The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 755 - Stop Assaulting Me With Your Violent Opinions

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the American Booksellers Association apologizes for a

00:00:04.480 violent incident where they promoted a book that leftists don't like. We'll talk about this story

00:00:08.420 and more broadly about the idea that words, books, and opinions can be violent. What does that even

00:00:13.440 mean? Also, five headlines, including the Surgeon General's pledge to start putting warning labels

00:00:17.780 on speech it doesn't like. The White House says that it's working with Facebook, working with

00:00:22.080 Facebook to tamp down misinformation. Pope Francis continues his war against conservative Catholics

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00:02:18.260 find, of course, information, insight, unmatched wisdom, and also violence. Because as we've learned,

00:02:25.220 words and ideas are violence. Which brings us to the American Bookseller Association, a trade

00:02:31.420 organization that works with booksellers in the country, hence the name. And recently they sent out

00:02:36.860 what they call their white box mailing, which sounds a little racist to me, frankly,

00:02:41.000 to 750 bookstores. One of the titles in that package was Abigail Schreier's excellent book

00:02:46.660 called Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. If you want to hear more 1.00

00:02:51.340 about that book, you can check out my interview with Schreier on my YouTube channel. But the mere

00:02:55.760 sight of this book was apparently quite traumatizing to some of the people who received it. And that led to

00:03:01.600 backlash, and that led to the American Bookseller Association releasing one of the most pitiful,

00:03:08.360 embarrassing, self-flagellating, groveling apologies we have yet seen. Yesterday afternoon,

00:03:15.560 they put this out on Twitter. This is what they said. Quote,

00:03:18.800 an anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members. This is a serious, violent incident that

00:03:26.100 goes against ABA's policies, values, and everything we believe and support. It is inexcusable. We

00:03:31.820 apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this terrible incident and the pain

00:03:36.780 we caused them. We also apologize to the LGBTQIA plus community at large and to our bookselling 0.99

00:03:43.420 community. Apologies are not enough. We've begun addressing this today and are committed to engaging

00:03:48.640 in the critical dialogue needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm we caused.

00:03:54.060 Personally, I'm offended because in their statement, they did not include the phrase

00:03:59.120 lived experience, and they also didn't include the phrase do the work. And we know that in these

00:04:05.400 kinds of statements, those two phrases are required. You know, it's an interesting thing,

00:04:09.000 though, about the LGBTQIA plus community. We're told that they're strong and proud and brave and

00:04:15.940 stunning. Yet we're also told that they're so fragile as to be harmed by merely looking at the cover of a

00:04:22.320 book they don't like. So which is it? Is it strong and brave and proud or fragile prone to collapsing

00:04:30.700 into puddles of tears at the sight of a book? It's kind of got to be one or the other, right?

00:04:38.100 Now, the next part of the story is so predictable that you can fill in the blanks yourself.

00:04:42.100 Well, I'll ask you, do you think that the ABA was forgiven for this grave offense? Was the apology

00:04:49.340 accepted? Did the groveling and self-abasement achieve whatever end they had in mind? Of course

00:04:55.480 not. Publishers Weekly reports, quote, booksellers said the apology fell short, calling out the

00:05:01.940 organization's use of the passive voice in the opening sentence. They also demanded greater transparency

00:05:07.340 about how the decision to include the book was initially made and called for demonstrable steps

00:05:12.880 to restore trust with trans book workers and authors. Some called on the ABA to offer promotions

00:05:19.040 for trans authors' books at no cost. Just straight up extortion. You want our feelings to not be heard 1.00

00:05:26.560 anymore? Just give us promotions at no cost. That'll heal our emotional wounds.

00:05:32.380 And also $500,000 in unmarked bills.

00:05:39.880 Okay. Anyway, back to the statement. It says, ABA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee member

00:05:44.580 Louis Correa, who works as a bookseller at Avid Bookshops in Athens, Georgia, was first made aware

00:05:51.460 of the issue and fellow booksellers emailed him Morrissey's tweet. Correa identifies as a queer Latino

00:05:57.420 and fat-bodied person. Oh my gosh. Identifies as a fat-bodied person. Well, you either have a fat 0.81

00:06:07.500 body or you don't. But what's the point of saying that? You're either a man or you're not, right?

00:06:13.180 He said he thought the apology was flawed. I'm disappointed with the use of the passive language

00:06:18.400 at the beginning of the statement and the shift in blame. They really should have said that we

00:06:23.480 included this book, Correa said. So the apology was not enough. So what do they do? Apology is not

00:06:32.600 enough. What do you do now? Well, you keep apologizing. More from Publishers Weekly. They

00:06:39.840 say, in an email late Wednesday, ABA CEO Alison Hill issued an additional statement to booksellers.

00:06:46.260 She apologized not only for the promotion of Shryer's book, but also for a racist incident last

00:06:52.140 week in which the organization featured blackout by Danielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nick Stone,

00:06:57.880 Angie Thompson, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon on its Indie Next Bestseller list, but included an

00:07:04.720 incorrect cover image. Instead of using the actual cover, the ABA used a book cover by an author who

00:07:10.360 Hill described as, quote, a different black author, a right-wing extremist. Editors note here,

00:07:15.800 the right-wing extremist is our very own Candace Owens, who also wrote a book called Blackout.

00:07:19.460 Apparently, it's racist to promote Candace Owens, who you may have noticed is black. But the apology

00:07:26.320 said, we traumatized and endangered members of the trans community. We erased black authors, 0.99

00:07:33.440 conflated black authors, and put the authors in danger through a forced association.

00:07:38.700 We further marginalized communities that we want to support. Hill wrote, she reiterated that the

00:07:44.060 organization will take steps to address both instances in the coming weeks, adding that, quote,

00:07:48.420 there is nothing that I can say that will make this right. This should not have happened. I want to

00:07:53.780 apologize for both of these harms and for the pain that ABA caused. But I know only action matters.

00:08:00.440 These were egregious, harmful acts that caused pain and violence. One negligent, irresponsible,

00:08:08.140 and racist. The other negligent, irresponsible, and transphobic. She then took out a knife and committed 1.00

00:08:15.460 Harry Carey on the spot. Perhaps not literally, but figuratively at least. And even if she had done

00:08:21.000 it literally, the left still would not have been satisfied. They would have said that, like, that

00:08:24.220 form of suicide isn't painful enough. She should have done something more progressive, like throw 1.00

00:08:28.500 herself into a wood chipper. Their whole gig, the whole point, is to be offended and victimized and 1.00

00:08:35.040 traumatized all the time, always, by everything. Anything you do to relieve the trauma will only further it.

00:08:40.860 But that won't stop the gutless, spineless blobfish among us from trying.

00:08:47.660 Now, as for the book itself, you will notice that none of the people complaining about it

00:08:55.320 have bothered to articulate any sort of criticism about the content of the book itself.

00:09:01.900 What is your problem exactly with the book? What's wrong about it? What does it get wrong?

00:09:11.780 Well, they can't say. That's because the book itself is well-researched, balanced, almost entirely

00:09:16.220 non-polemical, and it focuses specifically on the explosion of trans identification among adolescent

00:09:21.800 girls who are so often pushed along the path to full medical transition without anyone stopping to 0.99

00:09:26.920 even consider why else a young girl might feel dysphoric about her body. Nor do they worry about 0.84

00:09:32.500 any of the long-term effects that they are consigning her to. In other words, the book,

00:09:37.300 from a content perspective, is unassailable. It is unassailable factually, scientifically, and morally,

00:09:45.880 which is why they assail it, in general terms, on an emotional level, based on the title and the cover.

00:09:52.260 But the most interesting and disturbing thing about this story is the use of the word violent,

00:09:57.820 I think. ABA called the mailing of the book a violent incident, and they kept using, you know,

00:10:04.860 violence, harm, pain, all these kinds of words. I can see how mailing something might be violent if,

00:10:14.540 you know, Ted Kaczynski is the guy sending the package, but how can a book be violent?

00:10:20.080 How can words and ideas be violent? I think the answer refers us back to the opening of the show

00:10:27.560 yesterday when we talked about the left's intense, obsessive, nearly exclusive focus on the self,

00:10:34.400 specifically on how the self feels about itself. According to the leftist religion,

00:10:42.540 nothing matters so much as that. Your self-perception is more important even than your

00:10:50.540 own physical health, which is why people mutilate their physical bodies in order to conform to their 0.63

00:10:55.860 self-perception. If there's a lack of correlation, if there's an incongruity between the self-perception,

00:11:04.640 the mind, the emotions, and the physical body, rather than try to conform the self-perception

00:11:12.240 to the physical body, they go the other way around. Literally chopping pieces off of the body in order

00:11:20.480 to make it conform with the self-perception. Everything must be enslaved, subjugated by the

00:11:27.020 self's perception of itself. Everything is in service to that perception. Everything and everyone

00:11:33.260 must affirm that perception. And the problem is that self-perception is a fragile, fickle,

00:11:40.480 ever-changing thing. Emotions change. How you feel about yourself changes. How you see yourself changes.

00:11:49.260 Which means that the world's affirmation must be unyielding and unconditional.

00:11:56.880 This is what's meant by violence. This is how speech and opinions and ideas become

00:12:02.740 violent. They're violent because an opposing idea, an argument, a fact presented, might undermine or

00:12:10.940 cause you to question your self-perception, or at the very least, it may fail to enthusiastically

00:12:15.160 affirm that perception, which is to do it harm, which is violence. Everything that matters to a leftist

00:12:23.080 is happening in the realm of emotions and thoughts, in the ego. Actual reality is irrelevant to them. And so

00:12:30.400 when you hurt their feelings or cause them to think uncomfortable thoughts, you have hurt them in

00:12:34.720 the way that matters most to them. You have committed violence. That's where this is coming

00:12:40.100 from, which is not to defend it. I mean, this is all quite insane, deeply disordered, not a way for any

00:12:46.320 human to live. It's a recipe for confusion and despair and a life wasted, trapped in your own ego,

00:12:53.360 looking in the mirror, smelling your own farts. But this is the life that a leftist leads. 0.68

00:13:00.660 And it's the life he wishes for you, and especially for your children, to join him in his psychosis.

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00:14:38.840 All right, you know, it is interesting to talk about perceptions. It's interesting as, you know,

00:14:47.680 to see how your priorities change your perceptions in different phases of your life, your desires.

00:14:56.320 And so I'm in a phase of my life right now, raising a bunch of young children where I really

00:15:03.800 appreciate loud and sort of technically unpleasant dining experiences. And people who don't have young

00:15:12.560 children probably can't understand or appreciate the comfort that we as parents of young children

00:15:19.620 take when we walk in. This is why we love, you know, chain restaurants. You got like a place like

00:15:24.080 Texas Roadhouse. You go in there and there, I mean, it's loud. It's like there's loud music and

00:15:30.160 everyone's being loud and they're talking to each other at a decibel that could drown out a jet engine

00:15:34.780 and they're throwing trash on the floor. I mean, they give you a bucket of peanuts and you just

00:15:38.560 toss the shells on the floor. There's trash everywhere. And it's cheap and they give you

00:15:43.400 crayons and there's a kid's menu. And in a certain way, it's deeply unpleasant, but also it's great

00:15:49.560 because you have kids. It's a low pressure, low anxiety situation. And you know that you're around

00:15:54.460 your own people. You're with your kind and you don't have to worry about anything. And at a minimum,

00:15:59.580 I mean, your table just has to be less obnoxious than the most obnoxious table in the building.

00:16:04.640 And so again, very low pressure, but things can go horribly awry when you miscalculate.

00:16:10.480 And this is something, again, if you're not a parent, if you don't have young kids, you might not

00:16:13.220 understand that the just anxiety and panic attack that ensues when you miscalculate and you go into

00:16:22.760 a restaurant that's way quieter and classier than you thought. So this happened to my wife and I a

00:16:28.060 few days ago. We were driving, we stopped in this restaurant and based on my brief preliminary

00:16:34.500 investigation, it seemed like a family-friendly place. And by family-friendly, you know, I mean

00:16:38.900 loud, dirty, obnoxious, and cheap. And I walk in and immediately I'm suspicious because we go up to

00:16:44.880 the hostess stand and there are no crayons and no children's menu. And that should have been the clue

00:16:50.120 right there to turn around and walk out, but we didn't. Rookie mistake. They lead us back to our

00:16:54.740 table. The whole building, it's quiet. You know, no one is making a sound. And there's a little bit of

00:17:04.180 music on the speaker, but they take us to the quietest place in the quiet restaurant with all these

00:17:08.320 quiet, childless couples sitting there having their nice meals. And at a place where you couldn't even

00:17:12.860 hear the faint music. It was just dead quiet. Now, people sitting at their tables weren't even talking

00:17:17.520 to each other. They were just sitting there in stone silence. It was like being at a wake or a funeral or

00:17:22.820 something. And then we sit down and every single noise that our kids make just reverberates. The one-year-old

00:17:31.500 throws her apple juice on the ground and then starts crying because the apple juice that she threw on 1.00

00:17:35.900 the ground is now on the ground and everyone can hear it. Everyone can hear every single

00:17:40.180 noise. Everyone, you know, all they do is we just get the icy glares the entire meal.

00:17:48.540 And by the way, I get it. If you're at a restaurant without any kids, someone walks in with kids,

00:17:54.080 I get it. You don't have to, you don't have to stare. I understand how you feel.

00:17:59.100 Moral of the story. If you walk into a restaurant with your kids and there are no crayons and no

00:18:04.620 children's menu, turn around. It's not worth it. That's the moral of the story. All right.

00:18:10.500 So some news from 1984. First, the Surgeon General said that they're going to start putting,

00:18:17.140 you know, you know, Surgeon General warnings. You see them on cigarette boxes of cigarettes.

00:18:24.400 Usually it's associated with things that you eat and, you know, things that could cause physical harm

00:18:30.180 to you. But now they're going to start putting Surgeon General warnings on speech. So staying

00:18:36.100 on this theme of speech causing physical harm or some sort of harm, speech being violent.

00:18:41.240 That's the plan now. And here is the Surgeon General explaining.

00:18:46.060 Today, I issued a Surgeon General's advisory on the dangers of health misinformation.

00:18:54.200 Surgeon General advisories are reserved for urgent public health threats.

00:18:58.060 And while those threats have often been related to what we eat, drink, and smoke, today we live in a

00:19:04.720 world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health.

00:19:10.020 Health misinformation is false, inaccurate, or misleading information about health,

00:19:15.260 according to the best evidence at the time. And while it often appears innocuous on social media

00:19:20.600 apps, on retail sites, or search engines, the truth is that misinformation takes away our freedom

00:19:26.660 to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones. During the COVID-19

00:19:32.100 pandemic, health misinformation has led people to resist wearing masks in high-risk settings.

00:19:37.560 It's led them to turn down proven treatments and to choose not to get vaccinated. This has led to

00:19:43.040 avoidable illnesses and death. Simply put, health information has cost us lives.

00:19:49.280 Misinformation takes away our freedom.

00:19:56.500 If that's not an Orwellian statement, I mean, that is, that is, I'd have to read the book again. It

00:20:01.660 sounds like something that would actually be in the book itself. So misinformation takes away our

00:20:06.100 freedom. In other words, you know, a statement that you don't like takes away your freedom.

00:20:13.760 Free, so that's free speech. Free speech takes away our freedom.

00:20:22.720 Free speech undermines our freedom, is what's being claimed here. I thought it was really fascinating

00:20:27.160 that he, that he, uh, specifically mentions, this is the, the Surgeon General saying that, uh, well,

00:20:33.880 misinformation about masks made people reluctant to wear masks.

00:20:39.100 Okay. Well, yeah. Do you know who at the beginning of the pandemic, beginning of the pandemic was telling

00:20:47.480 people not to wear masks? The Surgeon General sent out a tweet, the Surgeon General's office, not the

00:20:53.900 same guy, but the Surgeon General's office sent out a tweet back in whatever it was, March of last year

00:20:58.600 saying, stop wearing masks in all caps.

00:21:02.120 Public health officials, Dr. Fauci said, don't wear a mask. Now they say, wear the mask.

00:21:10.480 But the point is, and I think they were right the first time, by the way, but the point is that when,

00:21:17.200 on this, on this basis here, when the Surgeon General had said a year ago, don't wear the mask.

00:21:25.900 If you said, no, I think you should wear a mask. You would have been, that would have been tagged as

00:21:30.380 misinformation. And now they say, wear the mask. And you say, no, you know what? I think you were

00:21:35.900 right the first time. Now that's misinformation. Opposing views, both are misinformation because

00:21:43.700 what is misinformation? It's not, we don't label things or they're not labeling things misinformation

00:21:48.820 based on its relation to truth. It's misinformation based on its relation to the claims that they are

00:21:56.640 making. And that is the very obvious problem with the government's campaign against misinformation.

00:22:04.100 It's the problem with labeling misinformation, some sort of public health threat. Many problems with

00:22:10.980 it. Once again, equating speech with violence, which is a direct attack on the very concept of free

00:22:16.720 speech. But the other issue is that what do they consider misinformation? They have made themselves

00:22:23.800 the scientific authority. And to trust the science is to trust them. Conflating the two, it's exactly

00:22:31.980 the same. If you don't trust them, then you don't trust the science. Think about vaccines. Sure, there can

00:22:39.960 be misinformation, claims that are made about vaccines on either side of the debate that are simply wrong.

00:22:46.720 Sure, that exists. But much of what is labeled vaccine misinformation is really a matter of

00:22:55.040 priority, right? It's someone expressing their priority, the risk level that they're comfortable with.

00:23:03.860 Many of the people who have not gotten the vaccine, it's because if you listen to what they're saying,

00:23:09.800 okay, just most of the average people haven't got it. You actually listen to what they're saying.

00:23:17.820 What they're saying is, you know, I'm worried about potential side effects. I'm worried about,

00:23:25.520 we don't know about the long term. And I'm judging this base. And then I'm also comparing that to

00:23:30.380 the threat posed to me in my own demographic group by COVID. And I'm making a judgment.

00:23:37.760 And that's why I don't want to get the vaccine. Now you could disagree with that decision.

00:23:44.120 You could say that you think it's a foolish decision or whatever. That's your own personal 0.94

00:23:49.180 opinion based on your own priorities. But that's what we're talking about. So how can that be

00:23:55.120 misinformation? It's just someone weighing risks, balancing everything out and saying, you know,

00:24:01.440 here's, here's, here's how, here's how it all shakes out for me personally. Here's the risk level that

00:24:07.080 I'm comfortable with. Here are the risks that I'm risks that I'm worried about. And then these risks

00:24:13.040 over here, I'm not as worried about. That's it. I don't, how can that even be misinformation? It's,

00:24:17.200 it's, it is a matter of personal priority. That's it.

00:24:20.160 Um, meanwhile, Jen Psaki kind of on the same theme here, dropped this bomb rather casually. Let's

00:24:29.620 listen. This is a big issue of misinformation specifically on the pandemic in terms of actions,

00:24:35.860 Alex, that, uh, we have taken, or we're working to take, I should say from the federal government,

00:24:40.640 uh, we've increased, uh, disinformation research and tracking, uh, within the surgeon general's office.

00:24:45.720 We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook, uh, that spread disinformation. We're working with

00:24:51.400 doctors and medical professionals to connect, uh, to connected medical experts with popular,

00:24:56.380 with popular, who are popular with their audiences with, uh, with accurate information and boost

00:25:00.900 trusted content. So we're helping get trusted content out there. That's nice of them. They're

00:25:06.660 flagging misinformation for Facebook. They're really, really helpful. They're trying to help out.

00:25:12.520 Uh, so this is something to keep in mind. And I like how she, she mentions that, like, it's no big

00:25:20.560 deal. Um, nothing controversial about it. Oh yeah, we're doing this with Facebook. We're, we're,

00:25:28.080 we are telling as, as a, you know, as the white house is a political entity, we're telling Facebook

00:25:35.980 what qualifies as misinformation or disinformation. And she says that like, it's no big deal.

00:25:45.400 Like it's, it's obvious that they would be doing that. And actually it is kind of obvious that they

00:25:50.280 would be doing that. That doesn't make it okay though. But it's something to keep in mind when

00:25:53.920 you hear about, um, how Facebook is nothing but a private company. That's all no, no different from

00:26:03.260 the, uh, from the small town baker. And so if you think that the small town baker should be able to

00:26:08.420 bake whatever cake he wants, then, uh, Facebook should, should be able to do whatever they want.

00:26:15.140 Of course, the absurdity of that argument is that the people who make it don't think the baker

00:26:20.720 should be able to bake whatever cake he wants. They think that the decisions made by a baker in Colorado

00:26:29.500 are more significant and, um, carry with them a deeper national and global consequence than the

00:26:40.060 decisions made by these multi-billion dollar corporations that control the way that people

00:26:47.360 communicate and the ideas that are allowed to be communicated. So that's the, that's the,

00:26:54.380 the utter absurdity of it. The same people who make that comparison. Oh, you're the one who said,

00:27:00.660 uh, they bake whatever the cake they want. Yeah. No, you see the, the conflict here,

00:27:05.600 the irrationality it's on your end because it's very easy for me to explain how Facebook is different

00:27:15.580 from a baker. It literally, it harms no one. If a baker just bakes whatever cake he wants,

00:27:23.640 um, doesn't want to bake a gay wedding cake, uh, or, or he'll say you sell you a cake, 0.52

00:27:31.820 but he's not going to cut. That's, that's really what the issue was, right? It's not even we're

00:27:35.900 refusing service to gay couples. It's just, we're not going to make a customized cake for this 1.00

00:27:41.220 particular event. You can still buy a cake from us and customize it yourself, or you can go to any

00:27:45.620 of the dozens of other bakeries around and get the cake that you want. Now in that scenario,

00:27:50.980 it harms no one. There, there is no national consequence whatsoever.

00:28:00.160 What happens when these multi-billion dollar big tech companies that control the way that 0.61

00:28:06.840 billions of people communicate,

00:28:09.780 what happens when they have political bias, ideological bias?

00:28:14.800 I would say the consequences are quite a bit more severe.

00:28:20.880 All right, let's move on here. Nicole Hannah-Jones of 1619 and, uh, just sort of general race baiting 1.00

00:28:26.480 fame. Back a couple of years ago, she was talking about Cuba in a podcast. Uh, and you may have

00:28:33.500 noticed that we, I've talked about the Cuba thing a little bit on the show. I haven't spent a lot of

00:28:37.300 time on it. Um, and not because it's not important. Part of it is just my focus is always on issues

00:28:45.680 that are happening right here in America that affect, you know, American families. That that's,

00:28:49.980 that's my focus. That's always been the focus of the show. And I bring that up because I've,

00:28:53.680 I've been asked actually by several people, why haven't I talked about the Cuba thing more?

00:28:58.040 And it's, uh, man, that's, that's one of them. I just, I don't talk about international issues

00:29:01.440 all that much. It's not where my focus is. It's certainly not where my, uh, if I have any

00:29:05.860 expertise at all, it does, it's not there, but I also have to confess, I'm, I get a little annoyed,

00:29:11.160 um, in some ways to see all of these Republicans, especially a lot of elected Republicans coming

00:29:22.020 out very strongly against the communist Cuban government, you know, in a, in a, in a very direct

00:29:30.220 way. They're, they're coming out against it aggressively, aggressively opposing communism

00:29:37.640 in the Cuban government. And that's fine. I, I agree with them that the communist Cuban

00:29:42.340 government is bad, fully agree. But then I noticed that a lot of these same Republicans,

00:29:48.780 uh, they're not nearly as aggressive or outspoken about the communist takeover of our own country,

00:29:55.220 because to me, that is the bigger problem. That's what I'm worried about.

00:30:03.280 So that's, that's, you know, my thinking there, but there are still some relevant issues to be

00:30:08.620 discussed, discussed surrounding that. And so this brings us back to Nicole Hannah-Jones.

00:30:12.980 Uh, she, uh, was, uh, on a podcast back in a couple of years ago and the subject of Cuba came up

00:30:21.100 and this is what she said about Cuba back then. Is there, are there candidates right now or even

00:30:26.940 just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently, um, ambitious integration agenda?

00:30:35.100 And if so, what, what is it? That, that laughs at a lot right there. I mean, one, let me just, um,

00:30:42.240 I, I, I'm definitely not an expert on, uh, race relations internationally. Um, and it's also hard

00:30:51.700 to look at countries that didn't have, you know, a large institutions of slavery and compare them to

00:30:58.700 United States. The answer is probably going to be surprising, uh, that I'm going to give, which is

00:31:04.960 if you want to see the most equal, uh, multiracial, uh, it's not a democracy, most equal multiracial

00:31:13.280 country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba. Cuba has the least inequality between black and white

00:31:20.300 people, uh, uh, any place really in the hemisphere that, uh, I mean, the Caribbean, most of the Caribbean,

00:31:27.820 it's, it's hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very,

00:31:32.160 very small. Their country's run by black folks, but in places that are truly, um, at least bi-racial 0.75

00:31:38.500 countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality. And that's largely due to socialism, which I'm sure

00:31:44.900 no one wants to hear. Now, I do want to hear this in fact, and I'm glad that she brought that up.

00:31:53.200 She's now that this clip has resurfaced, uh, she's being criticized for that again, claiming that Cuba

00:32:00.380 has the most equality, Cuba has more equality than the United States, but she's right. She is 0.98

00:32:08.280 absolutely right. Uh, the, uh, at least the fundamental point she's making there is that

00:32:16.820 there's more equality in Cuba than there is here. True. Um, because almost everyone is impoverished 0.96

00:32:24.160 and oppressed in Cuba. So that's what we mean when everybody is poor and miserable and oppressed,

00:32:31.680 there is equality. We are, we are all equal, uh, down here in, in the gutter with this boot on our

00:32:38.860 neck, right? So equality in that sense, she is right about that. You're, you're going to find,

00:32:47.920 and that's, that's, that's one of the reasons why, um, I don't, I don't talk about equality as much.

00:32:56.040 Quality is not a priority for me. It's not a value. Like a lot of people claim to think it is for them.

00:33:04.420 You know, when we talk about the kind of equality we should strive for,

00:33:07.760 we, we, we mean equality or we should mean equality in a highly qualified way.

00:33:13.440 What, what's the kind of equality that we should have in this country? I'll tell you what it is.

00:33:21.220 This is it. Equality under the law. And all that means is that no one should get any special favors.

00:33:28.440 Everyone should be treated the same, should get the same amount of justice. The laws should be the

00:33:33.940 same for everybody. Maybe just simply put it that way. The laws should be the same for everybody,

00:33:38.980 no matter who you are, what your demographic is, how much money you have or don't have.

00:33:44.940 That's the way it should be. That's oftentimes not the way it really works here,

00:33:49.900 but that's the equality we should be striving for. In an ideal scenario, that should be the goal.

00:33:55.240 And that's it. Same laws for everyone. That's it. That's all of the equality that we should want.

00:34:00.680 That's all the equality we should be talking about. Because equality in any other context

00:34:09.120 is, in practice, a horrific thing. The most equal countries, when we talk about equality of outcome,

00:34:22.220 equality in terms of the way people live, the success that they have or don't have,

00:34:28.940 if you want equality there, well, you're going to find that kind of equality in places like Cuba,

00:34:35.300 in places like North Korea, where most people, except for the top of the top, the elites,

00:34:41.980 a relatively small group, almost everyone else is impoverished and oppressed. That's where you find

00:34:45.920 equality. In a country with true freedom, there's no equality to be found anywhere except for in the law.

00:34:53.540 Now, but everywhere else, because you have freedom, outcomes will vary. People are all different.

00:35:05.440 There is no equality among people. We are all, because equality means sameness. We are not the

00:35:11.120 same. We are all different. We have different strengths, different weaknesses. Some of us are

00:35:14.500 smarter. Some of us are dumber. Some of us are stronger. Some of us have more talent. You know, 1.00

00:35:19.380 all these things vary. Some of us have more ambition. Some of us try harder.

00:35:25.180 And so on and so forth. All right. Next, we have from the AP, it says,

00:35:32.520 Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict's

00:35:38.880 the 16th signature decisions and a major challenge to traditional Catholics who immediately decried it

00:35:43.740 as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy. Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin mass

00:35:48.780 that Benedict relaxed in 2007. It went further to limit its use. Pontius said he was taking action

00:35:53.440 because Benedict's reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by

00:35:58.620 Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council. And now the new law requires individual bishops to

00:36:05.600 approve celebrations of the old mass, also called the Trinity mass, and requires newly ordained priests

00:36:09.960 to receive explicit permission to celebrate it from their bishops in consultation with the Vatican.

00:36:13.680 Under the new law, bishops must also determine if the current groups of faithful attached to the old

00:36:18.980 mass except Vatican II, which allowed for mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.

00:36:23.420 These groups cannot use regular churches for their services. Instead, bishops must find an alternate

00:36:28.320 location for them without creating new parishes. So Francis is doing everything he can here

00:36:33.480 to shut down the Latin mass without saying, I'm shutting down the Latin mass. He's putting as many 1.00

00:36:38.640 hurdles as he can. There were already plenty of hurdles. And now putting many more hurdles,

00:36:46.520 some of them are going to prove to be, in many cases, insurmountable. And that's the idea,

00:36:51.360 to just shut it down. He doesn't want it. Now, one thing you should know if you don't follow these

00:36:56.320 kinds of things in the church, because you're not Catholic, or even if you are Catholic, a lot of

00:36:59.540 Catholics don't follow it. To begin with, this almost never happens, where you have one pope coming 0.99

00:37:10.260 immediately after another pope and so directly contradicting him and just reversing something

00:37:16.740 that he did, one of his most signature moves that he made. So that's highly unusual.

00:37:28.520 And meanwhile, as far as the Latin mass, here's what you need to know about that.

00:37:32.860 As a Catholic, either kind of mass is legitimate. I don't judge people, whether you go to the

00:37:44.780 Novus Ordo mass, which is the normal mass that most people go to, the only kind of mass that Pope

00:37:51.240 Francis wants anyone to go to, or you go to the Latin mass. One doesn't make you a better Catholic 0.88

00:37:57.280 than the other. But the Latin mass has proven to be deeply appealing, especially to young people.

00:38:06.960 And it's pretty incredible. A lot of this is anecdotal, but I've been to plenty of Trinitine

00:38:13.160 masses. And I walk into these churches, and my experience almost always is, and I talk to almost

00:38:18.660 anyone else in any other part of the country who goes to Latin mass, and they'll tell you the same

00:38:22.260 thing. You walk into these churches, which are very conservative, doing this ancient liturgy in a

00:38:31.920 language that most of the people sitting there don't fully understand. They give you a book,

00:38:35.520 though, that you can read to follow along, and you learn it as you go along. And you walk in,

00:38:41.440 and so often the place is packed with young families, little kids, young parents, energetic people.

00:38:52.260 By far, the youngest and most energetic parishes I have ever been to, Latin masses.

00:38:59.660 No, it's when you go to the Novus Ordo masses, and you find very often these old parishes of,

00:39:06.460 you know, average age of 72, and people are sitting there silently, and everyone is bored to death,

00:39:13.660 and there's no energy. There's no, there's, there are very few young people, very few young families.

00:39:18.920 You can just, you can just, you can see the parish going extinct in front of your eyes.

00:39:28.140 What Pope Francis is saying is, we want more of that. I don't know, we don't want,

00:39:32.280 I don't know, the last thing we want are parishes that are young, energetic. We don't want any of that.

00:39:35.860 Now, average age of 72, at the youngest, Pope Francis is saying.

00:39:44.600 Well done.

00:39:45.220 All right, um, I wanted to hit this quickly before we move on to reading the YouTube comments,

00:39:52.660 if we have time here, I think we do.

00:39:54.760 Sharon Osbourne, we've talked about this story.

00:39:57.320 You may remember what happened to Sharon Osbourne, formerly a co-host of the show, The Talk.

00:40:01.820 She was forced off the air and condemned as a racist after an argument that she had with some other women 0.87

00:40:06.180 on the show who are not white.

00:40:08.500 It was an argument stemming from her defense of Piers Morgan,

00:40:11.320 who himself was forced off the air for criticizing Meghan Markle.

00:40:15.580 And Sharon Osbourne, all she said was that he's not a racist for doing that

00:40:19.560 and he shouldn't be canceled.

00:40:22.780 This whole issue was brought up to Sharon Osbourne live on the air. 1.00

00:40:26.760 And she claimed at the time and after that it was a setup,

00:40:30.380 that they were putting her on the spot, supposedly giving her a chance to

00:40:33.140 defend herself against charges of racism, but really framing her as a racist in the process.

00:40:37.840 Because when you go on TV and you're put on the spot and someone says,

00:40:42.340 you're accused of being a racist, care to defend yourself?

00:40:45.480 There's nothing you can say.

00:40:47.840 I mean, the only thing you can say is, I'm not going to play that game.

00:40:52.380 But she's not going to say that.

00:40:53.900 And that's the correct response, is to refuse to play the game.

00:40:57.020 If you endeavor to actually prove that you're not a racist,

00:40:59.560 all you're doing is proving that you are a racist.

00:41:02.060 And so she felt that she was set up.

00:41:04.560 The other women on the show have said that it was not a setup at all

00:41:07.880 and that this was all her fault.

00:41:09.520 Two of the other women involved are Cheryl Underwood and Elaine Welter-Roth.

00:41:14.400 And they both, after Osbourne left the show, they threw under the bus.

00:41:17.180 They said publicly that it was not a setup and that Sharon Osbourne was at fault for all of this

00:41:21.080 because she refused to listen to them, et cetera, et cetera. 1.00

00:41:23.460 And now this from the Daily Mail says,

00:41:25.500 The talk co-host Elaine Welter-Roth can be heard consoling a distraught Sharon Osbourne

00:41:30.080 and telling her, I know you're not racist,

00:41:32.080 moments after the British TV star's heated on-air conversation with Cheryl Underwood.

00:41:35.800 In a newly unearthed audio recording obtained by the Daily Mail,

00:41:38.340 Welter-Roth, 34, is heard apologizing to her former co-star

00:41:42.060 and reassuring her that no one thinks she's racist

00:41:44.760 in a conversation in Sharon's dressing room after the explosive March 10th show.

00:41:49.540 So this was immediately after all that happened.

00:41:51.480 They're in the dressing room.

00:41:54.240 One of them still has their mic on, and that's how this was caught on tape.

00:41:58.380 And we have a little clip of that.

00:41:59.720 Let's play that.

00:42:01.020 Hold on.

00:42:02.400 What exactly are we doing right now?

00:42:05.640 Help me understand.

00:42:06.580 They asked me to ask that question.

00:42:08.160 I said, no, I'm not, man.

00:42:10.580 I said, wait, what's the intention of this conversation?

00:42:15.000 Because this can go left so fast.

00:42:18.220 I'm like, they go, let me call you back.

00:42:20.280 I said to them, this is going to be a train wreck.

00:42:22.820 Oh, look at this sweetheart. 1.00

00:42:23.780 He can tell.

00:42:24.640 I know.

00:42:26.960 Sharon, I'm just so sorry that that went the way that it went.

00:42:31.620 Do you know what it is?

00:42:34.240 When you have to sit there and defend yourself,

00:42:37.760 it makes you look guilty because you can't get out of it.

00:42:42.220 It's like Jack always says. 0.93

00:42:45.180 It's like a pedophile. 0.97

00:42:47.700 You can't deny it. 0.83

00:42:49.340 It's like, how do you, at the end of the day.

00:42:50.740 How do you say it?

00:42:51.700 It's like, well, come look at my web browser.

00:42:53.500 Like, I'm not a pedophile.

00:42:54.640 Like, you know, it's.

00:42:56.620 All right.

00:42:56.980 So it's a, there you hear Welteroth in the dressing room saying, yeah,

00:43:02.680 you were set up.

00:43:03.440 I'm sorry.

00:43:03.880 It went that way.

00:43:05.380 And then Sharon Osborne kicked off the show. 1.00

00:43:07.060 And that same woman, Welteroth, goes on the air and throws her to the bus. 0.99

00:43:11.580 Hey, that wasn't a setup.

00:43:14.560 And that's clearly what it was.

00:43:19.320 This, this, this is, this is what happens.

00:43:20.840 I mean, these, these are, these are, these, these snakes just put her in this position. 1.00

00:43:24.920 Um, uh, because, because why, you know, she's, she's an easy target because she's an older 1.00

00:43:30.900 white woman and, uh, she was a sacrificial goat. 1.00

00:43:34.220 And also it was just good publicity and all the rest of it. 0.84

00:43:36.720 And I, you almost want to feel sorry for Sharon Osborne, even though, you know, she's a rich

00:43:43.940 celebrity.

00:43:44.380 She'll be fine.

00:43:45.720 Even so for a person to be treated this way and betrayed in this way, of course, if you

00:43:50.020 want to feel some pity, you feel sorry for them.

00:43:51.900 And normally I would, but you know what my policy is.

00:43:55.020 I can't feel sorry for you.

00:43:56.980 I can't defend you.

00:43:58.940 Um, if you are, you know, submitting yourself to this madness.

00:44:05.380 If you go to the altar and you bow before the altar, then there's nothing I can do.

00:44:10.240 Sharon Osborne, nothing, there's nothing anyone can do.

00:44:13.800 Sharon Osborne, um, prior to all of this, according to the Daily Star, reported Daily Star, she,

00:44:20.280 and according to her, she says that she donated $700,000 to Black Lives Matter.

00:44:28.140 Seven, of all the things to donate to $700,000.

00:44:35.380 That we know that they didn't, they didn't put to any good use at all.

00:44:38.140 We know that for sure.

00:44:40.860 So she goes and, um, bows her head at the BLM altar only to have them chop it off right 0.90

00:44:51.100 there.

00:44:53.000 We've seen this story a million times.

00:44:54.540 People need to wake up and smarten up.

00:44:57.260 All right.

00:44:57.560 Let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:44:59.120 Uh, a bunch of comments that are all in a similar vein.

00:45:03.560 Uh, Matt should cancel himself for the banjo trap. 0.99

00:45:06.680 Shameful liar. 0.90

00:45:08.500 Matt is canceled for that poor display of banjo skills. 0.83

00:45:11.960 I think we can all cancel Matt for not actually playing the banjo.

00:45:15.960 Matt, I'm now converting to sour baby gang after your banjo stunt.

00:45:20.300 And as I said, many comments like that.

00:45:25.140 I'm personally offended by it.

00:45:27.160 I, I want it.

00:45:28.160 I tried to play it.

00:45:29.180 I, I really did.

00:45:32.120 I only had a few minutes.

00:45:33.400 Do you, do you want me to start playing the banjo when it's not properly tuned?

00:45:37.280 And I haven't checked to make sure that there are no squirrels or anything hiding inside

00:45:40.280 it.

00:45:40.700 These are the basic things that any banjo player does before playing the banjo.

00:45:43.480 I had to run through all those steps.

00:45:45.300 That is proper banjo etiquette.

00:45:47.000 And then I ran out of time and I couldn't play it.

00:45:51.220 And then for you to turn around and attack me in this way, when you know that there's

00:45:58.480 nothing more important to me than the banjo and my music that I love to play and absolutely

00:46:05.460 can play.

00:46:07.280 And I wanted to share that with you, that gift.

00:46:11.880 And I wasn't able to think about how bad I feel about that.

00:46:15.420 And now I'm being attacked.

00:46:17.000 Unbelievable.

00:46:21.440 Christine says, you have always had to have a license plate on the front of your car in

00:46:24.500 Minnesota, as well as the back.

00:46:26.020 It's the law.

00:46:26.740 They'll pull you over.

00:46:27.700 Anyone for that probably has to do with the visibility.

00:46:30.420 Since in the winters here, there is snow caked all over your car all the time and dirt and

00:46:34.600 salt with two plates.

00:46:35.780 It might increase your odds of at least being able to see one of them.

00:46:40.140 Yeah, that is the law with, with the plates in Minnesota.

00:46:43.180 And that's why that state legislator was pulled over.

00:46:47.940 There might be a reason for it.

00:46:49.780 I happen to agree.

00:46:50.880 I think it's, I think it's ridiculous to, you know, to have a law where you're now you're

00:46:54.560 pulling people over because they have one license plate instead of two.

00:46:58.720 I think it's absurd.

00:47:00.140 I think the police should be focused on other things.

00:47:03.520 But that's not the cop's fault.

00:47:04.880 As we talked about yesterday, they are law enforcement.

00:47:09.500 They're not lawmakers.

00:47:10.960 Their job is to enforce the laws that are made.

00:47:14.200 And yes, if a law is immoral, if the law is calling them to do something immoral, then

00:47:20.220 they should refuse to do it even if it costs them their job.

00:47:23.160 But a lot of these traffic laws and stuff, they're not immoral.

00:47:25.980 It's not morally objectionable to have a law requiring two license plates instead of one. 1.00

00:47:30.420 But it's just silly and stupid. 0.99

00:47:35.280 It's the cop's job, though, to enforce that. 1.00

00:47:37.560 So if you don't like that, then you talk to your legislators about changing the laws.

00:47:45.180 If there is a law that we would say it's not worth the cops enforcing it, then the law shouldn't exist.

00:47:54.380 General rule there.

00:47:55.380 And finally, Tony of Scrub Nation says, my dream is that Matt will read one of my comments someday.

00:48:03.160 There you go, Tony.

00:48:04.340 Your dream is fulfilled.

00:48:07.060 This is the generosity that I display on this show, even as I am ruthlessly attacked.

00:48:13.560 And yet still, you're welcome.

00:48:17.120 Well, we were just talking earlier about the dangerous extremist, Candace Owens. 0.99

00:48:21.740 We've got a few dangerous extremists on the staff here.

00:48:24.640 I like to think that I'm myself am quite dangerous.

00:48:28.080 At least I try to be.

00:48:29.440 Candace Owens certainly is dangerous with her controversial opinions that might hurt people's feelings. 1.00

00:48:35.120 And if you have not had a chance to check out Candace Owens, well, now's your chance to do it.

00:48:39.700 Just go to dailywire.com.

00:48:41.180 Her latest episode, Cuba Communism and the Democratic Death Cult, is available right now on demand for Daily Wire members.

00:48:47.020 If you haven't subscribed yet, get 25% off a new membership with code Candace.

00:48:50.720 And also, you know, as a political dissident, as political dissidents are thrown onto no-fly list by the federal government and children are consistently being exposed to the left's obsession with identity in classrooms, it's become incredibly clear American culture is becoming authoritarian.

00:49:04.960 That's why there's no better time to learn about what authoritarianism looks like.

00:49:10.560 Even eventually I'll learn how to say it, which will be good too, why it happens and how to stop it.

00:49:15.820 It may sound like a tall order, but Ben Shapiro explains it all in his new book, The Authoritarian Moment.

00:49:19.880 In it, he helps people understand as much as they can about how we reach this point and how we can all begin to fight back.

00:49:25.680 So order a copy of The Authoritarian Moment today at Amazon or any bookseller.

00:49:32.440 Let's get now to our daily cancellation.

00:49:37.500 You know, sometimes I reflect on the fact that people have been complaining about political correctness for my entire life.

00:49:43.820 I can remember hearing criticisms of our PC culture in the 90s.

00:49:47.080 And those criticisms were obviously prescient.

00:49:49.920 But in hindsight, PC culture back then was mere child's play compared to now.

00:49:55.020 You had to put in some effort to run afoul of it in those days.

00:49:58.320 It took a little elbow grease.

00:49:59.680 You had to be enterprising to earn the label politically incorrect in the 90s.

00:50:04.660 For example, Eminem was politically incorrect, but he also made songs about murdering his own wife.

00:50:09.900 Okay, that was politically incorrect.

00:50:13.320 The situation is different now.

00:50:15.400 You can be politically incorrect with a pronoun.

00:50:18.220 You can be politically incorrect by reciting basic facts about biology.

00:50:21.140 You can be politically incorrect by saying something objectionable like,

00:50:23.860 I think criminals should be arrested.

00:50:25.860 Or, hey, please don't loot my store and burn it down.

00:50:28.380 Or, sir, the men's locker room is that way.

00:50:30.360 Or, sir, that's not where tampons go.

00:50:33.040 The speech codes aren't just stifling and oppressive, 0.96

00:50:36.120 but also irrational and morally ridiculous.

00:50:40.280 25 or 30 years ago, a politically correct person was someone who was polite, 0.67

00:50:44.380 if a bit too sensitive and cautious. 0.93

00:50:46.200 Now a politically correct person is a lunatic, or at least pretends to be one.

00:50:51.380 We have truly put the political in politically correct. 0.87

00:50:54.740 What is politically correct now is really only politically correct,

00:50:58.760 ideologically correct.

00:50:59.840 In other words, it is in accordance with the prevailing political and ideological dogmas of our day.

00:51:04.740 It is correct in that sense, but rarely correct in any other sense.

00:51:09.540 And, of course, these codes invade every aspect of our lives, everywhere we go,

00:51:13.540 including now into the sea.

00:51:16.200 The speech police have decided that they cannot limit themselves to dry ground

00:51:19.780 and have now begun instituting speech codes to govern the aquatic realm as well.

00:51:24.340 So we have two recent examples of this. 1.00

00:51:26.360 One is really stupid, and the other is really very extremely profoundly stupid. 1.00

00:51:30.040 We'll start with the really stupid one. 1.00

00:51:31.900 NBC News has the story, quote, 0.99

00:51:33.640 Minnesota State Senator Fung Hodge was never a fan of the Asian carp label,

00:51:39.840 commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland,

00:51:44.680 infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes.

00:51:47.400 But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport 1.00

00:51:51.460 encountered a sign reading,

00:51:53.100 Kill Asian Carp.

00:51:54.300 It was a well-intentioned plea to prevent spread of the invasive fish,

00:51:58.240 but the message was off-putting to the visitors.

00:52:00.700 Now some other government agencies are taking the same step in the wake of the anti-Asian hate crime

00:52:04.940 epidemic that has surged through during the coronavirus pandemic.

00:52:09.280 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly changed its designation to invasive carp in April.

00:52:14.260 Quote,

00:52:14.420 The move comes as other wildlife organizations consider revising names that some consider offensive,

00:52:37.700 including the Entomological Society of America,

00:52:40.220 which this month dropped gypsy moth and gypsy ant from its insect list.

00:52:46.180 Okay, by the way, this may shock you, but

00:52:47.460 the reason we call Asian carp

00:52:50.480 Asian carp

00:52:51.660 is that Asian carp

00:52:53.500 are from Asia.

00:52:56.000 So this was not a conspiracy meant to encourage anti-Asian hate crimes.

00:53:00.600 Why is the Asian carp designator necessary? 0.99

00:53:03.120 Well, because there are also other kinds of carp that originate from Europe.

00:53:07.440 Do you know what we call the carp from Europe?

00:53:09.200 I'll give you a guess.

00:53:10.660 Just one.

00:53:11.900 That's right.

00:53:12.560 European carp.

00:53:14.800 It's pretty common to name an animal after the place where it lives or originates.

00:53:19.340 It's not entirely clear why an Asian business delegation would be upset by a sign calling for people to kill Asian carp.

00:53:26.100 I mean, these business people were presumably people.

00:53:29.200 If they had any concerns, perhaps someone could have explained to them that they are people

00:53:33.200 and carp are carp

00:53:34.780 and that the distinction is rather significant.

00:53:37.220 Or maybe here's another possibility.

00:53:40.040 Someone in the delegation,

00:53:41.220 it's possible someone in the delegation was named Carl

00:53:44.240 and he misread the sign

00:53:46.920 and became understandably disturbed.

00:53:49.180 I don't know.

00:53:50.380 But as always with these sorts of things,

00:53:51.920 the move is not just pointless and silly, 0.94

00:53:53.920 but self-defeating. 0.95

00:53:55.460 The goal of wildlife conservationists

00:53:57.340 is to reduce the population of these fish

00:53:59.640 because they're screwing up the ecosystem.

00:54:01.820 One way to do that is to convince people to eat them.

00:54:05.180 That's already a tough sell

00:54:06.240 because all you have to do is reverse the R and the A in carp

00:54:09.000 to get an idea of what the fish tastes like.

00:54:10.860 But you're making it harder on yourself

00:54:12.280 when you call them invasive carp.

00:54:14.620 I mean, Asian carp sounds delicious.

00:54:16.960 It sounds delicious.

00:54:17.740 It sounds like something you might get at a Chinese restaurant.

00:54:20.200 Invasive carp sounds like a disease.

00:54:24.100 Today, our special is invasive carp

00:54:26.120 with a side of parasitic worms.

00:54:28.480 Not exactly appealing. 0.99

00:54:30.360 So it's a foolish strategy, 0.94

00:54:31.760 and yet it seems downright brilliant 0.98

00:54:33.240 in comparison to the next story.

00:54:35.240 Going from freshwater to saltwater,

00:54:37.340 here's the report from the New York Post.

00:54:38.840 It says, quote,

00:54:39.420 Marine experts and advocates in Australia

00:54:43.540 are urging the public to refrain

00:54:45.200 from using the word attack in reference to sharks,

00:54:47.800 declaring that the majestic predatory fish

00:54:50.060 has been unfairly stigmatized as a deliberate killer.

00:54:53.620 Instead, officials have suggested

00:54:54.780 that violent run-ins with sharks

00:54:56.060 be dubbed with more neutral words,

00:54:57.780 such as interactions.

00:54:59.540 Others have suggested swapping the word

00:55:01.040 with the terms negative encounter,

00:55:03.300 incident, or simply bites.

00:55:05.780 Shark attack is a lie,

00:55:07.280 said University of Sydney language researcher

00:55:09.240 Christopher Pepin-Neff,

00:55:11.040 who argued that a majority

00:55:12.240 of what people call attacks

00:55:13.320 are merely nips and minor injuries

00:55:14.880 from smaller sharks.

00:55:16.460 Government agencies have also begun

00:55:17.820 to adopt new language,

00:55:18.840 including the Department of Primary Industries

00:55:20.380 in New South Wales,

00:55:21.540 which has worked with a shark survivor support group,

00:55:24.300 Bite Club,

00:55:24.900 to identify more sensitive vocabulary

00:55:27.180 to describe an audience with a shark.

00:55:29.840 An audience with a shark.

00:55:32.400 That's one way to describe the plot of Jaws, I guess.

00:55:36.920 But yes, we would want to stigmatize

00:55:39.060 the poor sharks

00:55:39.800 who are famous for their emotional fragility.

00:55:43.540 And we certainly wouldn't want people

00:55:44.520 to get the wrong idea

00:55:45.500 about the prehistoric flesh-eating death machines

00:55:48.540 that lurk in the darkest depths of the sea.

00:55:51.160 I mean, when they swim up to greet you

00:55:52.740 on your surfboard

00:55:53.640 and perhaps nibble on a few of your appendages,

00:55:55.640 no big deal,

00:55:56.740 it's not to be construed as any sort of attack.

00:55:59.080 So don't be rude about it.

00:56:01.500 Try to see this from the shark's perspective.

00:56:04.020 He came over to make a little small talk with you,

00:56:06.360 maybe grab a quick bite to eat,

00:56:08.680 only to be met with screaming and crying

00:56:11.560 and the whole production.

00:56:13.540 It's important to remember this also

00:56:14.620 when you hobble back onto the beach,

00:56:16.740 blood gushing from the spot

00:56:18.200 where your left leg used to be.

00:56:19.760 Do not scream out,

00:56:21.000 I've been attacked by a shark!

00:56:23.100 It'd be better and more sensitive to say,

00:56:25.200 I've had an interaction

00:56:26.360 with a member of the ocean community.

00:56:28.900 And then somebody can ask,

00:56:30.100 was it a positive or negative interaction?

00:56:33.620 And you could say,

00:56:34.260 you know, I'd probably call it negative,

00:56:36.440 all things considered,

00:56:37.320 hence the catastrophic blood loss.

00:56:40.180 I admit, I do find it a bit confusing

00:56:42.000 as to why we need a qualifier like negative

00:56:44.200 to go along with shark interaction.

00:56:46.300 Is there any other kind of shark interaction?

00:56:49.520 But these questions, I suppose,

00:56:50.940 are based in my own deep-seated anti-shark bias.

00:56:55.360 A bias that many of us share

00:56:56.960 and which is only perpetuated

00:56:58.260 by shark attack victims,

00:56:59.940 who we should not be calling

00:57:01.620 shark attack victims at all,

00:57:02.760 but rather shark encounter participants.

00:57:05.780 And it's why,

00:57:06.700 if you ever find yourself participating

00:57:08.320 in such an encounter

00:57:09.900 and you manage to survive it,

00:57:11.420 please don't make a big thing out of it.

00:57:13.780 Start whining about your missing limbs

00:57:15.780 and so forth.

00:57:17.160 Think about how this shark feels.

00:57:19.620 I mean, you've already ruined his lunch

00:57:21.100 by escaping.

00:57:23.160 Don't add insult to injury here.

00:57:24.820 And so today,

00:57:27.480 after this long and circuitous journey,

00:57:30.040 which has taken us from land to lake to sea,

00:57:33.080 I think in the end, upon further reflection,

00:57:34.580 it must be the shark phobes

00:57:35.760 who are, in the end, canceled.

00:57:40.040 And we'll leave it there for today

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Ep. 755 - Stop Assaulting Me With Your Violent Opinions

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