Matt Walsh says he would rather die than have a "mutilated, mutant" trans child

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1628255651339071491

The face of the anti-trans movement. If you consider yourself a "skeptic", consider that THIS is what the right wants.

[Del Tachi]

I thought a dead Matt Walsh would be exactly what you wanted, Fergie?

[John Dule]

Yeah, obviously there's no room for middle ground between you and Matt Walsh. You've completely changed my mind.

[Ferguson97]

Yeah, obviously there's no room for middle ground between you and Matt Walsh. You've completely changed my mind.

Do you believe that conservatives like Walsh will settle for a middle ground?

I thought a dead Matt Walsh would be exactly what you wanted, Fergie?

I don't wish anyone dead, I want Walsh to live to see his evil ideology lose and be proven wrong about everything.

[John Dule]

Yeah, obviously there's no room for middle ground between you and Matt Walsh. You've completely changed my mind.

Do you believe that conservatives like Walsh will settle for a middle ground?

The most likely scenario is that they continue to whine until they all die off. I don't know anything about Matt Walsh specifically aside from the fact that he had to literally buy ads on YouTube to give his show a jumping-off point, which suggests his "success" is largely manufactured.

[Ferguson97]

Yeah, obviously there's no room for middle ground between you and Matt Walsh. You've completely changed my mind.

Do you believe that conservatives like Walsh will settle for a middle ground?

The most likely scenario is that they continue to whine until they all die off. I don't know anything about Matt Walsh specifically aside from the fact that he had to literally buy ads on YouTube to give his show a jumping-off point, which suggests his "success" is largely manufactured.

Do you believe that what Walsh says here is significantly to the right of/more extreme than the median Republican's views on trans issues? Is there anything in here that you think most Republicans would go "wow, too far"?

[progressive85]

I only know of the name, but he looks like a very odd, strange man with an odd fixation.  He may be dealing with his own issues, as that has happened with "heterosexual" men in the past that were very focused on gay men.

Best to really just ignore these kinds of people

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I thought this was Marty Walsh and I was shocked and horrified why the Secretary of labor was saying this, but it’s just some conservative nobody

[John Dule]

Yeah, obviously there's no room for middle ground between you and Matt Walsh. You've completely changed my mind.

Do you believe that conservatives like Walsh will settle for a middle ground?

The most likely scenario is that they continue to whine until they all die off. I don't know anything about Matt Walsh specifically aside from the fact that he had to literally buy ads on YouTube to give his show a jumping-off point, which suggests his "success" is largely manufactured.

Do you believe that what Walsh says here is significantly to the right of/more extreme than the median Republican's views on trans issues? Is there anything in here that you think most Republicans would go "wow, too far"?

No, but I think explicit calls for violence against gay people or transgender people would be too far. I just watched that video, and he seems to mostly make vague statements about protecting his kids that are open to interpretation.

[Alben Barkley]

Matt Walsh is an idiot and I don't care what the right wants. It's a logical fallacy to imply that any "skeptics" of anything such as trans youth medical intervention must hold the same views as Matt Walsh and others like him or have the same goals. By this "logic," the UK, Finland, and Sweden are all far right fascist states for daring to be "skeptical" of the efficacy and ethics of such treatments in the face of the evidence or lack thereof for them.

This is meant as a constructive criticism in the best way possible, OP: You have a lot of heart and passion, which is good. But when it comes to actually thinking critically, well you could stand to develop that a little more. Drawing hard battle lines between the position you are convinced must be correct, apparently more because of who is pushing it than any independent research and reasoning, and any and all opponents who push back on this position in any way, and effectively implying there is some black and white, good vs. evil contrast here rather than a nuanced debate with a lot of gray area and people with different motives (good and bad faith) on all sides? It's just not accurate in the slightest.

[free my dawg]

[Arizona Iced Tea]

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[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Matt Walsh is a low-intelligence shock jock and you're taking his low-intelligence bait.

For the love of god please take away Ferguson's ability to make threads, his cluelessness is giving dumb people like Walsh exactly the attention they are seeking.

[7,052,770]

Matt Walsh is a low-intelligence shock jock

Maybe, but to deny the amount of influence he has on Republican politicians is naive and out of touch with reality. He's a power player, and what he does is a legitimate topic for discussion.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Matt Walsh is a low-intelligence shock jock

Maybe, but to deny the amount of influence he has on Republican politicians is naive and out of touch with reality. He's a power player, and what he does is a legitimate topic for discussion.

I think this is a "tail wags dog" statement. People like Walsh are chasers, not leaders.

[7,052,770]

Matt Walsh is a low-intelligence shock jock

Maybe, but to deny the amount of influence he has on Republican politicians is naive and out of touch with reality. He's a power player, and what he does is a legitimate topic for discussion.

I think this is a "tail wags dog" statement. People like Walsh are chasers, not leaders.

I don't. We know that Walsh and Raichik are largely responsible for Ron DeSantis joining the anti-trans hate train after his staffers became big fans. DeSantis didn't previously have a record like this.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Matt Walsh is a low-intelligence shock jock

Maybe, but to deny the amount of influence he has on Republican politicians is naive and out of touch with reality. He's a power player, and what he does is a legitimate topic for discussion.

I think this is a "tail wags dog" statement. People like Walsh are chasers, not leaders.

I don't. We know that Walsh and Raichik are largely responsible for Ron DeSantis joining the anti-trans hate train after his staffers became big fans. DeSantis didn't previously have a record like this.

Raichik I buy but not Walsh. Walsh is a try-hard loser.

[Person Man]

What?! You think that with Rush Limbaugh dying that there wouldn't be someone who says stupid sh**t? What's even dumber is anyone having a black and white viewpoint on this.

[T'Chenka]

No, but I think explicit calls for violence against gay people or transgender people would be too far. I just watched that video, and he seems to mostly make vague statements about protecting his kids that are open to interpretation.

Walsh is the stochastic terrorist that caused bomb threats to the Boston Children's Hospital.

[HillGoose]

thats so dramatic

[Landslide Lyndon]

Che Guevara said that he would kill his son if he turned out to be gay.
Another example of the horseshoe theory in action.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Megathread

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

If you believe that being trans is innately who a person truly is, then the only right thing as a parent would be to accept it and help your child grow into it and express it.

If you believe that being trans is something that kids get convinced to become, then the right question would be whether it is something beneficial or harmful to them to become. If you believe that it would be bad for them, then the question becomes how far would you be willing to go to protect them from it.

[Ferguson97]

This is meant as a constructive criticism in the best way possible, OP: You have a lot of heart and passion, which is good. But when it comes to actually thinking critically, well you could stand to develop that a little more. Drawing hard battle lines between the position you are convinced must be correct, apparently more because of who is pushing it than any independent research and reasoning, and any and all opponents who push back on this position in any way, and effectively implying there is some black and white, good vs. evil contrast here rather than a nuanced debate with a lot of gray area and people with different motives (good and bad faith) on all sides? It's just not accurate in the slightest.

Yeesh, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

I think it’s very funny that you of all people would ever accuse anyone of lacking critical thinking skills — you routinely reject any and all evidence that goes against your deep-seeded resentment of transgender people. The science is not on your side. You rightfully mock anti-vaxxers, creationists, and Flat Earthers because they reject science when it goes against their political beliefs, so I genuinely do not know why you reject the settled science when it comes to trans issues. And this isn’t just a casual, smug dismissal like Dule does — nearly every anti-trans argument that you make is based on emotion, not fact. This is clearly a deeply personal issue to you, and I would genuinely like to get to the bottom of it. You’re generally on the right side of the issues, so I want to understand why you’re struggling with this moral and intelligent shortcoming.

[Vice President Christian Man]

I hope for his child’s sake he’ll never be in this situation.