The Matt Walsh Show - Reviewing Workplace Harassment Training For Woke Companies
Aired: 2021-02-27
Duration: 06:12


=== Severe Pervasive Harassment (06:11) ===

[00:00:00]  So if you follow this channel, you know that we've been reviewing workplace sensitivity training courses.
[00:00:05]  The kind that a lot of HR departments force their employees to watch.
[00:00:09]  Mine doesn't, but I've taken on this project anyway by choice because of my deep-seated masochism and self-hatred.
[00:00:16]  The company that makes these videos is called M-Train.
[00:00:18]  They work with a lot of major companies to help indoctrinate, I mean educate, educate people on how to avoid harassing, assaulting, Or being racist towards their co-workers.
[00:00:27]  A lot of times we'll watch a bunch of videos, but this time I want to focus on just one.
[00:00:31]  Because this, I believe, is the worst one yet.
[00:00:34]  The absolute worst.
[00:00:35]  It's the worst because of the real-world consequences of, if not this specific video, the sort of thing the video represents.
[00:00:44]  So you'll see what I mean.
[00:00:45]  We'll get into this now.
[00:00:46]  This is titled, Examples of Severe and Pervasive Workplace Harassment.
[00:00:51]  So let's check this out.
[00:00:53]  (soft music)
[00:00:55]  So will I see you at that three o'clock?
[00:01:01]  Yeah, I'll be there.
[00:01:02]  Oh, you got a...
[00:01:04]  Got it.
[00:01:06]  I haven't had sex in a month.
[00:01:13]  Well, excuse me.
[00:01:20]  What school did you go to?
[00:01:21]  Arizona State.
[00:01:22]  I didn't know they had hot girls at ASU.
[00:01:28]  Did you see Lisa's dress today?
[00:01:30]  Hell yeah, man.
[00:01:31]  What's that thing, spray painted on?
[00:01:33]  I don't want it spray painted at all.
[00:01:37]  They promoted her?
[00:01:38]  I know five guys more qualified than that.
[00:01:41]  Only five.
[00:01:43]  (dramatic music)
[00:01:46]  Ah, okay.
[00:02:12]  So that's what they mean.
[00:02:14]  So let's go through these.
[00:02:16]  I took notes.
[00:02:16]  I wrote this down.
[00:02:17]  Not really, but this is severe and pervasive harassment.
[00:02:21]  Severe and pervasive.
[00:02:24]  And the examples are, we start with somebody picks some lint off of her shirt.
[00:02:30]  OK, now that one, a little inappropriate.
[00:02:32]  You know, he didn't appear to touch her breasts, but too close for comfort for her, perhaps.
[00:02:37]  A little bit iffy.
[00:02:38]  Harassment, though?
[00:02:40]  I don't think so.
[00:02:40]  Severe?
[00:02:42]  Come on.
[00:02:42]  And the other thing is a common thread we see in all these incidents.
[00:02:45]  The person who's the victim doesn't speak up for themselves.
[00:02:47]  Like if you're uncomfortable with somebody touching you, say something, speak up for yourself.
[00:02:53]  Then she briefly hears a guy say the word sex to another guy as they're coming off an elevator.
[00:02:58]  Harassment?
[00:02:59]  No, it's not even directed to her.
[00:03:01]  Severe?
[00:03:03]  What is this, Victorian England?
[00:03:07]  This shows how our culture has at once become hedonistic and way too open about sex at the same time.
[00:03:12]  So you think about songs like WAP, for example, okay?
[00:03:15]  We have songs like that, but then at the same time, we're like downright puritanical.
[00:03:20]  So you touch a woman's sweater or say a word around her, and you're essentially guilty of sexual assault.
[00:03:26]  But then, WAP is a popular song.
[00:03:28]  It's the strangest dynamic.
[00:03:30]  You can make a song graphically describing various intimate areas of the body and various states of arousal, and that's fine.
[00:03:37]  You can put that one on at Applebee's while the family's eating dinner at 5pm.
[00:03:41]  No problem.
[00:03:42]  But a woman literally hears a guy say, sex, and she's been assaulted.
[00:03:47]  Next, a guy calls her hot.
[00:03:50]  Okay, again, shouldn't be saying that at work.
[00:03:52]  Not professional.
[00:03:53]  Harassment?
[00:03:54]  It's a compliment.
[00:03:55]  Severe?
[00:03:56]  Severe what?
[00:03:57]  Severe complimenting?
[00:03:58]  She's a victim of severe complimenting.
[00:04:01]  And then a few days later, she overhears two guys in a stairwell talking about somebody else's outfit, saying that some other woman is wearing a tight dress.
[00:04:09]  Once again, inappropriate for the workplace, sure.
[00:04:11]  Harassment?
[00:04:12]  Of her?
[00:04:13]  It wasn't directed at her, nor was it about her.
[00:04:16]  Either way, she was literally on a different floor of the building, hearing it said about somebody else, and she's being harassed?
[00:04:24]  I mean, get over yourself, darling.
[00:04:25]  Not everyone's focused on you.
[00:04:28]  And next, again, she overhears.
[00:04:29]  I mean, this girl cannot stop eavesdropping.
[00:04:31]  She's just constantly listening, looking at what's on people's screens.
[00:04:36]  She overhears two guys talking about presumably some other woman who they think shouldn't have been promoted.
[00:04:41]  So what?
[00:04:42]  Nothing sexual about that.
[00:04:44]  Nothing gender specific.
[00:04:46]  It's not about her.
[00:04:47]  Not directed to her.
[00:04:49]  Then after that, you have two dudes looking over towards her when she bends down.
[00:04:53]  Then another guy is looking in her direction.
[00:04:55]  You know, again, iffy.
[00:04:57]  I mean, that could go either way.
[00:04:58]  And I guess we're supposed to assume he was looking at her breasts.
[00:05:00]  And then she sees the wallpaper on somebody's laptop.
[00:05:04]  And there are pictures of scantily clad women who are mostly covered up.
[00:05:07]  It looks like they're wearing bathing suits.
[00:05:09]  And then somebody taps her on the hip so they can get past her.
[00:05:12]  So that's it.
[00:05:13]  That's all we got.
[00:05:15]  There are maybe, maybe, okay, two or three actually inappropriate behaviors documented in the video.
[00:05:23]  None of them are severe or close to severe.
[00:05:27]  If a guy saying sex is severe harassment, then what word do we use to describe actual harassment?
[00:05:36]  Because if non-harassment is severe, then what do we say about real harassment when it actually happens?
[00:05:43]  I guess non-harassment is severe harassment, so real harassment is now, like, what, fatal?
[00:05:47]  It's fatal harassment?
[00:05:50]  The consequence, again, is that women, you know, they take this stuff to heart because they're brainwashed by garbage like this, and next thing you know, lives are ruined.
[00:06:00]  That's the consequence.
[00:06:02]  That woman in the video is gonna go file a lawsuit, get a whole bunch of people fired.
[00:06:08]  But on the bright side, at least, we're protecting, you know, the ladies from hearing the word sex at work.