The Matt Walsh Show - December 27, 2022


Matt Walsh Reacts To Anti-Christmas TikTok's


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Tik Tok is celebrating Christmas this year, and it's a good one. But what does TikTok have to do with Christmas? What does it have in common with pagan festivals like Yule and St. Patrick's Day? And what does the internet have to say about it?

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00:00:00.000 We're going to stay in the holiday spirit here by heading over to TikTok to see how they are
00:00:06.020 celebrating Christmas this year. And if I know anything about TikTok, I think it'll be very
00:00:10.200 joyful and happy and also deeply respectful to the Christmas traditions. So let's, let's begin.
00:00:22.040 An opinion you have that might piss some people off.
00:00:24.680 Oh, this definitely pisses people off, especially the majority of my family. When people say the
00:00:33.260 reason for the season, when they're talking about Christmas and they're all like, the reason for
00:00:37.640 this season is Jesus. The reason for the season is Christian propaganda. I touched on this in one
00:00:46.080 of my other video rants, but basically when the Christians were like getting organized and are
00:00:51.420 like, look, we got all these other people to believe other things. We totally want them to
00:00:57.120 believe what we believe because like they have to. They basically said, all right, what do they
00:01:04.000 already celebrate? Let's just co-opt that and change it so that instead of worshiping like whatever,
00:01:13.220 like heathen gods they're worshiping, they're going to like substitute like Jesus and the God Almighty 0.72
00:01:23.260 Lord whatever. And so they did. And that's why, you know, we have Christmas, which is Yule. It's the
00:01:33.700 winter solstice. Yes, I can't even keep watching that. That's, that really is, that's, that's,
00:01:37.600 that's a tough one. That's a tough one to listen to that. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if she was
00:01:47.560 like a history professor at an Ivy League school. That, that wouldn't surprise me. By the way,
00:01:51.240 she says that, that her take on this pisses people off, but see lady that, that, that, no, it doesn't,
00:01:57.020 that's not the right word. It's, it's the dumbest damn thing anyone's ever heard. You're saying very
00:02:02.380 stupid things and you're saying them very stupidly. So you've got both things going on here. You're
00:02:08.340 saying dumb things. You're saying them as dumbly as possible. And so it's not, it's the people
00:02:12.420 aren't upset. It's an, it annoys them. And I think sometimes this is a, people can get confused about
00:02:16.560 this is that they're not, they're not like offended or upset that you've made some brilliant point that
00:02:21.340 they can't refute. It's just that you really annoyed them. Much of the overlap between Christmas and
00:02:28.360 ancient pagan festivals is invented by internet means. That's what a lot of it comes from.
00:02:33.640 But every single year, it's not even every year, it's multiple times a year when there's a big
00:02:36.900 Christian holiday, you know, namely Easter and Christmas, of course, you have these people on
00:02:41.760 the internet who are very satisfied with themselves and, and think of themselves as being very, very
00:02:46.440 intelligent. And they also think they're the first ones to ever bring this up. This alleged
00:02:51.760 connection between modern Christian traditions and pagan traditions. You've always got, there's a million,
00:02:58.000 what is this woman's name? Rise Rebels. There's a million of her out there and they think they're 1.00
00:03:03.720 the first one. She's like, I'm going to tell you this, this is really going to piss people off.
00:03:07.020 And then she proceeds to say something that we've all seen in 50 million memes at this point.
00:03:13.460 So a lot of that is made up.
00:03:15.200 It's an urban legend that never happened.
00:03:17.280 Some of it isn't though. So for instance, pagans for a long time used evergreen trees
00:03:23.320 and evergreen plants in their celebrations of the winter solstice. That's correct. And if you wanted
00:03:29.480 to, you could trace the Christmas tree back to that. And this is when you get the, uh, the lefties
00:03:34.480 who will say, as you see, it was originally pagan. Okay, fine. What, what's your point? What do you
00:03:41.000 think that proves exactly? What happened is that as pagan cultures became Christian, as they came to the
00:03:47.640 faith, they didn't abandon all of their traditions, their entire culture. They didn't do that. They
00:03:53.800 weren't required to. Okay. What exactly is the problem? I don't even understand what the problem is
00:03:59.140 supposed to be, especially because by the way, almost all traditions have, if you like, pagan roots.
00:04:07.100 Because if you want to put it that way, since if you go back far enough, almost everyone in the
00:04:12.340 world was pagan. If you go back far enough, the vast majority of the planet was pagan.
00:04:17.640 Uh, let's keep going.
00:04:19.140 All right, since it's Christmas time, let's talk about racism in Christmas songs. Yeah, you heard
00:04:23.740 right. The term Eskimo appears in a couple different Christmas songs and is generally considered pretty
00:04:28.780 offensive by the Inuit people and by other groups that live in the Arctic because it was a word used
00:04:34.200 by colonizers to describe their people and imply that they were barbaric and primitive. I'm going to give
00:04:39.540 you two examples of this word's usage in Christmas songs, and I'll give you suggestions for replacement
00:04:44.480 lyrics too. We'll frolic and play the Eskimo way. Get rid of that. We'll frolic and play the holiday 0.99
00:04:53.420 way. Walk away. Better already. And folks dressed up like Eskimos, everybody knows that we don't like
00:05:03.740 that. And folks dressed up like in snow globes, everybody knows. Much better. Merry Christmas.
00:05:12.860 Don't be racist.
00:05:14.740 Uh, okay.
00:05:16.500 So a couple, a couple things here. First of all, we see again, how the leftists on TikTok think that
00:05:25.140 they're blowing our minds. She says, do you know there's racist? I'm going to tell you how some
00:05:31.140 regular Christmas songs are racist. You heard that right. Get ready for this. It's like, yeah,
00:05:34.960 we know if we're watching a TikTok video, we know we're about to see some white girl explain to us 1.00
00:05:39.520 why something totally innocuous is racist. You're not, we, we know that we know that's where this is
00:05:43.320 going immediately. You say that the word Eskimo, that Inuit people and others who live in the
00:05:51.040 Arctic think that the word Eskimo is offensive. Here's a better plan. Rather than replacing the
00:05:55.820 word, better plan is for people who are offended by a totally innocuous word like Eskimo to stop
00:06:01.000 being offended. If there is anyone actually offended by that, better plan, we could, we could change the
00:06:05.160 songs or the other solution is that if you're offended by that, just stop being offended or keep
00:06:10.100 being offended because honestly, I don't give a damn. It doesn't matter either way.
00:06:12.580 Go cry about it, bitch. 1.00
00:06:14.280 You know what Eskimo actually means? You know the etymology of the word? It derives from French
00:06:18.940 originally and it means someone who wears a snowshoe or someone who laces up a snowshoe.
00:06:25.160 That's what it means. The word is derived from the fact that these people wore snowshoes.
00:06:30.820 And so the Europeans who first encountered them and didn't speak the language, so they didn't know
00:06:35.300 what they referred to themselves as, this is the, this is what they came up with. Why is it offensive?
00:06:39.860 How is that derogatory? Just to observe that someone's wearing a snowshoe is a slur now?
00:06:45.640 Hey, take those snowshoes off now. I'd just like to remind you again that the, the, the people this
00:06:50.420 word applies to, I guarantee you the vast majority of them don't care at all. All right, let's keep
00:06:55.320 going. White supremacist systems will be dismantled. That's the unrealistic thing she wants for
00:07:09.640 Christmas. It's actually not unrealistic at all. Here's, I've got some good news for a change.
00:07:13.320 I can do, I can do you one better. Rather than dismantling it for Christmas, I can tell you that
00:07:17.480 it doesn't exist to begin with. There's nothing to dismantle. It doesn't, it's a figment of your
00:07:21.540 imagination. It's a phantom. You've invented it in your head. It doesn't exist. So there you go.
00:07:25.860 That's, that's my Christmas present to you. You're welcome. All right. Is there anyone,
00:07:29.540 is there something a little bit more intelligent, something a little bit more, uh, I don't know,
00:07:33.320 provocative? Hi, I'm Kale. I don't like Christmas very much. Last year I did a series trying to like
00:07:39.900 Christmas. So this year I said, screw it. I'm going to do anti-Christmas tradition. So
00:07:44.740 we're making cursed gingerbread men. I had to retake this shot. Anyways, Slenderman cookie.
00:07:52.300 She made cursed gingerbread men as her anti-Christmas tradition. And the cursed gingerbread men are like
00:07:59.000 regular gingerbread men, but she uses green icing instead of white. That's some edgy stuff.
00:08:05.120 Watch out for the edge. You might cut yourself on this edge.
00:08:08.060 Now that's edgy as f***.
00:08:09.740 I don't even feel right making fun of this one because she's like probably 16 or something,
00:08:14.120 trying desperately to be defiant and rebellious. And unfortunately, you know, this is, this is a
00:08:18.040 situation that kids are in these days. Like we, you know, we all went through phases when we were
00:08:22.540 kids. We were really awkward phases of trying to be rebellious and defiant. But many of us who are
00:08:28.220 older, we had the great fortune of not having the ability to capture all of this digitally and,
00:08:35.520 and have it live forever on the internet.
00:08:37.560 And so now for these kids, this is going to live forever, which is a really unfortunate
00:08:42.780 for her. But the thing is also, here's a note kids. If you want to be rebellious and defiant
00:08:46.780 and, uh, and, and, and all of that, and you want to rebel and, and really be revolutionary
00:08:52.060 around Christmas time, then just celebrate a traditional joyful Christmas. That's how you
00:08:57.280 can do it. You can really set yourself apart from your peers that way.
00:08:59.660 Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.
00:09:01.820 All right, let's watch, uh, one more.
00:09:03.300 You know what I'm already not looking forward to is stop. But it's the people who get mad
00:09:09.700 when I say happy holidays at work. They're like, mm, Merry Christmas. And I'm like, oh
00:09:14.580 yeah, happy holidays. And they're like, you can say Christmas. And I'm just sitting here
00:09:18.720 like, I celebrate Yule. I'm not, I'm not Christian. I don't celebrate Christmas. And most of them 0.98
00:09:25.680 are just like, whatever. And they leave the store. But then you have the other half that
00:09:28.900 are like, you godless heathen. I'm like, please leave me alone.
00:09:38.300 You know, it really pains me to say this in some ways, but in other ways, maybe I'm, uh,
00:09:42.060 uh, relieved that I can say, I, uh, you know what? I basically agree with her. I actually
00:09:46.720 kind of agree. Kind of. Um, because there, there's actually nothing wrong. Now, I don't
00:09:53.700 believe that, that customers are like screaming at her because she said happy holidays instead
00:09:58.160 of, uh, Merry Christmas. But there are some people who make a big thing out of this and
00:10:01.580 they, and they, you know, make this into part of the war on Christmas is when cashiers at
00:10:06.600 big box retailers say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. And, uh, and I do think
00:10:10.860 that's an absurd thing to get upset about either way. It's fine. It doesn't, you know, if you
00:10:15.260 say it to me, it's, it's a, it's a friendly greeting around the holidays and I'm, I'm fine
00:10:21.220 with that. It's perfectly fine. And you know, the other thing too, is that I think conservatives
00:10:25.680 need to take a cue from the left on this point because the left, they're very good at co-opting
00:10:31.860 things. They know how to co-opt and we go the opposite way, you know? So as conservatives,
00:10:37.560 we hear happy holidays and we say, well, no, that's, that doesn't acknowledge Christmas.
00:10:42.120 Instead we should co-opt it, which isn't even hard to do. It's not much of a stretch and just say,
00:10:46.420 okay, yeah, happy holidays is the same thing as saying Merry Christmas. That's what you're
00:10:49.860 really saying. When you say happy holidays, what you really mean is Merry Christmas. And
00:10:54.420 that's fine. So that way, when someone tries to get around Merry Christmas by saying happy
00:10:58.700 holidays, they still haven't gotten around it because they're still, because we've co-opted,
00:11:01.380 we've taken ownership of that phrase. So rather than getting offended by it or getting upset,
00:11:06.240 we should take ownership of it. And so that no matter what you say around the holidays,
00:11:10.500 you're still saying Merry Christmas. You see, that's playing chess instead of checkers.
00:11:14.080 Even though she found a very annoying way of putting it, I'm not going to disagree with this
00:11:17.400 young lady. And maybe we'll end there. I didn't even think we'd get to this point where I would
00:11:21.380 agree with one of them, but maybe we end there on a positive note. And that's it. Merry Christmas.