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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 57 - Stop Trying To Erase The Past

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Laura Ingalls Wilder is the latest (white) historical figure to be posthumously condemned and shunned for her “cultural insensitivity” and “racism.” On the show today I will explain why it is incredibly stupid, and pointless, and hypocritical, to judge historical people for their old fashioned ideas about race. 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. I must show a couple days ago we discussed the effort to, that's been

0:34.7

going on for quite some time now, to erase our national history and to indict the heroic

0:40.7

figures who built our civilization. And I pointed out that while the pioneers, explorers,

0:46.9

conquerors, settlers, pilgrims, founders were not perfect by any stretch of the imagination,

0:54.9

they still accomplished great things and many of them were great people. And so we should

1:00.4

look to them and admire them, honor them, and yes, build statues to them and everything.

1:06.0

And I also pointed out that while we hold, you know, these western figures to this

1:12.9

modern standard, we hold them to a modern standard, especially on racial issues and we spit

1:19.4

on their graves, graves if they don't live up to it. While we do that, you don't find

1:26.4

that in any other country, in any other culture, that's not going on in any other country

1:30.2

or culture, it's only in the West. They're not doing the same thing with their own heritage

1:34.6

and their own historic heroes and we don't expect them to. So I went to, on the show,

1:39.3

I went into extensive detail just as an example talking about how many Native American

1:45.1

tribes and civilizations were unspeakably brutal, murderous, in some cases cannibalistic,

1:52.0

they raped, enslaved, destroyed, you know, human sacrifice is so on and so forth. Yet

1:58.4

nobody would ever tell a Native American not to be proud of their heritage, nobody would

2:02.7

tell them not to honor their historical heroes, their historical figures that only happens

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