. You feel a little uncomfortable with it. You're feeling anxiety. You're not, you're not liking what's happening in school.

00:38:48.900 Your peer group, you're not feeling accepted. Well, you can have a whole new identity for yourself in a moment.

00:38:54.440 All you have to do is just announce it just like that. That's very tempting for confused kids.

00:39:01.160 And I put it on the adults. It's all their fault. All right. We're going to try to lighten things up a little bit here. Um, because I, I have to, this story, I've seen it floating around, no pun intended for, for a few days.

00:39:14.840 And, uh, as soon as I saw the headline, first thing I thought was that's obviously false. That's obviously BS, but everyone else seems to be accepting it.

00:39:26.640 It's being reported as fact. It doesn't seem to be a lot of criticism of it. No one's really asking, speaking of not asking questions. No one seems to be asking any questions about this.

00:39:35.440 It's a story about a lobster diver who says he was swallowed by a whale and then spit back out. And this is not something that he's, no, this is like, this happened supposedly a week ago or something.

00:39:45.080 So here's Cape Cod times, uh, with the original report says that a little before 8am Friday, veteran lobster diver, Michael Packard entered the water for a second dive of the day.

00:39:56.680 His vessel, his vessel, the John J. Okay. Was off, uh, Herring Cove beach and surrounded by a fleet of boats catching striped bass.

00:40:06.700 The water temperature was a balmy six degrees and, uh, so on and so forth. Um, licensed commercial lobster divers literally pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom.

00:40:15.720 So he was diving down and then in something truly biblical Packard was swallowed whole by a humpback whale. No, he wasn't. Uh, it didn't happen.

00:40:25.300 He, he, he wasn't, that really didn't happen. Uh, he, he was interviewed. He said, all of a sudden I felt this huge shove.

00:40:31.040 The next thing I knew it was completely black. He says he thought at first he was swallowed by a great white and then he realized it was a whale.

00:40:37.780 I, you know, a great white, you'll know if you're in the jaws of a great white. I don't think there's going to be any confusion, right? 0.88

00:40:45.840 I've never been eaten by a shark, but I don't think there's gonna be any moment where you're like, what's happening right now?

00:40:49.840 I don't understand. Oh, I'm being gnawed to death. No, I think immediately you'll know.

00:40:53.960 Um, but he wasn't, he was confused at first and then he realized, oh geez, I'm in a whale. What do I do?

00:40:59.860 Uh, what a predicament. And he was in the whale for 30 seconds and he was spit back out supposedly.

00:41:05.620 Now, like I said, this is, I've seen these headlines everywhere. People were reporting this.

00:41:11.060 And usually just like not even a lobster diver claims he was swallowed by a whale, just lobster diver swallowed by a whale.

00:41:20.600 And then you think, uh, okay, is there any evidence that this happened at all? I mean, was he injured? No, he did go to a hospital, but you can see the picture of him.

00:41:30.640 He's got the thumbs up. He's looking perfectly fine. No serious injuries at all.

00:41:33.820 And, um, but then, then, okay, well, there were, there were a bunch of boats all around. Did anyone see this happen?

00:41:39.840 This would seem to be a pretty noticeable occurrence. If you see a guy get swallowed by a whale and spit back out, you'd probably notice that.

00:41:47.320 You might even come out and say, Hey, I saw that. That was crazy.

00:41:52.040 Well, so far, I don't think anyone has attested to this except for, uh, uh, one of the crew, Josiah Mayo was on the boat as well.

00:42:03.640 And he supposedly saw this, but we haven't heard from him. We've heard from the guy Packard.

00:42:09.520 We've heard from his sister. Who's telling us what the other guy says.

00:42:12.100 So Packard's sister, Cynthia Packard spoke with crewman, Josiah Mayo, who relayed some of the details to her.

00:42:18.360 Packard said Mayo saw the whale burst to the surface and that he initially thought it was a great white shark.

00:42:24.320 Again, I don't know. These are, these are people that have been on the water their whole lives and they're confusing a great white shark with a humpback whale.

00:42:33.700 We're talking about one is like 10 times bigger than the other.

00:42:38.300 There was all this action at the top of the water. Packard said Mayo told her.

00:42:42.580 Then the whale flung her, her brother back into the sea.

00:42:47.340 So, um, no, you know, this guy was swallowed by a whale. Oh, was he really? How do you know that?

00:42:54.060 Well, his, his, uh, his sister talked to another guy who said he saw it or no, his sister talked to another guy who said he saw something.

00:43:01.260 And then the guy told him it was a whale. Yeah.

00:43:05.360 Come on people. I'm going to give you the Joe Biden rebuttal on this one. Come on, man. Come on.

00:43:11.300 What are all you people doing? Clearly. I respect it. You know, I respect the story. And if you can make up a story like this and get away with it, I love it.

00:43:23.800 And I understand people want to believe it. I want to believe it too.

00:43:27.560 Okay. If you want me to believe the story, he should have said he was abducted by aliens that I would be on this show right now. Defending it far more plausible.

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00:45:00.380 All right, let's get a couple of YouTube comments and then we'll get to the daily cancellation.

00:45:05.000 This is a, from the Natundi says, looks like they hit you with a context label on climate change.

00:45:10.620 Yeah. The show yet last, uh, Friday, we spoke briefly about climate change and they put up a, I've never seen this before.

00:45:17.140 They put up something called a context label right under the video with a link with a Wikipedia link to climate change.

00:45:23.820 Um, nothing Orwellian about that. Sheila Winters says, Biden is out of his mind. Senile doesn't begin to cover it.

00:45:32.540 No, I think senile basically covers it actually. I think that kind of, kind of sums it up.

00:45:38.620 Um, Justin Pierrot says, I suspect Matt of being a low key Louis CK fan nods and approval.

00:45:46.220 Not really low, not really low key. Louis CK is, I think a genius, a genius comedian. Um, I think I probably disagree with his worldview almost entirely.

00:45:57.500 If he ever, if he ever became aware of who I am, he would probably hate my guts.

00:46:01.180 But all that said, a brilliant comedian, uh, and his cancellation, I thought was always a little bit suspect, especially now with Jeffrey Toobin.

00:46:12.160 Um, they both did sort of the same kind of thing. The only difference is that Louis CK apparently got consent from the women that he, uh, performed for, shall we say, whereas Jeffrey Toobin did not.

00:46:29.760 And yet Jeffrey Toobin's being rehabilitated. So that is a disparity. I don't quite understand.

00:46:34.100 Um, Holly says, I'd like to suggest to you, Matt, that the Sweet Baby Gang, or SBG for short, needs its own secret handshake, an idea for you to ponder.

00:46:46.020 Uh, we could think about the secret handshake. I, I could tell you what it won't be. It won't be elbow touching.

00:46:52.040 Like these world leaders at the G7 summit, they're, they're all, they're all touching each other's elbows like a bunch of freaks. It's embarrassing.

00:46:59.260 Uh, and finally, Chernobyl Coleslaw, with our best username of the day, says, Matt, would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 25 duck-sized horses?

00:47:11.720 How is this even a debate? I mean, 25, what are, what are a bunch of duck-sized horses going to do to me? I could easily kick them away.

00:47:21.040 Just step on them, be no problem. What exactly, they, they, they're horses, right? They're not superhuman horses with super intelligence.

00:47:28.480 What are they going to, how are they going to tag team it exactly in, in, in this scenario?

00:47:35.980 So, I don't think I'd be worried too much about fighting either of them, but, um, I'd be a little bit more worried about stepping into the ring with the, uh, horse-sized duck.

00:47:45.860 That's pretty, pretty clear. Thank you for the question.

00:47:49.080 You know, Candace Owens has a lot to say, and you should really be listening if you're not already.

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00:48:28.180 And remember to leave that five-star review if you like what you hear.

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00:48:39.360 But whenever someone accomplishes that walk away, they offer an entirely new and interesting perspective regarding the terrors of leftism.

00:48:46.440 That's why I'd like to congratulate our very own Georgia Howe on accomplishing a successful walk away from the left and starting her own podcast here at the Daily Wire. 0.99

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00:49:11.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:16.820 For our daily cancellation, we dive back into our country's racial hysteria in order to cancel NPR for this editorial just published yesterday titled Tom Hanks is a non-racist.

00:49:27.420 It's time for him to be anti-racist.

00:49:30.400 Now, Tom Hanks, as you may have heard, recently published his own editorial about the Tulsa Race Massacre, where he argued that history, the history we're taught focuses too much on white people and glosses over our racist past.

00:49:42.260 Basically making a similar argument to the one advanced by Joy Reid and Robert Reich in our opening. 0.99

00:49:47.600 Tom Hanks, in fairness, though, is not as stupid as Joy Reid. 1.00

00:49:50.620 But then again, Tom Hanks' volleyball and castaway isn't as stupid as Joy Reid. 1.00

00:49:54.620 Pretty low bar to get over. 0.98

00:49:55.620 In any case, the point is that Tom Hanks is a white celebrity who wrote an op-ed to discuss the evil of racism and the alleged whitewashing of history and so on.

00:50:07.540 If you haven't been paying attention, you might think this would please the left-wing race activists.

00:50:12.640 They'd be happy about it.

00:50:14.240 They would say, oh, thanks, Tom Hanks, for supporting us.

00:50:17.860 But because you haven't been paying attention, you don't realize that their whole game is to not ever be pleased by anything.

00:50:22.980 And that's what gives rise to this article in NPR from a guy named Eric Deggans.

00:50:27.480 Eric gives Hanks a nice pat on the head and a sticker for his effort, but then he explains that he's still very disappointed.

00:50:33.760 He writes, quote,

00:51:03.760 And it's wonderful that Hanks stepped forward to advocate for teaching about a race-based massacre, indirectly pushing back against all the hyperventilating about critical race theory that's too often more about silencing such lessons on America's darkest chapters.

00:51:27.660 But it is not enough.

00:51:30.500 And of course it isn't.

00:51:31.720 It never is.

00:51:33.020 Tom Hanks could have ran through the streets, weeping and whipping himself and screaming, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:51:40.300 And it still would not have been enough.

00:51:42.880 But in this case, Tom Hanks had the audacity to not apologize at all.

00:51:47.620 And Eric Deggans is quite upset about that.

00:51:49.320 He continues,

00:51:49.820 He's not alone.

00:52:13.640 Superstar director Steven Spielberg has a similar pedigree, nonwithstanding occasional projects like The Color Purple and Amistad.

00:52:20.260 And fellow director Ron Howard.

00:52:22.080 These stories of white Americans smashing the Nazi war machine or riding rockets into space are important. 0.67

00:52:27.500 But they often leave out how black soldiers were turned home from fighting in World War II to find that they weren't allowed to use the GI Bill to secure home loans in certain neighborhoods or were cheated out of claiming benefits at all.

00:52:37.140 But, yes, well, it would have been sort of strange to include that in Saving Private Ryan.

00:52:44.680 Where would you have included the information about the GI Bill in Saving Private Ryan?

00:52:48.500 What did he expect?

00:52:49.160 Maybe we could have had the final scene of an old Matt Damon standing at Tom Hanks' grave, thinking about whether or not he had earned this.

00:52:57.460 And then quickly it would cut to a black man being denied use of the GI Bill.

00:53:01.840 Then roll credits.

00:53:02.840 Or better yet, they can do a remake of Saving Private Ryan where Matt Damon's character survives the war and then ironically becomes a Nazi. 0.99

00:53:12.080 And at the end, he's assassinated by a black, disabled, non-binary, lesbian ninja. 1.00

00:53:17.180 I mean, I don't mean to give Hollywood any ideas, but this really is the point that the writer is making. 0.97

00:53:21.120 He's angry that Tom Hanks portrays white people doing good things.

00:53:25.680 White people are villains, Eric Degans believes, and that is their rightful role in any film. 1.00

00:53:30.460 To close out the piece, Degans gives Hanks some homework assignments or action items, to use modern parlance. 0.96

00:53:37.300 He says, quote,

00:53:37.900 If he really wants to make a difference, Hanks and other stars need to talk specifically about how their work has contributed to these problems and how they will change.

00:53:46.600 They need to make specific commitments to change in the conversation and story subjects, casting, and execution.

00:53:51.700 That's the truly hard work of building change.

00:53:54.240 Rather than talk about the historically based fiction entertainment, what it must do,

00:53:58.800 why not talk about what Tom Hanks, long-time scripted and documentary executive producer, will do?

00:54:04.380 As a star who can get a movie made just by agreeing to appear in it, what will Tom Hanks, movie star, actually do?

00:54:11.140 People often say columns such as the one by Hanks are published to start a conversation.

00:54:15.120 Well, here's my suggestion.

00:54:17.200 Let's make part of that conversation how baby boomer filmmakers have made fortunes amplifying ideas of white American exceptionalism and heroism.

00:54:23.980 And now their responsibility now lies with helping dismantle and broaden the ideas that they help cement in the American mind.

00:54:34.080 Yes, we would want to cement the idea that white people do good things. 0.77

00:54:38.860 That's very dangerous, you know.

00:54:40.920 It's dangerous to give people the impression that white people are capable of positive actions. 0.99

00:54:47.080 The safest and best thing is to place an entire race of people in the villain role and keep them there. 0.99

00:54:53.440 Because as we've seen through history, that always works out well, right? 0.68

00:54:57.600 All of this, of course, is racist nonsense. 0.99

00:55:00.460 This is a man who simply hates white people and can't contain it. 0.99

00:55:03.480 Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have to contain it. 0.98

00:55:05.880 We can only imagine the reaction to an editorial arguing that there shouldn't be movies that amplify ideas of black heroism.

00:55:14.500 Can you imagine an editorial about, I don't know, Black Panther, where it's a white writer saying,

00:55:20.060 you know, this movie's a little problematic because it kind of gives us this idea of black heroism and I'm unsure about that.

00:55:27.400 I think, can you imagine that?

00:55:29.760 You can't imagine it.

00:55:31.640 Or rather, you can only imagine it because such an editorial could never actually be published.

00:55:36.260 And even if it could, there isn't anyone who would be interested in writing it.

00:55:40.360 But that doesn't satisfy Eric Deggans.

00:55:44.980 Nothing ever can or will.

00:55:47.480 It's not enough for Tom Hanks to denounce racism.

00:55:50.100 He needs to actively demonize white people in his films. 0.83

00:55:54.000 Eric has given Hanks his marching orders.

00:55:56.640 His next movie must be a story about a wealthy white Republican oil executive

00:56:00.260 discriminating against a bisexual Native American climate activist.

00:56:04.300 And then in the end, he has to be thrown down an oil well. 0.99

00:56:08.040 And as he's falling, he has to shout, I'm white and evil and I'm sorry. 0.94

00:56:12.760 Just to make sure the point was clear.

00:56:15.140 Anything less than that.

00:56:16.740 And Hanks will be a part of the problem.

00:56:18.980 And the problem for Deggans is that there isn't enough anti-white sentiment out there.

00:56:24.140 And there never will be.

00:56:26.080 Because that's how it's all set up.

00:56:28.160 And that's why NPR and Eric Deggans are most assuredly canceled.

00:56:33.040 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:56:36.300 Thanks for watching.

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Ep. 741 - The Hallucinatory World Of The Critical Race Theorist

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