The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 919 - Disney’s Gay Agenda

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Disney executives are now openly admitting to their gay agenda, 0.98

00:00:04.380 their words, not mine. Another executive in a recent staff meeting bragged about her pansexual 0.92

00:00:08.880 child. We'll talk about Disney's free fall plummet into far left wokeism. Also,

00:00:13.560 a kindergarten teacher worries that the Florida bill just signed into law will prevent him from

00:00:17.460 talking to his students about his love life. But why does he need to talk to them about that?

00:00:21.780 That's the question. And Biden signs the Anti-Lynching Act, thanks to Republicans who

00:00:25.880 provided him this opportunity to virtue signal. Jim Carrey is speaking out against Will Smith's

00:00:30.320 violent outbursts at the Oscars. Why is he almost the only guy in Hollywood saying anything about it?

00:00:34.120 Plus, a Republican congressman claims that he's been invited to drug-fueled orgies by other members

00:00:38.940 of Congress. And our daily cancellation, Jon Stewart has white guilt and he wants to tell us all about

00:00:43.920 it. We'll listen and then cancel him. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:10.940 and health questions. You know, I was never a very good student of physics in high school or of any other

00:02:16.500 subject, frankly. But one thing I know is that when an object starts falling, its velocity will increase.

00:02:22.540 The rate of its descent will only accelerate until it hits the ground. And I've noticed a similar thing

00:02:27.780 happens with wokeness. Leftism has its own gravitational pull, which ensures that once a

00:02:33.340 person or organization falls into the woke pit, it will tumble towards annihilation at ever-increasing

00:02:38.920 speeds. But also, there really is no ground in this scenario. Leftism is more of a black hole,

00:02:45.560 I guess. You fall endlessly into the darkness until you're ripped apart and the pieces of you 0.72

00:02:50.000 disintegrate and become one with the abyss. We're watching this play out right now across our

00:02:54.460 culture. Disney is just one case study, but a rather instructive one. Now, it's true that Disney

00:02:59.440 has been liberal probably since Walt himself died, but they've mostly sort of been orbiting around the

00:03:06.020 black hole, approaching it in a somewhat controlled manner. But then the parental rights bill in Florida

00:03:11.260 came along, prohibiting teachers from talking to five-year-olds about their sexuality.

00:03:14.620 Disney, facing pressure from a small cluster of LGBT extremists in their organization,

00:03:21.860 had to make a choice. They could try to remain neutral, which would keep them in orbit around the

00:03:27.600 black hole of wokeness. Or they could actively push back against the LGBT militants, which was never

00:03:33.320 going to happen. But if they did, it would actually move them farther away from that black hole. Or they 0.89

00:03:38.220 could cave to the radical gay factions and come out fully in favor of teaching seven-year-olds about 0.62

00:03:43.920 transgenderism and gender fluidity. They, of course, chose the latter option, which meant diving right 0.99

00:03:50.200 in to the hole. And now they're in the midst of an ideological freefall. This is what LGBT activists 1.00

00:03:55.760 want. They don't want you orbiting around the perimeter. They insist that you surrender to their demands and

00:04:01.620 reorganize your whole life or your whole organization or both in whatever way they require. So investigative

00:04:08.660 journalist Chris Ruffo has obtained footage that shows just how rapid this dissent has been.

00:04:15.200 According to Ruffo, Disney recently called an all-hands meeting where multiple executives and other

00:04:20.040 high-ranking people in the institution talked about what Disney would do going forward to cater to the

00:04:26.260 gay agenda. And lest you think I'm exaggerating or engaging in conspiracy theories with the phrase

00:04:31.760 gay agenda, you should realize that the term was actually used in the meeting. Here's executive

00:04:37.120 producer Latoya Raveneau. And here she is. Listen, it's like, I love Disney's content. I grew up

00:04:42.940 watching, you know, all of the classics. They have been a huge, like informative part of my life. But

00:04:47.820 at the same time, like I worked at small studios most of my career and I'd heard, you know, hear

00:04:52.460 whispers. Like I'd heard things like, Oh, you know, they won't let you show this at a Disney show. And I'm

00:04:57.240 like, okay. So I was a little like sus when I started. But then my experience was bafflingly the

00:05:05.900 opposite of what I had heard on my little pocket of like, you know, proud family, Disney TVA. The

00:05:13.140 showrunners were super welcoming. Meredith Roberts and like the, our leadership over there has been so

00:05:18.580 welcoming to like, my like, not at all secret gay agenda. And so like, I feel like I felt like it

00:05:26.660 was, I mean, like, maybe it was that way in the past. But I guess like, something must have happened

00:05:31.600 in the last, like, like, they're turning it around. They're going hard.

00:05:35.960 Now, she says Disney is going hard on the gay agenda. And no further comment needed. But as bad as that is,

00:05:45.840 and as disturbing is the way she phrased it, still somehow the most troubling thing in that video

00:05:50.500 is that a grown woman is speaking with the language and mannerisms of a 14-year-old on TikTok.

00:05:56.860 But if you're wondering what the gay agenda might look like in practice or sound like,

00:06:01.200 Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware appeared later in the meeting to give just one

00:06:06.560 example of how this gay agenda may be put into practice. Listen.

00:06:09.740 Last summer, we removed all of the gendered greetings and relationship to our life skills. 0.89

00:06:17.840 So we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We've trained, we've provided training for

00:06:23.900 all of our, our cast members and in relationship to that. So now they know it's, it's hello, everyone

00:06:28.220 or hello, friends. We are in the process of changing over those, those recorded messages. And so many of

00:06:33.920 you are probably familiar when we brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom. We no longer say ladies

00:06:38.600 and gentlemen, boys and girls, we say dreamers of all ages. And so I love the fact that it's opened

00:06:42.460 up the creativity, the opportunity for our cast members to look at that. We, we have our cast

00:06:47.640 members working with merchandise, working with food and beverage, working with, with all of our

00:06:52.300 guest facing areas where perhaps, you know, we, we want to create that magical moment with our cast

00:06:57.180 members, with our guests. And we don't want to just assume because someone might be in, in our

00:07:03.560 interpretation, maybe presenting as female, that they may not want to be called princess.

00:07:07.420 So let's think differently about how do we really engage with our guests in a meaningful

00:07:12.280 and inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone.

00:07:17.100 Yes. Well, we all know that nothing upsets a little girl at Disney world more than being

00:07:21.520 called princess. I mean, they just hate that. Good thing Disney has done away with such slurs.

00:07:27.200 Although I should warn them that everyone, they said we're going to say everyone instead of ladies

00:07:32.000 and gentlemen. Well, that's not going to be an acceptable alternative because everyone implies that each

00:07:37.380 individual identifies as being just a single entity. This could be quite othering to the

00:07:42.740 self-identified they's and them's in the audience, not to mention anybody with disassociative identity

00:07:47.160 disorder. Everyone is not only exclusionary and transphobic, but also ableist. Now, at another

00:07:52.860 point in the meeting, Disney production coordinator, Alan March made an appearance where he assured the,

00:07:57.560 the assembled staff that his team has created a tracker to ensure that Disney is telling a sufficient

00:08:03.480 number of queer stories. Listen. Yeah. Um, I've had the privilege of working with the moon girl team 0.96

00:08:10.560 for the last two years and they've been really open to exploring queer stories. And part of I'm on the

00:08:16.280 production side, uh, part of, uh, the work that I feel like I can put in is, um, making sure that we

00:08:23.420 take place in modern day New York. So making sure that that's like an accurate reflection of New York.

00:08:27.980 So I put together like a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have like a, the

00:08:32.800 full breadth of expression. And, uh, we got into a very similar conversation carry of like, oh, all of

00:08:40.420 our like gender non-conforming characters are in the background. And so it's not just a numbers game,

00:08:46.440 um, of how many LGBTQ plus characters you have. We got the further, uh, the, the more centered a story is

00:08:57.260 on a character, the more nuanced you get to get into their story. And especially with like trans 0.99

00:09:03.780 characters, you can't see if someone is trans. There's not one way to look trans. And so kind of

00:09:10.300 the only way to have these like canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, canonical

00:09:15.880 bisexual characters is to give them stories where they can like be their whole selves. 0.91

00:09:21.720 So this is where you end up when you free fall into woke leftism, you end up using phrases like

00:09:27.880 canonical asexual characters. Although that phrase is not nearly as disturbing as something uttered

00:09:34.120 by Disney corporate president, Carrie Burke. Listen to this.

00:09:38.560 I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually. Um, uh, one transgender child, um, um,

00:09:47.720 and one pansexual child, um, and, and also as a leader. Um, and that was the thing that really

00:09:54.260 got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple

00:09:59.920 of weeks, um, and open forums and through emails and phone conversations. And, um, I feel a responsibility

00:10:08.760 to speak, um, not just for myself, but for them, um, to all of us. We had a, we had an open forum last

00:10:15.720 week at 20th where, um, again, the home of, of really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over

00:10:24.360 the years where, um, one of our execs stood up and said, you know, we only have a handful of queer

00:10:30.920 leads in our content. And I went, what? I, that can't be true. And I, and I, and I realized, oh,

00:10:38.040 it actually is true. Yes. Um, pansexual child is what she said. Now, please keep this in mind.

00:10:47.300 If your kid is watching Disney content, he is watching content produced by people who believe

00:10:51.820 in the existence of pansexual children. Now the word pansexual, of course, in reality means nothing

00:10:59.700 at all. It's nonsense. But according to the left in their fantasy world, a pansexual is somebody who 0.97

00:11:04.620 quote, is not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.

00:11:11.200 I mean, the story of Peter Pan begins to take on a whole new meaning. And so Ms. Carrie Burke says

00:11:16.940 that there is a, that her, that her child, an actual child is not limited in his sexual choice by

00:11:23.420 biological sex or gender identity. This is how she speaks of children, her own children. And she has

00:11:29.580 two children who are both queer, quote unquote, one pansexual, the other trans. How in God's name 0.99

00:11:34.980 do you end up with two children who allegedly identify themselves with these alternative sexual

00:11:39.920 labels? Well, it happens because you select it for them. You hand that identity to them the way that

00:11:45.680 you might buy a child a new jacket and tell them to put it on. A child is not going to come up with the

00:11:51.080 concept of pansexuality on his own any more than he's going to come up with transgenderism.

00:11:55.720 Those must be given to him. We talk about things being assigned to children. Well, that is assigned.

00:12:03.120 He has to be converted into it because, as I've argued many times, the real conversion therapy 0.98

00:12:07.480 that happens in our world today is the kind where a child is converted into LGBT. Now, in a normal, 1.00

00:12:15.580 in an insane world, the woman in that video would be in prison right now on charges of child abuse. 0.98

00:12:21.020 Instead, she's a well-compensated executive at a billion-dollar multimedia company in charge of

00:12:27.620 creating entertainment for children. She also says later in the clip that she wants to have

00:12:32.920 half of Disney's characters by the end of the year be LGBT or minorities. Half of them. Now, 0.96

00:12:40.020 this would seem to be in conflict with the whole concept of a minority. If the idea is simply

00:12:45.460 representation, then why is there this push for over-representation? Why the insistence on making

00:12:51.100 these identities more prominent on screen than they are in real life? Well, here's the important

00:12:58.380 point. When these people talk about representation, they don't mean that they want the characters and

00:13:04.220 storylines to represent America as it currently is. They want it to represent the kind of world and

00:13:10.520 culture they wish to create. They're not representing culture. They're making it.

00:13:17.420 They want to have a whole lot more, quote, LGBT children, which means putting a lot more of it 0.95

00:13:22.700 on the screen. They want to reshape the world, which means reshaping your child. The only question

00:13:30.040 now is whether you, as a parent, are going to let them do it. Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:45.840 Well, we have the movie coming out. We also have the book on the way, What is a Woman,

00:14:48.820 which went on for pre-sale. Pre-sales began yesterday. You can go to amazon.com and order it

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00:15:01.020 the book. You know, I did have related to this a little bit of a, you know, a proud husband moment

00:15:08.200 yesterday when my wife, at a point when What is a Woman was charting on Amazon at like number 22,

00:15:16.680 I think. Yeah, number 22. And it was right underneath the book that Will Smith recently

00:15:22.460 wrote, which has also been surging on the charts a little bit, as you might expect. And so my wife

00:15:30.240 tweeted this. I just thought it was fantastic. She said, let's get Matt Walsh number one again.

00:15:34.840 What is a Woman is currently ranked number 22 under Will Smith. Nobody wants to be under Will Smith,

00:15:39.540 not even Jada. And I just, when you can come up with an insult that makes even me go, wow.

00:15:49.260 Oh boy. If I have that reaction, then you know, it's pretty harsh, but also very well done.

00:15:55.660 So these are the kinds of things that I am proud of, you know, in my marriage is when my wife

00:15:59.980 comes up with a joke like that. All right. I want to start with this because we're talking about the

00:16:03.700 Florida bill and we've seen, you know, in many ways, this is not notable at all because we've

00:16:09.660 seen this parade of people appearing on cable news, teachers and LGBT activists from Florida

00:16:15.720 talking about how horrible the bill is and of course, completely misrepresenting it at the same time.

00:16:19.520 But I want to show you, um, this is a kindergarten teacher who appeared on MSNBC to talk about

00:16:28.020 the bill and the terrible consequences that it will have for his own life. And just listen to what he

00:16:33.340 has to say. Listen to the Florida governor signing this, um, into law. Yeah. You know, it's twofold.

00:16:41.740 It really hits hard, um, in my heart professionally and, uh, personally both, uh, professionally. It,

00:16:48.460 it truly makes me feel like, um, I am not trusted as a professional. Um, I know my kindergarten

00:16:56.460 standards through and through and, um, nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about, um,

00:17:02.620 teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity. Um, so for them to, to say that, that that's happening,

00:17:09.800 um, that, you know, it's kind of crazy. Um, but, uh, we should be able to have discussions and that's

00:17:15.720 what we're encouraged to do in kindergarten. And then personally, because, um, you know, my, my kids

00:17:19.860 do have questions. They want to know who the, uh, my partner is in pictures outside of my classroom

00:17:24.340 and I should be able to speak to that. So, so do you worry that you won't even be able to talk about

00:17:29.720 your own personal home life? I mean, I have a child in kindergarten right now. I know exactly

00:17:34.380 that my, my child has two teachers, one of which has a daughter at home, um, and is single. The

00:17:40.260 other is married and has four children. I know everything about their lives because my kid tells

00:17:44.900 me. Absolutely. Absolutely. You are 100% correct. Um, that's what we do as educators. We build

00:17:51.800 relationships with our kids. And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life,

00:17:56.120 you talk about what you do on the weekends. That's building community. I, it scares me

00:18:01.500 to death that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children

00:18:05.880 because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend. I don't want to have to hide that

00:18:09.400 my partner and I went paddle boarding this weekend. It scares him to death that he can't

00:18:15.680 tell his children. Listen to the phrasing there that, um, that he went paddle boarding over the

00:18:23.200 weekend. He's scared to death that he can't talk about his paddle boarding trip with the

00:18:26.960 kindergartners. So now it's the, it's the don't say paddle board bill apparently.

00:18:31.500 He wants to be able to share his life with his kids. Now, now listen,

00:18:34.720 of course, in truth, there is actually nothing in the bill whatsoever that would prevent that dude

00:18:40.780 from telling his children who are not his children. They're students. They may be

00:18:46.380 kindergartners, but that's of course how he sees it. Very revealing. That's how these teachers see

00:18:50.520 it. They think it's their children, but my children, but there's nothing actually in the bill

00:18:55.180 that would prevent him from talking about his paddle board trip or even saying, Hey kids,

00:18:59.380 I went on a paddle board boarding trip, uh, with, with, uh, with my gay partner. I'm,

00:19:04.040 I'm a gay man. I went on a paddle boarding trip. He, he, according to the bill, he can still say

00:19:08.800 that. I don't think he should, but there's actually nothing in the bill at all that would

00:19:13.260 stop that from happening. It's not in there, but it does raise the question of why do you need

00:19:21.980 to share this information with the kids anyway? Like the kids are going to ask what you did over

00:19:28.900 the weekend. Really? They, are they really going to ask you that? I guess, uh, I guess I was, uh,

00:19:35.720 unusually selfish child and every other kid in my class when I was in elementary school also was

00:19:42.140 unusually selfish because I, nobody ever asked the teacher that we didn't sit down on a Monday and say,

00:19:46.520 so, uh, Mrs. Smith, what'd you do over the weekend? Well, who's, who is having that conversation with

00:19:51.860 it? You think kindergartners, little five-year-olds are coming in to say, uh, say, uh, have a great

00:19:56.620 weekend. How'd it go? Kids aren't asking you that. They don't care about that. And even if they did

00:20:03.540 ask you that, like it's, it's not a whole long conversation you need to have.

00:20:09.720 I mean, even if there was a law saying that, uh, you can't talk about your gay relationships,

00:20:15.580 which again, that's not actually what the law says, but even if there was, you could still say,

00:20:19.040 I went paddleboarding over the weekend. There's nothing stopping you from saying that.

00:20:23.080 Do you need to get in the specifics about your relationship and your, I I'm sorry. I don't

00:20:28.660 believe that quote unquote, his children are asking him all about his private life.

00:20:34.880 I've never heard of such a thing. Kids don't care about that. 0.77

00:20:38.240 Um, but even if they do, why do you need to talk about this?

00:20:47.160 When, when I went to school, I didn't know anything about the private lives of any of my teachers.

00:20:56.220 I think as I've said before, I really thought for much of my, my younger years in school,

00:21:00.480 I thought that they all like lived in the school. I thought they were kept

00:21:04.000 in a crypt or something in the basement and then just wheeled out to, to teach us the ABCs and

00:21:09.720 then sent back into their, into their layer or whatever. That's what, that's what I figured.

00:21:13.080 I didn't even, I didn't think about their private lives at all. I'd assume they didn't have them

00:21:16.700 because they were just my teachers. They didn't sit down to talk about their marital problems or

00:21:23.140 anything like that. Um, why do you need to talk about it? Well, here's the answer.

00:21:30.680 Um, it's, um, for these, these teachers taking the LGBT stuff, putting it all the way to the side

00:21:38.240 for a lot of these teachers now that what they're doing, it's, it's, it's, everything is self-focused

00:21:44.920 as we always talk about with leftism. Everything comes back to the self.

00:21:49.840 The entire worldview is turned in on itself and it's nothing but just a, it's a, it's a fun house,

00:21:55.720 you know, hall of mirrors and everything just reflects back to them. So teaching,

00:22:01.760 um, certainly for, for the mentality of a leftist, teaching is not about the kids. It's not about

00:22:09.340 relaying information on whatever subject you're teaching. It's about you. And so it's unthinkable

00:22:15.760 that you would not be able to put yourself into it and talk about yourself. That's the main thing

00:22:20.980 they want to talk about. You think that you're sending your kids to school to learn the ABCs

00:22:26.880 and the one, two, threes, but really, uh, as far as the teachers are concerned, you're learning,

00:22:30.240 you're sending them to school to learn about the teachers. And as they're talking about themselves

00:22:36.000 incessantly, maybe they'll throw in, um, a little bit of two plus two here and there.

00:22:44.020 It is unthinkable to them that maybe it's not about you. That weirdo that we just saw, 0.87

00:22:51.400 like it's who, it's not about you. No one is sending their kid to kindergarten to learn about

00:22:57.600 you. Nobody cares about you. The parents don't care that the kids, it's not about you. That's not

00:23:04.100 why they're there. This is not story time with Mr. Whoever. All about his life.

00:23:13.960 Just keep yourself out of it. Keep personal life out of it.

00:23:18.620 Even though there's no law stopping you from talking about your personal life, maybe there

00:23:22.340 should be. You know what? Maybe that's, maybe that should be the consequence. All of these idiots

00:23:29.860 claiming that this law has been passed, stopping them from talking about their personal lives, 1.00

00:23:34.100 if I was in charge, the consequence would be, you know what? That law doesn't exist,

00:23:38.300 but now we're going to make one. Cause that apparently is the law you want to argue against.

00:23:43.420 So here, I'll give you something to cry about. Yeah. How about a law for all teachers? Just,

00:23:47.480 you're not allowed to talk about your personal lives at all. All you're allowed to talk about

00:23:50.460 is the subject and that's it. It doesn't matter what's going on in your personal life. Can't talk

00:23:55.380 about it. Talk about the subject. If that's unthinkable to you, if that's some horrifying

00:24:00.360 possibility, then go do something else with your life. 0.99

00:24:07.780 If you cannot separate your damned ego from your job as a teacher, then please go do something else. 1.00

00:24:15.560 We don't need you. 1.00

00:24:16.400 All right. Let's move on to Joe Biden yesterday, signed the anti-lynching act. And before we talk

00:24:27.520 a little bit more about this anti-lynching act, let's, let's listen to Joe Biden who, you know,

00:24:31.340 he's, he's had just one bad day after another politically. And it's been his entire tenure

00:24:38.500 has been a succession of bad days where it only seems somehow to get worse and worse. And you think

00:24:43.600 it couldn't possibly get worse than the next day it is worse. Um, so he was very excited to have,

00:24:48.260 um, a crowd pleasing moment like this, where you could get up and bravely take a stand against

00:24:55.380 lynching. And let's listen to that a little bit. It was over a hundred years ago in 1900,

00:25:02.580 North Carolina representative named George Henry White, the son of a slave, the only black lawmaker

00:25:07.600 in Congress at the time who first introduced legislation to make lynching a federal crime.

00:25:14.000 Hundreds, hundreds of similar bills have failed to pass over the years. Several federal hate crime

00:25:21.560 laws were enacted, including one I signed last year to combat COVID-19 hate crimes, but no federal law,

00:25:29.780 no federal law, expressly prohibited lynching. None until today.

00:25:34.540 How brave. How, no, no, first of all, I know that I'm not, I'm the last guy to make fun of anybody for

00:25:40.180 their pronunciations, but at the same time he did say hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of laws have not

00:25:46.960 passed. Um, he says no federal law has expressly forbid lynching. That's technically true because of the 1.00

00:25:57.140 word expressly, but there are federal laws that do in fact prohibit lynching, even if it's not

00:26:04.700 expressly, doesn't need to be expressly stated because we do have a, we have a federal hate crime

00:26:12.860 laws where if you commit a violent act against someone, um, for racist reasons, that's a federal

00:26:20.980 hate crime. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't, whatever the violent act is. So yeah, as it stands

00:26:27.940 right now, until this lynching law came on, maybe it didn't specify every possible violent act you

00:26:33.480 could pot, you could commit. If you commit a violent racist act of punching someone, if you stab them,

00:26:38.780 if you shoot them, if you drown them, like, do we, do we need to specify each individual thing that 0.95

00:26:45.040 you might do? No, it's, it's racist violence is already a federal hate crime and lynching very 0.69

00:26:54.060 much falls under that umbrella. Like it's, it's in that category, 100%. So if prior to this law,

00:27:01.060 you had gone and lynched somebody, you would be going to prison forever as a murderer. And you would

00:27:08.240 also be hit with hate crime charges, um, provided that this was done, you know, it was racially motivated.

00:27:15.040 So that was already the case, already the case. Um, but it, it, it didn't really come up because

00:27:22.360 you might think, well, uh, when's the last time someone, uh, you say that somebody could be

00:27:26.980 prosecuted as a, for federal hate crimes in the past or for committing a lynching, but when's the

00:27:31.660 last time that happened? Well, it's been a really long time because it's been a really long time since

00:27:37.180 anyone has lynched anybody else. It's been decades and decades. And the last, the most recent occasion,

00:27:44.560 I think was in the early eighties. If I remember correctly, I looked this up in the past and even

00:27:48.680 that was an isolated incident that was, uh, uh, shocking because it had been decades and decades

00:27:55.440 before it happened in the, before that. So in the last like 50 years, how many people have been lynched?

00:28:03.920 Um, uh, a few and none in the last 30 or 40

00:28:09.360 doesn't make it okay. Obviously doesn't mean that because it hasn't happened, it should be legal.

00:28:16.560 But the good thing is it wasn't, it was already a crime on every level. It's like on every level

00:28:23.380 of government, it was already a crime. Now it's just a crime a second time.

00:28:26.800 Um, and, uh, but that will make no effective difference whatsoever. But here's, you know,

00:28:32.100 I've, I've made this point about this anti-lynching bill and this totally like cynical. You want to

00:28:39.380 talk about cynicism? I think there could be no better example of it than this.

00:28:47.620 Making this big show of, of, uh, you know, prohibiting a crime that was already prohibited

00:28:55.020 and that nobody is committing anyway. So a cynical virtue signaling ploy. And yeah,

00:29:04.460 we're used to that from the left. We're used to that from the Democrats. Obviously Joe Biden is

00:29:08.300 going to take any thing like this that he can get, um, any softballs that you lob to him. He's going

00:29:16.120 to, he's going to go ahead and take them and he'll still, you know, he'll still whiff on a lot of the

00:29:21.220 softballs, but yeah, he'll appreciate it. But why did the Republicans go along with this?

00:29:26.660 This only happened because almost every Republican in Congress in both the house and the Senate,

00:29:32.880 with the exception of three or four went along with this, even though they all knew that this

00:29:40.560 was totally absurd. And the only reason this is being done is to give Joe Biden a chance to

00:29:45.480 virtue signal. And every Republican, almost every Republican Congress, Congress went along

00:29:49.300 with this in order, in order to give Joe Biden a chance to virtue signal and not only virtue signal,

00:29:55.920 but cynically exploit racial tensions, actual hate crimes. I mean, you know, treating actual lynching,

00:30:03.940 which never occurs anymore, but it turns into this political pawn and Republicans went along with it.

00:30:10.800 And why did they go along with it? Well, because as I've been reminded, when I've complained about

00:30:16.300 this, oh, well, well, if they didn't, they would have been called racist. Oh, not that.

00:30:22.280 Oh, certainly. I mean, uh, yeah, well go, go along with whatever the left wants. So, uh, because

00:30:26.440 otherwise they'll call you racist. Yeah. The only problem is that even if you do go along with them,

00:30:31.800 they still call you racist. Is there any Democrat, have you heard a single Democrat giving props to

00:30:36.680 Republicans and saying, Hey, you know what? Maybe these guys aren't as bad as I thought. They're not

00:30:39.720 actually racist. They they're against lynching too. Look, they signed the bill or they, they voted for

00:30:43.560 the bill. Is any Democrat doing that? No, you're still a racist Nazi in their minds. It makes no

00:30:50.040 difference. Vote for the bill or don't you're, you're racist either way. So why, why go along with

00:30:57.220 it? You know, a better approach would be for every Republican to refuse to go along and then to

00:31:05.780 explain why to just explain it as I've explained it. It's not hard to do.

00:31:12.860 You know, with Republicans, there's 1.00

00:31:14.420 so much of their story can be explained by their own cowardice, of course, and their own stupidity, 1.00

00:31:22.660 but also their belief that, that we are stupid, that most of us are stupid. 1.00

00:31:30.660 And yeah, there are plenty of stupid people out there, but I think the American people in general 1.00

00:31:38.520 are capable of understanding like basic concepts. So, um, you could just explain, Hey, listen, 1.00

00:31:47.100 it won't take, it takes like 30 seconds to say, Hey, we're not signing this bill. Uh, this is a cynical

00:31:51.660 ploy on their part. Lynching is already illegal. It's already a federal hate crime too. And, and so that's

00:31:57.940 why we're not signing. We're not going along with this. In fact, we're, we find it outrageous that

00:32:01.460 they're, they're, they're doing this in the first place. Is that so hard to say?

00:32:09.480 Um, but of course, Republicans always, uh, always eagerly, you know, sort of digging dirt on their

00:32:15.800 own graves. All right. We move now to, uh, the slap gate, some updates on that. First of all,

00:32:23.960 I just thought this was interesting, interesting from the daily star. You know, there are people

00:32:26.860 who are not giving up on this, uh, idea that the whole thing was staged. And so the daily star has

00:32:32.460 this Will Smith's brutal smack of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscar ceremony was a choreographed Hollywood

00:32:38.880 display. One body language expert says celebrity psychic and body language expert in ball honingman

00:32:45.620 has explained that the incident comes off as a back slapping display, which saw the two men appear

00:32:51.740 dignified and leisurely, at least on the surface, dignified, dignified and leisurely. And I only

00:32:58.520 saw this because people were sharing as I see, you see, it's a, it's all a, this was all a stunt.

00:33:03.020 It's all a conspiracy. I am glad that this woman is a body language expert and psychic because those

00:33:09.220 two things are truly the same. I mean, they're both an absolute scam, but these body language

00:33:14.180 experts, well, you see when he, uh, he moved, he twitched his finger in a certain way, which means 0.88

00:33:18.700 that he's thinking about this, like, shut up. Do you, I've, I've already addressed this, but

00:33:24.520 somehow, I mean, of all, of all the dumb conspiracy theories, this one somehow annoys me the most just 0.99

00:33:31.640 because it is so stupid and you have to have absolutely no understanding of human nature and 0.99

00:33:36.460 especially of what makes a celebrity sort of tick to, to go to think that this was a stage play. 1.00

00:33:43.540 You think that we've talked about how Will Smith would never, as serious as these people take

00:33:50.240 themselves, he would never go along with something that's going to overshadow his own Oscars win

00:33:56.720 and cause career damage to him. Um, he would, for the sake of a stunt that some producer at the Oscars

00:34:06.840 pitched to him. But so that's clear, but Chris Rock, you think Chris Rock is going to volunteer to be

00:34:12.540 slapped in the face on television, a moment that will, will live in, uh, Hollywood infamy that,

00:34:21.880 that anytime you think of Chris Rock for the rest of your life, anytime his name comes up forever,

00:34:27.820 that is going to be front and center is getting slapped in the face.

00:34:32.500 And Chris Rock agreed to that. He agreed that, you know what? I want my whole legacy to be getting

00:34:37.600 slapped in the face for the sake of, of this Oscars bit. Um, because I, that's how much I care about

00:34:43.420 Oscars ratings. I'm going to, I'm going to throw my whole career on the burn pile and, um, be, be

00:34:50.680 totally disgraced in front of the entire world so that the Oscars get better ratings. Come on guys,

00:34:56.860 just stop with that. Okay. No, no, nobody would do that, especially not a celebrity at an, at the Oscars.

00:35:07.600 Um, these are not people known for self-deprecation, especially not self-deprecation to that extent

00:35:14.400 absurd. Um, but you know, after all this happened, um, it, it, there's a, the sort of the silence is

00:35:23.120 deafening because there were a lot of celebrities there who watched this all happen and very few of

00:35:28.200 them are speaking out. Um, the one guy we've heard is Jim Carrey. He was on a CBS yesterday. Let's listen

00:35:33.380 a little bit of this and him reacting to the, uh, to the slap. What did you think as you watched it

00:35:38.620 unfold? And then what happened after? I was sickened. I was sickened by the standing ovation.

00:35:44.840 I felt like Hollywood is just spineless on mass. And, uh, it just, it really felt like, oh, this is

00:35:53.480 a really clear indication that, uh, we're not the cool club anymore. There was some question today

00:35:58.960 about if anyone else had walked from the audience and done that, they would have been escorted out

00:36:03.360 by security or maybe even arrested. The police asked, asked Chris to file charges. They asked

00:36:09.940 Chris, do you want to file charges? And Chris apparently said, no, he did not. He doesn't want

00:36:14.220 the hassle. I, I had, I had for announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million

00:36:20.440 because that video is going to be there forever. It's going to be ubiquitous. You know, that insult

00:36:26.320 is going to last a very long time. If you want to yell from the audience and disapprove or show a

00:36:32.820 disapproval or say something on Twitter or whatever, you know, you do not have the right to, to walk up

00:36:37.960 on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words. Yeah. I mean, everything you said,

00:36:42.780 of course, is completely reasonable. And by the way, as I'm listening to this, I'm thinking about

00:36:46.580 the tragedy of Twitter because Twitter kind of gives you an insight into people's mindsets, um,

00:36:54.780 and, and who they, they really are. And that view is often quite discouraging, um, for a lot of

00:37:02.400 people. So Jim Carrey, for example, you know, if, if not for Twitter, all I would know about him is the

00:37:08.580 movies I've seen him in. And then like an interview like that, where he comes off as a really

00:37:12.560 reasonable guy. And I would think, well, okay, he's just a reasonable, sane, you know, dignified

00:37:18.460 guy. It seems like, um, but then, but then he's on Twitter all the time, especially during,

00:37:25.920 during Trump's tenure, like ranting about Trump. He's got all, he's making all these obscene

00:37:30.440 paintings of Trump and posting them just coming off like a total fruitcake, uh, that if not for

00:37:37.320 Twitter, we wouldn't know about that side of him at all. There are so many people in the public light

00:37:41.820 that it's, it's like that if not for Twitter, there's this whole ugly side of them that if not

00:37:47.560 for that, we wouldn't even know it existed. And our impression of this person would be completely

00:37:52.860 different. Um, anyway, but what he said there, of course, right. It's, it doesn't, it shouldn't take

00:38:00.200 courage to stand up and say that like, yeah, you can't get up from your seat in the middle of

00:38:05.660 an award ceremony and slap a comedian in the face. Cause he made a joke. He didn't like,

00:38:10.520 but as basic as that concept is just to show you the cowardice in Hollywood, no one else is saying it.

00:38:20.100 I think there were a few celebrities who originally tweeted about it and said that they disapproved and a

00:38:24.180 lot of them deleted it afterwards. And when it comes to the A-listers, as far as I know,

00:38:29.600 if we can call Jim Carrey, Nate Lister still, he's the only one who's come out and say, yeah,

00:38:34.700 you know what? I am opposed to getting up at an award ceremony and slapping a comedian.

00:38:39.300 Cause he made a joke. I didn't like, I'm, I'm opposed to that. Count me in the anti column for

00:38:43.260 that one. Just suffocating, overwhelming cowardice in Hollywood. And after all the virtue signaling

00:38:53.720 they did prior to this, you know, uh, we're standing for Ukraine, we're standing for the

00:38:59.680 rights of, uh, for human rights and all this kind of stuff. And, and then they watch a violent

00:39:05.800 incident in their own midst and they all, they all shrink away. They all wilt like little flowers

00:39:13.980 because when, when it's something happening, yeah, they could stand there and say, F you Putin

00:39:20.200 cause you're in Hollywood and that's happening thousands of miles away. And it's really easy to

00:39:26.460 say, but when it's in your own, when it's happening right next to you, you can't say anything

00:39:33.220 cause you're too afraid. Um, all right, let's move. We do it. I want to make sure we have time

00:39:39.880 for this representative Madison Cawthorne is a Republican. He made a claim in a podcast interview

00:39:45.920 that has provoked mostly mockery from both left and right, but it's a pretty notable claim that

00:39:54.180 he made. So I think it's worth listening to. Let's do that. Kevin Spacey and I forget who else

00:40:00.060 was in it. Um, but anyway, really well done show, very well done show, but it was so dirty and it was

00:40:06.420 about this, uh, congressman, uh, who was Kevin Spacey, who was, I think it was minority or majority

00:40:13.600 whip. What was it? Yeah. And so anyway, very, very powerful guy. And it was just kind of like

00:40:19.500 his secret life of all this corruption and power and money and perversion. And it was just dirty.

00:40:27.160 How much in your opinion, cause you're, you've been behind the veil. Is this a fictitious show

00:40:36.780 or is this more closer to like a documentary? Is it that bad? So I heard a former president that

00:40:44.000 we had in the nineties was asked the question about this and he gave an answer that I thought

00:40:48.800 was so true. And he said, the only thing that's not accurate in that show is that you could never

00:40:53.640 get a piece of legislation about, uh, about education passed that quickly. And everything

00:40:58.960 else is good. Aside from that, I mean, the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean,

00:41:03.480 it being kind of a young guy in Washington with the average age of probably 60 or 70.

00:41:08.480 And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I've looked up to through my

00:41:11.400 life. I've always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of a sudden you get

00:41:15.080 invited to like, well, Hey, we're going to have kind of a, a sexual get together at one of our

00:41:19.260 homes. You should come. And I'm like, what, what did you just ask me to come to? And then you 0.81

00:41:24.140 realize they're asking you to come to an orgy, uh, or the fact that, you know, there's some of the

00:41:27.620 people that are leading on the movement to try and remove, you know, addiction in our country. And then you

00:41:32.820 watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you. How old is Madison? He, he, he looks like

00:41:41.300 he's 17. How old is he actually? Um, but that's not really the point. He says, first of all, he says

00:41:47.620 that a house of cards was a really well done show, which that we know is an absolute false narrative

00:41:52.880 as not as a terrible show is horrible. Um, and then, and then he says that he's been invited to

00:41:59.700 orgies in, in Congress and you, you try not to even, and then, and then your mind starts like

00:42:08.100 immediately you start thinking about who we have in Congress. And, uh, it's, it's quite disturbing

00:42:13.760 and horrifying and to stop yourself from vomiting. You, you, you, your mind has to, has to cut it off

00:42:20.620 there. Um, like who exactly is involved in these orgies? I, I, I don't want to know. Now he says that

00:42:26.780 he's been invited to a, a sexual get together. And I, I will admit now I've never been in this

00:42:36.640 environment before, so I don't know, but I, I'm, I'm skeptical that if you were going to be invited 0.92

00:42:44.860 to an orgy, somebody would say to you, Oh, would you like to come to a sexual get together? Is that, 0.94

00:42:49.120 is that really how it would be phrased? You might as well just say orgy at that point, say, Hey, 0.98

00:42:54.680 I'm going to send you an RSVP on there. Hey, I sent you an invitation to that orgy. Did you, 0.99

00:42:58.360 I didn't get the RSVP yet. Is there any, Oh, it's my email. Okay. I'll check. Is that how it goes?

00:43:02.300 Is it that direct? A sexual get together? Or maybe it's just, Hey, would you, we're having a get

00:43:08.140 together in my house. What kind of get together? Oh, it's a sexual one. Yeah. Sexual. A little bit

00:43:12.160 of drugs too. I don't know. That's, I didn't think that the, that it would necessarily go that way or

00:43:17.680 that that's how they would talk about it. Um, but at the same time, so the fact that he phrased it

00:43:24.660 this way and tied it to house of cards is being used to dismiss the entire claim, but there's no

00:43:30.660 doubt. Number one, as he says, plenty of sexual perversion in Congress. We, we certainly know that.

00:43:38.380 I mean, there were members of Congress, one in particular, it comes to mind who was having

00:43:44.220 like threesomes with her own staff members. So that sort of thing definitely happens. 0.96

00:43:49.980 Now, whether Katie Hill invited people by saying, would you like to come to a sexual get together? 1.00

00:43:54.340 Uh, at my house this evening, you know, that's, that's sort of semantics, 0.99

00:43:58.300 but there's no question that the sexual perversion is there, that these are all a bunch of degenerates, 0.99

00:44:03.820 no doubt about that. And also it's interesting. I saw someone make this point on Twitter, um, 0.99

00:44:08.900 that the people who are laughing hysterically at the claim that members of Congress would engage in

00:44:14.820 this kind of activity. Uh, these are the exact people who took as fact right away and had no

00:44:22.280 skepticism about the claim that Brett Kavanaugh was the ringleader of some sort of gang of, 0.78

00:44:28.920 of, uh, of serial rapists and that he would go to rape parties.

00:44:32.520 That to them was totally credible. They thought that was the fact that some of these claims were

00:44:38.780 being filtered through Michael Avenatti, no problem to them. And yet this claim is somehow

00:44:46.540 beyond the pale. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Let's move now to the comment section.

00:44:51.340 Who's bringing shopping carts back to the rightful place. We're becoming saints here in the sweet

00:45:01.320 baby gang. A few comments here about, uh, the daily cancellation yesterday, where we talked about

00:45:08.500 the, uh, how we're pathologizing grief. Now grief is now a, a medical disorder, a mental disorder,

00:45:15.780 according to the pharmaceutical industries, psychiatric industry, who coincidentally

00:45:20.080 stand to make billions of dollars in profits, additional profits by medicalizing, uh, yet

00:45:26.640 another aspect of the human condition. So some people reacted to that. Debbie says,

00:45:30.200 my father died five years ago. My mom, 12 months ago. I cry when I think of them both. No way I'm

00:45:35.440 taking drugs to get over it. B Barrett says, grief is always going to be a part of us. We don't get

00:45:40.180 over it. We learned to perform our day-to-day activity while carrying it. Another one says it's

00:45:46.840 been over two decades and I still feel the grief processing. The feelings takes longer and becomes

00:45:51.360 more difficult to live with when we avoid feeling it fully and sorting through all the negative

00:45:56.480 emotions. And this has got a lot of comments like that, um, from people who've experienced real loss

00:46:04.580 in their life, spouses, children, parents, that sort of thing. And, um, what everyone that consensus

00:46:12.580 seems to be that you don't really, you never get over it in the sense of you just go back to normal

00:46:17.920 like the person never existed. You wouldn't want to get over it in that way. You just, you learn to

00:46:21.540 live with it. You carry it with you, but you're always going to be sad. I mean, God forbid you lose

00:46:24.920 a child. There's never going to be a time you'd be 50 years later. There's not going to be a time

00:46:28.580 when it doesn't make you profoundly, deeply, uh, devastatingly sad to think about. And you just

00:46:36.360 carry, but you, you carry it with you and you, and you continue living. So there are ways that the

00:46:42.700 problem though, is that, um, well, there are many problems, but one of them is that we've decided the

00:46:51.720 only way to help people now is through drugs. And so if you come out against using drugs to solve

00:47:00.320 a problem, then automatically what you're saying in the minds of a lot of people is that you don't

00:47:06.080 want to help at all. That you don't think these people should be helped, but no, that's not the

00:47:11.240 case. There are many ways to help someone in grief. Now you can't take it away. You can't take their

00:47:16.520 grief away because you can't take away the cause of the grief, which is the absence of this person

00:47:21.920 that they loved. Um, but you can help them to live with it. And you do that through counseling,

00:47:29.660 support groups, being there for them. I mean, just like these human interactions like this,

00:47:33.860 this is what is causing the pain is the loss of a human connection, someone that they cared about

00:47:38.420 deeply. And so if you're going to help them through it, what they need is a human connection,

00:47:41.720 not a damn drug. How is this any different by the way? How is this any different? Like you might 0.96

00:47:48.560 as well just prescribe to someone in grief that they go home and drink a bottle of whiskey.

00:47:53.060 It's the same thing. And I can understand if I lost someone really close to me, um, I'm sure I'd be

00:47:58.140 very tempted to respond to it in that way, but that's just, you're trying to numb the pain,

00:48:02.940 which is a human instinct. It's understandable.

00:48:07.020 That's all it is. You put it in the form of a drug and you, you make a fancy pharmaceutical

00:48:11.060 commercial for it and you have Pfizer or somebody selling it and all of a sudden it's a different

00:48:15.940 concept. No, it's not. You know, a pill is no more a medicine for grief or despair than a bottle of

00:48:24.820 alcohol is. They both effectively do the same thing, which is to numb you to it,

00:48:30.540 but they don't solve it or make it go away. Um, octarian war criminal says we have officially

00:48:40.380 found Matt's worst shirt. Sweet daddy walls truly has disappointed us today. How dare you says I would

00:48:46.540 condone Will Smith slapping Matt for wearing that shirt. And then I guess I don't have to keep

00:48:53.460 reading these comments. A lot of people, this was, this seemed to be another consensus agreement is

00:48:58.500 that the shirt I wore yesterday, I thought it was a nice shirt for the shirt was very disturbing to a

00:49:02.080 lot of people, I guess, because maybe it kind of blended in with my, with my skin tone. It was not

00:49:07.800 my intention to wear a nude colored shirt, but I guess that's how it came off on a, so when you first

00:49:15.420 clicked on the episode, you saw me and it looked like I was just wearing no clothes at all, but you know

00:49:18.760 what? And a lot of people are recoiling in horror at that thought, but, but that, that number one is

00:49:23.980 body shaming to me. So what if I was doing the show without any clothes on? You know, you can't

00:49:29.540 complain about that without body shaming. No, I thought it was a great shirt. Uh, Savvy Moon says,

00:49:35.020 Matt, that shirt you're wearing today is very nice. Okay, good. Thanks for got one. Me and this one

00:49:39.760 person, we agree on the shirt and you know what happens now. I mean, you know what happens. You

00:49:44.720 complain about a shirt that I wore. You say it was ugly. It's disturbing. It's giving you nightmares.

00:49:48.340 What does that mean? It just means I'm going to wear it a lot more now. You've done this to

00:49:52.460 yourself. Well, the left has infiltrated every facet of the entertainment industry, including

00:49:56.400 sports. Athletes kneel out of worship to the prevailing woke ideology and virtue signal. Um,

00:50:01.880 and they are doing all these things, of course, with some exceptions, like NBA star Jonathan Isaac,

00:50:06.660 who, despite facing heavy criticism from the media for his views on social issues and vaccines

00:50:10.500 over the past few years, stood strong while everybody else was on their knees, which is why I'm

00:50:14.620 extremely excited to announce that he's decided to write a book with The Daily Wire called

00:50:17.560 Why I Stand. Jonathan's book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey

00:50:21.880 into faith, and his strength to stand alone in the face of immense pressure. The book

00:50:25.520 is available for pre-order now at Amazon, so go reserve your copy today. Now let's get

00:50:29.800 to our daily cancellation.

00:50:34.640 So it's with great pleasure today that I canceled Jon Stewart. Now, Jon Stewart actually has a

00:50:39.440 show which streams on Apple TV and which generates enthusiasm and public interest about on the

00:50:43.680 level with the WNBA game. If you're like the average person, you probably didn't even know

00:50:47.320 that the show existed. The last you heard from Stewart was probably several months ago when he

00:50:51.160 went viral for criticizing some aspects of the mainstream COVID narrative. I think it was last

00:50:56.040 year, and he earned many high fives and backslaps from the right for this moment of lucidity.

00:51:01.060 Oh, that Jon Stewart, conservatives said, he's not woke like other liberals. He's one of the good

00:51:06.460 ones, you know. This is a familiar process. Someone on the left says something mildly sane and then is

00:51:11.860 immediately valorized by the right as a champion of truth and common sense. He's baptized, usually

00:51:16.880 against his will, as an honorary conservative, even as 99.9% of his worldview still remains firmly

00:51:22.640 planted on the left end of the political spectrum. The next step in the process is inevitable. The

00:51:27.940 newly christened conservative hero proceeds shortly after this fleeting episode of rationality to go back

00:51:33.780 to far left talking points. And then he is once again demonized by the same conservatives who two

00:51:38.140 seconds before were ready to canonize him. Around and around we go, nothing ever changes. On that note,

00:51:43.720 here is Jon Stewart on his Apple TV show talking to his viewers about, or rather to his viewer,

00:51:49.400 about the problem with white people. Listen.

00:51:53.160 For however sincerely we want to reckon and listen, the truth is America has always prioritized

00:52:01.140 white comfort over black survival. Black people have had to fight so hard for equality that they've been

00:52:10.120 irreparably set back in the pursuit of equity. And any real attempt to repair a ton of that damage,

00:52:23.280 reparation, sets off white people's, they're coming for our alarm, which we would know ourselves 1.00

00:52:34.400 had we actually been listening. My feeling is white people have a very, very serious problem, 1.00

00:52:43.940 and they should start thinking about what they can do about it. Take me out of it. 0.93

00:52:50.960 Understood. So what you can't see in that video because it's just out of frame is Ibram X. Kendi

00:52:58.060 standing there with a gun pointed right at Jon Stewart. At least I assume that's what's happening

00:53:02.100 because the whole thing has the look, sound, and feel of one of those Taliban hostage videos.

00:53:06.640 Only it's worse than that because the Taliban, to my knowledge, doesn't usually castrate the hostage

00:53:10.640 before filming the video. Stewart, on the other hand, sits there like a docile, gelding,

00:53:15.860 head bowed, meekly whispering, understood, after a black woman declares that everything is the fault of 0.99

00:53:20.580 white people. Later in the episode, Stewart brought on a panel of fellow self-hating whites to talk 0.98

00:53:26.220 about some more about how awful white people are. There was one man involved in the conversation, 0.97

00:53:31.100 Andrew Sullivan, who had the gumption to suggest that perhaps white people are not necessarily spawns

00:53:36.160 of Satan, and that maybe, in fact, there might even be some good things about America and American

00:53:40.540 history and white people. These outrageous claims were dutifully shouted down by Stewart and the

00:53:45.560 other panelists. Listen to that.

00:53:48.200 You're not living on the same f***ing planet we are. Honestly. I really don't think you are. 0.81

00:53:54.260 I think you are not living in the planet most Americans are, which is why this kind of extremism,

00:54:02.120 this anti-white extremism, is losing popular support, is creating a backlash, is going to

00:54:10.260 elect Republicans and undo a lot of the good you think you're doing. This is what happens when you

00:54:15.020 don't talk about it. This is what happens when white people don't talk about it, is you have

00:54:20.140 racist dog-whistle tropes like this that actually perpetuate and perpetuate and perpetuate. 0.82

00:54:26.500 So I am, and I did not come on this show to sit here and argue with another white man. That's

00:54:34.100 one of the reasons that we don't even engage with white men at race to dinner.

00:54:39.880 So, you know, because quite honestly, if white men were going to do something about racism,

00:54:45.840 you had 400 years. You could have done that.

00:54:50.360 Oh, she's not going to engage with white men. She went on a white man's show to sit on a panel with 1.00

00:54:57.200 white men, but she doesn't want to talk to white men. She hates white men. She despises them. 1.00

00:55:01.680 She doesn't even think that they should be able to speak, and she feels comfortable vocalizing all

00:55:05.340 of this bigotry because she expects that she'll be applauded for it, and she was. But remember,

00:55:09.520 all of our systems are racist against black people, even though the only group of people you could 0.94

00:55:13.160 actually be openly racist against are white people, especially white men. Makes total sense. 0.87

00:55:17.780 If you're brain damaged or have single-digit IQ, which is precisely the demographic that critical 1.00

00:55:21.440 race theory appeals to the most. Now, the angry portly woman there with the bad haircut says that 1.00

00:55:26.840 white men should have already done something about racism. We had 400 years, she says.

00:55:32.660 To which you might point out that it was largely white men who abolished slavery.

00:55:37.360 White men didn't invent slavery, but they did abolish it. White men, in fact, are responsible 1.00

00:55:41.180 for many of the best things about our civilization. That's just a fact. White men have been busy, 1.00

00:55:45.100 you know, inventing modern science and building skyscrapers and fighting and dying in our wars

00:55:49.740 and defeating the Nazis, creating modern medicine, inventing cars, electricity, space travel,

00:55:53.480 antibiotics, writing the greatest novels and plays and poems in history. That's what white men have been up to. 1.00

00:55:57.600 But they're not worthy of even speaking to the bitter cat lady on the Jon Stewart panel. 0.93

00:56:03.020 She turns up her nose at the whole group. Be gone, she says. Well, okay, maybe we'll go,

00:56:08.000 but you better hope we don't take all our stuff with us on the way out the door because you're

00:56:10.920 not going to be left with much if we do. But hold on a second. She said that white men

00:56:15.840 had 400 years to do something about racism. Why 400 years specifically? I mean, what about,

00:56:21.680 and what about everybody else on earth? What was everyone else doing about racism?

00:56:27.100 Who exactly was fighting against racism 400 years ago? Well, she says 400 years ago because she's a

00:56:33.260 mindless disciple of the 1619 project. And she believes that racism was invented around that time

00:56:38.740 and that it was white people who invented it and only white people who ever engaged in it.

00:56:42.540 In reality, of course, racism has existed in the human species everywhere on earth,

00:56:46.800 in every population, everywhere since the dawn of civilization. Racism is just one form of tribalism.

00:56:54.380 It's a form of tribalism that still exists in the world today, in fact, and can be found in much

00:56:58.840 more virulent and violent forms in the parts of the world where white people are least present.

00:57:05.440 It's not just that there is racial and ethnic tribalism in Africa and Asia too. It's that there's a

00:57:10.220 whole hell of a lot more of it in those regions of the world, and it comes in a far more brutal

00:57:14.900 package. Now, going back in history, I asked earlier who exactly was fighting against racism

00:57:21.880 400 years ago. I'm not claiming that white men were, and they weren't, but who was? Well, the answer 1.00

00:57:27.820 is nobody. Not a soul on earth back in those days. The idea that all people should be treated equally

00:57:35.260 regardless of how they look or where they're from is an idea that simply did not exist anywhere in

00:57:40.500 the world 400 years ago. That idea had to be thought of and codified into law, and guess who

00:57:47.160 thought of it? That's right, white men. Now, granted, the white men who came up with the concept did not

00:57:52.720 actually apply it consistently because when it came down to it, they shared the flaws that were

00:57:56.980 ubiquitous in almost all human beings on earth at that time. But they certainly set the stage for

00:58:02.180 racial equality under the law. They put the framework in place. I'd say that's a pretty

00:58:07.240 significant achievement, even if it doesn't impress the panelists on Jon Stewart's show or Jon Stewart

00:58:12.380 himself. But who really cares? Because anyway, Jon Stewart is today canceled, and we'll leave it

00:58:20.040 there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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