As we await a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, we ask this question: Is it possible for anyone to get a fair trial in a modern America? Or has the media effectively put an end to fair trials in America? Also, an FBI whistleblower reveals that Merrick Garland lied when he was testifying to lawmakers about the FBI's pursuit of parents at school board meetings. Plus, a Waffle House customer claims that a waitress committed a noose-related hate crime. When has a story like this not been a hoax?
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, as we await a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, we ask this question.
00:00:04.800Is it possible for anyone to get a fair trial in a modern America or has the media effectively put an end to fair trials in America?
00:00:11.540We'll talk about that. Also, an FBI whistleblower reveals that Merrick Garland lied when he was testifying to lawmakers about the FBI's pursuit of parents at school board meetings.
00:00:19.260Plus, a Waffle House customer claims that a waitress committed a noose-related hate crime.
00:00:24.500When has a story like this not been a hoax? Maybe this will be the one exception. Probably not.
00:00:28.260And in our daily cancellation, we will finally, once and for all, cancel Sesame Street.
00:00:32.480It's been a long time coming. We'll get to that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:15.900As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues its deliberations, deliberations that should have lasted about five minutes before landing on a full acquittal on every single charge,
00:02:24.000it's been revealed that the prosecutors who already committed, quote-unquote, grave constitutional violations, according to the judge who said that during the trial,
00:02:31.660went back to that same bag of tricks by withholding evidence from the defense, reportedly.
00:02:38.080Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was, quote,
00:02:42.220at the center of their case, only sharing the high-definition drone video footage on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded.
00:02:52.300Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played the enhanced drone footage to the jury during his closing statements and claimed that it showed Rittenhouse pointing his gun at people,
00:02:59.720an assertion that opened the door to state, the state claiming that Rittenhouse provoked the violence on the night of August 25th, 2020.
00:03:06.780Now in the motion obtained by DailyMail.com, Rittenhouse's defense insisted that the state only shared it with the defense after evidence had closed on Saturday, November 13th.
00:03:16.200This is just one of the grounds on which they have made a motion for a mistrial with prejudice filed by Kyle Rittenhouse's defense Monday afternoon.
00:03:23.920And a mistrial with prejudice, by the way, means that they can't refile it.
00:03:31.900So if you're wondering why the deliberations are taking so long, this is part of the reason.
00:03:36.500The jurors have been bombarded by lies from the district attorney, and every underhanded, dirty tactic has been utilized.
00:03:44.480For Rittenhouse to have any shot at a fair trial, he would need 12 jurors who are, first of all, smart enough, right, and savvy enough to wade through all of the half-truths and untruths and falsehoods and fabrications,
00:03:59.620spotting, you know, the sleight-of-hand tricks and the red herring distractions along the way, and somehow sift the truth out of all of that.
00:04:07.440But, and that would be tough enough to find 12 people who can do that.
00:04:13.020It's not simply a matter of being intelligent and observant, something that, I mean, the average person, let's face it, is not.
00:04:19.440That's why we would call the average person average.
00:04:21.760But also, they have to have the courage and the wherewithal to do the right thing at potential cost to themselves.
00:04:30.200You know, that's not the kind of calculation that a member of a jury in the United States should have to make.
00:04:35.100The whole system breaks down when members of juries start balancing, you know, the right verdict on one hand against their physical safety on the other because they can't have both.
00:04:46.020When that becomes a mutually exclusive proposition where you could do the right thing or the safe thing when you're in, you know, when you're deliberating, that's when the whole system breaks down.
00:04:56.780The system is breaking down, and that's the case no matter the ultimate conclusion of this trial.
00:05:05.300It's already taken longer than it should precisely because of the way the game was rigged.
00:05:18.280I mean, the media has intentionally made it so that men like Kyle Rittenhouse cannot get a fair trial in the United States of America, period.
00:05:27.960We live in the information age, which is not to say the truth age.
00:07:50.240They're not going to find anybody, especially in Kenosha, who's never heard of that.
00:07:54.040And every single one of them, again, every single one without exception, had been exposed to 18 months of propaganda, painting Kyle as a murderous white supremacist.
00:08:05.320Every single one of them has been living in that environment.
00:08:10.080Not only that, but we also know that all of them, again, every single one, no exception, is aware of the potentially devastating personal consequences of passing down an acquittal.
00:08:18.560So we all know this, which means that the trial from the very start is a charade.
00:08:26.100And all we can hope is that Kyle manages to free himself from its clutches like he freed himself from the clutches of the mob in Kenosha, even with the odds stacked against him.
00:08:35.020The media has subverted our justice system and ripped our country to shreds.
00:08:41.220They deserve not just to be sued into oblivion, though they do, of course, deserve that, but to be put in prison.
00:08:49.920I mean, the media members responsible for this should be in prison.
00:08:53.540This is the way elected Republicans need to start talking.
00:08:57.360Yeah, I don't want to hear vague general complaints about the media anymore.
00:09:01.840What they need to start saying is that this is criminal.
00:09:05.000And we're going to put you in jail for it.
00:09:06.780The people who lied about the Jacob Blake case in the first place in order to provoke the riots, provoke them, by the way, as part of a larger effort to influence the presidential election, and then lied about Rittenhouse, they shouldn't just face monetary repercussions.
00:09:32.440Of course, the left has never met a truth that it won't deny, so they'll still claim that, really, when it comes to the justice system, in fact, they'll agree that the justice system is rigged and that it's unfair and everything, and that it's all a farce, but they would say it's because of white privilege, and white people are so privileged and they have the advantage.
00:09:51.120And they still claim that somehow Kyle Rittenhouse is getting better treatment than he would if he were black, and they say this even though we all just witnessed only a few weeks ago a black school shooter waltz out of jail less than a day after opening fire in his classroom and then go home to a welcome home party that was broadcast live on Facebook.
00:10:12.720Not only that, but we also saw gang members in Chicago shoot each other in the street in full view of security cameras, by the way, leading to at least one person's death, and none of them were charged with crimes.
00:10:26.220To reiterate, straightforward homicide on camera, and there were no charges.
00:10:50.680No, that's not the kind of privilege you'll find in the court system.
00:10:53.160And it's not black privilege either, necessarily.
00:10:55.320If Kyle Rittenhouse were black, but still, but, you know, associated with being right-wing, and I don't even know if that's true or not.
00:11:02.920I don't know what his politics are, but that's how he's associated.
00:11:05.640So if he were black and associated with being right-wing, and he had been in Kenosha under the same circumstances, and everything had played out the exact same way, he'd probably still be facing the same fate.
00:11:13.580In fact, just as the media is calling Rittenhouse a white supremacist right now, even though he shot three white people who were attacking him, I have no doubt that they would still call him a white supremacist for shooting white people, even if he was black, provided that he was associated with being right-wing.
00:11:31.420So the privilege in the court system, just as in society at large, is not strictly racial.
00:11:54.700It was the most right thing he ever said, the most correct he ever was, was when he said the media are the enemy of the people, because they truly are.
00:13:37.860Here's the Daily Wire's Georgia Howe talking to—this is Jacob Blake's uncle who's there.
00:13:43.860And now, let's just remember again, we have to review this all over again because this all started with Jacob Blake.
00:13:52.980And really, it began not even at the police shooting.
00:13:55.320It actually began when he allegedly broke into a woman's home early one morning, I think on a Sunday morning, and raped her and then stole her credit card and her vehicle and drove away.
00:14:06.920Now, the thing about that is he was never convicted in that case.
00:14:11.300In fact, they dropped the charges for that.
00:14:14.840This happened a few months ago, and of course, there was no outrage from the Me Too set or anything.
00:14:18.880I mean, this was a guy accused of breaking into a woman's house and raping her, and they dropped the charges.
00:14:24.280And yet, what we know—and part of the reason, by the way, that they said they dropped the charges is that they weren't getting a lot of cooperation from the victim.
00:14:34.400But of course, you're not going to get a lot of cooperation from the victim because the entire media and society and culture and everything, they're all on Jacob Blake's side.
00:14:48.740And so she's afraid for her own well-being, not without reason.
00:14:52.920And I would imagine that's why she was not very cooperative.
00:14:56.200And they decided to just take that as an excuse to drop the case entirely.
00:14:59.280But we still know, you know, this was not one of those cases where Jacob Blake was accused of rape 10 years later or 30 years later, you know, like a Brett Kavanaugh situation.
00:15:11.320The morning of this alleged incident, the victim called the cops, trembling and crying and telling them what happened, you know, in her pajamas.
00:15:21.940And they showed up in the morning that it happened.
00:15:28.080I mean, did she just wake up one morning and decide to, you know, this was she was going to go go for an Oscar and and and put on this whole show.
00:15:34.440Now, it seems pretty clear to me that, you know, that we could drop the alleged from the rapist part, but I'll keep it on there just for litigation reasons.
00:18:13.880A young black man was shot seven times in the back who was never charged with any crime, who was not being aggressive and who had his back turned on a police officer.
00:18:22.460Now, when it comes to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, all of the men that he shot were white.
00:18:28.520So how is the Kyle Rittenhouse case about race?
00:18:31.100So to be blunt with you, back in the 50s, 40s and 60s, they were referred to him as lovers.
00:18:42.920So if they can, the tone that we're setting today is that I don't believe our Caucasian counterparts are willing to give up the lives of their young people on the street.
00:18:54.940This is no different than the shooting in Colorado, the shooting in Florida.
00:18:59.220It was a young person because he would have been in high school or just out of high school and he shouldn't have had a gun.
00:19:03.860And he murdered people with the gun that he had illegally.
00:19:06.740Some people would say, you know, Jacob Blake was visited in the hospital by the vice president of the United States.
00:19:11.500They would say that is a form of privilege, sort of like what you're discussing.
00:19:14.320Let me tell you, I wish you would mention the president of my presence.
00:21:22.720But their whole gig is to be perpetually aggrieved no matter what.
00:21:27.760So if you're in a position of authority, they're going to hate you because you're they are all they are the victims.
00:21:36.360And if you're running the system, then you are responsible for victimizing them no matter what you do.
00:21:41.300Meanwhile, we had some other protesters who were on the scene and protesters on both sides of it.
00:21:49.340Let's let's watch a little bit of some of some of the pro some of the anti Rittenhouse protesters and see maybe a few of them will make some interesting points.
00:21:57.660Maybe they can explain why they're there and they can be eloquent and articulate about it.
00:22:02.160My hopes are not very high, but we'll see.
00:22:03.740I wanted them to think of the word hero when they see Anthony Huber.
00:22:09.600I want them to think hero because you guys, they were running after Kyle not to, like, kill him.
00:22:18.680They were just trying to stop him because he just shot somebody.
00:22:22.360They're treating him like a child and making it as comfortable and as non-threatening as possible.
00:22:31.540And what did you make of the footage of the actual incident?
00:22:34.840Did it look like self-defense or not self-defense to you?
00:23:07.020What are you doing there with a poster board sign, you idiot?
00:23:09.620I'm here to call Kenosha to come together to denounce the hateful ideology of white supremacy as depicted here by Killer Kyle at Pudgy's Clavern in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
00:23:25.140Here's a man shouting Kyle is a killer into a lampshade.
00:24:30.280But this sad, pathetic assortment, like a handful of people out there.
00:24:36.480And that's why I might end up eating these words.
00:24:38.880But, you know, most people on the right, most conservatives are kind of predicting and expecting that if Rittenhouse is acquitted, that there's going to be massive, massive riots.
00:24:50.180And it's going to be even worse than it was in 2020 after the Jacob Blake shooting.
00:24:54.080And there's certainly a possibility of that.
00:25:25.580You know, they were trying to get people fired up in a very literal sense with this idea that it's a racist system.
00:25:33.220And that we, you know, it also gives everyone the impression when there's rioting and there's violence in the street and everything, it makes people more inclined to want change.
00:25:41.660And so they got to get rid of whoever's on the top.
00:25:43.940They don't want this now because Democrats are running the system.
00:25:46.180So they don't want that, you know, this feeling of unease and chaos and violence.
00:25:51.980They don't want that, even though there is a lot of chaos and violence in the streets of our cities, whether there's riots or not.
00:25:58.340But the other problem is they realize that Democrats are running the system right now.
00:26:03.180So a riot, because everybody is upset about systemic oppression and systemic racism and everything, well, that's going to put the blame on the Democrats who are running the system right now.
00:26:14.000Therefore, the media has no real interest in fomenting riots.
00:26:19.520The riots in 2020 across the country, these were not organic things.
00:26:23.440These were not spur of the moment, spontaneous.
00:26:27.380There's a reason why we saw, you know, vans showing up with signs and all the rioters were carrying the same signs and the same kind of slogans.
00:26:34.280These were funded. These were coordinated. These were promoted.
00:26:38.360They had the whole PR mechanism of the media behind it.
00:26:40.660That's not going to be the case this time.
00:26:42.060So I would expect, no matter what happens to the trial, it's not going to be the same kind of reaction.
00:26:47.680Though I could be incredibly wrong about that.
00:27:11.640And quickly to address that notion one more time.
00:27:15.860If you are saying that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there.
00:27:21.660And really, that's irrelevant to the case, whether or not it was self-defense, whether he should have been there or not, it's irrelevant.
00:27:26.860But if that's what you're saying, that's a position you're taking.
00:27:30.120And what you're saying is that when the government surrenders your community to the mob and surrenders it to anarchy and violence and says that they will not uphold the law anymore for a period of time.
00:27:46.200What what what the he shouldn't have been there, folks are saying, is that your moral obligation is to sit there and take it.
00:27:52.820And I guess hunker down, batten down the hatches, go into a storm cellar and wait for it all to be over and hope that your house isn't burned down in the process.
00:28:04.480Now, that that is the actual reaction of most people.
00:28:10.140But is that like the morally right reaction?
00:28:14.340When the government decides there's going to be this huge hole, this void where they're not going to enforce the law, are we is our is it our moral responsibility to say,
00:28:22.820well, the government doesn't want to enforce these laws anymore.
00:28:43.780It says citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the Bureau has created a system to track
00:28:52.540threats against school board officials and administrators and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers.
00:28:58.640When he asked about the subject during his previous testimony, when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee,
00:29:05.020the FBI's counterterrorism and criminal divisions created a threat tag,
00:29:09.580EJO officials, to track instances of related threats, according to the email.
00:29:14.300The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement.
00:29:24.740The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Timothy Langan and former Criminal Division Assistant Director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month.
00:29:33.040In the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Representative Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that the whistleblower email provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement officials employed counterterrorism tools against concerned parents.
00:29:53.200If you care at all what the FBI has to say, here's what the FBI says to the Wall Street Journal, a statement.
00:29:57.600The FBI has never been in the business of investigating parents who spoke out or policing speech at school board meetings, and we are not going to start now.
00:30:05.460The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the longstanding requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats.
00:30:15.780Of course, Merrick Garland, so he lied, he perjured himself.
00:30:18.780He should be disbarred from that, for that.
00:30:21.320He should resign in disgrace, but neither of those things will happen.
00:30:25.420And the problem is, there's no denial from the FBI that matters to anyone at this point.
00:30:32.940I mean, nobody has any faith in the FBI.
00:30:38.540How is this going to work when we get into, you know, federal criminal trials and that sort of thing?
00:30:44.020It's all based on work by the FBI and FBI testimony.
00:30:49.240You've got people from the FBI up there on the stand testifying.
00:30:54.940No one believes anything they have to say.
00:30:58.620And that's something that they brought on themselves.
00:31:00.480And when you weaponize the FBI against average Americans, well, average ordinary Americans like parents, that's going to change how they see the FBI.
00:31:07.680So this is the great crisis that we're facing.
00:31:12.240It's just a total collapse in trust in our institutions.
00:31:16.140And you can't have a functioning society when no one has any faith in the institutions underpinning it.
00:31:24.820One of our most fundamental institutions is the court system, the justice system, law enforcement.
00:31:34.640And when no one has any faith in any of this stuff, then it, as I said, it breaks down.
00:31:43.040Although maybe I keep using the phrase breaks down.
00:31:45.500I probably shouldn't because that makes it sound sort of accidental.
00:31:59.040It says, a Gainesville woman says she was threatened at a Waffle House on November 7th by employees who said they needed nooses after her biracial family walked in to eat.
00:32:07.340While at the Waffle House in Gainesville, a woman, Angelica Tabor Fells, recorded a video describing the allegations, which has since gone viral on TikTok with 2.5 million views, of course.
00:32:22.020And so there's, you know, this has already gone viral.
00:32:24.500The police department is investigating it.
00:32:26.720The Waffle House has released a statement.
00:32:31.280Here is, what's her name again, Angelica Tabor Fells with a story of a noose-related hate crime.
00:32:38.720These things are always, okay, up until this moment, and we'll watch it together and we'll see what we think about it.
00:32:44.080But up until this moment, these stories have always been false.
00:32:49.140I mean, like 100% of the time, for the last 30 years at least, anytime there's a claim of a noose-related hate crime or a racist incident involving a noose, it is always false every time.
00:32:59.840It's incredible that we have, I mean, to bat 1,000 on something like this is pretty incredible.
00:37:21.400This is a couple days old now, but a Los Angeles judge ruled that the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for over 13 years should end today, according to New York Times.
00:37:30.300The pop icon, now 39 years old, has been under the court-ordered legal arrangement since 2008 following struggles with her mental health.
00:37:37.780And now the conservatorship has ended.
00:37:39.980Yeah, I've been threatening to talk about this, and there are more important things to talk about, so I've kind of skimmed over it.
00:37:46.460But I have the same – I have followed this story, as I said, not very closely, so maybe I've missed something along the way.
00:37:57.300But as happy as I am for Britney Spears that she's free now and she can do whatever she wants, that's wonderful.
00:38:04.920Because I had something I've been deeply – I personally have been deeply worried about for the last 13 years.
00:38:09.740I have not been able to sleep well at night knowing that Britney Spears is under a conservatorship, so I feel that relief like everyone else does.
00:38:17.400But the reason she was under the conservatorship is because she was judged mentally unwell and so mentally unwell that she was a danger to herself and others.
00:38:26.980That's also why she lost custody of her children, which is a very hard thing to do as a woman.
00:38:31.060And it's very hard to lose custody of your children, especially in – I believe this was in California.
00:38:34.980So to be in California and to lose custody of your kids, that is not – that's not something they do lightly anywhere, but especially in California.
00:38:44.980So that was the judgment, that she was psychologically unwell to the extent of being a danger to herself and others.
00:38:52.580That's why she was under the conservatorship.
00:38:57.660I assume that the people who want the conservatorship to end – I assume those people aren't claiming that it's impossible for someone to be judged mentally unwell and unable to care for them – a threat to themselves and others.
00:39:11.000Obviously, there are people who fall into that category.
00:39:13.840And so there should be arrangements like conservatorships for those sorts of people.
00:39:17.620We should also have institutions to put them in.
00:39:21.480And we used to – we don't do that nearly as much as we used to.
00:39:25.020But assuming we can agree on that, the question is, is that the case for Britney Spears?
00:39:31.420And I guess my point is, I don't really know, but all the people calling to the conservatorship to end – do they have evidence?
00:39:36.580Do they have some information about her psychological health?
00:39:39.600Could they somehow prove that she was not as crazy as they said?
00:39:43.260Instead, I never saw anyone produce that evidence.
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00:51:12.100Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:51:13.180All right, so today we cancel Sesame Street.
00:51:20.560We could have canceled Sesame Street a week ago when Big Bird tweeted.
00:51:24.100Big Bird has a Twitter account now, by the way.
00:51:25.860He tweeted that he'd just gotten the vaccine despite having natural immunity from respiratory viruses due to the fact that puppets don't have respiratory systems.
00:51:34.120But I suppose if we're giving the vaccine to kids who are almost completely immune to severe COVID illness, then we might as well give it to fictional birds also.
00:51:39.680To make matters creepier, Big Bird then appeared on a CNN town hall to further push pharmaceuticals onto kids.
00:51:47.620Big Bird seems to have really settled into his new role as drug dealer.
00:51:59.720But, well, I have a lot of questions like what is a vaccine and does it have to be a shot and will I still need to wear my mask?
00:52:10.740Those are such great questions, Big Bird, and it turns out lots of kids and families have questions, too.
00:52:16.720So over the next half hour, we're going to be answering your questions, talking with experts and giving you the information you need about vaccinations for kids.
00:52:25.980Oh, um, uh, you know what? Elmo better go change. See you later.
00:52:35.260Oh, come on! It's time for the town hall! Yay!
00:52:45.020Okay, this raises a number of questions.
00:52:48.380Questions like, what the hell happened to Big Bird's voice?
00:52:50.840Why does he sound like a child molester now?
00:52:55.000He sounds distinctly creepy all of a sudden.
00:52:57.260And also, what kind of six-year-old is watching a CNN special about vaccinations in the first place?
00:54:30.240And I think it was honestly inspired, unfortunately, by the past year and the rise in, you know, attacks and racist incidents against Asian people, especially during COVID.
00:54:41.640My one hope, obviously, is to help have Ji Young help teach, you know, what racism is, help teach kids to be able to recognize it and then speak out against it.
00:54:53.000But then my other hope for Ji Young is that she just normalizes seeing different kinds of looking kids on TV.
00:54:58.900And I'm excited to share kimbap and dhokboki and kogi and jiggas and panchans and kimchi and chapcha and all sorts of stuff.
00:55:13.660Well, we need the Asian Muppet to tell kids about racism in case they didn't pick up on the racism lessons from literally every other show or movie they've ever watched.
00:55:21.680It's very important, you see, that we don't allow young children to go more than 17 minutes without being reminded of racism.
00:55:28.600I'm concerned that, you know, like SpaghettiOs hasn't released a new product where the letters in the soup are R-A-C-I-S-M so that even when they're eating, they can still be reminded of racism.
00:55:41.880Plus, as the puppeteer behind the Asian Muppet explains, we also need to normalize Asian people for kids.
00:55:50.340This is important in case there are any children in America who've never seen an Asian person before.
00:55:54.560We need to think about, you know, all those kids maybe who were raised inside a crater on the moon and haven't encountered any members of another race or ethnicity.
00:56:04.000We need to make sure we normalize other ethnicities for all of those moon children who might be watching.
00:56:09.660But this all leads to a confusing question.
00:56:12.800G. Young is the first Asian puppet on Sesame Street.
00:56:50.220Now, most of these characters have no ethnicity, no race, no nationality.
00:56:54.960They're fictional characters that all children can relate to equally.
00:56:58.840And I think that was sort of the point, right?
00:57:01.100They exist in a fantasy world where there are no races.
00:57:04.600And there was a time when this was the liberal utopia, a world of sameness where nobody is different, everyone is the same.
00:57:11.920And when it comes to things like gender, that kind of homogenous, ambiguous paradise is still what they strive for.
00:57:17.680But the realm of race, in the realm of race, as equity replaces equality, the pendulum has swung back in the other direction dramatically.
00:57:24.380And now, rather than emphasizing similarities and downplaying differences, the left wants to make sure that everyone is categorized and labeled and put into a box.
00:57:32.760And that makes things even more confusing because our gender is all fluid and there's no differences and it doesn't matter.
00:57:40.400But as far as race goes, we are strictly in our box and we can never leave it.
00:57:45.540They want kids to see themselves in those terms.
00:57:49.260Sesame Street actually has been pushing this message for a little while now.
00:57:51.580They debuted their first Black Muppets a few months ago.
00:57:55.320And here's how those characters explained race.
00:57:59.220Well, it's because the more melanin you have, the darker your skin looks.
00:58:04.380The color of our skin is an important part of who we are.
00:58:08.320But we should all know that it's okay that we all look different in so very many ways.
00:58:48.420When I was a kid watching Sesame Street, the message was precisely the opposite of that.
00:58:55.080Of course, the funny thing is, you'll notice, the Asian puppet doesn't actually look or sound all that Asian.
00:59:02.680And so this is always the conundrum for the identity box checkers when it comes to cartoons and puppets.
00:59:07.200They want to make sure that there's proper representation, but they also can't allow themselves to be accused of stereotyping.
00:59:13.060Which is a problem because when you're making a puppet or a cartoon that's supposed to represent a certain race, then inevitably, by definition, there is a caricature, a stereotype going on.
00:59:30.360They want to have the representation, which just means that the diverse characters meant to represent a specific ethnicity or race end up representing really nothing and nobody in particular.
00:59:39.340They want to racialize the fictional world as much as they've racialized the real world.
00:59:44.160But they can't really do that because then they'd be engaging in stereotypes.
00:59:47.020So they're left then with this weird kind of half measure, which is what wokeness always boils down to.
00:59:52.480It boils down to incoherence and weirdness in the end.
00:59:56.080Though on a different note, I'm wondering if we'll see the episode where the Asian puppet G. Young applies for college and is turned down in favor of the Black Muppet.
01:00:04.580You know, that would be, you know, that's another important real world lesson about equity.