The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 928 - Separation Of The Leftist Church And State

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, what is the left's real problem with the anti-groomer efforts in

00:00:04.320 Florida and across the country? It's that we're trying to get their religion out of the school 1.00

00:00:08.220 system, a separation of the leftist church and state, you might say. Also, the Biden administration

00:00:11.800 is claiming that inflation is Putin's price hike. We'll take a look at the data and see if that

00:00:16.040 claim holds up. Obviously, it doesn't. Plus, DeSantis puts policies in place to support

00:00:19.800 fatherhood in Florida, which has some leftists upset. And a male prisoner, first identified as

00:00:24.580 a woman and now identifies as a baby. And of course, that self-identity is being respected

00:00:28.940 by prison staff. In our daily cancellation, a libertarian magazine laments the lack of porn

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00:00:38.100 much more today on the Matt Wall Show. As we'll talk about in the show today, inflation, of course,

00:00:52.120 is out of control and it's been this way for a while now. Unfortunately, there's no end currently

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00:02:10.320 this, but a rather brilliant tweet from a trans activist went viral yesterday. It was brilliant,

00:02:14.900 of course, for none of the reasons that the activists intended, yet in an entirely unintentional

00:02:19.420 way. I think it raised a number of important points worth considering in greater depth. The post,

00:02:23.940 which has been liked nearly 100,000 times or so, says this in reference to the Florida anti-groomer

00:02:28.840 bill. I wonder how these conservatives would feel if we passed a law making it illegal to teach your

00:02:34.060 kids about religion until they were adults. And then the follow-up suggests a name for this

00:02:38.520 legislation, which would be the don't say Bible bill. Now, the problem here right off the bat is that

00:02:44.640 it is already illegal for a Christian teacher at a public school to teach their religion to the

00:02:50.680 students. A teacher cannot stand in front of the class and announce that Jesus Christ is Lord and

00:02:56.200 Savior and all students must affirm this fact on their next exam or else receive a failing grade.

00:03:02.100 Now, any teacher who did such a thing, and no teacher would do that or is doing anything like

00:03:06.640 that, but would be promptly fired and most likely sued, if not worse. If the Christian religion is 1.00

00:03:13.380 acknowledged at all in schools today, it is in the older grades as part of world history. The Bible

00:03:18.720 may be taught as literature, which makes sense given that it's the most influential book in the

00:03:23.060 history of the world. It's impossible to fully understand and appreciate much of classic literature

00:03:27.580 if you don't know anything about the Bible because so many of the themes and references and everything

00:03:31.560 come from the Bible. But even that is rarely done in modern schools now. The fact is that the

00:03:37.380 Christian religion, even as a simple fact of history and culture, has been all but erased from modern

00:03:43.480 curriculum. I don't say this because I think it ought to be that way. I don't. I'm simply saying that

00:03:48.120 it is that way, which negates the point made in the tweet. But as noted, the argument does raise

00:03:53.040 a couple of crucial points inadvertently, especially because this is certainly not the first time that

00:04:00.060 someone on the left has drawn this sort of comparison. And it's an enlightening comparison

00:04:04.440 because it, again, totally by accident, correctly situates LGBT ideology in its place as a religion in

00:04:12.040 its own right. It's a religion with its own sacred texts, its own priests and priestesses, its own traditions,

00:04:19.080 its own holy days of obligation, its own saints and martyrs, its own sacred symbols, its own notions of sin and

00:04:25.920 virtue, its own story of redemption. It has its own God, too, which is the God of the self. And it has its own sense of

00:04:33.760 the supernatural souls who get trapped in the wrong body and so forth. Very, a very, a very supernatural

00:04:40.720 spiritual kind of concept. In fact, you can't, you can't even begin, you can't understand gender 0.99

00:04:46.120 ideology at all because it's incoherent, but you can't even begin to understand it. You can't get

00:04:50.020 close to the proximity of understanding what they're trying to say unless you first understand that this

00:04:58.440 is a spiritual claim that they're making, that this is a, that this is a, this is a spiritual belief

00:05:03.160 system. And then you kind of get in the door and then you're confused because it all starts to break

00:05:09.120 down. But that's the kind of thing we're dealing with. Now, the difference is that the leftist religion,

00:05:15.960 except in Florida now, is taught in public school. Even in Florida, it can still be taught outside of the

00:05:22.040 earliest grades. And even in the earliest grades, it can still basically be taught. It's taught not just as

00:05:28.300 a cultural reality, but as an actual fact, that the children in school are required to affirm the

00:05:35.980 tenets of this religion. Now, I wouldn't have a problem actually with the kids learning at an

00:05:41.660 appropriate age about the LGBT religion as a cultural reality, like being made to understand

00:05:48.720 that the dominant religion in the culture you live is this, and here's what it teaches.

00:05:54.720 At a certain point, you do have to introduce your kids to that fact, not when they're in

00:05:59.140 kindergarten, but they are entering into a culture that is run according to this religion.

00:06:06.700 For their own sake, they should understand a few things about it. That's not what's happening in

00:06:10.780 schools. It's the, the tenets of the religion are to be affirmed by the kids. They're made to adopt

00:06:18.040 its language, observe its traditions, pay reverence to its holy figures. They're indoctrinated into the

00:06:25.900 faith. They're taught to work to worship its God, which is the self. Or more accurately, the God

00:06:30.460 they're made to worship is their idea of the self. Because in the leftist cult, you don't so much

00:06:35.500 worship your actual self as your deluded perception of yourself. You kind of worship what you want

00:06:41.800 yourself to be. Self-worship in the traditional sense is bad enough, but it's not even as bad as the sort

00:06:47.980 of self-worship that you find in the LGBT religion. Because the latter is a self-worship completely 1.00

00:06:52.720 severed from reality, from anything stabilizing or real. The adherent of this faith worships a self

00:07:00.640 that hardly even exists. Psychologically and spiritually, they're floating in an abyss,

00:07:06.880 untethered, disoriented, in despair, which is why there's so much despair, especially among kids. I was

00:07:13.760 just reading an article about how the number of kids who report that they have persistent feelings

00:07:22.640 of hopelessness and sadness. And if you look at a chart which measures this kind of thing, you're

00:07:30.320 going to see that number, that line going up and up and up year after year after year. With all the

00:07:37.280 recency bias that we have these days, people are going to look at that and see all the kids that are

00:07:41.660 reporting that they're feeling sad and hopeless and everything. And we're going to be told that

00:07:47.180 some of it's because of the pandemic and certainly the lockdowns didn't help. That was a factor which

00:07:54.540 only made the situation worse. But this is a trend that goes much farther back than that.

00:08:01.120 It's not normal, at least it shouldn't be. It is normal these days to have so many kids that are

00:08:05.920 feeling hopeless and sad all the time, but it should not be normal. That is not actually normal,

00:08:11.640 especially for kids. Why are they feeling that way? Because these are kids who have no sense of

00:08:18.660 direction, no sense of purpose. They're in that abyss, no sense even of themselves. This is the kind of

00:08:26.520 religious observance that the left is desperately trying to protect in schools. The schools have long 0.99

00:08:32.080 since become leftist religious institutions, like a bunch of bizarre, perverse Sunday schools, 0.97

00:08:37.180 basically, where the public schools are now. And that brings us to the second crucial point,

00:08:41.260 which was incidentally made by this enlightening argument. The left took over the school system

00:08:47.040 and turned them into their own parochial institutions at a time when conservatives were busy telling

00:08:53.080 themselves, ourselves, a story about this fanciful, entirely fictional thing called an unbiased education.

00:09:00.920 We tried to guard the neutrality of the education system, a neutrality that never existed and can't

00:09:06.980 exist, while the left was busy using the system to impart their own value system. Now we're finally

00:09:14.100 awake enough to be playing defense, trying to purge some of this leftist lunacy from the system,

00:09:19.840 which is good, but it is just defense. We will really be awake when we realize that there is no such

00:09:27.160 thing as a neutral education. We should not be trying to go back to the unbiased education that

00:09:33.880 never existed and can't exist. Instead, we should be educating our children into our own value system,

00:09:40.760 our own principles, our own, in this case, correct moral code. There is no such thing as education

00:09:48.320 divorced from values. Even an education imparted by robots couldn't achieve that because robots have to

00:09:55.120 be programmed by human beings. And as long as humans are involved, there will not be true neutrality.

00:10:02.420 In the case of the education system, there shouldn't be. The ultimate purpose of education,

00:10:07.260 after all, is not simply to impart information. Computers can do that. The purpose is, at the

00:10:13.480 most fundamental level, moral formation is to shape and guide our children. The left wants to shape them

00:10:20.300 into something deformed. Shape them into something shapeless and guide them into that abyss. It's our

00:10:28.680 job and we use education to do this, to point them in the right direction. Now let's get to our five

00:10:35.640 headlines. Well, talking about recency bias, here's a great example of it. The Biden administration

00:10:48.080 has settled on a name for inflation. And what they're calling it is, well, it's not inflation,

00:10:54.740 it's the Putin price hike. This is what they're going with. And they've market tested it, they've

00:11:00.420 focus grouped it, and they've decided this is what it is. It's all Putin's fault. It's the Putin price

00:11:04.900 hike. Here's Jen Psaki blaming all of the inflation we're experiencing right now on Putin. Listen.

00:11:12.420 So because of the actions we've taken to address the Putin price hike, we are in a better place than we 0.84

00:11:18.880 were last month. But we expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin's

00:11:28.100 price hike. And we expect a large difference between core and headline inflation reflecting the global

00:11:33.320 disruptions in energy and food markets. So core inflation doesn't include energy and food prices,

00:11:39.460 headline inflation does. And of course, we know that core inflation, you know, energy, the impact of

00:11:45.920 energy, of course, on oil prices, gas prices, we expect that to continue to reflect what we've seen

00:11:51.780 the increases be over the course of this invasion. And just as an example, since President Putin's

00:11:57.840 military buildup accelerated in January, average gas prices are up more than 80 cents. Most of the

00:12:02.680 increase occurred in the month of March. And at times, gas prices were more than a dollar above pre-invasion

00:12:08.860 level. So that roughly 25% increase in gas prices will drive tomorrow's inflation reading. And

00:12:14.420 certainly, it's not a surprise to us, but we certainly think it will be reflected.

00:12:20.640 So Putin's price hike is what drives inflation, we're being told. And when Putin, you know,

00:12:26.180 launched this current invasion, which was back, what, what, early March. So really, a few weeks ago.

00:12:33.040 So that's how I remember it, anyway. And I admit my memory is a little bit foggy these days.

00:12:40.580 But here's, here's the interesting thing. I found a chart yesterday, we'll put this up on the screen.

00:12:46.140 Here's a chart tracking inflation over the, over the last decade, going back to 2011. Now, again,

00:12:54.680 memory's foggy. I'm also, I'm not an economist. You know, I, I, that's why I don't, I don't,

00:12:59.200 I don't spend a lot of time talking about issues like inflation. Um, I, I leave that to people who

00:13:03.900 know a little bit more about these issues, but even so, I mean, maybe help me out here.

00:13:08.640 Um, did, so you can see the line, the, you can see a kind of inflation data and this is from the

00:13:14.060 labor department. This is, you know, they're the ones who comprise all this, uh, compile all this

00:13:18.300 data. And you can kind of see, I mean, the line that when the lines go up, that's bad, right? That

00:13:23.560 means inflation is, that means that's inflation rising. Am I, am I, am I right about that? Do I know that

00:13:27.760 much at least, even without a, you know, a degree in economics? So reading the graph,

00:13:34.600 you can start to see that upward trajectory really kick off like a real, and actually take

00:13:42.900 off like a rocket ship right at like the beginning of 2021. Is that when Putin began his, his current

00:13:49.680 invasion of Ukraine in the beginning? Was it like a year ago? That's not my memory.

00:13:55.300 What happened? I'm trying to think back. Huh? Look at that chart. So what, what happened at the

00:14:03.180 beginning of 2021? It wasn't, it wasn't Putin invading Ukraine for my memory, but there's

00:14:08.380 something else happened right around that time when you see that rocket ship take off to the moon.

00:14:14.420 And was that, oh yeah, that was, that was right when Biden took office. That's what the data tells

00:14:21.960 us. You could see that you could see it really began right when Biden took, right at that exact

00:14:27.780 moment. It almost seems like that's when inflation begins on the chart anyway. And they want us to

00:14:34.200 believe that this is Putin's fault. In fact, here's an article from Bloomberg in January this year. So this

00:14:41.620 was a couple of months before the invasion began. It says U.S. consumer prices soared last year by the

00:14:47.080 most in nearly four decades. So speaking of last year, 2021, sapping the purchasing power of American

00:14:53.340 families and setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to begin hiking interest rates as soon

00:14:56.500 as March. The consumer price index climbed 7% in 2021, the largest 12-month gain since June 1982.

00:15:03.060 According to Labor Department data released Wednesday, the widely followed inflation gauge rose 0.5%

00:15:08.480 from November, exceeding forecast. So this is from the beginning of January. They're saying the year

00:15:12.960 before consumer prices were soaring. And so this rise had already begun. And you see an almost,

00:15:24.520 when I say rise, it's like a vertical, it's pointed vertically all the way up. And that had begun,

00:15:31.520 you know, a year before, more than a year before Putin's invasion began. And they're hoping the 0.66

00:15:39.800 Biden administration thinks that we're all a bunch of morons. And they're hoping that we just forget 1.00

00:15:45.840 about everything that happened before this past March. They just forget about the fact that we were,

00:15:52.340 even if you don't follow the economy that closely, we were talking about inflation and problems with

00:16:00.520 inflation and gas prices rising before that. People were noticing it and feeling it before that.

00:16:07.060 They're hoping that we just forget about it. And the problem is that their hopes will not be entirely

00:16:15.740 in vain for a lot of people. And it's not because people are dumb. I mean, there are plenty of dumb 0.97

00:16:21.480 people out there, especially the ones that happen to vote Democrat. But also, we just, we have the 0.99

00:16:28.040 memories of fruit flies because we're so distracted and we're, there's, there's so many, you know,

00:16:32.680 we have so many informational inputs coming in all the time. And so you're, you're overwhelmed by

00:16:39.400 information every single day. And that's how we quickly forget things that happened even a few days

00:16:44.000 ago. And so it's never been easier for them to pull a trick like this, to take this phenomenon,

00:16:54.300 which had, which had begun before and to blame it on something that just happened.

00:17:01.780 And by the way, now I know that, you know, I said, when you look at the chart, that's just

00:17:05.920 looking at the chart, looking at the graph, you can see inflation, which really seems to have,

00:17:10.760 the current spike that we're in the middle of right now seems to have started around the time

00:17:14.580 when Biden took office. That's what the graphs tell us. Does that mean that Biden taking office

00:17:20.180 caused inflation? No, now Biden, Biden administration's policies have not helped.

00:17:24.580 They've only made it worse. But this also is not because of Joe Biden that we're having inflation

00:17:30.620 right now. You know, the Fed has been printing money, money hand over fist for years. And then you

00:17:42.900 could go back to when the lockdowns began. You know, when the lockdown started, they shut down the

00:17:47.960 economy. And then they started printing even more money and handing out checks to people,

00:17:54.260 whether they needed it or not. And when they started doing that two years ago, many of us,

00:18:01.560 because this, this is another thing that you didn't need to have a degree in economics to understand.

00:18:06.220 You shut down the economy, you start printing money, you start handing money out to people.

00:18:10.220 You're, you're, you are going to have, you're going to have to pay the price for that in a very

00:18:15.980 literal sense. Those chickens are going to come home to roost eventually. And I think a lot of

00:18:21.760 people thought that, well, they did all of this and then the economy kind of opened back, back up

00:18:26.000 again. And at first it seemed all right. And so I think people just thought, well, I guess we got

00:18:29.980 away with that one. No, there's a little bit of lag time. And right now the shutdown, the COVID shutdown

00:18:38.620 and the COVID stimulus chickens are coming home to roost. And that's a big part of what we're

00:18:43.660 experiencing right now. That was entirely foreseeable, which means it's not just Biden's

00:18:51.500 fault. It's also his fault. And it's also the Democrat party's fault, but, uh, the plenty of

00:18:55.720 Republicans were on board with this as well. All right, let's see. We also have this. I thought

00:19:04.080 this was, uh, this was interesting. So over in, uh, Saudi Arabia, they apparently have their own,

00:19:09.920 um, comedy sketch shows and that sort of thing. So this went viral yesterday. Here's a, here's some

00:19:15.960 sort of comedy sketch show in Saudi Arabia making fun of Joe Biden. This is how, you know, that we're

00:19:23.180 really being respected on the world stage. Remember when they told us that we got it, we got to get

00:19:27.140 rid of Trump. We got to get Biden in there so that we can be respected on the world stage again.

00:19:32.360 We're very worried about how we're perceived on the world stage. At least some people seem to be.

00:19:37.940 The media thinks that we should be concerned about that. Personally, I don't really care that much.

00:19:43.160 Um, I don't wake up a bit every day worried about how other countries see us. Doesn't that really

00:19:48.340 bother me? I don't, I don't care actually, but that was one of the arguments that we were given

00:19:53.280 for putting Biden in there is that we will be respected on the world stage again. So you watch

00:19:57.520 this and tell me, does it seem that we are being respected? Is this, is this what respect on the

00:20:02.820 world stage looks like? Let's, uh, let's watch. Thank you very much. Today we're going to talk

00:20:22.940 about the Christ in Spain. Yeah, we're going to talk about the Christ in Africa. Yeah, Russia. Yeah,

00:20:31.300 Russia. And I want to talk about the president of Russia, Putin. Yeah, Putin. Putin, listen to me.

00:20:41.060 I have very important message to you. The messages. And the president of China. Oh, he didn't

00:20:53.600 finish Russia? No, sir. Thank you to correct me, first lady. Damn. Thank you very much. God bless

00:21:03.100 you. And God bless. Thank you all. Hallelujah. Clap to your president. Clap to your president

00:21:11.100 right now. It's pretty good. That's better. It's better than SNL at least. That's a better

00:21:16.360 Biden impersonation than we get on SNL. Uh, and I got to say their Kamala is a dead ringer. Their 1.00

00:21:24.200 Kamala impersonator is, I'm pretty sure a man, but he's also a dead ringer for Kamala Harris. So

00:21:30.320 that's, that's how we are seen on the world stage. If you're worried about that, that's how they're,

00:21:34.780 that's how we're being perceived right now. Um, and although I said that I don't really care

00:21:39.700 how the world perceives us, um, I guess I should amend that slightly. It's not so much that I care

00:21:46.380 about being respected by other countries, whatever that would even mean. Um, but the perception does

00:21:54.020 matter just in the sense that if they, if they perceive, if other countries perceive that we are

00:22:00.000 being run by a dementia patient, if they perceive correctly that we're being run by a dementia

00:22:05.280 patient who is totally oblivious and has no idea what's going on. Well, that perception

00:22:10.880 on the world stage, especially by our enemies is a, is a national security crisis. So as it relates to

00:22:18.700 our national security, I guess I do care about that. I do care about the fact that, um, our enemies can

00:22:24.420 look and see that, um, this is who's driving the car right now. All right. This is from the daily

00:22:32.460 wire. It says Florida Republican governor, Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday to provide more

00:22:36.180 than $70 million to support fatherhood in his state. DeSantis penned the recently passed bill

00:22:41.360 during a live stream video on a Monday morning house bill 70 65 passed in the state Senate in March

00:22:47.220 unanimously following a 117 to zero unanimous vote in the house. The bill will require quote,

00:22:52.440 the department of children and families department of juvenile justice to identify and meet the needs

00:22:56.660 of duly involved children within a specified timeframe requiring prenatal and infant health

00:23:02.940 care delivery programs to include certain father engagement activities requiring the department of

00:23:06.700 children and families to contract for the development and implementation of the responsible

00:23:10.840 fatherhood initiative and to provide grants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to

00:23:15.620 offer certain mentorship programs, um, and designated the month of June as responsible fatherhood month.

00:23:22.440 Well, the month of June is already, I believe gay pride month. So, uh, but we, you know, now it's

00:23:27.940 going to be designated responsible fatherhood month. Maybe a little bit of an irony there. I don't,

00:23:33.480 I don't know. We won't get too deeply into it. Um, but I, I, I much prefer that. I think responsible

00:23:38.900 fatherhood month, you know, how about a whole year dedicated to that? And this is, um, this is an

00:23:44.340 important thing that they're doing down in Florida. I mean, it's, it's one important thing after

00:23:48.520 another kind of, um, batting a thousand right now at the moment with some of these policies and laws

00:23:54.380 that are going into effect. And yeah, you're not going to, you're not going to solve the fatherhood

00:23:58.580 crisis in America with, with $70 million. You're not going to solve it with any amount of money

00:24:04.020 whatsoever because at its base, the fatherhood crisis, the fatherless home crisis, which is

00:24:09.800 affecting all communities. And it's a problem that's not getting any better. Um, fundamentally,

00:24:15.500 that's a problem of men having kids and choosing not to stay home and raise their, their kids.

00:24:23.560 And it's not just men responsible for that either. It's also in many cases, women who decide that

00:24:31.420 their kids don't really need a father around. They don't need no man and so on. So this is a joint

00:24:36.440 effort between men and women to create fatherless homes and children are growing up in broken homes.

00:24:42.360 I think what's important about what they're doing in Florida and other states is at least it's,

00:24:48.100 it's just directing some of the attention to where it should go. And yeah, there's some money too,

00:24:54.520 and the money's fine. But the main thing I think even more than the money is attention is focusing

00:24:58.920 people's attention on this problem. Um, because we aren't going to solve anything. We're not going to

00:25:05.900 have any cultural societal improvements until we start at the home. And the fact is we've got

00:25:14.020 millions of kids being raised right now in homes without fathers. And it turns out that, um, kids

00:25:19.780 actually need their fathers just like they need their mothers. Parents, you know, we're not,

00:25:25.380 we're not interchangeable parts. The, the family unit is not like a Mr. Potato Head doll, which is not

00:25:32.220 even a Mr. Potato Head doll anymore. I guess it's just a potato head doll where you could just change

00:25:35.860 out the parts and everything and it's all, and it'll all be fine. The family is structured a

00:25:41.640 certain way by nature, by God. And if you get outside of that structure, there, there are serious

00:25:49.720 consequences. So it's good that we're, that we are focusing on that at least, or, or, or to the extent

00:25:57.840 that we can redirect our attention to that problem, uh, I think is a very good thing. You know, Tony

00:26:03.560 Dungy, by the way, was, uh, he's a former NFL coach. He was on hand for the signing because he's

00:26:09.540 been outspoken about this issue, um, about the problem of fatherless homes, which is really

00:26:14.100 important. And you need, you need men at that level with some kind of cultural credibility.

00:26:18.300 He's a guy with from, you know, coming from the NFL and everything talking about this problem.

00:26:23.360 So he was on hand for the signing, just kind of supporting the bill and, um, the left noticed

00:26:29.480 that and they were not happy about it. So, uh, a lot of big accounts on Twitter were attacking

00:26:35.000 Tony Dungy. The Palmer report, for example, says Tony Dungy revealed his true self a few

00:26:39.880 years ago when he said he wouldn't want an openly gay player on his team. So of course he's appearing 1.00

00:26:43.960 alongside anti-LGBT extremist Ron DeSantis. When people tell you who they are, believe them

00:26:49.000 the first time. David Dennis Jr. said Tony Dungy, exactly who we thought he was. Um, of course,

00:26:56.260 Keith Olbermann was very upset. Spoiler alert. I worked with him. Tony Dungy's reputation is not

00:27:02.340 spotless and his Michael Sam comments disqualified him from being considered an example of loving,

00:27:07.980 loving fatherhood and a lot of other tweets like that. Very upset at Tony Dungy because he's

00:27:15.480 associating himself with Ron DeSantis. And why is he associating himself with Ron DeSantis? Well,

00:27:21.140 just because there is a, actually in Florida, a bipartisan effort, it seems, to support fathers.

00:27:28.660 But you can't do that, especially if you're going to associate with Ron DeSantis at the same time.

00:27:32.920 I want to play this for you. So this was interesting. This is, um,

00:27:35.760 another contribution from, uh, Libs of TikTok. Well, 1.00

00:27:39.580 Libs of TikTok didn't contribute this, but at least, uh, found this and show this to us.

00:27:43.140 So here's a viral video of someone explaining why you should use her pronouns. Uh, but I think the

00:27:51.760 reason that we get is, is kind of interesting. Listen,

00:27:54.680 you got so close to the point and then ran away from it as soon as my boyfriend tried to explain

00:28:00.000 it to you. So try and explain more now, I guess the point is we want people to put in the emotional

00:28:07.220 effort to see us as we actually are, because what you've described is a situation where somebody

00:28:13.100 is memorizing pronouns rather than actually trying to see the person in a new light with

00:28:19.800 a new information. I don't want you to see me as a woman and then remember to use he,

00:28:24.980 him pronouns. I want you to see me as a dude, you know? And when it's a situation like I described in

00:28:31.100 this last video, I see it as you seeing them as a cis person and just taking the any pronouns as a

00:28:37.300 cop out to any of the emotional work. The point is empathy.

00:28:42.760 Do the emotional work. So that's, that's really important because this is always the case with

00:28:46.500 the left that we have to, we have to a certain point come to understand is that it's, it's never,

00:28:51.860 it always starts with this. So we're seeing the same, we've seen this, this same pattern over and

00:28:57.180 over again. And now we're seeing with a pronoun thing, which, yeah, it, it begins with the first

00:29:01.820 thing that they, that they ask. And initially they do pretend that they're just asking, uh, where

00:29:08.840 they say, well, you just, will you respect the way that I want to be identified? And it doesn't,

00:29:13.560 it doesn't mean I'm not encroaching on you. I'm not imposing anything on you, but just respect me.

00:29:18.480 And when you're talking about me, can you like, what, what is it, what is it to you? What's the big

00:29:22.960 deal? I, you know, I have a certain, a certain word that I prefer. And why can't you just use that

00:29:28.020 word? No big deal. Right. And, um, they start that way. They start by asking. And then we

00:29:35.440 graduate very quickly to telling, oh no, I'm not asking anymore. I'm demanding it. And if you don't

00:29:41.580 do, as I say, then, you know, if you're in Canada, for example, you might go to jail for it. So we're

00:29:46.920 going to put laws in place and they're advocating for laws like that in the United States, anti-conversion

00:29:52.380 therapy laws, because now to misgender someone by using their biologically correct pronoun,

00:29:56.680 that's conversion therapy. So you've got to, you know, we're going to, there'll be legal penalties

00:30:00.100 for that. And if there aren't legal penalties, then we're going to, we're going to kick you off

00:30:03.340 of a social media platforms and all the rest of it. So you go from asking to telling, but then you

00:30:09.560 get to the point where, okay, even if you're doing exactly as you're told and you're being obedient

00:30:17.220 and you're cooperating, that is still not enough because now, yeah, you, you have the, the verbal

00:30:25.440 assent that they are demanding, but now they're going to peer inside your heart and soul. And they

00:30:33.100 want to know that you actually believe. Don't just say what they want you to say, believe what they

00:30:41.680 want you to believe. It's your requirement to actually believe it. So they're going to try to

00:30:47.340 get inside your mind and tinker with it to change the way that you actually perceive reality.

00:30:56.600 How quickly we went from, ah, what's the big deal? It's not a big deal. Just say a word. Doesn't

00:31:01.000 matter. That's all. Just be polite. How quickly we go from that to, um, you must adjust your perception

00:31:10.700 of reality for my sake. And as things perpetually speed up in our, in our culture, um, we graduate

00:31:21.200 from just asking to telling to even that's not enough. You know, you, you, you, you must actually

00:31:27.980 believe and celebrate. We go, it used to take a few years to travel that path. And now it's like a few

00:31:33.000 months and all of it is entirely foreseeable on a similar subject here. This is from the post

00:31:40.560 millennial. It says a biological male inmate in prison for life for strangling a cellmate to death

00:31:45.880 in 2004 and previously identified as a transgender woman is now demanding to be treated like a baby 0.98

00:31:51.760 by prison staff and wants to be given diapers and baby food. According to the daily record,

00:31:58.360 36 year old convicted killer, Sophie Eastwood, formerly known as Daniel was sentenced to

00:32:02.920 prison for life back in 2004 after strangling cellmate, Paul Algy with shoelaces. Um,

00:32:09.600 Eastwood has been jailed at Dumfries young offenders institution at 18 for dangerous driving

00:32:14.920 and then strangled and killed someone. Now he's in jail for life. Uh, in 2016 Eastwood then claimed

00:32:20.260 to be a woman originally said he's a gay man. And then he said, well, okay, it turns out I'm actually

00:32:25.740 a woman. And this was in a psychologist session in prison. And so I guess the psychologist

00:32:32.760 I mean, you've got a guy who's in prison for, for murdering somebody. And, uh, he says, oh,

00:32:38.480 I'm actually a woman. And then the, the highly trained psychologist says, oh, well, I guess you

00:32:42.820 are. I mean, you couldn't, you couldn't possibly be wrong about who you are, but you, you certainly

00:32:47.340 couldn't tell any lies. You're just a convicted murderer is all. Um, and so Eastwood has been 0.97

00:32:54.440 jailed in a women's prison since 2018 and takes a testosterone blocking drug.

00:33:01.320 Again, follow the, follow the trajectory there. I mean, it makes a lot of sense, right? You've

00:33:05.040 got a convicted murderer, obviously a dangerous person says I'm a woman. And then immediately 0.97

00:33:13.440 it's, well, you, you, you couldn't possibly be wrong. You couldn't be deluded. You couldn't

00:33:17.900 be lying. And, uh, why not just put you in a women's prison? It's not like you've demonstrated 1.00

00:33:22.440 yourself to be a violent, dangerous person. And, uh, so they got, he got exactly what

00:33:29.540 he wants every step of the way, of course. And, um, now he identifies rather than a woman

00:33:35.580 more specifically, he identifies as a baby and demands diapers and baby food from the prison

00:33:42.220 staff. I guess there's a question about whether he identifies as a, as a female baby. I'm not

00:33:50.600 exactly sure, but he, he, he identifies as a baby and he's being given, that's how he's

00:33:57.020 being treated by prison staff. There is, there's, there's no end to it. Once you remove yourself

00:34:05.540 from reality and you start to, you, you, you declare that we have to affirm someone's alleged

00:34:10.560 self-perception, uh, no matter how far that self-perception is from reality, of course there's

00:34:17.980 no end to it. I mean, why not just release him from prison? I guess if he's a baby, then,

00:34:23.420 um, he, like who puts babies in prison? This is a, this is a human rights violation. I mean,

00:34:29.240 can you imagine? But he's, he identifies as a, he identifies as a, as a one-year-old.

00:34:36.080 What kind of backwards society would put a one-year-old in prison for God's sake? 0.67

00:34:43.020 So just release him from, release him from prison entirely. Why not?

00:34:50.060 All right. I want to play this for you too. Um, Cam Newton is a free agent quarterback in the NFL

00:34:54.720 and he was trending yesterday for some comments he made in a, in interview that have upset a lot

00:35:01.340 of people. Let's listen to those. I had a perfect, a perfect example of what a man was in my life by

00:35:09.700 my father. My parents has been together for 36, 37 years now. And it's, and it's a beautiful thing.

00:35:16.560 Uh, I grew up in a three parent household, my mom, my father, and my grandmother. And, uh, I knew what

00:35:23.920 a woman was, not a bad. Okay. What's the difference? A woman. Okay. A bad is a person who's just, 0.98

00:35:32.880 you know, girl, I'm a bad, you know, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. I, I, I looked apart,

00:35:40.080 but I don't act apart. Okay. You know, and it's a lot of women who are bad. And I say in a way, 0.98

00:35:48.560 not to degrade a woman, but just to, to, to go off the aesthetic of what they deem is a boss chick. 1.00

00:35:56.680 Now a woman for me is handling your own, but knowing how to cater to a man's needs. Right. 1.00

00:36:09.660 And I think a lot of times when you get that aesthetic of like, I'm a boss, like I'm a

00:36:14.800 this, I'm a dad. No baby. Like, but you can't cook. Okay. You don't know, you don't know when

00:36:20.440 to be quiet. You don't know how to allow a man to lead. Hmm. Can't say those things these days.

00:36:27.360 That is, uh, highly offensive. I mean, even though he's, he's saying something that,

00:36:31.960 you know, almost every man in history can relate to, to a certain extent. Um, well,

00:36:39.480 you can't, you can't say those things. Now you have to keep in mind that Cam Newton,

00:36:42.520 he says that he learned how to be a man and all that kind of thing. Uh, I don't think he's exactly

00:36:46.700 the role model for a good father and a good man. I think he has, you know, he's got kids by several

00:36:53.700 different women and all that kind of stuff. So not exactly, not, not a lot of room to talk, 1.00

00:36:58.840 not exactly himself a role model for men, but of course, uh, what he's, what he's talking about is

00:37:07.260 like, well, you know, you, you want a woman who understands a man's needs, just like a man should 0.61

00:37:12.400 understand a woman's needs. In fact, if you, if you go further into that clip, there's another clip

00:37:16.200 that's, it cuts off right there. He continues talking. He talks about how men should be 0.61

00:37:20.320 catering to the needs of women. And so there should be this kind of what he's trying to get

00:37:23.760 to, you have to decipher it a little bit, but he's trying to get to is the complimentary nature of

00:37:28.180 the man woman relationship. And, um, he wants, he wants a woman as some of those kind of feminine 0.91

00:37:35.180 characteristics, God forbid. Um, but you just, uh, you just can't talk about that anymore. Um, and so

00:37:42.720 you've got, you've got, uh, a lot of people who are, you know, confused and they want certain

00:37:51.540 things out of relationships. We talk a lot about the situation that single people are in, especially

00:37:56.080 younger single people and how horrendous the dating scene is right now. And one of the many

00:38:02.260 things that makes it so difficult is that you've got men and women who sort of naturally want certain

00:38:09.480 things out of relationships, but they can't even talk about what those things are. Um,

00:38:15.860 because they're, they're told that it's, it's shameful. So if you're a man and you want a feminine

00:38:21.480 woman, God forbid you want, you'd like a woman who can cook or something. You can't talk about that. 1.00

00:38:26.160 It's a shameful thing you're told. So you're not supposed to want that.

00:38:31.520 Well, then what are you supposed to want exactly? Well, the culture doesn't provide any answers

00:38:37.680 there. So you're just sort of stuck in neutral. Speaking of bad marriages, I've had this clip that

00:38:43.280 before I get to comment section, I think we'll just play very quickly. Um, I think I did promise

00:38:48.280 we would not return to the Will Smith slap gate and we're not, we're not going all the way back to

00:38:52.700 slap gate, but, um, I did the last week as we got to the end of the slap gate discourse, I did make the

00:38:59.640 point that, you know, I think the real villain in that whole thing, Will Smith is responsible for

00:39:04.140 his actions, which were insane, but the real villain I think is Jada Pickett Smith, his wife,

00:39:07.960 and just kind of, I think reinforcing that point. Here's a video that, uh, resurface. I don't know

00:39:14.560 when it's from. It's from a few years ago, I think of, uh, Will Smith and his wife. And just watch

00:39:19.380 this. You can kind of see what their marriage is all about. You know, a stair parole is coming to the

00:39:24.520 table. She's going to be at the red table. Would you say she has been instrumental

00:39:29.440 in you and I redefining our relationship? I would say don't just start filming me without asking me

00:39:36.860 if you could film me. A stair, come help us again, please. I'm still dealing with foolishness. Don't,

00:39:44.080 no, no, she, yeah, cause she, don't just. Would you say that she helped us heal the hurts that we

00:39:50.920 caused between one another? My social media presence is my bread and butter, okay? So you can't just use

00:39:56.780 me for social media and not, you know, don't just start rolling. I'm standing in my house.

00:40:02.400 Don't just start rolling.

00:40:04.840 Please watch a stair at the red table because she's helped us a lot. Can't you tell?

00:40:12.100 That's actually hard to watch. I actually feel a little sorry for the guy. I gotta say,

00:40:16.040 I mean, you gotta stand up for yourself as a man in your relationship and he clearly has not done that.

00:40:20.200 But, uh, that's now you, you can relate. Like, I think every man is in this position where,

00:40:26.360 you know, the woman pulls out the phone, wants to take a picture or whatever. Um, and I know me, 0.90

00:40:34.360 it's like, I, I never, I'm never in a position where I actually want to take a picture. And it's

00:40:38.020 like, that's the bane of my wife's existence. Because if it were up to me, would there be no,

00:40:42.040 except for this show and what I do for, there'd be no footage of me anywhere. Um, so there is a little

00:40:47.120 bit of this, you know, this push and pull in a relationship. But when your husband clearly says,

00:40:54.160 I don't want to be on camera and you keep shoving it in his face, I think that kind of shows

00:40:57.540 where that relationship is, but he needs to, he's, this, this is a, not that I can give, um,

00:41:05.560 it's probably too late to give marriage advice anyway, but at a certain point you have to stand

00:41:10.620 up for yourself a little bit in your relationship, which I don't think he's, uh, ever done pretty

00:41:14.040 clearly. Well, you heard the big announcement a couple of weeks ago, two announcements, actually,

00:41:17.800 what is a woman, the movie and what is a woman, a book, the book, which are both coming very soon.

00:41:21.760 The movie is coming in May. The book is coming in June. Uh, there's still so much that we cannot

00:41:26.540 tell you about these projects. We really can't tell you almost anything about them. Um, except

00:41:31.240 what you get from the title and the teaser, which you can find it. What is a woman.com. You can pre-order

00:41:35.260 the book a lot more on both these projects coming very, very soon, but go to what is a woman.com, 1.00

00:41:39.600 uh, pre-order the book, watch the teaser, uh, more on the way. And we also have this coming,

00:41:44.460 which is just tomorrow where we're a little over a year into Joe Biden's presidency. And it's been

00:41:48.480 nothing short of a disaster from gas prices to the war in Ukraine. Safe to say the leader of the free

00:41:52.880 world is not up to the challenge. Not only that, but massive corporations like Disney are showing

00:41:56.480 us what they really have in mind for our future generations, which is complete leftist indoctrination.

00:42:00.920 That's why you should tune in to catch an all new episode of us discussing what's happening

00:42:04.640 and how we're actively fighting it on backstage tomorrow with myself, Ben Shapiro,

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00:42:22.080 for enormous 45% off your membership today. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:29.000 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:35.020 This is from Colson Duggins says, Matt, your destruction of the smug libertarians was quite

00:42:42.700 good. However, I don't think you fully refuted the last points. I'm curious to hear you articulate

00:42:46.960 your position better. Her description of her pervasive obsessive anxiety was definitely

00:42:51.840 abnormal and irrational. My wife suffers from the same things. I've heard it. I've seen it firsthand.

00:42:57.660 I do agree that we shouldn't just jump to drugs to address the problem, but I would definitely say

00:43:01.240 it is a disorder. It is most certainly not normal. I have quite literally never experienced the kind

00:43:05.980 of anxiety that my wife experiences because my fears lack the obsessive component that she has.

00:43:10.480 I can also see a noticeable difference in my wife when she gets her serotonin levels up. While I agree

00:43:15.360 that general fears are not a disorder, and I think you've pretty much convinced me about ADHD as well,

00:43:20.020 this kind of anxiety that she describes is a disorder, it's just been misclassified as generalized

00:43:25.040 anxiety disorder rather than what it is, a subset of obsessive compulsive disorder interested to hear

00:43:31.120 your thoughts. Well, the last thing that you said, I could have to think more about it,

00:43:36.920 but I could maybe go along with that. I have said this before when we talk about some of these

00:43:43.520 mental illnesses that I don't think are actually are mental illnesses like ADHD, for example.

00:43:47.860 I do think that what's going on is many times you have normal behaviors, normal emotions,

00:43:55.500 and so on, personality traits that are just medicalized and categorized as a mental condition

00:44:00.940 when they're not. But I think that explains a huge portion of these cases. And then what about

00:44:08.320 the smaller portion that cannot be explained that way? I think some of them probably have been

00:44:12.960 miscategorized. I'm not taking the position that mental illnesses don't exist at all.

00:44:17.160 I just think that we need to recalibrate how we view mental illnesses and maybe start from a real basic

00:44:26.600 level of defining what exactly they are, which I don't think we've done. And once we have that

00:44:33.320 conversation, then I think we're still going to be left with some mental illnesses, not 300 like they 0.94

00:44:38.900 have in the DSM right now, but some. I mean, so you take, for example, like an obvious one, I think,

00:44:44.920 would be a schizophrenic or someone who's hallucinating and that kind of thing. But

00:44:50.140 clearly, this is someone who's, for lack of a better term, crazy, right? What we used to just

00:44:55.000 call crazy, now we say mental illness. So that category exists. I'm not saying your wife is

00:45:00.040 schizophrenic, but you have that sort of category. And I think that's a pretty small category in

00:45:05.780 comparison to the 300 mental illnesses that we have right now. And so you say some of these cases are

00:45:10.760 just miscategorized. I don't necessarily disagree with you. It sounds like you don't really disagree

00:45:15.280 with me because I am skeptical of the diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder. And if you're saying

00:45:21.980 that you've seen a disorder characterized this way, that clearly is a disorder, but you think it should

00:45:30.160 be categorized, should be put in a different category, then I don't think there's much of a

00:45:33.280 disagreement there. The thing with anxiety is, going back to anxiety and not OCD, it is, as I argued

00:45:42.460 yesterday, a basic fact of the human condition. You know, schizophrenia, hallucinations, hearing voices

00:45:55.260 in your head, those sorts of things, that's not a basic fact of the human condition. That is very

00:45:59.900 clearly, inarguably abnormal. That's outside of what is normal. But anxiety is part of the human

00:46:11.120 condition. And I say that all anxiety is pervasive in the sense that, like, I don't think there's

00:46:17.740 anyone walking around on earth who's just entirely free of anxiety. I don't think that exists.

00:46:26.120 And so if you have something that's fundamental to human nature, and that is pervasive in the sense

00:46:36.020 that everyone experiences it, to some degree, kind of all the time, it's always there, at least bubbling

00:46:40.840 under the surface. You have your anxieties, whatever they are, that you carry around with you. You might

00:46:45.160 not obsess over them, but you have them. And to take that and to try to medicalize it, kind of by degree,

00:46:51.060 and say, well, okay, here's where anxieties normally are, but then if you get above this arbitrary line,

00:46:56.460 now it's a medical condition. I'm very skeptical of that. And the problem is that because the line is

00:47:02.280 so arbitrary, when you do that, you're going to end up with a whole bunch of people who get diagnosed

00:47:07.240 with mental illnesses who should not be, which is what we're seeing right now. Let's see. Brandon says,

00:47:13.840 I honestly don't know many doctors who guess and keep their license for too long. Yeah, we heard

00:47:21.060 yesterday that the doctors look at babies and just, they don't even assign sex anymore. Now the new

00:47:25.740 language is they just guess about whether the baby's boy or girl. And I thought about that after the show

00:47:31.520 yesterday, when we had this first grade teacher telling students that that's the way it works when

00:47:37.220 babies are born, that they just, the doctors just guess, that's all. But then the teacher admits that

00:47:43.240 most of the time, the guess is right. It's only a minority of occasions when the guess is wrong.

00:47:50.380 Well, I'd like to hear that person explain why exactly the guess is usually right.

00:47:58.000 Is it because the quote unquote guess is being based on some kind of physical reality,

00:48:04.240 some significant physical reality? Could that be the case? We'll see. Let's see.

00:48:11.820 Uh, and Alicia says, I can't wait for the episode where Matt reacts to the libertarians reacting to

00:48:18.600 him, reacting to them, reacting to him. Pure gold. Oh, we're going to, it's, this is just an inception

00:48:24.500 now of reactions and it's going to, it will continue. You can be sure of that. Speaking of

00:48:28.460 which, let's get to the daily cancellation. Yesterday for this segment of the show, we spent

00:48:36.400 approximately four and a half hours responding to a couple of obscure libertarian YouTubers

00:48:41.160 may have seemed like overkill, but then again, if you listen frequently, you know that I could

00:48:44.960 easily do an entire show on one TikTok video that annoyed me. So it's all par for the course.

00:48:49.100 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to, uh, we're going somewhere slightly less obscure,

00:48:53.180 but still libertarian. I hadn't planned to dump on the libertarians so much this week,

00:48:57.000 but that's the way it's working out. And I think I find libertarians so especially annoying

00:49:01.460 because we have a few significant things in common and yet ultimately they're still so wrong

00:49:07.520 when it comes down to it. And that's where the frustration comes from for me. The libertarians

00:49:12.280 are singing my tune when they talk about abolishing the income tax or massively decreasing the size of

00:49:18.500 the federal government. They tend to be skeptical of the government education system, which is good

00:49:23.240 and protective of gun rights. Um, they are generally pretty consistent constitutionalists. All of these

00:49:28.980 things are good. They may take it a bit too far sometimes, like not all taxation is theft, for

00:49:34.580 example, just most of it is, but still we line up pretty closely on those issues. Things fall apart

00:49:41.300 when we move from economic and strictly constitutional issues over to cultural and moral concerns.

00:49:48.680 Here, libertarianism begins to quickly break apart and the libertarian is left out in the cold and the

00:49:55.000 dark, confused, not sure which way to go. His ideology is not robust enough to account for

00:50:00.280 the full scope of the human experience. He was mostly right about those economic and constitutional

00:50:06.560 issues, but he was right for, if not the wrong reasons that at least incomplete reasons. He wants to

00:50:13.540 pay fewer taxes and keep his guns and so on because of liberty. And by liberty, he simply means

00:50:19.020 his own personal ability to do whatever he wants because he wants to do it. There are fuller and

00:50:26.320 sturdier reasons to be in favor of gun rights and against over taxation, but those generally are not

00:50:31.960 his reasons. And so when he encounters the deeper issues, the moral issues, he has only his kind of

00:50:38.580 libertine, do what you want mentality to fall back on. This is when he starts shouting slogans like,

00:50:44.720 let people enjoy things and the government shouldn't legislate morality. Except that literally all

00:50:50.800 legislation legislates morality. All laws by definition are rooted in a moral code. They may

00:50:57.100 be wrongly rooted or rooted in the wrong moral code, but completely amoral laws would be laws passed

00:51:02.920 without concern at all for whether they're actually right or wrong. Legislation that doesn't attempt to

00:51:08.520 legislate morality would be by definition arbitrary. The libertarian doesn't seem to fully understand

00:51:14.620 this fact. And as for letting people enjoy things, the fact is that enjoyment is not in and of itself

00:51:19.480 enough to justify any act. If we're determining whether an act should be legal or even simply whether

00:51:27.700 it's good, aside from the legal question, we need to ask more than just, do people enjoy it? And when it

00:51:35.120 comes to that enjoyment, we also need to reflect on the nature of the act and consider the sort of pleasure

00:51:39.580 that's being derived from it. Take almost any self-destructive and harmful act and you'll find

00:51:45.940 people who enjoy it. That is, they take pleasure, however twisted, from it. Should we simply leave

00:51:52.800 people to their self-destructive pleasures even if the pursuit of that pleasure is actually making

00:51:57.340 them miserable and causing despair in the long run? These are all questions that libertarianism cannot

00:52:02.460 answer and refuses to even consider. And that long preamble brings us to an article in the

00:52:08.860 Libertarian Reason magazine, written by writer Elizabeth Nolan Brown, titled The New Campaign for

00:52:14.980 a Sex-Free Internet. It's a lengthy article that can't be fully analyzed in this segment, but the basic

00:52:20.060 gist is that Brown is upset about the fact that due to rule changes over at sites like Pornhub,

00:52:26.080 fewer amateur wannabe porn stars are able to whore themselves and their bodies out for a quick buck. 0.97

00:52:32.660 Brown is deeply concerned that there is now a tragic scarcity of whoring on the internet. 0.98

00:52:37.520 So reading now, it says,

00:52:39.640 For more than a decade, both amateurs and professionals shared their sometimes sweet,

00:52:43.720 sometimes weird, and often graphic sexual activity on Pornhub. Launched in 2007, not long after

00:52:49.300 YouTube, and with a similar free-for-all spirit, the site represented a new wave of adult entertainment

00:52:54.300 in which anyone with an internet connection could partake and anyone with a digital camera could

00:52:58.640 become a star. Now, a quick sidebar here. We have already started on a precarious note with the

00:53:04.440 writers' claim that the graphic sexual content on Pornhub is sometimes sweet. I would have

00:53:10.720 thought that sweet would be something like, I don't know, bringing flowers home for your wife 0.71

00:53:14.020 just because. I wouldn't think of it as, like, humping somebody on camera and posting it to the

00:53:19.600 internet for profit. Maybe I just have an old-fashioned sense of romance. Probably so.

00:53:24.720 Continuing, dubbed tube sites, Pornhub and its various peers began to dominate web traffic

00:53:29.920 generally in porn consumption specifically. These sites trod on porn's established business model,

00:53:36.000 but for savvy sex workers, the tube site network could provide a way to break into the business 1.00

00:53:40.900 or reach audiences directly without the porn industry's usual middlemen. To monetize one's

00:53:46.760 presence in the early days took some creativity, but tube sites would eventually offer content

00:53:51.260 partnerships that allowed people to get paid directly for their videos. Their competitors,

00:53:55.500 such as cam sites and clip stores, made the process of charging money and getting paid even

00:54:00.580 smoother. Oh, yes, just kind of reflecting nostalgically on the good old days. Brown here

00:54:06.780 speaks wistfully and longingly about the time when many thousands or even millions of people

00:54:11.260 who would have otherwise been shut out of the porn industry were able to break into it with the

00:54:16.300 help of the internet, monetizing their sexual activity and auctioning their bodies off to the 0.84

00:54:21.140 highest bidder or the lowest bidder or just any bidder at all. In previous generations, some of

00:54:26.880 those people, unable to become porn stars, may have ended up getting an education instead or training

00:54:34.800 somewhere and taking up a trade, becoming entrepreneurs, entering some other more productive

00:54:40.580 profession. But Pornhub saved them from that dark path. And that was very good, Brown says,

00:54:46.860 because, quote, for the first time, people with a truly diverse array of body types, looks, races,

00:54:53.780 ethnicity, sexuality, gender identities, and kinks had direct access to the tools of porn production 0.95

00:54:58.700 and distribution. In the past, porn had catered to a much more narrow range of tastes with predictable

00:55:03.820 results. Now audiences could access all sorts of content that defied conventional notions of who

00:55:11.320 and what was deserving of lust. On sites like Pornhub and the microblogging platform Tumblr,

00:55:17.040 outside the mainstream content thrived. Now we'll return to that passage in just a moment.

00:55:23.220 But first, let's continue on a little farther as we get to the tragic moment

00:55:26.440 where everything fell apart. And this is the moment that Brown so deeply laments.

00:55:32.160 It says, quote,

00:55:32.780 And then one day, it was gone. In December 2020, without warning, Pornhub removed all videos posted

00:55:38.960 by unverified users, a massive cache of content encompassing anything not posted by formal content

00:55:45.320 partners or members of the platform's official model program. More than 10 million videos were

00:55:49.800 suspended, and unverified users were banned from uploading or downloading new videos. It was more

00:55:55.620 than a disruption to the site. I almost feel like we need sad piano music in the background here.

00:55:59.740 The unannounced disappearing of so many videos was a huge cultural loss,

00:56:04.340 says Ashley, a transgender sex worker and civil rights activist with a robust presence on social

00:56:08.980 media and in offline organizing. The Pornhub purge came about two years after Tumblr's ban on any

00:56:15.260 content depicting sex acts and preceded a similar announcement in summer 2021 from OnlyFans.

00:56:21.200 Then in September 2021, the first user-uploaded porn site Xtube, founded in 2006 and now owned by the

00:56:28.360 same parent company, shut down entirely. Tragedy. Now, there are still billions of smut videos

00:56:35.960 online, but it's, I mean, literally billions of them. But it's a huge cultural loss that we're missing

00:56:43.400 a few of them now, she says. She mourns over the fact that prior to all of these amateur cyber

00:56:51.380 prostitutes being kicked out of the club, porn was on its way to being truly equitable with a diverse

00:56:57.120 array of body types, looks, races, ethnicities, sexualities, et cetera, et cetera, all represented 0.99

00:57:03.300 by porn. Now, what's of course lost in this is any sense of what is actually good. The writer,

00:57:12.020 being a dedicated libertarian, doesn't concern herself with such questions. Instead, she simply

00:57:17.480 declares that if people are doing a certain thing, and if they seem to be deriving any pleasure from

00:57:22.720 it, then it's best if everyone is able to do it equally and equitably. The fact that whoring 1.00

00:57:28.520 yourself on the internet brings despair and hopelessness and leads so often to substance

00:57:32.460 abuse and suicide is irrelevant to her. If a group of people are marching off of a cliff

00:57:38.100 and they seem to have smiles on their faces while they're doing it, she just wants to make sure that

00:57:42.540 the group is demographically representative of the overall population. Again, the concept of the

00:57:49.580 good, what is good, is lost. And that is always lost by libertarians and generally by the culture.

00:57:59.440 And of course, one of their rejoinders here, one of their responses is, well, who defines good? What is

00:58:04.340 good? How can you define that? Yeah, we do have to talk about what the good means.

00:58:08.980 But are you saying that a word like liberty or freedom or human rights, is that any clearer to

00:58:15.920 you than good? Run into the same problem. How do you define that? It's not like there's some sort of

00:58:22.980 unanimous agreement on what any of those words mean. In fact, the fact that we cannot agree on what those

00:58:28.860 words means is like tearing our culture apart right now. But, and so instead, they just, rather than

00:58:35.300 talking about what good means and concerning themselves, whether they just discard it entirely,

00:58:39.700 let's not even worry about what's actually good. And that brings us to the most revealing phrase of

00:58:45.680 all that we get in that article, which is deserving of lust. Deserving of lust. Now, I can see why

00:58:56.200 people would want to be deserving of love. Love is fulfilling. It's edifying. There is joy in love.

00:59:03.720 In fact, there isn't joy anywhere but in love. There's no joy outside of love. But lust by itself

00:59:11.020 is the reduction of a person to the level of an object. That's what lust is, especially the lust

00:59:18.500 that you find with pornography on the internet. The person who is doing the lusting, they don't

00:59:25.000 recognize the image on the screen. They don't see that person as a person. It's just an object that is

00:59:30.400 there to gratify them. That is lust down to its basest level. It's objectification. Treating a

00:59:39.920 person like an object. If you're an object of lust apart from love, then you're being coveted the way

00:59:46.540 that a person might covet a consumer good, like a car or a new pair of shoes. Should this actually be

00:59:53.460 anyone's goal? The fact that certain people are being deprived of the opportunity to be objectified

01:00:01.100 by strangers on the internet? To be treated like an object? Absent of their personhood?

01:00:10.680 Is this something that we should be striving for? Is it a tragedy that people are being deprived of it?

01:00:16.240 Do we have a right to it? Well, this is the kind of nonsense that libertarianism so often descends

01:00:23.640 into. And that is ultimately why the writer of this article, whose name I've already forgotten,

01:00:29.480 last name Brown, is today canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.

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