Ep. 977 - Navy Prepares For Battle With Pronoun Training
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The Navy is training its members to create a safe space by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children s show. Also, a mother raises a quarter of a million dollars based on a horrific story of her son being bullied.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Navy puts out a new instructional video teaching sailors and
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other military members how to use and respect a person's preferred pronouns. We have the actual
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instructional video, which we will play for you today because you have to see it for yourself
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to believe it. Also, Republicans sell out on gun control, but did they actually sell out or are
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they simply doing exactly what we expect them to do and what they've always done? We'll talk about
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that. And a mother raises a quarter of a million dollars based on a horrific story of her son being
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bullied. The only problem is that the story doesn't seem to be true. At what point will people stop
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falling for these kinds of scams? In our daily cancellation, the left is justifying child
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drag shows by comparing them to 90s cross-dressing comedies like Mrs. Doubtfire. But this argument
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actually undermines and destroys their own premise. I'll explain why all of that and more today on
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the Matt Wall Show. You know, in the past, public schools were simply neglecting foundational subjects
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freedomforschool.com. Freedomforschool.com. Yesterday, we talked about the fact that we live
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in a theocracy, not a Christian theocracy, of course. We aren't that fortunate, but a theocracy
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which governs according to the leftist religion. Now, I firmly believe that leftism is the modern
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equivalent of a religion and that much of what it does and how its adherents behave can best be
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understood through the lens of religion. Though I also do worry that I'm insulting religion by calling
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leftism a religion. After all, most religions are much more impressive, intellectually richer,
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more systematically coherent, have far greater and more meaningful substance than leftism does.
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Perhaps it's just better to call leftism an ideology or a political theory and leave it at that.
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But that, I think, doesn't quite capture what this thing is in its fullness. It doesn't account for the
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zeal of its adherents or its dogmatic nature or the faith required to believe anything that it
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preaches. What makes this a religion, ultimately, is that it has its own high priests, its own sacraments,
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its own holy days, its own spiritual convictions, its own tenets and dogmas, its own canon, its own
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catechism. It hunts for heretics and punishes blasphemers. It exiles its apostates and calls for
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complete submission to its doctrines. It has its own higher power, its own god, which is the self,
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the individual ego. It may be a flimsier, weirder, less intellectually rigorous, shallower version of
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religion, but it is a religion all the same. And that's how we can begin to make sense of this.
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As the Washington Free Beacon first reported, quote, the Navy is training its members to create a safe
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space by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children's
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show. The official training video is meant to emphasize, quote, the importance of using correct
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pronouns as well as polite etiquette when you may not be sure of somebody's pronouns, according to the
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Navy, which late last month published the video online. The Defense Visual Information Distribution
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Service touts the video as an official U.S. Navy video posted by Air Force Staff Sergeant John
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Venucci. Now, if you go to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service website, it will
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connect you over to the Naval Sea Systems Command website, where you can find a longer explanation
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for this pronoun video. In an article titled Empowering a Diverse Workforce, Naval Sea Systems Command
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Inclusion and Engagement Projects Take Shape, we're told the following, quote, the diversity team is
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creating a video series called NAV Speaks to educate and empower employees to reach their full potential.
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The program started off as a TED Talks kind of video platform for the NAV Sea community to connect
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employees to opportunities. The video platform bridges employees to programs, resources, and
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opportunities for leadership development and career advancement. By highlighting diverse voices and
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perspectives, NAV Speaks educates and empowers future leaders who will represent the community
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they serve. NAV Speaks will transition to the Office of Engagement, Diversity, and Inclusion at the end of
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the fiscal year. So, we go back now to the Washington Free Beacon Report with a little more added context.
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It says, the video is the latest bid by the military to foster a more sensitive environment for its
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members and staff. The Army mandates similar gender identity training and trains officers on when to
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offer subordinates gender transition surgery, according to the Washington Free Beacon Report in March.
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These programs are part of a larger push by the Biden administration to make the military
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more welcoming to transgender individuals. Now, with all that in mind, it's time to actually watch
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the video. And I'm sure you didn't think that you'd escape this segment without being subjected to the
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video itself. You know me better than that by now. And so, here it is. This is the actual instructional
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video produced by and for the Navy. While other countries are training their military members on how to
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more effectively brutalize and kill the enemy, we're training ours with this.
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Hi, my name is Johnny, and I use he-him pronouns.
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Hi, and I'm Conchi, and I use she-her pronouns.
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What is a pronoun? A pronoun is how we identify ourselves apart from our name,
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and it's also how people refer to us in conversations.
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Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity.
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If it's a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody?
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That's a good question. A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language.
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Instead of saying something like, hey, guys, you can say, hey, everyone, or hey, team.
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Yeah, and now that you say that, another way that we could show that we're allies and that we accept
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everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails, or, like we just did, introduce ourselves using our pronouns.
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I think the first thing to recognize is that it's not the end of the world.
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You correct yourself and move on, or you accept the correction and move on.
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The most important thing I can tell you is do not put the burden of making you feel good about your mistake
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She says that we must not put any burden on the person that we just misgendered,
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but that person can put all kinds of burdens on us.
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In fact, we are saddled with the burden of having to adopt and affirm that individual's misconceptions about reality.
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We must participate in their game of charades, whether we're in the mood for a game or not.
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If that person is playing dress-up and make-believe, the burden is on us to abide by the rules of their game.
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We can't simply exist and mind our own business and live the way we like.
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We must live how that other person wants us to live and think the way they want us to think
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This is all in the name of creating a safe space for that person.
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Now, if we would like a safe space of our own, a safe space from this kind of lunacy altogether, we're out of luck.
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That's what we've learned in this Navy instructional video so far.
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What we haven't learned, though, is anything that has anything to do with being in the Navy.
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Yeah, and another tip for you to remember their pronoun next time, it's in your mind.
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Kind of go through a progression of three good things about the person using their pronoun.
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So let's say the person chooses to use they, then you will in your mind go, they have a nice shirt.
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It assumes that there's anything nice to say about the kind of person who prefers the pronoun they.
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Now you've got me searching for the one positive needle in this haystack of unpleasant personality traits,
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and the whole thing's gotten a lot more complicated.
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And what you still haven't done with this video is explain why I should care about anybody's preferred pronouns in the first place.
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Give me one good reason why I should give a damn.
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So I should just lead with my pronouns, and they may follow or not.
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And if they don't, then I can just continue to use gender-neutral language.
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Just to share something with you that happened the other day at a cookout I was at,
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we were talking about pronouns, and somebody was disagreeing with how different people see themselves as different pronouns.
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And the argument was, if you look like a female, then it's she, her, because that's what's normal.
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And if you make me call you something else, then you're infringing on my rights.
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And I was really taken aback by the comment, and I really wasn't sure how to respond.
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And the only thing I could really think quickly to say was, it's not about you at all.
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What kind of cookout in hell are you attending where people stand around talking about pronouns?
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There's no way these people even eat meat, so what are they grilling?
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Imagine finding yourself at a barbecue where they've got nothing but zucchini and tofu burgers on the grill,
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and everyone begins every conversation by giving their pronouns.
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By this lady's telling, it sounds like there was maybe one normal person who wandered into this zoo
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and made the very good point that females are she, her, and it's an infringement on his free speech rights
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to try and force him to call a female anything other than that.
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The lady in the video, sitting next to her henpecked patsy,
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whose only role is to just agree with everything she says, apparently,
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is she says that she was shocked to encounter someone who feels this way.
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Which, that doesn't surprise me after we filmed What is a Woman?
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Of course, we encounter many people like this who are just shocked.
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I mean, they can't believe that anyone exists who would disagree with these ideas that they invented 15 seconds ago.
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And she insists that it's not about you, and really, this is just a matter of respect.
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If you're telling me what I have to say, and what I have to affirm,
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and the beliefs that I have to pretend that I hold,
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I mean, I'm the one we're talking about, right?
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If you have preferred pronouns that differ from your biological identity,
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I want to live in reality is where I want to live.
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And you should respect my desire to exist in reality,
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See, this is how we have to start framing this,
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When you go around talking about your preferred pronouns,
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But I feel like we've strayed from the point here.
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more prepared to devastate and destroy our enemies?
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And now thanks to X-chair's new FS360 armrests,
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believe that somebody in one category can never
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And it's absurd because a man is wearing women's
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But the left says that we have to take cross-dressing
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biological male presenting himself as a female.
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exclusionary, reinforcing the gender binary and all
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identifies as an elderly woman and struggles for
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to be accepted, you know, by society and his own
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Doubtfire had never existed and then was made in
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2022, the left would watch it and either they would
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want to burn at the stake everybody involved, or they
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would think that it's an inspirational drama. Like, they
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would not see it as a comedy. Unless I'm wrong. Perhaps
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I should take these leftists at their own word. They're
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saying that modern drag shows and Mrs. Doubtfire are
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the same. That's what they're saying. Okay, so can I then
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point and laugh at drag queens? Can I say that they look
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ridiculous? Can I teach my children that when they see a man
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dressed like a woman, it's funny and silly and they should
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not take it seriously. They should laugh at it. Now, I
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have taught my children that that's exactly what I've told
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them on a few occasions when we've been out in public and
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they have unfortunately, incidentally, witnessed
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something like this. I've told them that's silly. That's
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ridiculous. That's all that is. And I'm going to tell my
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children that whether I have permission from the left or
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not. But are they now endorsing that approach? Something tells
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me they're not, not intentionally anyway. They're just
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saying whatever they think will be most effective in the
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moment, even if it contradicts everything else they say in
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every other moment, as usual. And for that reason, they are
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today canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks
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