Ep. 509 - Macy’s Employee Brutalized. Media Doesn’t Care Because He’s White.
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a Macy’s employee was viciously assaulted on camera in a racially motivated attack. But you haven’t heard about it because the victim was white. Also Five Headlines, including a male transgender fighter bragging about how much he “enjoyed” fracturing the skull of a female fighter. Plus, Teddy Roosevelt is the latest historical figure to lose a statue. And in today’s Daily Cancellation, we’ll cancel Brett Favre for calling Kaepernick a “hero,” and comparing him to Pat Tillman (who died serving his country).
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a Macy's employee was viciously assaulted on camera in a racially motivated attack, but you haven't heard about it because the victim was white.
But we'll talk about that today because I think it should be getting a lot more attention than it's getting.
Also, five headlines including a male transgender fighter Bragging about how he enjoyed fracturing the skull of a female fighter.
Plus, Teddy Roosevelt is the latest historical figure to get his statue torn down.
And in today's Daily Cancellation, we're going to cancel Brett Favre for calling Colin Kaepernick a hero and comparing him to Pat Tillman.
Pat Tillman, by the way, died serving his country, what did Kaepernick sacrifice
for his, in order to serve his own cause?
And what is his cause?
I will talk about that in the daily cancellation, all of it coming up.
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And that's the vicious cycle.
It just goes on and on through the generations, and it cannot be stopped.
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Now, I want to start with a story that would be front page news.
It would be headlines on CNN.
It would be talked about everywhere.
This would be the only thing we were talking about for the next several days.
Would be.
And probably there'd be buildings being burned and protests and everything.
If not for one little detail.
There's one little detail about this story that makes it go from headline news to nobody cares.
And I'll play the video for you and tell me if you can spot what that little detail is.
Watch.
Yes, the detail, of course, is the skin color.
Reverse the races on that video, and you have breaking news everywhere.
But as it is, with a white man being the one brutally assaulted by a black man in the middle of a Macy's, nobody cares.
No attention paid to it.
Well, I should say, people aren't paying attention to it now.
But when the video first surfaced, it got a fair amount of attention, most of it approving.
Because here's the background of that video.
The scumbag carrying out the assault there is apparently named Demir Palmer and his brother Demarquay Palmer is filming it.
Demarquay also is an aspiring rapper, it turns out.
Demarquay posted a video on his social media initially, proudly, claiming that the man being attacked, who's a Macy's employee, said the n-word in reference to them.
And that's what supposedly led up to this assault.
The employee called them the N-word and then Demir assaulted him.
And with that version of events, this video got thousands of likes and shares on social media, and most of the people sharing and commenting were approving of the assault, they were cheering it on, they were laughing.
Now, before we get to the part of this story where it turns out that the N-word claim was a fabrication, It should be noted that even if he did say the N-word, that obviously doesn't justify physical assault.
This is the kind of thing that shouldn't need to be explained.
I really shouldn't need to add this aside, but that is perhaps the most disturbing thing about this whole event, is the apparent assumption by many people that a black person actually has every right to brutalize another human being if that human being says a bad word.
What kind of absurdity is this?
A person says a word and that gives you a license to commit a felony?
How so?
Especially when you consider that the irony is that the n-word was said about 15 times in that 18 second video, but all by the guy carrying out the assault.
So again, this should not need to be said.
But no, you don't have the right Nor are you morally justified in assaulting someone because they said a bad word.
No, not at all.
Not even a little bit.
The brother, by the way, when explaining the thought process, he was interviewed by the New York Post and he said, quote, and just the fact of the remark that he said that we all heard, okay, and just what else are we supposed to do?
In this age and time, he didn't know what else to do.
That was just his instinct, talking about his brother who's assaulting.
What else is he supposed to do in this age and time?
In this age and time, if he hears a bad word, he just has to commit a felony assault.
There's no other option.
Okay, makes perfect sense.
Thanks, DeMarc Way.
Now, DeMarc Way claims that this all started when he and his brother were just innocently shopping together, just the boys on a shopping spree, little boys night out.
Demir says that he took a shirt off the rack and he put it up to his, he didn't put it on, but he put it up to his chest, you know, and he said to the employee who was on the phone, does this shirt look too little?
And then the claim is that the employee said, yes, and then turned back to the person on the phone and said to the person on the phone, no one, just some n-word.
Obviously referring, the person on the phone said, who was that?
And he said, no one, just some n-word.
He claims that the Macy's employee said this in the middle of the store casually while they could easily hear it.
And that is obviously bogus.
Just before we go any further and get to any of the details, if you have a moderately well calibrated BS detector, it
should be going haywire from a story like that.
Sirens going off, blaring, everything.
This story is completely ridiculous.
It strains believability that a Macy's employee would be that casually and openly racist on the job, and somehow this is the first time anybody noticed.
So all you have to do is think, Just, you know, think about all the times a story like this has been proven fake and weigh it against the likelihood that a Macy's employee would say something like that in that situation or any other situation.
And then when you perform that calculation, you end up with, by my estimate,
approximately a 99.999999999% chance that the N-word claim is false.
And this was an unprovoked assault by two guys who selected the victim based on race
and then assaulted him and recorded it so they could go viral as heroes for racial justice.
A hate crime in other words.
A racially motivated assault.
A hate crime.
And yes, it turns out that's exactly what happened.
Macy's has come out and said they investigated.
And Ken confirmed this was an unprovoked attack.
And we know we can trust what they say, because now is not a time when corporations are willing to go out on a limb to defend white employees, especially a white employee who said the N-word.
If they actually thought he said it, if they had any reason to think that he said it, you could be damn sure they'd be throwing him under the bus in a second.
But they're not.
Because, you know, they're gonna have witnesses, they're gonna have security footage, Not to mention, he's not going to be on a personal cell phone.
He's going to be on a company phone, and those are probably going to be recorded lines.
So if he was on the phone at all, which is possible he wasn't, and the security footage would tell them that, but if he was on the phone, they could just listen to the conversation and see what he said, hear what he said.
So any number of lines of evidence could easily reveal the truth of this situation.
So Macy's testimony combined with the plain absurdity of the brothers' claims combined with the fact that they have no credibility at all because they are the assailants in this situation make it very clear that this is what they said is not true.
It's a hate crime.
Not just a hate crime.
They assaulted him and then slandered him on the internet.
They beat him down physically, and then they tried to ruin his life on top of it by putting the video online and saying that he said a racist word.
So these are just two awful human beings.
And this guy is a victim twice over.
Yet, of course, the outrage is non-existent.
That's because the left, as we have seen time and again, is not interested in racial equality, let alone racial unity.
That's the last thing I want.
This is not about defeating racism, or hatred, or bigotry, or intolerance.
Everything we're seeing now, from tearing down the statues, to the riots, to the elevation of radical organizations like BLM, it's all about ideology.
Leftist ideology.
And in this ideology, the white man is evil.
Always.
All white men.
Unless they're a communist.
Or a gay rights activist.
So, those are the two exceptions.
And I understand there's a lot of, of course, overlap in those groups that I mentioned, but with those exceptions, all other white men are evil.
And it's really as simple as that.
Inherently evil.
You gotta think, if you're a white man, by leftist ideology, if you're a white man, You're already inherently racist because you're white, and that applies to white women too, okay?
Which is why, for example, when a white woman is beaten with two-by-fours at a BLM protest, protest slash riot, which happened a few weeks ago, and there's video of that, no outrage over that either.
That's another example of something.
I mean, reverse the races on that.
Just imagine, imagine for a second, really try to imagine this.
Try to imagine a video Of three white men beating a black woman with a 2x4.
It would still be the only thing we're talking about.
And that event would be used as proof of systemic racism for decades.
They'd be going back to that for decades.
Yet it happens with the races how they are, and it's just, you know, it's unfortunate.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But we're moving on.
Nothing to talk about.
So, you think about the situation a white man is in, from the perspective of a leftist.
Inherently racist because you're white.
Toxically masculine because you're a man.
So now, this is a toxic racist person.
Every single white man.
With the two exceptions I mentioned.
So yeah, you can beat him up, you can kill him, you can do whatever you want.
It certainly can't be a hate crime.
And really, it's not really a crime at all, at least morally.
And this is, listen, this is not an exaggeration or hyperbole.
This is really the leftist position.
That for a long time they wouldn't state explicitly, but now they're starting to basically state it explicitly.
And there is no other explanation for this dichotomy.
For how, you know, a video like the one that I just played for you could get no reaction from the left whatsoever.
None.
They just don't care.
Period.
Why?
Because he's a white man.
All right, we're gonna move on to headlines here.
Number one, Fallon Fox.
You may remember the name Fallon Fox.
He was the biological male MMA fighter who identified as a woman and was allowed to fight as one.
During his career he assaulted Several female fighters and this is assault when it's a man in the ring doesn't belong there Then it's not just a fight.
It's assault.
He fractured the skulls of at least one of them well a few days ago on Twitter if you're thinking that maybe he feels some remorse or embarrassment after he's retired and it's been a few years looking back on it and thinking hey, maybe I shouldn't have Been in there with women fracturing their skulls.
No, not at all.
He's still gloating about it, in fact.
Here's a tweet from Fallon Fox that he sent out a couple days ago.
It says, For the record, I knocked two out.
Two women, that is.
One woman's skull was fractured, the other not.
And just so you know, I enjoyed it.
See, I love smacking up TERFs.
He misspells it.
I love smacking up TERFs in the cage who talk transphobic nonsense.
It's bliss.
Don't be mad.
Okay, so to review on this, we've got a man talking about fracturing the skull of a woman and saying that not only did he enjoy it, but it's bliss.
It is euphoria for him to fracture a woman's skull.
You think we're getting any condemnation over this from the LGBT lobby or the media?
No.
Of course not.
You know, it's all about the victim hierarchy, and as a transgender, non-white male, he is all the way at the top.
He's at the tippy-tippy top of the victim hierarchy, and he can do whatever he wants.
He can literally do whatever he wants, and you cannot criticize any of it.
Even to the point of fracturing a woman's skull and bragging about it.
Number two, let's read from the Daily Wire.
Eskimo Pies has become the latest brand making an effort to change its images following the outrage that ensued over Aunt Jemima syrup.
The frozen treat, which is owned by parent company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, released a statement Friday announcing it would change the name, according to the New York Post.
It says, We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality and recognize the term as derogatory.
This move is part of a larger review to ensure our company and brands reflect our people values.
Along with the name change, the company will alter the Treats Marketing Scheme, which traditionally features a young boy dressed as an Eskimo in a snowy environment.
They just said it's a derogatory term and they used the term.
In their apology statement, they used the term they just said was derogatory.
This is a derogatory term.
We're never going to use it again.
By the way, that picture of an Eskimo boy, we're going to change that, too.
Why is Eskimo derogatory?
What's derogatory about it?
Well, there's nothing, of course, but this is how PC culture works.
you just randomly change the names of things and it becomes sort of a
you know becomes sort of a litmus test.
That's the word I'm going for, the phrase I'm going for.
It's a litmus test.
If you're just to keep, we're going to randomly arbitrarily change the names of things every, every, you know, few years or so.
And if you're really woke and progressive, you're going to be up to date on the new terms.
It's kind of like a club.
Do you know the secret passwords to get in?
And that's just a, it's a good litmus test to know who the woke people are.
And meanwhile, as we're doing this, We're also told that representation matters.
That's the other slogan.
So we're taking all these products where you've got minorities who are represented on the products and as the face of the product, and we're taking them off.
It's the same thing they did with the Land O'Lakes butter.
They took the Native American woman off the butter.
So isn't that less representation?
How is this an improvement by their own logic?
Number three, a statue of Teddy Roosevelt is being removed from the Natural History Museum in New York.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement, the American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts black and indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior.
The city supports the museum's request.
It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.
This statue is causing so many problems.
What problems is it actually causing?
It's a statue.
It's just sitting there.
It's been sitting there for 80 years, stationary.
Hasn't hurt anybody as far as I know.
This is not like Night at the Museum where it comes to life and stabs somebody.
Just sitting there.
Just a statue.
But the important thing here is... You know how we've been told for so long that... Oh, we're not trying to get rid of the statues.
We just... We're gonna put them in a museum.
And they could be there.
We don't need them in the middle of the town square.
We could just put them in a museum.
This isn't about erasing history.
No, we're gonna put everything in a museum.
And they circle back around and say, oh, by the way, that stuff in the museum, that's got to go too.
So it's very similar to what the left does with religious liberty.
Where for so long, they were trying to remove religion from the public square.
And telling you you can't practice your religion in the public square or run your business according to your religious beliefs, as the Masterpiece Cake Shop owner discovered.
But what they always said was, no, we're not trying to get rid of religion.
No, no, no, don't be silly.
We're just saying you should do it in a church.
You see?
Because we get to decide that.
We get to decide... Siri's talking to me again.
Shut up, Siri.
We get to decide, as leftists, we get to decide where you do these things.
For some, we're not going to explain why we have that right, we just do.
But then, what do they do?
They circle back around and say, yeah, actually that's it's not really appropriate in a church either.
So it's the same thing here.
And eventually you hope that the right kind of catches on.
At some point, it's been decades, Maybe at some point the conservative movement will catch on and realize what the strategy is.
Because how many conservatives have gone along with this?
With the Confederate monuments or anything else and said, yeah, they're right.
No, they're being reasonable.
You've got crazed mobs tearing down statues, setting them on fire, throwing them in lakes.
But they're being reasonable.
This is a reasonable thing.
They just want it in a museum.
Yeah, it's at the bottom of a lake now.
We just gotta dig it out.
We gotta, you know, bring in some equipment, drag it out of the lake, put it in a museum.
That's all we're trying to do.
They meant to put it in a museum, but they accidentally dropped it in a lake on the way.
They were bringing it to the museum on the way they accidentally set it on fire and threw it in a lake.
You see?
So many conservatives just love being duped.
I'm convinced it's almost a fetish or something for them at this point.
They love being duped, lied to, abused.
It's getting creepy.
It's weird at this point.
No.
No.
It's always a lie.
It's always incremental.
Okay, we're getting rid of this.
We're moving it here.
Oh, it can't be there.
Oh, we're going to move it over here.
Can't be there either.
We're going to move it here.
On and on until it ends up at the bottom of the lake.
Now, I want to read this report to you from Yahoo News.
There are a few things in this that are interesting.
Reading from Yahoo News.
Headline is, a search for answers after deputies kill brother of black man found hanging from tree.
Says Teron Boone was distraught when his youngest brother was found hanging from a tree in a park near Palmdale City Hall last week.
The manner of death of the 24-year-old Robert Fuller evoked ugly images of the nation's racist legacy of lynchings and sparked outrage when Los Angeles county coroners and sheriff's officials quickly listed it as a suicide.
Protests generated national attention and prompted local authorities to involve state and federal investigators.
Taking a time out here just on this.
There have been a couple of cases recently of black men found hanging from trees.
And what the media and Democrats are doing with these cases is grotesque, even by their demonic standards.
The reason why these are quickly categorized as suicides is because suicides are unfortunately very common in America, and law enforcement officials deal with them all the time.
And if something is a suicide, most of the time it's really obvious right away.
The difference between a suicide and someone being murdered is really clear to forensic investigators, and they can tell quickly.
That's why.
That's not a conspiracy.
So, when you find someone hanging, it's a terrible, very disturbing, sad, tragic thing, of course.
But, yes, unless there is very good evidence that this person was murdered that way, There's no reason to assume it.
And considering death by, not only is suicide extremely common, tragically common, but death by hanging is one of the most common forms of suicide.
So that's why.
These are suicides.
Yet, you've got the media and Democrats, I mean, Kamala Harris sent out a tweet, a lot of Democrats have, but implying, implying that there, you know, there could, there's something else going on here.
What even is the theory?
If it's not a suicide, are you saying that there are gangs of literal lynch mobs forming and killing people and nobody notices?
There's no footage of it?
No one catches it on camera?
That's not really something that can be done discreetly.
Now, suicide, again, tragically, is done discreetly all the time.
It's always done discreetly, almost always anyway, because if that's how it happens, otherwise someone would have stopped it.
So yes, suicide is what you would expect.
What you expect is, you know, you just, someone commits suicide and you stumble upon the carnage, right?
With a lynch mob, that is not at all what you would expect.
So unless there's really, really good evidence that these were not suicides, the assumption obviously is going to be that it's a suicide.
Anyway, back to the article.
It says, then on Wednesday, exactly a week after his brother's body was found, Boone 31 was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in what authorities describe as a wild shootout in this desert town north of Palmdale.
The shooting ended a bizarre series of events in which authorities accused Boone of pistol whipping, imprisoning, and threatening a former girlfriend over a week-long period.
It's unclear what, if any, connection Boone's shooting had to his brother's death, and many questions remain.
Now I want to get to what a an activist who's protesting all of this.
So you've got here's what we have a suicide and then someone getting into a shoot committing a series of horrible crimes and getting into a shootout with cops and dying.
There's really nothing here to protest.
There's plenty to mourn.
There's plenty to be very sad about.
There's nothing to prove.
What are we protesting?
Well, Isabel Flax, a 24-year-old activist from Lancaster, said at a news conference on Thursday
morning, demanding justice for Fuller, she said, another name, who wants another name,
another hashtag, to run his brother, another name, who cares the circumstance? It doesn't
even matter what he did anymore. It doesn't matter what they do anymore. It does not matter.
Doesn't matter what they do. So, if, if, so you're saying that if this man got into a shootout with
cops and was shooting at them, and he's shot and he's killed in the process, it's still an outrage,
and that doesn't matter?
We have reached a point, okay, this is the point we've reached, where any time a police officer kills a black man, under any circumstance, she said it herself, Under, it is always racism.
Doesn't matter.
They could be shooting at the cops.
This could be clear self-defense.
Gunfire being exchanged.
It's racism.
In order for the cop to not be racist, he would have to drop his gun and just offer himself up to be killed.
This, again, is not hyperbole.
This is what you just heard from the activist.
Doesn't matter the circumstance.
Absolutely.
Five.
Finally, there was a Trump rally in Tulsa over the weekend.
You probably heard about that.
There's a lot of controversy about the crowd size and about the, you know, Trump said whatever Trump said and blah, blah, blah.
Who cares?
Don't care about any of that.
Instead, what I'm focusing on is something that happened right before Trump came out at the rally.
This is really the headline, in my opinion.
And watch this.
This is why John Lithgow had the right idea in Footloose.
Dancing should be banned.
That's always been my position.
And I think right there you see the ramifications, the catastrophe that can ensue if you allow dancing willy-nilly.
Now, I want to make clear, under my regime, it's not that nobody will ever be allowed to dance.
I wouldn't do that.
That would be, you know, I'm not a tyrant.
Well, I am, but I'm not saying you can't have dancing.
For me, only licensed professionals will be allowed to dance.
And to get a license, you'll have to submit an application, a resume, an audition video, which I will review, and then you'll obtain a license, but the license will only be good for one episode, one bout of dancing.
And then if you want to dance again, you'll have to go through the review process again.
So if you're at a wedding reception, let's say, and you want to dance to, you know, let's say six different songs, you can dance to one, go through the licensing process again, dance to the other.
And so wedding receptions will take probably seven or eight weeks to be done once all the red tape is cleared and everything.
All right, let's move to daily cancellation.
Actually, before we do, there's one other thing I forgot to mention.
So we'll do, this is a bonus, bonus headline here.
I did want to just touch on this briefly.
This is a tweet from the AP, which went out this morning.
It says, NASCAR says a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace at a NASCAR race in Alabama.
Wallace, the only full-time black driver in NASCAR's Elite Cup Series, successfully pushed for NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag at its track and properties.
So they're saying a noose was found there.
Look, I don't know the specifics of this, but what we do know is that these stories about nooses are almost always hoaxes.
I can't think of a recent example that wasn't a hoax.
I'm not saying there hasn't been, I can't think of one.
Maybe there's been a couple, but vast majority.
When you hear a story about a noose, you hear a story about a racist note left on a receipt, you hear a story about racist graffiti, Almost always hoaxes vast majority of cases in recent history are hoaxes.
So the assumption is going to be Contrary to we played that the clip of the Oakland mayor last week saying that we should just assume hate crime from the beginning Contrary to that actually we should do the opposite.
We should assume it's not a hate crime We should assume it's a hoax until good evidence is given to the contrary.
And so with this, um, you know, I Maybe it happened but Much, much greater chance of it being a hoax or some kind of, I don't know, or misinterpretation of something else or who knows.
But to assume this, and by the way, there's going to be, this is a NASCAR garage, so there's going to be cameras all over the place.
Whatever happened, we'll know in short order.
Okay, let's go to our daily cancellation.
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Alright, daily cancellation.
Today we're canceling Brett Favre, and we're canceling him for this.
Do you look at Colin Kaepernick, you know, people look at him and it's like a Jackie Robinson or a Muhammad Ali.
Is Colin Kaepernick someone that belongs in Canton someday for what he did?
Obviously, he led a team to a Super Bowl, but also for all he's done off the field.
Boy, that's... I suppose that he's helped us cause tremendously and is deserving of Of much praise and respect because it's not easy for a guy his age, black or white, Hispanic, whatever, to stop something that you've always dreamed of doing and put it on hold, maybe forever.
For something that you believe in.
You know, I can only think of right off the top of my head, Pat Tillman's another guy who did something, you know, similar.
And we regard him as a hero, so I assume that hero status will be stamped with Kaepernick as well.
Oh Brett, you just had to This was part of an interview with TMZ.
I don't know what else happened in the interview.
I assume he didn't come on just to talk about Kaepernick or racial issues at all.
But if you're someone like Brett Favre, if you're an athlete and you don't want to get involved in this stuff, you just have to not do any interviews at all because you're going to get asked.
And if you don't have the cojones to speak the truth, then I would just...
I would decline all interview requests if I was someone like Brett Favre, because then this is what happens.
Saying that Kaepernick is a hero on the level of Pat Tillman.
There's no way he believes that.
And you can tell even while he's saying it, he doesn't believe it.
You can tell even in his face, while he's saying it, he doesn't believe it and he wishes he wasn't saying what he's currently saying.
First of all, to this idea that Kaepernick was some kind of great player and could come back to football after four years and be effective, let's remember that he discovered his passion for social justice once his star had already faded after a pretty abysmal 2015 campaign where he lost six out of eight games that he played.
He posted only six touchdowns against five interceptions.
He's been out of the league since 2016, the same year that the Anthem protests started.
He went 1-10 that season.
Went something like 2,000 passing yards, made 16 touchdowns.
Got beat out for the starting job by Blaine Gabbert.
So he was not a good football player.
He wasn't the worst.
He was mediocre.
Pretty bad, but mediocre.
Four years later, he's not going to be better.
Mediocre football players don't leave football and come back four years later better.
Michael Vick was the biggest star in the NFL.
He left for two years because he was in prison.
He came back and was really good for like two years, but then he fell off the face of the earth after that.
But he was, as I said, the star of the whole league.
And he was also, I think, younger when he came back, and he was only gone for two years.
Colin Kaepernick is not.
Colin Kaepernick was, with his style of play, was like a generic Michael Vick.
Michael Vick without the same athleticism, without the arm strength.
So he's not going to come back and be any good.
That's why he's not getting a job.
Because he's going to be mediocre at best.
That's the most you could possibly... In a miracle situation, he would be mediocre.
Even that's probably not going to happen.
So if you're an NFL team, you're going to take on a guy who's not going to be good At best, he's a second string or third string.
He's bringing all this drama and baggage with him, all of the wrong kind of attention, because you're trying to play football.
You're not looking to be the center of some sort of controversy and everything.
And you know that if he doesn't get the starting job, you're going to be accused of being racist.
And if you give him the starting job, and he's terrible, and he loses 10 games again, and you try to bench him, you're going to be called racist.
No matter what you do, you're racist.
So from a coach's perspective, why in the world would you ever hire this guy?
And I say all of that and we know he is now going to get hired by someone because the NFL is going to force some team to do it.
We know that's going to happen.
As for him being a hero like Pat Tillman, I mean, Pat Tillman left football and died serving his country overseas.
So he gave up football and in exchange died.
He gave up his life.
What did Kaepernick get in exchange for giving up football?
Pat Tillman got death, okay?
Kaepernick got adulation and praise from all over the media and the left and Hollywood and everything, which he's still alive to enjoy.
He got more fame and, oh yeah, he got multi-millions of dollars.
I mean, he's making tens and tens of millions of dollars.
Largely on the basis of being this social justice hero.
Supposed hero.
So, no.
This is not a sacrifice like Pat Tillum.
But then again, I don't need to sit here explaining why Brett Favre is wrong, because Brett Favre knows why he's wrong, and yet is just saying this anyway because he feels like he has to.
And that's why Brett Favre is cancelled.
We have another situation of he did something to avoid being cancelled, but he's getting cancelled anyway.
Granted, from his perspective, he'd probably rather be cancelled by me, a podcast host, than by all of the media in Hollywood and millions of people.
He'd probably prefer to get this cancellation that I'm dulling out, but still.
In principle, for the principle of it, for the record, he is cancelled.
And we will leave it there.
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