The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 847 - I Now Identify As A Bestselling Children’s Author

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, I am now a children's author.

00:00:02.940 My book went on sale yesterday, and it's already making some people very upset.

00:00:06.000 I'll explain why today.

00:00:06.920 Also, Joe Biden gives a press conference about the dreaded super mega turbo Omicron variant.

00:00:12.540 And Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar attempt to patch up their differences over a phone call,

00:00:16.600 and it apparently doesn't go well.

00:00:18.160 Chris Cuomo finds himself in another scandal involving his brother.

00:00:21.320 And the trial of Kim Potter, who's the officer who accidentally shot Dante Wright, begins.

00:00:26.180 Most people on both the left and right seem to think she deserves jail time.

00:00:29.180 I disagree, and I'll explain why.

00:00:30.880 And we'll take a look at a gender studies master's thesis.

00:00:34.900 You might expect it to be totally delusional and insane, and you're right, but it's even worse than you imagine.

00:00:40.360 All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:54.280 Well, first we saved Abuela, and then we saved Virginia, and now we are saving the children's book genre.

00:02:01.160 As any parent who has ventured into the children's section at Barnes & Noble knows, the category has become totally flooded by left-wing propaganda.

00:02:08.460 Every other title on the shelf is like Anti-Racist Baby, or I Am Jazz, or Jacob's New Dress, or Charlie the Unicorn Has Two Mommies and Three Daddies, or whatever.

00:02:19.100 A good portion of this agitprop has a racial message, like Anti-Racist Baby, but most of it is focused on gender and identity.

00:02:26.980 The first and primary goal of the indoctrinators is to induct children into the religion of gender ideology. 0.97

00:02:33.720 Why is that so important?

00:02:34.980 Well, because, as I have long argued, we are in the midst of a war over truth itself.

00:02:41.080 These are not scuffles around the edges of truth.

00:02:43.880 We're not fighting over the truth or falsehood of this or that claim.

00:02:47.980 The goal of the leftist, fundamentally, is to relativize everything, relativize reality.

00:02:54.440 He wants to be the god of his own life, his own universe.

00:02:58.380 This is how he envisions freedom.

00:03:00.360 This is what he means when he uses the word.

00:03:01.960 Freedom in the sense of being untethered from any sort of objective, defining, or definable force,

00:03:08.160 floating aimlessly in some sort of ambiguous abyss.

00:03:13.520 That's his goal.

00:03:15.060 That's freedom.

00:03:17.140 And if this is the goal, then there's no better place to start than by undermining biological reality,

00:03:22.780 freeing oneself from biology.

00:03:24.660 And there's no better place to start that project than with children who already have a tenuous grasp on reality

00:03:31.240 and will believe pretty much anything you tell them.

00:03:33.720 Children have no choice, you know, but to rely on the adults around them,

00:03:36.900 to guide them through the early stages of life.

00:03:40.200 The young of many different species have this need to one degree or another.

00:03:44.660 And sometimes in the lesser species, this vulnerability of the young and their reliance on the older members of the species 0.55

00:03:56.020 puts them in danger.

00:03:57.780 You know, rats, for example, will sometimes eat their own young.

00:04:00.840 Lions and scorpions will do the same.

00:04:03.200 Humans have a more ideological version of this.

00:04:07.360 Helpless children are devoured by the leftist indoctrinators.

00:04:11.460 The predator feeds upon the innocence of the child, exploits it, using that innocence to his own advantage.

00:04:20.540 This is going on everywhere, especially in the books and the shows and other forms of entertainment made for kids these days.

00:04:27.180 And for a long time, conservatives have essentially surrendered this ground to the left,

00:04:31.820 like it surrendered almost everything else,

00:04:34.000 allowing the left to turn children's books into vehicles for this cult-like brainwashing

00:04:38.500 without offering any response or alternative, basically.

00:04:42.340 But it's time for that to change, which is why, as I told Tucker Carlson last night when I announced the book,

00:04:47.320 I've embraced my true calling as a children's author, cardigan and all,

00:04:51.180 and written my first work of children's literature, which is Johnny the Walrus, which I have right here.

00:04:55.980 And now I'm not going to do a reading on the show today.

00:04:59.500 Originally, I was going to do that, but we actually have a video coming out later today

00:05:03.020 where I read the book to a group of preschoolers.

00:05:05.080 And that should be released at some point this afternoon or evening on my YouTube channel.

00:05:08.960 Make sure you check that out.

00:05:10.220 You don't want to miss it.

00:05:11.500 So instead, I'll give you just the brief synopsis.

00:05:14.400 It's kind of difficult to summarize because it's a lengthy story of some 400 words across 30 cardboard pages.

00:05:22.260 It took me many months to write, as you can imagine.

00:05:25.400 Many nights I spent hunched over my typewriter, honing and crafting this work of literature.

00:05:32.060 But in brief, if I can summarize, it's a story about a creative and imaginative young child.

00:05:39.240 Like most young children, creative and imaginative.

00:05:41.580 He likes to play pretend.

00:05:42.980 And one day he pretends to be a walrus, as you can see on the cover there.

00:05:46.080 He even has wood spoons in his mouth like tusks and socks on his hands like fins.

00:05:52.520 But unfortunately, his mommy is the confused and impressionable sort. 1.00

00:05:56.940 And she learns from the Internet that if your child identifies as something, then he must actually be that thing.

00:06:03.840 Johnny's mommy thus spends the majority of the story trying to raise her child according to his walrus self-identity.

00:06:10.860 She does her best to, you know, give her trans walrus son the sort of walrus life that she thinks he wants and needs. 0.98

00:06:18.540 And at one point, at the darkest point in the novel, which, yes, I am calling it a novel, even if the pages are made of cardboard,

00:06:25.380 she brings him to a purple-haired doctor who recommends that he take medication and undergo surgical procedures to complete his walrus transition.

00:06:33.160 Pretty brutal procedure, too.

00:06:34.580 Over time, though, not to spoil the ending, Johnny's mommy comes to understand that just because a child pretends to be something,

00:06:43.020 that doesn't mean he actually is what he's pretending to be.

00:06:46.540 So this is a book in many ways about self-acceptance.

00:06:50.900 True self-acceptance.

00:06:52.280 We heard that phrase a lot, but true self-acceptance.

00:06:56.080 A mother's realization that her child will only really be happy in his true natural identity.

00:07:02.620 We should encourage our kids to use their imaginations.

00:07:07.100 But what we should not do is create an identity crisis within our kids, as so many parents have done these days.

00:07:15.320 Now, my goal with this book, which you can buy now at johnnythewalrus.com, that's johnnythewalrus.com,

00:07:22.040 was to create something that makes a point about the madness of gender ideology,

00:07:26.920 a point that parents will understand, but also something that you could actually read to your kids at the same time.

00:07:31.360 Kids will engage with it as just a silly sort of story about a boy pretending to be a walrus.

00:07:36.980 Adults will understand it on a different level.

00:07:39.500 But my hope also is that kids, after they hear this story,

00:07:43.480 will come to understand phrases like identifies as in a certain light.

00:07:49.540 Now, I don't use the word transgenderism in the book because I'm not going to introduce that concept myself to the kids.

00:07:58.160 But later on, when they do encounter these concepts, which they will eventually at one point or another,

00:08:05.560 hopefully their mind will make the connection back to this story.

00:08:08.940 They can say, oh, this person is a boy who identifies as a girl.

00:08:12.500 Well, that's just like the boy who identified as a walrus.

00:08:16.140 They ought to understand it in that framework, in that context,

00:08:19.420 because it is exactly that sort of thing.

00:08:23.940 Raising a boy as a girl is exactly as absurd and grotesque and wrong as raising a boy as a walrus. 0.96

00:08:32.700 Exactly the same.

00:08:33.720 These are the connections that I want to make with this book, which you can now buy at johnnythewalrus.com.

00:08:40.860 Now, I've been accused of making a mockery of gender ideology with this book,

00:08:46.140 treating it as a joke, as something totally ridiculous.

00:08:50.200 And on that point, my critics are correct. 1.00

00:08:51.820 That's exactly what I'm doing.

00:08:53.180 I am not only trying to make a point here for adults on one level and kids on another,

00:08:57.460 but I'm also openly making fun of the whole idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

00:09:02.640 We ought to make fun of that idea.

00:09:07.100 It's the idea we're making fun of.

00:09:09.280 Now, the kids themselves, we don't make fun of them.

00:09:11.280 Far from it.

00:09:12.200 They are victims.

00:09:14.360 But the idea ought to be mocked. 0.95

00:09:17.360 We ought to mock it because it is patently insane and worthy of mockery. 0.91

00:09:23.420 You know, mockery is an important tool. 0.90

00:09:24.960 We should use it more often, I think, on the right.

00:09:28.100 When something deserves to be mocked, it should be.

00:09:32.640 When someone comes forward with an idea that's completely insane and has no basis in reality,

00:09:39.520 if you do anything but mock it, then you are affirming it.

00:09:44.720 If you in any way whatsoever take the idea seriously, even if you don't agree with it,

00:09:50.480 if you sit down and say, well, I don't really agree, but let's talk about this.

00:09:54.000 Let's have this conversation.

00:09:54.860 Let's have the conversation.

00:09:55.940 You've already affirmed it.

00:10:01.080 So mockery, yes, that's exactly correct.

00:10:03.820 I've also been accused of engaging in my own form of indoctrination.

00:10:07.180 That's one thing.

00:10:07.700 I've got a lot of emails and messages saying, well, aren't you?

00:10:10.200 You're against indoctrination.

00:10:11.840 Isn't this book Johnny the Walrus?

00:10:14.140 Isn't this indoctrination?

00:10:16.300 Yes, it is.

00:10:17.400 Again, my critics are correct. 1.00

00:10:19.160 It is indoctrination.

00:10:20.340 I am also doing indoctrination.

00:10:22.440 I am indoctrinating kids with this book.

00:10:24.600 As I said, I literally read the book to a room of preschoolers and indoctrinated them.

00:10:28.980 Proudly so.

00:10:30.520 See, I have nothing against indoctrination per se.

00:10:33.860 What matters is not that kids are being indoctrinated.

00:10:36.840 Of course they're being indoctrinated.

00:10:38.240 All kids are.

00:10:40.500 But the issue is what precisely they are being indoctrinated into.

00:10:45.000 So I am indoctrinating kids into reality, into truth, into common sense, into a sense of the world that is grounded in truth.

00:11:00.300 That's exactly the sort of indoctrination we ought to be doing.

00:11:03.260 Finally, my critics will say that I am not a real children's author, that this is just a stunt or a gag, that my name does not belong in the pantheon of great children's authors alongside Seuss and Dahl and Silverstein.

00:11:17.800 That is one criticism I cannot agree with or abide.

00:11:21.080 This is my chosen identity now, and I have the cardigan to prove it.

00:11:25.100 Johnny the Walrus is a legitimate children's book, and what's more, it is a work of literature.

00:11:29.180 And some would say, some would say that it's perhaps even the finest American novel ever written.

00:11:33.360 Some would say that.

00:11:35.900 I'll leave you to make that assessment, which you can do after you purchase the book at johnnythewalrus.com.

00:11:40.300 Please do it soon, though, because Amazon is, I'm almost certain they're going to ban this thing any minute.

00:11:46.420 So there is a certain urgency here.

00:11:48.520 Also, it will be very, very funny if we can get this book to the top of the charts.

00:11:52.580 It's already in the top 20 or 25, which is funny.

00:11:56.080 But the top spot would be, among other things.

00:11:59.660 Hilarious, you have to admit.

00:12:01.240 We just need the extra push to get it there, which you can provide by buying a copy for yourself and your family members.

00:12:05.400 Family members, especially your liberal family members.

00:12:08.600 This would make a great Christmas gift for them at johnnythewalrus.com.

00:12:13.500 But in any case, wherever it settles on the charts, and whether it gets banned or not,

00:12:18.160 what I am saying to the left today is that two can play at the children's book game.

00:12:23.220 I have my sweater on.

00:12:24.420 I'm ready for war on this battlefield, too, with my friend Johnny the Walrus by my side.

00:12:31.200 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:42.180 All right.

00:13:43.160 You know, I was saying yesterday about talking about my Thanksgiving break and how my wife was fat-shaming me and body-shaming me on the Internet.

00:13:54.460 There is something else that I was just thinking about.

00:13:56.840 I feel kind of bad because before, you know, I think it was on Thanksgiving Day before dinner, but, you know, we were sitting in the living room and my mom told me that she couldn't, she was having trouble getting her VCR to work.

00:14:13.780 So she was telling me that she needed help with her VCR and she wanted to see if I could figure it out.

00:14:19.680 And the problem is that, and she knows this, okay?

00:14:23.900 I mean, she obviously knows this.

00:14:24.940 I'm a, I'm a sarcastic a-hole.

00:14:27.300 I mean, hence this book.

00:14:28.900 So you, you just, you can't come to me and ask me to help you with your VCR without me first making fun of it for about five minutes.

00:14:36.700 I, I, it's a, it's a, I can't control, it's an impulse.

00:14:40.500 What, a VCR?

00:14:42.880 So she asked me to help fix the VCR and I said, you know, unfortunately I would, but it's the year 2021 and I left my time machine at home.

00:14:49.680 And then I said I would, but, uh, and, you know, and afterwards maybe I could help fix her printing press.

00:14:54.340 Maybe I could take a stab at repairing her butter churn.

00:14:56.960 And I had this whole routine about the VCR and then she just gave up asking and I, and I, and I never fixed it.

00:15:02.600 So she's at home now, um, with a, with a broken VCR.

00:15:08.800 What a terrible son I am.

00:15:09.960 I feel bad about that.

00:15:11.280 Um, uh, okay.

00:15:14.740 Let's go to, well, we'll start with this.

00:15:17.680 Joe Biden gave a press conference about, here's someone who knows something about VCRs.

00:15:22.920 Joe Biden gave a press conference about the, uh, the dreaded Omicron, Omicron.

00:15:27.820 What is it?

00:15:28.140 Is it, um, here's, there's one, he, he uses the phrase Omni.

00:15:31.540 So I'm not even sure if it's Omicron or, or Omicron, I'm not sure what it is, but it's the super mega, mega charge turbo deluxe variant.

00:15:39.540 And, uh, here he is talking about it.

00:15:42.300 The very day the World Health Organization identified the new variant, I took immediate steps to restrict travel from countries in Southern Africa.

00:15:51.560 But while we have that travel restrictions can slow the speed of Omicron, it cannot prevent it.

00:15:58.240 But here's what it does.

00:15:59.800 It gives us time.

00:16:01.500 It gives us time to take more actions, to move quicker, to make sure people understand you have to get your vaccine.

00:16:10.400 You have to get the shot.

00:16:11.700 You have to get the, get the booster if you're, the sooner or later we're going to see cases of this new variant here in the United States.

00:16:18.680 We'll have to face this new threat just so we face those that come before it.

00:16:22.740 This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.

00:16:27.720 We have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists, and we're learning more every single day.

00:16:35.260 And we'll fight this variant with scientific and, and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion.

00:16:45.000 In the event, hopefully unlikely, that updated vaccinations or boosters are needed to respond to this new variant,

00:16:52.740 we will accelerate their development and deployment with every available tool.

00:16:58.600 I want to reiterate, Dr. Fauci believes.

00:17:01.540 We've heard, we've heard enough.

00:17:02.520 This is, this is always, this is right.

00:17:05.780 This is always the process where first they say, well, it's, it's not a cause.

00:17:11.000 It's, don't panic, but it's a cause for concern.

00:17:14.260 So we start there.

00:17:15.540 And then within a few days, they're saying, uh, yeah, actually you got to stay locked in your home. 0.90

00:17:20.060 And, uh, if you go outside without a mask on, you're going to kill your grandparents and your children.

00:17:26.300 Um, so, but, but don't panic. 0.94

00:17:30.980 Wearing, look, can we just say this?

00:17:32.660 First of all, wearing the mask around everywhere is a form of panic.

00:17:38.800 So that, that's what that is.

00:17:40.720 So when, when they say, well, don't panic, just wear your mask everywhere.

00:17:43.900 What they're saying is don't panic, but panic.

00:17:47.780 That's a panic.

00:17:48.640 And there are, there are people, of course, as we know, that have been, uh, in a, in a, literally a perpetual state of panic for, for a year and a half, almost two, two years now.

00:18:01.440 A nonstop state of panic.

00:18:03.340 When you see someone walking down the street with a mask on or, and I've, I've saw it again the other day, not here in Nashville, but we were traveling.

00:18:12.080 I saw it again, someone in their car.

00:18:14.340 This is not over.

00:18:15.180 There are people still doing this and they're going to continue to do it forever.

00:18:17.500 It's a lifestyle now.

00:18:19.140 Uh, but someone in, in their car by themselves with a mask on, you know, that classic scene.

00:18:24.560 But that is someone who has been in a, is, is in a total state of panic and has not left that state and probably never will.

00:18:31.900 I don't know how they've survived just from a cardiovascular perspective.

00:18:36.020 I don't know.

00:18:36.520 They haven't had all had heart attacks by now.

00:18:39.960 Um, so of course they, they do want you to panic, even though the only thing that they should be saying about Omnicorn.

00:18:47.020 Um, is that, um, as far as we know, it's just, it's nothing to worry about.

00:18:52.060 It's all the information that we have right now.

00:18:54.260 And of course, information could always change and, uh, you know, anything could happen, right?

00:18:58.600 It could happen that tomorrow, some, uh, variant with a 50% fatality rate comes along.

00:19:07.060 Probably won't, but it could happen.

00:19:08.680 We don't need to talk about could, um, especially when, when, when the, when the question is, how are people living their lives?

00:19:19.180 You can't live your life in response to theories and coulds and worst case scenarios.

00:19:25.600 Uh, you have to live your life.

00:19:27.020 So according to everything we know, all the information we have, we played the clip for you yesterday of the doctor who first alerted people to this variant.

00:19:37.520 And she's the one saying it's nothing to panic about, panic about.

00:19:40.480 It's a, it's, these are very mild symptoms.

00:19:42.920 It's a cold.

00:19:44.780 That's my, my word, not hers.

00:19:47.060 But she said very mild symptoms.

00:19:48.660 Cold.

00:19:49.160 These are cold like symptoms.

00:19:50.580 Uh, that's, if the president is going to say anything about Omnicorn, that's all he really needs to say.

00:19:58.820 Speaking of being in a perpetual state of panic, we know in New Zealand, both in Australia and New Zealand, if there's even one case of COVID, whether it's Omnicorn or anything else, they shut everything down.

00:20:11.940 And New Zealand has been in a shutdown for who knows how long.

00:20:15.140 They're now starting to open things up a little bit.

00:20:17.120 And the prime minister of New Zealand gave her own press, press conference yesterday where she, um, finally gave, uh, the citizens of her country permission to go into their friends' homes and even if they want, uh, use the bathroom.

00:20:31.460 This is a great privilege that this benevolent and generous woman has bestowed upon her citizens.

00:20:38.300 Let's listen to that.

00:20:38.940 And importantly, because I know this is a question many Aucklanders have, you can now see family and friends again in their homes and use the bathroom inside luxury.

00:20:54.040 Isn't that funny?

00:20:55.640 It's hilarious.

00:20:57.800 Now, there's nothing funny about it at all.

00:20:59.140 And politicians should be terrified to speak to their citizens this way.

00:21:09.700 The whole idea of a, of a, of a politician standing in front of a camera and giving you permission to go to your friend's house and use the bathroom.

00:21:21.300 I would say treating you like a child, but that's, that's something, it's something even worse than that because my children don't ask, my own children don't ask for permission to go to the bathroom.

00:21:36.320 I don't have to ask for permission for that.

00:21:38.200 So, you are being more infantilized than a child.

00:21:47.560 And politicians should be terrified doing that.

00:21:50.520 They should be terrified to speak to their citizens that way.

00:21:54.320 But they're not.

00:21:55.140 And that's, this isn't just in New Zealand or Australia, it's here too. 1.00

00:21:58.460 Talking to us like we are idiots, like we are, like we are children, but even, but even, but even dumber than that. 1.00

00:22:05.500 Treating us like literal babies. 1.00

00:22:12.440 All across the West.

00:22:13.480 This is how politicians talk to their citizens and it was never supposed to be that way.

00:22:16.880 Not in our system anyway.

00:22:20.340 All right.

00:22:21.140 Speaking of politicians, let's move to this.

00:22:22.760 This is from The Hill.

00:22:23.900 A little bit of an update about a story we talked about yesterday in the Daily Cancellation.

00:22:27.460 Representatives Ilhan Omar and Lauren Boebert clashed in what we both described as a tense phone call on Monday.

00:22:33.880 After video surfaced of the far-right lawmaker, according to The Hill, using that qualification, making Islamophobic remarks about her colleague.

00:22:44.780 The two lawmakers issued separate statements after the phone call, making clear that neither found the conversation to be helpful in settling their differences.

00:22:51.540 This is from, this is the statement we'll play Lauren Boebert talking about the phone call.

00:22:55.080 But first, here is Ilhan Omar, released her own statement about this phone call.

00:23:01.580 And she said,

00:23:02.540 Today I graciously accepted a call from Representative Lauren Boebert.

00:23:06.360 We'll stop right there and say that gracious people never describe their actions as gracious.

00:23:11.500 Okay.

00:23:13.480 It's a good hint that someone is not gracious, is if they have described what they are doing as gracious.

00:23:18.720 Today I graciously accepted a phone call from Representative Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming that she met me in an elevator suggesting I was a terrorist and for a history of anti-Muslim hate.

00:23:31.100 Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments.

00:23:40.940 She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.

00:23:45.100 I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate.

00:23:52.080 Well, we also know it's not gracious because you said you received the phone call because you wanted an apology.

00:24:01.200 That's not gracious.

00:24:03.520 I graciously accepted a phone call in the hopes that the other person would bow before me and grovel and apologize.

00:24:12.820 I graciously provided them the opportunity in the platform to grovel before my feet.

00:24:21.560 And this is apparently, and both sides say that this is, you know, they have their own version of it, but it ended with Ilhan Omar hanging up and it didn't go well.

00:24:30.040 Now, backing up for a second.

00:24:32.200 Like I said, we talked about this in the Daily Cancellation and who was I canceling?

00:24:37.100 I was canceling Lauren Boebert and not for the joke that she made.

00:24:40.600 She made a joke at some kind of event in her district.

00:24:43.260 She made a joke about Ilhan Omar saying that she was worried being in an elevator with Omar, but then she realized that Omar didn't have a backpack on.

00:24:51.420 So she felt okay about it.

00:24:53.180 And it's actually kind of a funny joke. 0.86

00:24:54.620 And as I said, it's a joke that Ilhan Omar totally deserves and brings on herself, not because she's Muslim, but because she openly sympathizes with terrorists. 0.99

00:25:05.900 And she laughs about terrorist attacks and she's dismissive of 9-11, the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our nation's history.

00:25:15.120 Famously, she described it as some people did something.

00:25:19.340 Just like we could say with Lauren Boebert, some woman told some joke. 1.00

00:25:27.440 So because that's her attitude towards terrorism and she's openly sympathetic of terrorists, that's why she brings those jokes on herself.

00:25:36.880 And even if she wasn't Muslim, the jokes would still work. 1.00

00:25:42.100 So that's all okay.

00:25:43.760 I'm fine with a joke.

00:25:44.820 Is it a respectful way to talk about your colleague?

00:25:51.520 No.

00:25:53.640 But does Ilhan Omar, one of the most vile and vapid people in Congress, does she deserve respect? 0.87

00:25:59.300 No.

00:26:01.320 I think all of us as adults, if we want to be respected, we have to earn it.

00:26:07.460 Okay, I believe that firmly.

00:26:09.600 And that is doubly true for politicians.

00:26:11.740 The whole respecting the office bit, no.

00:26:15.960 That's not our system.

00:26:17.120 We don't live under a monarchy.

00:26:19.400 If you want to be respected as a politician, as a public servant, then you got to earn that.

00:26:25.040 And if you don't, then you deserve to be disrespected.

00:26:30.800 Every day, all the time.

00:26:32.060 That's the healthy way to treat politicians like that.

00:26:37.320 So none of that is a problem.

00:26:38.600 The problem is that, and the reason she got canceled yesterday, is that Boebert did issue a public apology.

00:26:44.700 She tweeted out a statement apologizing.

00:26:47.000 And even worse, she apologized to the Muslim community, which only confirms this idea that this comment was made as some kind of anti-Muslim comment, when it wasn't.

00:27:03.220 This was a specific joke about Ilhan Omar specifically because of her specific actions and words.

00:27:09.280 So by apologizing and giving the outrage mob what it wants, there's no winning now.

00:27:19.540 That's the thing.

00:27:20.640 You put yourself in an unwinnable situation.

00:27:22.660 And what you can't do is grovel and apologize, as Boebert has already done.

00:27:30.960 Once you do that, you can't then backtrack and say, I'm going to stand firm.

00:27:36.660 It's too late.

00:27:38.800 The other thing you notice is, and this is why there's one of the many reasons why apologizing is always a bad idea.

00:27:46.420 Putting everything else aside, it's not going to work.

00:27:49.540 You're only doing it.

00:27:50.660 You're not doing it because you actually feel bad about it.

00:27:56.120 No, you're doing it because you think it's in your best interest.

00:27:59.340 It's self-serving.

00:28:01.320 And you think it's going to call the mob off.

00:28:05.540 But it won't.

00:28:07.020 Because she publicly apologized.

00:28:08.800 And what did Ilhan Omar do?

00:28:10.340 She demanded another apology.

00:28:13.740 And if she got that apology, she'd ask for another one.

00:28:16.480 So here is Boebert talking about this and I think really illustrating why you put yourself in an unwinnable, a lose-lose situation when you start apologizing.

00:28:30.540 Let's listen.

00:28:30.840 Hey everyone, this is Lauren with a quick update on a phone call I had today with squad member Ilhan Omar.

00:28:37.840 I had reached out to her Friday and three days later I was able to connect with her on the phone because I wanted to let her know directly that I had reflected on my previous remarks.

00:28:48.060 Now, as a strong Christian woman who values faith deeply, I never want anything I say to offend someone's religion.

00:28:57.300 So I told her that.

00:28:58.580 Even after I put out a public statement to that effect, she said that she still wanted a public apology because what I had done wasn't good enough.

00:29:06.520 So I reiterated to her what I had just said.

00:29:09.540 She kept asking for a public apology.

00:29:11.720 So I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric.

00:29:21.680 She continued to press and I continued to press back.

00:29:24.940 And then Representative Omar hung up on me.

00:29:28.460 Rejecting an apology and hanging up on someone is part of cancel culture 101 and a pillar of the Democrat Party.

00:29:35.220 Make no mistake, I will continue to fearlessly put America first, never sympathizing with terrorists.

00:29:45.180 I'm sorry, it's kind of embarrassing now for Boebert.

00:29:47.820 It's too late for that.

00:29:49.720 That is a strong, courageous, and I'm going to apply bipartisan, fair is fair here.

00:29:54.860 You don't describe your own actions as gracious.

00:29:57.260 You also don't describe your own actions as fearless.

00:29:59.940 Okay, fearless people don't say, I fearlessly did this, especially because it's too late for that.

00:30:06.420 You already apologized.

00:30:08.160 So it's too late to take a fearless stand.

00:30:12.100 You may be exhausted with it now because you realize that one apology means you have to just apologize again.

00:30:17.820 And so you're kind of backing away out of exhaustion.

00:30:20.540 Fine, but that's not a fearless stand.

00:30:22.300 The time to take a fearless stand was before.

00:30:24.340 It's too late now.

00:30:25.100 You might get another opportunity in the future, but as far as this incident goes, you already lost because you apologized.

00:30:33.620 And everything you do from here on, the best thing to do now is just move on from it.

00:30:37.680 Making a phone call.

00:30:38.680 Why even make the phone call?

00:30:41.120 What was the point of that?

00:30:44.480 You didn't want to continue to grovel.

00:30:46.620 I appreciate that.

00:30:48.120 So then why talk on the phone?

00:30:49.580 All you can do now.

00:30:52.160 Does Lauren Boebert, does she have a comms team? 1.00

00:30:54.880 Does she have a PR team at all? 0.99

00:30:58.740 Move on from this.

00:30:59.940 Don't do any more videos.

00:31:01.280 Leave it alone.

00:31:03.140 You lost this one because you apologized.

00:31:05.900 It's over.

00:31:06.940 There's no way to flip it back around.

00:31:09.200 Everything you do now just makes you seem more sort of petty and childish.

00:31:16.600 And she says, and she's still saying, she says, well, you know, I wanted to let her know that I reflected on my previous comments.

00:31:23.180 You didn't reflect on it.

00:31:24.080 You reacted.

00:31:26.000 This is not reflection.

00:31:27.140 It's reaction.

00:31:29.380 Okay.

00:31:29.780 When you say something and then you say it and that's it.

00:31:35.740 And then there's a huge public reaction to it and outrage.

00:31:40.540 And then you apologize.

00:31:42.420 That's not because you reflected.

00:31:46.120 You didn't go off, climb a mountain or something, talk to some guru up on a mountain about the meaning of life and come back with your deep reflections.

00:31:54.340 Okay.

00:31:54.520 You know, you didn't do that.

00:31:55.720 You didn't go off to the beach and sit there and stare at the sunset and think deeply about this.

00:31:59.880 No, you panicked because people were upset at you and you reacted.

00:32:04.540 Reflection is exactly what is needed and didn't happen here.

00:32:10.380 And also, as I said yesterday, and I don't mean to harp on this, but it's so important and I'm so tired of seeing this from conservatives.

00:32:18.540 The reflection should happen before, okay, you're saying something in front of an audience, you know you're on camera. 0.99

00:32:28.520 And if you didn't know you're on camera, then that's even dumber. 0.93

00:32:32.700 You have to assume as a politician or anybody talking into a microphone in front of an audience, you're on camera. 0.94

00:32:39.680 And so you choose to offer this anecdote, this joke.

00:32:43.620 You obviously know that it's edgy, that it's politically incorrect.

00:32:47.820 You know that.

00:32:49.260 So reflect ahead of time.

00:32:51.960 I'm not saying don't say it.

00:32:53.500 I'm saying reflect ahead of time about what the reaction is going to be and how you are going to respond when that inevitable reaction happens.

00:33:03.440 So it's too late.

00:33:04.740 Move on.

00:33:05.900 Learn from it.

00:33:07.700 Come back next time and do better.

00:33:10.300 That would be my advice.

00:33:11.860 If I was ever hired by a politician to be their communications director, which will never happen.

00:33:18.500 But that's the right thing.

00:33:20.920 Okay.

00:33:21.140 And that's in general.

00:33:23.840 Last point I'll make about this.

00:33:25.780 When it comes to public outrage, and if I had a PR firm, my advice would be very simple.

00:33:32.060 My job would be very easy.

00:33:35.060 Because when it comes to public outrage, there are two possible courses of action.

00:33:40.860 And only two.

00:33:42.360 One is to say nothing at all.

00:33:44.720 And that's always a valid option.

00:33:47.900 Saying nothing is always a valid option because no one is going to remember this.

00:33:54.140 There are a million things happening every single day.

00:33:57.300 We are bombarded by information.

00:34:00.540 There's always a new controversy.

00:34:02.380 There's always something new trending.

00:34:04.820 Okay.

00:34:05.060 You're trending on Twitter because people are mad at you.

00:34:07.040 Even at the moment that you're trending, there are 50 other things trending.

00:34:12.560 And the most you'll ever trend is for like 12 hours, and then it goes away.

00:34:18.380 So ignoring it completely is definitely an option.

00:34:21.500 Or if you're not going to do that, then double down and refuse to apologize.

00:34:28.640 But do it in a smart way.

00:34:30.220 Have a plan in place.

00:34:31.160 Know exactly what you're doing.

00:34:32.160 That's also an option.

00:34:32.800 Those are the two.

00:34:34.100 That's it.

00:34:38.040 And for most people, you know, the best option a lot of the time, especially if you're not a political person,

00:34:45.400 you know, the best option is the first one, which is to say nothing.

00:34:49.620 Okay.

00:34:50.960 Next, here's another PR crisis from CNBC.

00:34:53.900 It says, CNN host Chris Cuomo used his sources in the media world to seek information on women who accused his brother, Andrew Cuomo,

00:35:00.340 then the governor of New York, of sexual harassment, according to documents released Monday by the New York Attorney General's office.

00:35:07.540 While Chris Cuomo has previously acknowledged advising his brother and his team on the response to the scandals,

00:35:12.420 the records show that his role in helping the then governor was much larger and more intimate than previously known.

00:35:17.440 So Chris Cuomo was actively in touch with Melissa DeRosa, who was the then governor's top aide about incoming media reports that detailed alleged sexual harassment by Andrew Cuomo.

00:35:27.820 He also lobbied to help the governor's office as it sought to weather the storm, and he dictated statements for the then governor to use.

00:35:35.600 Apparently, he tweeted to DeRosa in one message, or rather texted her, please help, please let me help with the prep.

00:35:44.840 And then another point, in reference to Anna Rutsch, who accused Cuomo of making an unwanted advance, he said,

00:35:56.380 I have a lead on the wedding girl.

00:35:58.880 Okay, so he's using his sources to find out information about these women, he's helped him to craft statements, he's doing all of this,

00:36:05.620 and he's doing all of this while he's ostensibly, I don't know what he even considers himself a journalist, can hardly say it without laughing.

00:36:14.680 Here's what I'll say about this.

00:36:17.080 First of all, I can't stand Chris Cuomo.

00:36:19.200 I've got no love for Chris Cuomo.

00:36:21.120 If he gets fired, fine.

00:36:23.260 That's fine with me.

00:36:24.120 He deserves to be fired for a million different reasons.

00:36:26.940 With all that said, this particular scandal doesn't bother me all that much.

00:36:36.440 This is, of all the reasons to be upset at Chris Cuomo, generally being a dishonest hack is the main reason.

00:36:43.840 And that's why I don't like him.

00:36:45.760 And that's why he deserves to be fired.

00:36:47.280 I'll be fine if he is, even though, as we've covered, he's just going to be replaced by somebody worse.

00:36:52.220 But even so, as far as this goes, it's just, it's not the kind of thing that makes me very upset, and I'll tell you why.

00:37:00.720 I'm not defending it ethically.

00:37:03.220 I'm just saying that, you know, helping out a family member, even by potentially unethical means, I'm not saying it's the objectively morally correct path.

00:37:15.420 But I understand it.

00:37:18.220 You know, I understand when someone pulls strings to help their brother out, help their sister out.

00:37:27.100 If it were me, you know, if my brother was caught up in some kind of thing, and there was something I could do behind the scenes to help him out, I'd probably do it.

00:37:38.360 Doesn't make it right, but, you know, I'm a firm believer in putting family first.

00:37:43.740 So I guess my point is, of all the reasons to dislike Cuomo, I would put this near the bottom of the list.

00:37:52.200 So it's very similar to his brother, who was getting all the grief and all the flack for the sexual harassment claims.

00:38:00.420 Meanwhile, he's got this other issue of where he killed elderly people.

00:38:03.840 And so I'm not going to defend him on the sexual harassment claims, but what I am going to say is, really, we should be focusing on this thing over here, which is much, much worse.

00:38:14.120 And with Chris Cuomo, he doesn't have anything quite as bad as murdering elderly people.

00:38:20.480 I mean, most people have never done that, but he does have sins, I think, that are worse than, you know, trying to help his brother out.

00:38:26.800 Okay, next, three trials are starting this week.

00:38:29.440 Jussie Smollett, Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:38:32.460 I still have not figured out how to pronounce her first name.

00:38:34.880 We're going to go with Ghislaine.

00:38:35.640 Ghislaine Maxwell and Kim Potter.

00:38:37.940 Potter was the officer who accidentally shot Dante Wright in Minneapolis during a traffic stop.

00:38:41.940 She was trying to arrest him.

00:38:43.920 He fought her.

00:38:45.320 She meant to reach for her taser, but she pulled her gun instead.

00:38:48.320 Just to give you an idea of how this trial is being covered and to kind of review some of the facts of the case, here's the local NBC affiliate talking about, and this is talking about the case and specifically Dante Wright's family, who had a press conference yesterday, and what they're saying about this.

00:39:03.280 We are expecting justice.

00:39:05.680 We are not asking for it.

00:39:07.220 One day before jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Kim Potter.

00:39:11.000 Dozens of community leaders and families of those killed at the hands of law enforcement stood in solidarity with Dante Wright's mother, Katie.

00:39:18.920 Thank everybody for the support.

00:39:21.680 Back on April 11th, Wright, a 20-year-old black man was pulled over by Brooklyn Center police officers due to expired tags.

00:39:29.340 Officer Kim Potter pulled out her gun and shot Wright once in the chest as seen in body camera footage.

00:39:35.080 Potter later said she meant to pull out her taser instead of her gun.

00:39:38.520 Potter now faces first- and second-degree manslaughter charges.

00:39:42.580 Defense attorneys argue the shooting was an accident.

00:39:45.640 Dante Wright was a student of mine at Edison High School.

00:39:49.260 George Floyd's girlfriend, Courtney Ross, recalled the day she first heard of Wright's death.

00:39:53.300 By the time I got home, I found out that that man, that young man, was Dante Wright.

00:40:00.300 Mind you, Dante's murder took place during the international trial of my man, George Floyd.

00:40:11.040 Okay, so there's the trial of Dante Wright and what his family is saying.

00:40:18.500 And we get the picture, as always, the necessary picture of Dante Wright sitting there holding a child, looking very, very innocent.

00:40:29.920 What we should remember is that Dante Wright, the way the media reports it, is that Dante Wright was stopped for a traffic violation.

00:40:39.980 And then I think originally the story, it was something, and it's always bogus.

00:40:44.520 Almost all the details you hear about these high-profile police shootings, the initial details are almost always completely bogus.

00:40:52.460 Not even based on reality, but totally bogus.

00:40:55.120 So I think originally we heard something about he was pulled over for an air freshener.

00:40:59.540 So the original story was that he was not only pulled over for it, but shot and executed for having an air freshener in his car.

00:41:06.040 That was the story that made its, as we know, the saying, you know, the lie mixed all the way around the world before the truth can get its pants on.

00:41:13.180 And so that was the lie in that case.

00:41:14.700 While the truth is struggling to get its pants on and get out there, the lie was that he was executed in cold blood

00:41:20.460 for having a little, you know, a little Christmas tree air freshener hanging on his windshield, on his rearview mirror.

00:41:30.040 That was not true at all.

00:41:31.820 He was pulled over for a traffic violation, but then they discovered that he had an open warrant for his arrest.

00:41:40.400 And so that's why they tried to arrest him.

00:41:42.420 Not for a traffic violation, but because he had an open warrant for his arrest.

00:41:46.720 And that's what you do with someone when they have an open warrant for their arrest.

00:41:48.940 Why did he have an open warrant for his arrest?

00:41:51.500 Well, he had it in connection with an incident where he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman and robbed her, attempted to rob her.

00:42:01.460 He also choked her and, according to the victim, stuck his hand down her shirt looking for a wad of cash, which is sexual assault, of course.

00:42:10.000 So he sexually assaulted a woman, pointed a gun at her, and tried to rob her.

00:42:15.060 That's why. 0.53

00:42:17.060 That's the crime that lays at the bottom there of that arrest warrant.

00:42:25.060 So what are they supposed to do?

00:42:26.220 They pull someone over for a traffic violation, find out they have an arrest warrant.

00:42:31.120 This is someone who's committed armed robbery.

00:42:33.140 Are the police supposed to say, well, hey, there's a warrant for your arrest. 0.56

00:42:37.980 You're a dangerous person.

00:42:39.220 But, you know, we pulled you over for something else.

00:42:41.800 So we're going to let this one slide, OK?

00:42:45.100 Is that what you think they should do?

00:42:48.060 Well, yeah, that's actually precisely what the defund the police crowd would prefer.

00:42:52.240 They'd prefer to let Dante Wright go and victimize another woman.

00:42:59.120 This continues that trend, that pattern, which is certainly not a coincidence.

00:43:07.960 It goes far beyond a coincidence when you have this pattern where almost all of the martyrs for BLM,

00:43:14.260 especially in the last couple of years, not only are violent criminals, but in almost every case,

00:43:19.020 specifically, they target women.

00:43:21.020 Women are the targets of their of their violence. 1.00

00:43:24.540 And that was the case for Dante Wright.

00:43:26.220 So that's why they tried to arrest him.

00:43:28.720 He fought back and they tried to tase him to bring him in.

00:43:33.200 And she she reached for the gun and shot him instead. 0.97

00:43:36.340 Now, we know that that happened.

00:43:37.680 We know it was a mistake because she says on camera, she says,

00:43:41.260 basically says on camera that it was a mistake and she didn't mean to do it.

00:43:45.200 Legally, I don't know.

00:43:47.660 You know, I don't I don't like her chances in court.

00:43:49.480 I think she's probably going to go to jail. 1.00

00:43:52.800 So we'll see.

00:43:54.540 But if it were up to me, if I was on that jury, would I send this woman to jail? 1.00

00:43:58.740 No, I would not.

00:44:00.040 I wouldn't send her to jail.

00:44:02.860 I look at this.

00:44:03.700 I put this in a similar in a similar category to something like a medical error.

00:44:07.420 You know, a mistake that that now there can be medical errors that are made.

00:44:12.360 There can be that are really malpractice or a doctor or surgeon is being reckless.

00:44:17.900 And if that happens, then you have to litigate it.

00:44:21.680 But there are also hundreds of people or more who die every year, you know, in surgeries and that sort of thing from medical errors that were nothing reckless has happened.

00:44:30.540 And it's just that this is a life or death situation.

00:44:34.680 Life is hanging in the balance.

00:44:36.860 And sometimes it can go the wrong way.

00:44:38.840 And it's a terrible mistake.

00:44:39.940 But it doesn't mean you put someone in prison for it.

00:44:41.340 So the point is, when you are a wanted felon, an alleged armed robber, and the police are trying to bring you in, and they're trying to use peaceful means to do it, and you start fighting them physically.

00:44:59.460 If a mistake happens in the process of that occurring, where you are physically fighting the cops as a wanted person, a violent felon, if a mistake happened, an error happens, I put that on you.

00:45:16.240 You could have avoided that easily.

00:45:20.780 You deserve to go to jail.

00:45:22.620 That's what should happen to you.

00:45:24.460 You don't have a right to resist and run away.

00:45:27.520 You pointed a gun at a woman and robbed her.

00:45:32.040 You need to face the music.

00:45:33.280 If you fight back because you don't want to face up to what you did, then you are taking your life into your hands.

00:45:43.220 You are putting yourself in a position where really bad things can happen.

00:45:49.420 Like a mistake.

00:45:51.680 And so I put the onus on you.

00:45:53.500 That's how I would see it on a jury.

00:45:57.740 That's what I would argue.

00:45:58.700 But I have no confidence that the jury here will argue the same.

00:46:02.700 Let's get now to our comment section.

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00:47:26.720 We have a lot of memes on this show.

00:47:29.280 And most of them were a team effort between me and you and the audience and the team here at Daily Wire.

00:47:35.580 Sweet Baby Gang, of course, is the prime example.

00:47:38.900 That's why you can't just blame me for that.

00:47:40.700 That was our collective brainchild. 0.54

00:47:42.400 It was the hideous monstrosity that arose out of our collectively dark and depraved mind.

00:47:49.100 So that's a lot of what you find there at the merch store, or rather the swag shack.

00:47:52.980 So, William Robey says, Matt, what are the good Jim Carrey movies and why?

00:48:00.100 Yeah, that's a good question.

00:48:01.080 I said that The Truman Show was his second-to-last good movie.

00:48:03.940 Maybe I should have said third-to-last, arguably.

00:48:06.780 Because I had in mind The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which I haven't seen in many years.

00:48:12.520 But I thought it was quite effective when I did see it.

00:48:14.420 It's an interesting movie.

00:48:16.280 It kind of captured a failed relationship really well.

00:48:19.180 Maybe had some interesting things to say about the nature of memory and relationships and so on.

00:48:23.620 So I'd put that.

00:48:25.160 And then there's also Me, Myself, and Irene, which came in between Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine.

00:48:29.720 And that was serviceable.

00:48:30.820 So maybe you'll give them that.

00:48:32.580 But the point is that Jim Carrey, you want to talk about someone that's been on a cold streak as an actor.

00:48:39.220 Maybe Robert De Niro gives Jim Carrey a run for his money and Al Pacino.

00:48:42.380 Those three guys.

00:48:45.080 Putting out hit after hit.

00:48:46.960 The 90s, that was Jim Carrey's decade.

00:48:48.960 Everything he put out. 0.95

00:48:50.620 And then he gets in the 2000s and has put out almost nothing but garbage. 0.71

00:48:54.960 All right.

00:48:55.540 Let's see what else we got here.

00:49:00.140 Let's see.

00:49:01.040 Leah says,

00:49:01.720 No, Matt.

00:49:02.260 Plants are not sentient.

00:49:03.780 And you know that. 0.99

00:49:04.780 You're not stupid. 1.00

00:49:05.680 Stop acting like vegans are so stupid for literally just being kind to animals. 1.00

00:49:10.220 Yes, you absolutely are the asshole. 1.00

00:49:12.960 I truly enjoy watching your show, but I strongly disagree with you when it comes to animals. 1.00

00:49:16.480 It's really sad that you think so little of them that you think it's completely fine to exploit and kill them unnecessarily.

00:49:21.560 Anyway, I continue to watch your content and stay subscribed because I connect to many of your other viewpoints.

00:49:25.900 And at least you don't speak about your barbaric views on animal rights too often.

00:49:29.280 Well, don't tempt me, Leah, because now you're just ensuring that I will talk about it more.

00:49:33.620 No, first of all, it's not about thinking less of animals.

00:49:37.920 I do think less of animals as compared to people.

00:49:40.740 I think they are lesser species than the human species.

00:49:43.060 We've talked about why.

00:49:44.180 And in fact, you do agree with me on that, even if you claim that you don't.

00:49:48.680 As I've pointed out, you know, if you see a dead person on the side of the road, you're going to react very differently than if you see a dead squirrel.

00:49:55.540 And why is that?

00:49:56.180 Because you care more about the person, which is good.

00:49:58.620 You should.

00:49:59.020 My only point about the plant life is that, okay, I'm engaging in this hierarchy of biological life.

00:50:08.020 I openly admit that I am.

00:50:09.540 I think it's a rational and logical thing to do.

00:50:12.040 I also think it's totally rational and logical to prefer your own species over another one. 0.93

00:50:18.460 There's something despairing and suicidal about the people who prefer other species to their own. 1.00

00:50:25.940 But my point is you're doing the same.

00:50:29.020 Because plant life, we call it, it is life, isn't it?

00:50:32.620 Trees, lettuce, everything in a salad.

00:50:39.200 You look down at a salad, you see a salad.

00:50:41.840 I see a mass genocide with ranch dressing on top of it, okay?

00:50:48.920 Because that is also life.

00:50:50.720 And you have determined that that life is less valuable, less important than the life of, say, a chicken.

00:50:58.900 So you're doing this hierarchy thing.

00:51:01.660 And so am I.

00:51:02.740 So I don't see how you're any better.

00:51:04.100 So now it's really, it's not that I have a hierarchy and you don't.

00:51:07.580 It's that we have competing hierarchies.

00:51:09.460 And so we can have that conversation.

00:51:10.800 All right, what else we got here?

00:51:16.900 Another one says, Matt, love the show.

00:51:18.620 Want to say that first.

00:51:19.480 My question is, how do you justify wanting to create culture and change elections and bash the left for doing so?

00:51:25.980 I don't mind the DW doing so since you're correct.

00:51:28.380 However, there does seem to be a bit of a double standard from you, whether justified or not.

00:51:33.700 Not for me to decide.

00:51:34.500 Personally, I'm more curious where you're coming from rather than a gotcha moment.

00:51:39.660 Have a good day, y'all.

00:51:40.680 Anyone else have thoughts?

00:51:41.660 I'd love to hear those.

00:51:43.600 Well, first of all, I feel like I have to ban you from the show for challenging me, but then being so nice and polite about it, which means I don't get to be angry in response.

00:51:52.060 So you've taken that away from me.

00:51:53.820 And for that, you're banned.

00:51:55.700 As far as your question, yeah, I don't, it's just like what I said about indoctrination.

00:52:02.240 And I understand where the confusion comes from.

00:52:04.840 Because a lot of people on the right will say things like, and it's just kind of an intellectual laziness or they're being lazy in the way they speak.

00:52:14.200 They'll say things like, well, we're against indoctrination of kids and all that kind of thing.

00:52:20.360 No, it's not that, the problem is not that kids are being indoctrinated.

00:52:23.880 It's what they're being indoctrinated into.

00:52:25.480 And when it comes to creating culture, I don't have a problem with the idea of creating culture.

00:52:34.000 It's culture is good.

00:52:36.300 We should have a culture.

00:52:38.460 My issue is the kind of culture that is being created.

00:52:45.140 And in fact, on the left, the kind of culture they're creating is not even really a culture.

00:52:50.880 It's more of an anti-culture.

00:52:52.020 It's like the absence, it's a vacuum, it's a void, it's the absence of culture.

00:52:58.760 And so what I think we need to do on the right is create culture, real culture, a good culture.

00:53:02.860 An edifying culture, a culture that directs people towards fulfillment and their own well-being and the common good, that sort of thing.

00:53:14.320 So hopefully that clears it up, although you're still banned from the show.

00:53:17.560 Well, I'm not sure if I mentioned it yet, but I do have a kid's book out.

00:53:21.780 And this is the part where we do the DW promo, and it just so happens to be my book that we're promoting.

00:53:26.420 So once again, I get to tell you about Johnny the Walrus, which is on sale right now at johnnythewalrus.com.

00:53:32.160 I will tell you that I've already seen the action has started on Twitter of the left calling for Amazon to ban this book.

00:53:39.960 And I don't have a lot of confidence that it won't get banned, even though it's a lovely and a wonderful book with, I think, a great message about this young boy who has this identity of being a trans walrus foisted upon him by his confused mother.

00:53:54.320 But at the end, they see the light, so it's a happy ending.

00:53:57.500 But there's a good chance that things are going to get banned, and that's a serious issue.

00:54:01.780 So go and buy the book right now, johnnythewalrus.com.

00:54:05.420 If we get it all the way to the top of the charts, it makes it harder for them to ban it.

00:54:09.180 And if they do, it's more visible when they do, which it ought to be.

00:54:12.040 So johnnythewalrus.com.

00:54:13.820 Go there now.

00:54:14.480 Buy the book.

00:54:18.980 All right.

00:54:20.000 For our cancellation today, we turn our attention to a gender studies master's thesis composed by a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

00:54:28.080 Jonathan Kaye is an editor at Quillette, and he first brought attention to this on his Twitter page.

00:54:33.080 The document had been available on the university's website, but has since been put under embargo, whatever that's supposed to mean.

00:54:37.880 What it actually means is that the university is embarrassed that the public took note of this, and so they took it out of the public viewing for that reason.

00:54:44.940 All I really need to do is read the first part of the introduction to this thesis.

00:54:49.720 No other commentary is necessary, though I will offer some anyway.

00:54:52.220 Anyway, so here it is.

00:54:53.320 It's a little lengthy, but it's worth your time.

00:54:55.480 So sit back and enjoy.

00:54:57.760 Here it is.

00:54:59.780 And this is all totally real, by the way, I assure you.

00:55:02.900 As a white first-generation college graduate who attended a mid-sized private university, my identities and experiences inspired this study.

00:55:11.820 My whiteness offers a level of inherent violence to this study because of the history of privilege and structural and overt acts of harm my ancestors have contributed to society.

00:55:19.860 This echoes my experience in identifying as an anti-racist racist who, as a white person, spelled with an X instead of an O, a persixin, who, as a white persixin, is inherently racist, but applies and is accountable to anti-racism in my life through activist, educator, and researcher capacities.

00:55:38.600 White supremacy is frequently misunderstood as only pertaining to overt or explicit acts of violence like neo-Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan.

00:55:44.780 However, white supremacy in the context of this study centers the relationship between historical and unconscious bias that benefits whiteness through its structures, policies, culture, and experiences over non-white individuals.

00:55:55.240 Therefore, it is irresponsible for me to begin this study without acknowledging the privileges that I am afforded in conducting this study as a white individual, but also the contribution that I make to violence. 0.51

00:56:04.780 Like white supremacy in the academy, violence in the university shows up in different ways than what may be explicitly produced.

00:56:11.200 Violence in the context of this study includes interpersonal violence like slurs and ignorance, politics that disproportionately have a negative impact on marginalized identities or bodies, the hierarchical misuse of administrative power that make change seem impossible, and the lack of understanding and support given to the marginalized university community.

00:56:29.720 And that's just the first few sentences of the introduction.

00:56:34.500 It's good that they took the whole document off the website.

00:56:36.900 I don't know if you could read much more of that or hear much more of it without slipping irretrievably into insanity.

00:56:42.780 So let's go through this somewhat haphazardly and make four points in no particular order.

00:56:49.280 First, bookmark this podcast and remember that segment and come back to it.

00:56:54.280 This segment, in fact, that we're in right now.

00:56:55.440 And come back to it next time somebody demands that you define critical race theory.

00:57:00.040 Because what you just heard is critical race theory.

00:57:03.100 It's hard to define because it's a jumbled, unintelligible mess.

00:57:07.900 It's like being asked to describe in precise terms the contents of a port-a-potty. 0.96

00:57:14.520 Now, you may not be able to break it all down in specific detail, but what you can say is that whatever is in there, it's a whole bunch of s**t.

00:57:21.880 For critical race theory, the particulars are intentionally hard to discern and also irrelevant. 0.95

00:57:27.480 Whatever finer distinction it draws, we know that it teaches that white people are inherently racist, that all non-white people are victims of systemic racism, that all white people are beneficiaries of systemic privilege, and that white people all bear guilt because of this.

00:57:41.700 And that also, because of this, they cannot be the victims of racism. 0.72

00:57:44.840 Even if a black man beats a white man unconscious and spits on his lifeless body, still, that is not racism.

00:57:52.060 And arguably, it's not even violence. 0.96

00:57:54.620 Nothing can be racism against the white man.

00:57:56.620 That's what CRT teaches, as we just heard.

00:57:59.880 Second, notice how will and agency are removed from the equation.

00:58:06.220 According to the CRT vision of life, all of the fault lies with systems and institutions and policies and the past.

00:58:15.740 Whites inherit their guilt this way, and non-whites inherit their victimization in the same way. 0.98

00:58:22.140 Nobody does anything. 0.81

00:58:23.840 Nobody's responsible for anything.

00:58:25.960 We are all helpless, dried-up little leaves floating on the wind.

00:58:29.640 Third, the author even says that ignorance is violence, meaning that you can be guilty of violence simply for not knowing something.

00:58:39.060 No willful action is taken on your part.

00:58:41.600 You simply did not encounter certain information, and that makes you violent.

00:58:47.020 Again, there's no agency.

00:58:48.200 There's no choice.

00:58:48.820 There's no will.

00:58:50.760 Third, we see that CRT and leftism as a whole are a religion.

00:58:56.920 But, of course, religion isn't bad in and of itself.

00:58:59.640 So, I'm always kind of uncomfortable using religion in this kind of pejorative way.

00:59:03.720 Oh, it's just a religion.

00:59:05.160 I have a religion.

00:59:05.980 I'm religious.

00:59:07.220 The problem isn't that it's a religion.

00:59:08.680 The problem is that it's a false religion. 0.57

00:59:10.940 And you can tell a false religion because almost everything it says can only be understood within the context of itself.

00:59:17.560 Everything is insular, right, in a false religion or in a cult like Scientology or something. 0.97

00:59:25.520 It has no insight or wisdom to offer people who do not subscribe to it.

00:59:30.180 You have to be a believer to see the value or even meaning in any of this.

00:59:34.980 So, as I said, it's like Scientology.

00:59:37.220 You know, they indoctrinate you into it little by little.

00:59:40.940 And there are a lot of reasons for that.

00:59:42.200 One of the reasons is that if you just dove into Scientology and they put you all the way up at level 7 or whatever the levels are, and they put you there right away, nothing that you're hearing would make any sense to you.

00:59:53.860 Because you have to be brought into it slowly and slowly until you kind of adopt the logic, which is an illogic, of this whole system.

01:00:02.040 But from the outside, it's completely ridiculous and has nothing of value to offer anybody. 0.82

01:00:07.500 Christianity, which is not a false religion, is not like that. 0.77

01:00:12.840 Christianity has wisdom, you know, even if you're not religious, even if you don't believe in Christianity.

01:00:21.700 You can, and many people have, pick up the Gospels and read them.

01:00:25.140 And you'll find much wisdom and insight into the human condition that you don't need to be a Christian to understand or even believe. 0.94

01:00:32.160 So that's the difference.

01:00:34.140 And finally, I think I said there were four things.

01:00:35.720 So the fourth thing is that this is what you get at college.

01:00:38.300 Okay, I don't need to elaborate on that very much.

01:00:40.420 I have many times in the past.

01:00:41.640 This is college.

01:00:42.260 So if you're a parent and you're thinking about sending your kid to college and plunging yourself or your child into decades of debt, this is what you're paying for.

01:00:52.340 To turn your kid into that.

01:00:55.320 And that is why, we must say, the person who wrote that thesis is canceled and gender studies programs are canceled.

01:01:00.180 And the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is canceled.

01:01:03.080 And really, the whole university system, I think, in the end is canceled.

01:01:06.620 And we'll leave it there.

01:01:07.580 Remember, again, johnnythewalrus.com.

01:01:09.380 Pick up the book.

01:01:10.320 Let's get it to the top of Amazon.

01:01:12.400 And we've got to do it.

01:01:13.000 We've got to do it now before it's banned.

01:01:16.480 So go right now.

01:01:17.220 The show is over.

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01:01:20.400 Give them to all your family members.

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Ep. 847 - I Now Identify As A Bestselling Children’s Author

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