Ep. 780 - Bank Of America Thinks Your Toddler Is Racist
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Bank of America is the latest major corporation to institute a radical racial reeducation program for its employees. This is perhaps the worst one yet. Also, American citizens in Afghanistan, according to a report, have to pay for the privilege of being evacuated from the country. And Jamaicans protest the US embassy for flying a pride flag. The social media mob digs up dirt on the new Jeopardy host for some reason. And in our daily cancellation, we will discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to turn Facebook into a virtual reality experience. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Bank of America is the latest major corporation to institute a radical racial re-education program for its employees, and this is perhaps the worst one yet.
Also, American citizens in Afghanistan, according to a report, have to pay for the privilege of being evacuated from their country, and Jamaicans protest the U.S.
Embassy for flying a pride flag, which is pretty great.
Also, the social media mob digs up dirt on the new Jeopardy host for some reason, because of course we've got to find some dirt on him.
And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss Mark Zuckerberg's plan to turn Facebook into a virtual reality experience.
It's pretty horrifying.
All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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As, you know, the conversation continues to revolve around the crisis in Afghanistan, and perhaps we'll remain focused there for the foreseeable future, It'll be even easier now for the most powerful corporations in our country to get away with imposing their far-left Marxist agenda.
They were already having little trouble in that regard, but at least sometimes they would face public criticism.
Criticism significant enough in some cases to convince them to change course.
I mean, when Coca-Cola instated a racial indoctrination program, they were eventually forced to put it on pause.
Pause, quote-unquote, as they say.
And their top lawyer resigned in disgrace following this massive backlash from the public.
Now, Coca-Cola will find other ways, I'm sure, to enact their agenda, but it's good that they were held to account for whatever it's ultimately worth.
Bank of America, on the other hand, has had the good fortune of having its own radical woke agenda exposed while everyone's attention is focused on a country 7,000 miles away.
But as this report from journalist Chris Ruffo exposes, their racial re-education program is among the most aggressive and malignant that we have seen.
Reading now from the City Journal, It says, Bank of America Corporation has implemented a racial re-education program that claims the United States is a system of white supremacy and encourages employees to become woke at work, instructing white employees in particular to decolonize their minds and cede power to people of color.
Earlier this year, Bank of America's North Carolina and Charlotte Market President Charles Bowman announced a new equity initiative called United in Action in partnership with the United Way of Central Carolinas.
According to documents I have obtained from a whistleblower, this is Chris Ruffo talking, BOA executives launched the initiative by encouraging employees to participate in their Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge, a race training program Funded in part by the bank and built on the principles of critical race theory, including intersectionality, white privilege, white fragility, and systemic racism.
Now, before we go any further, I think it's worth referring back again to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which describes unlawful workplace harassment.
And here's what they say.
Harassment is a form of employment discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, older age, Beginning at age 40, disability or genetic information.
Harassment becomes unlawful where, one, enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or two, the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive.
Now, all of these racial indoctrination programs are, for this reason, blatantly illegal.
Clear violations of the Civil Rights Act.
Employees are being singled out by race, labeled in negative ways based on their race, and often these sessions are mandatory.
Even when they're not mandatory, they still create an environment that is clearly intimidating and abusive.
When you're pointing to certain employees by race and saying they're privileged, they're racist, they're this and that, there's a reason why employees leak these materials to the media.
Because they feel that this is a hostile environment and it's an intimidating environment.
An abusive environment.
None of this even so much as pretends to be legal.
Yet companies do it anyway, in part because few of the workers subjected to this stuff ever decide to actually sue.
So, let's go back to the report for more details.
It gets worse.
It says, on the program's first day, Bank of America teaches employees that the United States is a racialized society that uses race to establish and justify systems of power, privilege, disenfranchisement, and oppression, which, quote, gives privileges to white people, resulting in disadvantages to people of color.
According to the training program, all whites, regardless of one's socioeconomic class, background, or other disadvantages, are living a life with white skin privileges.
Even children are implicated in the system of white supremacy.
According to the program materials, white toddlers develop racial biases by ages three to five and should be actively taught to recognize and reject the smog of white privilege.
It goes on to say, over the next three days, Bank of America teaches employees about intersectionality, unconscious bias, microaggressions, and systemic racism.
The program asserts, quote, racism in America idolizes white physical features and white values as supreme over those of others.
As a result of being part of the dominant culture, whites are more likely to have more limited imagination.
More likely to experience fear, anxiety, guilt, or shame.
More likely to contribute to racial tension, hatred, and violence in our homes, communities, and the world.
And subsequently, to react in broken ways as a result.
People of color, on the other hand, cannot be racist because racism is used to justify the position of the dominant group and to uphold white supremacy and superiority.
Therefore, the Discussion Guide claims reverse racism and discrimination are not possible.
Okay, so, Nothing to see here.
No problem, really.
Just the second largest bank in the country with two trillion dollars in assets instructing its employees that members of a certain race are fearful, hateful, violent, lack imagination, and give birth to children who become bigots themselves by the age of three.
And it's only white children who are bigots.
Who could object to that?
Well, not many people have objected to this, as it turns out.
The American Bar Association certainly doesn't object, as another report also from this week reveals.
This is from the Washington Freebeak.
And again, this is all just from this week.
It says the American Bar Association is poised to mandate diversity training and affirmative action at all of its accredited law schools, a move top legal scholars say could jeopardize academic freedom and force schools to violate federal law.
The association, which accredits nearly every law school in the United States, is mulling a plan that would require schools to provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism, including a mandatory ethics course instructing students that they have an obligation to fight racism in the law.
Schools would also be required to take effective actions to diversify their student bodies, even when doing so risks violating a law that purports to prohibit consideration of race or ethnicity.
Now, I go back now to that Bank of America discussion, the discussion guide, which made the familiar claim that reverse racism and reverse discrimination do not exist.
Now, they're correct, of course, but not for the reason they think.
There is no reverse racism.
There's just racism.
Just like there's no such thing as reverse hatred or reverse jealousy.
There's just hatred and jealousy.
A racist black person is not reverse racist.
He's simply racist.
But Bank of America, remaining dutifully orthodox and loyal to the CRT cult, says that there cannot be a racist black person.
Why is that?
Because racism is a tool of the dominant group.
You have to have institutional power in order to be racist.
And black people have no institutional power, they say.
And yet, even if I agreed with that definition of racism, which I don't because it's fabricated and ridiculous, yet still, this is Bank of America we're talking about.
Among the racial indoctrination programs that have been exposed just this week, we have one of the largest banks in the country and the American Bar Association.
Bankers and lawyers.
Can you get more institutionally powerful than that?
The bankers and lawyers are condemning Whitey.
So are the big tech companies, almost all the major corporations, Hollywood, media, academia, the government.
So when you hear that the institutions of power are racist against minorities, understand that the person making that claim is referring to the institutions of power, aside from literally all of the institutions of power.
Because all of the institutions of power are fully on the side of the person making that claim to begin with.
The racial warriors on the left are the system.
I mean, they are the man.
Now, I think a good rule of thumb is this.
You are not a counter-culture radical if you're preaching the same thing that's preached in Bank of America, you know, HR seminars.
Pretty good indication.
If what you're saying is indistinguishable from what you would hear in an HR seminar at Bank of America, then you're certainly not counterculture.
Generally speaking, if nearly all of the richest and most powerful people and institutions in the country agree with you, and you agree with them, then you may be right, or you may be wrong.
You're wrong in this case.
But whatever you are, you certainly are anything but a rebel.
Hopefully we can agree, at least with that.
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So we'll start here back to Afghanistan, or at least the people who are trying to escape Afghanistan.
This is from the Daily Wire.
It says, according to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Biden administration is continuing to tell Americans trapped in Afghanistan that if they want to be evacuated out of the country, they have to pay a cost that could exceed $2,000.
And this comes hours after a spokesperson for the State Department told the media otherwise.
So for the privilege of being evacuated from that hellhole, you have to actually pay $2,000 or more.
The Daily Caller News Foundation did some digging into the online forms that individuals are required to fill out if they want to secure a spot on the repatriation flight.
The form requires users to select, I understand and wish to continue with this request for the following two questions.
One, repatriation flights are not free.
All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S.
government for the flight.
A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2,000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding.
And also, loan repayment.
While my passport will not be canceled, U.S.
citizens who have signed a loan agreement for repatriation may not be eligible for a new passport until the loan is repaid.
So, the federal government, as it stands right now, according to this report, they're not willing to spring for the 2,000 bucks to get these American citizens out of the country.
If they even get them out of the country to begin with, because let's keep in mind, the first part of that trip they're on their own for.
To get to the airport, which right now seems to be basically impossible, because it's surrounded by the Taliban, So if you can manage on your own as an American citizen to get to the airport, the Biden administration is not going to help you.
Not going to guarantee your safety.
You could die.
That's up to you.
That's your problem.
The Biden administration says, if you get there, then we're going to give you a bill for $2,000 just to bring you home.
It seems like they're being very conscious of the budget, apparently.
Very budget conscious.
Except that, I mean, what are we doing here?
We've been handing out checks left and right for thousands of dollars to Americans here who, for no reason, just giving it to them as a reward for the fact that there was a pandemic.
Doesn't matter if, you know, some of them lost their job, but even if you didn't lose your job, you still get the check.
Canceling rent.
Spending trillions of dollars on these kinds of entitlement programs, and yet the federal government Can't manage to come up with the scrounge together $2,000 a person to get these people home from Afghanistan.
And why is that?
Well, it's pretty obvious that handing out these kinds of entitlement checks to Americans here is politically useful.
But as up to this point, they haven't seen a lot of political use in in doing the same for the people that are trapped, trapped in Afghanistan.
Maybe that will change, though.
I would have to think that their political calculations are changing.
All right, moving on.
Here's something pretty interesting.
The U.S.
Embassy in Jamaica is among the many embassies across the world right now that's flying a pride flag.
We know even the embassy in Kabul was flying a pride flag, which we can assume at this point has been taken down.
Well, they put one up in Jamaica, and some Jamaicans are not happy about that.
They say that they don't want the pride flag flying.
In fact, they say that it's cultural imperialism, and I think they kind of make a good point.
Let's listen to them.
And as you might be able to see in the background, the U.S.
Embassy continues to fly the LGBT flag, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender flag, in breach of the Vienna Convention, Articles 3.1e, Article 20, and Article 41.
Right?
They are being hostile towards our laws, our culture, and our own democratic system.
Instead of flying the Jamaican flag for emancipendence, they have decided to fly that flag, and that is an insult to our country.
Philippa Davies, advocacy officer for the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, says the flag represents life practices that threatens the Jamaican culture and the teachings of the Bible.
She says it also affects the health of the society.
You have to understand what that multicoloured flag represents.
It represents normalising perverse sexual behaviours and lifestyle choices.
Behaviours and lifestyles that lead to disease and death.
Our Christian duty is to speak the truth in love.
Protesters say they have been peacefully protesting that the flag be taken down since the day it was raised, but are shocked it remains on the flagpole up to Emancipendence Week.
Efforts to contact the U.S.
consulate and a member of the LGBTQ group on Friday proved futile.
However, the protesters say they will continue to stand against the flying of the rainbow-colored flag, describing it as a symbol of disrespect on Jamaican soil.
Article 20 specifically says the only flag that should fly is their national flag.
The LGBT flag is not their national flag.
Their own people have not agreed to that at all, okay?
Well, they raised some good points, I would say.
And there's no response to that.
The left has no response.
All they could do is ignore this kind of thing.
Because if they were to meet that head on and offer a response, the response would be something like, well, this is not your value system, but it should be.
This should be your value system.
Because of course, I mean, we're so used to it by now that maybe we don't stop and reflect on just how crazy this actually is, that U.S.
embassies are flying any flag other than the American flag.
I don't even care what flag it is.
Why are you flying?
Why is the American government flying any flag, anywhere, other than the American flag?
The federal government should be flying no flag except the American flag.
Should be showing no loyalty to anything but its own country.
And then to consider what that flag is.
Flag showing pride in certain sexual orientations?
This is what our embassies are doing?
A flag to show pride in homosexuality or transgenderism?
No matter how you even feel about that, why is a federal government, why does a federal government have anything to say about that?
At home or especially abroad?
It's insane.
And then meanwhile, we're flying this flag to promote a value system that many Americans don't share to begin with.
But promoting it in countries that certainly don't share it.
And if they're flying the American flag anywhere that is not a Western country, I mean anywhere, then they are promoting this value system.
They're imposing this value system on people who do not share it and don't want it.
So what are you going to do?
I mean, someone should go down there and explain to these people, no, you don't, yeah, you don't believe in this.
This is not your value system, but it should be.
We will tell you what your value system should be.
No, on the left, when they worry about cultural appropriation or cultural imperialism, you hear these kinds of phrases from them.
But they're worried about, I mean, there was some ridiculous woman, I think some journalist, this past week, who was upset on Twitter because a white woman had made a cookbook on how to make dumplings.
She had made a dumpling cookbook.
And there was some leftist who was upset about this.
He said, what is this white woman?
Making a cookbook about dumplings.
Well, probably she made the dumpling cookbook because she's good at making dumplings and so she had some advice on how to do that.
But that is cultural imperialism, according to the left.
To make a food item that arguably originates somewhere aside from the continental United States.
That's the kind of appropriation and cultural imperialism they're worried about.
Meanwhile, we're overseas flying pride flags.
Trying to impose this value system on people who do not want it.
All right, this is from Pew Research Center.
Kind of concerning, I would say.
It says, amid rising concerns over misinformation online, including surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, especially vaccines, Americans are now a bit more open to the idea of the U.S.
government taking steps to restrict false information online.
And a majority of the public continues to favor technology companies taking such action.
According to a new Pew Research Center survey, roughly half of U.S.
adults, 48%, now say the government should take steps to restrict false information Even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content, according to the survey of 11,000 adults conducted July 26th through August 8th.
That's up from 39% in 2018, which is a pretty large jump.
Now, of course, all the familiar grains of salt have to be taken here because this is a Pew survey.
But half of the country having this view sounds about right to me.
Not too surprising, but it is pretty disturbing.
Because what you have among these Americans, not only are they not valuing their own freedom, but just an incredible amount of stupidity.
Incredibly stupid.
That they haven't thought this through at all.
They answered the survey question, but they haven't thought about this beyond surface level.
You want the government to be in charge of restricting false information.
Okay, what does that mean?
It means the government is deciding.
The government is now the arbiter of what is true.
That's how the question should be phrased.
Do you think that the government should be the arbiter of truth?
Do you trust the government to tell you what is true and what isn't?
Should they be the ones to decide what is true and what isn't?
That's really the question.
And these morons, which would include, according to this survey anyway, half of the country, are perfectly willing to give that power to the government.
Meanwhile, many of these same people would tell you, with a straight face, that at least for the previous four years, our government has been run by a fascist dictator who's literally worse than Hitler.
So that's the kind of mistrust they have of the government on one hand, that they think it's within the realm of possibility for a, you know, a Hitlerian dictator to take charge of it, and that that was the case for the past four years, and yet they also trust the government to tell them to decide what is true and what isn't.
Because this should be obvious, but we have to keep repeating it.
You know, the issue, one of the many issues with the government censoring and restricting misinformation or so-called false information is that someone has to decide, has to decide what is false and what's misinformation, and you're giving that power to the government.
Alright, moving on.
There have been a series of attacks in Chicago by roving gangs of teenagers.
And we've got a local news report on one of the latest attacks.
A woman was beaten by a group of teens, mostly boys it would seem.
And she's in critical condition now.
She's got a fractured skull, lacerations, lots of damage.
Here's the report on that.
A rideshare driver gave us this video.
Look closely at the intersection as the driver pulls up to the red light here at Jackson and State around 1130 Saturday night.
You can see the woman is being dragged.
You can also hear her screaming.
A man in a white shirt tries to help her.
He starts to fight with the teens that are attacking her.
As the woman gets up and starts to walk away, watch as one of the teens grabs what appears to be a bag that was left on the street.
He calmly walks away with it.
The woman gets up and tries to walk.
She stumbles, then collapses to the ground.
The man in the white shirt again comes to help her as some of the teens ride away on Divvy bikes.
As the rideshare driver goes through the intersection, look to your right.
Some of the teens with bikes are making their way down the stairs to a CTA platform.
This incident is one of five attacks on people in the loop between Saturday and Monday.
Police say in each case, groups of 3 to 12 teens go up to victims and demand to have their belongings.
The victims are then surrounded and beaten by the teens, using their hands and feet until the victim gives up their property.
Nothing new there in Chicago.
Eventually, maybe, we all see these stories all the time in places like Chicago and Baltimore and every other major city in the country.
This kind of violence that ostensibly they're doing it to rob the woman, which is bad enough on its own, but it's pretty clear that it's not really even about taking her belongings.
I mean, that would be horrible.
That would be better than what is the reality.
And the reality is that they're just doing it for fun.
And taking the purse is sort of a prize at the end of it.
Icing on the cake for them, really.
Really, it's simply the thrill of victimizing an innocent person and beating them for the sake of it.
Eventually, maybe we'll get around to asking the question, Of how are we raising kids?
What's going on in a child's life?
And these are not children.
These are, you know, I would call them young adults.
But what's going on in a child's life that they would turn into that?
I mean, when you look at cities across the country and you see these violent thugs with just no conscience at all.
Committing these acts of brutality and barbarism for the fun of it.
How does that happen?
How do you end up with that?
But these are the conversations we can't have.
So usually we're just going to, we're going to talk about if there was a gun involved, there's a reason we're not hearing about this at all in the, in the mainstream media.
I mean, the local media is talking about mainstream media, national media is not talking about it because there's no gun involved here.
They just use their fists and whatever other object, whatever other blunt instruments they have around to beat unsuspecting women with.
If there's a gun and they'll talk about the gun and how did it end up that these, uh, these kids have got their hands on, on a, on a gun.
But even then, we're not gonna talk about, well, it's okay, they got their hands on a gun.
What prompted them to use it in that way?
You had a case last week, I don't remember what city it was in, I wanna say it was maybe New York.
And this was caught on camera, there was a fight outside of a shoe store about shoes.
And one of the employees from the shoe store came out to try to disperse things, courageously, really, and he got, he was shot and killed.
You did hear a little bit about that because of the gun.
And so we're told, well, he had a gun.
How did this young man get this gun?
Gun violence is a big problem.
That's not really my question.
My question is, okay, he had the gun.
Why would he want to use it like that?
What's going on in his mind that would make him want to kill another person over a fight over shoes?
That's the real question.
That's the discussion we simply can't have, apparently.
I also want to know what's going on in the minds of these people.
This is from the Daily Wire.
It says, newly named Jeopardy host Mike Richards is under fire for resurfaced comments he made that some critics are calling sexist and racist.
Pop culture outlet The Ringer first reported Thursday that between 2013 and 2014, as the host of the podcast Random, Richards referred to his female co-host as a, and I'm quoting now, as a booth hoe, a booth stitute, and booth slut.
And said, women in one-piece bathing suits look really frumpy and overweight.
In other episodes, Richards made disparaging racial remarks, referring to Jewish people.
he said of a woman's facial features, "Ixnay on the oznay,"
she's not an oozay.
In a separate incident, when his co-host described issues she was having with her apartment,
he asked if she lived in Haiti, adding, "Doesn't it sound like that? Like the urine smell,
the women in the muumuu, the stray cats?" And there were other comments like that that he
made on his... This was a podcast that no one's ever heard of from about eight years ago.
And what we're told is that these comments resurfaced.
They just kind of bubbled to the surface on their own.
That happens sometimes.
But that's not actually what happened, of course.
There's no resurfacing.
Someone had to go and dig through this podcast from eight years ago that no one's ever heard of or knew existed to find these comments.
And that raises the question of why?
What's the point?
The comments he made, and I don't know anything about Mike Richards.
I don't care who hosts Jeopardy.
It's not Alex Trebek, so there's no one that can fill those shoes, unfortunately, for me.
And I used to be a big Jeopardy fan, but for me it's lost almost all of its charm now that Alex Trebek is gone.
So I don't care who hosts it.
It doesn't matter.
I have no interest in defending Mike Richards.
What do I care?
I'm sure he's already, you know, I'm sure he's already broken down onto his knees and apologized.
And if he hasn't yet, then I'm sure he will, because that's usually the way these things go.
So it doesn't matter much to me.
The comments he made in the podcast eight years ago, were they objectionable?
Yeah.
But what's going on?
Why would someone had to hear the news that some guy named Mike Richards is going to be the host of Jeopardy and then say, I'm going to comb through this guy's past.
I'm going to go through hours and hours of tape and I'm going to find I'm going to find something.
I'm going to see if this guy has ever said or done anything bad so that I can destroy him.
Because he's going to be the host of Jeopardy.
Now, I understand if someone is running for political office, that's the way the game is played.
The people on the other side, his rivals, want to destroy him.
I get that.
That's the way that goes.
That's the way it's always gone in politics.
This is about the most apolitical position a person could possibly hold.
The host of Jeopardy.
So what would compel you to go digging for that in the first place?
Well, it's just, this is the reaction now that a lot of people have.
You see someone in the news and their head is rising above the pack a little bit.
Something good is happening to them.
This guy gets to be the host of Jeopardy.
I'm sure it's a lifelong dream of his.
Maybe not, but it's a big deal for him.
And so the immediate reaction from a lot of people in this diseased culture of ours is to say, let's try to destroy that guy.
I don't know him.
I got nothing personally against him.
He's never done anything to me, but let's ruin his life.
Let's not just take his job away, but for the crime of being given this opportunity and having good fortune befall him.
For that crime, for the crime of being a fortunate person, we are just going to ruin him.
And that's what they've done.
It is a...
You know, if that's your instinct to do that, you need to look deeply within yourself.
To figure out what's going on in your own heart. That that would even occur to you.
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I heard the news that Mike Richards was going to be a Jeopardy host.
It never occurred to me to wonder about offensive things he said in the past.
I probably would have assumed that he said offensive things in the past because everybody has.
Never would occur to me to go check.
And if I had checked for some reason and I discovered that, you know what I would have done?
I wouldn't have told anybody.
Because I'm not looking to just destroy people for no reason.
If that's how you get your rocks off, if that's your form of recreation and entertainment, you need to look within yourself and inside your own soul.
All right, finally, it's been a while since we've played a crazy person on TikTok, but we're going to do this.
This is a preschool teacher talking about her experiences on the first day of preschool.
And let's just watch.
Story time.
This has been my first year in preschool with a class of my own, teaching alongside another queer neurodivergent educator, and we have been rocking R2's class.
We've been talking about gender, and skin color, and consent, and empathy, and our bodies, and autonomy.
It's been fabulous!
But our teaching team is shifting and a new person is being onboarded, someone with many years of experience.
So today at the lunch table, when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one of our students plainly looked up and said, Well, I'm a girl today.
But I know that Teacher Co isn't.
No, they're Enby!
And the look on the incoming teacher's face was priceless.
She was shocked in a good way and she just looked around at the two of us and said, this class is incredible and I am so impressed.
They're really trying to make neurodivergent happen, aren't they?
I'm hearing that phrase more and more now.
I don't mean to discriminate at all, but that's not who I am.
That's not me.
But if you notice that your child's preschool teacher has five piercings on each ear and a nose ring, that's a problem.
Really, the nose ring at all.
These are the red flags and the warning signs you have to look out for.
Or really, we could take a step back.
We could step back farther than that, because the actual warning sign is that it's a public school preschool.
At this point, if you're sending your child to preschool at all in a public school environment, then that is an unjustifiable decision at this point, I would say.
You just cannot send... Now, you know how I feel about public school in general.
I don't think we should be sending our kids to public school at all, but at least if it's an older kid, a kid in high school or something, there's a possibility that they're going to have enough moral and intellectual formation at that point where they can withstand the indoctrination that's being foist upon them.
Also, there's at least the possibility, although I know that teenagers are notoriously not very forthcoming with information about themselves and their experiences, even so, there's the possibility that you could sit down and talk to your teenager and say, what happened at school today?
You could have a conversation, you could hear about these things, but you're sending your three-year-old in.
You're not going to hear about any of this.
You can't talk to them.
They're not going to tell you about any of this stuff.
They might mention something in passing that raises your antenna, but for the most part, you're probably not going to hear about it.
And also, they are totally susceptible.
They are 100% susceptible to whatever their preschool teacher tells them.
So when this weirdo, this degenerate freak, sits down with your three-year-old and says, let's talk about our bodies, Whatever comes out of her mouth, yeah, your child is 100% susceptible to it.
He has no defenses at all.
You send your three-year-old into public school, this is an act of absolute, complete trust in the system.
You are trusting that nobody will take advantage of your child's innocence and vulnerability.
To turn them into something that you don't even recognize.
You're trusting that.
And what I'm saying is you cannot trust the system.
You can't trust the system at all.
You certainly can't trust it entirely and absolutely, which is what you do when you drop your three-year-old off in the building.
You say, hey, okay, I'll be back in a few hours.
Just don't do it.
It's not worth it.
It's not worth it.
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This is from John Smith, says, I think the hardest time Matt has is thinking about something that he says is when he has to come up with a different pronunciation for every individual every time he mentions them.
Well, Jan Smythe, I really don't know what you're even talking about.
Reese Richardson says, I'm getting married on Saturday.
I'm aiming for five.
Five wives or children?
Hope you mean children, and five is a great number.
Violin Girl says, you don't seem to have a problem with killing animals, so why would you judge people who choose abortion?
Well, Violin Girl, it's because people are different from animals.
So it's for the same reason.
Let me try to explain it this way.
Have you ever in your life been driving down the road And seen a roadkill on the side of the road.
Have you ever had that experience?
I bet you have.
You've seen a dead deer or a raccoon or a skunk or something.
And how do you react to that when you see that dead animal on the side of the road?
You probably don't think anything at all.
You just keep driving.
Maybe at most you think, oh, that's sad, poor deer.
And then you go about your day.
If you were driving along and you saw a dead person on the side of the road, you would have a very different reaction.
Right?
I mean, aside from the fact that you would call the police, hopefully.
But that would be a deeply traumatic experience for you.
And it would hit you on a much deeper level.
That's something you would remember for the rest of your life.
Can you remember specific incidents of roadkill that you saw?
In fact, we refer to animals as roadkill.
If you saw a dead person on the side of the road, would you call a dead person roadkill?
Ah, there's some roadkill and just keep driving?
No.
You would be traumatized by that.
You'd be very deeply shaken by it.
You'd remember it for the rest of your life.
The time you saw a dead person on the side of the road.
So why is that?
You come up with an answer to that question and you'll have my answer on this.
I think the answer is that, um, in most cases you value human life more than you, you value animal life.
It's just that you make an exception for unborn human life.
And what I'm saying is that there's no reason to make that exception.
Because unborn human life is still human life.
And if you have judged that human life is more valuable than animal life, which you have and I know you have, then you should make the same judgment for unborn human life.
That's my point.
Jared says, you're right Matt, a nation's happiness, success, and pride are totally correlated to the amount of children they have.
Like Niger, which is at 7 kids per woman.
They've had lots of national successes since their independence in 1958.
They've had 5 military coups, and it's yearly is dead last, or close to it, in the Human Development Index.
Totally great logic.
Also check out the next highest.
Uh, countries in birth rates, all of the uber patriotic, high-achieving countries like Angola, Mali, Chad, Uganda, and South Sudan.
Uh, yes, Jared, very clever.
I mean, you can indeed provide many examples of third-world countries and failed states where people have lots of kids and yet remain third-world countries and failed states.
Nothing I said yesterday contradicts that.
What I would like to know, though, is if you can provide an example Of a country that experienced a precipitous decline in the birth rate and then went on to flourish like never before.
That was my question.
Where has a drop in fertility led to national success and prosperity?
Can you come up with an example of that?
And I think you probably can't.
Because generally when a civilization gives up on the future, And when you've dropped below replacement level, when your fertility rate has dropped below replacement level, that means that collectively you've given up on the future.
And when that happens, that's not a sign of a healthy civilization.
That's not a sign of a civilization with a future, because it's given up on the future.
OJ says, Matt, an iPhone and a puppy is not nearly as expensive as a family.
Children cost hundreds of thousands to raise.
Responsible people understand that they can't afford it.
Who are these people that can't afford having a kid?
Who are they?
Who are the people who can't afford kids?
Because, you know, I know families with single income families where the mother stays home six, seven, eight kids or more, and they're not making More than 80 or 90,000 a year at most.
For all those kids.
I know plenty of families like that.
I know families that make a lot less than that.
And have more kids than I do.
Sometimes significantly more.
So what is this stuff about I can't afford a kid?
What do you mean exactly?
You know, I see people all the time who live in nice, you know, apartments, and they've got all the latest consumer electronics, they're living very comfortably, and yet they say they can't afford having a kid.
Meanwhile, people who have less money than them have kids and also manage to live comfortably.
How does that work?
Because, like I said yesterday, it's about priorities.
Okay, children, and it's also about just things like proper budgeting, children don't come with a price tag.
The idea, and I hear this a lot, that, well, the average child costs, whatever number they give you now, it's like $300,000, costs $300,000 to get a child from, you know, age zero up to 18.
That's absurd.
That would mean that, you know, a middle-class family with four or five kids would spend like over a million dollars raising those kids.
Meanwhile, they might not even earn a million dollars in that time.
What we're being told is that to have a large family, by your estimation, to have a large family, and by large I mean like four kids or more, you would have to be a millionaire to afford it.
And yet, I'm willing to guess right now that not only is it not true that all large families are millionaires, I would guess that almost every large family is not a millionaire family.
No, generally, when you look at the higher income brackets, they have fewer kids.
So there seems to be a disconnect here.
You're assuming, oh, it's just not possible, you can't afford, kids are prohibitively expensive, and yet you look throughout the world and billions of people manage to do it.
And they're not all living in poverty.
Many of them manage to do it and live very comfortably.
Because it's about proper budgeting, it's about having a priority straight, And yeah, I mean, you may have to make some sacrifices.
Rather than having seven TVs in the house, maybe you only, maybe you have to make do with three.
You know, rather than getting the latest iPhone as soon as it comes out, you know, maybe you only, maybe you have to wait, like, maybe every third iPhone you get, you get the upgrade, something like that.
Maybe instead of going overseas on a vacation, you got to settle with the continental United States.
I mean, these are the kinds of sacrifices that families have to make.
All right, Jordan says, marriage is a no for me, man.
Western women are lost beyond hope.
And then another comment from Rina, who says, would love to have lots of babies, but just can't find a good man.
Well, Rina, meet Jordan.
Jordan, meet Rina.
I hear this all the time.
Men complaining they can't find a good woman.
Women complaining they can't find a good man.
I understand that it probably is difficult, but they are out there.
And we just made a connection right here in the YouTube comment section on the Matt Wall Show.
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There's a made-for-TV movie from my childhood called Not Quite Human.
And as I recall, it was about a creepy middle-aged man who builds a robot that looks like a boy and then adopts him as a son.
And the robot is mostly lifelike, but his true android nature sometimes comes through in the way that he speaks and the way that he moves.
It was a great film, a real classic of the genre.
And by genre, I mean 80s made-for-TV movies about robots.
This had to be in, like, the top ten of that category.
Anyway, you may be wondering why I'm telling you about this, and I'm sort of wondering about that myself.
I think the main reason is that I could never figure out who Mark Zuckerberg reminds me of exactly until I remembered NotQuiteHuman.
He is like a form of AI, an android, that almost passes for a real boy.
A robotic Pinocchio, you might say.
And I wouldn't normally make fun of him for this.
After all, you know, he can't help it if he was assembled in a laboratory in some mad scientist's basement somewhere.
But the problem is that Zuckerberg wants to turn all of us into robots just like him.
And he's so far had enormous success in that regard.
And it's only going to get worse from here.
So Facebook, along with the other tech giants, plans to move away from traditional social media and into the world of virtual reality.
Zuckerberg is now building what he describes as a metaverse.
A word he takes directly from a dystopian sci-fi book, which is a little too on-the-nose for my taste.
An article in The Conversation has this.
It says, Mark Zuckerberg wants to reinvent Facebook.
He's been telling analysts and journalists that he wants the company to lead the way to a completely different internet.
He said, quote, in the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a metaverse company.
In many ways, the metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology.
The term metaverse is used to describe the vision whereby the internet will evolve into a virtual world.
It foresees the internet as a 3D virtual living space where individuals dip in and out, interacting with one another in real time.
Many in Silicon Valley still view the metaverse as the future.
For example, Google is heavily invested in augmented reality, which is where you use technology to look at the real world, but with digital 3D objects layered on top.
And rumors swirl that Apple is building products like glasses for experiencing virtual spaces.
But Facebook appears the most committed to this new vision.
In his quest to turn Facebook into a metaverse company, Zuckerberg is seeking to build a system where people move between virtual reality, Augmented reality and even 2D devices using realistic avatars of themselves where appropriate.
Here they will work, socialize, share things, and have other experiences.
Now, one need not strain too much to imagine what those other experiences might be.
I'll say only that porn sites are also working on building their own virtual reality universes, so maybe you connect the dots there.
But as the article suggests, Zuckerberg is ahead of the game and has already come up with his first metaverse application.
In an effort to, as he says, help us to be a part of and inside of the internet, he's come up with something called Horizon Workrooms, which is a virtual reality office space where you can have meetings with your co-workers inside the metaverse.
So think of it like Zoom, except a thousand times worse.
Here is Zuckerberg on CBS This Morning, giving a demonstration of the metaverse.
WorkRooms is used on Facebook's Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets.
Once inside, you can customize your own avatar.
Mark, I'm in!
Alright, welcome!
Oh my god, you've got freckles on your nose!
I have freckles in real life too, so I'm trying to do the best with my avatar.
Wow!
Do you like my glasses?
I like it in here!
Your avatar looks great.
This is my first Virtual reality interview.
How about you?
It's mine too.
My first virtual reality interview too.
You know, we're very optimistic that in five years from now, people are going to be able to live where they want and work from wherever they want, but are going to be able to feel present as if they're together when they're doing that.
Do you have a favorite feature to use in here?
Yeah.
Something that you think is very cool?
Yeah, I mean, there are a couple of things that I really like.
I mean, one is that you can just dynamically change the layout of the room.
So, you know, I mean, here, you know, we're in a room layout that's designed for conversation.
I can switch us really quickly.
So now we're in a presentation setting.
Yes.
So that's pretty neat.
And Mike's in the middle, yeah.
And then, you know, check this out.
I can basically go and go stand at the whiteboard.
And it's like brainstorming, just like in a normal meeting that you would have been in.
Well, that is truly horrifying.
Many problems spring immediately to mind.
First of all, what if Jeffrey Toobin shows up to your Metaverse meeting?
I mean, he's bad enough on Zoom.
Now imagine being trapped in virtual reality with him.
Also, who in God's name wants to be more fully immersed in a work meeting?
Who's ever been sitting on a Zoom call and said to themselves, man, this is great, but I just wish I could be literally trapped inside this call right now in the computer with all these people.
The whole advantage of Zoom is that you don't have to pay attention or actually be physically near anyone.
Now that's being taken away.
And Zuckerberg says that it's great because now you can attend meetings from anywhere on earth.
Hooray!
That's wonderful.
So even if you're on vacation in Fiji, your boss back in New Jersey can still call you into the conference room for a meeting.
That's supposed to be a good thing.
You know, one of the problems with Zoom and social media and the internet generally is it won't allow us to get the hell away from each other.
And that makes this problem.
This makes that problem, I think, a lot worse.
Not to mention, what if your boss calls you in to fire you?
Can you imagine getting fired by your employer's cartoon avatar?
Talk about insult to injury.
And speaking of the cartoon avatar, Why exactly would you want to make it look exactly like yourself, right down to the facial blemishes?
If there's any advantage to this kind of thing, wouldn't it be that you can build a better version of yourself?
A more interesting version of the world as well?
This is one of the many downsides of living in a country run by these tech nerds.
I mean, they're all genius, IQ, billionaires, but they have very little imagination.
So Zuckerberg can create a virtual reality world But he makes it look like a conference room on the ninth story of an office building in Cincinnati.
If we're going to do this meta-universe thing, why wouldn't you have your meeting on, like, a moon of Jupiter or inside a volcano or in the jungle during the Jurassic period?
You could do all of that.
You might as well make it interesting if we're going to do this.
But going back to what I just said before, I said that one of the problems with the internet is that it won't allow us to get the hell away from each other, and that's true.
It becomes weirdly claustrophobic and exhausting because we're all in constant contact with each other all the time, with no space to breathe.
Even the simple act of carrying a phone around all the time is oppressive, constantly at the beck and call of anyone who happens to have our phone number.
When I was a child, and you kids out there, you're gonna find this hard to believe, but when I was a child, if you wanted to talk to somebody on the phone, Or contact them at all, and they weren't physically at their house, then you simply wouldn't be able to contact them.
You would have to call and leave a message and wait for them to respond, and it might take a few days.
People would walk around in the world every day with nothing in their pocket but a wallet and maybe keys.
You were forced, if you can believe it, you were forced to actually acknowledge and interact with your immediate environment and the people within it.
And if two people were out there in the world somewhere, far away from you, having a conversation, there'd be no way for you to intrude into it.
You couldn't call, you couldn't send a text.
They're over there living their lives, and you were here, and all you could do was be here, in this place that you are, with no way to escape it, except to physically travel to another place.
And sometimes, and this I know you won't believe, but sometimes, you would do this thing called nothing.
And what I mean is, maybe you were sitting in a waiting room, getting your oil changed, or at the dentist, and there were no good magazines, or, you know, nothing that you were interested in on TV.
And maybe nobody was around you who you felt like talking to.
So, you would just sit there and think.
Can you imagine that?
You just, like, sit.
Have you ever done this?
I know it's like, people of a certain age have probably never done this in their lives, but you just, you sit in the chair.
That's all you do.
You just sit there.
And you would think about things.
And thinking, you know, this is, if I have to explain what thinking is, thinking is this thing that people used to do before Google started doing it for them.
So all this to say, the internet makes it so that we can't escape other people, except for those people who we are actually physically present with.
It keeps us connected to strangers and social media mob and coworkers and other assorted malcontents, but it becomes this complete inversion of priorities, because the thing that grabs our attention Is the thing which we are farthest away from.
We become immersed in the universe, but not the room we're sitting in.
Now with virtual reality and augmented reality, this will only get worse.
Think about augmented reality.
Now they want to augment even that room that you're sitting in, which you were already mostly ignoring.
They want to facilitate all of our human interactions, including the in-person, face-to-face interactions.
What few of them we have anymore.
We'll reach a point where I'm sure, you know, people are going to be sitting in a physical conference room with each other, all together, and all wearing those dumb-looking headsets so that they can interact with the cartoon versions of each other.
We are slowly giving up on flesh and blood human existence.
Melting into the internet.
Becoming a part of it.
As Zuckerberg says.
Says he wants us to be a part of the internet.
A hellish, dystopian vision.
That he openly says that's his plan.
Soon we'll all be soulless machines like himself.
Not quite human.
Like the 80s TV movies tried to warn us.
But we didn't listen, because we never do.
And so it's probably futile now to say this, but I will anyway.
While I still can.
Mark Zuckerberg, you are, of course, cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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