The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 966 - Trans Activists Want To Kill Me For Making A Documentary

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, trans activists want to kill me for making What is a Woman? 0.96

00:00:03.920 They've told me this themselves. What does that say about gender ideology?

00:00:06.840 Also, Texas legislators moved to ban child drag shows.

00:00:10.060 That's a law that shouldn't be needed, but it is.

00:00:12.280 And AOC officially endorses the term Latinx, or Latinx.

00:00:16.140 In our daily cancellation, a college professor cancels pirates, including fictional pirates.

00:00:20.260 They're all canceled. Apparently they weren't woke enough. Who knew?

00:00:22.400 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:33.600 Well, my new film, What is a Woman, is now the most successful piece of content The Daily Wire has ever produced.

00:01:40.240 Record numbers of people have watched it.

00:01:42.080 The film has been trending online for days.

00:01:44.140 It's easily one of the most talked about and debated films of the year.

00:01:46.580 It's been an enormous smash success and already made, I think, an immediate and seismic impact on the culture.

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00:01:59.880 You know, we're trying to build something so that we can continue making films like What is a Woman

00:02:03.980 and other sorts of films and pieces of content that will impact the culture in different but still important ways.

00:02:10.180 So if you haven't subscribed yet, I'd ask you to consider going to whatisawoman.com and getting signed up.

00:02:14.780 We may not have the whole, you know, extensive content library of, like, Netflix.

00:02:19.340 Not yet, anyway.

00:02:20.300 But we're on a mission and we're making art that matters.

00:02:23.420 We're kind of the way I look at it is kind of the scrappy underdogs,

00:02:26.940 the unwelcome intruders in the subscription streaming world right now.

00:02:31.220 But there's a lot of fun to be had in that role.

00:02:34.520 That's the good news.

00:02:35.200 And it enables us to make things that literally nobody else anywhere else could or would ever make like What is a Woman.

00:02:42.640 Now, one of the reasons why nobody would make What is a Woman is because the subject matter is, of course, radioactive.

00:02:50.240 I mean, gender ideology is the ultimate third rail. 1.00

00:02:53.600 It's supercharged, considered untouchable by most people.

00:02:56.680 There are increasing numbers of people, I think, who will kind of dance around the edges of the issue,

00:03:01.840 talk about sports teams and bathrooms and that sort of thing.

00:03:05.120 But very few people will go after the heart of this thing.

00:03:09.400 It's one thing to suggest that males don't belong in women's bathrooms. 0.76

00:03:13.820 It's another thing to call into question the actual underlying premise of gender ideology and transgenderism.

00:03:19.140 And the thing is, as it turns out, even if you're trying to stay around the edges, it doesn't really work because you can't make an argument against males and women's bathrooms without questioning the underlying premise.

00:03:29.540 If you're trying to keep the underlying premise intact and say nothing about that, then you've already surrendered the entire issue.

00:03:36.460 So, that's what we try to do in this film, is go after the underlying premise.

00:03:41.760 And because we succeeded so dramatically in exposing the hollowness at the core of this ideology, and because we knew we had succeeded, we also knew that there would be blowback to releasing this.

00:03:56.400 Though, of course, there was never any thought given to not releasing it.

00:03:59.380 This is a bomb, in effect, metaphorically, and it's a bomb that we knew we had to detonate, come what may.

00:04:04.700 And as for what is coming my way now, there are the expected things that we've talked about, you know, coordinated campaigns to deplatform me, lies and smears and defamation being spread about me.

00:04:15.020 Even to the point of leftists photoshopping tweets to try to embarrass and libel me.

00:04:20.260 Every day I see a new tweet that I never tweeted that's making the rounds online.

00:04:26.580 This was the extent of the backlash until the last day or two when the death threats started rolling in.

00:04:33.380 We have our security team tracking those, and the police have been notified, might have a little bit more specific on those threats soon.

00:04:42.840 But for now, I'll just leave it at that.

00:04:45.800 Also, I should note that I'm an avid fan of the Second Amendment and more than willing to make full use of my constitutional rights should any of these keyboard warriors decide to try to, you know, try their luck in the real world.

00:04:55.380 But the death threats are sometimes not as revealing as the death wishes.

00:05:01.420 And there are a great many of those on Twitter right now directed at me.

00:05:05.960 Most people are, most people anyway, are hesitant to make explicit physical threats.

00:05:10.420 And the people who have not been hesitant to make those physical threats are going to learn why they ought to have been. 0.97

00:05:18.060 But a lot of people are, you know, much more confident and feel a lot better about, especially trans activists, who are some of the most vicious and cowardly people on the planet. 1.00

00:05:27.620 They're not as shy about telling you what they hope happens to you because they feel like that gives them a little bit of cover.

00:05:32.640 So just a few examples.

00:05:34.340 I mentioned the death threats that we've been getting on Twitter yesterday.

00:05:37.580 I mentioned it.

00:05:38.380 And here's how leftists and trans activists responded.

00:05:40.700 I'm going to read a few here, just a few examples.

00:05:43.080 One says, seeing fascist bigots scared for their life is so satisfying.

00:05:47.400 Another, hopefully the cops are as effective at protecting you and your family as they were at protecting the children and teachers in Uvalde.

00:05:54.360 Another says, you deserve all of it.

00:05:56.060 Another says, you deserve worse.

00:05:57.460 Another says, ha ha, good.

00:05:58.540 I look forward to hearing how the cops stood around and watched.

00:06:00.900 Another says, hopefully some of those threats have some weight behind them.

00:06:04.120 Another says, rotten hell.

00:06:05.900 I hope somebody carries them out. 0.95

00:06:07.720 Another one says, LMFAO.

00:06:09.540 Hope someone pulls through when you're actively discrediting and threatening the lives of thousands of trans people all over. 1.00

00:06:14.300 You deserve to get your s**t rocked. 0.99

00:06:17.640 Another one says, fingers crossed they're credible. 1.00

00:06:20.680 And you get the idea.

00:06:21.380 Hundreds more where that came from.

00:06:22.480 I mean, hundreds.

00:06:23.800 They're also posting this stuff in their own circles online.

00:06:25.880 For example, one account posted a fake obituary for me, which said,

00:06:29.780 breaking American political commentator and podcaster Matt Walsh has passed away in his Tennessee home.

00:06:34.280 Further details have yet to be determined.

00:06:36.620 And I responded to that post with a link to whatiswoman.com, and they immediately deleted it.

00:06:41.720 Another account posted, RT, if you think Matt Walsh should never enjoy another moment of peace as long as he lives.

00:06:47.740 That tweet had 3,000 likes.

00:06:49.540 And I responded to that one with a link to the website as well, and he also deleted it.

00:06:53.120 There are, again, hundreds, if not thousands, of tweets like this.

00:06:57.220 A great many of them are, apparently without a hint of sarcasm or irony, accusing me of committing genocide.

00:07:04.500 That's their words. 0.55

00:07:05.660 Committing genocide against trans people. 1.00

00:07:08.760 And, of course, I deserve to die. 0.99

00:07:10.060 They say, I've committed genocide with a documentary. 0.96

00:07:14.680 My documentary is apparently, it's like that movie The Ring.

00:07:17.200 You know, remember that in the early 2000s, where if you watched it, a monster would come out of the screen and kill you in some unspecified but really disturbing way?

00:07:27.280 That's what they seem to think anyway.

00:07:29.640 But they could find out for sure if they went to whatiswoman.com and became a subscriber today.

00:07:34.620 Now, I want to make just a few points about this.

00:07:38.320 And the first is that there are some who will sort of dismiss this by saying that, well, this is how people are on the Internet.

00:07:44.240 Happens on both sides, also.

00:07:45.500 And that's not totally true.

00:07:48.460 I mean, even if it was, it wouldn't make it okay, obviously.

00:07:50.500 But that's not totally true.

00:07:51.820 Yes, I mean, anyone on any side of any issue may receive a death threat or two if they get a lot of negative attention for something they said.

00:08:00.240 And, yes, there are anonymous trolls posting heinous stuff on both sides.

00:08:04.300 But anyone who's ever poked the gender ideology beehive knows that trans activists are uniquely vicious and feel especially entitled to say and do whatever they want. 1.00

00:08:18.720 As someone who has a lot of experience poking various beehives, including literal beehives, as we talked about yesterday, I can say for sure that no group is quite like the trans activists in this regard. 0.98

00:08:32.080 I mean, even take like BLM.

00:08:33.420 We know what BLM is willing to do.

00:08:34.740 Well, I've said a lot of things and done a lot of things to upset BLM, and I've gotten the blowback for it.

00:08:39.580 But it's never quite like this.

00:08:41.660 So why is it like this with the left-wing trans activists?

00:08:46.280 Well, it's partly because they're amoral narcissists, partly because they've been emboldened by social media platforms and by every other institution to act out in whatever way they want without consequence.

00:08:58.480 And it's partly because, as previously mentioned, they've told themselves this delusional story, and been told this delusional story, that anyone who criticizes their worldview is a clear and present danger to their very physical existence.

00:09:17.280 One trans activist summarized this delusion quite well in response to my tweet about the death threats I'd received. 0.58

00:09:22.460 And it said, here's the thing.

00:09:24.700 We trans people are not prepared to be removed from society. 0.95

00:09:29.240 The fact that you were prepared for death threats means that this is an operation, a planned move to kill us. 0.92

00:09:35.060 You are inciting violence. 0.99

00:09:36.660 We are backed into a corner with a knife to our throat. 0.98

00:09:40.820 You see, with my documentary, I have backed them into a corner with a knife to their throat. 0.99

00:09:46.600 And this gives them the moral right to kill my whole family. 0.99

00:09:50.120 They really believe that. 0.99

00:09:51.240 At least they want to believe it, and they've worked very hard to fool themselves into taking this kind of delusional, hysterical nonsense seriously.

00:09:59.440 This is the consequence, by the way, the intended consequence of the words are violence nonsense.

00:10:06.940 Because it empowers people like this.

00:10:08.740 It gives them the excuse to be even more vile and vicious than they were already inclined to be.

00:10:14.340 It's also the consequence of our societal obsession with affirmation.

00:10:18.380 You know, these activists have come to believe that they have a God-given human right to be affirmed.

00:10:26.840 That is, to have everyone in the world agree with them and reinforce their self-perception.

00:10:32.700 And they are so convinced of this notion that when they encounter a non-affirming opinion or thought or film, they take it as a threat to their lives.

00:10:41.500 They don't know how to not be affirmed, right?

00:10:45.320 Like, most of us, I encounter stuff all the time that doesn't exactly affirm me and my beliefs.

00:10:52.800 So I just, that's part of life.

00:10:55.280 I don't break down into tears over it.

00:10:58.040 I don't take it as, it's going to kill me.

00:11:01.620 Like, there are no words you can say to me that the words themselves will kill me.

00:11:05.780 But over here, this is the attitude.

00:11:10.900 They don't know how to operate in a world that is anything less than 100% affirming all the time, everywhere, with no exceptions.

00:11:18.600 Hollywood makes hundreds of movies and shows every year that suck up to them.

00:11:23.740 One film is released on a platform they aren't even subscribed to, which takes the opposite approach.

00:11:27.780 And they feel it gives them moral license to murder the person responsible for it.

00:11:31.700 When I say the left wants you dead, I mean, I say it from experience.

00:11:36.420 And it is actually true.

00:11:38.840 And that brings me to my final point.

00:11:40.680 And I want to be very clear about this to the people who are posting these things and making these threats.

00:11:46.200 First of all, you don't scare me.

00:11:48.160 Your ideology is a threat to society, to children, to women, to all people, to reality itself.

00:11:56.800 I'm never going to stop pointing that out or fighting against you and against everything you believe.

00:12:02.160 This reaction only cements me even more in my conviction.

00:12:06.200 It radicalizes me even more than I already was.

00:12:09.660 And I didn't think that I could be any more radical about it.

00:12:13.760 And it makes me even more convinced than ever that this film is necessary and important.

00:12:19.720 And I'm so happy we made it.

00:12:22.100 Couldn't be happier.

00:12:23.980 And I'll tell you this.

00:12:24.960 The more you keep this up, the more offensive my next film is going to be.

00:12:31.040 You're doing this to yourselves.

00:12:32.920 Actions have consequences.

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00:13:32.820 Let's talk about some good news.

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00:13:37.500 So here's some good news.

00:13:38.360 This is from Daily Wire.

00:13:39.460 It says a Texas state legislator announced on Monday that he'll be introducing legislation to ban children from being subjected to drag shows after images from a bar inside Texas went viral over the weekend and sparked national outrage.

00:13:50.960 We talked about this yesterday, obviously, to lead the show, the drag show for children at a bar in Texas.

00:13:56.580 State Representative Brian Slayton says the events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children.

00:14:06.740 As a father of two young children, I would never take my children to a drag show.

00:14:11.260 And I know Speaker Dade Phelan and the rest of my Republican colleagues wouldn't either.

00:14:17.400 Slayton's remarks come after a gay bar in Dallas generated national outrage with the drag show we talked about.

00:14:21.820 But Slayton continued by noting that it was not enough for Texas Republicans to protect their own children and it was their responsibility to put an end to the sexualization that was happening across Texas.

00:14:31.980 Quote, I promised my voters that I would stand up for their values and fight to protect Texas kids.

00:14:36.260 I was reelected on that promise and I intend to keep it by authoring legislation to defend kids from being subjected to drag shows and other inappropriate events.

00:14:43.780 Now, I think this is great for a couple of reasons and we'll talk about that, but I will also note that, as mentioned yesterday, there already is legislation on the books in Texas that makes this illegal.

00:14:56.920 It's actually, there's lots of legislation that makes this illegal everywhere because this is sexual exploitation of children.

00:15:06.940 And at least according to the letter of the law, even if the law isn't enforced, sexual exploitation of children is illegal everywhere.

00:15:14.600 Still goes on because the law is not enforced, but it is illegal.

00:15:17.640 And then in Texas in particular, they passed a law last year that specifically states that's quote unquote sexually oriented businesses and a gay bar with a big sign, neon sign that says it's not going to lick itself, certainly qualifies as a sexually oriented business.

00:15:36.880 Sexually oriented businesses in Texas, according to a law passed last year, cannot accept patrons under patrons under the age of 21, not even 18 year olds.

00:15:47.640 And so, and so that's enough right there to enforce the law.

00:15:51.240 You could revoke their license, arrest people, but they're not going to do that.

00:15:56.480 And so, you know, maybe you, you, so you come up with legislation that's much more explicit and targeted and says, no, no, no.

00:16:02.400 Okay, just so you know, you're, you're not allowed to bring children to a drag show. 0.87

00:16:09.560 We shouldn't need to be that specific about it because it should be obvious, but if that's what's necessary,

00:16:15.500 then it's a good thing that this law is going to be written.

00:16:18.700 And there's another, there's another reason too, why, um, why I think it's good to, to make laws like this.

00:16:24.380 And I think Republicans all across the country in every state should follow suit and make specific laws that say you can't bring your kid to a drag show.

00:16:35.140 And the reason that you want to do it, even though, again, it's, it's already illegal according to the letter of law of the law in any state.

00:16:43.360 Um, but you pass the law anyway, because number one, it should hopefully provide some extra protection for, for these children.

00:16:55.520 You know, the, the law enforcers can't, can't find a way around it.

00:17:01.620 If you're, if you're that explicit about it, because now they can always say, well, is this really a sexually oriented business?

00:17:06.060 You weren't, you weren't specific.

00:17:07.200 Okay, now we're going to be specific.

00:17:08.640 You have to enforce this law.

00:17:09.680 But the other advantage to passing a law like this is a, it's a good strategic move because it puts Democrats in the position of openly defending child drag shows, which is what they're going to do.

00:17:29.140 In fact, it's what they've, they've already started doing this.

00:17:31.740 There are, uh, you know, accounts on social media from relatively prominent people on the left already, you know, offering explicit defenses of children at drag shows, or at least pretending to be kind of, well, you know, I don't understand the criticism.

00:17:49.860 Maybe someone can explain the criticism to me.

00:17:51.760 It doesn't, it does.

00:17:52.480 It's not apparent to me why this is a problem.

00:17:54.080 Trying to strike a, you know, quote unquote, moderate position when there is no moderate position on child drag shows.

00:18:01.380 There's just like the right position and the wrong position.

00:18:04.240 And if you're not holding the right position, then it's the wrong position.

00:18:09.980 So already you're starting to see, but if you, if you now have Republican legislators who are, uh, passing laws like this, that's going to be a situation for the left and for the Democrats where either they can agree and they can say, okay, you know what?

00:18:23.100 This, this, this actually is too far.

00:18:24.680 And, uh, and I agree we need to make that illegal, but they're not going to do that.

00:18:29.700 They're not going to do it because they don't want to agree with Republicans.

00:18:32.660 They especially don't want to agree with Republicans on anything that, that approaches LGBT issues.

00:18:38.200 They can't do that.

00:18:40.720 And they're not going to agree with Republicans because they, they all actually do favor, uh, child drag shows.

00:18:46.680 They see child drag shows as very useful tools, um, for sexualizing and indoctrinating kids.

00:18:57.140 So you start passing laws like this and you are going to see if it's going to start with leftists in general activists, and then eventually it's going to make its way up to mainstream Democrats out offering full throated defenses of child drag shows.

00:19:12.540 And that's good.

00:19:16.040 We want them, we already know they favor it.

00:19:17.520 We want them to say it.

00:19:19.060 Okay.

00:19:19.460 You want to back them into a corner rhetorically where they're going to come out and say it.

00:19:27.240 So that everyone else can see that this is what these people want.

00:19:31.900 It'll be just like, uh, the so-called, you know, quote unquote, don't say gay bill, which never actually existed.

00:19:37.760 The anti-groomer bill is what it was.

00:19:39.400 It would be just like the anti-groomer bill in Florida all over again, which was a, that was massive backlash.

00:19:45.640 Uh, that was a massive backfire rather for, for the Democrats.

00:19:50.740 You know, when they were lying at the bill about, about the bill at first, they were getting a little bit of traction, but then once conservatives kind of got everything together and started and, and, and got the messaging together.

00:20:01.400 And people in the public started to understand what the bill actually accomplished, then they looked at Democrats and said, what, you people actually think that we should talk to five-year-olds about, about gender fluidity?

00:20:16.520 Really?

00:20:19.000 Massive, massive backfire for them.

00:20:20.680 Um, and that, that even affected, you know, Disney and other corporations.

00:20:25.880 So I think we're going to see something very similar happen here.

00:20:29.680 Um, all right.

00:20:31.000 This is from the daily wire.

00:20:33.080 It says on Friday, Washington post reporter, Dave, David Weigel retweeted a mildly sexist joke.

00:20:38.720 The joke was every girl is by, you just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.

00:20:44.280 That's, it's kind of fun.

00:20:46.420 Uh, although, although to be honest, I think it's a little bit of a false choice because you could be both, right?

00:20:51.440 I mean, it's, but there's plenty of, I mean, there's plenty of women who are both. 1.00

00:20:53.900 Um, on Monday, he was suspended without pay.

00:20:57.860 The joke, which Weigel retweeted from YouTuber Cam Harless, was noticed by fellow Washington Post reporter, Felicia Sonmez.

00:21:05.260 And she tweeted on her Twitter account, fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed.

00:21:12.780 According to Slack messages obtained by CNN, Sonmez continued her crusade by tagging Weigel in an internal Slack channel and writing, I'm sorry, but what is this?

00:21:20.980 She added that the retweet sent a confusing message about what the post's values are.

00:21:25.820 Later on Friday, Weigel wrote, I just removed a tweet of an offensive joke.

00:21:29.260 I apologize and didn't mean to cause any harm.

00:21:32.340 And then the Washington Post, and then of course, here's the inevitable thing.

00:21:35.680 Everything about this is inevitable.

00:21:36.740 I mean, we start with the, with the, I wouldn't even call it mildly sexist.

00:21:40.860 Like, it's just a joke.

00:21:41.740 That's all it is.

00:21:43.140 Okay.

00:21:44.040 Um, so we start with the joke and then the, the woman gets offended by it. 0.99

00:21:49.840 Apology comes all, you know, every, every step along the way, totally inevitable.

00:21:54.240 And then we get to this, the Washington Post suspended Weigel for one month without pay in the wake of the incident.

00:21:58.600 So I, he deleted the tweet.

00:22:00.460 He apologized for it.

00:22:01.660 Doesn't matter.

00:22:02.800 He's still going to get suspended.

00:22:04.400 And even that's probably enough.

00:22:05.840 I mean, they're pushing for him to get fired.

00:22:07.240 They don't want him ever to come back because he dared to retweet a joke.

00:22:10.720 So, by the way, Sonmez has said that, um, has now said that she, she has long, this were her words, said she's long considered Dave a friend.

00:22:21.040 So this is a longtime friend of hers.

00:22:23.880 And she threw him under the bus immediately and publicly because of a joke that he didn't even tweet the joke.

00:22:31.800 He just retweeted it.

00:22:34.020 And then other media people, like someone named Goldie Taylor, uh, has, has been agreeing.

00:22:38.660 I don't know if she works at the Washington Post because she has me blocked, but she also said that, uh, he's a friend, but then she also blasted him publicly over it.

00:22:45.520 So, a couple, a couple of takeaways here, I think.

00:22:50.960 The first, the first one is that, um, I have to say once again, as always, there's, there's no point in apologizing in situations like this.

00:23:01.760 It's, it's not going to help you.

00:23:03.960 Okay.

00:23:04.920 You're not actually sorry.

00:23:07.280 Now, there's no point in even saying this to Dave, Dave Weigel, because he's a leftist, works at the Washington Post.

00:23:12.200 So, there's no hope there anyway, but I will just say that there's no point apologizing.

00:23:18.680 Um, it's not going to have any effect.

00:23:20.740 The people who are demanding the apology, uh, it, they're only demanding it as a symbolic gesture of submission to them.

00:23:28.760 That's all it is.

00:23:30.140 And when you say, sorry for any harm it caused, it caused zero harm.

00:23:34.220 Okay.

00:23:34.700 I want to say, find me the woman who was actually harmed because David Weigel retweeted a, retweeted a joke on Twitter.

00:23:44.340 Like, find me, find me that person.

00:23:47.540 Find me, I want to find the woman who was actually traumatized, can't even leave her house, crumpled into a ball, you know, sobbing uncontrollably. 0.95

00:23:57.180 And then you go up to her and you say, well, what's wrong?

00:23:59.160 What happened?

00:24:00.280 David Weigel retweeted a joke.

00:24:02.600 Like, find me that.

00:24:03.660 It doesn't exist.

00:24:04.800 Nobody's harmed by it.

00:24:05.980 Nobody cares.

00:24:09.220 Um, and so all you're doing is, is choosing to participate in this charade.

00:24:14.560 You're just playing your role.

00:24:15.660 It's like, it's like that all, it's just, it's a pageant.

00:24:17.900 It's like, this is like professional wrestling at this point.

00:24:20.000 And, uh, I think what you should say is, no, I'm not going to, it was a joke.

00:24:26.300 You, you all should apologize to me for not being able to take a joke.

00:24:32.300 Like, what, what, what's wrong with you people?

00:24:36.240 I mean, it's, it's, it, you know, women are always, we're, we're always hearing from feminists that, uh, that, uh, you know, women are just as funny as men.

00:24:44.400 You know, I can remember, um, way back in, in the dark old days when Christopher Hitchens wrote that article.

00:24:50.820 I think it was for Vanity Fair, I believe, where he made the argument that, uh, women aren't as funny as men.

00:24:55.220 And it was this huge outrage.

00:24:56.880 It's like a terrible thing.

00:24:57.620 You can't say that.

00:24:58.280 Well, okay.

00:24:59.280 So if everyone's equally as funny, then you got to be able to take a joke.

00:25:02.160 Okay.

00:25:02.460 You got to, especially a joke like that.

00:25:05.580 Pretty clever.

00:25:06.760 It's not the funniest joke of all time, but it's pretty clever.

00:25:08.680 And you got to be able to take jokes like that.

00:25:10.760 If you can't take a joke, then you can't claim to have a sense of humor.

00:25:12.840 And so you can't be funny.

00:25:14.400 That should be the response, but it wasn't.

00:25:17.300 So we got the apology.

00:25:18.700 Um, and then the other takeaway here is just, is just, there's no, no honor, you know, or loyalty among these people whatsoever.

00:25:29.080 Just think about that for a second.

00:25:30.520 We're used to this kind of canceling campaign that happens when somebody says something and, and nobody really cares, but everyone pretends to care.

00:25:38.980 And then you've got a bunch of strangers who are trying to cancel this person.

00:25:41.480 And so we're used to seeing that.

00:25:43.340 But in this case, you work with this guy and he's, and he's been a friend of yours for years and you don't like something that he tweeted.

00:25:51.180 So the first thing you do is go publicly and call for him to be penalized at his work.

00:25:56.080 If someone's a friend, like you never criticize friends publicly.

00:26:02.840 That's not to say you never criticize friends, but you, you pull them aside.

00:26:06.780 You talk to them privately.

00:26:08.380 The moment you bring this into the public, especially if that's the first thing you do, like that, that's not how friendship works.

00:26:17.900 So there's no honor.

00:26:19.080 There's no, there's no loyalty at all.

00:26:20.660 But also Weigel himself is not a victim because he apologized.

00:26:26.980 And, and these are the circles that he runs in.

00:26:29.020 I mean, if you, if this is, if these are the people that you choose to be friends with, then this is what's going to happen to you.

00:26:35.580 As soon as the, as soon as you slip up a little bit, if you, if you step out of line a little bit, according to what, according to the line, as they see it,

00:26:42.500 like they have a line for you that you're supposed to walk in order to maintain this so-called friendship.

00:26:47.560 And the moment that you waver a little bit off the line, then you're dead to them.

00:26:52.220 They will just try to destroy your life.

00:26:53.540 That's it.

00:26:56.320 These are the people you choose to associate with.

00:26:58.060 And you really, you have it coming.

00:26:59.800 Not, not to victim blame, but I guess I am victim blaming here.

00:27:02.640 All right.

00:27:03.400 So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I cut a couple, a couple good clips from her. 1.00

00:27:06.980 She, you understand good in a certain way, you know, good as in, as in.

00:27:12.500 At least funny.

00:27:13.900 So she says that here, she is talking about democracy.

00:27:17.280 And we, we once again, get a rather depressing, morbid view of democracy, which is especially interesting given the context.

00:27:24.860 But first, let's listen to it.

00:27:26.900 This is a lot more than just voting harder.

00:27:31.220 And it also cuts to the basic structure of our democracy, if you can call it that.

00:27:38.860 Because when you have a presidency, that's not determined by a popular vote, when you have a Senate where millions, tens of millions of people more can vote for one candidate, one party, rather one party, and still be in the minority.

00:28:04.340 Where even in the House of Representatives, that's supposed to represent our population, that gets gerrymandered to all hell once and every once every 10 years in order to ensure an outsized minority rule and voice in both the House, the Senate and the presidency. 0.98

00:28:28.580 It is becoming increasingly difficult for people to defend the stance that we live in a democracy, in a true one.

00:28:39.120 And what the real truth of the matter is, is when you look at the fact.

00:28:47.680 That's enough. 1.00

00:28:48.520 Shut up. 1.00

00:28:48.960 So, you heard that. 0.99

00:28:50.700 It's just interesting given the context that she is speaking.

00:28:53.740 Well, democracy is dead.

00:28:54.860 It's not a real democracy.

00:28:56.000 We don't live in a democracy.

00:28:57.460 And yet, she was elected and her party controls Congress and the White House. 1.00

00:29:05.020 So, her party controls the entire government. 0.50

00:29:09.140 And she's saying that this is all a sham.

00:29:11.140 There's no democracy.

00:29:11.980 I mean, first of all, what does that say about how you got into power?

00:29:18.140 So, does that mean we shouldn't listen to you?

00:29:21.460 You're a part of this sham system, aren't you?

00:29:25.080 In fact, you've managed to rise to the top of this system that's a total sham.

00:29:30.140 What does that say about you?

00:29:31.240 And it's just, it's really interesting the way that they, the way that they cut themselves off at the kneecaps.

00:29:37.000 Because wouldn't they want to claim that, you know, the fact that they're in power, they have the White House, they have Congress.

00:29:44.160 That wouldn't they want to claim that this is a reflection of the will of the people and it gives them a mandate, you know, to do what they want to do and to legislate.

00:29:52.920 And they do want to claim that.

00:29:54.180 But at the same time, they say, oh, the whole system doesn't mean anything.

00:29:56.500 It's all a sham.

00:29:58.780 It's hard to claim both of those things.

00:30:00.240 Now, she also, in a different video, she's promoting, and this is, I could be wrong, but I think it's one of the first times she's actually openly come out and addressed this issue of latinx, you know, gender inclusive language and this, especially the gender inclusive, the gender inclusivity that's trying, that's being imposed on the Spanish language, mostly by white liberal colonialists.

00:30:24.780 And how does she feel about it?

00:30:26.980 Well, let's find out.

00:30:27.780 Also, in the spirit of pride, I wanted to have a note on gender inclusivity in Spanish language.

00:30:34.640 People sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term Latinx.

00:30:39.940 But even before Latinx, people were trying to do this, like, use an at to have the A and the O together.

00:30:47.680 Gender is fluid.

00:30:49.040 Language is fluid.

00:30:50.200 And I think people right now are using the E term as gender neutral in order to be as inclusive as possible.

00:30:57.740 I just, oh, that's so great.

00:30:59.780 I actually hadn't watched the video yet.

00:31:01.080 I just knew what she said.

00:31:02.040 I, I, I, the, the audio is so much better because she tries to give this kind of Spanish accent to Latinx, which is not a word at all.

00:31:13.920 And it's not even a word that can be said, really, in the Spanish language.

00:31:17.580 It just doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense in the Spanish language.

00:31:21.600 It's, it's, it's total nonsense, especially in a language that, I mean, I don't know why I have to, I don't know why am I in a position of having to teach AOC about Spanish language.

00:31:32.700 But apparently I am.

00:31:33.680 And so I have to explain to her that it's a gendered language. 1.00

00:31:36.420 Like, everything is gendered in, in the Spanish language.

00:31:39.200 So, first of all, it doesn't even make any sense to, to try to do this if you're not going to turn every other word gender neutral also.

00:31:49.980 And then at that point, you've just destroyed the language.

00:31:53.120 You've, you've created, it's, this is not language changing or evolving.

00:31:56.560 This is just a whole new language that you've created to supplant the other one because the other one was, you, you, you disliked for political and ideological reasons.

00:32:08.860 But also, as I have to keep reminding people, whenever we hear this claim that Latinx or anything, you know, whatever else, the pronoun stuff, like all of this is just, language is fluid and, and it, it evolves over time.

00:32:23.900 Well, that's actually true.

00:32:25.200 Okay, now language, in a sense, is fluid and does evolve over time.

00:32:29.980 Unlike gender, which, which is binary and does not change, it's not fluid, does not evolve over time.

00:32:38.560 But that's not what's happening here.

00:32:41.820 Okay, because a, an evolution, a change over time, fluidity of language, all that, that would just be, you know, you, if, if, if, if Latinx was being introduced that way,

00:32:53.940 then it would just kind of come up on its own and it would, it would start among Spanish-speaking people.

00:33:02.880 And then they would start using this word and then it would just kind of make its way in.

00:33:06.380 And that's, and that's the way that language actually does evolve.

00:33:09.220 Okay, but in this case, it's from the outside.

00:33:14.160 People, many of whom don't even speak Spanish, came up with this term that they prefer for political reasons and are trying to impose it from the top down onto the Spanish language.

00:33:25.240 That is not, that is not language being fluid, that is not language evolving, that is manipulation.

00:33:32.560 That's appropriation, that's colonization of the Spanish language by white LGBT liberals. 0.86

00:33:40.100 Here's a, here's a kind of a good rule of thumb.

00:33:43.520 If there's a change of language and you can pinpoint the exact moment where it started, like, you know who came up with it,

00:33:52.560 then that's a pretty good indication that this is not a natural evolution that just kind of happens on its own over time.

00:33:59.340 This is someone thought of this and they would prefer if language worked this way instead.

00:34:04.160 And then in this case, worked through institutions to impose that on the Spanish language.

00:34:10.120 Again, a totally different sort of thing.

00:34:13.740 All right, what else we got here?

00:34:16.460 This from Daily Wire says,

00:34:17.420 New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hocule signed a 10-bill package of gun laws on Monday that included raising the age to legally purchase a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21 following several recent mass shootings nationwide.

00:34:30.100 Hocule signed the package to immediately strengthen the state's gun laws.

00:34:33.520 And close critical loopholes, quote-unquote, as lawmakers seek to decrease shootings.

00:34:39.460 And then there are other things that happen in the bill too.

00:34:40.740 The main thing I just want to point out here, as we're raising the age from 18 to 21,

00:34:48.440 and in this article we don't get much of an explanation because I don't think there really is one,

00:34:53.540 like very specifically, as to why are we raising it to 21?

00:34:56.940 I mean, what happens at 21 that isn't happening at 18 that makes it so that you can own these kinds of weapons when at 18 you can't?

00:35:08.600 But I'd really like to hear from someone on the left a very specific explanation of that.

00:35:14.020 You want to raise the age, whatever the weapon is, whatever type of gun we're talking about,

00:35:17.740 and whatever age you want to raise it to.

00:35:20.760 The fact that you want to raise the age for any kind of gun ownership is very interesting,

00:35:26.000 and I'd love to hear you very specifically explain why.

00:35:30.400 Because I'm guessing that your answer is going to have a lot to do with the development of the brain,

00:35:36.560 with the decision-making abilities of younger people.

00:35:40.400 Like, that's probably what this is about, right?

00:35:42.800 That's what you would say?

00:35:44.400 Something along those lines?

00:35:47.740 Well, if that's the case, then that raises a lot of interesting questions about how you can justify allowing five-year-olds to choose their gender.

00:35:56.240 If an 18-year-old does not have the capacity to own certain kinds of firearms,

00:36:03.160 because we can't trust them with it, according to you,

00:36:06.420 and their brain's not developed enough, and they don't have the right kind of discernment,

00:36:09.140 they're not mature enough, they're not, you know, they don't have enough critical thinking,

00:36:12.540 long-term planning, all those kinds of things.

00:36:15.720 They're too impulsive, or whatever else you would say about them.

00:36:19.920 Well, then, are they able to make lifelong, you know, body-altering decisions for themselves?

00:36:30.640 So, 18, you can't own the firearm, you're too young.

00:36:33.920 Oh, but at 5, you can certainly make a decision to change your head.

00:36:36.220 At 12, you can make a decision to sterilize yourself forever.

00:36:41.380 At 12.

00:36:43.480 But by the time you're 18, you're still not old enough to be responsible with a gun.

00:36:49.840 All right, one other thing I want to play for you.

00:36:51.040 This is an HR representative recorded this TikTok video as, I guess, a warning, apparently,

00:36:55.560 to right-wingers who post about their views publicly.

00:36:58.300 And she just kind of is warning us, and let's just watch it.

00:37:05.300 I'm a recruiter.

00:37:07.040 It's a small, small, small industry.

00:37:09.660 Smaller than you think.

00:37:10.760 Same with HR.

00:37:12.360 So, if you're looking for a job, or maybe trying to keep a job,

00:37:17.940 maybe, just maybe,

00:37:20.120 think about what you're putting on social media.

00:37:25.860 Again, freedom fighters.

00:37:27.580 I know you're not really big with stats, and, you know, facts aren't your thing, you know.

00:37:33.940 But what I can tell you, what is a fact, is that recruiters talk.

00:37:39.080 And recruiters, like the majority of Canada, don't agree with you.

00:37:44.160 Do you know what that means?

00:37:45.580 Do you have any guesses?

00:37:46.480 Any guesses what that means?

00:37:47.500 What that means is that if you need a job, you might not get one.

00:37:51.920 If you want to keep a job, you might not get to do that.

00:37:56.080 And, you know what else HR is good at?

00:38:00.700 Documentation.

00:38:02.460 You know what that means? 0.98

00:38:03.940 You want to be an a**hole? 0.98

00:38:05.640 We document it. 0.98

00:38:06.900 We give you a couple tries.

00:38:08.340 Then what do we do? 0.97

00:38:09.300 We terminate you.

00:38:10.500 With cause. 0.94

00:38:11.560 If we're so lucky.

00:38:13.100 If not, we give you the minimum allowed by law.

00:38:16.200 Either way, best of luck to you.

00:38:20.780 Recruiters are watching.

00:38:21.940 HR is watching.

00:38:23.100 Everywhere. 0.99

00:38:24.000 And we hate you. 1.00

00:38:25.300 We hate you so much. 0.99

00:38:27.560 And you think we can't do anything. 0.70

00:38:29.520 But we can.

00:38:31.020 We have the power.

00:38:34.000 Always remember that. 0.95

00:38:35.980 Doesn't matter if there's a f***ing man at the top of your HR department. 0.98

00:38:39.500 It's run by women. 1.00

00:38:40.960 And it's run by angry women just like me. 1.00

00:38:45.520 I can't watch any more of this.

00:38:46.900 I'm so, so glad I got that on my chest. 0.91

00:38:50.020 This is like if Nurse Ratched was your bitter, drunk aunt. 0.99

00:38:55.940 It's just the worst combination of, I mean, do you, I guess she doesn't realize, but you're viscerally repulsive and unappealing in every way to everyone. 0.99

00:39:08.580 Like, I guess she doesn't realize that about it.

00:39:11.940 I mean, because one of the prerequisites to be somebody like that is you have to have no self-awareness whatsoever.

00:39:16.940 First of all, telltale sign of self-awareness or lack thereof is when you're talking to, you know, the phone and you have the screen that close to your face.

00:39:25.540 And you just know that that's what she does to people in real life, too.

00:39:30.240 Can you imagine that?

00:39:31.840 She's up that close in your face talking to you. 1.00

00:39:35.720 You have to smell the stale white wine on her breath.

00:39:41.820 You know, you see that and you think, well, that's, okay, that's a bitter, lonely cat lady. 0.95

00:39:46.540 You know, childless, husbandless.

00:39:49.440 And there's a chance of that, but there's also, you know, like a lot of these people are married.

00:39:53.940 Can you imagine being married to that?

00:39:55.200 I would just, I'd have to move to Siberia.

00:39:57.020 I don't think there's any, there's no way to endure it.

00:40:02.000 But what you have to realize is that corporate HR departments, actually, it's good that she decided to post this.

00:40:09.280 Corporate HR departments are full of people like this.

00:40:12.880 Maybe not quite that extreme or that, you know, kind of openly, blatantly repulsive, but full of people like this.

00:40:22.760 In the sense of being totally drunk on the little bit of power that they have.

00:40:28.440 Okay.

00:40:29.000 They have a little bit, and this, you find this in bureaucracies, all over bureaucracies.

00:40:34.520 And big corporations are all bureaucracies, too.

00:40:38.420 And, in effect, people that work at these HR departments and these major companies are, in effect, bureaucrats, really, glorified.

00:40:45.540 And this is what you find, just a bunch of people who are given this little sliver of power.

00:40:50.820 It's like not that much, but it's a little bit.

00:40:52.640 And they have little ways, and sometimes not so little ways, that they can make your life difficult.

00:40:59.460 And they just love doing it.

00:41:02.580 Whatever they can do, whatever small amount of power you give to them, they become, like, she's an actual supervillain.

00:41:09.060 She's, this is what, it's the kind of video you would see a supervillain in a comic book movie record.

00:41:15.480 Like, the only thing that was missing was, and I was expecting it, honestly, was the maniacal laughter.

00:41:20.620 Which, usually, that's the kind of thing you see in movies all the time, where the villain comes up with this evil plan and then laughs about it.

00:41:25.860 And it's like, you never see people do that in real life, even the most evil people.

00:41:29.000 But, I was expecting it there.

00:41:31.940 The kind of Joker cackle at the end.

00:41:35.160 She's become a supervillain because of a little power that she got from the HR department. 1.00

00:41:40.460 But here's the great thing.

00:41:41.380 Here's the happy ending to that.

00:41:42.600 Is that she begins the video by saying, be very careful what you put on social media.

00:41:47.620 Well, she probably should have taken her own advice because, apparently, now, her employer has been made aware of this video and is looking into it.

00:41:53.720 And they're going to have to make some decisions about whether they want to keep her around.

00:41:57.980 So, that's at least a happy ending to that.

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00:43:08.660 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:43:10.700 Do you know their name?

00:43:14.080 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:18.220 Let's see.

00:43:19.520 Dawn says, Matt, I hate to break it to you, but I think the sweet baby gang, your detractors, and probably even your wife, 0.98

00:43:24.400 all assume that you're going to die a slightly goofy death. 0.96

00:43:27.120 If not bees, then something else. 0.96

00:43:28.780 My money's on tripping while running up the stairs in the dark to get away from the scary spiders that your wife shut you in with. 1.00

00:43:33.260 Or maybe some elaborate scenario where you're trying to avoid changing a diaper, but through a series of events, you end up causing your own death.

00:43:39.040 That would be the most fitting end for me.

00:43:41.120 Something like that.

00:43:42.060 And I think, I can't disagree with you.

00:43:43.860 I can't even ban you from the show for that because I think you're probably right.

00:43:46.060 But, and at least if that happens, then I'll be, I'll be true.

00:43:49.980 I guess in a way, I was worried about not dying a noble death and how that might affect the sweet baby gang.

00:43:55.340 The situation would put you guys in, but I think you're right in a way that it would be, it would be the truest.

00:43:59.460 I'd be the truest to my role as the leader of the sweet baby gang if I were to die in such a way.

00:44:03.300 But another comment says, the massacre you described in Nigeria was almost certainly organized religious terrorism.

00:44:11.940 It was not the lone nutcase model the USA specializes in.

00:44:15.940 Good try, Matt.

00:44:17.620 I don't know what you think I was trying.

00:44:19.880 I was just reporting what happened.

00:44:22.380 And I think you're certainly right.

00:44:24.340 It was probably terrorism.

00:44:25.960 And this is the point that I made last week when we heard from the left that, oh, the mass shootings, it only happened in the United States.

00:44:31.960 No, in fact, mass shootings and mass of violence of various different kinds, they happen all across the world and all throughout history.

00:44:38.640 They just, they might manifest themselves in different ways.

00:44:41.440 So if you have a violent, nihilistic sort of person in Nigeria, then it's very likely they're going to join an organized terrorist organization. 0.99

00:44:51.700 If they live in Mexico, they're probably going to join a cartel.

00:44:54.100 Well, if they live in the United States, depending on where they live in the United States, they might just kind of fester in their mom's basement before they explode one day.

00:45:02.500 Or if they live in the city, they might join a street gang.

00:45:04.380 Like all this stuff manifests itself in a different ways, but it's the same sort of thing.

00:45:10.260 That's my point.

00:45:14.460 Let's see.

00:45:15.000 Hoosier says, LOL to all those email replies from the critics, sweet bigot gang.

00:45:21.360 That's, I think we got to get that on a shirt.

00:45:22.940 I know that might be one step too far for the Daily Wire, but I'll see.

00:45:26.500 Sweet bigot gang.

00:45:29.280 Let's see.

00:45:32.280 Another one says, the What is a Woman sequels are going to be better than the Star Wars sequels, hands down.

00:45:36.700 Well, that's yes, but that's then again, you know, as long as they get above a D minus, then they'll be better than that.

00:45:44.820 So that's probably not saying much.

00:45:45.840 Marsha says, how do you respond to the feminists who say that you ignored them or didn't include them in your film? 0.99

00:45:53.120 The British gender critical feminists seem really upset about that.

00:45:56.180 Yeah, I can't remember if we talked about that on the show yet, but this is a thing online.

00:45:59.560 There's a whole sort of group of feminists, especially in the UK, who refer to themselves as gender critical, but they are derisively called the TERFs, trans-exclusionary radical feminists.

00:46:12.740 That's what the trans activists call them.

00:46:13.740 But anyway, there's apparently been quite a lot of discussion in that community, especially in the UK, about this film and about whether or not they should champion it, given that I'm a scary right winger and all that.

00:46:28.240 I'm a man, you know.

00:46:29.800 And then there's also been this accusation that we didn't include, that we excluded them from the film.

00:46:35.180 Of course, the truth of the matter there is that, as I've said before, we made this film.

00:46:40.360 We cast a very wide net.

00:46:41.420 We wanted to talk to all the people we possibly could, but not everybody wanted to talk to us.

00:46:48.140 And we did reach out to some feminists, and we found that they, the ones we reached out to anyway, didn't want to talk to us. 0.99

00:46:55.540 But, as I keep repeating, my mantra on this thing when it comes to gender ideology is that I'm willing to join forces with anybody to bring this down. 0.87

00:47:06.080 Like, for this specific battle, if you stand against gender ideology and the madness of gender ideology and you stand for biological reality on this subject, then, yes, we could be allies in this particular fight.

00:47:18.880 But, that's my position.

00:47:22.400 Daniel says, Matt, I agree with the criticism made by Jason Whitlock and the commenter you responded to yesterday.

00:47:26.980 Erasing God from the film is a fatal flaw.

00:47:29.120 It's good, but hard to recommend as you did not ground your message in scripture.

00:47:33.680 Well, yeah, I read Jason's column.

00:47:35.160 He wrote about the film, and I texted back and forth with him a little bit about it.

00:47:38.660 But, I'll be on a show, I think, in a couple days, so we'll talk probably more about this.

00:47:43.080 I just don't agree with the critique at all.

00:47:45.900 Let me respond, first of all, to what you just said.

00:47:48.800 Jason didn't say that I erased God, but that's what you're saying, and that's absurd.

00:47:54.140 You cannot erase God if you're speaking truth.

00:47:58.920 Any pursuit or defense of truth is not going to erase God, as you say, quite the opposite.

00:48:03.960 The question is whether the film should have had an explicitly sort of theological message.

00:48:10.280 Should we have gone through the entire journey, and then I go back to my home, and I talk to my wife, spoiler alert,

00:48:18.420 and when I'm talking to her, should she have answered the question by pulling out the Bible and quoting Genesis, or something like that?

00:48:26.440 That's the question, and I emphatically believe that we handled that the right way

00:48:31.500 by not making this an explicitly theological film.

00:48:34.920 That would have minimized the cultural impact in a major way by giving the left an escape hatch

00:48:39.980 and making it seem as though criticism of gender ideology is faith-based and religious in nature.

00:48:48.300 That's what they want to believe.

00:48:50.160 That's what they want to claim.

00:48:51.700 It's not true.

00:48:53.720 Because, in fact, gender ideology is faith-based and religious.

00:48:57.320 As I said yesterday, if somebody says to you, two plus two equals five,

00:49:03.500 your response, I'm pretty sure, is going to be, no, it equals four.

00:49:07.320 You're not going to say, no, God says it equals four.

00:49:10.460 He does say that, but you don't need to say that when you're responding to the question.

00:49:14.380 You just need to reassert the reality.

00:49:17.460 If you did say, oh, God says it's four, it would sound as though

00:49:20.760 your mathematical claims are somehow doctrinal or religious when they are not.

00:49:27.040 So, that was the approach.

00:49:28.740 Really, the idea is to reach as wide an audience as we can with this

00:49:32.540 and to keep the message as basic and simple as we possibly can.

00:49:37.580 That's what we're trying to achieve with the film.

00:49:40.320 Other people can make other films that deal with it in other ways.

00:49:42.400 That's one of the things, like, anytime you make a piece of content,

00:49:47.180 you always get this.

00:49:47.780 It's a very weird criticism you get from people where they'll criticize you

00:49:52.160 for making that content and not something else.

00:49:54.500 Why did you make that instead of this?

00:49:57.140 Okay, it's a little bit like, I don't know, walking into a pizza shop

00:50:00.740 and then saying, why are you guys making pizza and not serving ice cream instead?

00:50:05.080 Because we're making pizza.

00:50:06.160 This is what we're doing.

00:50:06.960 Like, if you want ice cream, go to an ice cream shop or start your own.

00:50:10.260 You can't do everything.

00:50:13.580 So, this was our approach to this film.

00:50:16.240 This is the film we wanted to make.

00:50:18.600 But there are many other ways to approach this issue.

00:50:21.940 And I would eagerly suggest that anyone who wants to make any kind of film

00:50:27.580 or anything dealing with this issue in other ways should certainly do that.

00:50:31.280 Well, in the fray and the utter mess and the mass hysteria

00:50:34.360 over the release of my documentary, What is a Woman?

00:50:36.640 You may have missed the What is a Woman collection

00:50:38.960 over at dailywire.com slash shop.

00:50:41.220 The collection is complete with a pre-order from my upcoming book,

00:50:43.560 What is a Woman? 1.00

00:50:44.480 Also, t-shirt stickers and yet another limited edition patch

00:50:47.480 in my highly coveted, sought-after patch program.

00:50:51.040 The definition of a woman patch highlights the circular logic of the left

00:50:54.720 going around and around until the failed explanation loses all meaning.

00:50:57.840 And much like the age-old symbol of the serpent eating its own tail,

00:51:00.620 disappears from reality completely.

00:51:02.180 That's a lot to accomplish with one patch.

00:51:04.600 So, go to dailywire.com slash shop and check it out.

00:51:07.460 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:12.580 Well, after Amber Heard really crapped the bed, so to speak, in trial

00:51:16.300 and was found liable for defamation against Johnny Depp,

00:51:19.440 there's been a popular outcry to put Depp back into any forthcoming

00:51:23.700 Pirates of the Caribbean films.

00:51:25.940 Now, I think a better plan would be to put nobody in the forthcoming

00:51:28.660 Pirates of the Caribbean films and just stop making them entirely.

00:51:31.920 They got one mildly amusing film out of a theme park ride the sequels provide.

00:51:36.000 It proved, I think, that there wasn't much juice left to squeeze out of it.

00:51:40.100 Not everything needs to be a five-decade-long franchise.

00:51:43.380 That's just my opinion.

00:51:44.920 The fans disagree, which has led to a campaign to get Depp back involved in the franchise,

00:51:49.700 and that has precipitated an effort in the reverse from the last straggler

00:51:54.240 still left trying to salvage the credibility of the Me Too movement

00:51:57.080 to ensure that Depp never stars in any film ever again.

00:52:00.500 In fact, one Stanford professor has taken it a step further.

00:52:04.400 She's decided that the best way to keep Johnny Depp out of the Pirates of the Caribbean

00:52:08.300 is to cancel Pirates of the Caribbean, and the best way to do that is to cancel pirates.

00:52:14.020 So she tweeted,

00:52:14.580 Captain Jack and Pirates of the Caribbean whitewashed and erased slaves and slavery

00:52:19.740 from the 18th century Caribbean, where its practice was probably the most cruel in the world.

00:52:24.660 Pirates were often far from the freedom fighters the film portrayed,

00:52:28.860 but were slaveholders themselves.

00:52:30.300 In case you need another reason to hate Johnny Depp, the Pirates franchise is deeply racially problematic.

00:52:36.800 In sum, even the fictional character Depp's fans love and think as a real depiction of Depp himself 0.94

00:52:41.920 is almost certainly a racist sociopath.

00:52:45.880 Now, the first problem here is that a Stanford professor is using the grade school insult Johnny Depp. 0.97

00:52:52.580 And this is especially embarrassing and ineffective when the other side has a much, much better grade school insult in Amber Turd. 0.97

00:53:01.780 That's actually one of the greatest name-rhyming insults of all time.

00:53:05.680 It might be the best that anyone's ever come up with.

00:53:09.280 I mean, given, you know, the backstory behind it.

00:53:12.100 And it goes to show why you should never leave a turd in your bed if your name rhymes with turd.

00:53:18.640 Or even if it doesn't, actually.

00:53:20.520 It's a good way to live.

00:53:22.480 But more to the point, Professor Michelle Dober is trying to enlighten us by revealing that pirates were actually unsavory characters in real life.

00:53:30.660 Well, this is stunning.

00:53:31.540 I mean, next she'll tell me that there was never really a pirate in real life with a hook for a hand

00:53:34.920 who was stalked by a crocodile with a clock in its belly as he tried to hunt down and murder a flying boy in a green suit with a fairy sidekick.

00:53:41.680 I mean, I'd always thought that Pirates of the Caribbean was a documentary and Peter Pan was at least based on a true story.

00:53:48.000 Thank God we have college professors around to correct the record.

00:53:50.920 I don't even want to ask, okay, whether there was ever really a prince who turned into a scary buffalo-type creature

00:53:57.520 and lived in a castle with his talking candlestick and a collection of sentient kitchen utensils.

00:54:03.320 I couldn't bear to know the truth.

00:54:05.200 Ignorance is bliss.

00:54:06.080 Just leave the rest of the fairy tales alone, please.

00:54:09.160 Now, aside from these stunning revelations, I think that there are a couple of other things happening here.

00:54:15.340 One is that we see how these people simply do not want anyone to experience any joy at all.

00:54:21.220 They are determined to find a reason why anything that you enjoy, however mild and superficial the diversion may be,

00:54:28.500 they want to tell you why it is, as they say, deeply problematic.

00:54:32.140 And the real problem for them is that you have not requested their permission ahead of time before recklessly deciding to enjoy something.

00:54:40.840 This is an oversight that they cannot allow to pass unchecked.

00:54:43.940 Notice how the professor makes sure to mention the fans of the film and of Depp's character.

00:54:50.840 She's very unsubtly drawing guilty, you know, sort of guilt by association here.

00:54:55.080 The character of Jack Sparrow is a racist sociopath, she says, and you like the character, so what does that say about you?

00:55:03.460 Never mind the fact, by the way, that Disney already thought of the PC problems that may arise from the relationship between piracy and slavery.

00:55:10.600 And they actually included a scene in one of the films where they mentioned that Jack Sparrow once freed 100 slaves from a ship.

00:55:18.360 Like, that's a storyline in one of the films.

00:55:21.120 So the professor is trying to outwoke Disney, but Disney is one step ahead, as always.

00:55:26.360 Another point is that, you know, she thinks it's a revelation to us that pirates were often cruel and violent people.

00:55:33.600 She thinks we'll be shocked to learn that pirates were racist.

00:55:37.860 And she only assumes it will be a surprise because, most likely, she just learned this herself.

00:55:43.560 I'm guessing she was mad about, you know, the Amber Heard verdict.

00:55:46.780 And so she Googled the true history of Jack Sparrow.

00:55:50.500 And then she found out that Jack Sparrow's true history goes back to a theme park ride.

00:55:54.500 So then she just Googled bad stuff about pirates generally and was scandalized by what she discovered.

00:55:59.540 She's only scandalized, though, and believes we will be also because, as a leftist, she has no understanding of world history.

00:56:08.300 This is why leftists are constantly coming up with new historical figures to cancel, even fictional ones,

00:56:13.160 on the basis that they were racist or violent or whatever else.

00:56:17.620 What they don't understand is that for most of history, almost everybody was racist by our standards today.

00:56:23.880 And the entire history of humanity is soaked in blood and plagued by violence and defined by war and conquest from the dawn of civilization until now.

00:56:33.640 As normal people, we know this.

00:56:35.400 It's not news to us.

00:56:36.940 We understand historical figures within that context, and we judge them accordingly.

00:56:41.700 And we also know that the pirate of fiction bears very little resemblance to the pirate of history.

00:56:48.420 We know that.

00:56:49.000 It doesn't bother us.

00:56:50.180 We're okay with that.

00:56:50.880 We can compartmentalize these things.

00:56:54.780 Nobody is watching Pirates of the Caribbean and feeling influenced to, you know, go somewhere and become a pirate today.

00:57:01.820 Especially because that would require you to move to Somalia, probably.

00:57:04.380 So that's already enough of a disincentive.

00:57:07.320 We have no trouble with any of this.

00:57:09.000 She does because she is a utopian leftist with no understanding of history, no insight into human nature, and nothing to offer the world but new and innovative ways to be offended by utterly inconsequential things.

00:57:21.600 And that is why, today, Professor Michelle Dober is canceled. 0.99

00:57:28.180 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:57:29.400 Thanks for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 07, 2022

Ep. 966 - Trans Activists Want To Kill Me For Making A Documentary

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