How Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire use LITERAL Nazi arguments to promote 'Conservatism'

[@Shammrye]

I’d like to live in a time when “genocide bad actually” isn’t controversial

[@tsharabrown3719]

Apparently that time hasn't existed yet, which is terrifying.

[@olufagosebambulagose]

And I'd like to live in a world where anyone slightly to the right of Mao isn't straight up labeled a nazi.

[@bobby5678-ck2tc]

That will never happen we are humans and humans are naturally bad. Our Neo Pagan movements and ethno nationalist movements will win white ethnostates are the future.

[@PurpleEyesLucie]

I'm Native. I've been saying this argument for ages. People usually don't believe me when I say that Hitler was inspired by the genocide of Native peoples like me. I wish we lived in the era where Nazi's were scared again. I think we should make that reality again.

[@braumkimball9548]

Seeing as I was actually taught these things were bad in school, I am really amazed at how much the School system glorifies some of our history.

[@Uthe007]

The Jews had it worse than your people since the Romans. And there is a lot of examples though history, and much closer to Germany.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

It really boils down to "the strong win over the weak, that's how it's always been and that's how it should be."

[@liamf2300]

its scary how uneducated people are in america, and it isnt a mistake

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

I agree, whenever they gather, gather more. It is as Innuendo Studios said. We outnumber them 3 to 1.

[@BrokenCurtain]

When Americans think about Nazism, they tend to think of a funny-looking little man shouting "Nein! Nein! Nein!" - they typically treat it as something foreign, not as something that is intrinsically American. Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer who lived from 1844 to 1904. Early in his career, he travelled to America and studied the USA's "Manifest Destiny". When he returned to Europe, he wrote a book about it, coining the term "Lebensraum". His ideas became popular in the German Empire and were used to convince settlers to move to the German colonies in Africa, and to justify the genocide of the native populations. When the Nazis took over, they recycled Ratzel's ideas, but applied them to Eastern Europe instead of Africa. So it's not that American fascists like Matt Walsh are using Nazi arguments - actually, it was the Nazis who used the rhetoric of American fascism and started WW2 in Europe because of it.

[@erythsea]

Wow the more you know

[@maxxymrice6200]

"America First" was first coined by a Nazi apologist, the Nazi Regime also drew a lot of inspiration from American segregation and Jim Crow.

[@MrMarinus18]

It was also rooted in the decline of European imperialism. Germany had been Europe's rising power and most people said it was poised to replace Britain but that didn't happen and it continued to decline. America is an empire in decline and fascism often is a reaction to that. An attempt to cling on to a sense of superiority rather than just accept reality and work within it. In the inter-war years while Germany was no longer the Continent's undisputed superpower it was still Europe's most populous country and a world leader in science and industry. If it had just remained like that it would have been larger and stronger today. But the desire of many especially in the military to return to a day of glory ultimately made things worse for everyone. The whole idea of the superiority of Germans was heavily rooted in denialism. They were trying to deny that Germany was not the dominant power of Europe anymore.

[@linagreenlyfe6705]

1) This needs to be top comment 2) Hitler wasn't a funny little man. In fact, he was 5'10" which is somewhat tall for that time period

[@BrokenCurtain]

@linagreenlyfe6705 There's a picture of Hitler that was published in the German "Stern Magazin" in the year 2000 ("Der Teufel auf der Kiste", Stern 2/2000). The picture shows Hitler standing behind a guardrail on the deck of the battleship Bismarck, waving at a crowd of spectators. The photo was taken from one of the sailors and it reveals that Hitler is standing on a stool to make himself look taller. If that picture had been published back then, the photographer could have ended up in a concentration camp. Greatness isn't just about physical dimensions, it can also be about attitude. Hitler was a small man with delusions of grandeur. You can find that picture if you do a Google image search for "GRÖFAZ Der Größte Feldherr aller Zeiten auf der Kiste".

[@AH-vm8yo]

"Savages." Don't you own slaves and support genocide? "Yes well you see I'm not a savage." Why is that? " because I wear a suit." 😒

[@bloodywilliam3083]

“Also didn’t you use to murder each other because you did Christianity differently from each other?” (Seriously though, fuck the Catholic Church.)

[@akidodogstar5460]

Yes wear a suit and have proper civilized manners while destroying any competing ideology or god.

[@bloodywilliam3083]

@@akidodogstar5460 I was going to say something about how they are both Christians, but since you mentioned ideology I suppose that counts.

[@tenkenroo]

He also doesn’t view himself as a savage cause he’s white.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Underrated comment. However I'm okay with suited men destroying competing ideologies if they are Socialist Revolutionaries, should I go to a Doctor?🤔🤔

[@cannibal.warrior]

It literally made my stomach turn hearing Matt Walsh talk about the courageous American colonizers.

[@TheKavernacle]

Yeah - I'm use to right wing BS but hearing a mainstream conservative talk openly about how genocide was good is pretty sickening and obviously shows how mask off they now are

[@will823]

@The Kavernacle just curious what made you a communist what made you see the lies of the American government and neoliberal capitalism

[@Rundvelt]

That's because you're an ideologue. I disagree with him, but if you have a physical response to hearing an opinion you don't like, you have mental issues.

[@GeteMachine]

It annoys me but his is how history is taught if it isnt "woke", that genocide and subjigation from or for white supremacists of the past get watered down or rationalized as necessary and justified but only in other countries with brown or asian people, its bad. Or how America only shows Africa in a good light, if its tied to South Africa, despite it being one of the most racist countries in the 19th century.

[@mypillowguy445]

They should feel the same about illegal immigrants - brave, slow-moving colonizers.

[@kingbugs3558]

During Thanksgiving last year I had to hear from my family how they don't feel bad for what happened to indigenous people, using much the same arguments as Matt. They said they contributed nothing to the world. I pointed out that the potatoes, corn, turkey, tomatoes, and chocolate that we were eating were all originally cultivated by indigenous people. They didn't believe me, saying that tomatoes are from Italy and potatoes were from Ireland.

[@Hexotoxyn]

Thank you for at least trying to get through to your family

[@rembrandt972ify]

You ate tomatoes during Thanksgiving? That's just wrong.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

Tomatoes are fascists

[@marcello7781]

I wonder what are their feelings towards Arabs, Persians and Turks. I guess they see them as nothing but savages despite having contributed a lot to the world, particularly during the Middle Ages.

[@rembrandt972ify]

@@marcello7781 Everyone is a savage if your audience is stupid enough.

[@felixbache5369]

Matt Walsh: punches a baby in the face Matt Walsh: Why should I be ashamed of my victory? Simply because I am better at fighting than this baby? I won this war, and I am proud of it. I will never apologize. I won't be silenced.

[@somik-i3x]

Could also work as Matt Walsh defense argument for murder.

[@julesdalli9716]

He also thinks drug dealers should be executed. For someone who claim to be pro-life, he sure does find ways to negotiate the idea that killing people is based in some instances.

[@melancholygirl7793]

That's more Dennis Prager

[@samhartje723]

@@julesdalli9716 that’s because he wants to kill black and poor people.

[@LeLastMelon]

Are you comparing the colonists killing the natives to an adult hitting a baby? I hope you see how that’s counterintuitive to your argument.

[@ryanfliegelman3166]

As a Jew it always astonishes me how little non-Jewish Americans know about the Holocaust. Went on a school field trip to a Holocaust museum once and it was a very strange experience. Just seeing a lot of my peers learn about what was to me at least pretty central parts of the Nazi regime. Recently lost a friend to the Black Israelite movement and i cant help but think its a direct result of his lack of education on the topic. From Florida sadly btw.

[@rodrigorafael.9645]

Jewish history is marvelous and super relevant, people need to study and learn more about it.

[@raziel7148]

there is just too much history to learn and to know. if it's not part of a country's history then a student won't learn much about it in schools. my country (the Netherlands) was occupied by the nazi regime, therefore it became a part of my country's history and therefore it was taught to me, in-depth. you probably can tell me much more about the Civil War than i was ever taught at school.

[@Virjunior01]

That sucks. Leave Florida if you can...

[@ryanfliegelman3166]

@Raziël lmao i wish atleast in Florida education on the civil war ranges from something that happened that ended slavery to something that happened that had nothing to do with slavery and was about states rights.

[@ryanfliegelman3166]

@@Virjunior01 already did thank G-d

[@AW27007]

Not all conservatives are fascists But certainly all fascists are conservatives

[@raven.4815]

Yeah I agree. There's a HUGE difference between "I can't do that because my religion doesn't allow me" and "You can't do that because my religion says so"

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

The rest just sit idly by and look the other way when the fascists go after marginalized groups.

[@DrAnarchy69]

Conservatives in the US are Democrats. People who label themselves as conservatives in the US (Republicans) ARE ALL FASCISTS.

[@michaelshigetani433]

truth. Sadly

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

And it's not helping to know that many of these dikhedz are right at the edge of going full fascist...

[@PapaSmurf11182nd]

The Holocaust Museum has an entire page about lebensraum, German for “living space.” And that page has information that essentially says that Hitler and the Nazis used the American treatment of Native Americans as an influence and a goal for how the Nazis wanted to use Eastern Europe, Soviet Union after they won the war.

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

I'm American. I can confirm that we never learned anything about our genocidal and racist past. When I first heard about it, it was through the Internet and I also learned at least some of it late into high school and also in college. That's it. I feel ashamed of my country's past and ashamed for not knowing about it sooner than I did, even if neither were my fault. I am also ashamed that my country had yet to completely and fully admit to said past. I admire Germany's willingness to admit to its own awful past.

[@TheCosmicFailure]

I'm American and I did. My 8th grade teacher took over half of our term about the native Americans. We even had to research tribes for our projects.

[@jewels3400]

@@TheCosmicFailure that's amazing! In my school we covered a whole lot of different religions and mythos. The Egyptians, Romans, Indians. Norse mythology, Hinduism. So much stuff. I remember a single day where the native Americans were mentioned. Along with a two day field trip to a Native American, "experience," and teaching place. We didn't learn much there. I suspect it's main purpose was to make money off 4th graders. Which that's fine. Point is, we didn't learn shit about our native peoples despite having a very diverse education. I wish we did. Ra is cool, but the native tribes in my area are much more relevant to me.

[@commandercorl1544]

My education had an entire unit committed to native communities. What they didn't mention was the massacre of them...

[@ethanmcbee9556]

Most Americans learn the basics. The scarry thing is politicians trying to remove those lessons.

[@kelseastar950]

Some bully: "give me, it's mine!" Map Walsh: "what a hero"

[@Tethloach1]

Human history and predatory conflict has been like that. Conquest took place in every corner of earth, it was very thorough and ruthless.

[@jibbjabb43]

​@@Tethloach1 No one is arguing that it's surprising this happened in the 1800s. They're just hoping you can at least try to make it up to the people you've wronged or at least *admit* those things were wrong.

[@rohanxdavis]

@@Tethloach1 I'm not sure why you keep simping for the oppressor in all your comments.

[@erikvan9582]

​@@Tethloach1 Sure,just because its the way its always been doesn't mean its mot f'cked up and evil

[@availanila]

​@@Tethloach1 only, it wasn't. East Africa for one had very little instances of conquests, we just traded, assimilated and cooperated till the Brits came.

[@kreshnik89]

Matt talks like he would be high up in the food chain if we lived in a post apocalyptic world. He’s the kind of man that would sacrifice his own family so he can be safe.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Hey, my Dad sacrificed me during a crisis, then died from a heart attack anyway. I've only lost my Math talent, for now, and my prospects of holding a job, especially in Education which is where I excel. Nazism is literally incest-cannibal Neanderthal Warlord ideology.

[@consumerofbepsi5254]

Nah he's the typa guy to hide that he's been bitten from the others and acts like a victim when they kick him out

[@blacky_Ninja]

@Fidel Catto That would be the best case scenario

[@roguewolf128]

So everyone heard that? Walsh endorses more powerful people taking stuff. A big group could colonize all of his stuff, that's what makes sense to him, sounds like permission

[@catpig7679]

When and where do we meet?

[@andyboom2004]

I'm a former Rogan listener, and what turned me off to him is realizing he would have been a Nazi. I used to think he would be a PG Wodehouse type--but he began to push back less and less and it made me realize he was becoming very sympathetic to fascism, because he started to accumulate wealth and started feeling like he could be insulated.

[@gnomechomsky2524]

Notice how also in recent years he’s become more and more prone to believing insane conspiracy theories. Fascism requires conspiracy theories, and falling for them makes you more susceptible to fascist propaganda.

[@gregmark1688]

Judging from watching Rogan and some others (Maher, Miller, etc), it sure seems like, no matter how liberal they acted, when a person acquires a significant amount of money, they automatically also acquire a nearly sociopathic desire to make sure than no one ever takes a penny of it from them.

[@peterbs5555]

You would have been a nazi too

[@Colddirector]

The kindest thing I can say about Rogan is that he seems very stupid instead of just malicious. He's probably spent years surrounding himself with and being lovebombed by the far right so now their beliefs are thoroughly mixed into the soup that occupies the space between his ears.

[@sailormermaidix24]

Rogan should've been left when he compared Black people to planet of the Apes and saying about his step biracial child saying that she had the body of a black person but the mind of a white person. So yeah it's very telling the type of person that he is

[@user-yl4lf9mh1w]

The rights natural evolution always leads to fascism.

[@sophiepooks2174]

Failing crony Capitalism always leads into recession, depression,inflation when people are lead to believe things are changing for the worst and certain minorities are to blame so embrace fear of change, right there authoritarian fascism steps out of the shadows and seems like the better choice, time after time, all throughout history, the normies fall for this every time and many liberals just scoff and think they can reason it all away . Humanity is racing towards danger again. fascists gotta fascist.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

Wait, it's all Fascist? Always has been.

[@grandempressvicky6387]

Exactly! Edmund Burke was lukewarm to democracy at best because it risk unsettling nobles like himself and his peers. My teacher once told me "if voting changed anything, do you think they would let us do it?" I mean, look at the shit and hoops regular people had to jump through just to vote at all.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

True, but some Social-Democrats and especially Centrists (and extremely rarely, Communists) also have a penchant to become that thing. But I guess you talk "systemically". Well, "systemically", Capitalism leads to Imperialism, which leads to Fascism in the absence of Socialism taking power, so almost everything could lead to Fascism, depending on how deep into Capitalism you are as a Nation and what kind of crises the system faces to resort to violence, and if the general populace is rebellious or not, and if yes, if they succesfully resist.

[@Colddirector]

I would say that moderate conservatives tend to try and weaponise fascism like a rabid dog on a leash - dangerous but still very much under their control, but eventually that dog breaks free and mauls them along with everyone else.

[@Colesalad]

Bro, this country is fucking scary, my social studies teacher in highschool (I graduated 2016) spent weeks teaching us Ayn Rand, and my english teacher hosted a debate on "vaccination" where kids would come up and cry about how vaccines gave their syblings autism... It's funny, because even the selected works that were given to me on Ayn Rand were really suspect, her philosiphy in general really put me off, and I didn't know at the time just how full of shit she was. The popularity of Matt Walsh is really concerning though, thanks for the video.

[@johnoconnell5004]

The sad truth is that America isn't the perfect country.

[@Syncopiia]

You should check out Radical Reviewer's videos on Ayn Rand books. He does a pretty good breakdown of why her entire philosophy is shit.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

My school did a damn good job for being in the south. we didn't read any ayn rand, but we read about christian missionaries making things fall apart in africa. making "fuck the police" part of history class, basically shitting on america to get us engaged in class discussions. i think the diversity really more than cancels out living in the south cuz my city is 50/50 pretty diverse, we have hbcus and civil rights museums and are just surrounded by allota red. which unfortunately makes us a target. they just caught a guy on A&T campus with a ton of weapons including holy water and a chainsaw, tons of guns and ammo

[@jimbob20014]

If Matt Walsh thinks colonialism was so good and needed how would he feel if my whole family traveled to his house and claim it mine make his family follow my religion and put my face on the money he uses...😕

[@50-50_Grind]

He's like: "Humans have been acting like monsters all throughout history, so lets continue that tradition. Let us all be monsters too. What's so bad about it anyway?"

[@jimbob20014]

@@50-50_Grind that whole group at the daily wire matt,mike,Ben etc think they are tough as nails man's man but they are not leaders they aint got that dogg in them colonialism was f#&ked up but none of them ppl would be on the front line storming the beaches...lol

[@Galanthos]

​@@50-50_Grind This is the best description of Matt Walsh I've ever seen.

[@glass_knuckles]

he would have no right complain about losing his house in a contest of strength, since in his own words, he was weaker and his defeat is justice

[@julesdalli9716]

If Matt supports colonialism, I wonder how he would feel about opening up those borders.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Sometimes I imagine Richard Spencer suffered a bout of incontinence when he got clocked, and the resulting stain gained sentience and became Matt Walsh.

[@mathlover2299]

This is one of the most informative things I have ever watched. As an American it never occurred to me that our genocide of the natives inspired Hitler. I never connected the dots between our manifest destiny and the living space Hitler wanted so bad. I never thought about how our nation did not have to reconcile our genocide. Great work and thank you for informing me.

[@BrokenCurtain]

The Nazi "Lebensraum Theory" is literally based on America's "Manifest Destiny". Look up Friedrich Ratzel.

[@franjkav]

Go read about how Hitler was inspired by eugenics in the US and you’ll realize how stupid IQ tests are and how much this shi still oppresses people

[@rodrigorafael.9645]

The segregation inspired him too.

[@charlesburkard3289]

Our treatment of Black people during Jim Crow laws were a direct inspiration as well.

[@gregmark1688]

What surprised me was that Hitler grew up reading the same kind of garbage, racist "Wild West" stories that I grew up on in the 60s. If anything, that crappy apologist take of "taming the savage land" was _more_ popular then than it had been while it was still actually happening. America was absolutely _mad_ for stories of slaughtering the barbaric natives, for most of the 50s and the 60s. I'll go out on a limb and say that nobody made that connection then, either. Rather than think about how Hitler was inspired by our forefathers, it may be useful for us to contemplate how we ourselves were raised on a steady diet of literal Fascist propaganda, decades after Hitler's defeat. (In fact, it occurs to me that the first of the big hit Western films we already appearing in the late 40s, immediately after the war.)

[@hydrogen3266]

I learned a lot (for an American) about WWII and the genocide of natives. This is because I’m from Massachusetts, a blue state that always ranks top for public education, and I took AP classes in history. Something I wish we looked at more was the rhetoric of the Nazis. Mostly my teacher would say “hitler was pretty charismatic and was good at propaganda.” We never talk about Germany’s history of antisemitism and how the nazis co-opted that for their own political gain. We also never read texts from nazis, usually just secondary sources. I read a lot of texts from Holocaust survivors, and we looked at propaganda posters, but we never analyzed the rhetoric leading up to it. Suddenly it’s the 1930s and Germany is full of antisemitic Nazis. That’s the problem I had with my education

[@conrad4222]

Shame you can't talk about Nazis without being demonetized

[@TheKavernacle]

Yeah it's annoying - more so because I can't make videos like this more rather than missing out just on this one

[@notrod5341]

​@@TheKavernacle Honestly you could get a pretty good video out of the topic of how being "ad friendly" is a tool of capital to chill discussions of important topics like this.

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

@@TheKavernacle Meanwhile i am seeing multiple recommendations of Matt Walshs channel, despite never watched anyone adjacent to him, only people criticising him. KZbin algorithm at its finest....

[@gregmark1688]

@@notrod5341 It kind of seems like that feature of being induced by corporate profit motives, and enforced by hidden algorithms, may be a key feature that differentiates the modern "New Fascism" from the Fascism of the 1930s, even from Il Duce's ill-formed 'corporatismo' ideas. Technology has enabled an entirely new form of it, and I don't mean the ability for Fascists to organize and persuade on social media and exchange ideas. That's bad, but it's not actually a new thing. I mean specifically the kind of Fascism that happens without any real public discussion or input at all. Unlike Hitler, KZbin has no need to deploy rhetoric and convince the public they are right. The public is hardly even aware they are doing anything in the first place. That's a new thing, I think, a Fascism that thrives on secrecy and public complacency, rather than ideology and public participation.

[@Swelephant_]

Even worse that you can say Nazi shit and not be demonitized.

[@thissatori]

Jeez that Ayn Rand quote... I already disliked her and I did not know it was possible for her to be worse than I thought, but jeez...

[@dc9662]

Her toxicity knew no boundaries. Anyone who loves her writing is automatically sus.

[@BooksRebound]

Oh, she's one of Satan's wives… She's THE WORST.

[@thesacredlobo]

@@dc9662 - “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

[@DavidRichardson153]

​@@thesacredlobo After having had to read Atlas Shrugged in high school, I can attest just how accurate that quote is. As much as I disliked also having to read Walden, I will gladly take it over AS or any of her other "books," for I never came to hate Thoreau like I did with Rand.

[@marcello7781]

Had she been more consistent to her beliefs she would have opposed a big government meddling into the lives of the Natives and subjugating them to its laws.

[@w0t_m818]

I would argue that the United States has been a fascist country for a long time, it's fit the bill for ages. It's like a fascist state with two parties, one representing bare corporate fascism, the other representing that and christofascism.

[@TheHalfBlackReaper]

Re: those skulls in Mexico Does Matt Walsh know what Europeans were doing to each other 1000 years ago?

[@bloodywilliam3083]

“Oh man, these Cathars sure are interesting to read about! Can’t help but wonder what happened to them…”

[@maxgrozema1093]

In some parts of my country we still ritually drowned people in swamps.

[@janel.8921]

What about wicker men?

[@erikvan9582]

Forget 1000 years,it hasn't even been 80 years since the holocaust ended,what was that like 20 million people with all the Jews and Slavs combined

[@phiscz]

literally at that same time the spanish were ritually executing jews and muslims. also personally i wouldn't use the country who had a monarch with a family tree that's a 7 generation circle as a bringer of 'civilization' (albeit this was the fault of the barbarous austrians, but still)

[@vvvv54642]

Most Americans think of fascism in aesthetic ways ONLY. Uniforms, marching, arm salute, little mustache, government does "stuff". All we know is fascism bad, America fought Nazis, America good, therefore America can't be fascist. Nazis have been reduced to just being the bad guy in movies, doing comically evil things for no discernable reason. We're essentially taught you're able to identify "bad guys" by just looking at them, like a "vibe check". It's incredibly dangerous (and intentional) that most people don't recognize the tactics or talking points that fascists use to gain power.

[@litheon1289]

100% thank you for pointing this out. It even comes back around further to support fascism because you're reducing a whole group of people to like a vibe check like you said. So all they need to do, is that *this group of people* also fails the vibe check essentially and then you have people saying that _____ is actually fascism when it's not.

[@tubecated_development]

One day in May 1933, pristine white-shirted students marched in front of Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Research - that safe haven for LGBTQ people - calling it “Un-German.” Later, a mob hauled out its library to be burned. Later still, its acting head was arrested.

[@galacticrainestorm8546]

I’m 16 and trans, and unfortunately I didn’t get taught too much about the extent of the holocaust and other genocides, so I’m still learning things even now, and this was a great video! I knew about how the arguments people like Walsh and Knowles use are definitely rooted in fascism and genocide rhetoric, but I didn’t know the extent of it/the exacts. Thank you for putting this out there. :]

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

Just remember that the first to mark people by their identity and use identity politics were those of Nazi Germany.

[@mathlover2299]

I am 36 and never knew this stuff.

[@maxgrozema1093]

@@raulhernannavarro1903 That's not even remotely true, my dear little snowflake.

[@Fausto_4841]

Auschwitz has soccer fields and an orchestra.

[@maxgrozema1093]

@@Fausto_4841 Oh wow, a place where a million people got killed and tortured only for being who they are had an orchestra! It must've not been too bad then!

[@freyjathecat549]

That Matt Walsh speech about how brave the colonizers were sounds like it was said by a clichee evil cult leader in a movie.

[@freyjathecat549]

@@BradLad56 Hey I'm not from the US! And maybe that would be better considering its current state.

[@standoughope]

Understanding history takes an honest look in the mirror at times or you're doomed to repeat mistakes. The public school system in the US is a joke, you're never taught how to think but rather what to think.

[@rohanxdavis]

Yes, sometimes discomfort is a good thing

[@valeriemoraa2002]

I don't know why it is uncomfortable since it's history. It's not about us, it's about the people who lived before us

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

@@valeriemoraa2002 Let me tell you something as a russian. History is pretty much alive in Russia. Russians are driven by fear of re-living the era of lawlessness under Jelzin again, that is why Vladimir Putin is still popular, because he can present himself as the strongman keeping the country together and protect it from the "evil west". Russians never learned from history and are now making the same mistakes again. There is barely a difference between todays Russia and the Soviet Union of old. History is not 100 % repeating itself, but it has a tendency to rhyme. Plus, what was done back then, affects people in the present. Redlining (the practice of segregating districts for specific types of people) in the us created the black neighborhoods of today and fascist assholes today are using these districts as "proof" that immigration doesn`t work for example.

[@SergeantSniper]

​@@valeriemoraa2002 It is just history, yeah, I don't get discomfort from learning it. I do get discomfort when I find out that people *still want to do these horrific acts* though.

[@valeriemoraa2002]

@@SergeantSniper I think Americans are uncomfortable to face their past and teach the standard American myth. I am Kenyan and in class 5 we started learning about colonialism and how some tribes helped in the colonisation of others. In high school we learn about slavery and the Portuguese, which tribes sold who and why. In Africa generally tribe is a big thing, your tribal name can make or break your future. I don't think the repetition problem will be an issue if real history is taught in all its complexity in an age appropriate manner

[@nomisunrider6472]

I vote that some courageous, heroic Americans settle Matt Walsh’s house. He’s clearly never contributed to the world in a meaningful way, so breaking down his walls, eating his food, and selling him and his whole family into slavery can only be for the greater good of humanity as a whole.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Sherman Alexie explains in his writings how the natives had very different concepts of land and property ownership. It wasn't an exclusive deal. Land and property were meant to be used for the good of all. So when the natives entered into agreements with the settlers, and then the settlers acted like the land now belonged exclusively to them and tried to back this up with force, of course this angered the natives.

[@certs743]

There was also the doctrine of discover that stated no non Christian could legitimately own property so the colonizers also entered into treaties they were well aware were legally worthless and could be violated and they regularly were.

[@timtheskeptic1147]

Kinda funny when the Dutch "bought" Manhattan only to find out they were actually dealing with a nomad group simply passing through. Then the real maintainers of that territory showed up...

[@nsbd90now]

Matt Walsh doesn't even have a college degree, and he certainly doesn't show any signs of being self-educated to any responsible degree.

[@angelainamarie9656]

He's the kind of guy who makes me want to turn off all the technology and force him to figure out how to survive on his own

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@angelainamarie9656 He would just guess and assume his way through life like he does now.

[@angelainamarie9656]

​​@@sophiepooks2174 the difference is without all of these inventions helping his worthless ass survive he'd be dead in a goddamn week. Civilized people drag his worthless ass everyday and he doesn't know or understand how or why that works. I'd like for society to have the option to dump him off at the corner of "f0ck" and "you"

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

His knowledge of US history comes mainly from placemats at "family restaurants." He probably thinks Paul Bunyan was a real person.

[@dr.livesey7595]

@@angelainamarie9656 Lets see how long you live without technology. Conservative have a lot of guns

[@badartwineaunt]

and to the discussion of "barbarism": one of my academic mentors is an expert on human sacrifice and one thing she points out to this point about the alleged necessity of colonialism because of certain groups violent practices is that the very same conquistadors who were horrified by Mexica human sacrifice would take their kids to the public hanging in the square. She advocates for an expansion of what we include in our idea of human sacrifice. For example, Roman gladiators and beast hunts should be considered human sacrifice because these ceremonies were often dedicated to the gods and had cultural significance. The same thing goes for witch trials and public hangings and beheadings in the Europe that did the colonialism and used human sacrifice to justify it. TLDR human sacrifice bad, europeans also did human sacrifice so

[@valivali8104]

Gladiators were more like professional boxer or wrestlers; yes, it was dangerous, but purposeful deaths were rare. Sometimes death penalties were made into shows where convicted people had to fight with each other or animals, or were tossed to animals, and those were really close to human sacrifices if not outright so. And public executions do take away value of life same way as human sacrifices.

[@franjkav]

Witch trials were a little more than mere human sacrifice I think…l

[@ATTACKofthe6STRINGS]

I can see it, but I feel like there should still be more of a distinction than the examples you gave. As was pointed out, the gladiators were much more a sport than something one could associate with human sacrifice. I can agree with the witch trials, to a certain extent. Perhaps there should be an umbrella term for these things, or maybe there should be distinctions between “human sacrifice” as the umbrella term. While I agree with the concept your teacher is developing, when I think “human sacrifice” I generally think of a religious practice with semi-willing human participants that are offered/offer themselves to appease a deity to avoid a calamity. There isn’t much spectacle beyond the specific ritualism that goes into the sacrifice itself. Gladiatorial combat was as much about the fighting as it was anything else about it. Even the witch trials, to an extent, were a perverse exercise of a rampant mob justice system. Perhaps it ultimately boils down to ignorance in my part, through the vehicle of a flawed education system. Maybe the human sacrifices I learned about had more cultural, judicial, or athletic, significance to them that I’m unaware of. However, if they don’t, I still think that human sacrifices, gladiatorial combat, and witch trials, would still be distinct enough to require their own specific subset descriptions if they were all brought together under an umbrella term.

[@ZephLodwick]

I'd say holy wars and conversions at gunpoint are about as bad as human sacrifice; they're all killing in the name of a religion. And Discovery-Age Spain was the same Spain of the Spanish Inquisition, which extended into the New World.

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

​@@franjkav medieval Europe overall was just fucked up

[@darkprince56]

As a Hispanic w/a Mexican mother born & living in Texas, I find it humorous when I hear comments about how we should go back to Mexico…these brainlets don’t know that a large chunk of the southwest belonged to Mexico at one point.

[@ATTACKofthe6STRINGS]

Hearing you say “Romani” instead of “gypsy”! That’s honestly a bit rare, because I don’t think a lot of people know that Romani is preferred, and that the other is a slur.

[@jokehu7115]

If you ever met a gypsy you would say something much worse believe me

[@notebeans3134]

​@@BradLad56 because they're not Romani and don't know it's a slur

[@ATTACKofthe6STRINGS]

@@BradLad56 if alcohol is the most dangerous drug, how come people keep drinking to excess? Ignorance.

[@fwdcnorac8574]

I'm begging you'all to lock me in a room with Matt Walsh and a hold harmless agreement.

[@markusoreos.233]

Remember that according to his logic you're a hero for punching him in the face.

[@fwdcnorac8574]

@@markusoreos.233 More like "eat his face", but I digress. He wants an animal. I'll show him a fucking animal and beat the shit out of him with his own arm.

[@Sheesha87]

That sort of rhetoric is used a lot in Australia for the colonisation of the land and the genocide of the first nations people.

[@sammfshields]

Yes sadly there are many, many staunch fascists and cryptofascists amongst us here :(

[@gregmark1688]

Well, both Australia and America were founded by the same nation of arrogant colonizers so it's perhaps no surprise we both did colonizing with the same rhetoric. The roots of Fascism are found in the attitudes of colonial Britain. Who knew?

[@sammfshields]

@@gregmark1688 spot on

[@Envy_May]

​@@gregmark1688 not very independent of america to not have done away with it by now

[@bobohonkins]

He's becoming increasingly more unhinged and emboldened and that really worries me.

[@ShadowProject01]

I’m glad it does. Wish more people would wake up to it as well.

[@angelainamarie9656]

With the complete fascist takeover of the government in Tennessee he's probably going to to be emboldened to pull the mask off even further. I hate to imagine he'll do something so reprehensible that he can't deny it and willl have to go to prison for it, but I also think that with him it's very likely that he has already committed many crimes and is just trying to normalize his predatory, barbaric behavior.

[@normanvename4404]

Absolute BANGER of a video! Really love your political content an insight, especially on America, being an American myself.

[@JustaPenguin-l5i]

Well guess what ya wouldn’t be here if there weren’t no colonizers

[@fromeveryting29]

A lot of ignorant conservatives in the comments here. It's not AT ALL controversial to say that right wing america is explicitly fascist, that conservativism is inherently at least slightly fascistic or that fascism is by definition a right-wing ideology. It's well established and anyone who have analyzed even a little bit of fascist and conservative rhetoric would see it. Fascisms core trends are: Obsession with preservation of tradition, emphasis on the 'natural order' of hierarchy, percieved danger of progressives destroying the 'natural order', contempt for marxism, opposition to feminism/socialism/animal rights/gay/trans rights/ multiculturalism/disability rights etc, contempt for non-standard sexual expressions (gay/trans people), contempt and distrust for femininity/softness/empathy/'the weak', emphasis on myth/religion as instruments of social order (not nececcarily literal truth), distrust of intellectuals/academia/scientists, want to eliminate progressive institutions (critical and progressive academia), theocratic tendencies. Often patriotism or nationalism, emphasis of 'western civilization' or ones nation as supreme. This is EXPLICITLY, nazis and right wing persons STATED ideas and goals. This is fascism. The more threatening they percieve "progressive marxists" to be to 'the natural order' of their society, the more they tend to genocide of some or many minorities that are recieveing rights and recognition from the progressive left - which fascism thinks is 'degenerating' traditional orderly categories, which they take as the core of their society. First it is "we don't want them visible in society", then it is "they shoul not exist like that, they must conform or go away", then the final conclusion is to actually persecute them. Strip them of rights, bully them, sow disgust for them, emptionally, mentally, and finally physically harming them. Tell me the american conservatives aren't currently running a campaign exactly like that, towards trans people. I've read both mein kamph and Anders Breiviks manifesto (norwegian right wing mass murderer) and their ideology is virtually identical to american conservativism. As in the trends I listen above. The american conservatives are just not that explicit and are not yet explicitly calling for violence. They only strongly imply it, and sometimes explicitly defend it. The american conservatives might not all be full fledged fascists, but it IS strongly and exponentially FASCISTIC, and for the most part explicitly fascist. Definitionally so. It's not in the slightest controversial to anyone who has read anything relevant. Fascism is reactionary against progressivism. It's inherenlty irrational, conservative and internally self-contradictory. It's fear based, but seeks to transmute fear and frustration through populist appeal and rhetoric, to inspire anger and contempt for the percieved "threat" of progress and it's symtoms - visible minorities.

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

_"or that fasc ism is by definition a ri ght-wi ng ideology. "_ Wrong. Fasc ism by definition was a tot alitarian f ar-le ft, socia list ideology based on nati onal syndi calism.

[@randomthings1293]

@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. lol The word "privatization" was invented specifically to describe Hitler's adopted economy in the Third Reich. The very *first* ones that he "purged", even BEFORE Jewish, gay, or disabled people, where communists, socialists, and union advocates. Not a SINGLE mean of production was given to the workers under the Nazis. On the contrary, the vast majority of previosuly State-owned businesses were ceded to private hands, with the sole exception of what was needed for the war efforts. THIS is the truth. There's NOTHING even remotely Left Wing in all of this. Go back to school or to your nest and shut up, Shapiro's parrot.

[@fromeveryting29]

@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Where in the world have you read that?

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

@@fromeveryting29 : It is basic history 101. You can read that from Musso lini's "the Doctrine of Fasc ism".

[@squeaky206]

​@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. I don't think you think what socialism means. Mussolini was far right, persecuted Libyans, Slovenians, socialists and anyone he didn't like with his colonial army or Blackshirts, who were FAR from far left. Also, Mussolini protested the Ottoman-Italian War over Libya WHEN he was a Socialist. If he had retained those beliefs he would have either given Somalia, Eritrea and Libya self autonomy or left the tribal chiefs alone....but he didn't.

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

The sad reality is the Nazis were ordinary people. They were a few bigots calling the shots, a great many "yes men", and an entire nation full of regular folk who went along with what was popular. People just going along with what they are told is their nation's patriotism and pride. The Nazis were Republicans. They are one and the same.

[@IceAxe1940]

Nazis were both Liberals and Conservatives.

[@badartwineaunt]

ooooooof my INDIGENOUS mother is a ben shapiro stan hopefully seeing what shapiro's lackey at the daily wire thinks about her heritage and culture may fix that

[@Virjunior01]

Wow. How the fuck...

[@alexbdagger]

feels fitting that the kavernacle would be talking about this from vietnam considering the fact they beat the shit out of any attempt at settler colonial imperialist bullshit that came their way

[@Yurothehotot]

Didn't the French colonize them for nearly 100 years? And it was only when France was weakened by the aftermath of WW2 were they able to properly rise up and kick them out? Like sure it happened eventually but they were still colonized for almost 100 years.

[@alexbdagger]

@@Yurothehotot and then they beat the biggest capitalist power in the world that being the united states of America.

[@Virjunior01]

Yeah. Afghanistan did better overall, but Vietnam did a successful full defense against the US Military

[@gregmark1688]

@@Virjunior01 They did better than "defend", imo. They flat-out handed us our asses, and we fled Saigon in a last-minute chaotic retreat in the face of a conquering People's Army, in fact.

[@Virjunior01]

@@gregmark1688 yup

[@AndyMush]

the american perception of fascism is like thinking orange juice is the only juice there is , and thus apple juice is not real juice because it is made of apples and not oranges. literal brain worms.

[@josue.ortega]

"You just call juice everything that comes out of a fruit, you liberal woke SJW"

[@Envy_May]

aRe YoU cOmPaRiNg aPpLeS tO oRaNgEs

[@solrinin]

Matt Walsh looks like Al Borland if he got into CP instead of power tools.

[@w0t_m818]

CP stands for conservative propaganda, right? Right?! 😬

[@mrct592]

On the topic of Americans actually confronting our country's past, I am of the opinion that most conservatives are not capable of empathy until they find themselves in that position they previously lambasted another for being in. It's why we get phenomenon like "The Only Moral Abortion is MY Abortion" from conservative women or how conservative men talk about "The Right of Conquest" until the day they feel their personal sovereignty has been challenged.

[@gregmark1688]

Or like how conservatives rail against "big government" and "overreach" but invariably support the most draconian laws that restrict human behavior, as long as its not their own behavior being outlawed.

[@SweaterWearingaTree]

The ends justify the means...as long as the ends are I win

[@artimiss1238]

how and when did genocide being a bad thing become so controversial?

[@himpim642]

when people started tlakign about naion beign resnonsible for it....slef defence psycholcil strategy is to deny it or minimise it or even think of it positevly.

[@Colonelloki]

Just a heads up if you happen to see this. I'd recommend trying to switch to "indigenous people" from "native" just because "native" can be seen as offensive.

[@videogamenostalgia]

“I’m ashamed of nothing” yeah Matt, we know…

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Then why is banning books and censoring the teaching of accurate history so important to these chuds?

[@Dodgerzden]

Ayn Rand and Matt Walsh are basically saying animals don't deserve to live because they are not as technologically advanced. They view Native Americans as animals.

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

That is not true. A human being who values ​​the lives of others is not the same as that uncivilized human being who thinks he can take as many lives as he wants. Ayn Rand referred to the seconds. Many native peoples were violent with other natives. The history of the conquest of America is full of examples of native peoples allied with Europeans fighting other hostile natives. The best example is the conquest of Mexico, which is a conquest of the natives themselves helped by 200 Spaniards and Hernán Cortez.

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

Not to mention that the fundamental difference is not technological, nor biological, but cultural. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to live in a culture where you can be snatched from your home and taken to the top of a pyramid to have your heart ripped out to prevent the corn from getting weevils.

[@franjkav]

@@raulhernannavarro1903 history is full of hostile Europeans fighting natives.

[@erikvan9582]

​@@raulhernannavarro1903 What happened to those natives afterward?

[@kingwokester7324]

I swear the gum on the bottom of my shoe has more value than Matt Walsh. He is so damn reprehensible.

[@RaeCrazyGaming]

The first point you made about how Hitler is seen as a unique evil is so true. In the UK we can't call out facisst rhetoric bc "we arent nazi Germany," which is true?, but we are agreeing with his rhetoric, which is bad

[@MikeA817]

The quotes from Ayn Rand shows how awful American libertarianism is, or at least the ones that evoke Ayn Rand's name as an influence in their political and economic beliefs.

[@marcello7781]

Once you start digging into it you quickly realize what an elitist ideology it is at the core. I've seen many libertarians who despite all the talks about "freedom", were some of the most staunch defenders of dictatorships (Pinochet, Franco), monarchies and the Lost Cause. Take a look at Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell, Hans Herman Hoppe, etc.

[@Jaymaxair]

​​​@@marcello7781 My father is like this, at its core libertarianism is supremacist, it believes in hierarchies being something inherent to 'human nature' and sees capitalism as a way to determine who 'deserves' to be at the top, when libertarians talk about 'free speech', 'property rights', etc; they are not including those that are at the 'bottom' of the piramid because they are seen as inherently lesser and deserving of any blight that they may suffer; it is why so many libertarians praise when some minority achieves a priviledge position because it 'proves' that is possible and therefore anyone who doesn't achieve it deserves to be where they are and if they happen to not be completely apathetic or acknoledge that there might be some 'good' people there they will engage in performative, self-complacent acts of charity like giving a homeless person a penny while vehemently opposing any attemp to help homeless people as a collective.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

She must be inspiring to them due to her hypocrisy as well. She spent her final years in the US but was never a landed immigrant or citizen, so she was undocumented, and she survived by collecting Social Security, which every libertarian is against. I thought that anyone too old to work but with no savings had to be put to sleep.

[@johnr8820]

I’m incredibly grateful to be able to roam this beautiful land. One thing you can’t do is boil down all the events during that time into “heroic”.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

This, a good thing coming from a bad thing in the long run doesnt make the bad thing good. By matts logic the holocaust was a good thing because it got us einstein in america and project paperclip got us on the moon

[@robertpresley1503]

Its people like Matt Walsh that make me wish the Death Note was real.

[@thrillhouse4151]

1:55, yeah. Media on. WW2 and the Cold War have conditioned us to treat all the -isms as sort of a one in the same nebulous authoritarian thing that we are “above”, cause of American exceptionalism and the like, it’s a child’s understanding of history. POW POW, Rambo, John Wayne! 6:12, yeah it’s exactly like that.

[@Sephirajo]

listening to matt walsh talk just makes my soul curdle like milk left out over night in a hot summer.

[@catpig7679]

He has THE punchable face

[@ArmaBiologica35]

I'm not gonna pretend we live in some kind of perfect utopia where there's no bigotry or systemic injustice but Mexico does have respect for it's indigenous herritage... At least in the sense that a lot of it is very relevant in the general culture of the country. The fact they try to portray México as some kind of idealistic example of the endgoals of Nazism is so out of touch it's both funny and sad.

[@timothystewart9547]

Keep up the good work comrade

[@Masterom2000x]

I'm pretty sure if someone invaded Matt Walsh's house and "conquered it", I doubt he would just shrug and move on.

[@BlackCover95]

And the descendants of those conquerors went on about how proud they are to be a beneficiary of that history.

[@Wulfspyder]

So, if someone broke his door down, beat him in a fight, and shot his kids, Matt would follow his statements through and declare that person as his master and a hero.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

I hate when people label historic events “good or bad”. We’re not children and this is not Star Wars.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Don't you know right from wrong?

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@generationofswine-ge5rw right and wrong are subjective. It’s not about judging historic figures from the perspective of if they were good or bad.

[@histrynmations7464]

Exactly, another thing is that you need to look at the past through the eyes of a person of that time. In the future our descendants might look at us like if we were the assholes.

[@Envy_May]

​@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 correction: morality _often relies upon data that can only be measured subjectively_ as well as predictions for how things work to which the answer is not necessarily always clear, but it is not in and of itself subjective - if we could objectively measure all of these things on an equal scale, morality would in theory actually be completely mathematically calculable this is because the fundamental principle upon which all morality is based is the existence of objective positives and objective negatives - these are experienced by people, however they cannot be argued to be subjective _inherently_ because the way in which they function is consistent - otherwise, beings could just arbitrarily decide what they do and don't care about, and no one would be more right or more wrong, but this is not true - what makes things SEEM so subjective is the fact that there are so many factors which are invisible to perceive to all but the subjective experiencers, hence: we (currently) have no way to measure it accurately

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@Envy_May how can you measure the "inherent" goodness of a thing? Beings can decide what they will and won't do. " if we could objectively measure all of these things on an equal scale, morality would in theory actually be completely mathematically calculable" However, we can't measure all of these things on an equal scale.

[@bamboozled9127]

Living in a settler colonial nation (Canada), it's really bizarre how common the phrase, "I'd rather be colonized by the British than by X" is, when talking about settler colonialism in North America

[@lancelotto475]

Some Native Americans weren't allowed to practice their religions in certain states up to the middle-late 1900s, and some of the church re-education schools for indigenous children were only closed in the 1990s. The repression isn't ancient history, parts of it still happen today. It's not the soul-ripping stuff of the past, but it's still sad.

[@himpim642]

Prectuion of paganism is very odl and wide practicve.

[@sandorski56]

We were Murderers and Thieves for thousands of years. So it's ok. - Matt Walsh

[@KayentaRojo]

EVERY American needs to see this video!

[@sleepybaby8218]

"But anyone who is ashamed of America is free to leave" I'M TRYING BUT PLANE TICKETS ARE EXPENSIVE! 😭

[@skippycoulter]

Fuck this is a good one. Really deep dive and profoundly unsettling to see it laid out like this. This goes hard. More people need to know the stuff this vid goes into.

[@SMPKarma]

man I love how unapologetic you are in calling this shit out. No tip-toeing around, straight to the point. Great video as always

[@shanefoster2132]

Manifest Destiny is good. Lebensraum is bad. Why? Because English > German.

[@malcire]

As far as the Soviets go, while I would say comparing them to the Nazi's in general is lazy. The moving around of populations under thier control was to a level driven by a goal to destroy regional and local identities and "Sovietize" the population. Which can be argued to be a kind of cultural genocide. You can also argue a few of the famines were partially driven by an attempt to destroy certain racial and cultural groups.

[@hairymcnipples]

On the first, absolutely. On the second, absolutely not. The Soviet famine was exactly as "man-made" as every other one in history. Historians are pretty much universally agreed that the "holodomor" was the result of failed collectivization efforts and a poor harvest, and not a deliberate attempt to persecute anyone. The last serious historian to suggest it was a genocide was Robert Conquest, a self-described "cold warrior" on the side of the USA, who predicted that the opening of the Soviet archives would support his position that the famine was a deliberate act of persecution. Instead, to his credit (he was a serious historian, after all!) he was forced to concede they showed the exact opposite - Soviet leadership saw the great famine as a huge tragedy and a propaganda defeat. This was the exact opposite of what they wanted! Collectivizing agriculture was supposed to end famine, was supposed to massively improve their agriculture and give them food security, after all, autarky was a major goal of the Soviet union. If you remember this the idea that the famine was deliberately inflicted on anyone becomes an obvious nonsense. It's also worth recognising that, after the great famine, the Soviets *did* end the centuries-old pattern of regular famines in the region. But that's not to say the Soviets did nothing wrong! Stalin sent aid (which seems odd if this were deliberate persecution, but I digress), but it was inadequate - and the opening of the archives revealed that the reason for this inadequacy is because Stalin wanted to keep the famine quiet, as it was (as I mentioned earlier) a major failure of Soviet ideology and a huge propaganda defeat. This is the actual crime of Stalin - he was willing to let his people starve to death to avoid taking a political hit. Absolutely ghoulish and evil behaviour, and I would call it a crime against humanity! But not a deliberate act of persecution, not a genocide.

[@ecoRfan]

This is one of the darkest and most disturbing videos I’ve ever seen. But it’s a necessary eye opener.

[@possumpancakes1007]

Matt Walsh gives me such a bad feeling in my gut, in a way that his buddies like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson don't

[@mirrorXshard]

I think it's because Ben Shapiro comes off more as an opportunist and Jordan Peterson gives more "old man yelling at clouds," especially these days. Matt Walsh is so much more actively, knowingly malignant than either of them, and doesn't put much effort into trying to convince you otherwise. He's basically a walking example of the "Death of a Euphemism". Jordan and Shapiro could have been Fox news talking heads 20 years ago. Matt Walsh could only exist after 2016, when being unapologetically monstrous was objectively proven to be a winning strategy for conservative politics at the national level. People watch Ben Shapiro when they want to feel rational and superior. They watch Jordan Peterson when they want to feel deep. No one watches Matt Walsh for any of those things. They watch him to feel that any word or act of pure, unfiltered hatred they could possibly conjure would be righteous, applauded, and in the grand scheme of things, kinder to future generations that will no longer have to share the world with whatever he's telling them to destroy. He's offering his audience what many if them have always wanted: absolution through violence. In short, a crusade.

[@klrl93]

I’m a Social Studies teacher in the US. I can promise you most kids now know the bad shit Columbus did and don’t like him. In my own classroom, when it was Columbus Day, all of my students were shitting on him, and instead, we celebrated the other holiday on that day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

[@jokehu7115]

That also doesn’t sound healthy

[@klrl93]

@@jokehu7115 It doesn’t sound healthy for kids to know that Columbus committed genocide and that it’s bad, and openly expressing that it was terrible? Okay, go off.

[@jokehu7115]

@@klrl93 no these are historical People that lived centuries ago. Its the job of the teacher to just say the facts; good and bad. Like i dont get American culture on historical people. It feels like it’s more about emotion than trying to learn what happened in the text, why it was written down and what this meant in the big picture.

[@klrl93]

@@jokehu7115 And I did tell them the facts of the matter, and their reaction was negative because genocide is awful. Part of my job is to teach them empathy and critical thinking. I did not lead them to disliking Columbus, they already had that feeling because of his raping an murdering of indigenous people. I stated that he claimed to discover America and he did some pretty cruel things. Many students stated, “No he didn’t, there were people here already. Didn’t he kill a bunch of people? So why do we celebrate him?” I gave them an alternative with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Middle school students can come to those conclusions on their own with basic facts given to them.

[@jokehu7115]

@@klrl93 yeah honestly good job, be objective, tell the truth, and try learling what the sources meant. Dont lean in the innocent nature indian but also not the savage one. Race is bullshit only people in power and being afraid you don’t understand matter. But now im saying my political leaning so oops hahhaha

[@rebeccachambers4701]

Matt Walsh has logic is like a murderer going around killing people and then being like well look if I didn't go around killing those people you guys would have never had the opportunity to catch me.

[@samuelrosander1048]

"Why would you join the American Nazi party when you have the American Republican party?" Underrated.

[@feonjun]

The American conservatives keep bellowing about how Latin Americans are slowly taking over. He should should be happy with that.

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

From their perspective those pesky Latinos are actually superior. They not only steal jobs - they also are lazy and abuse social programs. I couldn't do both at the same time. I'm too white apparently It's the same thing with antisemitism. The way they describe Jewish people makes me think that they're inherently superior. Why persecute them then?

[@ryn2844]

That Walsh intro though. Like how would I even begin to argue with someone who is blatantly like 'yeah that genoc!de we did? That was good actually.'

[@reformedchater]

Bro that starting clip is insane wtf

[@quantafreeze]

It's so brazen. Great video.

[@Sandybowls_9001]

"Slavery was good actually" -Matt Walsh

[@JustChrisWillDoTa]

I often disagree with you on stuff. But your analysis at the start of this video is really solid. So many people don't even know what fascism is. Like, they think that for a state or group of people to be fascist they have to be there with death camps and a whole war machine on day 1. So many are so comfortable in our relatively stable society that we've all grown up in, that they just don't even recognise these fascists that are gaining more and more prominence for what they are. Matt Walsh is absurd with his Back to the Future what ifs. Ridiculous person. And he says how no black American would want to leave for an African country, well of course not, they're Americans that have grown up their whole lives in America. Idiotic justifications for having committed atrocities.

[@LenaFerrari]

I generally stay away from this type of person's arguments, for the sake of my peace of mind, so I had no idea it got this bad

[@the_regular_dinosaurus_rex]

i don't understand what walsh's probkem is... why cant you just say: "wow, what our ancestors did was terrible. im sorry for what was done to your ancestors. lets make sure something like that won't happen again." acknowledging your ancestors flaws doesnt make you personally a part of what happened two centuries ago.

[@beth7935]

I know, this just baffles me as a white Aussie. I have no problems saying the white invaders here committed genocide, & I benefit from it today. And even though it wasn't specifically my blood ancestors, that's only cos the invaders had been so "successful" before they arrived there was virtually no-one left to harm. They would've agreed with those actions though, & most importantly, they & I benefited hugely from the stolen land & our white privilege.

[@erikvan9582]

Because they want to keep their options open,sanitize these so it doesn't sound so unreasonable if such an event was to occur again

[@angelainamarie9656]

The reason is it cuz he's a fucking animal and he wants to keep all of that barbaric Behavior wide open for him to potentially engage in whenever he feels like it. He's a very very stupid and uneducated man and talks himself around in bulshit circles like people who don't know anything often do

[@beth7935]

@@BradLad56 LOL, you have no idea who my ancestors were. And you're deliberately misunderstanding my comment: I said myself that my ancestors arrived AFTER the invasion & genocide, _& that it's irrelevant._ You clearly don't understand Aussie history either, if you think the fact that they dragged out boatloads of convicts & set up a penal colony somehow means it wasn't an invasion. ...But hey, maybe you're one of those people who deny that ANY European colonisation was an invasion.

[@erikvan9582]

@@BradLad56 Yep,time makes ot ok to colonize and genocide

[@MalBeats]

I can't speak for all Americans but the only people I know who still celebrate Columbus are mostly older and white and most likely conservative, also many Italian Americans use him as symbol for Italian pride for some reason even though the things he did were not for Italy

[@MyPrideFlag]

Good job, you can't even differentiate between Italians and Portugese.

[@VictorLdVS]

He wasn't even Italian. The Italian nationality is a fairly new thing...

[@MalBeats]

I didn't say I thought he was one nationality or another. I merely stated the fact that many Italian Americans celebrate him as part of Italian American heritage. Similar to the way Rastafarians celebrate Hailie Selassie even though he was not involved nor believed in their religion.

[@VictorLdVS]

@@MalBeats I know, I was just saying that it's ridiculous that the "Italian"americans celebrate Columbus day, because he was genovese (not Italian), he only served the Spanish and he was a piece of shit.

[@JoanieDriftwood]

What an excellent, in-depth breakdown. Thank you.

[@_geno_]

matt walsh being slightly elongated in the thumbnail made me laugh really hard i dont know why

[@arnoldfreeman2885]

I can’t even stomach this, Matt Walsh is nauseating.

[@RecMike]

13:48 he talks about how great this is, but if we still lived like this, Matt Walsh isnt taking anything from anybody and he and his family are starving to death. Unless his wife is a huntress of some sort, they're starving.

[@missinterpretation4984]

I think they focus on men becoming women also because they see “women” as objects to gratify them and so they can’t fathom anyone being a woman who isn’t for that purpose. That’s why they get so mad when a larger woman is in a swimsuit magazine too. They can’t just not look if they don’t like it, they become furious. They don’t see women as humans.

[@rickybobby5153]

It’s the same reason why they go after gay men more than lesbian women

[@missinterpretation4984]

@@rickybobby5153 Exactly and they try to mask it in some type of morals like they’re just raging angry because god hates it but they never have that same energy for two girls hooking up.

[@shanefoster2132]

"Why is America so DAMN BIG?" By BadEmpanada Is an excellent video on some of the historical throughlines of the ideologies of Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum. Definitely worth consideration as are many of the videos he makes... on his main. His second channel is much more, uncouth.

[@loganmansiongames]

BadEmpanada is great!

[@sammfshields]

BadEmpanada is a wild character who seems genuinely driven to argue against the dumbest ideas out there, not motivated by money or fame, those are just a means to an end to keep up his platform of being passionately argumentative afloat. He is a very educated dude who is firm in his logic, almost always providing compelling arguments that are grounded in morality, a vast knowledge of history and politics. He seems personally angered by atrocities and injustices which reveals he has a genuine and deep empathy and a sense of humanity, but somehow he's kind of unlikable and antisocial. A true enigma who has definitely shone a light on some very important topics in a rigorous and detailed approach.

[@PinkPanda-Zx]

​@@sammfshieldsYup that's how I feel about him. Genuinely passionate guy who cares in an antisocial way lol. I wish he cleaned up his act, it really let's people dismiss him easily when he does insane shit like harass people on twitter

[@valkhorn6352]

While I completely disagree with the Daily Wire folks, I must say that I found the way you described how the history of Soviet war crimes in eastern europe was written by Germans highly problematic. These war crimes are pretty much confirmed at this point, and even soviet soldiers admitted them.

[@puffball4484]

Yeah absolutely. War brings out the worst in everyone and the Soviets absolutely committed atrocious acts particularly against East German women.

[@4urawrkr2]

I had to pause after he said "well, we may not have genocided the most brutally, but dammit we did it the best!"

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Much love from the old homeland of Kaliningrad, USSR

[@rationalfemale5717]

“Because it seems inseparable from the social idea and we do not believe that there could ever exist a state with lasting inner health if it is not built on internal social justice, and so we have joined forces with this knowledge.”

[@haiasieel6099]

Red Pilled Ned Flanders.

[@kelseastar950]

No, ned had some level of kindness and the ability to reflect on his actions. Plus he was rippling under that goofy sweater. Unlike doughboy map Walsh.

[@somik-i3x]

​@@kelseastar950Ned Flanders will beat the shit of Walsh and Knowles before going to church.

[@mypillowguy445]

You called?

[@kingbeef66]

More like Total Recall’s red pilled.

[@mcjaguilar8667]

​@soup that's why they said "red-pilled"

[@richardthemagician8991]

I'm 40 years old and watching this video today is the first time I'm hearing about how Hitler was inspired by the the American West. It's easy to keep a nation complacent when you keep them ignorant.