Ep. 1338 - Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person's Feelings
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Scotland has just passed a bill imposing long prison sentences for anyone who hurts the feelings of a transgender person. This is the most draconian assault on free speech that we've seen in the western world, and it's just the beginning. Also, Richard Dawkins declares himself a "cultural Christian." What does that mean? Does it mean anything? And a feminist writer tries being a "tradwife" for one week and doesn't enjoy the experience.
Ep.1338
- - -
DailyWire+:
Unlock your Bentkey 14-day free trial here: https://bit.ly/3GSz8go
Leftist Tears Tumbler is BACK! Subscribe to get your FREE one today: https://bit.ly/4capKTB
Shop my merch collection here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj
- - -
Today’s Sponsors:
Birch Gold - Text "WALSH" to 989898, or go to https://birchgold.com/Walsh, for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit.
Tax Network USA - Seize control of your financial future! Call 1(800)245-6000 or visit http://www.TNUSA.com/Walsh
PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion: https://preborn.com/Matt
- - -
Socials:
Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF
Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA
Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA
Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs
Today on The Matt Wall Show, Scotland has just passed a bill imposing long prison sentences for anyone who hurts the feelings of a transgender person.
This is the most draconian assault on free speech that we've seen in the Western world, and it's just the beginning, I'm afraid.
Also, Richard Dawkins declares himself a cultural Christian.
What does that mean?
Doesn't mean anything.
And a feminist writer tries being a trad wife for one week and does not enjoy the experience.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
Well, the cost of living has already increased 17% this year
and continues to rise despite interest rate controls.
As our national debt skyrockets, you need to be confident in the financial services companies you work with, especially regarding your money and your future.
Birchgold is a proven industry leader that you want on your side.
They'll show you how precious metal investments can fortify your lifestyle and retirement, even in turbulent economic times.
Navigating financial decisions can be scary if you're considering converting an existing retirement account into a precious metals IRA.
Birchgold's dedicated in-house IRA department is there to guide you every step of the way.
Birchgold values your concerns and your questions.
Their team is always available to provide answers and clarity, whether it's about fees, taxes on rollovers, or the timing of the process.
They're here to ensure that you feel heard and informed.
Text WALSH to 989898 to talk to one of Birchgold's experts and claim your free info kit on gold.
You'll learn how to convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax-sheltered IRA in gold.
Best part is, It doesn't cost you a penny out of pocket.
Just text WALSH to 989898.
That's WALSH to 989898.
If you were running the government of Scotland right now, you'd have no shortage of serious, potentially civilization-ending social problems to contend with.
Chief among them would be that, before long, there might not be very many Scottish people left.
Since 2011, Scotland's birth rate has been well below replacement level, meaning far more people are dying than being born right now.
There were more than 630,000 deaths in the country and only 580,000 or so births.
And yet, despite those numbers, Scotland recorded its largest population in history as recently as 2022.
How could that be?
Well, you can probably guess.
Like many other nations all over the world, including the United States, Scotland is importing poor foreigners by the boatload to make up the difference.
The result has been exactly what you'd expect.
Scotland's economy is now in a death spiral, with more than 1 million of its 5.5 million residents living in poverty, and no clear solution to the problem is in sight.
The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to grow by nearly 30% by 2045, while the number of children is projected to drop By roughly 20%.
Unless something changes very soon, Scotland may be completely unrecognizable by the time its next census rolls around.
Now, in political terms, this is what's commonly called an existential threat.
A serious country would enact policies to reverse this trend immediately, starting with turning away the so-called refugees and migrants that Scotland can't tolerate, much less accommodate.
But Scotland has decided on a very different course of action.
Instead of, say, Encouraging more Scottish citizens to have families or something like that.
The government instead in Scotland has decided to suspend the right of freedom of speech.
And they've suspended the freedom of speech with the express purpose of endorsing and protecting transgenderism, an ideology that's antithetical to reproduction and which openly calls for the sterilization and castration of children.
This is precisely the sort of thing that self-loathing societies do when they decide that they don't want to exist anymore.
This is a path to suicide.
It's the path that Scotland is on, and as I'll explain in a second, it's exactly the same plan that our leaders are following in this country.
Now, this specific law that I'm talking about is called the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, and Scotland formally enacted it on Monday.
It criminalizes the act of, quote, behaving in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive.
If in doing so, quote, the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on one of the following characteristics, quote, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or variations in sex characteristics.
Anyone found guilty under this law can be sentenced to prison for up to seven years.
I'll say that again.
If you say something that a, quote, reasonable person in Scotland considers abusive, the government can put you in prison for seven years.
And there are sites springing up all over Scotland where people can report wrongthink if they notice it, including, for some reason, sex shops in Glasgow.
Watch.
We've always had laws about stirring up hatred against people because of their racial background.
Now the law has been expanded to include lots of other groups who are protected because of age, disability, sexuality, transgender and so on, have now got this charge that could be brought if people are threatening or abusive towards this person because they're part of that group and they're attempting to stir up hatred against that particular This fish factory is one of dozens of sites where hate crimes can officially be reported.
Others include a sex shop in Glasgow, branded progressive by some, draconian by others, including women's groups embroiled in the trans debate.
We know that there are people out there who have got lists of people that they are looking to target, that they are seeing this as an opportunity to settle scores.
This legislation is not going to catch people online saying things that I might disagree with, that you might disagree with.
Freedom of expression is really important and there's a defence for that within the legislation.
What it does legislate against is when that freedom of speech strays into something that is abusive, that could cause fear and alarm, and that also incites hatred or incites people to act on that hatred.
Of course, we have the obligatory woman with big glasses defending this transgender hate crime legislation.
She reassures us that freedom of expression is really important, except when it's abusive.
Except when it causes, quote, alarm.
Well, you can say whatever you want, as long as it's not alarming.
And that's not subjective or vague at all, is it?
But who defines these ideas?
Who defines what's abusive?
Well, the bill doesn't say.
I checked.
The only limiting principle is that this legislation says it doesn't outlaw discussion or criticism, whatever that means.
But once discussion or criticism becomes abusive, according to, quote, reasonable people, then it's a serious crime, and you'll spend the better part of a decade in prison for it.
And the problem is that, by the bill's own terms, the people determining what's reasonable and what's hateful are people who believe that biology isn't real.
I mean, the whole bill is established with the express understanding that it's reasonable, by default, to believe that anyone can change their gender in an instant.
Okay, that's what the bill is saying, is a reasonable position.
It literally says that transgender identity is something that the law needs to recognize and protect.
And as we've seen, trans activists are willing to cry about genocide if you use a pronoun they don't like.
So these are the reasonable people who get to set the boundaries of what's abusive and what's not.
And in effect, what this means is that the truth has just been outlawed in Scotland.
Tell the truth about transgenderism, tell the truth about biological reality, and you can go to prison.
You can go to prison for longer than a serial rapist.
That's not an exaggeration, by the way.
Late last year, a man who raped three schoolgirls, ages 14 and 15, in the Scottish town of Falkirk, received a sentence of just six years in prison for three rapes of children.
Now consider this.
If he had misgendered those same children, he would have gotten a longer sentence.
And to be clear, this is not insanity, okay?
I mean, it certainly looks like insanity.
But it is deliberate.
This is a deliberate declaration of war by the Government of Scotland against its own people.
At every turn, they are working towards the destruction of future generations.
And now they're making it illegal to talk about it.
As a result, there's now a non-zero chance that the children's author J.K.
Rowling could soon be arrested.
When this law took effect, Rowling posted a lengthy thread on social media listing various men who identify as women in the UK, including men who have raped small children.
She said, quote, Obviously the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.
Rowling wrote she continued in passing the Scottish a crime act Scottish lawmakers seemed to have placed higher value
on the feelings of men performing the their idea of femaleness
however, misogynistic Lee or opportunistically then on the rights and freedoms of actual women and women and girls
It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assaults on women and girls' rights, unless we're allowed to call a man a man.
Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new Act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Now already, as you've probably guessed, many people in the UK are calling for Rowling's arrest.
A lawyer named Rajan Barrow, for example, wrote that Rowling had engaged in, quote, a deliberate act of defiance, and that the police must, quote, mount a full investigation.
And by the letter of the law that was just enacted in Scotland, the police are obligated indeed to do just that.
For offending the cult of transgenderism, J.K.
Rowling could be imprisoned for up to seven years.
This is the new definition of blasphemy in the UK.
These are essentially blasphemy laws that are being passed.
Transgenderism is the new state religion.
And just to underscore that point even further, this same law, this same hate crimes bill that bans anyone from criticizing transgenderism, also repeals the existing blasphemy law on the books in Scotland.
That's been in effect since the common law was created, but it's gone now.
So, again, I'm not exaggerating for effect here.
This is literally a line from the same bill.
Quote, the common law offense of blasphemy is abolished.
Now, really, it makes sense.
After all, you have to destroy the old religion to enact the new one.
Get rid of the old blasphemy in order to impose the new definition.
The Scottish government understands that as well as Mao did.
They understand it as well as Joe Biden's administration did on Easter Sunday.
But this is not a story about the internal affairs of Scotland.
The point is that what's happening in Scotland is not some kind of aberrant, overly extreme application of leftist doctrine.
Rather, it's the logical end result of that doctrine.
So, when you value feelings over truth, and you define untruth as truth, what follows next is inevitable.
Anyone who really believes that men can become women and that affirming biological reality is tantamount to genocide is eventually going to throw you in prison.
That's why they use terms like genocide.
That's the whole point.
It's not just to be, it's not just for effect.
As I've been saying for years, they use these terms because it's the setup, right?
It's the pretense for later treating what you're saying as an actual act of physical violence.
They're not interested in accurately describing what you're doing.
It's to justify destroying your life by force through any means necessary.
Now, you might be thinking to yourself, well...
That can't happen here, at least not to the extent it's happening in a place like Scotland.
After all, we have a much more robust constitution.
We have First Amendment protections that, you know, enshrine freedom of speech and protect us from government interference when it comes to our speech.
And surely, if the government explicitly said that it was going to target people for their speech in this country and then ruin them and, you know, there'd be a major outcry over it.
That's what you would want to think.
But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.
The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, is of course best known for her campaign to seize all the assets of the leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
What she's not so well known for is her campaign to target the website VDare, explicitly because of its inconvenient and unpopular beliefs.
This is a story that's gotten very little attention in conservative media, but it's every bit as scandalous as what Letitia James is doing to Donald Trump.
Shortly after she took office, as reported by the fringe left-wing activist group Southern Poverty Law Center, Letitia James promised to target conservative and right-wing organizations based on their speech.
"In 2020, James said her office would take tougher legal action on organizations that
engage in real-life discriminatory actions and online hate speech against protected classes."
Now this is an astonishing statement because there is no such thing as online hate speech
in this country.
We're not Scotland, at least not yet.
That's the point of the First Amendment.
But Letitia James just admitted out in the open that she was going to ignore the First Amendment and go after people saying things online that she does not like.
That's exactly what she's done.
Over the weekend, VDARE explained that the New York Attorney General's Office has ruined them financially with a subpoena that requires them to quote, review 40 gigabytes of emails, an enormous amount, and of course these emails could in fact reveal the names of the synonymous writers, as well as donors, privileged communications with lawyers, etc.
Now, in all, VDARE says the subpoena could cost them more than $150,000 to comply with, and as a result, the website might not be around much longer.
And all of this is happening without VDare being accused of any criminal activity whatsoever.
There's apparently just a suspicion of a possible violation of New York's non-profit rules, supposedly, relating to their purchase of a castle as a conference venue several years ago, which they needed to purchase because hotels wouldn't let them host conferences there, so they had to get their own venue.
But the New York EAG's office isn't being very specific about what the problem is.
So, you know, we're really speculating about the specifics.
And as VDARE's Lydia Brimlow said in a recent interview, New York really doesn't have anything to do with VDARE, so their whole fixation with the organization is a little bit strange.
In fact, VDARE has been trying to leave the state, you know, behind for a while now.
The castle property that's at issue is in West Virginia.
That's where they're trying to go.
Watch.
But when the extreme political rhetoric started flying around in New York and we realized, We should incorporate in a state where we actually operate that may not be hostile to the work that we do.
This was well before we had been subpoenaed.
We did some research and it turned out that in the state of New York, you as a non-profit incorporated there, you're not allowed to move without permission from the Attorney General.
You're not allowed to reincorporate in another state.
You're also not allowed to sell or transfer assets without her permission.
And you're not allowed to dissolve without her permission.
So it really is Hotel California.
You can incorporate there, but you can't leave.
So, VDARE is being chased around by a vindictive Attorney General for an out-of-state property they bought.
Now, I'm no expert on the facts of the case, but at a glance, what VDARE is apparently being investigated for is somewhat similar to what BLM has admitted to doing.
We know BLM spent a lot of money buying multiple lavish mansions, not just one conference venue.
But BLM was never subjected to any kind of investigation.
They never had the New York Attorney General or any other Attorney General bombard them with subpoenas.
And we know why that is.
It's because BLM is on Letitia James' side.
FIDEIR isn't.
FIDEIR likes to talk about things like crime statistics and what happens in cities like Baltimore.
So therefore, like Donald Trump, they need to be crushed.
Every real estate transaction they've ever engaged in needs to be carefully scrutinized until they're bankrupt.
Suddenly, Scotland's decision to suspend freedom of speech doesn't seem so unthinkable here.
If Letitia James can get away with targeting a right-wing media outlet like this while admitting it, then we're basically there already.
If anything, we could learn from what's happening in Scotland.
At least they have some people like J.K.
Rowling who are willing to go to jail over what Scotland's government is doing.
Is there anyone in this country who's even suggested sacrificing anything for a site like VDARE?
Of course not.
They have unfashionable views.
So, they're not going to be around much longer.
Inevitably, that means that the people who decide what's unfashionable will be coming for you, too.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
That can really weigh on your mind, especially when the IRS has become more determined than ever.
Their chief data and analytics officer revealed that the IRS is focused on an enforcement project with an average return on investment of about $6 for every $1 spent.
They're targeting individuals and businesses that currently owe back taxes or haven't yet filed their returns.
Tax Network USA, the nation's leading tax relief firm, knows the tax code and will fight for you
with a record of negotiating over a billion dollars in tax relief for their clients.
Their team is knowledgeable in handling any type of tax issue,
whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, they can help.
Even if you don't have all your personal or business records from over the years,
they can get you filed up to date.
Facing the IRS without a professional is not a smart move.
Contact Tax Network USA for the best strategic advice to help reduce or even eliminate your tax debt.
Call today at 1-800-245-6000 or visit their website at tnusa.com/walsh.
They'll give you a free private consultation on how you can settle your tax debt today.
That's tnusa.com/walsh.
All right, the White House threw...
Spokeswoman Karen Jean Pear was in damage control mode yesterday, trying to clean up after the president angered, you know, all normal people in the country by declaring Easter to be Trans Day of Visibility.
And that was upsetting to, again, any normal person, any actually reasonable person.
Here is Karen Jean Pear giving us the spin.
Let's watch.
So the criticism over the transgender day of visibility, the White House said that the President wouldn't abuse his faith for political purposes.
Does the President think that's what Republicans are doing?
I mean, look, just a couple of things, and really, so surprised by the misinformation that's been out there around this, and I want to be very clear.
Every year for the past several years, on March 31st, Transgender Day of Visibility is marked.
And as we know, for folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on different Sundays.
Right?
Every year.
And this year, it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day.
And so, that is the simple fact.
That is what has happened.
That is where we are.
And I do want to say a couple of things, because I think it's important here.
As you just stated in your questions, what we've been hearing out there, a lot of misinformation done on purpose.
And as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.
Now, sadly, and it's not surprising, right?
It is actually unsurprising that politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric.
It is dishonest what we have heard the past 24 hours.
It is untrue what we heard over the weekend.
And, you know, we were at first, I want to be very clear, confused on their coverage.
We're grateful that Fox agrees with President Biden about the importance of recognizing Trans Day of Visibility.
And I'll just quote something that Fox said back in 2021.
They tweeted this.
Trans Day of Visibility is dedicated to celebrating transgender people.
To all the transgender men, women and non-binary folk, we see you and stand with you.
President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.
That is not what this administration is about. That is not what being a leader is.
That's enough.
So she throws a jab at Fox News there.
Well-deserved, by the way.
Doesn't surprise me.
Doesn't surprise me that Fox... She doesn't give a lot of context to that.
I mean, there's no context that makes that okay, but apparently they issued some sort of statement or tweet, I guess.
Also celebrating Trans Day of Visibility in the past, which doesn't surprise me.
The rest of this is exactly the response that you would expect from these people, and this is why it's such a shame that the term gaslighting has been used and abused so much, to the point where it's a cliché now, and it really doesn't mean anything.
But this is, still, this is grade A gaslighting.
I mean, this is gaslighting in the extreme.
This is what gaslighting is.
The White House does something intentionally provocative and controversial, to put it mildly, right, to put it mildly, controversial, and then says, hey, I don't know what the fuss is all about.
We're confused.
We had no idea.
Everyone, people were upset.
We were so confused.
We didn't realize.
We had no idea that issuing a proclamation about celebrating trans people on Easter might be a little bit upsetting to some people.
We had no clue.
We had the slightest idea.
We had no idea that would happen.
I mean, even if somehow you agree with them, and you agree with the trans stuff, and you think trans stuff should be celebrated, which makes you wrong, but even if you agree with them, you should still have, like, the self-respect to admit that this is just nonsense.
This is looking right in our eyes and lying to us.
Okay?
Obviously.
Again, even if you think that it's a good idea to proclaim Trans Day of Visibility on Easter, you still must admit that of course it's a provocative thing to do.
And even worse, they accuse the other side of being divisive.
You know, we're divisive because we don't like the divisive thing that they just did.
Our reaction to their divisiveness is divisive.
We're being divisive about their divisiveness, is what they're saying.
You know, we talked about this yesterday, but I just have to say, I would have more respect for these people.
I still would have basically no respect for them, but I would have more, slightly more.
I'd have like the slightest little shred, right, of respect if they at least just admitted what they were doing.
If they simply said, Yeah, you know what?
Of course we know that taking Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar, And proclaiming something in celebration of transgenderism on that particular day, of course we know that's unprecedented, it's never been done before, we know it's going to be very upsetting, we know there are millions of Christians in this country, and that's the kind of thing, to hear that from the President, it's going to be alarming to them.
We knew that, and we did it anyway, and we did it because we thought it was important, and here's why.
You could at least admit that.
But as we discussed yesterday, they won't admit that.
And whenever they do something, no matter how outrageous it is, the moment they do it, they not only expect us to tolerate it, they not only expect us to accept it, they expect us to act as though we're not even surprised.
Right?
We have to act like we've been here before.
We have to act like this is totally normal.
Don't even raise your eyebrows at it.
We don't even want an eyebrow raise.
Even that, they say, is too far.
If there's any point that I take away from this, it's that if they have any valid point at all, which they don't, but if I was trying to be really generous and find some kind of valid point in the midst of all this, It would be that, you know what, the president, because the president has proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility two other times, 22 and 23, he proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility.
Maybe in 2021 also, I can't remember.
So two or three other times he's proclaimed it.
Those two or three other times it wasn't on Easter.
But that's outrageous, too.
Like, it's more outrageous and more offensive to do it on Easter, but anytime.
So that's what I take away from this.
I guess what you're saying is, like, God forbid if Joe Biden has another term in office, then we have four more years of him proclaiming Trans Day of Visibility.
Anytime that happens, we should be outraged by it.
It's outrageous no matter when it happens, even if it's not on Easter.
Now, for the next four years, I don't think it will be.
So even if it does not coincide with Easter, we should still be outraged about the President of the United States recognizing at all something like this.
Anything the President does to promote or support this trans ideology, which is Certainly the most deranged and one of the most destructive ideologies that has ever existed in the history of humanity.
Anything the president does to support, promote it, proclaim it, declare it, should be met with resistance.
All right, Richard Dawkins, famed atheist biologist, of course, was on a show recently where he had, or seemed to have, some unusually positive things to say about Christianity.
And this was, many people found this to be somewhat curious and surprising.
Let's watch this.
I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead.
I do think that we are culturally a Christian country.
I call myself a cultural Christian.
I'm not a believer.
But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian.
And so, you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos.
I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.
It's true that statistically the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down, and I'm happy with that.
But I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.
So I count myself a cultural Christian.
I think it would matter.
If we, certainly if we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful.
Which brings me to my supplementary point, which is that, as we know, church attendance is plummeting, but the building, the erection of mosques across Europe, I think 6,000 are under construction and there are many more, I mean, are being planned.
So do you think, do you regard that as a problem?
Do you think that matters?
Yes, I do really.
If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time.
It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not.
I think you're going to have to explain why you say that, Professor Dawkins.
Why is Islam fundamentally not decent like Christianity?
Yes, I mean, the way women are treated.
I mean, Christianity is not great about that.
It's had its problems.
Female vicars and female bishops and things.
But there's an active hostility to women, which is promoted, I think, by the holy books of Islam.
I'm not talking about individual Muslims, who, of course, are quite different.
But the doctrines of Islam, the Hadiths and the Qur'an, is fundamentally hostile to women, hostile to gays, and I find that I I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith.
Okay.
So, Dawkins is right about one thing, which is that there are many advantages to living in a Christian society.
A Christian society is better than all available alternatives and also all unavailable alternatives.
Now, he didn't say that part, but it's true.
And the positives that he outlines, which are mostly aesthetic, you know, are also true.
Though there are a lot more positives than just the aesthetics, even though that's what he seems to focus on.
He talks about the hymns and the Christmas carols and the cathedrals and so on.
But he's wildly wrong about almost everything else that he says here, because it's all based on this notion that you can be culturally Christian while not actually being Christian.
He thinks that, you know, an individual can be non-Christian, though culturally Christian, and that a society can be non-Christian, though culturally Christian.
And he's wrong on both counts, and for the same reasons.
There is no Christian culture without Christianity.
There may be imitations, You know, there might be imitations, there might be, you could try to wear Christianity like a skin suit and call it a culture.
That's not really a culture, it's only skin deep, it's rootless, it's shallow.
But what Dawkins calls Christian culture is, you know, it's really the remnants of Christian culture.
Churches, the Christmas carols, those are the relics that survive in cultures that have abandoned Christianity, like the culture that Dawkins lives in.
But they don't survive forever.
The church's decay may take a long time, or they're burned down, or they are defaced in various different ways.
They can be defaced by actual vandalism and destruction of property, but they can also be defaced by intentionally making them uglier.
Which is something that has happened in many old, especially in this country, although I assume in other countries as well, but in this country you'll find, you know, there are many old cathedrals that are beautiful inside and outside and have survived and have been preserved.
But then sometimes you'll see a church and it's an old church and it's beautiful on the outside and then you go inside.
And you see that there's been an effort made to uglify it.
Like, it's been made ugly on the inside.
They've even done things like taking away statues, beautiful statues and works of art that were inside the cathedral.
They take them out to make it uglier inside, intentionally.
So, that's what ends up happening.
They don't survive forever, and Christmas carols and hymns, you know, are replaced eventually with newer, uglier songs.
And we're seeing all that happen, of course.
So Dawkins is standing in the rubble of Christian culture and calling that rubble culture.
And ironically, he helped to tear down the very thing whose culture he allegedly loves and celebrates.
You know, Dawkins, in his own way, has been waging a war on Christianity for decades.
And now he says, ah, I'm a cultural Christian.
And I say, now he says that.
I think, in reality, he's been saying stuff like this.
For years, just that people are only just noticed now.
Which also means, by the way, some of the reaction to that clip, I've seen some Christians very hopeful, very optimistic saying, oh, you know, it sounds like Dawkins is, he's slowly but surely making it over to our side of the aisle and maybe there's a conversion, a conversion on the horizon.
It could happen, you know, greater miracles have happened.
You know, we just celebrated one on Easter, of course.
So it could happen.
Who's to say that it wouldn't?
But I will say that this is actually, what he's saying here is not new.
He's been saying this kind of thing for a long time, calling himself a cultural Christian.
But, and it's been wrong the entire time.
And why can't you have Christian culture without Christianity?
Well, for one thing, it's the same reason why you can't have, you know, Chinese culture without China.
Even if you enjoy some of the products of that culture, Maybe you like the Kung Pao chicken.
But you can't really have Chinese culture without China itself.
That's where the culture comes from.
So it's like if Dawkins... Dawkins here is a bit like someone who leads an army into China and inflicts carnage across the country and eradicates its population, hollows it out, and destroys it.
And then turns around and says, you know, I really consider myself to be culturally Chinese.
I do love egg rolls, after all.
Now, I'm not saying that Richard Dawkins has done that to Christianity.
He has not vanquished Christianity as much as he might wish that he could, but he has been waging war on it, and now he pines for its hymns and its cathedrals.
The point is that Christian culture springs out of Christianity, and this should be, I would think, rather obvious.
Christian culture is a product of Christianity.
The hymns that he likes And I can see why anybody would like them, even if you're an atheist.
Like, again, aesthetically, it's beautiful.
And Christmas.
We know Christmas in general.
Everybody loves Christmas, even if they're not Christian.
And yeah, a lot of the things that they kind of love about it now, it's a lot of the commercialized aspects of it that really have nothing to do with what Christmas is at its core.
But even all of that, without the core of what Christmas is, none of that other stuff exists.
But all of that exists because of Christianity.
The hymns were composed to worship Christ.
The cathedrals were built for that same reason.
The Christmas carols, the holidays, all of that exists because of Christian faith.
And without the faith, it never would have existed.
And when the faith decays, those things recede along with it.
And whatever is left is emptied of all meaning.
Whatever is left, it's like the cathedrals that still on the outside look a little bit like a cathedral, then you go in and it's, you know, everything has been sanitized and made ugly.
Because a culture is a living thing, and a culture is a creative thing.
And if a culture is not creating, it is dead.
Now we know that Christian culture creates many things, beautiful things, useful things.
Some of the greatest artists and inventors and philosophers and thinkers and so on and political leaders and everything that have ever lived were Christians in a Christian culture.
And those things are not, it's not a coincidence.
It's not just like, well, they just so happened to be in a Christian culture.
And if they had been in any other kind of culture, they still would have achieved all those great things.
Maybe they would have achieved some great things, but the fact that they were Christians in a Christian culture is a large part of what drove them to do the great things that they did.
Well, a post-Christian culture, on the other hand, doesn't create any of that.
A post-Christian culture does not build cathedrals.
It may build things that it calls churches, but those churches are sort of bland office buildings, right?
They're the kind of buildings that you look at them from the outside, and if you didn't see a sign anywhere, you wouldn't even know it was a church.
And even sometimes if you see the sign, you still don't know that it's a church, right?
Even the sign makes it look like, well, that could be, what is that?
That could be a, you know, is it a post office?
Like, what is it?
That's what a post-Christian culture builds.
It builds ugly, dull things because it's an ugly, dull culture.
You know, you cannot have the vibrancy of Christian culture without Christianity itself.
All you can have are the leftovers, which is what Dawkins is really talking about.
And what he seems now to at least pretend that he cherishes Even as, again, he's, you know, and has always relentlessly opposed the thing that produces all those things that he cherishes.
All right.
One other thing to mention.
This is our Daily Wire report.
Of course, the bridge collapsed last week.
Many theories and really questions about what led to the bridge collapse and how did this happen and everything else.
And there were plenty of people who wondered aloud whether DEI, myself being one of them, wondered aloud whether DEI policies may have had something to do with This, because we know that there's a crisis of competency in this culture, and DEI is one of the main drivers of that, by putting people who are unqualified into important positions that they are not equipped to be in.
And when you do that, bad things happen.
But we were also told that that's a conspiracy theory, you can't talk about it, don't ask questions, certainly don't speculate.
It's all a conspiracy theory.
Well, here's the report from Daily Wire.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore put a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant on the Maryland Port Commission just months before a container ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Supply chain on the East Coast and beyond now hangs in the balance as authorities will have to swiftly undertake complex feats of engineering to reopen the port and eventually the bridge.
The governor, Wes Moore, named Corinthia Barber to the commission last August.
The headline of the press release announcing the hire hailed her as the first black woman to serve as Maryland Port Commissioner.
Reports commission bio says she is the founder and CEO of Professional Development Associates, a consulting practice that provides leadership and workforce training, coaching and diversity, equity and inclusion audits.
And consulting.
Well, that's good.
They were doing the DEI audits.
That's a really important thing.
We have to make sure that the DEI is all in place.
According to an interview with Barbara posted to the Port website this January, part of her job was to bring her DEI expertise to the Commission.
Barbara said, quote, In the words of our Governor, I want to make sure the MPA is leaving no one behind, that we are broadening our impact, our revenue, but also expanding the net of inclusion.
Barbara did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Wire on her qualifications.
The Port Commission website says that it's established policies directed toward improving the competitive position of the Port of Baltimore within the international maritime industry.
Commission meetings are held once a month and include a session open to the public, etc.
and so forth.
You can go read the whole report about this.
So, this is just the first bit of evidence, and we knew this was coming.
We know that in any of these institutions, anything the government is doing, the DEI permeates all of it.
So we knew this was coming, but now here's the first example of DEI being in sort of the, let's say, the vicinity of this catastrophe.
Now, does that prove that this individual person, Corinthia Barber, is responsible for the bridge collapse?
Doesn't prove that, and that's almost certainly not the case.
Would the bridge collapse have happened even if she was never appointed?
Not quite possibly.
But that's not the point.
The point is not about this individual person.
And the point isn't always, you know, drawing a direct line of connection between, oh, well, they have DEI in this industry, and then, look, this terrible thing happened.
There are times when you can draw that direct line of connection, and I think we're going to see those.
Those connections will become clearer and clearer and more direct as time goes on and as DEI spreads its tentacles further and further.
But that's not really the point right now.
The point is that we know that they are emphasizing and that the governor is putting people on the Port Commission.
On the basis of something other than their actual qualifications for the job.
So we know that, again, around the vicinity of this catastrophe, we know that they were putting people into place who are there not because they're most qualified for the job.
And this is the First example of somebody like that, and I suspect there's many more revelations to come.
I've been extremely clear and outspoken in my stance that abortion is undoubtedly evil and should be illegal in all circumstances.
I'm also aware of the indoctrination and pro-abortion propaganda pushed by public schools and all other liberal institutions.
You all have heard their lies that a baby in the womb is just a clump of cells or that a woman's reproductive rights include termination of pregnancy if the baby's life is an inconvenience to her.
And then there's the quality of life argument that abortion is somehow justified because the mother doesn't have the means to take care of her baby.
Now, I don't think these people actually know what they're saying.
Our society needs a massive overhaul when it comes to helping young women understand the inherent value of life and the duty and joy of motherhood.
That's why an organization like Preborn is so critical.
Preborn covers all the bases for soon-to-be mothers, especially ones considering abortion.
Preborn meets women with compassion, encouragement, and understanding.
They provide women with the tools they need to choose life for their babies.
Not only do they introduce women to their children through ultrasound, but they also provide education about pregnancy as well as two years of financial support for women who choose life.
They do all this at no cost to the mother.
Help make a difference in the fight against abortion by supporting organizations like Preborn.
Donate $28, the cost of one ultrasound, and help save a life today.
To donate securely, dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby.
That's pound 250, say the keyword baby, or go to preborn.com slash Matt.
That's preborn.com slash Matt.
BendKey is the brand new kids' entertainment app from The Daily Wire and is available now on Roku, Samsung, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, and more coming soon.
And best of all, you can try it for 14 days absolutely free.
With BendKey, there's no worrying about inappropriate content or hidden agendas being pushed into kids' programming.
You only get high-quality shows made for kids that align with your family's values.
It's like having a personal filter for your kids' entertainment.
Need another reason to start your trial now?
Benkei's most popular show, Chipchilla, returns for season two this Saturday.
Try Benkei for free with our 14-day trial.
No strings attached, no hidden fees, just incredible shows that your kids will actually love and you can trust.
How do I know this?
Because it's what I let my kids watch.
Unlock the magic of Benkei for your kids today.
Head over to Benkei.com, use the code UNLOCK and get 14 days of unlimited access to a world of adventure where kids deserve it and you deserve the peace of mind.
Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
[MUSIC]
A year ago during this segment of the show, we discussed the trad wife movement.
This was, at the time, a new and growing trend on TikTok and other social media platforms.
The trend consists mostly of certain female influencers, the trad wives, documenting their day-to-day lives, taking care of their homes, baking various things from scratch, cleaning, tending to their husbands and children, etc., often while dressed like housewives from a 1950s TV show.
That's the kind of trend that is tailor-made to piss off feminists, and indeed feminists have spent the last year complaining about it.
A social media war has been raging now between the girlbosses on one side and the tradwives on the other.
And recently the girlbosses have launched a new counteroffensive, suddenly over the course of just a few weeks.
There have been articles and think pieces in several major publications outlining all of the concerning and problematic aspects of the tradwife phenomenon.
The New Yorker has a piece this week that's approximately 500,000 words long, so relatively short by New Yorker standards, telling the tale of what it calls the rise and fall of the tradwife.
And it tells us about a woman who was once deep in the tradwife lifestyle but has now emerged From that lifestyle to warn against the monster, quote-unquote, that she helped create.
Meanwhile, an article on Fox News outlines the criticisms that some have launched at the tradwives, calling their way of life a fetish, calling it creepy, alarming.
Time has an article written by a licensed psychologist who agrees that the tradwife trend is alarming and also argues that it's a form of, quote, false escapism from the drudgeries of life.
And she says that women who And over at the Guardian, a feminist named Emma Bennington has her own thinkpiece, dismissing tradwives as the product of, quote, a reactionary fantasy.
But my favorite anti-tradwife article from this latest batch comes to us courtesy of Vogue and a woman named Monica Ainley.
Now, these other feminists merely offered their critiques of tradwives.
But Monica took it a step further.
To really prove how horrific the tradwife life is, she bravely went deep undercover.
And confessing that she feels a, quote, gut-flipping repulsion when she sees tradwives on social media, she decided to become a tradwife herself for a week in order to discover the true depths of its horrors from the inside.
So, in other words, Monica is, well, she's just taking, you know, five days off of work and spending some time with her own kids, her two kids.
And if this does not seem very harrowing to you, keep in mind that Monica did, as she tells us, give her beloved nanny the week off.
So, she's giving the nanny the week off, she's spending five days at home with her kids, Very, very, this is risky stuff.
Forging ahead into this unknown wilderness alone.
Very brave.
Now, she keeps a daily journal documenting her struggles.
On day one, on Monday, we're told that she tries to do laundry, but her kids keep unfolding the laundry that she folded.
On Tuesday, she makes dinner for her husband, but is so exhausted by the routine that she says that she's not in the mood for intimacy that evening, because she's so, you know, making dinner very exhausting.
On Wednesday, she tries to make a TikTok video, but her kids keep interrupting.
And at dinner, three days into this, she says that she feels dead inside.
Her world has become tiny.
By Thursday, she says that she's drowning her sorrows with Pinot Grigio.
And Friday comes and she's barely alive, limping to the finish line.
She closes with this thought, quote, As my week-long experiment officially comes to a close, I feel a rush of relief.
Not only that it's over, but also that my husband hasn't become a convert.
Maybe I'll amend my first rule of feminism to, don't knock it till you tried it.
And now that I have, I know one thing for sure.
If my daughter one day expresses an interest in the tradwife life, I will steer her in a different direction.
Now, to point out the obvious here, Monica did not actually become a tradwife.
You can't truly experience that life if you live it for five days, and all for the express purpose of writing an article about it?
So, we haven't discovered anything, one way or another, about tradwives or stay-at-home moms through Monica's experiment.
All we've discovered is that Monica apparently can't stand to be around her own children for five days.
Three and a half days into this thing, that's the span of a long weekend, okay?
Like, if you have a Monday off, that's three days, the span of a Saturday to Monday.
Three days into it, she's so flustered by being around her two kids that she has to turn to booze to soothe herself.
That's how emotionally taxing it is to simply spend time with her own family for a few days.
Again, that reveals nothing about tradwives, but it does reveal a lot about Monica personally, and quite a bit about her own lifestyle and ideology.
She wanted to expose tradwives, but instead she exposed feminism instead, accidentally.
In fact, there was really never any chance that any of these feminist critics would say or discover anything revelatory about tradwives, because they aren't even actually criticizing tradwives.
What they're doing is they're attacking the social media trend, which is different from the thing itself.
Because tradwife means, of course, traditional wife.
And what does traditional mean?
Well, traditional in this context simply means a wife who stays home and raises the children while her husband works.
That's what we're talking about.
Now, you don't need to dress like a 50s housewife to do that.
You don't need to, you know, bake homemade cereal or whatever from scratch, although it's certainly admirable if you want to do that.
Most traditional wives, who we used to just call stay-at-home moms, And before that, we used to just call them adult women.
Most traditional wives have never even heard the term trad wife.
They've never been on TikTok.
They certainly haven't posted any videos there documenting their daily experiences.
My own wife stays home to raise six kids.
She's conservative and traditional, just like me.
But she's never referred to herself as a trad wife.
And I've certainly never seen her in the kitchen cooking up a TikTok video.
Now, the tradwife TikTok trend itself may be somewhat new, just like TikTok itself is new.
But the thing, right, the thing itself, at the most basic level, is not only not new, but is in fact one of humanity's oldest ideas.
Traditional gender roles, quote-unquote, as we now call them, were not tested for the first time for a Vogue magazine article last week.
They've been tried and tested and found conducive to human happiness and flourishing all over the world for thousands of years.
And that's one of the many problems with the feminist critique, their critique of the thing itself, not the TikTok trend.
They say that it's alarming and dangerous and unworkable and, you know, a right-wing escapist fantasy.
And yet we already know, from thousands of years of human history, that a life order around traditional gender roles works.
And can bring happiness.
We know that a society ordered around those roles, that indeed a world where every society is ordered around those roles, works and can bring happiness.
We know that.
We know it because this is how humanity has always functioned.
It's how most of humanity still functions.
So anyone saying, well, I don't know, this whole thing, it doesn't work.
What do you mean it doesn't work?
It's worked, it has worked for literally thousands of years.
If it doesn't work for us suddenly, then that tells us there's something wrong with us.
If we, in our culture, suddenly, as the first culture ever in history, can't find a way to make that arrangement work, then there's a problem with us.
We are the problem.
Now, feminism... Feminism is the new thing.
That's the trend.
That's the experiment.
That's the fantasy.
Traditional gender roles, so-called, they served humanity well for millennia.
Feminism, by comparison, may as well have just been invented last Tuesday.
And yet, it's already falling apart on itself.
It's suggested, it demanded, a massive reordering of the way society is fundamentally organized.
It promised greater progress and human happiness if society did what it wanted.
And it has utterly failed to deliver on that promise.
It has failed so much that already many women are fleeing back to tradition, even if it is a kind of TikTok-ified version of it.
And feminism, for its part, can only stand by shaking its fist, screaming in protest, and there's nothing else for it to do.
It is a failed experiment, and everyone knows it.
And that is why, not the tradwives, but their critics, are today cancelled.
