The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 626 - Systemic Racism Against White People

Episode Date: December 21, 2020

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, some states are reportedly considering a race-based distribution strategy for the vaccine. Is this another example of anti-white systemic racism? Also Five Headlines, including: the deadliest epidemic to hit San Francisco this year is not COVID. Plus SNL actors sing and dance together on stage without a mask, yet you still can’t walk through the grocery store without one. What’s the science behind that? Finally a very somber and personal daily cancellation. 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

Today on the Matwell show, some states are reportedly considering a race-based distribution strategy for the vaccine. Is this another example of anti-white systemic racism? Also, five headlines, including the deadliest epidemic to hit San Francisco this year is not COVID. We'll talk about that. Plus, SNL actors sing and dance together on stage without a mask, yet you still can't walk through the grocery store without a mask. What's the science behind that? And finally, a very somber and personal daily cancellation today. more on The Matt Walls Show. I think one thing this year has us all thinking about is the need to be prepared for whatever life might throw at us, whatever emergencies might befall us, and that's where ReadyWise comes in.

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You know, how do we know that there's systemic racism? Because of the outcomes we see. Why do we see those outcomes? because of systemic racism. It should perhaps tell you something that the clearest, though still pretty vague and silly definition for the term that I could track down when I was looking it up, was on the Benin-Jerry's website.

The ice cream brand says that systemic racism is racism that infects every structure of our society. Now, I call that the clearest only because it's clearer than systems and structures that have procedures or processes, but it's still completely obscure and by design, unfalsifiable. Racism is being located in abstract and unseen places in structures and institutions. The proponents of this theory of systemic racism can't prove that the racism is there, nor can they often point to explicit examples of it, but you can't prove that it's not there.

You know, you could provide a lot of very good evidence that the racism isn't there. You know, you could point out, for example, that a black suspect isn't much more likely to be shot during the course of an arrest than a white suspect, and that, in fact, more unarmed white people are shot by cops than unarmed black people. You can, as I have done, go through all of the shootings of unarmed black people in a given year and discover that even in many of those cases, the unarmed suspect was not really unarmed at all, but wasn't the process of trying to kill police officers or members of the public with a vehicle or was trying to steal an officer's gun or something. You could show that the statistics do not line up with any claim of systemic racism in law enforcement

when you look at them in proper context, but that doesn't matter. It will simply be asserted that the racism is there, somewhere, in the way. the institution, in the system, in the complex interactions, whatever the hell that means. If you don't see it, it's because you don't have enough faith. Or because you're racist. And that's really what it comes down to. That's the game. If you deny systemic racism, it's because you're racist. You know, you can't deny it without proving it. If you think I'm joking, the website Diverseeducation.com in a recent article makes it plain, says, quote, the act of denying racism is an inherently racist. The deny the denials. The deny

is the action that continues to normalize mistreatment and further divides the nation. This is sort of reminiscent of the old test to find out of somebody's a witch. You know, drown them in the river. If they survive, it's because they're a witch. If they die, well, one less witch to worry about in the world. Now, if I could, I'd like to inject perhaps a little bit of light and clarity into this fog. It seems to me that systemic racism, if it means anything, must mean this. Here's how I would define it. Systemic racism is an explicit mechanism put in place to purposefully provide advantages to one race at the expense of another.

Now, I put the qualifiers explicit and purposeful because it's not enough to simply point out that one race is thriving more in a particular system than another. Just because one is thriving more doesn't mean the system was designed for that purpose. if I beat you in a foot race, that doesn't automatically mean that the race was rigged in my favor. But if I beat you in a race where the rule states explicitly that I get to start 50 yards ahead of you, then sure, that would seem to have a lot to do with the outcome. So in order to find systemic racism, we must find a system where it's stated explicitly that certain selected races get an advantage while others don't. some examples of this kind of systemic racism, that is the real kind, the provable kind,

spring immediately to mind. The problem for the left is that they're all examples where the racism goes the other way, affirmative action, prime example. Here we have a system where the whole point laid out explicitly is to provide advantages to certain races at the expense of others. A white student who doesn't get into a school because his place is given to a minority student with a worse academic record is a victim of systemic racism. Last week on the show, we talked about another more recent, even more dystopian example of systemic racism, but it was at the time theoretical. There were a number of public health experts, as documented in the New York Times.

We went over this on Friday, who are advocating that the COVID vaccine be distributed according to race, with priority given to groups that are more heavily non-white. as one health and experts, rather health and ethics expert. So this is an expert of health and ethics, as he put it, it's important to level the playing field by putting elderly white people behind racial minorities in line, even though the elderly of any race are far more susceptible to the virus than younger people of any race. That was the proposal. That was the idea. Now we find out that reportedly it's actually happening in reality.

The Daily Mail has the report. This from yesterday, they say, quote, every U.S. state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to the Centers for Disease Control Guidance. As a result, half of the nation states have outlined plans that now prioritize black, Hispanic, and indigenous residents over white people in some way as the vaccine rollout begins. According to our analysis, this is the Daily Mail again, 25 states have committed to a focus on racial, and ethnic communities as they decide which groups should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine doses.

Now, just to be clear about it, the critical and vulnerable groups when it comes to the coronavirus are the elderly, the obese, those with preexisting conditions. Those are the critical groups and the groups that have suffered the vast majority of COVID casualties. A young, healthy black man is by no means in any way at greater risk than an 85-year-old in a nursing home, no matter that 85-year-old. year olds race. That's the reality, of course, but we're not dealing in reality here. More from the Daily Mail says the CDC has also issued guidance on its social vulnerability index that uses 15 U.S. Census variables to help local officials identify communities that may need

to support. It's being used in states such as Michigan, where minority status and language spoken could be taken into consideration when deciding how high a priority you are for receiving a vaccine. Maine in particular has developed a racial-slash-ethnic minority COVID-19 vaccination plan in an attempt to give a preference to groups that have experienced rates of disease that far exceed their representation in the population as a whole. Now all in all, the mail says California, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. all reference black, Hispanic, and indigenous residents as a priority in their COVID vaccine plans. It sounds to me here like we have a system giving advantages to some race over another, or at least that's the intention. Now, whether there actually is any advantage in being the first to get this brand new vaccine

is another question altogether. Personally, you know, I wouldn't want to be first in line or second in line or even a million. in line. I don't plan in being in line at all because I don't plan on taking the vaccine regardless as a young and healthy person. That's my own choice. Sort of like going back to the affirmative action example, you know, I would be putting last in line for college admissions, but I also happen to have no interest in going to college, and I'm quite happy that I don't have the debt to pay off. That doesn't change what the system is trying to do, and it certainly is not trying to help me as a white male. That's because the system is racist in these cases, against me, not for me.

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Now let's get to our five headlines. So really fascinating and horrifying, but important report here. This is from the Daily Wire. It says the number of San Francisco residents who have died from drug overdoses during the past year far exceeds the number who have died from COVID-19. A record high number of 621 people have died from overdoses in 2020 compared to the 173 who've died from COVID-19, according to statistics from the Associated Press.

Only 173 people, apparently, have died in San Francisco from COVID. In 2019, 441 people died from drug overdoses in the city, which gives 2020 the grim distinction of having experienced a staggering increase of more than 40 percent. the overdose statistics of 2019 were a 70% increase from those in 2018. So the numbers keep going up and up. And yeah, we know that the drug abuse epidemic in cities like San Francisco didn't start during COVID. We know that it's been on this trajectory all the while. But when you have a city or society that struggles with these things and then you say,

okay, you got to stay locked in your room for a year, locked in your house. else, this is what happens. You know, when you, when you, when you, when the, we have decided that the, the number one priority is just to make sure that people continue existing. Quality of life doesn't matter. None of that matters. How much joy you get out of life, that doesn't matter. Having a sense of purpose, that doesn't matter. Just, we're going to continue existing. And this is what happens. I just read there was a, uh, uh, another fascinating thread on Twitter that I just read a moment ago before going on the air, a guy, single guy, talking about the struggles of being a single person during all of this,

which is something, you know, that's another aspect that those of us who aren't single, maybe haven't thought much about, but maybe listening to this, you're in the same boat. Or if you're a single person, you know, you don't have a family. And let's say especially your friends and extended family are, you know, sort of more on the paranoid end of the spectrum when it comes to COVID. And so you're not seeing them much. And so what are you doing? You're not seeing anybody. Maybe you're working from home. You're not seeing your family, not seeing your friends. In terms of romantically trying to find a partner, that becomes very difficult to do. So it's just total isolation. Not talking to anybody, not being around anybody.

We know that the liquor stores have done very well because people are spending their time drinking. and in some cases they're developing hard drug habits at the same time. This is what we get. But this is all being done, right? Remember, if you criticize the lockdowns, it's because you're some sort of sociopath. I would say it's much more the other way around. All right.

Number two, Dr. Fauci was on CNN this weekend, taking the important questions. And it's really good to see him focused on issues like this. I think. Here he is on CNN. Listen. And Elmo is back for something else that I think he's on a lot of kids' minds.

Elma's friend has a question about Santa Claus. How did Santa get the vaccine? And is it safe for him to go in the house? How can Santa Claus safely give our presence with COVID-19 spreading everywhere? How can he do it? Will Santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus this season? What if he can't go to anyone's house or near his reindeer?

Well, I have to say I took care of that for you because I was worried that you'd all be upset. So what I hit a little while ago, I took a trip up there to the North Pole. I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself. I measured his level of immunity and he is good to. to go. He can come down the chimney. He can leave the presence. He can leave and you have nothing to worry about. Santa Claus is good to go. You know, you could say that this is maybe the most credible thing. The most credible claim we've heard from Fauci is maybe that, that he vaccinated Santa Claus. It's just as credible as much of what else we've heard from him. Although, I will say, you know,

maybe you don't want your kids to listen to that clip because Santa Claus is supposed to be magical. He shouldn't need a vaccine. Should he? On a more serious note, a woman in Florida, I believe, was at a, she was at a library, I think, when somebody called 911, because she wasn't wearing a mask, called 911. And here's how that interaction happened. Okay. I think it's time for you to wrap up and leave her today.

I think coming back another day may be your best option. because today is not good. Why? Because you've clearly caused a disturbance and there's an issue. No, they just called because I wouldn't put a mask on. I wasn't causing any disturbance. I wasn't raising my voice. I wasn't yelling at anybody.

That's fine. I wasn't. Okay. Today. I'm not trying to... Okay, get your books. You can check out your books and you can leave. Okay.

I'm not breaking any laws. You're about to be if you do not leave. What law would I be breaking? Because you're causing a disturbance. I'm not. In a public place. I'm not causing a disturbance. Okay.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. What is your name? I'll give you my name. I'll give you a card. You need to get your son and check out your books and you can come back another day. This is not a good example. Listen, how is this going to be documented because I was not causing a disturbance? There's going to be a report done, ma'am.

There's going to be a report, and you can get a report number, and you can take it to your attorney. But I was not causing a disturbance. Please get your stuff before you get trust passed. Did you hear there's someone in the background? It's a bad example for your child. You're setting a bad example. No, I would say if you're calling the police on someone because they're not wearing a mask and you're scared, you're scared,

you're the one setting a bad example. You absolutely, imagine what kind of coward you have to be. There's a woman sitting at the library and you're so afraid. You're huddled behind a desk calling, someone get over here, quick, get here. She's going to kill us all. Just stay away from her if you're afraid. Is it that hard to do? I mean, that library didn't seem that crowded to me.

So if she's sitting on a table at the library, there's nobody around, if you're afraid, just avoid her. No problem. I mean, do you think if you're 100 feet away in another, you know, in the nonfiction section while she's over there in the children section? You think the virus is going to travel all that way and infect you? Absolutely pathetic. I of all the villains that have come to the surface during this entire crisis crisis brought on you know self-made in many ways of all the villains I have to put number one even above the petty tyrants and government number one are just the American citizens who are calling the police on their own on their on their fellow citizens on business honors or just mom at the library, not wearing a mask. Those to me are, those are bad guy.

That's bad guy number one right there. Someone doing that. All right. Number three, SNL, speaking of masks, SNL had its holiday episode this weekend. Kristen Whig was hosting. And her opening bit was about as funny as anything else SNL has produced in the past decade,

which is to say it was not funny at all. But the lack of humor isn't really the thing I'm focusing on here. Let's just watch a quick clip of this. These are the actual real words. Okay. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh-bells and schnitzel with noodles. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry.

You have a beautiful singing voice, but those words were crazy. That's not cool what you just did. No, it's not okay. No, a cream-colored ponies? I'm just going to say it. That sounds racist. Yes. And I don't know if I'm allowed to agree with you, but I do.

Yeah, you do, yes, because it's racist. Yes. I just, I'm blown away by how unfunny this is. I mean, they're professional writers at SNL, and this is what they come up with. What even is, so the joke is just, that was the whole joke. That was the whole bit. By the way, this goes on for like 75 minutes, it feels like. And the whole bit is just they take turns singing the song the wrong way.

This is what you come up with? Professional comedy writers? Hey, you know it would be funny? Let's have them all come up there and, you know, that song, they should sing it the wrong way. That'll be funny. That's what they come up with. But on top of that, let's put in that to the side. We're used to S&L being aggressively unfunny all the time.

None of them wearing masks. They're closer than six feet next to each other. They're singing, you know, projecting their spittle forward and no mask. And to make it even more absurd, so if you notice there, you've got the three women who are singing, no mask, and then you've got the band in the background, and most of them aren't wearing masks, except there's one, there's one woman. I don't know what she's, what instrument she's playing, but she's all the way in the back, and she is wearing a mask. What's the point of that? What's the point of having a whole stage of people, people singing, you know, playing the saxophone, and no one's wearing a mask, and then you've got one person randomly wearing a mask. What good does that do at that point? We all know it's a song. We all know it's a saxophone. We're not. We all know it's a saxophone. for show, of course. But I'm just wondering, what's the science behind this? So if I, well, forget about me. The woman we just played, she was at the library. So she's at the library sitting, you know, many feet away from the next person on her at her own table. And she's such a danger to the public. She has to be escorted out of the library by the police. And yet these women can

be right next to each other, singing and everything and dancing and no mask. What's the science behind that? What's the science that would explain how the one, the one, the ones, at the library is a threat to the public, but those people aren't. Where's the science there? Or if I'm just walking through the grocery store, not talking to anybody, I walk in, I get my stuff, I leave, never talk to a single person, which is what I would do at the grocery store, COVID or not, as an antisocial person. And yet, I have to wear a mask, but they don't. Well, the science is, of course. Here's the science. they are better than me and you, or at least they think they are. That's the science.

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Today for our daily cancellation, it brings me great pain to do this. As a father, it's the last thing I ever want to do. But I'm afraid I must today cancel my one-year-old daughter. I'd always imagine that her time, her first time to be canceled would come a little bit later in life. My oldest, the twins, were canceled for their first time around the age of six. So it's hard to look at your youngest child, your baby girl, and realize that she must be canceled, especially at such a tender age, but it is out of my hands. Now, for some background, my daughter, Emma, just very recently started walking. And I could almost cancel her just for that because children become much harder to deal with

once they have full use of their legs. you know, you can always tell the first time parents because they're the ones trying to coax their kids to walk at like nine months and getting very excited about, oh, you got to walk. More experienced veteran parents know, you know, we know it lies ahead once walking sets in. So we encourage our kids to take their time.

We say, hey, you don't want to start walking until 18 months or so? No problem. Just take it easy down there. No pressure at all. The problem is that once they start walking, you know, they can move around more and quicker and they can reach things. So last night, for example, my wife was out. I was making dinner.

And Emma was just walking around the living room, grabbing everything she could and tossing it on the floor. She grabbed a desk lamp at one point and literally spiked it on the ground like a football. And then waddled over to the coffee table, chucked a cup full of soda halfway across the room. And they know what they're doing too. She took that cup in her hand through it and then looked at me like, yeah, do something about it. What are you going to do? That's what I thought, punk. this is what you have to look forward to when they walk.

That's why my favorite phase of childhood is when they're right between newborn infancy and crawling. That's it. That's a sweet spot. There's a span of several weeks when they can't move much, but we'll sort of flop and scoot around on the ground like a little walrus or maybe like a sea cucumber on the ocean floor. This is enough movement to keep them entertained so they aren't crying, but not enough to make them any kind of a serious flight risk.

So you can set them down on the ground. sit on the couch with a beer and just watch them roll around for 45 minutes without ever making it out of the room. These are the moments to cherish. You know, walking is massively overrated in my experience. But none of that is the reason for my daughter's cancellation. The reason can be seen in this incriminating video, which my wife took and posted online for some reason. We went to the botanical gardens here in the city. You know, that must have been my idea to go spend our weekend there.

And, you know, we were walking around outside. Little Emma was doing more walking than she had ever done before. And this is a clip my wife took and posted somehow proudly. There she is walking along the path. But look at that arrow on the sidewalk. My daughter's walking in the wrong direction on the sidewalk. They have arrows on the sidewalk at the botanical gardens outside telling us what direction we can walk so as not to infect one another with the virus. My daughter's going the wrong way. endangering millions of lives in the process. I have never been so ashamed as a parent. Now, you might ask, why are they making their sidewalks into one-way paths when they're clearly wide enough for two people to pass? Also, are you really more likely to give somebody the virus while walking past them in the opposite direction than you are if you walk past them going the same direction? In fact, you might ask, when you pass someone who's going the same direction,

aren't you likely to spend more time in their proximity than you are if you pass from opposite directions. Because, you know, when you pass going the same way, there's always that awkward moment where you're walking side by side and, you know, one of you has to speed up, the other one slow down. And besides, is there any reason to think that the virus is at all being transmitted between people outside who merely pass by one another briefly? And considering that everybody at the gardens was wearing a mask, everyone I mean except for my family, shouldn't we be even less concerned about transmission, if masks do in fact work? These are all good questions. Sort of like the questions you might ask about why you have to remain socially distant while boarding a plane,

only to be seated in the same metal tube with these people for six hours. Many anti-COVID measures have been adopted both voluntarily and mandatorily, which appear to have no reason or justification behind them. That's all true. But we're not supposed to be asking those questions. just do as you're told wear the mask follow the arrow trust the protocols my daughter in a brazen act

of disregard for her fellow man did not follow the arrows or trust the protocols and many lives have no doubt been lost due to her recklessness and she's not even wearing a mask on top of it like I said none of us were her

but she should really be setting an example shameful absolutely shameful So she is canceled today, and hopefully she has learned her lesson from this experience. Remember, follow the arrows on the sidewalk. It will keep you alive. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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