The Matt Walsh Show - January 17, 2023


Matt Walsh Discusses Race Hoaxes On College Campuses


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14 minutes

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Word count

2,478

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1

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Racist graffiti found at a college in Michigan is a big deal, but is it racism or is it a hoax? Is racism even a thing in the first place, and what does it have to do with race?

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00:00:00.000 from the new york post it says a black student's allegations that she was targeted for eating while
00:00:12.200 black at a private massachusetts college were deemed unfounded according to investigation of
00:00:16.740 the incident umo uh kunute then a rising sophomore at smith college had claimed that all she did was 0.99
00:00:23.720 all all she quote did was be black when a janitor when a janitor called security on her when he 1.00
00:00:29.640 found her in a closed lounge in july 2018 but a 35 page investigation carried out by an outside law
00:00:36.180 firm found no evidence of discrimination the findings were issued in october 2018 but not
00:00:41.800 widely reported the incident began when kunute was uh inside a cafeteria dormitory that was
00:00:47.280 reserved for a summer camp program for young children since students were not supposed to
00:00:50.800 use the area a cafeteria worker jackie blair reminded her of that fact but then decided to drop the 0.99
00:00:55.360 issue a janitor who was in his 60s had poor vision then noticed a figure in the distance eating in a
00:00:59.580 closed off lounge area uh and uh and so school guidance calls for employees not to confront
00:01:06.020 strangers on their own so the janitor notified security about the person who turned out to be
00:01:10.340 kunute uh the outlet reported the janitor who reportedly later claimed he couldn't tell the
00:01:15.060 person's gender because it was dark told dispatchers that there's someone sitting there lying down in the
00:01:19.860 living room a security officer then drove over engaged in a polite conversation uh but this woman 1.00
00:01:26.960 recorded it and so she she was where she was not supposed to be and uh you had school
00:01:33.500 you know employees followed proper protocol to enforce the rules what they were supposed to do
00:01:41.620 now you also have to keep in mind from their perspective you know you've got a stranger in
00:01:46.820 this area where they're not supposed to be it's reserved for a summer camp for kids
00:01:49.320 if they don't say anything and allow that person to be there and then you know if something happens
00:01:56.640 anything happens related to that that person well they're going to be in trouble for that
00:02:01.260 you know they might be liable for that so they enforce the rules and um
00:02:07.980 and the woman claimed that it was racism no basis for that claim whatsoever this is back in 2018 the
00:02:15.680 media ran with it everyone ran with it went viral online you may i vaguely remember this when it
00:02:20.440 first happened hearing a something like this um and of course you know as a rational person when i
00:02:26.120 first heard the story i immediately thought what how what is there any evidence that this is race
00:02:33.620 based at all obviously there wasn't and um but even so uh a lot of the people involved with
00:02:42.480 this the janitor was placed on leave the following day i mean people lost their jobs people were
00:02:47.540 smeared um across the media as being racist these are normal and you're talking about a janitor at a
00:02:54.760 school these are normal working class people totally innocent who were smeared libeled um 0.58
00:03:01.920 you know defamed as racist had their lives ruined had their careers ruined lost their jobs
00:03:09.920 all because of this all because of this lie from this despicable person who was looking for attention
00:03:19.680 you know for her that's all she was at she's at this fancy college everything's everything's going
00:03:25.900 well in her life her life's gonna be fine but she wanted a little bit of attention she wanted some 0.94
00:03:32.500 attention on social media she wanted to get some facebook likes and some retweets and for that just for
00:03:38.540 that sake she was willing to destroy the lives of however many people didn't matter to her
00:03:42.500 you know what what a sociopath you have to be
00:03:46.800 for such little reward you're willing to completely destroy innocent people
00:03:54.940 speaking of lies reports last week about racist graffiti the good old racist graffiti gambit
00:04:06.340 um racist graffiti found around campus at a college called albion college in michigan the graffiti said
00:04:14.640 here's what the graffiti said um kkk white power die n words please
00:04:21.680 and um we do exist kkk and then there was a star of david with the number six six six written across
00:04:32.020 i guess it's supposed to be an anti-semitic thing um now this was a big deal locally got a lot of
00:04:37.160 attention the students protested we got some footage of that they're pretty long line of them
00:04:42.120 this is a small college but looks like they all came out look at them all all marching they all came
00:04:46.580 out to march against racism on campus uh and then what is it i don't i don't have to tell you what
00:04:54.320 happens next do i you already know you heard racist graffiti and if you if you've been paying
00:05:00.040 attention at all over the last 10 years you know exactly where this is headed it was a hoax it was
00:05:03.980 a black student that wrote the graffiti you know even without the the history even without knowing
00:05:10.020 the history you probably would have already guessed that this is a hoax because this just isn't kkk 0.97
00:05:15.720 white power who do you think is is going to sincerely write that even if it was a an actual white racist
00:05:25.980 like why would they write that but as we've covered many times you know people who want to invent hate
00:05:35.800 crimes and turn themselves into a victim they have they have a lot of trouble doing it persuasively
00:05:42.540 and convincingly because they really have not encountered a lot of racism from white people so
00:05:49.140 they don't even know what that would be like they you know if if if racism from white people was common
00:05:56.800 in this country number one you wouldn't have to invent it you wouldn't have to make it up and number two
00:06:03.180 if you did make it up you would have encountered it so often that you should be able to make it up
00:06:09.520 and impersonate it convincingly but this is obviously someone who has never encountered a white racist in his
00:06:17.400 entire life he has no idea what a white racist would say which is good by the way he's never
00:06:22.600 encountered one that's a great thing we should celebrate that so instead he bases it off of like
00:06:27.800 movies that he saw in tv shows and stuff that's one way that you know that it's a hoax and the other
00:06:33.280 way you know it's a hoax is that as far as i can remember and correct me if i'm wrong i'll at least say
00:06:39.540 this i cannot think in the last 20 years i cannot think of a single case where so-called racist graffiti
00:06:46.220 or a racist note left on a receipt or left on someone's car windshield or slipped under their
00:06:51.780 door um turned out to be sincere every single case that i can think of they were all hoaxes has
00:06:59.600 there been even one real case i'm assuming just law of averages there has to have been right the last
00:07:06.780 20 years i have to have been at least a couple um of these racist graffiti cases that was actually done
00:07:13.820 by a white person maybe anyway mlive has the report says albion college and the albion department
00:07:21.840 of public safety says that a student is responsible for racist graffiti found in a dorm last weekend
00:07:26.620 albion police brought the 21 year old black male in for questioning on april 6th the student admitted
00:07:33.480 to creating most of the graffiti and video evidence from albion's campus safety department confirms the
00:07:38.020 statements made by the student so i i take it from that that he was on uh security camera footage
00:07:43.860 they said video evidence confirms it so i'm assuming that he that probably he was right in front of a
00:07:50.860 of security camera scrolling this thing when it comes to hate crime hoaxes they're really not sending
00:07:58.000 their best um but here's the response to this from albion college and i could be pronouncing the name
00:08:05.440 of the college wrong never heard of them before now but here's what they tweeted this is this they
00:08:09.880 put they put this out i think it was yesterday this is after it was already known who was responsible
00:08:13.900 for this and this is their tweet okay they said earlier today we identified the individual responsible
00:08:20.620 for the racist and anti-semitic graffiti in mitchell towers the student who was acting alone
00:08:25.200 acknowledged their responsibility for these for these incidents they have been immediately removed
00:08:29.360 from campus and placed on temporary suspension while we conduct a full investigation as part of our
00:08:33.440 student judicial process but we know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about
00:08:38.440 one particular person or one particular incident we know that there's a significant history of racial
00:08:42.640 pain and trauma on campus and we're taking action to repair our community we will change and heal
00:08:48.020 together as a community because we are committed to doing the work right now we encourage all members
00:08:52.440 of our community to listen respond and care for one another and lean on the faculty staff community
00:08:56.760 members who have been gathering today to make sure we're supporting you we have your back okay
00:09:00.880 aside from the normal tripe about we'll do the work we're committed the phrase do the work has become
00:09:09.180 to me as grating and annoying as the phrase lived experience and they're always said by the usually in the
00:09:14.860 same sentence um by the the same sorts of people i'm surprised lived experience didn't appear in this
00:09:21.560 statement here we'll do the work to understand your lived experience but do you notice so we got to do the
00:09:28.900 work we got the buzzwords and everything you notice what's missing from this statement they never say
00:09:35.180 it was a hoax they never say that it was a black student who did it in fact they intentionally give
00:09:41.500 the impression that it was a white student they don't say that but they tie all this into historic
00:09:47.880 racism racial trauma so on and so forth they're clearly trying to give the impression without saying it
00:09:56.100 that the graffiti really was done by a white racist that's the way the school has decided to handle it
00:10:01.940 and um if that doesn't work then they will um at least try to disperse the blame
00:10:11.540 you know it's we're not going to blame this one individual uh we're going to blame the institutions
00:10:17.440 this this is not this is not about one particular person it's about a history of racial pain no it is
00:10:25.920 definitely about one particular person it's about the guy who did it
00:10:28.560 a guy who they say is kicked off a campus that's good he should also be charged with a crime
00:10:35.680 you know a hate crime hoax is a hate crime i'm not a fan of the hate crime designation at all i don't
00:10:45.600 think it should exist but as long as it does it should be used equally and in a way that's
00:10:49.360 at least sort of coherent and what that means is that a hate crime hoax should be considered a hate
00:10:53.460 crime so it's it is a hate crime against the group of people that you're trying to frame
00:11:00.360 that's what it's a hate crime against so a black student putting that graffiti up pretending that a
00:11:08.280 white racist did it that is a hate crime against white students he is trying to inflame hatred towards
00:11:14.660 the white students and guilt by association he's trying to um to you know uh defame them as as racist
00:11:25.800 that's the way we should that's why these things should be handled
00:11:30.520 all right this is from the new york post it says stanford university has launched a hate crime
00:11:41.280 investigation after a noose was found hanging from a tree as at a residence hall in an email to
00:11:46.600 students and staff university officials said campus safety authorities immediately removed the noose and
00:11:51.560 retained it as evidence um the uh an official with the university says we cannot state strongly
00:11:58.060 enough that a noose is a reprehensible symbol of anti-black racism and violence that will not be
00:12:03.340 tolerated on our campus it is the moral responsibility of those with any knowledge of this incident to come
00:12:08.600 forward now i'm only reading this story because i want to go usually i ignore these stories until
00:12:15.480 it it is inevitably revealed that it's a hoax so i just i'm gonna go on the record right now and say
00:12:20.220 this is either a hoax now this is there's there's two possibilities um one is that it's just a straight
00:12:26.840 up hoax probably most likely one the other one is that and and often we find in these kinds of stories
00:12:31.480 it turns out that it was uh you know it's like a tire tire swing that somebody misinterpreted
00:12:35.980 or a garage door pull famously like at mascar so i'm gonna go on the record right now and i give it
00:12:42.300 about a week until we get the we get the meek quiet sort of little update from the police saying oh yeah
00:12:48.100 it turns out that uh never mind just forget about this whole story
00:12:50.940 and despite that fact despite the fact that these hoaxes are so common that when you read the story you
00:12:59.880 already know for near a hundred percent certainty that it is a hoax despite that when they find the
00:13:07.720 quote noose uh the statement immediately says oh it's a symbol of anti-black racism i ask again that
00:13:14.460 has there actually been a real authentic case in the last in this century in this century has there been a
00:13:23.140 real authentic case of a of an anti-black racist a white person hanging a noose somewhere as an as a
00:13:30.720 symbol of racism has has that happened at all anywhere this century i'm not aware of a single case of it
00:13:37.620 and i highly doubt that this incident at stanford in california will will be the uh the first such
00:13:47.400 authentic example in in the past century at least but one thing we can be sure is that the fbi federal
00:13:56.280 government they're gonna be on the case here they sent what was it 20 agents to investigate the garage
00:14:01.320 door pull and bubba wallace's garage so how many are they going to send to stanford while they have
00:14:07.180 crazed mobs violating federal law and hunting down supreme court justice uh they don't have time to deal
00:14:12.720 with that they're going to be over in stanford looking into this uh tire swing or you know
00:14:16.120 whatever it was
00:14:17.940 whatever it was
00:14:18.000 whatever it was