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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 103 - Why It's Impossible To Have Fruitful Debates In Our Culture

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Norm MacDonald is the latest public figure to feel the wrath of the outrage mob for making a perfectly valid point about a contentious issue. This is how things go in America now. Nobody is allowed to think for themselves or introduce a divergent opinion into the mix. Nuance and subtlety are rejected. People just want to hear their own shallow thoughts repeated back to them. Fruitful debate will be impossible in this country until we learn how to engage ideas that differ from our own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So, Norm McDonald, the comedian Norm McDonald is the latest to end

0:35.5

up getting trampled by the pitchfork mob. And this was, I mean, this was inevitable.

0:41.6

This was going to happen with Norm McDonald because he's known for being irreverent and

0:44.9

politically incorrect and all that. And also he's got a Netflix show coming out. So, he's

0:50.1

been, he has poked his head up above everybody else and made himself visible. And once you

0:56.7

do that, then they're going to come after you and try to beat you back down. That's the

1:01.2

way it goes. So, his appearance on the tonight show was canceled a couple nights ago amid

1:09.3

outcry over some comments that he made, comments that allegedly minimized sexual assault and

1:14.9

racism. And supposedly, these comments read the comments to you in a minute, but his comments

1:20.9

were so terrible that they made some producers on the tonight show cry. The Jimmy Fallon

1:27.6

came in before they were about to go on air and said, you know, my producers are in tears.

1:32.9

And now I can't, these were comments that Norm McDonald made to the Hollywood reporter.

1:40.7

He was giving an interview with the Hollywood reporter. I can't imagine reading an interview

1:48.9

in the Hollywood reporter with a comedian and weeping. I can't imagine anything. I mean,

1:53.8

literally, I cannot think of a single thing a comedian in the Hollywood reporter could

1:59.6

say that would make me weep. I just can't imagine what that would be. But that's what

2:06.5

happened. So, the appearance was canceled. And then, and then, you know, there have been

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