The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Responds To His TikTok Haters

00:00:00.000 In the interest of efficiency, we'll be responding rapid-fire style to TikTok videos attacking me just over the past two weeks or so.

00:00:07.240 So we're going to go through a number of rebuttals here.

00:00:09.480 In the interest of time, I had to choose only four from the options my producers sent to me.

00:00:14.160 And there were a lot more, though.

00:00:15.700 And I say this will be rapid-fire, but take that with a grain of salt.

00:00:18.120 I'm not Ben Shapiro, so rapid-fire is relative.

00:00:21.420 Anyway, let's go through these.

00:00:23.300 I wouldn't really call this an apology.

00:00:25.320 And make no mistake, Dylan Mulvaney is our enemy.

00:00:28.140 He is an open, visible, active, and passionate advocate for the abuse of children, the war on fundamental truth, the destruction of human society as we know it.

00:00:36.840 No, Dylan Mulvaney does not advocate for child abuse.

00:00:39.420 And gender-affirming care isn't child abuse anyway. 0.98

00:00:41.860 Because it's been found that not providing trans health care to youth is actually closer to a form of child abuse.

00:00:46.900 Trans kids who are rejected from their family were nearly 60% more likely to commit suicide, 73% more likely to end up in prison, and 68% more likely to suffer from substance abuse.

00:00:56.840 One study found that 73% of trans youth experience psychological abuse, and 39% physical abuse.

00:01:03.720 So we can clearly prove that trans people are not committing child abuse.

00:01:06.440 But for the other two claims, I don't know what to do about that.

00:01:08.600 They're so over-the-top and dramatic.

00:01:10.400 War on truth, the downfall of society.

00:01:12.380 How can you prove or disprove that?

00:01:14.100 And this is where I think Matt Walsh's resentment has a little bit more to do with envy. 0.93

00:01:17.920 I mean, I resent Matt Walsh because I think he's a fascist.

00:01:20.100 But I do also envy him.

00:01:21.640 I envy his status, his platform, the fact that people might take him more seriously than they'll take me.

00:01:26.080 But what, if anything, does Matt Walsh envy about queer people?

00:01:28.820 Does he envy Dylan because she grew to such popularity so fast?

00:01:32.000 Is he envious of the fact that she got invited to things like fashion shows, different events, that she's met the president?

00:01:37.040 Now, we've already dealt extensively with the claim that gender transition decreases suicide rates.

00:01:41.080 To the charge that I am envious because Dylan Mulvaney gets to go to fashion shows, I don't know what to say except that attending a fashion show would be my actual hell.

00:01:50.980 I mean, almost as bad as going to a WNBA game.

00:01:53.440 And I'm already going to be forced to do that.

00:01:55.060 So a man can only take so much.

00:01:56.840 As for meeting the president, yes, I admit that I would be very eager for a chance to sit across from the president with the cameras rolling, but for very different reasons.

00:02:04.420 So overall, no, I'm not envious of Dylan Mulvaney.

00:02:08.160 In order to elicit envy, he would need to have something that I want or embody some sort of trait that I find admirable.

00:02:16.680 Instead, he has none of the things I want out of life and embodies everything that I want to be the opposite of.

00:02:23.240 So what we've learned here, as you even admitted to your credit, I suppose, is that you are driven by envy.

00:02:28.180 And so you assume that everyone else is too.

00:02:31.120 And this is what we call projection.

00:02:32.980 Now, the next video is from the same guy.

00:02:34.380 So let's continue. 0.99

00:02:35.360 Matt Walsh is a fascist who is promoting violence against trans people. 0.99

00:02:39.580 His language is inflammatory and factually incorrect. 0.98

00:02:42.840 The idea that being trans is the result of some kind of social contagion has been disproven so many times.

00:02:48.100 The theory of rapid onset gender dysphoria comes from a survey of 256 parents of trans children and not from the trans children themselves.

00:02:56.420 The article has been removed and criticized for bad methodology.

00:02:59.120 After being peer reviewed, it was found that rapid onset gender dysphoria isn't even a formal medical diagnosis.

00:03:04.680 It was found that between 2017 and 2019, the rates of teenagers identifying as trans didn't even increase.

00:03:10.380 Well, where to begin?

00:03:11.040 You say that the survey about rapid onset gender dysphoria was invalid because they interviewed parents rather than the children themselves.

00:03:19.860 Well, yes, if a child is sucked into a social contagion, he's not going to report that he's been sucked into a social contagion.

00:03:27.400 Are you actually trying to prove that children aren't being indoctrinated by arguing that the indoctrinated children say they haven't been indoctrinated?

00:03:34.740 Is that what you're going with?

00:03:37.080 Yes.

00:03:37.320 I mean, if you go to your local Scientology center and you ask anyone there whether they've been brainwashed, they're all going to say no.

00:03:43.840 I guess that proves that there's no brainwashing happening there either.

00:03:46.440 I mean, they didn't say they were brainwashed.

00:03:47.760 So I guess they weren't.

00:03:48.700 Now, if you don't like the term rapid onset gender dysphoria, you can call it whatever you want.

00:03:53.820 If you prefer something less clinical sounding, then just call it, wow, look at all of these kids calling themselves trans all of a sudden syndrome. 0.76

00:04:02.120 The point is that according to data compiled by the Williams Institute, for example, nearly one in five people who identify as trans are between the ages of 13 and 17.

00:04:11.460 Only half a percent of all adults in this country identify as trans, while the number for kids between the ages of 13 and 17 is 1.4%.

00:04:18.340 That's nearly three times higher.

00:04:20.420 And the numbers are even more striking when you break them down by generation.

00:04:23.080 There was a Gallup poll that found that there are twice as many trans identifiers in Gen Z as there are among millennials.

00:04:29.700 And there are many more among millennials than among baby boomers.

00:04:32.300 For baby boomers, it's 0.2% identify as trans.

00:04:36.120 For Gen Z, it's nearly 2%.

00:04:39.500 0.2% versus 2%.

00:04:42.420 That is a 10x increase.

00:04:45.560 You think this happened by accident?

00:04:47.320 Or perhaps you would say that there have always been this many trans people in the world, but they weren't free to live their truth or whatever. 0.91

00:04:52.140 Well, the trouble with that theory is that there's absolutely not even one single shred of evidence to support the dramatic claim that there have always been millions upon millions of closeted trans people through history.

00:05:05.320 So here's how this breaks down.

00:05:07.100 All of the available data, all of it, tells us that there are many, many, many, many, many more trans identifying people in the youngest generation than in any other generation in human history.

00:05:18.260 You can either believe what the data tells you, what all of it tells you, all of it, or you can invent a story entirely unsupported, completely built on your imagination about millions and millions and millions of theoretical trans people in older generations who don't show up in the data.

00:05:35.980 This is what you're reduced to because you don't want to accept what your eyes tell you and tell all of us that trans identification has skyrocketed in recent years. 0.91

00:05:44.160 Because you're left then theorizing about invisible trans people and other generations, even though you have no evidence that they even exist.

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00:06:41.900 I had an unfortunate experience today when I logged onto Facebook and I saw this post by Matt Walsh.

00:06:46.980 I'll be honest with you, I thought it was satire.

00:06:49.240 I thought Matt Walsh was either making a joke or that he had been hacked.

00:06:53.340 But upon further investigation, this was serious.

00:06:56.940 So let's read it together.

00:06:59.180 All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him.

00:07:07.420 And dinner, cooking on the stove.

00:07:10.160 This is literally all it takes to make a man happy.

00:07:14.480 We are simple.

00:07:15.620 Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.

00:07:19.280 The only truth in this entire post is where he says we are simple.

00:07:22.660 You're right. 0.99

00:07:23.420 You guys are simple-minded little f***. 0.99

00:07:25.400 It gets better when he moves to the comment section because people obviously give him a bunch of s***. 0.98

00:07:30.360 If your husband is unhappy, consider whether you have ever given him this one thing he wants.

00:07:37.000 There's a good chance the answer is no.

00:07:40.360 Oh, the outrage.

00:07:42.000 Obviously, every situation is different.

00:07:44.240 Maybe there's a situation where both spouses have to work, especially in this economy. 0.99

00:07:47.780 Maybe the man works different shifts. 1.00

00:07:49.120 Basically, yeah, I know I'm a f***ing idiot. 0.99

00:07:51.940 I don't know if I've told y'all this story about when I was being abused in my marriage. 1.00

00:07:57.060 And I'm not to like toot my own horn.

00:07:59.580 I was a pretty good wife.

00:08:00.900 Like I was the wife who stayed fairly fit after two C-sections.

00:08:05.160 I kept the house clean.

00:08:06.880 I did the laundry.

00:08:08.020 I made the dinner.

00:08:09.360 The kids were happy and well-behaved and disciplined.

00:08:12.500 And I tried my hardest because this is how I was raised.

00:08:15.480 Okay, I was raised by a stay-at-home mom.

00:08:17.360 I was raised with kind of the mindset of like, this is your job is to like make him know that like he's appreciated and that his house is taken care of and yadda yadda yadda.

00:08:26.080 On top of all that, I did all the fun little things in the bedroom he wanted me to do.

00:08:29.920 I would send him dirty pictures at work and try to keep the spice alive. 0.60

00:08:32.980 I would buy new lingerie.

00:08:34.880 Everything that you can think of.

00:08:37.480 I was like, I'm going to be a good wife.

00:08:39.080 Like I am going to make this work.

00:08:40.860 And I got more and more desperate to try to be a better wife the worse it got.

00:08:46.220 Because I was taught, like this Matt Walsh post, that if it failed, if the marriage failed, if we weren't happy, if he wasn't happy, it was on me.

00:08:55.520 It was because I wasn't grateful enough.

00:08:56.900 It was because dinner wasn't ready soon enough.

00:08:58.540 It was because I wasn't fun enough.

00:09:00.020 I wasn't spicy enough.

00:09:01.180 And he still abused me.

00:09:03.080 He still cheated.

00:09:04.540 I'm sorry you had that experience in your marriage.

00:09:06.180 I am.

00:09:06.640 Never should have happened.

00:09:07.640 But you're making a mistake that many people make these days of assuming that a general principle is wrong because of your own personal experience.

00:09:14.800 So it's like if I said that you should lock your doors at night and use an alarm system to prevent break-ins.

00:09:20.140 And you responded that my advice is bad because you did that and still had a break-in.

00:09:25.020 Okay, but does that mean that you shouldn't lock your doors and use an alarm system?

00:09:28.460 If a certain strategy isn't totally foolproof and perfect, does that automatically make it bad?

00:09:34.620 What I'm recommending is that women should be grateful and loving towards their husbands.

00:09:38.020 That's it.

00:09:39.000 That's all I'm saying.

00:09:39.900 Now, it's true that you could be grateful and loving to your husband and still end up in a terrible marriage because he's a terrible person.

00:09:44.940 That can happen.

00:09:45.540 Terrible people exist in the world, and there are people who end up married to terrible people.

00:09:49.020 It does happen.

00:09:50.080 And it happens on both ends.

00:09:51.760 Okay, because there are terrible women and terrible men. 1.00

00:09:53.860 But does that mean that wives shouldn't be grateful and loving? 1.00

00:09:57.700 I mean, are you recommending ingratitude and resentment?

00:10:00.620 Is that a better strategy?

00:10:01.820 Is that more likely to produce positive marital results?

00:10:04.480 You could be faithful to your spouse and still find that he is unfaithful.

00:10:07.880 But does that mean that we should tell people to be unfaithful from the start on the assumption that the others will be too?

00:10:14.380 Of course not.

00:10:15.840 But maybe your point is that we shouldn't put it all on the wife.

00:10:18.400 We should tell the men to be grateful and loving too.

00:10:20.380 Well, here's the good news.

00:10:21.080 I never suggest otherwise.

00:10:22.340 In fact, I frequently encourage men to love their wives and be faithful and good to them.

00:10:25.620 I say that all the time.

00:10:27.060 I just didn't happen to make that point in that particular statement that you read.

00:10:30.480 There are many points that I didn't make because I was only making the point that I did make.

00:10:34.660 I can't say everything every time I say anything.

00:10:37.360 And that limitation does not give you the right to invent a whole series of opinions and statements I never expressed, which is what you just did.

00:10:44.180 All right.

00:10:45.480 Last one.

00:10:46.160 Let's watch it.

00:10:46.960 You cannot be something and also the negation of that thing at the same time.

00:10:51.640 Matt Walsh is just going to be upset with people using micro labels.

00:10:54.580 See, he wants to have it both ways, where he hates the oversaturation of language with micro labels, yet when something is not 100% consistent and precise enough, he gets mad at that too.

00:11:06.740 You can't have it both ways.

00:11:08.320 Either we have to use umbrella terms, which are not going to be exactly precise, yet as long as we understand that if somebody says bisexual and asexual, they're probably referring to romantic attraction to both genders or perhaps a little sexual attraction to both genders.

00:11:23.760 If this is the position that Matt Walsh is taking, it is going to be logically inconsistent for him to later take issue with micro labeling.

00:11:31.540 Five minutes later.

00:11:32.920 Fart sniffing mumbo jumbo.

00:11:34.360 And now he's taking issue with micro labeling, despite earlier complaining that macro labeling is not specific enough.

00:11:41.840 Well, thank you for reminding me about my fart sniffing mumbo jumbo line.

00:11:44.500 I'm quite proud of that.

00:11:47.060 Now, my issue is not with the act of labeling.

00:11:50.120 There is some amount of labeling that's necessary and normal.

00:11:52.560 Human beings label things so that they can communicate coherently with each other about those things.

00:11:56.920 But coherence is the point here.

00:11:59.160 When the labels create incoherence, then they defeat the purpose of the entire exercise.

00:12:05.340 If the label doesn't clarify but rather creates more confusion, then it's not even a label.

00:12:10.800 It's more of an anti-label.

00:12:12.180 It's an attempt to make it harder for people to understand what something is, not easier.

00:12:16.580 My issue with the labeling that you people do is that you label obsessively and constantly, but your labels don't make sense.

00:12:23.640 And they don't cohere.

00:12:24.720 They contradict themselves.

00:12:26.600 And you can't define any of them.

00:12:28.600 That's the problem.

00:12:29.480 Case in point.

00:12:30.420 You mentioned someone who identifies as both bisexual and asexual.

00:12:33.980 That doesn't make sense.

00:12:35.540 I'm not being pedantic.

00:12:36.620 I'm not engaging in a game of gotcha here.

00:12:38.460 It just doesn't make sense.

00:12:39.940 It is a logical contradiction.

00:12:41.300 It is the definition of something that doesn't make sense.

00:12:44.480 Calling yourself a bisexual asexual is exactly like calling yourself a meat-eating vegan. 0.90

00:12:51.400 Now, you say that perhaps asexuals experience a little sexual attraction to both sexes, 0.66

00:12:56.400 and that somehow justifies calling an asexual of that sort a bisexual asexual.

00:13:00.840 But that's like saying that a meat-eating vegan is a vegan who eats only a little bit of meat.

00:13:07.040 Well, by definition, if you eat a little bit of meat, then you eat meat, which means you aren't a vegan.

00:13:10.700 You may be a less enthusiastic meat-eater or a reluctant meat-eater or an occasional meat-eater.

00:13:16.320 Or maybe there's some other adjective you can affix there.

00:13:19.360 But a vegan is someone who doesn't eat meat, period.

00:13:23.760 You eat meat, you aren't a vegan.

00:13:26.140 An asexual experiences no sexual attraction.

00:13:29.500 If you experience sexual attraction, you're not asexual.

00:13:32.180 See, this is the other problem with your compulsive and incoherent labeling.

00:13:35.600 You don't allow for variations within the labels.

00:13:39.280 You pretend that you do.

00:13:40.340 You're all about variation.

00:13:41.680 You embrace all kinds of variety, you claim.

00:13:44.180 But you don't.

00:13:45.120 Because the moment you notice a variation within a category, you create a whole new category for that variation.

00:13:53.080 So rather than just allowing for the fact that sexual people, heterosexual, homosexual, people who experience sexual attraction, rather than allowing for the fact that there are varying sexual appetites and there are people that have greater appetites than others, rather than just allowing for that, you carve out anyone with a lower appetite and you put them in the asexual box.

00:14:16.700 You've removed them from this box and put them in this one instead.

00:14:19.960 And you do this kind of thing everywhere in every context.

00:14:23.580 The most obvious example, of course, is how you've eliminated masculine women from existence, tomboys we used to call them. 1.00

00:14:29.540 You've erased that variation by labeling them trans men.

00:14:33.220 See, this is the worst part about the way that you label.

00:14:36.840 It's not just that it's incoherent. 0.68

00:14:38.720 It's also that it's so damned limiting.

00:14:40.720 And furthermore, you're canceled.

00:14:44.020 All of these people, in fact, are today, unfortunately, I must say, canceled.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 14, 2023

Matt Walsh Responds To His TikTok Haters

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