The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 427 - Modern Eugenics

Episode Date: February 18, 2020

Richard Dawkins provoked outrage by saying eugenics would be effective. But why should anyone who supports abortion be upset by such a statement? Planned Parenthood has been engaged in a eugenics program for decades. Also, is it possible to win the presidency in modern American without a personality cult supporting you? And "drag kid" Desmond continues to be abused and exploited in public, for all to see, while the Left applauds. Check out The Cold War: What We Saw, a new podcast written and presented by Bill Whittle at https://www.dailywire.com/coldwar. In Part 1 we peel back the layers of mystery cloaking the Terror state run by the Kremlin, and watch as America takes its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/Walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the show, everybody. I hope you had a better weekend than I did. I guess I spoke too soon on Friday because I said I'd been sick the day before, but then I was better. Well, shortly after shooting the show, I was in the hospital hooked up to an IV mask, you know, the whole nine yards. I had the flu, it turns out. Turns out I had the flu all the time. So I finally got to see what the buzz is about, the flu buzz, what all the flu hype is about. And I can report that it pretty much sucks as much as everybody.

says it does. I thought maybe I could, though the one good thing about having the flu I thought is I could come up with a contrarian take like I like to do, and maybe I could come and report that actually the flu is good, but I can't. It's not good. I just, I have to agree with the general consensus that it's, it's not very good at all. And we have four kids at home, so I had to quarantine myself in our room upstairs for three days with the help of my my wife who you know I was I was like basically like the hunchback living in the bell tower and my wife would come up push a plate of gruel under the under the door a couple times a day then run away if I tried to come downstairs you turn the hose on me get away unclean and that's pretty much what it was like and but now I'm I'm

relatively okay and ready to get down to business so all right a number of interesting things came up over the last few days. Maybe they just seemed interesting to me because I was in a feverish haze, I don't know. But let's start with a famed biologist and atheist, Richard Dawkins, on Sunday, sent out some tweets about eugenics. Now, what he said,

what he actually said is not so much the interesting part as the reaction to what he said. So let's start with that. This is what he wrote. He said, it's one thing to deplore eugenics, on ideological, political, or moral grounds. It's quite another to conclude that it wouldn't work in practice. Of course it would.

It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. Why on earth wouldn't it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology. For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring, it doesn't mean it wouldn't work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher,

but heaven forbid that we should do it. Now, I'm not exactly sure what prompted this or why it's necessary to make the point that, hey, eugenics is bad, but it would totally work if we did it. Hint, hint. It's bad, we shouldn't, but if we did, it'd be great, but we shouldn't. Not sure the point in that, but nonetheless, Dawkins says eugenics would work in practice, even if there are some moral, some ethical and moral complications with it. what fascinated me is that

Dawkins was roundly mocked and condemned for what he said here across the board from what I could tell. Liberal, conservative, religious, non-religious everybody, everybody said was against it. I even, I read a post just before the show started in an atheist blog and they were confusing, they were rather criticizing it as well.

And this to me just shows how confused we are as a people, as a culture. Most people don't have a coherent worldview or philosophy. It's like we're all just making it up as we go along and often deciding our views, our principles, based on the mood of the social media mob. Whoever's getting ratioed on Twitter, we all just take the opposite view of whatever that guy said,

even if we agree with it. Here's the point with eugenics. Yes, I believe that the practice is barbaric and in a very literal sense dehumanizing. So I'm against it. And if you're a pro-life conservative, you're probably against it. Consistently so. But if you're on the left, then you probably already support eugenics. It's happening right now. And it's not only do you support it, but it's a big part of your worldview, of your philosophy. As I said, right now in our society, it's happening. And if you're on the left, then you support it. So you have no issue to,

you have no reason to take issue with anything that Dawkins said. Planet Parenthood was, first of all, founded by one of the most vocal eugenic advocates of the 20th century, Margaret Sanger. And if you think that all of the eugenic stuff died with her back 50 years ago, you're wrong. In fact, it's almost the opposite. Arguably, it didn't even start until she was dead. She was gone. It wasn't until five or six years after she died that Planned Parenthood even started killing babies, started performing abortions. Margaret Sanger was actually relatively opposed to abortion, in many cases anyway. So when you read the horrible things she said, and she said a lot of horrible stuff, but remember that she was more ethical, more moral than the people who run

Planned Parenthood today. even though she was a eugenicist and a very morally deranged person in many ways, she would probably be horrified by what her own organization is doing now, which tells you a lot about her organization. And what does Planned Parenthood do? Well, it eradicates the babies of predominantly poor mothers, often racial minority mothers, and it does so expressly, explicitly on the basis that these children,

are unwanted and would be a drain on society. That is one of the primary arguments advance for abortion, and that is a eugenic argument. That is a eugenic argument. They're unwanted, strains on society, so we've got to get rid of them. Here's an even clearer example. Down syndrome. In Europe, over 90% of Down syndrome babies are aborted. 90%. In some European countries, that number is basically 100%. They've all but eradicated, quote, unquote, the condition in many European countries by killing everybody with it. That's eugenics. What about this country? Here it's about 70 to 75% of Down syndrome babies that are killed. Again, that's eugenics. So if you've got a problem with eugenics, you should have a problem with this. If you don't have a problem with this,

then at least admit that you're a supporter of eugenics. You see, We'll never, this is why I'm always going on about intellectual consistency and honesty, because we're never going to be able to communicate with each other or understand each other or get anywhere in any of our arguments about things if we're not beginning from a place of honesty and intellectual consistency. We have to be honest about what we believe and what we want and what we value and prioritize because there's so much bad faith arguing, so much confusion, so much internal inconsistency where you have just as one example, people who defend plant paranoid's eugenicist agenda

and yet at the same time attack a guy who says that eugenics works, who's on their side, because they're not being honest with themselves about what they believe. Because I guess when you're a little bit too honest about it and you admit to yourself that, yeah, you know, I, here's what I think, that one of the ways to solve the poverty problem is just to kill poor babies. When you say that to yourself, when you admit it out loud, when you put it like that, it sounds horrible and even you recoil from it. But that should tell you something. When you take your own views out of your head and you strip them of all the euphemism and you just look at them for what they are, or when you hear somebody else repeat them back to you in a way that is not as sanitary,

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going on. Well, I learned that every day in life, basically. But especially the last few years, as it pertains to politics, I just have no idea. I didn't see Bloomberg, the billionaire stop and frisk guy, finding any traction at all. I remember when he jumped into the race back in November, and I was joking about how this is someone who seems tailor-made, speaking of being tailor-made, he's tailor-made to not appeal to anybody. Like, he doesn't check anybody's boxes, you would think. white old male billionaire he's got the stop and frisk thing going on pro-abortion liberal nanny state so

who you would think who is he appealing to yeah the liberals might might like the pro-abortion part and some of the nanny state stuff but he's but you know they're not going to be crazy about white old billionaire male then you got the stop and frisk I mean and then on the other hand conservatives successful businessman they might like that but then all the ideological stuff, nanny state, pro-abortion.

So you would think it doesn't appeal to anybody. But yet in the polls anyway, here we are. Now, in fairness, he hasn't actually won a Democratic primary state yet, and maybe he never will. I mean, it would be kind of depressing in many ways if he were to actually start gaining real support in primaries and let's say win the nomination, because then you have to think, is it really that easy

to get people to support you? You put a bunch of ads out. Is it really that easy? People, because they see you on TV, they're going to think, actually, yeah, maybe that guy would be a good president. Is it as easy as that? I don't know.

I'm still skeptical of Bloomberg's chances. Though, again, what do I know? Nothing at all. But if he does become the nominee, I also think that he would present an interesting challenge for Trump because Bloomberg, you know, with Bloomberg, you have a much more successful businessman, let's face it, than Donald Trump. Bloomberg is worth what, $60-some million, billion dollars with a company that he basically did build on his own.

And so, you know, he can do the successful businessman dealmaker thing that Trump does. Arguably he can play on that turf even more credibly than Trump can. So what's the line of attack? Trump calls him short. I don't know if just calling him short's going to be enough with this guy. You could bring up all of the politically incorrect stuff that Bloomberg has said, but then of course, I mean, this is Donald Trump we're talking about. That'd be a little bit off brand for Donald Trump to try to win an election by pointing out the offensive things the other guy said. So I'm not exactly sure what the line of attack is. But here's the one thing that you put everything else aside. Put all the traditional thoughts aside,

seems to me this is the one thing that would prevent Bloomberg from maybe becoming president in the year 2020. And that is that even if he can generate support, depressingly so, with his money, just by buying a bunch of ads, because a lot of people are just sheep and they see the ads on TV and they say, oh, yeah, okay, I'll vote for him.

I saw him on TV. He must be good. But I don't think that just by buying ads, you can generate a cult of personality around you. And I'm wondering if we have entered a point in American history where you just can't win the presidency without a cult of personality, without a savior cult, following you around and worshiping you. the last three elections

have been decided that way. Obama, then Obama again, Trump, they all had cult of personality. Still do. Bernie Sanders, right now leading the pack among Democrats, he's got a cult of personality. If Bernie Sanders is the nominee, that's going to, I think, pretty much, seal it.

And we're going to know that's the reality of the world we're living in right now politically. Where if you want to have a chance to win the presidency, you have to have a cult. You have to have a, it's all going to come down to personality cults. And that's a very dangerous trend. Not unprecedented, certainly, in the history of the world. Obviously, it's not the first time that we've had people finding political success

based on cults of personality. But it's also not, it hasn't always been this way. You know, George Bush, I don't think, really had a cult of personality. I'm not even sure that, I wouldn't even say that Bill Clinton did. But are we entering a point in American history where that's the case? I hope not. I really do. There's a lot of great reasons not to vote for Bloomberg.

There are a lot of good reasons for him to lose, but I hope that's not the reason he loses, or that anyone loses. I hope that's not what decides the election. Okay. Let's talk about this. As much as I prefer not to. report by Paul Blois in the Daily Wire says,

Disturbing video has reemerged featuring the famous 12-year-old drag queen Desmond Napole, Napolees, I think is how he pronounced his last name, aka Desmond is amazing, pretending to snort ketamine. Another video featured him being interviewed by convicted killer

Michael Allig. According to Blair White of the post-millennial, the clips featured Desmond, featuring Desmond, were posted to YouTube in July 2018 and December 2017, though various media outlets, including Red State and National Review, reported on the videos in 2018. The recent report from transgender Blair White has further amplified the public's attention towards them. Blair's recent video on the subject has since garnered over half a million views.

In the first video, Desmond has shown talking to the camera alongside drag queen Bella Noce, while appearing to answer internet user comments during a live stream. At one point later on, Desmond mimics a snort when Bella Noce mentions the drug ketamine. Let me go ahead and just play this video This is from As it said a live stream And it looks like some stuff spliced together But just watch this

See how this kid is acting And you tell me Does it seem like this kid is on drugs or not? Watch this Anyone can do drag Everyone can do drag Your mom can do drag 1488

Oh sorry it was just the off track Okay It was only $400 on There's no genders. You can be male, female, any, or none. Only U.S. people can have a bunch of made-up genders. That's not true at all. No, no, no. Oh my God, Hitler was right.

What? See, or... Bell and no, she, putting the P in LGBT P plus. You should eat some foods, little nibble. But I'm getting, I'm getting hate comments. Is this mean I'm famous now? Is this what he wants? Lots of respect for you guys. Thank you. Press G to gas. G, G, G, G, G.

One, two, three, four G. What has this world come to? It's come to a world where drag kids actually exist. And people do ketamine on a couch. How old is your BF? Hello. Hitler was right. Helicopter rides. Yay! Now keep in mind again, that video is from when this kid was about nine years old. So that's a, that's a nine year old you're seeing there. How does a nine, just to start with, how does a nine year old know what ketamine is, much less how to imitate snorting it? My kids, my twins, oldest kids are almost seven years old. So they're not that much younger than what Desmond is in that video. And I mean, it's unfathomable. It's unfathomable. to think of my kids acting that way.

Well, how does he know about ketamine? How does he know about snorting it? Well, I mean, look at him. Look at how he's acting. It's no mystery. The kid is very clearly on drugs. And this is something that... It's not just that the left is tolerating this.

It's that they're celebrating it. the continued abuse and exploitation of this kid, it's not just merely, oh, we'll put up with it, is that they are standing and literally applauding it. I mean, literally in person going and applauding it. We'll talk more about that in just a second. But before we do, quick word from policy genius, you know, the year 2020 shows up a lot in science fiction. A lot of people predicted that by now we'd be teleporting to work or living on Mars or, you know, A lot of different predictions. Many of them were wrong, although we do have jet packs now at least.

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The second video which occurred when Desmond was just 10 years old featured him being interviewed by Michael Allig, A-L-I-G, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1997 for the killing of Angel Melendez. The New York Times provided more details of the case. I'll read a few of these details, just so you understand who this guy is that this kid is hanging around with. It says, in his statement to the police, Robert Briggs said that Mr. Allig and Mr. Melendez had been fighting and that he had intervened to save Mr. Allig, hitting Mr. Melendez over the head with a hammer and knocking him unconscious.

He said that Mr. Allig then throttled Mr. Melendez and poured a detergent into his mouth before wrapping it with duct tape. The two men then dumped Mr. Melendez's body in their bathtub. About five to seven days later. Okay, all right. Well, we get the point there. Beat him with a hammer. Bleach in the mouth. Okay.

Just to summarize. This young boy's despicable, awful monstrosity of a mother started dressing him in drag at around the age of two. Next thing you know, he was, quote, performing in drag shows, dancing at gay nightclubs, gay men throwing dollar bills at him, hanging out with convicted murderers, and by the looks of it, doing drugs. This all before the age of 12. And what is the response from society to this? From the media, from the left, from the government. Is this mother being carted off to jail in shackles, locked in a cage where she belongs? No, instead she gets, as I said,

applause, adulation, standing ovation, money. Just as one example of that, let me play this for you. This is a news report by ABC, the ABC affiliate in New York. Keep in mind the clip I just played before of this obviously drugged child pretending to snort ketamine with an adult cross-dresser on a couch. So keep that in mind as you watch this cheerful little puff piece about the drag kid. Desmond. Watch. Hi, I'm Desmond's amazing. Only 10, but already an activist, advocate, model, and fashion icon. Desmond Napalus has come a long way since his first Pride March in 2015. Overnight, I was like everywhere. And Desmond is still everywhere. He has 65,000 Instagram followers. He's appeared on talk shows and alongside his idol, RuPaul. I saw these queens and they were so

amazing that I decided that I would take my mom's clothes, shoes, towels, wrapping around myself to make pretend. Desmond's mom, Wendy, knew he was different from other kids at an early age. She took him to a therapist who offered this advice. Don't encourage it, don't discourage it, just let him develop naturally. I just do my thing. Desmond remains extraordinarily confident in who he is. He does speaking engagements. He has started his own foundation. This will be his fourth, Pride March, where he hopes to spread a message of acceptance. His mom is doing the same. For parents out there who might have a child like Desmond, if you can just let go of that and just love your child unconditionally as you should, no matter what, that there really isn't a

problem. If you want to really understand how crazy this whole thing is, if that's not immediately obvious to you, and how crazy the acceptance of it is, consider how everybody. would react, how everyone would universally react, if everything about this kid's story was exactly the same, except that he was a girl. Okay, let's say that he's a girl, dressing up the exact same way, performing at nightclubs, dollars thrown at him, or at her, in this case, hanging out on couches with adults, joking about doing drugs at the age of nine, all of it. Imagine that this, rather than a young boy in drag, was a, a young girl into burlesque, which is roughly the equivalent.

In that case, everyone would agree it's wildly inappropriate, abusive, wrong, sick, exploitative, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But because he's a boy, it's okay. And why? Well, because the LGBT lobby says it's okay. And as I've explained a million times, on the left, whatever the LGBT lobby says, goes. If they say jump, the left says how high. And that's the only reason. That's the only reason this is accepted. In fact, I hear this argument. It's not even an argument. It's just a deflection.

But it's the closest thing to an argument I've ever heard in defense of the drag kid phenomenon. And the argument is along the lines of, well, what about beauty pageants for young girls? I don't hear you complaining about that. Nobody complains about that. What are you talking about? People complain about that all the time, including probably you if you're on the left. That's, it's, you know, pretty much almost universally reviled this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, thing of, of putting young girls in beauty patches. Now, it still happens, people do it. But unless you're on that circuit and you're one of those crazy mothers forcing your, your daughter into these things, almost everybody else thinks it, at a minimum, thinks it's weird. That's exactly my point.

That, yeah, a similar though not nearly as bad thing does happen with girls. And the reason it's not nearly as bad is because, you know, I've never been to a beauty pageant. So maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but as far as I know, okay, young girls at beauty pageants aren't walking across a stage where you've got adults hooting and hollering and throwing dollar bills at them. And these beauty pageants are not being held at nightclubs at 11 p.m. on a Saturday or whatever, right? That's what's happening with this kid. There is a, there's a, there's a, a, there's a, a, a blatant sexualization that's happening with this

young boy that isn't nearly as blatant as it is with the beauty pageants with girls. And yet, and we're not even factoring in all the drugs and everything else, okay? And yet,

most people would agree that this much tamer version of the same sort of thing with girls is wrong, and we shouldn't be doing it. There's no reason why you need to take a six-year-old girl or a nine-year-old girl and doll her up like that. And, you know, traips are across the stage. Why do that? Let her be a girl.

Most people would agree. This is the way I guess we could sum it up. Most people would agree that nine-year-old girls should not be dressing like grown women. and that a parent who would dress their nine-year-old girl up like a grown woman is doing something at a minimum inappropriate. Almost everyone agrees. And yet we can't agree that you shouldn't dress nine-year-old boys up like grown women. That's how completely crazy this all is.

And there is no way to justify it. We are looking at something that is so clearly unjustly. and wrong. And we're looking at, and, you know, this is not just some academic point or argument. This is a child, more than one child. I mean, he's just, he's just one of a trend who's being abused. And that abuse is being facilitated by, encouraged by, and, and profited off of by his mother, who you saw in that clip before. Clearly disturbed woman. And it's, you know, we should,

we should not get to a point. Now, the left might want us to accept this as normal. That's the goal, is to get to a point where we're going to say, oh, you know, just another drag kid. But we cannot ever allow that to happen. We should, our immediate reaction, every time we see this,

should be repulsed, infuriated, wanting justice. to be done for these kids. And that needs to continue to be our reaction. And we'll leave it there today. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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