Chapter 1: What controversy did Matt Walsh's 'Real History' series provoke?
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, my new series, Real History, has provoked the ire of the libs over at The Atlantic who accuse me of trying to understate the brutality and evil of slavery, which is strange considering the fact that my series actually tells you much more about the brutality and evil of slavery than any of these people ever will.
Also, AOC makes her debut on the world stage and proceeds to totally humiliate herself as she attempts to issue her indictment of Western civilization and quote unquote whiteness. Plus, yet another trans mass shooting has occurred and an HGTV personality Let's say racial slurs slip out on camera.
She's been apologizing and prostrating herself in hopes of forgiveness, but we know how that turns out. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. I've released enough documentaries over the years to recognize something of a pattern emerging in terms of how the left will respond. There are really only two options.
Either they'll ignore my documentary entirely, which is how most of the media responded to Am I Racist, despite the fact that it was the top documentary of the decade, or in the alternative, they'll publish extremely low effort, highly dishonest articles where they review some imaginary version of the film, put words into my mouth and take every important scene out of context.
That was the case with What is a Woman when outlet after outlet accused me of being a transphobe who engaged in hate speech, even though 99% of the movie, of course, involved me asking basic straightforward questions to self-described experts in gender ideology. And the other 1% was me asking why those experts were running away from me instead of answering my simple and straightforward questions.
So based on these experiences, when I released the first episode of my newest series at The Daily Wire, which is called Real History, I was expecting either a total media blackout or a flood of desperate hit pieces. After all, real history is a direct challenge to some of the most important tenets of modern leftism.
But interestingly enough, real history has not been met with a total media blackout, nor has it been bombarded with a series of incredibly dumb and lazy smears.
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Chapter 2: How did AOC perform on the world stage during her debut?
Instead, aside from a small number of YouTube videos from historians, which have mostly been positive and very thorough, only mainstream response to real history has come from the Atlantic magazine, which considers itself to be the bastion of left-wing intellectual thought. And right away, that got my attention. It's not that The Atlantic is a trustworthy outlet. It's obviously not.
In fact, they've created numerous high-level hoaxes in just the past couple of years solely to influence elections. But at the same time, if The Atlantic and only The Atlantic is coming after you, then it means you've done something unique. It means that you've rattled the people who, in elite circles of the Democrat Party, are taken very seriously. Now, why might real history have done that?
Well, to answer that question, let's see what The Atlantic says specifically.
Chapter 3: What recent incident involving a trans individual was discussed?
Quote, Matt Walsh would like you to know you've been lied to. Last month, the right wing provocateur appeared on Megyn Kelly's show to discuss his new video series, Real History with Matt Walsh. In Walsh's account, the left believes that America was built on slavery and it has no right to exist. And every white American carries somehow that legacy, that guilt in their blood.
Therefore, progressives feel they have the moral justification to do whatever they want to white people.
Chapter 4: What was the response to the HGTV personality's use of a racial slur?
Walsh intends to stop this. So in real history, he relentlessly downplays the brutality of slavery in the United States. Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump, a malignant response to the progressive left's oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.
But the truest understanding of slavery doesn't serve any political faction. Rather, it acknowledges the horrors of racial oppression while still allowing us to see beyond them.
Walsh also notes that the descendants of Africans trafficked to what became the United States are now in better socioeconomic shape than those whose ancestors were made in the Old World or transported to Latin America or the Caribbean. He draws an odious conclusion from this. American slavery wasn't that bad, yet the point is not entirely incorrect.
Chapter 5: How does Matt Walsh analyze media responses to his documentaries?
Other far more serious thinkers have made versions of it too. Well, there's the sneering that you might expect from the Atlantic. So they have to acknowledge that my point is actually correct, but it's coming from a person who's not a serious thinker. And so, you know, it doesn't count.
But, you know, for all their preening and all their arrogance, it's clear that the author of this hit piece, Thomas Chatterton Williams, has not even watched episode one of Real History. He couldn't be bothered to spend the hour actually watching the show that we put out before he decided to write about it.
And I can make that claim with confidence because there's absolutely nothing in the episode or any episode of the series that relentlessly downplays the brutality of slavery in the United States. That never happens. Instead, the episode is roughly an hour long, and it's a look at what slavery entailed all over the world.
And yes, as a matter of historical fact, Africans and the Barbary pirates and the Ottomans generally treated their slaves far, far worse than Americans and American colonists. That's just a fact.
Americans weren't known for floating canoes in the blood of their slaves, for example, nor were Americans known for sailing thousands of miles away in order to snatch men, women, and children from their homes, throw them onto boats, and sexually assault them. That's not downplaying anything. It's just the truth.
And serious thinkers, to use the Atlantic's terminology, care about the truth above all else, if they are serious thinkers. But the Atlantic doesn't care about the truth. And that's why in 2019, they published an article entitled, The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts. Now, what's remarkable about this headline is that indeed, the fight over the 1619 Project was about the facts.
All of the history was completely wrong, including their claim that Americans fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery. But the Atlantic ran cover for the 1619 Project at the time because it served the narrative of the Democrat Party. It advanced racial grievances, which they saw, correctly for a time, as a pathway to power. Now, the point of real history, on the other hand,
is not to advance the interests of the MAGA movement or anyone else. The point is to communicate historically accurate information that is deliberately hidden from us at every stage of our lives. Schools don't talk about it. The media doesn't talk about it. Movies don't portray it. Telling the truth is not downplaying anything.
By contrast, it's the fake intellectuals on the left, people like the writers at The Atlantic, who've been downplaying the reality of the African and Ottoman slave trade for generations. And largely they downplay it by just not acknowledging that it even happened. But according to the Atlantic, so-called MAGA revisionists, along with the Trump administration, well, they're the real problem here.
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Chapter 6: What criticisms did The Atlantic have regarding 'Real History'?
Eliminating an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, where George Washington's house once stood, the exhibit honored nine slaves who toiled at the residence. Trump and his allies seem unwilling to tolerate virtually any acknowledgement that America subjugated Black people.
Rather than making a dispassionate case against the idea that our country was founded to enslave Africans, MAGA is taking down plaques commemorating basic facts, such as Washington's slaveholding. In real history, Walsh turns the clock back further still. So you notice the sleight of hand trick that they're pulling here.
They're strongly implying that the Trump administration ordered the Park Service to remove an exhibit which references the fact that George Washington owned slaves. But that's not actually true. If you read the executive order, it orders the Park Service to remove anything promoting a corrosive ideology that demonizes Americans.
As the Washington Post reported, the Park Service interpreted that executive order as broadly as they possibly could. It is a form of malicious compliance. Now, the Post reported that, quote, the removals were in line with President Donald Trump's March executive order directing the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a corrosive ideology that disparages historic Americans.
National Park Service officials are broadly interpreting that directive to imply information on racism, sexism, slavery, gay rights or persecution of indigenous people. So you see how that works. The Trump administration issues an order. telling agencies to stop advancing an anti-white, anti-American agenda. Democrats then remove displays of slavery, which they were never told to do.
And then Democrats say, hey, you made us remove displays of slavery. And because they chose to interpret it that way. And by the way, it's especially ironic that they lump real history in with all this. Again, if this guy had watched the show, which he clearly hasn't, You know that we talk at some length about Washington's slaves.
And in particular, we talk about his white indentured servants who ran away around the time of the start of the Revolutionary War. Washington put out advertisements seeking the return of those white runaways. And there were many more white runaways than black runaways at Washington's estate.
But no one at The Atlantic wants to talk about that because it complicates their narrative that only blacks were victimized by slavery in America, which isn't true. So they hide the truth and then they accuse us of being the ones who are hiding the truth.
Now, what's funny about all this is that back in 2019, the Atlantic put out an article stating that reparations could mean telling the truth about uncomfortable historical facts. So in that sense, if you took them at their word, you'd think that they'd be happy about real history. You'd think they'd consider it a form of reparations maybe.
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Chapter 7: How does the episode conclude regarding the future of Western civilization?
Do they lose their unique identity in that case? And for that matter, what if a German and an Italian get married and have a child? And what if the child shares the values of his German father and his Italian mother? Why exactly can't we describe people like this, and there are hundreds of millions of them, as white? Why is it imaginary to say that these are white people?
experiencing whiteness in the same way that a black person experiences blackness. Why can't we say that? Now, of course, the answer is that AOC has no idea what she's saying, nor does she mean any of it. As Beau Weingart put it, quote, if progressives actually believe this, then they would consider a group of 10 whites descended from 10 different European countries diverse.
But of course they don't because they believe very much in whiteness. And it's the same reason why last week Democrats embarrassed themselves during their questioning of Jeremy Carl, who the Trump administration nominated for a post in the State Department. Carl probably won't be confirmed. Republicans are already caving on his nomination.
But to give you an idea of the questions he faced, here's one from Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Watch.
Tell me how you define white identity and what you think is being erased about white identity.
Certain types of Anglo-derived culture that comes from our history. Like what? Let me think about this. You know, Senator, I would say if you were to look at the book by one of your former Senate colleagues, Born Fighting, about the sort of Scotch-Irish military culture and certain pride that went with that, that would be one example. Obviously, you could have sub-elements of that culture.
You could have Italians. You could have Irish. And those are in many ways more distinct.
But you're worried about white culture. You're not worried about – you're now – retreating to ethnic identity. You don't speak about ethnic identity. You speak about white identity. So tell me the values that stitch together white identity and that make it different than black identity.
I would say that the white church is very different than the black church in terms of its tone and style on average. Food ways could often be different. And those are being erased. Music could be different. Well, if you look at the Super Bowl halftime show, which was not in English this year.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of AOC's statements on Western civilization?
So this is what we get. But now I'm kind of doing the same thing because actually the more important point here is that Obama said that there are aliens. Now, he has since put out a statement clarifying this and basically claiming that what he meant to say was that he assumes that aliens are real, but he never saw any evidence of it.
So he's backing away from the much more definitive and much more interesting claim that he made in the interview. Now that he's had a chance to put out a statement like, OK, you know, you had the chance. You got him on the spot. And he made the statement. You had a chance to have a real conversation about it. But now he was able to put out a statement. And so now he's backing away from it.
Is this like a cleanup job on his part or what? I don't know. And you know that I'm a believer. I think alien life is almost certainly out there. The vastness of the universe does make that nearly inevitable. And by the way, I say that not in spite of the fact that I believe in God, but largely because.
When you think of the universe as a created structure, to me, it makes the likelihood of other life all the more significant, not less.
And that brings it back to the analogy that I've used before, which is that if you walk into an enormous mansion with 20 bedrooms and you see people standing right there in the foyer, does it make sense to assume that those are the only people in the entire house?
not even just like the only people in the house right now, but the only people that live there, you see two people in the foyer, would it make sense to assume that that's it? No one else. There must not be anyone else in this entire 30,000 square foot house. I mean, that could be the case. It could be.
But if you had to put money on it, so people will say, well, the vastness of the universe doesn't indicate. Yes, it does. Again, for the same reason that A very large structure indicates a likelihood that there are lots of people who inhabit it. It doesn't necessarily mean it, but it would indicate that.
And so if I walked into the 20-bedroom house and I saw two people in the foyer and you were to say like, okay, I'll give you $1,000, take a guess. Are there more people in this house? Yes or no? I'm going to say yes. Probably there are. Does that mean the government knows about them? I don't know.
But, you know, also keep in mind that just because the government knows or some people in the government know doesn't mean the president would know. Actually, I would like it wouldn't surprise me if there was some indication of not that they're keeping aliens somewhere in a bunker. Who knows? But even if it's not that doesn't necessarily mean the president would be told. So, you know.
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