The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 973 - Biden Wants To Make Sure More Children Are Drugged And Castrated

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration celebrates Pride Month with executive orders meant to ensure that more children are drugged and castrated.

00:00:07.660 Also, protesters interrupt a drag queen story hour and are now being investigated for a hate crime because of it, but a hate crime against who?

00:00:15.260 And Texas lawmakers send a letter to the White House asking for an official legal definition of the word woman.

00:00:20.160 Good question. Based on my experience, they're not going to get one, though.

00:00:22.760 Ibram Kendi has a new book out meant to indoctrinate more children into the CRT cult.

00:00:26.880 In our daily cancellation, George Washington University changes its Colonials moniker for reasons that make no sense whatsoever.

00:00:33.760 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:51.260 One of the ironclad rules of modern life, and something that I wish conservatives would finally come to understand once and for all and never forget,

00:01:59.580 is that the left always doubles down, always escalates.

00:02:03.220 We call it progressivism because it always progresses.

00:02:05.700 Progresses in the way that, you know, cancer progresses.

00:02:08.100 This means that if we are moderate in our opposition, if we settle for half measures, or worse, if we backtrack, if we triangulate,

00:02:16.860 we're going to become overwhelmed and eventually drowned out of the conversation entirely.

00:02:21.220 The other thing to keep in mind is that the left owns all of our cultural institutions,

00:02:25.180 which means that they own the culture, which means that as they push ever to the left,

00:02:28.820 they drag the entire culture along with them.

00:02:31.520 So this explains the sad, pathetic story of moderate conservatism, so-called.

00:02:36.000 You know, the moderate conservative is looking to, you know, stake out the halfway position between the right and the left.

00:02:43.540 But the halfway point is itself caught up in this riptide and drifting quickly to the left.

00:02:49.920 That's how we end up with conservatives who today support at least some of the underlying presuppositions of critical race theory and gender theory.

00:02:58.060 They've adopted a belief system that would have been too radically progressive, even for leftists 10 years ago.

00:03:05.120 Which is why it's inevitable that 10 years from now, these same moderate conservatives will be proclaiming their support for sex change surgeries for kindergartners,

00:03:13.960 but insisting that only adults should be able to medically transition to a new species.

00:03:18.060 That's where they draw the line.

00:03:20.460 Ah, this new, this species stuff, that's only for 18 year old and over, with some exceptions.

00:03:26.420 This will be the moderate and reasonable viewpoint in 2032, if not much sooner than that.

00:03:33.520 So case in point, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health,

00:03:37.080 this is one of the most prominent and influential health organizations in the world.

00:03:41.100 They come up with standards of care that are automatically endorsed by, you know, the American Academy of Pediatrics,

00:03:48.420 the American Psychological Association, and so on.

00:03:51.220 They also, as we discussed a couple of weeks ago, you may remember WPATH from a couple of weeks ago,

00:03:56.000 they came out in support of UNIC as a valid gender identity.

00:04:00.600 So that's where they're coming from.

00:04:02.040 And after receiving lots of criticism for that, and for all of the other lunacy that they push and they advocate,

00:04:07.680 WPATH has responded by doing what these people always do.

00:04:11.900 Their message to the public basically is,

00:04:14.140 oh, you don't like it when we push gender transitions on children?

00:04:16.800 Well, guess what?

00:04:17.500 Now we're going to push transitions on even younger children.

00:04:20.280 How do you like that?

00:04:22.000 As Yahoo reports, quote,

00:04:23.560 The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said hormones could be started at age 14,

00:04:29.100 two years earlier than the group's previous advice,

00:04:31.640 and some surgeries done at age 15 or 17, a year or so earlier than previous guidance.

00:04:38.240 The group acknowledged potential risks, but said that it's unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment.

00:04:44.960 Of course, doctors already have been chemically castrating 14-year-old children,

00:04:49.600 chopping the breasts off of 15-year-old girls, and all the rest of it.

00:04:52.420 But now the practice has the official endorsement of a group whose declarations are taken as unquestioned gospel truth

00:04:58.980 by every other medical organization in the entire Western world.

00:05:04.140 How do they justify this?

00:05:05.480 Well, you know, I mean, what do they say to the objections raised by transphobes

00:05:10.140 who are so hateful as to insist that maybe children shouldn't have their healthy body parts removed?

00:05:15.620 They do have a rebuttal of sorts, and I want you to listen to this.

00:05:19.340 Listen to the language that's being used here, okay?

00:05:22.420 It's not very subtle.

00:05:24.360 Quote, starting treatment earlier allows transgender teens to experience physical puberty changes

00:05:29.220 around the same time as other teens, said Dr. Eli Coleman,

00:05:33.060 chair of the group's Standards of Care and director of the University of Minnesota Medical School's

00:05:37.220 Human Sexuality Program.

00:05:38.980 But he stressed that age is just one factor to be weighed.

00:05:43.340 Emotional maturity, parents' consent, long-standing gender discomfort,

00:05:48.060 and a careful psychological evaluation are among the others.

00:05:51.660 Quote,

00:05:51.900 Quote, certainly there are adolescents that do not have the emotional or cognitive maturity

00:05:56.360 to make an informed decision, he said.

00:05:59.360 That's why we recommend a careful multidisciplinary assessment.

00:06:05.160 Ah, you see, only some adolescents lack the cognitive maturity to consent.

00:06:10.800 But there's nothing about adolescents itself which should disqualify children

00:06:14.820 for making these kinds of decisions, he says.

00:06:17.160 It's not a coincidence or a mere byproduct that they are now chipping away at the legal framework

00:06:24.300 that protects children from sexual abuse.

00:06:27.960 That framework is built entirely around the idea that children, no child, can actually offer informed consent.

00:06:36.340 That's why we say it's impossible for a child and an adult to have a sexual relationship.

00:06:49.140 Because that's not a relationship, that's rape every time.

00:06:52.780 Why? Because the child cannot consent.

00:06:57.000 He doesn't have the cognitive maturity.

00:06:59.120 Yet W-Path now declares that only some children lack cognitive maturity.

00:07:04.580 Other children are so mature that they can consent to having body parts removed.

00:07:08.240 They can consent to sterilization.

00:07:11.000 They can consent to castration.

00:07:12.460 The whole concept of consent is being intentionally confused and corrupted.

00:07:19.020 They know what they're doing.

00:07:21.060 And so do we.

00:07:22.040 And we know why they're doing it.

00:07:24.580 But W-Path wasn't the only group to double down on LGBT extremism this week.

00:07:28.940 Yesterday, the White House celebrated Pride Month with two executive orders.

00:07:33.220 One is meant to, quote, protect LGBT people from, quote, discriminatory laws that have been passed in a number of states.

00:07:39.460 Namely, the laws which ban doctors from castrating kids, ban males from female sports, and ban teachers from sexually indoctrinating preschoolers.

00:07:48.840 Biden now seeks to protect these children by making sure that they are indoctrinated and castrated.

00:07:55.000 For the other executive order, here's the White House statement explaining it.

00:07:58.080 It says, as a candidate, President Biden pledged to help end so-called conversion therapy,

00:08:03.740 a discredited and dangerous practice that seeks to suppress or change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQI plus people.

00:08:12.620 Today, President Biden is using his executive authority to launch an initiative to protect children across America

00:08:17.760 and crack down on this harmful practice, which every major medical association in the United States has condemned.

00:08:23.760 Now, keep in mind, of course, that conversion therapy also includes telling a boy that he's a boy.

00:08:32.400 That's conversion therapy, right?

00:08:35.700 According to the left, if a parent does not affirm a gender-confused boy as a girl, they are guilty of conversion therapy.

00:08:43.500 So, affirmation is to tell a boy that he's a girl, and conversion therapy is to tell a boy that he's a boy.

00:08:53.760 This is the twisted world that we're now living in.

00:08:57.900 Simply using the word he is conversion therapy.

00:09:01.640 They're already arresting people for this crime in Canada, as you heard in our film, What is a Woman?

00:09:07.380 The Biden regime wants to see that same thing happen here.

00:09:11.680 That's how Biden can prove his LGBT bona fides.

00:09:15.540 Something that he's desperate to do, as was made clear during his Pride speech yesterday,

00:09:19.820 where he spent several minutes just off the top bragging about all the gay and trans people in his administration.

00:09:27.180 Listen.

00:09:28.520 Look, last year we hosted this event, and the message is simple.

00:09:33.200 Pride is back at the White House.

00:09:35.100 From day one, from day one, this has been the most pro-equality administration in history,

00:09:46.540 led by guys like Pete Buttigieg.

00:09:53.660 And so many others.

00:09:55.700 I think we have more LGBTQ-plus people than any administration or every administration combined.

00:10:03.320 No, I really mean it.

00:10:05.580 I really mean it.

00:10:09.260 Because I promised when I got elected, I wanted my administration to look like America.

00:10:14.640 Look like America across the board.

00:10:16.860 And we've done that.

00:10:19.100 A record number of out and proud appointees at every single level of our government.

00:10:24.920 And as I said, you know, Secretary Buttigieg, who needs no introduction,

00:10:28.920 is doing an outstanding job of rebuilding America.

00:10:31.620 And I mean that in a literal sense.

00:10:33.440 And not just in terms of what he's doing in transportation,

00:10:36.720 but he's helping rebuild pride in America.

00:10:38.800 And, you know...

00:10:40.800 And my public spokesman, Corrine Jean-Pierre, who's making history at the time.

00:10:59.720 We're also joined by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Education and Human Services,

00:11:04.560 Admiral Rachel Levin.

00:11:05.680 And Undersecretary of Defense, Sean Skeely.

00:11:12.260 Where's Undersecretary of Defense?

00:11:15.540 There you go.

00:11:16.300 Thank you very much for being here.

00:11:21.140 Yeah, so we want the administration to look like America.

00:11:25.240 And so it has more LGBT people than every other administration combined.

00:11:29.640 Is that how you make it look like America?

00:11:31.040 You want it to look like America so you have Rachel Levine?

00:11:33.400 Is that what America looks like to you?

00:11:36.160 Rachel Levine?

00:11:38.920 Yeah, I guess in their mind, that's what America is.

00:11:41.280 America is Rachel Levine.

00:11:44.220 So you heard that, right?

00:11:45.360 Biden, after throwing shade on Obama by calling his own administration

00:11:48.620 the most pro-equality in history.

00:11:50.480 So not the administration with the first black president.

00:11:54.460 No, that's not the most pro-equality.

00:11:55.960 He's even more pro-equality than Obama was.

00:11:59.040 He also credits Pete Buttigieg with leading his administration

00:12:03.100 and with rebuilding America and also rebuilding pride in America.

00:12:08.560 He's done all this as transportation secretary.

00:12:11.060 And in spite of the fact that he took three months off for maternity leave,

00:12:14.340 but he's still been able to do all that.

00:12:15.700 So that's pretty impressive.

00:12:17.260 I think Biden is right, though.

00:12:18.260 I have to admit.

00:12:18.860 I mean, who among us has not been overcome with pride

00:12:21.280 because a gay guy named Pete is our transportation secretary?

00:12:24.880 I hear people saying it all the time.

00:12:26.020 Go up to any American on the street and ask them

00:12:27.840 why they're proud of America.

00:12:29.360 And the first thing they'll say is Pete Buttigieg, of course.

00:12:34.380 Now, this obviously is just a bunch of absurd pandering

00:12:36.880 by somebody who doesn't really believe any of this stuff

00:12:39.480 to the extent that he's able to believe anything at all anymore.

00:12:42.700 But does anyone in the administration actually believe any of this?

00:12:46.340 I mean, do they believe that it's abusive and oppressive

00:12:48.220 to not drug and mutilate kids?

00:12:51.180 Do they believe that it's conversion therapy to call a boy he?

00:12:54.560 Do they believe that we should be chopping the breasts off

00:12:58.020 of 15-year-old girls?

00:12:59.040 Do any of the politicians in Washington actually agree with

00:13:01.760 and believe in the extremist LGBT agenda to this extent?

00:13:06.160 Maybe a few of them do.

00:13:08.520 But most have been in the public eye for decades,

00:13:11.600 most prominent ones anyway,

00:13:13.160 and yet never once, up until very recently,

00:13:15.760 mentioned their affinity for chemically castrating 14-year-olds.

00:13:20.200 They push this now for ideological and political reasons, of course.

00:13:24.560 And that makes it all the more sinister and all the worse.

00:13:28.260 They're not really true believers.

00:13:29.420 They don't believe it.

00:13:30.020 They know what they're saying.

00:13:33.260 They're only going to continue to double down.

00:13:36.340 They're not going to just stop.

00:13:38.720 Unless we stop them, that is.

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00:14:50.360 So this was interesting.

00:14:51.260 There are some protesters who crashed

00:14:52.840 a Drag Queen Story Hour event in California

00:14:55.140 over the weekend.

00:14:56.080 Now, we've seen some of the footage of protests

00:14:58.320 outside of Drag Queen Story Hour events,

00:15:00.880 other drag queen events where kids are brought there.

00:15:03.900 We know what happened in Texas

00:15:05.620 with the drag event at a gay bar

00:15:08.340 and kids were brought in by their abusive parents.

00:15:10.520 There were protesters outside,

00:15:11.660 people confronting the drag queens outside,

00:15:13.860 which is good.

00:15:14.280 But in this case, the protesters went all the way

00:15:17.500 into the building and actually into the event itself

00:15:20.520 to confront the drag queen and the parents.

00:15:23.600 And let's hear how that confrontation went.

00:15:26.960 Who brought the tranny?

00:15:30.720 Who brought the pedophile?

00:15:32.620 First of all, you don't have to wear a mask.

00:15:35.200 No, thank you.

00:15:35.680 Who brought the pedophile?

00:15:36.880 It's not often.

00:15:37.520 We want to know.

00:15:38.300 You're required to wear a mask.

00:15:39.360 We want to know.

00:15:40.440 Well, we'll make the exam.

00:15:41.400 Thank you, though.

00:15:44.280 Who brought the pedophile?

00:15:45.980 I just want to know.

00:15:46.780 The story that is actually for children.

00:15:48.660 It's for, well, then why is the pedophile here?

00:15:51.020 So if you guys could please...

00:15:52.040 Why did you...

00:15:52.580 No, no, no, no.

00:15:53.140 We want to know why there's a pedophile here.

00:15:54.820 We saw videos of what that thing does.

00:15:56.480 I'm sorry, you're not in the library call.

00:15:57.560 Why did you...

00:15:58.140 I have to ask...

00:15:58.720 It's got videos...

00:15:59.500 You see what all pedophiles is in here.

00:16:00.500 ...about what it wants to do to little children.

00:16:01.820 Yeah.

00:16:02.080 You are...

00:16:02.680 Why did you...

00:16:03.100 You have videos on YouTube

00:16:04.200 of what it wants to do to little children.

00:16:05.380 Why did you bring the pedophile?

00:16:06.320 I don't understand.

00:16:07.680 I don't understand.

00:16:08.760 I don't understand.

00:16:08.820 The children.

00:16:09.460 Yeah.

00:16:09.700 Why would you bring the children to a pedophile?

00:16:11.280 That's why we're not sharing.

00:16:12.560 It's not vulgar land.

00:16:13.520 Hey, you should be ashamed of yourself.

00:16:15.360 How bad?

00:16:16.620 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:16:18.640 Why would you want to bring children to this?

00:16:21.080 Why would you want to expose your children to this?

00:16:22.720 Just to prove how tall you are a pedophile?

00:16:24.660 This is the only thing I have a problem exposing children to this.

00:16:28.460 You want to expose your children to pedophiles to prove how tall you are.

00:16:31.440 This is disgusting.

00:16:32.840 That's it.

00:16:35.120 Really good question to ask there.

00:16:36.420 Why would you want to expose your kids to this?

00:16:40.520 Good question.

00:16:41.600 Love to hear an answer to that.

00:16:42.500 They don't have an answer.

00:16:43.580 At least not an answer they're going to say out loud.

00:16:44.940 Why would you want to expose your kids to this?

00:16:47.260 I mean, do you want your kid to go to the library, hear a story?

00:16:51.100 You want your kid to...

00:16:51.640 That's totally understandable.

00:16:54.780 I read stories to my kids all the time.

00:16:57.980 We brought our kids to story times at libraries.

00:17:00.060 They used to be a pretty uncontroversial thing.

00:17:02.980 Why do you need a cross-dressing man to read the story is the question.

00:17:07.840 Why do you need a man who is acting out his sexual fetish?

00:17:13.120 Why do you need to incorporate that into the story time?

00:17:17.340 Why?

00:17:20.080 Good question to answer.

00:17:21.000 Now, the drag queen there who showed up cross-dressing for kids to read the story,

00:17:26.640 you know, he of course has been in front of the media talking about how terrified he is now

00:17:30.180 and what a terrible thing this was.

00:17:33.600 How uncomfortable he is now.

00:17:36.460 But here's the thing.

00:17:38.300 In a civilized society and in a sane society,

00:17:41.560 you should be made uncomfortable

00:17:44.440 when you're going to do this in front of kids.

00:17:48.320 Okay, people involved in combining drag queens and kids,

00:17:53.240 if they feel uncomfortable about that,

00:17:55.700 they feel like what they're doing is a little bit contentious,

00:17:59.920 that's how they should feel.

00:18:01.980 Like, you shouldn't feel like it's a normal, comfortable thing

00:18:05.500 to just combine kids and drag queens

00:18:09.560 because it's not normal and it's not okay.

00:18:11.960 And this is at a library, by the way.

00:18:17.020 Let's keep that in mind.

00:18:18.280 This is at a library.

00:18:19.180 This is a tax-funded institution.

00:18:24.340 So other taxpayers have every right

00:18:26.600 to voice their disapproval

00:18:29.020 of what their tax money is being used to do.

00:18:33.180 And even if it isn't a tax-funded institution,

00:18:35.380 this is child abuse.

00:18:36.380 Man, people have every right to express

00:18:40.880 their disapproval of child abuse.

00:18:43.860 Now, that's what I would say anyway,

00:18:46.600 but law enforcement,

00:18:47.640 they're saying something different.

00:18:48.600 In fact, they are now investigating this

00:18:50.920 as a hate crime.

00:18:53.580 What you just saw there is a hate crime.

00:18:56.000 A hate crime against who?

00:18:58.040 Drag queens?

00:18:59.220 Drag queens are now a protected class of people?

00:19:03.220 I mean, what's the, you know,

00:19:06.960 this isn't even,

00:19:07.740 we're going to try to charge them

00:19:08.820 with disturbing the peace

00:19:10.080 or anything like that.

00:19:14.040 Harassment.

00:19:14.600 I mean, they might try to throw

00:19:15.420 some of those charges on there too.

00:19:16.600 I'm sure they will.

00:19:17.620 But we're not talking about that part of it.

00:19:19.820 Okay.

00:19:21.500 Hate crime?

00:19:24.240 Now, even according to the way

00:19:25.860 the hate crime laws are written,

00:19:27.540 and there are a lot of problems

00:19:28.440 with the way they're written,

00:19:29.220 there are a lot of problems

00:19:29.840 with just the hate crime category in general,

00:19:32.480 but the way it's supposed to work

00:19:35.280 is that if you do something discriminatory

00:19:39.200 or in a harassing manner

00:19:41.820 towards a protected class of people,

00:19:44.440 and again, the fact that there are protected classes,

00:19:47.840 which means that there are then unprotected classes,

00:19:50.140 the fact that we have this

00:19:51.220 is in itself a huge problem,

00:19:54.120 and also unconstitutional, I would say,

00:19:56.220 because everybody's guaranteed equality under the law,

00:19:58.500 and when you single out certain classes as protected

00:20:00.620 and other classes as not,

00:20:02.400 then that's not equality under the law.

00:20:03.760 But putting that aside for a second,

00:20:05.400 are drag queens protected classes now?

00:20:07.800 That's like a demographic.

00:20:09.200 A guy who enjoys cross-dressing is now,

00:20:13.660 that's their own category of people.

00:20:19.040 Says, according to Yahoo News,

00:20:20.880 California police are investigating

00:20:22.260 after a group of men allegedly interrupted

00:20:24.040 a drag queen story hour

00:20:25.120 at a library in San Francisco Bay Area.

00:20:26.880 The men who police believe

00:20:27.960 to be part of the far-right Proud Boys

00:20:29.800 reportedly yelled homophobic

00:20:31.720 and anti-LGBTQ plus slurs.

00:20:34.080 Now, that part,

00:20:37.160 the homophobic and anti-LGBTQ slurs,

00:20:39.000 I didn't hear that in the video.

00:20:40.380 Now, the video does go on for a while longer.

00:20:42.180 Maybe there are other videos, too.

00:20:43.120 I don't know.

00:20:44.020 I didn't hear in that clip.

00:20:46.560 And they don't,

00:20:47.460 in this article,

00:20:48.220 they don't quote what exactly those slurs were.

00:20:51.720 Everything I heard in that clip

00:20:53.040 was directed at the drag queen

00:20:55.900 and the whole concept of combining drag queens and kids.

00:20:59.120 That's their problem.

00:20:59.880 On Saturday afternoon,

00:21:03.580 police responded to calls around 1.30 p.m.

00:21:05.240 that there was a disturbance

00:21:06.100 at the San Lorenzo Library

00:21:07.400 during the story reading.

00:21:09.240 Authorities said that a group of five men

00:21:10.600 had disrupted the event,

00:21:11.560 which was attended by children,

00:21:12.780 parents, and community members.

00:21:14.240 The men began to shout homophobic

00:21:15.620 and transphobic slurs at the event organizer.

00:21:18.600 The men were described as extremely aggressive

00:21:20.520 with a threatening, violent demeanor,

00:21:22.280 causing people to fear for their safety.

00:21:24.780 An active hate crime investigation is underway,

00:21:27.340 as is an investigation

00:21:28.320 into the annoying and harassing of children.

00:21:35.120 The annoying and harassing of children.

00:21:39.180 Annoying?

00:21:39.640 Is that actual crime now, first of all?

00:21:42.420 Being annoying is a crime?

00:21:45.780 There are a lot of people I know

00:21:47.120 who need to be arrested in that case.

00:21:49.820 But no, they weren't harassing the children.

00:21:52.280 If they were harassing anybody,

00:21:53.220 it was the adults.

00:21:54.200 That's what all this is directed at.

00:21:55.360 They were there because their belief

00:21:59.000 is that the children are being harassed

00:22:01.080 by the event.

00:22:05.340 And they're correct in that belief, by the way.

00:22:08.180 The police added,

00:22:08.920 as we celebrate Pride Month,

00:22:10.920 we will be swift in our response

00:22:12.420 to any incidents where there are threats

00:22:14.020 to harm members of this community.

00:22:15.800 Of what community?

00:22:17.220 The drag queen community.

00:22:18.380 Or are you saying that dressing in drag

00:22:24.060 in front of children

00:22:24.840 is, what,

00:22:26.920 synonymous

00:22:27.640 with the gay community in general?

00:22:32.420 I think there are plenty of gay people

00:22:33.620 that would disagree with that.

00:22:37.080 You know,

00:22:37.680 I'm pretty sure there are plenty of gay people

00:22:39.140 who would say that,

00:22:39.900 just because you're opposed

00:22:44.660 to drag queen story hour,

00:22:48.280 like that has nothing to do with me.

00:22:52.520 This to me seems very,

00:22:54.820 it's sort of a similar thing

00:22:56.880 to when people,

00:22:59.240 just like what's going on

00:23:00.260 with Jack Del Rio,

00:23:01.620 who criticized BLM rioting

00:23:05.440 and then is accused

00:23:06.000 of being racist

00:23:06.820 by people who I guess

00:23:08.860 are saying,

00:23:10.880 are insinuating

00:23:11.540 that violent rioting

00:23:14.320 is an essential part

00:23:15.540 of black culture.

00:23:17.300 That's what they're saying.

00:23:18.580 And that if you oppose

00:23:19.760 violent rioting,

00:23:20.520 then you're opposing black people.

00:23:23.340 So the law enforcement here,

00:23:24.520 I guess they're saying

00:23:24.940 the same thing

00:23:25.460 kind of about the gay community.

00:23:26.620 They're saying that

00:23:27.200 dressing in drag

00:23:28.400 in front of children

00:23:28.880 is an essential part

00:23:29.720 of gay culture.

00:23:30.960 And therefore,

00:23:31.360 if you oppose that,

00:23:32.480 then you oppose gay people.

00:23:33.280 That's what they are saying.

00:23:35.440 They're either saying that

00:23:38.560 or they're saying

00:23:39.800 that drag queens themselves

00:23:43.000 are their own

00:23:44.100 protected class,

00:23:45.000 protected community.

00:23:46.440 Whatever,

00:23:46.900 however you explain it,

00:23:47.800 it's totally insane.

00:23:50.640 Absolute nonsense.

00:23:55.360 The host drag queen,

00:23:57.180 Panda Dulce,

00:23:58.280 told local public radio station,

00:24:00.700 KQED,

00:24:01.460 that when the men

00:24:02.460 came in shouting,

00:24:03.300 okay,

00:24:05.480 they're using

00:24:05.820 the female pronouns,

00:24:07.060 that when the men

00:24:08.900 came in shouting

00:24:09.580 at her,

00:24:11.000 she was eventually

00:24:11.760 escorted out of the room

00:24:12.740 by a security guard

00:24:13.660 for her safety.

00:24:16.980 That's the other thing

00:24:17.680 I've actually noticed

00:24:18.460 this recently.

00:24:19.160 When the media

00:24:20.000 talks about drag queens,

00:24:21.560 they use the female pronoun,

00:24:24.280 but the whole point

00:24:25.520 of a drag queen

00:24:26.740 is that it's a man

00:24:27.860 dressing as a woman.

00:24:28.820 That's what a drag queen

00:24:29.920 is by definition.

00:24:31.440 So now they are connecting

00:24:34.000 drag queens

00:24:34.720 and transgenderism.

00:24:38.620 But a drag queen,

00:24:39.840 if it's a woman

00:24:41.960 dressed like that,

00:24:43.640 then it's not drag.

00:24:44.580 That's just a woman.

00:24:47.920 So what?

00:24:48.600 I guess in the media,

00:24:49.620 in the article,

00:24:50.420 they are just sort of

00:24:51.600 referring to her,

00:24:53.580 referring to him

00:24:54.900 as the character

00:24:56.280 that he's playing,

00:24:57.200 which is a female.

00:24:57.760 I don't know.

00:25:01.580 Dolce,

00:25:02.040 whose name is

00:25:02.580 Kyle Casey Chu,

00:25:04.740 says,

00:25:05.320 I didn't know

00:25:05.700 if they were armed.

00:25:06.540 I was only acutely aware

00:25:07.600 of the fact

00:25:08.040 that neither myself

00:25:08.940 nor any of the other

00:25:09.720 librarians were armed.

00:25:11.880 They totally freaked out

00:25:13.140 the kids.

00:25:13.640 They got right in our faces.

00:25:14.740 They jeered.

00:25:15.800 They attempted to escalate

00:25:16.800 to violence.

00:25:17.780 I didn't see any of that,

00:25:18.740 did you?

00:25:19.040 I didn't see

00:25:19.480 in anyone's face.

00:25:20.860 I didn't see an attempt

00:25:21.540 to escalate to violence.

00:25:22.480 And I didn't see them

00:25:27.380 attacking the kids

00:25:28.240 in any way whatsoever.

00:25:31.220 All right,

00:25:31.800 let's move to this.

00:25:32.980 From the Daily Caller,

00:25:34.600 it says,

00:25:35.780 there's a movement

00:25:37.540 afoot now.

00:25:38.120 It says,

00:25:38.320 Republicans in the

00:25:38.940 Texas State Legislature,

00:25:40.660 led by former

00:25:41.440 Department of Health

00:25:42.080 and Human Services

00:25:42.680 Chief of Staff

00:25:43.380 Brian Harrison,

00:25:44.560 are requesting

00:25:45.100 that a deputy

00:25:45.700 HHS secretary

00:25:47.400 provide them

00:25:47.980 with the department's

00:25:48.720 legal definition

00:25:49.600 of womanhood.

00:25:51.440 President Joe Biden

00:25:52.180 created a gender

00:25:53.000 policy council

00:25:53.900 in March 2021

00:25:54.800 with the goals

00:25:55.580 of reviewing

00:25:56.040 the Trump administration's

00:25:56.980 approach to the Title IX

00:25:57.920 and addressing

00:25:58.440 gender inequity

00:26:00.600 in the U.S.

00:26:01.200 and globally.

00:26:01.800 Since then,

00:26:02.160 he's ordered bans

00:26:02.760 on discrimination

00:26:03.300 in education

00:26:03.900 based on gender identity,

00:26:05.340 which could lead

00:26:05.860 to male students

00:26:06.460 using female bathrooms.

00:26:07.520 He's preparing

00:26:07.840 to require states

00:26:08.620 to permit the prescription

00:26:09.860 of puberty blockers

00:26:10.840 and other hormones

00:26:11.580 to minor patients.

00:26:13.220 However,

00:26:13.460 the Republicans note

00:26:14.140 the Biden administration

00:26:14.740 has not publicly stated

00:26:15.840 how they define

00:26:16.640 the term woman

00:26:17.380 under federal law.

00:26:18.520 So this is,

00:26:22.920 as always,

00:26:25.720 a good rhetorical tactic.

00:26:29.620 Of course,

00:26:30.260 what my whole film

00:26:31.160 is built around

00:26:31.880 of trying to get them

00:26:33.120 to define the word woman

00:26:34.160 because it brings down

00:26:34.900 the gender ideology

00:26:35.660 of the House of Cards.

00:26:36.260 But it's more than that also.

00:26:37.200 It's actually a legal question

00:26:38.500 that if under Title IX,

00:26:41.980 women are supposed

00:26:42.700 to be protected

00:26:43.380 in all these various ways,

00:26:44.760 then there is a legal question

00:26:47.640 about how you define

00:26:48.880 the word.

00:26:49.740 What actually is a woman?

00:26:51.980 So we could talk about this

00:26:53.260 in the rhetorical sense.

00:26:54.400 We could talk about it

00:26:55.060 ideologically.

00:26:55.980 You know,

00:26:56.120 we can have this discussion,

00:26:57.640 but there's also

00:26:58.840 a legal question here,

00:27:00.300 which is one of the reasons

00:27:02.860 why Marsha Blackburn

00:27:03.960 asking Ketaji Brown Jackson,

00:27:06.040 that was not a gotcha moment.

00:27:08.520 I mean,

00:27:08.980 it's never a gotcha moment

00:27:10.000 to ask somebody

00:27:10.500 what is a woman.

00:27:11.520 It's only,

00:27:12.040 if it's a gotcha moment,

00:27:12.700 that's their own fault.

00:27:14.380 Okay,

00:27:14.580 if you can get got

00:27:15.660 by that question,

00:27:16.700 that just shows you

00:27:17.660 there's something wrong

00:27:18.260 with your own viewpoint

00:27:19.380 and your own worldview.

00:27:20.820 But it's actually,

00:27:21.660 it's a legal question

00:27:22.760 because there are laws

00:27:25.180 protecting women.

00:27:26.920 And so,

00:27:27.520 what do we mean by that?

00:27:28.900 Who qualifies

00:27:29.980 under those kind of laws?

00:27:34.660 Eventually,

00:27:35.380 this is something

00:27:36.140 that's going to make

00:27:36.560 its way up to the Supreme Court.

00:27:37.620 I mean,

00:27:37.780 there's going to have to be

00:27:38.560 a ruling on this.

00:27:43.940 And yet,

00:27:44.520 they,

00:27:44.840 of course,

00:27:45.180 can't define it.

00:27:46.400 So,

00:27:46.700 this is a brilliant move

00:27:47.380 by the Texas Republicans,

00:27:48.560 I think.

00:27:49.160 More news out of the administration.

00:27:50.540 The energy secretary

00:27:51.440 has been asked,

00:27:53.020 as you might imagine,

00:27:54.300 if there's any plan

00:27:55.480 to bring down gas prices.

00:27:58.540 And all these various secretaries

00:28:00.240 of all these agencies,

00:28:01.920 most of the time,

00:28:02.900 you wonder,

00:28:03.360 what exactly are they doing

00:28:04.200 with their time?

00:28:05.320 We know what Pete Buttigieg

00:28:06.100 has been doing.

00:28:06.640 He's been hanging out

00:28:07.400 at his house.

00:28:07.940 But most of the time,

00:28:10.600 there's not a lot

00:28:11.100 for them to do.

00:28:12.220 But then you have situations

00:28:13.300 that arise where,

00:28:14.960 okay,

00:28:15.700 this is your purview.

00:28:17.260 Like,

00:28:17.380 you should actually

00:28:17.840 be doing something here.

00:28:18.740 So,

00:28:18.880 we've got a major problem

00:28:20.180 with gas prices right now.

00:28:21.860 Crisis level problem,

00:28:23.060 and it's only getting worse.

00:28:24.380 You're the energy secretary.

00:28:27.140 Now it's time

00:28:27.780 to leap into action.

00:28:28.540 This is your turn.

00:28:29.320 Let's do something about it.

00:28:31.120 And here's what

00:28:32.060 she has to offer.

00:28:32.780 Listen.

00:28:34.360 You filled up your EV

00:28:35.900 by charging,

00:28:37.600 and you filled up

00:28:38.320 your gas tank

00:28:39.280 with gasoline,

00:28:40.700 and you have

00:28:40.980 the same size tank.

00:28:42.500 You would save

00:28:43.180 $60 per fill-up

00:28:45.280 by going electric

00:28:47.020 rather than

00:28:47.900 using gasoline.

00:28:48.920 So,

00:28:49.240 it's a very compelling case.

00:28:51.180 But again,

00:28:51.660 to your point,

00:28:52.360 we want to bring down

00:28:53.180 the price

00:28:53.760 at the point of purchase.

00:28:57.780 Right.

00:28:58.400 So,

00:28:58.760 the first answer is,

00:29:00.000 let's go to electric cars.

00:29:01.460 That's the answer

00:29:02.060 to the gas price.

00:29:02.660 The real answer for her

00:29:03.620 is,

00:29:04.120 you know,

00:29:04.460 gas prices

00:29:05.120 aren't a problem.

00:29:06.720 What's the answer

00:29:07.420 to the gas prices problem?

00:29:09.300 Well,

00:29:09.620 to the Biden administration,

00:29:11.000 there is no problem.

00:29:12.060 This is actually

00:29:12.680 a good thing,

00:29:13.420 and they've been

00:29:13.860 pretty clear about that.

00:29:15.380 They see this

00:29:16.180 as an opportunity.

00:29:17.060 They do not want

00:29:18.100 to fix these problems.

00:29:20.400 That's a big reason why,

00:29:21.820 you know,

00:29:21.920 we talk about incompetence

00:29:23.140 in the Biden administration.

00:29:24.000 There's a lot of incompetence,

00:29:25.040 of course.

00:29:26.300 But is it pure incompetence

00:29:28.820 that has led

00:29:30.240 to these problems?

00:29:30.960 Is it pure incompetence

00:29:31.940 that prevents them

00:29:32.600 from solving the problems?

00:29:33.800 No.

00:29:34.000 There's also just

00:29:34.800 a lack of will,

00:29:35.660 a lack of desire.

00:29:36.700 They don't see it

00:29:37.320 as a problem.

00:29:41.300 The other thing

00:29:42.020 that the Biden administration

00:29:42.660 was doing,

00:29:43.240 and in some of these interviews,

00:29:44.160 the energy secretary

00:29:44.980 has been calling

00:29:46.280 on the oil companies

00:29:48.980 to step up

00:29:51.280 and be patriots

00:29:52.280 and just bring down

00:29:53.100 the prices on their own.

00:29:54.540 There are a lot of problems

00:29:55.620 with that proposed solution,

00:29:57.740 but one of them

00:29:58.660 is that

00:29:59.240 you are beseeching,

00:30:02.000 right?

00:30:02.340 The oil companies

00:30:03.480 while in the next breath

00:30:05.420 announcing your intention

00:30:07.860 to bankrupt them.

00:30:10.280 So that's just,

00:30:11.600 that's not great outreach,

00:30:14.100 let's just say.

00:30:16.260 You're going to have

00:30:16.600 difficulty working

00:30:17.620 with someone

00:30:19.200 or with an industry

00:30:20.100 when that is your sales pitch.

00:30:23.080 Hey,

00:30:23.500 help us out right now

00:30:24.380 in the short term

00:30:25.160 and five years from now

00:30:26.760 we'll bankrupt you.

00:30:27.740 Sound good?

00:30:28.220 Not exactly going to work.

00:30:31.300 All right,

00:30:31.640 moving on to this.

00:30:32.380 Ibram Kendi

00:30:33.040 has a new book out

00:30:35.160 and the new book

00:30:36.020 is called

00:30:36.440 How to Raise an Anti-Racist.

00:30:39.180 So he's going back

00:30:40.000 to the same,

00:30:40.420 well,

00:30:40.500 he already has

00:30:41.160 Anti-Racist Baby.

00:30:42.640 He wrote that one,

00:30:43.260 I believe.

00:30:43.800 And now he's got

00:30:44.620 How to Raise an Anti-Racist.

00:30:48.380 And all of these books,

00:30:49.500 you find them all over

00:30:50.160 Barnes & Noble

00:30:50.820 and all these media interviews

00:30:53.080 and everything.

00:30:54.100 Nobody actually reads

00:30:54.840 or buys these books.

00:30:56.400 But he was on MSNBC

00:30:57.880 talking about the book

00:30:58.940 and he said a few things

00:30:59.760 that I actually think

00:31:00.340 are worth responding to.

00:31:02.320 Let's listen.

00:31:03.860 So tell everybody

00:31:05.460 why you wrote the book.

00:31:08.020 Well,

00:31:08.480 I wrote the book

00:31:09.340 because the more

00:31:11.160 that I researched

00:31:12.680 this issue

00:31:15.720 about race

00:31:16.540 and children,

00:31:17.540 the more that I

00:31:18.700 continued on

00:31:19.620 as a father,

00:31:20.880 the more I realized

00:31:21.960 that kids are actually

00:31:23.320 the most vulnerable

00:31:24.840 to racism,

00:31:27.000 but they're the ones

00:31:28.780 who were least likely

00:31:29.700 to engage about it.

00:31:30.860 And so I wanted

00:31:31.400 to write a book

00:31:32.180 that would allow

00:31:32.960 parents and teachers

00:31:34.060 and caregivers

00:31:34.760 to figure out ways

00:31:36.260 to protect our children

00:31:37.500 from these simplistic messages

00:31:39.480 like dark is ugly

00:31:40.720 and light,

00:31:41.360 you know,

00:31:42.220 is good

00:31:42.660 so they can grow up

00:31:43.700 to be whole people

00:31:45.700 who recognize

00:31:47.020 racial equality.

00:31:48.520 And your message

00:31:49.340 is that parents

00:31:50.780 should understand

00:31:51.540 that children

00:31:52.100 are already

00:31:53.680 forming opinions

00:31:54.500 at a very early age,

00:31:55.980 some research says,

00:31:57.140 as early as three

00:31:58.280 or four years old.

00:32:00.540 They do,

00:32:01.500 and that's the

00:32:02.180 unfortunate truth.

00:32:03.960 But according

00:32:04.680 to scholars,

00:32:05.640 by three years old,

00:32:07.180 our kids

00:32:07.700 have an adult-like

00:32:09.360 concept of race.

00:32:10.700 By three years old,

00:32:11.780 our kids are attaching

00:32:13.000 qualities like

00:32:15.360 smartness and honesty

00:32:16.980 and cleanliness

00:32:17.540 to skin color.

00:32:19.940 And all the while,

00:32:20.700 parents are thinking

00:32:22.300 and teachers

00:32:22.940 that our kids

00:32:24.240 aren't thinking about

00:32:25.280 skin color

00:32:26.200 or even seeing it.

00:32:27.200 And so we're not

00:32:28.080 stepping in

00:32:28.840 to counteract

00:32:29.660 those messages

00:32:30.300 and we need to.

00:32:32.700 Okay.

00:32:33.900 He says,

00:32:34.680 we've got to

00:32:34.960 counteract the message

00:32:35.900 that kids are getting

00:32:36.860 that dark skin

00:32:38.940 is ugly

00:32:39.540 and light skin

00:32:40.380 is good.

00:32:40.760 Where are those messages

00:32:41.420 exactly?

00:32:43.120 Where are they

00:32:43.720 hearing those messages?

00:32:44.520 I mean,

00:32:44.700 who is saying that?

00:32:45.800 Who exactly is saying that?

00:32:46.660 Give me one example.

00:32:47.540 Give me like

00:32:49.560 one modern example

00:32:50.700 of that message

00:32:53.940 being promoted

00:32:54.620 anywhere,

00:32:55.620 at least of all

00:32:56.060 to kids.

00:32:56.600 Where exactly

00:32:57.300 are they getting it?

00:32:58.080 I mean,

00:32:58.380 they're certainly

00:32:58.780 not getting it

00:32:59.400 in media,

00:33:00.920 in Hollywood.

00:33:01.580 They're getting like

00:33:02.080 almost the opposite

00:33:02.900 actually of that message.

00:33:05.060 They're not getting it

00:33:05.920 in school.

00:33:06.540 So where are they

00:33:07.040 getting it?

00:33:07.300 What are you talking about?

00:33:09.520 Yeah,

00:33:09.780 so I bravely

00:33:10.780 am speaking out

00:33:11.800 against the message

00:33:13.100 that dark skin

00:33:14.840 is ugly.

00:33:16.000 Well,

00:33:16.980 it's always really brave

00:33:18.680 to speak out

00:33:19.200 against an idea

00:33:21.460 that nobody

00:33:22.220 is proposing

00:33:22.960 in the first place.

00:33:25.120 But more to the point,

00:33:26.280 he says that kids

00:33:27.360 are the most vulnerable

00:33:28.720 to racism

00:33:29.500 and that again

00:33:31.020 is the opposite

00:33:32.260 of the truth.

00:33:34.380 That's just not true

00:33:35.520 at all.

00:33:37.440 In fact,

00:33:38.340 kids,

00:33:39.440 it doesn't actually

00:33:40.900 occur to kids

00:33:42.260 to be racist.

00:33:43.640 And how do I know that?

00:33:45.160 Well,

00:33:46.300 I know that because

00:33:47.420 I've been around kids.

00:33:48.780 I have kids.

00:33:50.080 Like,

00:33:50.340 I'm familiar

00:33:50.900 with the concept

00:33:52.360 of childhood.

00:33:53.580 I was a kid

00:33:54.320 at some point.

00:33:55.020 So there's a lot

00:33:55.640 of just sort of

00:33:57.060 experience,

00:33:58.380 including lived experience,

00:34:00.000 that tells us this.

00:34:03.180 I also know

00:34:03.980 because I grew up

00:34:04.820 in the 90s

00:34:06.380 when there was not

00:34:07.940 this obsession

00:34:08.540 over race.

00:34:09.080 It wasn't a racial utopia,

00:34:11.300 but it was not

00:34:12.160 the same obsession.

00:34:15.360 And I've mentioned before,

00:34:16.820 I can remember

00:34:17.360 going to

00:34:18.100 grade school

00:34:20.640 in a very

00:34:23.020 racially diverse

00:34:24.280 area

00:34:24.920 and all people,

00:34:26.420 lots of

00:34:26.900 black classmates,

00:34:29.320 Asian,

00:34:29.900 so on and so forth.

00:34:31.660 And yes,

00:34:32.520 as a kid,

00:34:33.320 you notice

00:34:34.060 the physical differences,

00:34:35.720 of course.

00:34:36.780 You notice it,

00:34:37.500 but you don't

00:34:38.080 attach a lot

00:34:38.860 of significance to it.

00:34:39.860 You might have

00:34:41.220 some dumb,

00:34:42.020 like childlike

00:34:42.800 sort of innocent

00:34:43.480 questions about

00:34:44.480 how exactly

00:34:46.620 does it happen

00:34:47.280 that people look

00:34:47.900 different or

00:34:48.620 end up with

00:34:49.220 different color

00:34:49.740 skin and all

00:34:50.480 that kind of stuff.

00:34:50.940 In fact,

00:34:51.080 those aren't

00:34:51.360 really dumb

00:34:51.800 questions at all,

00:34:52.460 actually.

00:34:53.780 So you might

00:34:54.420 have questions

00:34:54.840 like that.

00:34:56.500 And kids

00:34:57.200 might be prone

00:34:57.960 to saying things

00:34:58.940 that are kind

00:34:59.300 of awkward

00:34:59.700 because they

00:35:00.500 don't know

00:35:00.840 any better.

00:35:03.040 But they don't

00:35:03.720 attach,

00:35:04.160 kids actually

00:35:04.620 do not attach

00:35:05.520 significance

00:35:06.160 to these things.

00:35:07.000 they just

00:35:08.840 basically see

00:35:09.380 people as

00:35:09.980 people.

00:35:10.820 And just

00:35:11.520 take your kid

00:35:12.680 to a playground

00:35:13.280 anywhere and

00:35:15.600 just see how

00:35:16.040 they're playing

00:35:16.440 with kids.

00:35:17.480 They don't

00:35:17.960 stop.

00:35:18.540 You're not

00:35:18.880 going to see

00:35:19.180 kids on a

00:35:19.720 playground

00:35:20.180 stop another

00:35:21.940 kid and say,

00:35:22.460 oh, no,

00:35:22.760 you have a

00:35:22.980 different skin

00:35:23.360 color.

00:35:23.620 You're not

00:35:23.760 going to

00:35:23.880 play with

00:35:24.140 us.

00:35:24.260 It just

00:35:24.500 doesn't

00:35:24.820 happen.

00:35:27.160 So if

00:35:28.260 you were to

00:35:28.620 just leave

00:35:29.240 kids alone,

00:35:31.840 they're already,

00:35:32.400 most kids are

00:35:32.940 already living in

00:35:34.120 a very diverse

00:35:35.780 environment,

00:35:36.900 okay?

00:35:37.540 So if you

00:35:38.020 were to just

00:35:38.640 let them be

00:35:39.820 kids, leave

00:35:41.060 them alone,

00:35:42.400 kind of leave

00:35:42.980 them to their

00:35:43.460 own devices on

00:35:44.420 this particular

00:35:45.080 issue, it's

00:35:46.700 not going to

00:35:47.020 be an issue.

00:35:48.660 No, it's

00:35:49.220 people like

00:35:49.660 Ibram X.

00:35:50.400 Kendi who

00:35:52.380 have to come

00:35:52.940 around and

00:35:54.140 tell the kids

00:35:55.480 that there's a

00:35:56.560 significance here.

00:35:59.220 No, so it's

00:36:00.480 actually the

00:36:00.780 opposite message.

00:36:02.860 He and all

00:36:04.240 the so-called

00:36:04.660 anti-racist

00:36:05.380 people, they're

00:36:06.320 the ones

00:36:06.740 telling kids

00:36:07.440 that, oh,

00:36:08.800 no, you

00:36:09.180 know what?

00:36:09.680 You guys all

00:36:10.300 look different

00:36:10.800 and the fact

00:36:11.840 that you look

00:36:12.280 different is

00:36:12.780 very significant

00:36:13.760 and here are

00:36:16.280 all the reasons

00:36:16.760 why it's

00:36:17.220 significant.

00:36:19.240 And not only

00:36:19.940 that, but the

00:36:20.400 other thing they

00:36:20.760 say to the

00:36:21.080 kids is, well,

00:36:21.720 you see these

00:36:22.060 kids over here,

00:36:22.880 these are the

00:36:23.260 white kids and

00:36:25.040 their ancestors

00:36:26.160 are all racist

00:36:26.940 and they're

00:36:27.360 oppressive.

00:36:29.040 And you over

00:36:29.700 here, you're the

00:36:30.200 black kids and

00:36:31.080 you're being

00:36:32.220 systemically

00:36:32.780 oppressed.

00:36:33.260 In fact, you're

00:36:33.740 being oppressed

00:36:34.340 by these kids

00:36:35.080 over here and

00:36:35.840 you might not

00:36:36.400 even know it and

00:36:37.120 they don't know

00:36:37.500 that they're

00:36:37.740 oppressing you,

00:36:38.180 but they are.

00:36:39.700 And here are

00:36:40.260 all the privileges

00:36:41.000 that these kids,

00:36:41.920 these white kids

00:36:42.420 are getting that

00:36:42.880 you're not getting.

00:36:43.800 And it may seem

00:36:44.400 like you get the

00:36:45.020 same privileges and

00:36:45.760 you're living

00:36:46.040 basically the same

00:36:46.680 kind of life, but

00:36:47.460 you're not.

00:36:47.840 No, they get all

00:36:48.260 these privileges and

00:36:49.400 you don't get them.

00:36:49.940 So people like

00:36:50.900 Ibram Kendi, they're

00:36:51.560 the ones doing that.

00:36:54.180 Under the guise of

00:36:55.180 anti-racism, of

00:36:56.480 curing kids of a

00:36:57.480 racism that they

00:36:58.100 don't even actually

00:36:58.660 have in the first

00:36:59.260 place, they are

00:37:00.300 creating it.

00:37:01.140 They're creating

00:37:01.760 racial divisions and

00:37:02.580 of course they're

00:37:02.960 doing it entirely

00:37:03.740 on purpose.

00:37:06.040 All right, speaking

00:37:07.220 of black issues, I

00:37:08.460 thought this was

00:37:08.900 great from Ron

00:37:09.520 DeSantis.

00:37:10.280 Here he is

00:37:10.680 expressing his

00:37:11.440 pride.

00:37:11.780 And I thought

00:37:11.940 this was, you

00:37:13.140 know, Ron

00:37:13.580 DeSantis gets a

00:37:14.080 bad rap sometimes

00:37:14.980 as not being the

00:37:16.140 most progressive

00:37:16.580 guy.

00:37:16.860 But here he is

00:37:17.260 expressing his

00:37:17.940 pride in one of

00:37:20.320 his most prominent

00:37:21.840 African-American

00:37:22.700 supporters.

00:37:23.340 So what I would

00:37:25.660 say, you know, I'm

00:37:26.760 focused on 2022, but

00:37:29.000 with Elon Musk, what

00:37:29.960 I would say is, you

00:37:31.080 know, I welcome

00:37:31.620 support from

00:37:32.420 African-Americans.

00:37:33.300 What can I say?

00:37:38.680 So somebody asked

00:37:39.680 him about Elon Musk

00:37:40.820 saying that he

00:37:41.260 potentially will

00:37:42.140 support him in

00:37:42.920 2024, and that was

00:37:43.900 his answer.

00:37:44.600 So that's, you

00:37:46.540 got to appreciate

00:37:47.100 that.

00:37:47.540 I mean, he's not

00:37:47.800 the first one to

00:37:48.240 make that joke, but

00:37:49.220 to hear a joke like

00:37:50.040 that, which isn't

00:37:51.040 really a joke, I

00:37:51.720 mean, it is actually

00:37:52.800 true, technically,

00:37:54.040 that Elon Musk is

00:37:54.780 an African-American

00:37:55.640 immigrant.

00:37:56.060 He is.

00:37:57.980 But to hear that

00:37:58.580 joke from a

00:37:59.000 prominent politician,

00:38:00.000 that's just, that's

00:38:00.780 yet another reason

00:38:02.680 to support Ron

00:38:05.520 DeSantis for 2024,

00:38:06.620 if he runs.

00:38:07.480 And, you know, the

00:38:08.660 word on the street is

00:38:09.360 that he probably

00:38:09.900 will.

00:38:10.400 I hope he does.

00:38:12.680 And, like, I'm not

00:38:13.160 going to make this,

00:38:13.800 I'm not going to go

00:38:14.180 into a whole other

00:38:14.660 thing here about

00:38:15.340 comparing Ron

00:38:16.280 DeSantis to

00:38:16.860 President Trump, but

00:38:17.360 I will just say that

00:38:19.160 DeSantis, to my

00:38:21.520 mind, is a

00:38:22.680 more effective

00:38:23.200 leader, a

00:38:24.260 more effective

00:38:24.780 executive, has

00:38:26.120 been way more

00:38:26.920 effective at

00:38:27.720 getting conservative

00:38:29.140 legislation actually

00:38:30.320 passed, conservative

00:38:31.120 policies put in

00:38:31.920 place, and I also

00:38:33.620 think he's funnier.

00:38:34.300 I think he's much

00:38:36.060 better, actually, at

00:38:36.860 trolling the left,

00:38:37.620 even than Trump

00:38:38.400 is.

00:38:39.020 Not that that

00:38:39.540 actually matters all

00:38:40.380 that much for a

00:38:41.700 president.

00:38:42.240 There are other

00:38:42.720 things that are

00:38:43.240 priorities over that,

00:38:44.280 but if you care

00:38:45.260 about that, to

00:38:46.920 whatever extent you

00:38:47.580 care about it, I

00:38:48.760 think that DeSantis

00:38:49.980 is actually better

00:38:50.620 at that.

00:38:51.740 He's a funnier,

00:38:52.660 more clever guy, and

00:38:53.880 that does actually

00:38:54.820 matter in terms of

00:38:56.300 politics.

00:38:57.840 Quick on your feet,

00:38:58.960 able to think on

00:38:59.600 your feet, having

00:39:01.040 some wit.

00:39:01.560 I just think DeSantis

00:39:03.240 is clearly, by far

00:39:08.740 and away, should be

00:39:09.700 considered the

00:39:10.160 favorite over Trump.

00:39:11.380 Here's, speaking of

00:39:12.280 which, so reporter

00:39:14.280 Kimberly Leonard, a

00:39:15.760 business insider, tweeted

00:39:17.280 this a couple days ago.

00:39:18.240 It says, Governor DeSantis,

00:39:19.700 who's 43, still has

00:39:21.740 over $21,000 in

00:39:23.060 student loans.

00:39:23.880 He doesn't trade

00:39:24.360 individual stocks.

00:39:25.420 His net worth is

00:39:26.180 $318,000, far lower

00:39:28.260 than many top

00:39:28.980 politicians, and if he

00:39:30.400 runs for president, he

00:39:31.360 may clock in at the

00:39:32.240 lowest net worth in a

00:39:33.660 crowded field.

00:39:34.500 So, yet another reason

00:39:35.840 to like DeSantis.

00:39:36.700 He's only 43.

00:39:37.700 I actually thought he's

00:39:38.220 a little bit older

00:39:38.600 than that.

00:39:39.260 He's only 43 years

00:39:40.080 old, and he's

00:39:41.260 basically a normal

00:39:42.360 human being.

00:39:43.100 I mean, he's

00:39:44.820 relatively well-off,

00:39:47.140 you know, compared

00:39:48.260 to the average

00:39:49.280 salary in the United

00:39:50.080 States, but his net

00:39:51.420 worth is only, you

00:39:53.100 know, only, you

00:39:54.280 could say only in

00:39:55.140 comparison to most

00:39:56.600 other people who run

00:39:57.460 for president.

00:39:57.900 He's not a

00:39:58.220 millionaire.

00:39:58.600 He's not a

00:39:58.860 billionaire.

00:40:01.840 Again, that's not

00:40:03.120 the most important

00:40:03.840 thing.

00:40:04.160 I think the most

00:40:04.680 important thing is,

00:40:05.600 is this going to be

00:40:06.260 an effective leader

00:40:07.120 who can actually

00:40:09.400 get these, put

00:40:10.040 these policies in

00:40:10.860 place?

00:40:11.180 That's what matters

00:40:11.820 the most.

00:40:13.120 But all the, even

00:40:14.260 when you look at

00:40:14.680 all the peripheral

00:40:15.180 stuff, I still

00:40:16.180 think he stacks up

00:40:16.860 really well.

00:40:18.020 All right.

00:40:19.100 Before we get to

00:40:19.700 the comment section,

00:40:20.320 there's one other

00:40:21.000 thing that I think

00:40:21.860 is incredibly

00:40:23.860 important that I

00:40:24.540 have to play for

00:40:25.080 you.

00:40:25.180 So the Audubon

00:40:26.120 Society is a group

00:40:27.440 dedicated to

00:40:28.340 conserving the

00:40:30.080 bird population, and

00:40:31.740 you may think that

00:40:34.080 there's no way to

00:40:34.920 politicize or sort

00:40:36.520 of wokify birds, but

00:40:39.640 you would be wrong.

00:40:40.840 So let's put the

00:40:41.560 tweet up first.

00:40:42.060 This is from the

00:40:42.500 Audubon Society.

00:40:43.320 They say, this

00:40:43.780 Pride Month, Audubon

00:40:44.960 partnered with drag

00:40:46.660 queen and

00:40:47.320 intersectional, wait,

00:40:49.180 sorry, drag queen

00:40:50.300 and intersectional

00:40:51.180 environmentalist,

00:40:52.500 Patty Gonia,

00:40:53.880 Patty Gonia, okay,

00:40:55.760 I just got that, to

00:40:57.700 bring you Birds

00:40:58.700 Tell Us.

00:41:00.320 Before we continue,

00:41:00.940 I just need to, can

00:41:01.940 we just stop for a

00:41:03.000 moment on drag queen

00:41:04.960 and intersectional

00:41:06.280 environmentalist.

00:41:09.580 Birds Tell Us, the

00:41:10.600 song of the

00:41:11.200 meadowlark, a

00:41:12.060 message of hope for

00:41:13.100 the future of our

00:41:13.800 planet as we face

00:41:14.820 climate change, if

00:41:16.020 we choose to

00:41:16.720 listen.

00:41:17.240 Okay, so this is a

00:41:17.980 song by Patty Gonia,

00:41:20.780 the intersectional

00:41:21.940 environmentalist drag

00:41:23.580 queen, and this is all

00:41:25.140 to, this is all for the

00:41:26.360 sake of defending the

00:41:28.000 birds and conserving the

00:41:29.160 bird population.

00:41:30.960 Let's, let's listen to

00:41:31.900 the song together.

00:41:32.500 Can we just stop, pause it

00:41:45.460 there for a second?

00:41:46.960 That guy, can we go back

00:41:47.960 to what he looks like,

00:41:48.880 his, what this guy's

00:41:50.140 dressed as?

00:41:50.960 Because I just, I always

00:41:52.520 ask this question, and

00:41:54.040 yeah, I don't understand,

00:41:56.700 what is, what are the

00:41:57.700 drag queens going for?

00:41:58.680 Like, who, who are you

00:42:00.880 supposed to be?

00:42:03.780 Why is it that drag

00:42:04.900 queens always look like

00:42:06.040 the evil stepmothers in

00:42:07.580 Disney films?

00:42:08.240 I just don't understand

00:42:09.420 it.

00:42:11.680 Anyway, we haven't heard

00:42:12.480 the song yet, so I don't

00:42:13.280 want, I don't want to

00:42:13.680 trash the guy too much

00:42:14.360 until we hear the song.

00:42:15.020 Let's keep going.

00:42:15.600 Birds tell us, birds tell

00:42:24.800 us that the world is

00:42:26.440 changing, that the climate

00:42:28.900 is changing.

00:42:31.020 They sing it over us and

00:42:33.720 around us in their songs

00:42:36.180 and in the songs they no

00:42:38.500 longer sing.

00:42:39.240 Will we choose to listen?

00:42:48.500 Birds tell us.

00:42:56.840 Do you know why birds sing

00:42:58.300 just before dawn?

00:42:59.640 No, I don't.

00:43:02.600 People believe it's to tell

00:43:04.060 each other that they made

00:43:05.020 it through the night.

00:43:06.100 No, that's not what, that's

00:43:06.980 not, I don't believe that.

00:43:07.880 As a way of saying, I'm

00:43:09.720 still here.

00:43:11.140 No, it's like, it's

00:43:11.820 mating, it's nothing to do

00:43:12.900 with that.

00:43:14.500 As a way of saying, I

00:43:15.800 made it.

00:43:16.540 That's not why birds sing.

00:43:18.040 That's incorrect bird

00:43:18.900 information.

00:43:19.520 This is the Autobahn

00:43:20.180 Society.

00:43:25.800 You think you at least

00:43:26.600 get some correct bird

00:43:27.600 facts out of this thing?

00:43:29.680 Birds sing to let us all

00:43:30.980 know that they're still

00:43:31.720 here, they survived the

00:43:32.540 night?

00:43:32.720 I don't think so.

00:43:33.720 Don't turn it down, keep

00:43:34.480 playing it.

00:43:35.080 We're going to play this

00:43:35.660 entire thing.

00:43:36.900 I've decided.

00:43:37.880 This is character building

00:43:40.000 for all of us.

00:43:40.600 We're going to make it

00:43:41.040 through this together.

00:43:41.660 It's a feathered thing

00:43:43.080 perched upon the soul.

00:43:45.900 Singing, never ceasing.

00:43:48.980 Giving wings.

00:43:50.680 This is not supposed to,

00:43:51.660 this is not supposed to be

00:43:52.640 funny.

00:43:52.940 I don't think, I don't

00:43:53.280 think they're going for

00:43:53.980 humor.

00:43:54.380 This is actually.

00:43:57.920 It can be a quiet sound.

00:43:59.920 What emotional reaction are

00:44:01.260 we supposed to be having?

00:44:02.460 Oh, it's over.

00:44:06.720 How am I, how are we

00:44:07.760 supposed, what, what are they

00:44:11.480 going for?

00:44:12.420 Is that I think that we're

00:44:13.320 supposed to be like emotionally

00:44:15.920 affected by that?

00:44:18.800 It is, it's, it is just

00:44:20.580 they're beyond parody.

00:44:21.980 The left is quite literally

00:44:24.200 beyond parody at this point.

00:44:25.300 But I will say one thing,

00:44:29.360 watching that, I am getting

00:44:30.740 some great ideas for my own

00:44:32.640 interpretive dance.

00:44:33.740 So that's the one positive

00:44:34.920 from this.

00:44:35.900 Let's get to the comment

00:44:36.760 section.

00:44:37.100 If you're a man, it's

00:44:38.780 required that you grow a

00:44:40.300 beard, hey, we're the

00:44:43.180 sweet baby gang.

00:44:47.800 Mycel Martinez says, Matt,

00:44:50.020 wannabe professor Dave had to

00:44:51.680 turn off his comments on his

00:44:52.880 reply video to you titled

00:44:54.660 canceled, canceled this.

00:44:56.500 He was getting triggered by

00:44:57.640 anyone who disagreed with

00:44:58.880 him and even F-bombed me and

00:45:00.820 called me a bigot for using

00:45:02.040 the harming children excuse.

00:45:04.540 Quote unquote, I was going

00:45:05.480 out of my way to be

00:45:06.040 respectful.

00:45:07.200 But yeah, same attitude as

00:45:08.260 the people you interviewed

00:45:08.920 in the documentary.

00:45:10.460 Oh yeah, Professor Dave.

00:45:11.560 I forgot that we, so yeah,

00:45:12.960 he was the, he was the

00:45:15.140 smarmy tool bag who gave

00:45:18.100 his, he's, you know, he was

00:45:19.340 too cool for school as

00:45:20.660 always.

00:45:21.120 And I'll answer this, what

00:45:22.300 is a woman question.

00:45:23.540 I'll give you the facts.

00:45:24.380 And it's just nothing, it's

00:45:26.020 just nothing but nonsense.

00:45:27.060 He went on for not with

00:45:28.000 nonsense for 20 minutes and

00:45:30.440 never actually answered the

00:45:31.280 question either.

00:45:32.840 So apparently he has a

00:45:33.980 response to me titled

00:45:35.300 canceled this.

00:45:36.480 And he's turned, and he's

00:45:37.700 turned the comments off.

00:45:38.520 That's great.

00:45:38.960 I didn't realize that he,

00:45:39.800 I'll have to go and check

00:45:40.580 that out.

00:45:42.540 All right.

00:45:44.400 Mountain N says in the early

00:45:45.640 seventies, if you wanted to

00:45:46.560 transition, you had to go

00:45:47.400 through a year of psychoanalysts

00:45:48.940 and psychotherapy.

00:45:49.800 therapy, and if they still

00:45:51.040 couldn't talk you out of it,

00:45:52.120 then the doctors would cut

00:45:53.280 you.

00:45:53.580 But until then, the

00:45:54.460 teenager or adult couldn't

00:45:55.780 get the surgery, and doctors

00:45:56.820 agreed to that regime of

00:45:58.440 waiting a year of therapy.

00:46:00.020 What happened to that system?

00:46:01.960 Yeah, well, that goes back to

00:46:03.320 what we talked about at the

00:46:03.900 beginning of the show, just

00:46:04.660 constantly doubling down,

00:46:06.020 constant progression in the

00:46:07.240 way that cancer progresses,

00:46:08.420 right?

00:46:08.580 It's like a progressing tumor.

00:46:10.900 Um, and it just gets worse

00:46:12.820 and worse because even a

00:46:15.380 system of, you have to wait

00:46:17.120 a year, uh, you know, you

00:46:19.740 have to be, even if it was,

00:46:21.660 you have to wait a year, you

00:46:22.760 can't be under the age of 18,

00:46:24.060 all these things.

00:46:25.120 Um, even that wouldn't make

00:46:27.760 it okay.

00:46:29.300 Because as I've said many times

00:46:31.080 now, I don't think the doctor

00:46:32.520 should be allowed to do this

00:46:33.880 kind of thing to anybody.

00:46:36.740 Um, but.

00:46:40.020 Even that wouldn't be okay.

00:46:43.520 And yet that would still be

00:46:45.220 somehow an improvement over

00:46:46.420 the insanity right now.

00:46:49.560 The fact that they don't even

00:46:51.060 have that, like they don't

00:46:52.120 have mandatory, they want

00:46:54.700 mandatory wait, waiting times

00:46:56.420 to buy guns, right?

00:46:58.640 Is there a mandatory wait for

00:47:00.820 chemical castration?

00:47:02.300 No.

00:47:04.380 Um, Spirit Matter says,

00:47:06.400 imagine Matt has become an

00:47:07.960 animal rights activist.

00:47:08.940 Yeah, you know what?

00:47:09.680 I'm, this, this is what's

00:47:11.260 happening now because the

00:47:12.060 world's turned on its head.

00:47:13.120 So I'm, uh, I had to speak

00:47:15.080 out for animal rights

00:47:15.960 yesterday.

00:47:16.980 At least the right, the

00:47:18.240 right of a horse to not be

00:47:19.620 crushed like a pancake from,

00:47:22.240 you know, morbidly obese

00:47:23.400 people riding on them.

00:47:24.640 So I got to speak out for

00:47:25.720 animal rights.

00:47:26.980 I have to speak out for the

00:47:28.220 birds now, even.

00:47:30.500 This is, this is, this is

00:47:31.660 who's looking out for the

00:47:32.380 birds of these, you know,

00:47:33.620 you got a drag queen dancing

00:47:34.760 around reciting slam poetry.

00:47:39.220 So now I got to take over

00:47:40.420 that, I think, defending the

00:47:41.680 birds.

00:47:43.480 And with what is a woman, I'm

00:47:44.720 now also the leading feminist

00:47:45.940 in the world.

00:47:46.620 So along with being the

00:47:48.620 leading LGBT author.

00:47:49.680 So everything is, uh,

00:47:50.540 everything's just turned

00:47:51.460 upside down.

00:47:52.520 Uh, let's see what else we

00:47:53.620 got.

00:47:53.840 Jammy Gitt says,

00:47:56.320 Christina Aguilera's song is

00:47:58.600 only bettered by Rachel

00:47:59.920 Bloom's sex junk on Bill

00:48:01.980 Nye's God Forsaken show.

00:48:03.740 The social engineers are

00:48:04.700 very clever though.

00:48:06.160 Every time she mentions

00:48:07.080 sex, I can't help thinking

00:48:08.220 of sex.

00:48:09.060 Yes, that's, uh, that is

00:48:09.760 clever.

00:48:10.040 I, you know, I read this

00:48:11.480 comment and you put in my

00:48:14.220 mind that song.

00:48:15.080 I completely forgotten

00:48:15.940 about it.

00:48:16.360 I blocked it out of my

00:48:17.540 mind.

00:48:18.280 I blocked out of my mind the

00:48:19.660 existence of Bill Nye, the

00:48:21.040 existence of that show.

00:48:22.060 I think it was on Netflix,

00:48:22.880 right?

00:48:23.840 For a, for a very brief

00:48:25.740 and strange period of

00:48:26.780 time, Bill Nye had a show

00:48:28.440 on Netflix and then I

00:48:30.160 remembered, yes, I'd

00:48:30.980 completely forgotten this

00:48:33.220 song performed by whoever

00:48:34.680 Rachel Bloom is called

00:48:35.760 sex junk.

00:48:36.700 And you know what?

00:48:37.400 Because you put that in my

00:48:38.460 mind, I almost decided to

00:48:40.000 play it on the show, but I

00:48:43.060 can't do that.

00:48:44.500 Even I, even that's too

00:48:45.680 fine.

00:48:45.840 I especially can't do that

00:48:46.840 after the drag queen thing.

00:48:47.740 So I can only choose one,

00:48:48.780 one of those things per

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00:50:15.500 Today we cancel with a

00:50:21.220 vengeance, George Washington

00:50:22.440 University, which has decided

00:50:23.760 to discontinue the use of its

00:50:25.140 Colonials moniker and mascot,

00:50:27.100 citing concerns about

00:50:28.020 inclusivity.

00:50:29.420 The Daily Caller reports,

00:50:30.520 quote, George Washington

00:50:31.080 University's Board of

00:50:31.880 Trustees voted to rename the

00:50:33.220 Colonials moniker for the

00:50:34.420 school in the name of

00:50:35.800 inclusivity, according to a

00:50:36.900 statement from the

00:50:37.420 university.

00:50:37.900 The board voted to change

00:50:38.900 the name in hopes of finding

00:50:39.820 a name that unifies the

00:50:41.380 community, according to a

00:50:42.240 university press release.

00:50:43.460 The statement reads, quote,

00:50:44.280 The committee said that

00:50:45.620 changing names should be

00:50:46.860 rare, but also recognized

00:50:48.000 that the GW community was

00:50:49.440 divided on whether to change

00:50:50.580 the Colonials moniker.

00:50:52.020 In this case, the special

00:50:52.860 committee found that the

00:50:53.700 Colonials moniker does not

00:50:55.040 adequately match the values

00:50:56.440 of GW and could no longer

00:50:57.700 serve its purpose as a name

00:50:59.060 that unifies the community.

00:51:01.080 Now, what exactly is the

00:51:02.360 problem with Colonial?

00:51:04.620 Well, a student petition,

00:51:05.740 which garnered only 550

00:51:07.100 signatures in a school with a

00:51:08.520 total enrollment of 27,000,

00:51:11.380 yet they got their way

00:51:12.200 anyway.

00:51:13.100 This is what the petition

00:51:13.960 says, quote,

00:51:15.740 We as students of the

00:51:16.800 George Washington

00:51:17.300 University believe it is of

00:51:18.620 great exigence that the

00:51:20.040 university change its

00:51:21.120 official mascot.

00:51:22.400 The use of Colonials, no

00:51:23.800 matter how innocent the

00:51:24.800 intention, is received as

00:51:26.540 extremely offensive by not

00:51:27.920 only students of the

00:51:28.600 university, but the nation

00:51:29.920 and the world at large.

00:51:31.640 Yes, the nation and the

00:51:32.740 world.

00:51:33.080 The world is offended by the

00:51:35.080 George Washington

00:51:35.820 University mascot.

00:51:36.860 This is something that

00:51:37.420 people all across the world

00:51:38.800 are worried about.

00:51:39.540 Go to go down to the most

00:51:42.720 impoverished parts of India

00:51:44.180 and you're going to find

00:51:45.220 people who are worried,

00:51:46.200 just who are rocking

00:51:48.320 themselves to sleep,

00:51:49.500 worried about the George

00:51:50.820 Washington University mascot.

00:51:53.320 Anyway, it says the

00:51:54.520 historically negatively

00:51:55.600 charged figure of

00:51:56.660 Colonials has too deep a

00:51:58.320 connection to colonization

00:51:59.580 and glorifies the act of

00:52:01.340 systemic oppression.

00:52:03.480 Okay.

00:52:03.760 Yes, it's it's received this

00:52:05.700 way.

00:52:05.920 They say the people who

00:52:07.300 are complaining actually

00:52:08.220 recognize that their

00:52:09.300 interpretation is not

00:52:10.500 necessarily accurate.

00:52:12.200 The colonial mascot was

00:52:13.120 not meant in the way

00:52:14.100 they're taking it,

00:52:14.880 obviously, yet they've

00:52:16.180 chosen to receive it that

00:52:17.680 way.

00:52:18.000 And so the mascot must be

00:52:19.020 changed.

00:52:19.680 They've invented an

00:52:21.000 offensive mascot in their

00:52:22.340 heads, a mascot with

00:52:23.920 that glorifies systemic

00:52:25.900 oppression, and they're

00:52:27.080 projecting that figment of

00:52:28.440 their imagination onto the

00:52:29.640 real world.

00:52:31.060 What's more, they know that

00:52:32.760 they're doing this and they

00:52:33.880 acknowledge it.

00:52:34.540 But perhaps we shouldn't

00:52:36.360 judge them too harshly

00:52:37.200 until we know what

00:52:37.820 nicknames they suggest to

00:52:38.900 take its place.

00:52:39.400 I mean, if they have an

00:52:39.980 idea that's significantly

00:52:41.620 better than the old

00:52:42.620 mascot, maybe that's

00:52:43.660 reason enough to make the

00:52:45.440 change.

00:52:46.400 Fortunately, they do list

00:52:47.640 their suggestions in the

00:52:48.860 petition.

00:52:49.360 So this is what they say.

00:52:51.660 Alternative nickname

00:52:52.500 recommendations are

00:52:53.580 revolutionaries, river

00:52:55.460 horses, or hippos.

00:53:00.240 Now, revolutionaries, that's

00:53:01.880 not all that bad, except

00:53:03.300 that you know that when they

00:53:04.360 say revolutionaries, they

00:53:05.320 have in mind revolutionary

00:53:06.520 in the sense of BLM

00:53:07.920 rioters and Antifa

00:53:08.820 terrorists.

00:53:10.140 River horse sounds like a

00:53:11.720 gender-neutral name that

00:53:12.840 some blue-haired yoga

00:53:13.820 instructor would give her

00:53:14.700 child, a child she probably

00:53:16.260 had via surrogacy.

00:53:18.320 But then, hippos?

00:53:20.900 I mean, maybe there's some

00:53:22.020 connection between hippos and

00:53:23.200 George Washington that I'm

00:53:24.060 not aware of, but even so,

00:53:25.960 you could not choose a

00:53:27.040 goofier name or animal for

00:53:28.340 your mascot.

00:53:29.280 Now, it is true that hippos

00:53:30.240 are actually the deadliest

00:53:31.080 animals in Africa, but

00:53:33.060 intestinal parasites are

00:53:34.920 deadly also, and I assume

00:53:36.620 you wouldn't want to make

00:53:37.420 that into your mascot.

00:53:39.140 Or maybe you would.

00:53:41.060 The George Washington

00:53:41.980 University intestinal

00:53:43.380 parasites has a nice ring

00:53:44.820 to it.

00:53:45.300 And it's appropriate, too,

00:53:46.100 because there is a kind of

00:53:47.580 parasitic infestation

00:53:48.760 happening in our university

00:53:49.900 system right now, which

00:53:51.120 leads to ridiculous

00:53:51.920 decisions like this.

00:53:54.160 Specifically, there are

00:53:56.040 three reasons why changing

00:53:58.240 the colonial mascot is

00:53:59.760 very stupid.

00:54:00.800 So let's go through them

00:54:01.440 briefly.

00:54:02.800 Number one, the colonial

00:54:04.480 nickname allegedly promotes

00:54:05.860 and celebrates colonialism,

00:54:07.660 therefore making it

00:54:08.380 offensive.

00:54:09.420 But I thought mascots

00:54:10.800 denigrate and dishonor the

00:54:13.340 thing or person who's been

00:54:14.460 made into the mascot.

00:54:15.840 Isn't that why we're

00:54:16.420 changing all the Native

00:54:17.180 American mascots?

00:54:18.380 Because in that case, we're

00:54:19.580 told that it's racist to

00:54:20.900 reference Indians or Indian

00:54:22.100 culture with a mascot

00:54:23.820 because it degrades them.

00:54:26.060 So wouldn't that mean by the

00:54:27.240 same logic that the

00:54:28.020 colonial mascot actually

00:54:29.160 insults and degrades

00:54:30.600 colonialism, therefore

00:54:32.000 making it a super woke and

00:54:33.940 PC choice for a name?

00:54:36.840 So which is it?

00:54:38.280 Do we celebrate a group of

00:54:39.500 people by turning them into

00:54:40.320 mascots or do we insult

00:54:41.500 them?

00:54:42.820 Now, I would answer the

00:54:43.720 former.

00:54:44.100 Mascots certainly are meant

00:54:44.980 to celebrate, to pay homage

00:54:46.340 to whatever has been chosen

00:54:48.140 as the mascot.

00:54:49.380 The left seems to agree with

00:54:51.020 that interpretation when it

00:54:52.080 comes to names like

00:54:52.780 colonials, but then they

00:54:54.160 take the exact opposite

00:54:55.020 interpretation when it

00:54:55.840 comes to a name like

00:54:56.520 Cleveland Indians, for

00:54:57.620 example, which is why that

00:54:59.180 team was renamed last year.

00:55:02.320 And in that case, the name

00:55:03.260 Indians had been chosen as

00:55:04.600 an homage to a Native

00:55:06.360 American man who played for

00:55:07.780 Cleveland in the late

00:55:08.540 19th century back when they

00:55:10.880 were called the Cleveland

00:55:11.740 Spiders for some reason.

00:55:13.660 But people started calling

00:55:14.460 them the Cleveland Indians

00:55:15.260 because of this player and

00:55:17.060 then eventually they adopted

00:55:18.080 that as a name, which is a

00:55:20.500 great honor to that player.

00:55:22.580 I mean, they named the team

00:55:24.020 after a Native American

00:55:25.300 player.

00:55:26.920 And after over a century

00:55:28.320 with that name, they

00:55:29.220 changed it so as to no

00:55:30.500 longer insult Native

00:55:31.540 Americans by paying tribute

00:55:32.840 to them with a mascot.

00:55:35.140 And that's because the

00:55:36.420 mascot did not pay tribute,

00:55:37.720 we were told.

00:55:38.220 It was an insult.

00:55:40.220 Yet colonials does pay

00:55:43.100 tribute to colonialism.

00:55:44.560 So none of this makes any

00:55:45.560 sense.

00:55:46.700 Number two.

00:55:48.060 Here's a really important

00:55:49.040 detail.

00:55:51.180 The colonials referenced by

00:55:53.320 the colonial moniker did

00:55:55.560 not engage in colonialism.

00:55:57.620 They were colonists who

00:55:58.780 actually abolished colonialism

00:56:00.700 in what is now the United

00:56:02.400 States by forming the

00:56:04.400 United States.

00:56:05.680 Quite famously, they fought a

00:56:06.940 war to end colonialism here

00:56:08.820 and to establish a

00:56:10.060 sovereign nation.

00:56:12.000 The left's interpretation of

00:56:13.160 colonial might make sense if

00:56:15.780 the university's mascot was

00:56:17.040 King George, but it's not.

00:56:19.020 It's George Washington.

00:56:20.700 Hence the name, George

00:56:21.500 Washington University.

00:56:23.840 And George Washington led

00:56:24.900 an army to free the

00:56:26.180 colonies from imperial rule

00:56:27.660 and thus, again, end

00:56:29.040 colonialism.

00:56:30.700 So we see that the argument

00:56:31.880 for getting rid of the

00:56:32.500 mascot makes no sense on

00:56:34.040 two different levels, and

00:56:35.200 we're not even done yet.

00:56:35.960 Number three.

00:56:37.380 There is nothing inherently

00:56:38.780 evil, least of all racist,

00:56:41.220 about colonialism and

00:56:42.520 colonization itself.

00:56:43.540 Even if it happened to be

00:56:44.820 true that colonial was meant

00:56:46.340 to be a sort of vague homage

00:56:47.860 to colonialism in general,

00:56:49.980 it's not true at all, and

00:56:51.060 only an idiot could think it

00:56:51.980 was true.

00:56:52.640 But put that aside, if it

00:56:54.580 was true, I still wouldn't

00:56:55.740 agree with changing the name

00:56:56.620 because I don't agree with

00:56:57.600 the premise that

00:56:58.300 colonialism is some sort of

00:57:00.080 inherent evil.

00:57:00.960 not every form of it has been

00:57:03.800 good, and certainly abuses

00:57:04.800 have occurred within the

00:57:05.780 context of colonization.

00:57:07.240 That's why the Revolutionary

00:57:08.300 War was fought, after all.

00:57:09.480 But historically, colonization

00:57:11.100 was simply one country or

00:57:12.680 kingdom sending explorers and

00:57:15.080 pioneers to establish

00:57:16.080 settlements in other parts of

00:57:17.400 the world.

00:57:18.220 Yes, they were looking to

00:57:19.120 expand their reach and their

00:57:20.200 power, but that's how the

00:57:21.800 world was settled.

00:57:22.920 All people everywhere across

00:57:24.280 the entire world looked to

00:57:25.900 expand and stretch, you

00:57:27.480 know, beyond their own

00:57:28.320 horizons.

00:57:29.440 This often led to conflict

00:57:30.900 and violence, but that's how

00:57:32.560 civilization came to be.

00:57:34.960 It was driven by the

00:57:36.040 fundamental desire to expand

00:57:37.860 into the unknown, to reach

00:57:39.720 beyond apparent limitations.

00:57:42.920 Colonization is a different

00:57:43.880 sort of thing, though, in the

00:57:44.920 modern age, when the world is

00:57:46.100 known and already settled,

00:57:48.820 more or less.

00:57:49.800 But it was different

00:57:50.660 historically.

00:57:51.900 The world was not always this

00:57:53.600 way, which may come as a

00:57:55.660 surprise to the students at

00:57:56.880 George Washington

00:57:57.440 University.

00:57:57.860 History, after all, does not

00:57:59.740 seem to be their forte.

00:58:02.640 And that's why, in the end,

00:58:04.200 they are canceled.

00:58:05.840 At least the 550 who signed

00:58:07.020 that petition are canceled.

00:58:08.540 And we'll leave it there for

00:58:09.200 today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 16, 2022

Ep. 973 - Biden Wants To Make Sure More Children Are Drugged And Castrated

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