Ep. 435 - The Collapse Of Western Civilization In Two Viral Videos
Two viral videos provide more evidence that western civilization is in rapid decline. One shows a woman giggling and smiling as she goes into a Planned Parenthood to kill her child. The other shows a drag queen dancing suggestively for a young girl as her parents look on and applaud. We'll discuss all of this. Also, coronavirus news, election news, and California's heroic efforts to battle gender segregated toy stores.
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Let me just say about the coronavirus, there's a lot of unnecessary panic.
You don't need to panic.
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You know, the last thing that I would want to do is take part in that panic or drive that panic.
You know, I for one am really about taking the whole thing in stride.
Now, I do believe, though, in basic precautions.
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You wash your hands.
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You kill anybody in your house who has a cold and burn their bodies in the backyard.
Really basic stuff.
And frankly, I'm talking about things that you should be doing anyway.
So this is nothing out of the ordinary at all.
Now, today on the show we have a lot to cover, both literally and figuratively.
We're going to start with the continued collapse of Western civilization, which is not just being brought about by the coronavirus, but by, you know, I mean also in a cultural way.
And as far as culture goes, I have two different videos that have gone viral over the past few days that I think evidence Are evidence of the cultural collapse of Western civilization.
Always a fun topic.
We'll talk about that.
And we'll go through five headlines, which include, of course, election news, coronavirus news, and one story about California.
You know, California really focusing on the important things.
In this case, they're passing a law requiring retailers to have gender-neutral space in their toy sections.
So very, very important.
Also, in our daily cancellation, I'll be canceling a prestigious academic institution.
And in our email segment, an emailer has written to me to tell me why I'm wrong about something.
Those are always my favorite emails, so we'll listen to that.
Okay, so let's get going.
And actually, I guess I'm not gonna do the whole show in the mask, mainly because it's making my glasses fog up, which I hadn't...
Factored in so I'm risking my life for you people right now.
That's what I that's what I'm that's that's the kind of dedication I have to you by the way I'm not sure if I mentioned this yet, but Stop me if you've heard this one before but I do have a new book out called Church of cowards Which is right here behind my hand sanitizer, which I have with me handy at all times and you know the feedback on this book has been Really encouraging.
It's kind of a nerve-wracking thing to write a book in general, because you're putting yourself out there.
It's a very personal sort of thing.
And if people don't like it, then it might make you cry.
But in this case, the feedback has been great.
And I do appreciate that, especially because the book confronts the reader.
It is a confrontational book in some ways.
And so you're never sure how people are going to react to that.
But as I said, the feedback's been great.
So please give it a read, Church of Cowards, if you haven't yet.
Now, onto the collapse of the West.
A video was posted to the social media site TikTok.
few days ago. And that video shows a woman laughing and smiling as she goes in to have
her child murdered at Planned Parenthood. It's implied that in the video, it's implied this is
her second abortion. So this is her second go around. But this is pretty infuriating. I'm
warning you if you haven't seen it yet, but take a look at this. How do you feel, Ashley?
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I decided that I'd rather get coronavirus than be uncomfortable.
That's the decision that I made.
Now, you saw the video there.
The first thing to realize though with a video like that is that it's not an isolated thing.
This is part of a trend on the left.
You may recall Shout Your Abortion, the Shout Your Abortion campaign a few years ago, which is ongoing.
And the goal is to get women to be happy about their abortions, to brag about them, to treat them as either completely frivolous and meaningless, or as an actual joyful act, something to be happy about.
And the media in Hollywood are in on the act, and they're constantly trying to promote this Maybe you remember that episode of the show Scandal on ABC a few years ago that showed a woman getting an abortion while Silent Night played in the background.
This was their Christmas episode, I believe.
So it was supposed to be this inspirational and heroic moment.
And that's how the pro-abortion side wants us to see abortion.
Heroic, happy, or, as I said, at a minimum, meaningless and frivolous.
They'll take that too.
That also works.
Now, you'll notice something.
Back 20 years ago, pro-aborts used to say that their goal was to make abortion safe, legal, and rare, right?
Well, that's out the window now, and has been for years.
Yeah, they want it to be legal still, obviously, through all stages of pregnancy.
And they say they want it to be safe, although the idea of the safe abortion is a contradiction in terms, because every single abortion kills at least one person, unless it fails.
Every successful abortion kills at least one person, then unless it fails and the baby survives.
But we know, of course, that in that case, the baby can be put to the side of the room and left to die.
And that's what Democrats want to happen, which is why they voted down a bill that would have stopped that from happening last week.
So, contradiction in terms of for safe abortion, but pro-aborts will still go around talking about the safe abortion.
What they don't talk about is a rare.
They don't say they want rare.
Rare is out the window.
You're not allowed to call for rare abortions anymore.
That's a good way to get evicted, expelled, exiled from the left, if you do that.
In a similar way, we used to be told that abortion is a sad and somber affair.
It's something that we used to be told, Nobody wants to get an abortion.
It's a very sad thing, and so we should be sad about it.
But it may be necessary, and this is a choice that a woman has to make.
That used to be the way that abortion was presented.
No?
Not so much.
Now that's been exchanged for champagne and confetti.
And giggling girls walking into Planned Parenthood filming whimsical viral videos about it.
The reason for this change is obvious.
And even though it's hideously evil, it actually makes a lot of sense in terms of strategy.
Because the pro-abortion side realized that, wait a second, if we admit that abortion is sad, and we say that we want it to happen less often, then the obvious question is raised, next, why?
You know, why is it sad?
Why do you want it to happen less often?
What is it about abortion that makes even you, as a pro-abortion person, say that it's sad and it shouldn't happen very often?
Well, the answer is, because you're killing a person.
If it's not killing a person, if it really is just a clump of cells, a parasitic organism that a woman is expelling from her body, then there's nothing sad about it, and there's no reason to say it should be rare.
If anything, it should happen more often, right?
And that's what the pro-abortion side realizes, and so they said, forget all that sad stuff, forget all that rare stuff.
Abortion is actually awesome!
That's what we're being told now.
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Okay, talking about that vile TikTok video, I've always said that many women who get abortions are themselves victims.
I think that's an important point because they are exploited and lied to by the abortion industry.
In so many cases, you're talking about young, poor girls who go into these clinics, they don't have any parents at home, or their parents are pressuring them into getting the abortion.
There's no man in the picture, the father's not in the picture, or else he's also pressuring.
And they don't know what their options are.
There's a lot of confusion and fear and everything.
They walk into the clinic, many times because they've been told that Planned Parenthood cares about women and if you're a woman in a difficult situation, go to Planned Parenthood and they care about you.
They're going to try to help you.
And so they walk in thinking that that's what's going to happen.
And then Planned Parenthood or the abortion clinic, whatever clinic it is, they descend like vultures.
And they feast on the confusion and fear of this girl to try to convince her to kill her child.
Knowing that she's going to live a life of regret and guilt because of it.
But they don't care because they get the money.
And that's all that they are really worried about.
So, that's why I say, in that case, the woman is also a victim.
I'm not saying she has zero moral culpability for the choice she's making, but she's also a victim and I think we need to turn our attention to the abortion clinic as the primary villain here.
But, in other cases, women who get abortions are simply murderous psychopaths.
And this is one of those cases.
Either that, or this is a desperate attempt on her part to convince herself that she doesn't need to feel guilty.
This is a rationalization.
Which, so much of the shout-your-abortion stuff, that's exactly what it is.
They're not talking to you.
You know, the woman's not really talking to you.
She's not really trying to convince you.
She's trying to convince herself.
So it could be that.
But the fact that this is her second abortion, apparently, and the approach she's taking to it, makes me think that this is a case of a psychopath killing her child and feeling nothing about it.
And there are many psychopaths on the pro-abortion side.
The abortion doctors, for example.
Many of them, I believe, are clinical psychopaths.
I want to show you this.
Here's a quote-unquote Dr. Joe Nelson on Twitter a few days ago.
He's an abortionist.
That is a medical serial killer.
And here he is responding to another abortionist who is expressing similar views.
And Nelson says, These are the words of a psychopath.
Abortion is love.
the reality that I see every day.
Abortion is so often an act of selflessness and love, of going through a difficult process
and braving others and even self-judgment in order to help somebody,
even if that somebody is your future self.
Hashtag abortion is love.
These are the words of a psychopath.
Abortion is love.
That's, this is someone who doesn't even understand the concept of being selfless.
Because even putting aside the fact that abortion is evil and killing someone,
by definition, if you're doing something to help yourself, it is not selfless.
Even if it's a good thing.
It's not selfless.
Eating a healthy diet is a good thing.
Is it a selfless act?
Of course not.
You're doing it for yourself.
Now, when you consider that in this case, we're talking about killing somebody, your own child, for your sake, in order to live a more comfortable life, that is...
The diametric opposite of selflessness.
That is exactly opposed to selflessness.
But this is something that this guy doesn't understand because he's a psychopath.
And he has to be.
I think you have to be a psychopath to do this for a living.
Imagine going to your job every day, going to work, clocking in, you know, at 7 o'clock in the morning, and then just setting about on the task of killing children all day.
There's no way to not be a psychopath and do that job.
You wouldn't be able to survive.
Okay.
Now, I also wanted to play this for you while we're on the subject, like I said, of videos that illustrate the collapse of Western society.
Here's a video maybe you saw on Friday.
I wrote a thing about it.
It's a video from a drag brunch.
And a drag brunch is a thing that white liberals go to where they eat brunch and they watch a man dress like a woman dance badly.
And this is something that, you know, they enjoy going to for some reason.
Only at this brunch, somebody brought their kid, and the kid was brought to the front of the festivities, put on a chair, and the drag queen danced suggestively for the child.
And the whole scene looks exactly like it would at a bachelor party where you've got the, you know, the guy sitting there in a, you know, chair while the stripper is dancing.
So it's the exact same kind of thing.
Except in this case, it's a drag queen and what looks to be maybe a six or seven year old girl.
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Okay, so the video of the drag queen dancing for the For the little girl.
First thing, obviously, you know what I'm going to say.
This is child abuse.
And everybody, all the adults in that room, in that video, should be going to prison.
In a sane and just society, what you would see in that video at the end are a bunch of police officers breaking the door down and cuffing those people and throwing them in the paddy wagon and bringing them to jail.
That's what should happen.
And if you If you somehow don't agree or you don't see how this is child abuse, then keep in mind that drag shows are burlesque.
It's burlesque, except that the only difference is that it's men pretending to be women.
Well, let me ask you.
Do you think it'd be appropriate to bring a six-year-old to a burlesque show in Vegas with women?
I mean, would anybody do that?
And if someone did do that, would anyone else defend it?
No.
We would all agree that, of course, if you're an adult and you want to go to a burlesque show, you're free to do that.
You can do that.
But to bring your child is completely crazy.
But, okay, now we replace those women with men, and all of a sudden it's family-friendly?
Does that make any sense?
It's the same thing with child drag queens.
We would all agree, I hope, I assume, that to have a seven-year-old recruited by a burlesque troupe would be exploitation and pedophilic and just horrible.
Nobody would agree with that.
Yet, it's okay if it's a boy?
So it would be, we would all agree, wrong for a seven-year-old girl to perform burlesque, but a boy can do it?
Makes absolutely no sense.
So clearly this is child abuse.
But there's another thing I want to focus on in that video.
And that's the men in the background.
You saw that whole line of men sitting at tables with big stupid grins on their face watching while this happens.
And I really believe that the story of child exploitation in our culture And the proliferation of child sexual abuse, the normalization of it, the mainstreaming of it, is largely a story of men, of fathers and of husbands, failing to do their job as men.
These are moral eunuchs.
These are emasculated, pathetic, spineless jellyfish, who are just sitting there, not only tolerating this abuse of a child, but actually cheering it on.
Now, if those were real men, and what I mean by real men, I mean men not just in the biological sense, but also men who are interested in and capable of fulfilling their duty as men in the culture, then what they would be doing is they'd be grabbing that drag queen by the collar, if he has a collar, and dragging him out of the room and kicking him out on his ass, out of the room, and then calling the police.
That would be the appropriate response of a man.
Instead, those people just sit there, applauding.
If you're a real man, a real father and a real husband, and your wife comes to you and says, hey, there's a drag brunch, why don't we go to that and bring Sally with us?
Bring seven-year-old Sally with us to the drag brunch.
The response from a man should be words to the effect of, though maybe stronger than, hell no.
Are you crazy?
We're not going.
She's not going.
And you're not going.
That's not going to happen.
Instead, what these men apparently said is, yeah, well, gee, honey, that sounds great.
That sounds like a splendid afternoon.
Let's go.
Let's go to the drag brunch.
I mean, even if you're not bringing a child, taking the child out of it, what kind of man goes to a drag brunch in the first place?
Child or not.
And then you throw the child into it and it just makes the whole thing even more grotesque.
Alright, let's move on.
I can't dwell on that too much without my head actually exploding, which I don't want that to happen on camera.
So let's move on.
Let's go to headlines.
Here are five headlines worth knowing about.
Number one, Joe Biden, of course, won the Democratic primary in South Carolina on Saturday, giving him his first, I think it's his first primary win ever in three presidential contests.
So big moment for him.
And this will maybe give him some momentum heading into tomorrow.
That's what I'm told anyway by all the pundits.
It's momentum for Super Tuesday.
It'll come down either to Biden or Bernie, of course, the top two candidates.
Top two candidates with a combined age of 155.
So if you put them together, they add up to somebody who would have been born around the time when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
That's how old these two people are.
This is what the Democrats have come up with.
This is the best they can do.
Two guys who are unlikely to survive their first terms in office and quite likely to go senile in the process.
One in six people over the age of 80 are senile.
That's almost 20%.
And the life expectancy for a 75-year-old man in the US is 10 years.
So he's likely, on average, to live another 10 years.
Now, so, which means that both of them In their second term, they're in the red zone, so to speak.
But even in their first term, the likelihood, based on that average, the likelihood that they die
during their first term in office is really substantial.
And that's when you factor in that things like the average of people who go senile at 80
and life expectancy.
You know, this is factoring in, for the most part, these are normal older people who are retired, for the most part, and are just living basically stress-free lives.
Now think, you've got a, we're talking about an old man, an elderly man, who's not only employed full-time, but has one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
Is that going to help or hurt his chances of beating the odds and surviving?
And staving off dementia?
Meanwhile, Bernie's got a bad heart, he's already had a heart attack.
Biden is visibly confused and flustered, and I don't say that as a joke, but he really is losing it.
And this is the best we've got.
Meanwhile, as people have pointed out online, This makes Donald Trump the youngest male in the field at
73 years old.
He's the youngest man.
Which now I'm anticipating a future CNN headline of something like, as the youngest male candidate
in the field, does Donald Trump have the experience to be president?
Something like, you think I'm joking, I am sort of joking, but something like that is gonna be, that headline, I guarantee, from one of these outlets, we're gonna see something like that.
Meanwhile, of course, we mourn the death of Pete Buttigieg's campaign.
He dropped out on Sunday night, realizing that all he could do at this point was siphon votes from Biden.
And so he figures better to have a comparatively, you know, to have a crazy old but comparatively moderate democrat rather than a crazy old socialist and that's the calculation he's making.
Here's what I'll say about Buttigieg to his credit.
The man was a cheap imitation of Obama.
He was a derivative hack, a heretic who bastardized scripture for his own ends, as well as a moral coward.
Maybe I'm confused about what the phrase to his credit means.
I don't know.
Number two, the state of California faces a number of crises all at once.
Drug addiction, homelessness.
Now it even has the coronavirus to contend with.
But thank God, the lawmakers in that state are really focused on the important issues.
Because, you know, staving off a pandemic, rescuing people from the throes of drug addiction, dealing with homelessness, these all pale in comparison to the scourge of gender-segregated toy stores.
And that's what California is trying to fix.
They worked out a bill.
It's proposed, working its way through the state legislature.
That would require large retail apartment stores to have gender-neutral space for clothing, toys, anything for kids.
Which means that basically the goal is to make it harder for shoppers to find what they're looking for because that's all it's going to do.
Because no matter what you do, no matter what kind of engineering you try socially, no matter how much you insist otherwise, girls generally want girly stuff and boys generally want boy stuff.
There's no law requiring girls to play with dolls and boys to play with trucks.
There's no law.
I don't think society is super focused on forcing boys to play with trucks.
It's just how it works out.
I've seen this play out in my own family.
And I've had a somewhat unique view as someone who, our first kids were boy-girl twins.
So they were raised in the same home, same environment, They were in the same room, they had access to the same playroom, all the toys were right there.
You know, we never said to our son, here are the boy toys, you must play with those!
You understand me, son?
We never said that to our one-year-old son.
Never said it.
We would just let them loose into the playroom, play with whatever toys you want.
And what do you know, nine times out of ten, the boy goes for the truck, he goes for the action figures, he goes for the ball, he goes for that kind of stuff, and the girl goes for the Pink Frilly stuff, for the dolls, for all that.
You know, the kitchen, the toy kitchen set, the hairbrush, that's what they do.
We didn't force it on them, we didn't brainwash them into it, they just do that.
And that's why these items are typically segregated in stores because it's just easier for the shoppers because that's what their kids want anyway.
And now you're just making it more difficult.
You look at Target.
Target, a few years ago, made a big deal about they were going to go gender neutral.
They're not going to have a girl's section and a boy's section anymore.
But yet, if you go to Target, they still do have a girl's section and a boy's section.
They just don't label it girl and boy.
But they have the girl's stuff here and the boy's stuff there.
And the reason they do that is because that's what the shoppers want, because that's what the kids want, because that's just natural.
Number three, according to new data just released, almost half of Americans, 42%, are obese.
So this is like a ritual now.
Every three months we get a story updating us on the number of fat people, and that number is going up.
Now I agree, of course, that there are a lot of fat people walking around out there, or maybe not walking.
Maybe that's part of the problem.
But I do also think that this This epidemic of obesity might be slightly exaggerated, and I only say that because if you go look at a chart online of what they consider overweight and obese to be, depending on height, you're going to find that they don't give you a lot of room, so to speak.
Pun intended.
There's not a lot of room in the healthy range.
It's a very strict, very small range that's healthy, and then beyond that you're overweight.
So for example, for me, I'm about 6 foot 1 and, well, you know, I'm like 6 and a half.
I call myself 6 foot 1.
And I was just looking at one of these charts.
The claim is that the optimal weight for me is 140 pounds to 180 pounds.
140 pounds to 180 pounds.
140 pounds for a 6 foot 1 inch man is considered optimal,
according to doctors.
Now, I haven't been 140 pounds since like 10th grade.
Bye.
If I was 140 pounds, I would be skin and bones.
I would look like Skeletor.
I would look like Tom Hanks in Castaway after three years on the island.
I can't even imagine being that.
There's no way that's healthy.
And I tend to be of the belief that a man should have a little bit of meat on the bones.
He's supposed to be protector and provider.
If I'm just this skeletal figure wandering around the house, You know, I stub my toe and break my entire foot kind of thing.
I'm not going to be a lot of use to my family.
So, you know, that's what they consider.
According to that range, I'm actually, I'm overweight.
I might be obese.
I don't feel overweight.
I don't think I necessarily look overweight, but that's what they say.
So I keep that in mind when they talk about the obesity epidemic.
I think I'm, I guess I'm getting lumped in with that.
Who knows, maybe I deserve it.
I do enjoy Cinnabon, I admit.
Number four, and the list of countries who have been hit by the coronavirus is now at 60.
60 countries have reported cases, as Belarus, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, all joined in the fray in the past 48 hours or so.
Meanwhile, the total cases in the US has risen to above 70.
I do think we should keep something in mind, even though I was wearing a hazmat suit to start the show.
Couple of things.
First of all, most of the deaths are older people who are already in poor health with compromised immune systems.
So, you know, in other words, these are not young, healthy people who are dying of this illness.
The people that's especially at risk of dying from coronavirus are the same people who are at risk from dying from the flu and many other illnesses.
For most people who've had it, the experience is like having a bad cold.
You have a fever, you have a cough.
In fact, the Washington Post over the weekend ran an op-ed from someone who has the coronavirus and is now quarantined, has been quarantined for many days, and he said it's not that bad.
He's just, you know, he's had a fever, he's had a cough, he's, you know, the biggest challenge is just being bored, being quarantined all this time.
That's an important fact here.
And that's not to say that it isn't so bad for everybody.
It's just that if you're relatively young and healthy, it probably wouldn't be so bad for you.
The death rate, according to the information that I saw, the death rate is 10 times higher among the elderly.
So that just gives you an idea.
Also, something else to remember.
Second thing.
The death rate, the mortality rate, of 2 or 3%, That's based on recorded cases.
And the thing about recorded cases is that, for one thing, most of them are in China, where the healthcare system is in shambles.
That's gonna inflate the mortality rate.
Also, more to the point, There are almost certainly, it is reasonable to assume, thousands and thousands and thousands of people who've had the coronavirus, especially before it was all over the headlines, you know, had symptoms of a cough and a fever, never went to the doctor, or did go to the doctor and weren't tested for the coronavirus because it didn't seem like a serious illness, and recovered, and are out living their lives, and they don't count as an official case.
The point is, if we actually knew the exact number of everyone who's had the coronavirus, and then we were to compare that to the number of people who've died from it, I think the mortality rate would be much, much lower.
People who are dying... Now, you might say, well, maybe there are people who've died from it and don't count as recorded cases.
Yeah, there probably are some.
But if you're dying from an illness, if you're that ill, you're much more likely to go to the doctor.
And they're much more likely to run all kinds of tests to find out what's wrong with you.
So, there's a much greater likelihood that those people in that category, the people that are going to end up as, unfortunately, in the death statistic, they're much more likely to go to the doctor.
The ones who are not going to end up in that statistic are much less likely to go.
And so you see how that affects it.
The number that I saw is researchers now are saying, taking all this into account, they're saying that maybe the death rate is around 1%.
Maybe.
But even that is highly speculative, and we don't have enough of a sample size yet to know.
So I'm just, and I don't know either.
So I don't know that there are thousands of cases that are unreported.
It just seems logical to assume that when you consider what the symptoms are.
Now, five.
Finally, you know, the entire country is caught up in a fiery debate.
It's a debate that is deeply philosophical, but also it seems quite personal to a lot of people.
And it stems from this question that somebody posted online.
Take a look at this.
It says, is the jar the Kool-Aid man or the liquid?
So when we think of the Kool-Aid man, what is he?
What is his essence?
Is he a jar that happens to have Kool-Aid in it, or is he Kool-Aid that rides around in a jar?
And you may think that the answer is obvious at first, but stop to think about this for a second, because we call him the Kool-Aid man, not the jar man.
But then again, he has a mouth, eyes, nose.
Could liquid have any of those things?
This is quite the metaphysical dilemma.
Let me tell you how I sort through this, and I've thought about this a lot.
I might write my next book about it.
When I think of the Kool-Aid Man, I'm not focused on Kool-Aid.
I'm focused on man.
He's a man, we're told.
What is a man?
What is a man's essence?
Well, we are a harmony.
We are a unity of body and soul.
And, you know, am I my soul or am I my body?
That's the question.
Well, the answer is I'm both.
I am my body.
I am my soul.
The fundamental reality of the Kool-Aid Man is that, you know, he is a jar.
And he is also liquid.
Can the liquid live on without the jar?
That's a different question entirely.
It brings us into a debate about the afterlife and whether beverages are included in the divine promise of salvation.
I tend to think that conscious beverages probably are, but that's a different discussion for a different day.
But that's how I sort through the Kool-Aid question.
Alright, now, moving on finally to our daily cancellation.
Today on The Chopping Block, the University of Liverpool, a Twitter account called Liverpool Resisters posted this picture a few days ago.
And what we see here is someone on the campus has allegedly posted this sign with a rainbow flag that says, genital preferences are transphobic.
What they're saying is that if you're a straight man who's attracted to people with female genitalia, then you're transphobic.
Or if you're a straight woman attracted to people with male genitalia, you're transphobic.
Or if you're a gay person attracted to the same genitalia, you're also transphobic.
You must have no preferences whatsoever when it comes to sex.
If you do, then you're transphobic.
Now, in fairness, I say I'm canceling the university.
I don't think the university put this sign up.
I don't think they had anything to do with it.
But I'm still canceling the university because they're part of the problem, culturally, in helping to create a society where this kind of madness proliferates.
Now, I don't think I have to explain why it is not in fact transphobic to be attracted to a particular sex.
To have a sexual orientation.
And I don't think I have to mention that this kind of thinking, the thinking displayed in this poster, shows how trans ideology is cannibalizing the other constituencies of the left.
We already know what it's doing to feminism.
How trans ideology is destroying everything that feminists have gained.
But here we see now that by this logic, a gay man is actually morally flawed.
He's committing a sin by being attracted to other men.
That's what this sign is saying.
Because by this logic, what the trans ideology is claiming is that a gay man must also be attracted to women or else he's committed a moral evil of some kind.
So, the very tiny trans minority is just running roughshod over the rest of the left, destroying everything they've worked for.
But I don't need to explain any of that.
Here's what I do want to mention.
According to the Me Too movement, to extort sex out of somebody through emotional manipulation or guilt is rape.
That's what the Me Too movement says.
Now, I don't think it's rape, necessarily.
It's wrong.
It's evil.
It's perverse to do it.
It's degrading and exploitative and many other things.
But I'm crazy enough to think that rape is a particular thing.
Rape is the use of violence or the threat of violence to force somebody to have sex.
That's what rape is.
There are other forms of immoral sex.
Other forms of sex that do not honor or respect the dignity of the human person.
You know, there are many other forms that aren't necessarily rape.
Rape is a particular thing, and that's what rape is in my view.
But we're not talking about my view.
I'm saying, according to the Me Too movement, and the sort of mainstream perspective on these things now, it is rape, it is actual rape, to use emotional manipulation to get sex out of somebody.
Well, what do you call it when you tell someone they're transphobic for not being attracted to you?
When someone doesn't want to have sex with you, and you scream at them and call them a bigot, and tell them the only way to prove they're not a bigot is to have sex with you, well, what is that?
According to the new rules, that's rape.
So this sign is an advertisement for rape.
It is an apology for rape.
It is the promotion, the advocacy of rape.
That's what that sign is.
And that's why the University of Liverpool is cancelled.
Alright, we're going to wrap things up here.
But first, I wanted to mention one thing.
We ran out of time for the email segment.
I'm changing the way that I do the email segment a little bit.
Some people have asked me about it.
Why am I not doing it as much?
Well, I've decided I want to change it a little bit.
Here's what I like about it.
Well, look, if you want to send feedback about the show, Get in touch with me for any reason, especially send me compliments.
I'm always a big fan of that, so mattwalshow at gmail.com.
You can still do that.
But as far as the show goes, what I want that segment to be is a time to focus on arguments against what I have said on the show.
So we might even call the segment, you know, Why I'm Wrong.
Maybe I'll call it that.
And I'm going to reserve it for one or two, maybe just one, if it's a really good argument, email from someone who's arguing against something that I've said on the show or in one of the articles I've written.
So I don't want this show to just be an echo chamber where I pontificate unopposed.
As fun as that is, I don't want it to just be that.
So, when you watch any show, if I make an argument you disagree with, email me, and then maybe I'll read it on the show.
I'm not going to give you the last word, I'll admit, because I am going to respond.
So you won't get the last word, but you will get a word, at least.
And before we wrap up, and that's, again, the email is mattwalshow at gmail.com.
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