The Matt Walsh Show - The View Is Leftist Propaganda | Proof For Your Liberal Friend

Episode Date: July 26, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:19 And here they are yesterday claiming that it is unchristian to criticize wokenness. Listen. The conversations you and I have had would be so many times about the co-opting of the word woke. And the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word. To be woke is a word that came out of the African-American community. And it was about acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people suffering. It is not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it. And so Whoopie will often tell me, well, I've never been asleep.
Starting point is 00:02:02 And that's how I feel. My parents, you know, they grew up in the civil rights movement. I grew up in the late 60s, 70s. I was always a part of it. And so I've never been asleep. And so it angers me when people are like, this woke stuff has got to go. That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience. You don't care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community. You don't care about the oppression of the disabled. You don't care about the oppression of immigrants. You don't care about your affronts. fellow neighbor, and that is ungodly. That is not Christian. Well, that's true. I don't care about the oppression of LGBT people or disabled people or minorities in this country because it's not happening. So it's hard to care about something that isn't actually occurring.
Starting point is 00:02:48 You know, it's hard for me to care about a thing that is fictional unless it's, you know, in a movie or something. The word oppression has a meaning. And the meaning of oppression is that this is cruel or unjust treatment being inflicted on a person or a group by somebody in power. It's an unjust, cruel use of power against a person or group. That's what oppression is. So in what way are LGBT people or black people or even disabled people, since they got wrapped into this somehow, in what way are they being unjustly and cruelly treated and abused by people in power? And I know when you say that, people on the left are like, what do you There are a million ways. Are you kidding? It's the easiest question. Okay, well, go ahead. Easy question, right? Give me one example. Just one clear example. You can't do it. So that's our problem with wokeness. One of the problems anyway. As a woke person, you expect us to have sympathy for the entirely invented plight of people who are not only not being persecuted, but are often the recipients of unfairly advantageous treatment. And that's because in your woke mind, oppression and persecution are
Starting point is 00:04:03 not words with any objective meeting. These are these are not things that actually happen. Or at least it doesn't matter if they happen or not. What matters is that you feel like they're happening. So to be woke is to believe that your lived experience, a phrase that only a woke person would ever be vapid enough to actually say out loud, your lived experience, quote unquote, which is to say your own personal perception, your feelings about your experiences, more than the experiences themselves, outweigh the fact. on the ground. And that, by the way, so many people, I mean, I've always complained about this phrase, lived experience because it's, it's, it appears to be, you know, redundant. I mean, of course,
Starting point is 00:04:46 it's, if you had an experience, of course, you lived it. You can't have an unlived experience, can you? And it is redundant when taken literally, but you can't take anything that woke people say literally, because, again, nothing has any objective, literal meaning in their minds. So what they actually mean, when they say lived experience, what they mean is felt experience. To live and to feel to them are the same thing. These are words that are interchangeable. And so what they're saying is felt experience. And there is a distinction between your felt experience and an actual experience.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Like there's what's actually happening. And then there's how you feel about what's happening. And so when they say, well, my lived experience is that I've been a person. what they mean is I feel like it. My experience is that I feel like I'm being oppressed. And then when a rational person responds and says, well, yeah, but you weren't actually oppressed. Like, that didn't happen. Well, but I feel like it did. So I feel like it did. So then it basically did. That's what it means to be woke. And so yes, our lack of compassion and concern and empathy is for that your feeling. Like we don't, if, if you feel a certain way and the way you
Starting point is 00:06:09 feel totally contradicts the reality on the ground, then yeah, we don't care about your feeling. There's not, we can't do anything about that. That is your problem. That's like the very definition of a you thing. There's nothing we can do about that. Um, and, And so that's how you, that's the difference. The system isn't broken. It's rigged. Banks get rich while you stay buried in debt. That's not an accident. That's the plan.
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Starting point is 00:08:11 And I'm here to tell you that it's a lot worse than you even expect. Let's listen to some of this. Enough. Enough. They have a point. Enough. That's enough of that. So, so that, that's, but that is their point. I don't know if you picked up on, but enough. They're saying enough, enough. Just enough, all right. The only thing we're missing from that song is more dramatic hand-waving and head bobbing. I think that's that. There wasn't, there was not enough of that. We needed more of that, a little bit more.
Starting point is 00:09:27 But what I love about this is that, first of all, it's yet more evidence that the left doesn't know how to get their point across through art anymore. And this is actually a great development for the culture, if not for our eardrums. Because everything now, it's a great development because, you know, it's, the more effective they are getting their ideas across, the worse it is. So the tradeoff is that we have a lot of really bad, terrible art, but the only plus side is that they're not nearly as effective at conveying their ideas and getting people to accept them. because everything now is too on the nose, too melodramatic, too overly political, overtly political, I should say. And they used to be much more subtle. They used to embed their messaging into art that on the surface seemed to have nothing to do with politics. And that was always the most effective approach, but they don't do that anymore.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And I think there are a lot of reasons for that. They're far too ideological at this point. there's a real skill problem as well. They don't have the same level of talent anymore. And the second thing I like about this, this is a really great summation. It's a great representation of the gun control movement. Because this is actually all they have to say.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Enough, enough. Someone do something. And they say that, you know, in the song, they say that when enough of us cry out, then the gun violence will stop. And I know you might think that, well, it's just a song. They don't mean that literally. But that is literally the anti-gun point of view.
Starting point is 00:11:06 They think that if we can reach a point where people get sick of gun violence and we pass some kind of magical law and it stops. But that, of course, is not the case. Gun violence committed by bad, violent people with ill intent, will always be a problem. You can't make it go away. You can't make it disappear. Especially not with laws.
Starting point is 00:11:28 And the reason that we know that is because, the world has always been a very violent place, and it was a very violent place, probably in many ways more violent, before guns even existed. So this is human nature, unfortunately. It's the way of the world. Now, does that mean that we can't do anything about it? Does it mean we should accept it and surrender ourselves to it? Absolutely not. What it means is that we must emphasize two things in society, and one is justice punishing the bad guys, punishing harshly and swiftly, and two is self-defense, which requires guns, whether you like it or not. During Monday's episode of ABC's The View, the co-hosts conversation about Martin Luther King Jr.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Day led to sparring over how learning about slavery and other human rights abuses in American history should make white students feel, while Anna Navarro argue that nobody should feel bad while being taught about the past simply because of the color of their skin. Sarah Haynes was adamant in her belief that white children must feel responsibility for the actions of their forefeworthy. fathers. Here's the kid. I think there's more to it than that. Look, I think what it is is that black history and other things. Banning books has been weaponized for political purposes to drive people to the polls based on outrage because my poor little white kid is feeling bad because he's learning about
Starting point is 00:12:53 slavery. That's ridiculous. Learning about history should not make anybody feel bad. We learn about history. It should make you feel bad. But it's important that it makes you feel bad. I don't think it should make you feel bad. I mean, I don't think a white child that's had nothing to do with slavery. It should feel bad about slavery. I think we need to learn history so that we don't repeat the same mistakes about history. The thing that people are focusing on in that clip is the conversation about how white kids should feel.
Starting point is 00:13:19 But even before you get there, you know, just even the phrase, poor little white kid, oh, your poor little white kid. This is once again, this total contempt and scorn being heaped on white people without, without hiding it, without covering it, without feeling the need to hide it at all. And all you have to do is imagine what it would sound like for someone to say, oh, your poor little black kid, your poor little black kid, boo-hoo. Like, you just, you can't imagine anyone on television using that phrase, like in any context. You just can't imagine it. It would never happen. And yet there is, there's no compunction. There's no, don't hesitate at all to use this kind of language and talking about white people.
Starting point is 00:14:19 And, you know, it can, it's not sustainable, I guess, the point. And people like me have been warning this for a long time and you can, you can reject the warnings, but it is just not sustainable. You cannot take one, and I think history has taught us this. History has taught us this again and again and again. It's maybe one of the primary lessons that history teaches us. You cannot take a group of people and make them the villains. make them the bad guys, and just heap nothing but scorn and contempt on them all the time, and expect it to just continue that way without any blowback, without any pushback, and everything's going to be fine. You can't expect that.
Starting point is 00:15:16 And it's really as simple as that. Now, obviously, the stuff about slavery is completely ridiculous. Now, if you mean that kids should feel bad in the same way, that you feel sad when you read about any bad thing that happened in history, like if you read about the Titanic sinking, does that make you feel bad? I mean, it doesn't make you feel good, right? It's a sad thing, so you have feelings of sadness when you hear about a tragedy that occurred in history. But feel bad usually means feeling responsible, feeling guilty.
Starting point is 00:15:51 It's like when you've done something, you say, I feel bad about that. which is why nobody would ever say, I feel bad about the Titanic's sinking. I feel really bad about that. Jeez, sorry about that. I feel bad. Because it makes it sound like you're holding yourself responsible for the sinking of the Titanic,
Starting point is 00:16:07 which, of course, makes no sense. It equally makes no sense to say that about slavery. I feel bad about it. I mean, I feel bad. I didn't have nothing to do with it. So, no, in that sense, of course, white kids shouldn't feel bad about slavery in the sense of feeling guilty and responsible,
Starting point is 00:16:23 which is the sense that it was meant. there. But of course, the whole premise of the conversation is totally false. And we keep it, you know, it's what's one false premise after another from the left. This is, this is maybe the most, among the most absurd of all of them is this, that there are people out there who are objecting to the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, Nobody objects to white kids or kids of any race learning about slavery in history class. I've not heard one single person ever say that, which is really saying something because you can take any idea, any like nutty crazy idea. These days especially, you could probably find at least somebody who believes it.
Starting point is 00:17:09 But in this case, I have not heard this anywhere. I have not heard one single person ever say that we shouldn't be teaching about slavery in school. I've not heard. I've never heard that. The point about slavery, aside from the one that I've made many times, which is that a real study of slavery should be far more expansive to include the fact that slavery was a global institution for millennia. So if anything, my point about it is that, no, we shouldn't be saying less about slavery. We should be saying more about it, actually. I mean, it is one of the significant facts of the history of human civilization, is that this institution existed for thousands of years. And it's very interesting to think about why that was the case.
Starting point is 00:17:52 How did this come about in the first place? How is it that for thousands of years, humanity took this for granted? And for thousands of years, really, almost nobody even thought to object. Honestly, for thousands of years, it really didn't even occur to anyone that there might be a problem here.
Starting point is 00:18:13 And that includes many of the great geniuses of history. didn't appear to have a fundamental issue with the institution of slavery all across the world. That is, it's an interesting fact. You know, it's also a tragedy. It's terrible, but it's like, it's interesting. It's like that's something you can try to figure out. How is it? How could you have this kind of global blind spots that so many people share it for thousands of years?
Starting point is 00:18:40 So, yeah, that should be a subject of historical investigation. But it's not. because when we talk about slavery we only talk about it in the most limited way possible because we are not allowed to admit that every other race of people are also guilty for this institution that
Starting point is 00:18:58 existed for thousands of years. But aside from all that at a more fundamental level the point about slavery is that it is a historical subject. It is a matter of history and it should be studied and viewed that way. And so as far as I'm concerned, as long as we're doing that, it's a historical subject. It's not something, at least in this country, that exists
Starting point is 00:19:16 today or that people today are responsible for, at least in this country, if they keep qualifying that way, because it does exist in other parts of the world, especially in non-white parts of the world. And it's a, it's a, it was a much more expansive phenomena than what we're told. So like, those are my two points about slavery. I think, and that's the point that most people make, if they have any objection at all about the way that it's, to the way that it's taught. How many discounts does USAA auto insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount, safe driver discount, new vehicle discount, storage discount, legacy how many discounts will you stack up?
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