<p>On Friday, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh retweeted a post from NPR in which the news organization writes: “Elizabeth Warren has pledged to cancel up to $50,000 of debt for 95% of student loan borrowers if she&#8217;s elected president – and she says she could cancel those debts all on her own.”</p>
<p>Walsh wrote above the tweet:</p>
<blockquote><p>No such thing as &#8220;canceling&#8221; debt. If we&#8217;re being honest, we&#8217;d call it what it is: debt transfer. We&#8217;d be transferring debt from the people who took out the loans to people who did not take out the loans. Of course it sounds utterly unjust and crazy when you put it like that.</p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">No such thing as &#8220;canceling&#8221; debt. If we&#8217;re being honest, we&#8217;d call it what it is: debt transfer. We&#8217;d be transferring debt from the people who took out the loans to people who did not take out the loans. Of course it sounds utterly unjust and crazy when you put it like that. <a href="https://t.co/evrD4phn2O">https://t.co/evrD4phn2O</a></p>
<p>— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1218162030236008454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The article linked in NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796329598/cancelling-student-debt-is-easier-than-it-sounds?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=nprnews">tweet</a> suggests that Warren could accomplish the alleged “cancellation” of student debt without Congress.</p>
<p>Here’s the <a href="https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/student-loan-debt-day-one?source=soc-WB-ew-tw-rollout-20200114">direct text</a> from Warren’s own website:</p>
<blockquote><p>But the Department of Education already has broad legal authority to cancel student debt, and we can’t afford to wait for Congress to act. So I will start to use existing laws on day one of my presidency to implement my student loan debt cancellation plan that offers relief to 42 million Americans – in addition to using all available tools to address racial disparities in higher education, crack down on for-profit institutions, and eliminate predatory lending&#8230;</p>
<p>When I am president &#8230; I’ll direct the Secretary of Education to use their authority to begin to compromise and modify federal student loans consistent with my plan to cancel up to $50,000 in debt for 95% of student loan borrowers (about 42 million people).</p></blockquote>
<p>While Walsh’s tweet has more than 13,400 “likes” as of publication, and approximately 3,700 retweets, some commenters don’t seem to understand the idea that the government cannot “cancel” debt.</p>
<p>User @EllenGirl71 wrote: “There *is* debt forgiveness. It means that no one will be paying it back. The US government federal student loan debt can be forgiven any time the US govt decides to forgive it.”</p>
<p>There were numerous commenters who tried to argue with @EllenGirl71, but the following two exchanges were some of the more illuminating ones.</p>
<p>@MarkFidelman wrote: “Sorry Ellen, the money came from tax dollars or private investors. Someone lost in that transaction. It also sends a chilling message to future taxpayers and investors that the government can’t be trusted.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sorry Ellen, the money came from tax dollars or private investors. Someone lost in that transaction. It also sends a chilling message to future taxpayers and investors that the government can’t be trusted.</p>
<p>— Mark Fidelman (@markfidelman) <a href="https://twitter.com/markfidelman/status/1218553641616867329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Ellen replied: “The borrowers are also taxpayers, and they and the country are losing in this transaction. I would prefer that they spend that $1 trillion in the economy. The status quo of high household debt is the one unacceptable choice.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The borrowers are also taxpayers, and they and the country are losing in this transaction. I would prefer that they spend that $1 trillion in the economy. The status quo of high household debt is the one unacceptable choice.</p>
<p>— Ellen (@EllenGirl71) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenGirl71/status/1218608123830849536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In another exchange, @TheProbableMatt wrote: “It is absolutely magic. Grants &amp; gifts also cost money. Where is that money coming from? It has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is almost always future taxation rather than budget cut somewhere else. even then the federal govt does not generate income. They take ours.”</p>
<p>Ellen replied: “Nothing magical about forgiving a loan. It does not get transferred to someone else. No one else owes that money now. If I forgive you the 500 I lent you, no one else has to pay me back. The money just stays in your pocket.”</p>
<p>Matt shot back: “And it still came out of your pocket. You are expecting the government to eat the $500. The govt doesn&#8217;t eat money. They tax. This is how economics work.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Nothing magical about forgiving a loan. It does not get transferred to someone else. No one else owes that money now. If I forgive you the 500 I lent you, no one else has to pay me back. The money just stays in your pocket.</p>
<p>— Ellen (@EllenGirl71) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenGirl71/status/1218257303708880897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">And it still came out of your pocket. You are expecting the government to eat the $500. The govt doesn&#8217;t eat money. They tax. This is how economics work.</p>
<p>— Matt Meyer (@TheProbableMatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheProbableMatt/status/1218258168511434752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>As Walsh and others stated, debt cannot simply vanish. It must be shifted.</p>
<p>Here’s an imperfect and very simplified, but apt analogy.</p>
<p>There are five siblings. Two of the five went to college, while the other three started their adult lives working in trades. All five siblings live at home with their parents in their large house, and pay rent.</p>
<p>The two who went to college each borrowed $50,000 from their parents in order to obtain their degrees. So, in addition to paying their parents $700/month for rent, they shell out an additional $300/month in loan payments. That’s $1,000/month, respectively.</p>
<p>The two college-educated siblings are struggling, so their parents decide to “cancel” their collective debt. At this point, the combined debt of the two siblings stands at $60,000.</p>
<p>In order to recoup their investment, the parents who have “cancelled” the debts of their college-educated children raise the rent on all five siblings to $820/month, thus equally distributing the collective debt. Now, the college-educated siblings only pay an additional $120/month, but the three siblings who never borrowed any money in the first place have the $120/month burden as well.</p>
<p>This is a stripped down version of how such debt “cancellation” would work in a system in which individuals borrow money from the government.</p>
<p>Debt does not disappear, but is simply redistributed.</p>


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<p>At a Young America&#8217;s Foundation-sponsored event on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Tuesday evening, Daily Wire podcast host and columnist Matt Walsh addressed the growing war on masculinity, particularly as conducted through rhetoric about &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; and the excesses of the &#8220;MeToo&#8221; movement.  We are &#8220;ruining ours sons,&#8221; he said, by giving into the &#8220;worst kind of selfishness&#8221; and &#8220;narrow-mindedness&#8221; in our approach to boyhood and masculinity.</p>
<p>Among the ways that our increasingly &#8220;progressive&#8221; society is crushing boys, he explained in the speech, are the education system, which is effectively punishing standard male behavior, and the general denigration of masculinity, particularly in the form of the &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; rhetoric espoused by left-wing thought leaders.  Along with the proliferation of pornography and the promotion of gender confusion, specifically directed at boys, Walsh maintained, we are seeing an unprecedented war on boyhood that is destined to result in disaster.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Obviously, we need to teach our boys to be obedient and respectful, and they really do need to calm down sometimes and be quiet,&#8221; he said (video below). &#8220;But boys also need to be boys.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I’m afraid they’re not always given that opportunity these days because they’re always being told, no, stop, calm down, be quiet, sit still,&#8221; Walsh continued. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe in school we carve out 45 minutes for them to let out their energy — and I’m told now that even that, gym class, they’re getting rid of.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I think we are ruining our sons this way. We are robbing them of themselves,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s the worst kind of selfishness. It’s the worst kind of narrow-mindedness.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The problem is us, not them. We are the ones who need to change,&#8221; he asserted. &#8220;If there is no room in our schools, in our homes, in our culture, for boys who act like boys, then our schools and home and culture need to change. It’s that that is sick — not our boys. If we have established a system that cannot handle half of the kids who are fed into it, then the system is broken. Tear the system down. But leave the boys alone.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p>During the question and answer period after his speech, Walsh responded to one student who referenced the infamous &#8220;Toxic Masculinity&#8221; ad by Gillette and asked w<span style="font-weight: 400;">hat impact condemning men simply trying to come on to women as inherently &#8220;toxic&#8221; will have on young men. </span></p>
<p>Walsh pointed to the MeToo movement as part of the problem.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I think this is something we can thank the MeToo movement for as well, in part,&#8221; he said.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, we should obviously be respectful of women,&#8221; he said, then turned to Gillette ad. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">That commercial is interesting, that one scene you’re talking about, where the attractive woman walks by. The other guy, it looks like he’s just going to go up and talk to her. The dude is like, &#8216;Hey dude, wrong, wrong.&#8217; Why is that wrong? It’s wrong to just go talk to a woman? I can’t even do that?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It’s a subtle thing in that commercial, but that does seem to be the message that you hear from feminists,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That oftentimes if you’re propositioning a woman, even in the sense of just asking for a date, and she’s not interested, then that could be ‘harassment,&#8217; you could be ‘harassing’ her. And I think it does make it very difficult for normal interactions between the sexes to take place.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>&#8220;Nobody would label all women ‘dangerous’ or ‘potential monsters to be feared,’ as someone from The New York Times once said about men,&#8221; Walsh said earlier in his speech.</p>
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<p>&#8220;If stoicism, competitiveness and aggression are ‘on the whole harmful,’ then manhood itself is harmful,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;These traits are natural to men. Not every man has them to the same degree, and perhaps some men hardly display them at all, but in general, men are more emotionally reserved, more aggressive, more competitive, and more physically dominant. It didn’t become this way because society engineered it. It already was this way, it has always been this way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Along with taking action to combat porn, make schools less hostile to half the population, and defend inherently masculine traits, Walsh argued that the most important thing we can do to give boys a fighting chance in our culture is the increased presence of fathers.</p>
<p>&#8220;The culture comes like the snake in the garden, and says ‘Go that way.’ And if the boy follows, he will be lead, potentially, into a lifetime of failure and misery,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;That is where the father is needed. To come to the rescue. To stomp on the serpent. To take his boy’s hand, to look him in the eye, to tell him ‘You are a boy. And that is good. And that is wonderful. And one day you will be a man. I will show you how. I will show you the way. Follow me.&#8217; That is what a boy needs. Many will never get it. And we will hate them for what they become. But it didn’t have to turn out that way. If only someone had been there. If only they’d been given a chance.&#8221;</p>
<p>Watch the full speech below:</p>
<p><iframe title="How Modern Culture Destroys Masculinity | Matt Walsh Speaks at Milwaukee University" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MaA0MEPdN_I?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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WATCH: Matt Walsh: The Left’s ‘Toxic Masculinity,’ ‘MeToo’ Agenda Is Crushing Boys

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<p>On the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Tuesday evening, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh gave a speech on how our modern culture is destroying masculinity.</p>
<p>Walsh pinpointed four areas where our culture is destroying boys, namely the complete saturation of pornography, the female-tailored education system, the denigration of masculinity, and intentional gender confusion directed at boys.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Our culture preys on a boy&#8217;s weaknesses,&#8221; Walsh outlined. &#8220;Let’s imagine the world the average 13-year-old boy inhabits. He has long since been exposed to hardcore pornography, and probably watches it regularly. Average age of first exposure is now 10. Perhaps younger, depending on what study you read. Then puberty hits. His hormones are going haywire. His brain is hardwiring itself to focus obsessively on sex. He cannot really help it. He feels the biological impulse to go out and find a sexual partner, though he does not understand this urge and his conception of human sexuality has been perverted and confused by the porn habit he developed in sixth grade.&#8221;</p>
<p>Boys cannot escape sex, he emphasized. &#8220;It is all over his computer. All over his phone. All over social media. All over the TV. All over the music he listens to. All over everywhere.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems that everyone is doing everything they can to make a degenerate and a creep out of him, even as they demand that he be the opposite of that,&#8221; Walsh said, noting that we are providing boys &#8220;no tools&#8221; to navigate this.</p>
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<p>&#8220;And even if the boy possesses the almost superhuman moral fortitude required to pursue chastity and purity in the midst of the sex-choked fog that engulfs him, he will only meet mockery and discouragement from our society,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;The very people who demand that he &#8216;respect women&#8217; and &#8216;control himself&#8217; will heap scorn on him if he tries to do exactly that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Next, Walsh targeted the education system, which he argued is tailor-made for females and works to punish boys, especially by over-diagnosing male students with &#8220;disorders&#8221; for simply exhibiting behaviors normal in boys.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The typical classroom environment is torture for a boy. It penalizes him for being himself. It penalizes him for being a boy,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;&#8230; Boys get lower grades. Boys are more likely to drop out. Boys are more likely to be expelled. Perhaps worst of all, boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;By high school, 20% of boys — 20% — are diagnosed with ADHD. And yet, we never stop to ask ourselves why boys are more susceptible to this mysterious mental condition. We never stop to consider that perhaps we are not so much diagnosing boys as we are diagnosing <i>boyhood</i>,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The problem is us, not them,&#8221; Walsh asserted. &#8220;We are the ones who need to change. If there is no room in our schools, in our homes, in our culture, for boys who act like boys, then our schools and our homes and our culture — not our boys — are sick. If we have established a system that cannot handle half of the kids who are fed into it, then the system is broken. Tear the system down. But leave the boys alone.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Boys are also hit with challenges, the &#8220;<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-unholy-trinity-matt-walsh/1123861359/2661689867322?st=PLA&amp;sid=BNB_ADL+Marketplace+Generic+New+Books+-+Desktop+Medium&amp;sourceId=PLAGoNA&amp;dpid=tdtve346c&amp;2sid=Google_c&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5PiX7-v35QIVFKSzCh0vSQ6dEAQYAiABEgIZ6_D_BwE">Unholy Trinity</a>&#8221; author argued, due to deluge of media denigration of masculinity.</p>
<p>Nobody would dare mock femininity as &#8220;toxic&#8221; or &#8220;fragile,&#8221; but these types of attacks on masculinity is commonplace, he said. &#8220;Nobody would label all women &#8216;dangerous&#8217; or &#8216;potential monsters to be feared,&#8217; as someone from The New York Times once said about men.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;If stoicism, competitiveness and aggression are &#8216;on the whole harmful,&#8217; then manhood itself is harmful. These traits are natural to men. Not every man has them to the same degree, and perhaps some men hardly display them at all, but in general, men are more emotionally reserved, more aggressive, more competitive, and more physically dominant,&#8221; the columnist continued. &#8220;It didn’t become this way because society engineered it. It already was this way, it has always been this way.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Society didn’t invent masculinity. Society, rather, noticed masculinity,&#8221; Walsh said, noting that masculinity is &#8220;ingrained&#8221; and &#8220;innate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lastly, Walsh spoke about the clear effort being made to confuse children about their gender, highlighting boys as the prime target here.</p>
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<p>&#8220;There has been, as you may have noticed, an overwhelming push in recent years to impose gender confusion onto children. Boys seem to be the special targets; they seem to be the ones who most commonly fall victim to it,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Drag Queen Story Hours, Walsh said, can now be found at libraries across the country, including in red states. &#8220;What is the purpose of that? The purpose, quite plainly, is to normalize, that is promote, this kind of lifestyle to children. There could be no other reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>As for how we tackle this concerted attack on our boys, Walsh suggested we implement &#8220;good laws&#8221; targeting pornography, protecting children and taking on the education system to make it more localized and less one-size-fits-all.</p>
<p>The main solution offered by Walsh was the presence of fathers &#8212; fathers who teach their sons that they are not toxic or bad by nature of their biology and guide them appropriately.</p>
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<p>&#8220;A boy feels the indescribable, uncontainable urge to go out into the wild and find fulfillment in <i>something — something out there — </i>but he doesn’t know precisely what or where,&#8221; Walsh started his powerful closing remarks.</p>
<p>&#8220;The culture comes like the snake in the garden, and says &#8216;Go that way.&#8217; And if the boy follows, he will be lead, potentially, into a lifetime of failure and misery. That is where the father is needed. To come to the rescue. To stomp on the serpent. To take his boy’s hand, to look him in the eye, to tell him &#8216;You are a boy. And that is good. And that is wonderful. And one day you will be a man. I will show you how. I will show you the way. Follow me,'&#8221; he continued.</p>
<p>&#8220;That is what a boy needs. Many will never get it. And we will hate them for what they become. But it didn’t have to turn out that way. If only someone had been there. If only they’d been given a chance,&#8221; concluded Walsh.</p>
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WATCH: Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh On Modern Culture Destroying Masculinity

<p>Last week, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University addressing the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-shapiro-dismantles-the-alt-right-and-radical-lefts-dangerous-game">dangerous game</a>&#8221; being played by the Alt-Right, whose leaders he condemned as espousing racist and anti-Semitic views based on logically flawed, often self-contradictory premises. As followers of the fringe movement have been doing at recent conservative events, hecklers showed up to Shapiro&#8217;s next campus speech, this time at Boston University, to try to trap him with trolling questions. Shapiro responded by efficiently exposing the flawed arguments of his challengers (video below).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/livestream-ben-shapiro-america-wasnt-built-on-slavery">Shapiro&#8217;s Boston University speech</a> Wednesday was dedicated to responding to the Left&#8217;s claim that &#8220;America was built on slavery.&#8221; The Left&#8217;s view of the country, Shapiro argued, is based on reductive, historically illiterate presuppositions that result in a false vision of what actually defines the country. The traditional, conservative view of the country remains true, Shapiro contended.</p>
<p>&#8220;America was built on eternally good and true principles, springing from both the Judeo-Christian ethic and English culture, rooted in natural law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those principles were denied in practice by many of the same people who promoted them in theory, but those theories were valid — and remain valid. The story of America, therefore, is a story of the broadening application of those principles — the perfection of our Union, the fulfillment of the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. This view certainly does not deny the evils and horrors of slavery and Jim Crow, or the savage brutality of the dispossession of Native Americans. But this view does recognize a simple truth: the state of the world, historically, has been replete with such evil, horror, and brutality — and America, unlike other nations, has fought, over time, to wipe them away at home and abroad.&#8221;</p>
<p>Following the sold-out event, Shapiro took questions from some of the audience members, as usual prioritizing those who disagree with him. Among the questioners were some apparent followers of an &#8220;America First&#8221; group led by an Alt-Right influencer who has been encouraging his supporters to crash conservative events, as they did at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-daily-wires-matt-walsh-slaps-down-alt-right-hecklers">speech by Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh</a> a few weeks go. Like Walsh, Shapiro had no problem handling the hecklers.</p>
<p>The first &#8220;America First&#8221; defender started by saying that Shapiro once described Donald Trump among others as &#8220;Alt-Right&#8221; and then said: &#8220;It seems like conservatives like you, like [Turning Point USA founder] Charlie Kirk, and [Texas Republican Rep.] Dan Crenshaw, feel threatened by &#8216;America First&#8217; conservatives and &#8216;America First&#8217; ideas. Is that why you&#8217;re smearing them as Alt-Right racists, homophobic, and all these other things, instead of actually addressing them and debating them?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;First of all, I&#8217;m happy to address any ideas; I&#8217;m not happy to debate somebody who has joked about murdering me,&#8221; said Shapiro, referencing past comments and actions of the Alt-Right influencer behind the hecklers&#8217; questions.</p>
<p>Shapiro then explained why he described as &#8220;Alt-Right-adjacent&#8221; some of the people the questioner named, including Trump. &#8220;If you look at Donald Trump, who I said overtly in 2016 &#8216;flirted with the Alt-Right&#8217; because he did in April and May of 2016. &#8230; Donald Trump, thank God, has forcibly expelled many of the people who were Alt-Right adjacent, like Steve Bannon, from his administration.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;As far as the idea that I am somehow refusing to debate lower levels of immigration, that is obviously untrue,&#8221; said Shapiro. &#8220;You can go watch an hour-long interview that I did with the aforementioned Ann Coulter back before 2016 about a book she did on immigration — it&#8217;s all about lowering levels of immigration. If we&#8217;re talking about tariffs, happy to have that conversation. I had it with Tucker Carlson. If we&#8217;re talking about a more isolationist foreign policy, I&#8217;ve had that conversation with many, many people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I said this in my speech at Stanford, which people are willfully ignoring: I&#8217;m not arguing that people that hold those views are quote-unquote Alt-Right,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;The Alt-Right is a very specific viewpoint that sees the problem in America as a problem of demographics, that suggest that white nationalism is the answer to that problem, that suggest that the problem with immigration is not a problem of culture or assimilation, the problem in America is a problem of what race the people are that are coming into the country. That is not a point of view that is even in the realm of the  sort of a Paleocon viewpoint. That is a view that is actively Alt-Right.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the questioner accused Shapiro again of &#8220;smearing&#8221; those who disagree with him, Shapiro rattled off a list of disturbing comments and actions from the Alt-Right influencer behind the organized effort to troll the speech. &#8220;I think it is a sin for people to conflate mainstream conservatism with that kind of garbage,&#8221; said Shapiro, the audience erupting in applause at the assertion.</p>
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<p><iframe title="White Nationalist Alt-Right Trolls Try To Trap Ben Shapiro; Fail Miserably" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OGrWly5uNUI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>On the campus of Cal State LA on Tuesday, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh offered the audience a chance to ask some questions after his speech on &#8220;the Left&#8217;s plan to redefine life marriage and gender.&#8221; Among those who lined up to talk with Walsh were some hecklers that are a part of an organized attempt led by an Alt-Right online personality to disrupt conservative events. The exchanges didn&#8217;t go well for the hecklers.</p>
<p>Walsh closed his speech by urging rational argumentation over being &#8220;intellectually lazy&#8221; and &#8220;hiding behind a fortress of ignorance while flinging labels at opponents.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Calling someone bigoted is not an argument,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Accusing them of homophobia or racism or sexism or transphobia, or any other -phobia or -ism you can think of, is not an argument — it is a tantrum. It is a way of shutting down debate, not engaging it. If someone has really put forth a bigoted argument, you should have no trouble disproving it. It should be very easy to do. If you can&#8217;t, then perhaps that means there&#8217;s more to that point of view than you think.&#8221;</p>
<p>The first person in line for the Q&amp;A after Walsh&#8217;s speech was a formally dressed young man with a pre-written question focused on Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a Christian, how do you get past working for someone who originally contributed to shaming the Covington Catholic kids by retweeting left-wing attacks and called Jesus a &#8216;Jewish rebel who tried to lead a revolt against Romans and got killed for his trouble&#8217;?&#8221; he asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wait, you&#8217;re telling me that my Jewish boss doesn&#8217;t believe that Jesus is the son of God?&#8221; Walsh responded in his trademark sarcasm. &#8220;My god, I&#8217;m scandalized by this! I had no idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>Walsh then helped the heckler out by phrasing his question more directly: &#8220;As a Christian, how do I justify working for someone who is not a Christian?&#8221; he said. &#8220;I find that to be a total non sequitur.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Who blasphemed Christ. That&#8217;s my main question,&#8221; the questioner interjected.</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you suggesting everyone who is not Christian is guilty of blasphemy?&#8221; Walsh asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;You are a Christian, and you are working for someone who blasphemed Christ, Jesus Christ,&#8221; the self-described Catholic questioner responded.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just to clarify, you&#8217;re not going to work for anyone who&#8217;s not Christian — that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re saying?&#8221; said Walsh.</p>
<p>When the questioner said &#8220;not if they publicly state&#8221; something blasphemous about Christ &#8220;to millions upon millions of people,&#8221; Walsh added sarcastically, &#8220;I promise, when I get back to the studio, I&#8217;m going to talk to Ben and tell him, &#8216;You must be a Christian right now,&#8217; because that is unacceptable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If you have worked for any non-Christian, then you have worked for people who feel exactly that same way about Jesus,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;Because there are 7 billion people on earth; 5 billion of them are not Christian.&#8221; Making employment decisions based on people&#8217;s lack of faith in Christ, said Walsh, is &#8220;totally absurd.&#8221;</p>
<p>The next questioner brought up the guy that is helping orchestrate the Alt-Right hecklers, who recently <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/10/30/alt-right-charlie-kirk-antagonist-nick-fuentes-holocaust-denial-routine-is-one-of-the-most-utterly-disgusting-things-ive-ever-seen-in-my-life-video/">scoffed</a> at estimates that some 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and who has been pounding his chest on his show about his followers crashing events, including a recent <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/10/30/charlie-kirk-and-rob-smith-slap-down-white-nationalist-and-anti-gay-trolls-at-tpusa-event-chris-hayes-hardest-hit/">event</a> featuring TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Recently you got into a little bit of a Twitter spat with [known Alt-Right leader],&#8221; said the second questioner. &#8220;You went on your show and called him a punk and said he became a neo-Nazi to get attention. You said if someone&#8217;s arguments are truly bigoted, they should be easy to disprove. So will you have a conversation with [the Alt-Right leader] and if not, isn&#8217;t that kind of the same thing you just said that we shouldn&#8217;t do, you know, labeling people to shut down conversations?&#8221;</p>
<p>Walsh responded by providing some context to his online dispute with the Alt-Righter.</p>
<p>&#8220;That little back and forth began because your buddy &#8230; went on his show, or whatever it is, having a tantrum — even though I hadn&#8217;t said anything to him,&#8221; Walsh explained. &#8220;I think what I had done is I had actually tweeted that the guy who killed a bunch of Mexicans was a racist piece of sh**. Which I stand by. For some reason, &#8230; that upset him. He didn&#8217;t like that — talk about blasphemy, I&#8217;d blasphemed a mass shooter. He went off on a rant, started calling me homophobic slurs, that I&#8217;m a race traitor because I work for Jews &#8230; &#8221;</p>
<p>Walsh then addressed the questioner&#8217;s initial query: &#8220;Do I want to have a debate with him about whether I am those homophobic slurs or whether a race traitor working for Jews? No, I don&#8217;t think I need to debate with him — for the same reason I don&#8217;t need to debate a 6-year-old who&#8217;s crying because I took away the lollipop.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Highlights of Walsh&#8217;s responses (full video below):</em></p>
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<p>Shapiro and The Daily Wire have long been targets of the Alt-Right. A study by the Anti-Defamation League found that Shapiro was the number one target of the Alt-Right in 2016. The Daily Wire was one of the first outlets on the right to come out in unequivocal condemnation of the Alt-Right movement. As laid out in a piece by Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles in September 2016 (“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actual-conservatives-guide-alt-right-8-things-you-michael-knowles">An Actual Conservative’s Guide To The Alt-Right: 8 Things You Need To Know”</a>), &#8220;racism is not a fringe element of the Alt-Right; it’s the movement’s central premise.&#8221; The movement focuses on &#8220;white identity&#8221; ideology, Knowles writes, and it&#8217;s leaders are &#8220;explicitly anti-Semitic,&#8221; as the leader of the heckler&#8217;s rhetoric demonstrates.</p>
<p>The Alt-Right, The Daily Wire has consistently maintained, &#8220;is <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19658/7-things-you-need-know-about-charlottesville-ben-shapiro">not conservative</a>; its leaders vociferously reject prominent conservative thinkers, ideas of human equality, core Judeo-Christian values, and the concept of America as a nation built on ideas, rather than racial or ethnic identity.&#8221;</p>
<p>The coordinated targeting of Walsh&#8217;s speech by Alt-Righters comes just days after the Boston Globe published a column smearing The Daily Wire as a “white supremacist-adjacent alt-right outpost.”</p>
<p>“Most recently we’ve seen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stammering before a congressional committee as he tried to shove his proprietary cryptocurrency, Libra, into reality, but ended up hitting a wall as committee members grilled him over the company’s ‘say whatever’ to political advertising,” the article read. “In response, we saw him launch a repurposed ‘News’ section that sets up partnerships between the networks and a ‘wide range’ of publishers (including white supremacist-adjacent alt-right outposts like The Daily Wire — because … news?).”</p>
<p>Walsh was among those who publicly shamed the Boston Globe for printing the smear.</p>
<p>“Boston Globe calls the Daily Wire an ‘alt-right outpost.’ Meanwhile the alt-right despises everyone who works at the Daily Wire, has targeted all of us with harassment and hate mail, and is planning to sabotage our events. [Boston Globe] needs to delete this bullsh** and apologize,” wrote Walsh. “Before you call any of us alt-right, why don’t you idiots actually ask the alt-right if we’re on their team. They’ll tell you, emphatically, no.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Before you call any of us alt-right, why don&#8217;t you idiots actually ask the alt-right if we&#8217;re on their team. They&#8217;ll tell you, emphatically, no.</p>
<p>— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1190261726035484672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After backlash, the Boston Globe issued a correction. “Because of a reporting error, the <a href="http://twitter.com/Large">@Large</a> column in today’s Arts section, which is printed in advance, mischaracterizes the conservative media outlet The Daily Wire,” the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/11/02/for-record/IHSagsyowMOcuccDWB4IWJ/story.html">correction</a> reads. “Its founder, Ben Shapiro, has spoken out against the alt-right. The Globe regrets the error.”</p>
<p><em>Full video of Walsh&#8217;s Q&amp;A below (relevant section begins at around the 42:55-minute mark):</em></p>
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<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actual-conservatives-guide-alt-right-8-things-you-michael-knowles">An Actual Conservative’s Guide To The Alt-Right: 8 Things You Need To Know</a></strong></p>


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