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Joe Biden travels to Buffalo to declaim on the soul of America; and we review last night’s fascinating primary results. 

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a pansexual teacher is fired in Florida for discussing sexuality with her kids. Was the school justified? Of course it was, but we’ll discuss. Also, Joe Biden claims that the right to kill babies comes from God. Dr. Oz is called out for his pro-abortion views during the GOP primary debate in Pennsylvania. Dave Chapelle is assaulted on stage during a comedy show. This is becoming a trend. NASA scientists sexually harass ET with unsolicited nudes. And in our Daily Cancellation, we’ll deal with what might be the dumbest and most morally debased argument in favor of abortion that we’ve heard from the left since the Supreme Court news broke. We’ll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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OSHA announces they will be putting their unconstitutional vaxx mandate on hold as cases spike in heavily vaccinated states; the Kyle Rittenhouse trial hits another speed bump; and Democrats vote to censure a Republican Congressman for an anime cartoon.

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Republican cancel culture comes for the Cheneys, Mark Zuckerberg’s private Supreme Court upholds Facebook’s decision to suspend Donald Trump, and new Census figures show that an increasingly diverse electorate may not help Democrats as much as the party has hoped. Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren talks to Jon Favreau about her new book, Persist, and whether she has a plan to deal with Joe Manchin.

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I’ve been thinking lately about how to move beyond the binary debate over cancel culture. And a good place to start is with the deeper question we’re all trying to ask: What is the kind of politics — the kind of society — we’re trying to achieve in our fights over acceptable speech?

To talk through this question, I wanted to bring on two guests, both of whom have been canceled — one by the left and one by the right — and have since dedicated parts of their work to grappling with both the good and the bad of the phenomenon. When is cancellation merited or useful? When is it insufficient or harmful? And what other tools are available in those cases?

Natalie Wynn runs the YouTube channel ContraPoints. Her videos, on topics ranging from cancel culture to J.K. Rowling, are not only intellectually stimulating and aesthetically rich but also deeply humanizing. What sets Wynn apart is a unique capacity to live inside the heads of those she disagrees with vehemently and bring them into a dialogue with her.

Will Wilkinson was the vice president for research at the Niskanen Center. He was fired after a right-wing online mob attacked a clearly satirical tweet he’d sent. Since being canceled, Wilkinson has, surprisingly, become one of the most outspoken critics of the anti-cancel-culture discourse. He now writes the great newsletter Model Citizen, hosts a podcast of the same name and contributes to Times Opinion.

The result is a very different kind of cancel culture conversation. We discuss the universal yearning for safe spaces, the psychology of the social media pile-on, the political limits of social shame, the pathways to persuasion and humanization, theories of social change, the virtues of an effective political communicator, how social media shapes the way we act and think online and much, much more.

Mentioned in this episode: 

"A Different Way of Thinking About Cancel Culture" by Ezra Klein

“Canceling” by ContraPoints 

“J.K. Rowling” by ContraPoints

“Undefined Cancel Game” by Will Wilkinson 

“The Boring Truth vs ‘Cancel Culture’ Panic” by Will Wilkinson 

Recommendations: 

"Conflict is Not Abuse" by Sarah Schulman

"The Tao is Silent" by Raymond Smullyan

If you enjoyed this show, you should check out The Argument's recent episode: "Is It Time to Cancel Cancel Culture?" 

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Trump tells the General Services Administration to begin the transition process for Joe Biden; Biden picks his cabinet, and it’s all DC establishment insiders; and Democrats push more covid lockdowns…but not for themselves.

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Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan sing the praises of President Trump.

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After an extraordinarily contentious first debate between Trump and Biden, Democrats float cancelling further debates, and the media press forward the accusation that Trump is soft on white supremacy.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as the backlash against the child-sexualizing Cuties movie on Netflix grows, it’s important for us to take a step back and understand that the movie fits into a larger and diabolical trend in our culture. Also Five Headlines including an interesting expose on the privileged lives of some of the rioters arrested in New York. And in our Daily Cancellation, I’ll address the media outrage about fans in Kansas City last night who allegedly booed “racial unity.”

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The RNC begins as we preview the first night of primetime; Joe Biden suggests that he might lock down the entire American economy again over covid; and an Atlantic contributor says America is just like Nazi Germany.

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Joe Biden introduces Kamala Harris as his vice presidential pick, while the media run cover for her radicalism; Trump looks for an angle of attack; and the media can’t handle good news on covid.

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Congressional Democrats grill Attorney General Bill Barr but end up looking idiotic; Joe Biden finally condemns violence…sort of; and covid begins to tail off in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

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