Matt Walsh's IDIOTIC Claims Of Anti-Southern Bigotry In Confederate Statue Removals

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Matt Walsh's IDIOTIC Claims Of Anti-Southern Bigotry In Confederate Statue Removals

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Matt Walsh spreading dangerous historical distortions on The Daily Wire is why teaching critical race theory in schools is so important. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
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here is matt walsh desperately trying to carve out a niche for himself wonder why eight percent of high school students uh only know that the supreme the civil war was fought because of slavery here's matt walsh wants to bring that number down to four percent now we should also note that some of the confederate statues quote unquote and and the phrase confederate statue here is a little bit of a of uh is a little misleading because many of these statues memorialize men who served in congress after the war was over okay a statue of wade hampton was sent by south carolina for example he opposed secession but remained loyal to his state when it seceded and became a brigadier general of the cavalry for the confederates in the three decades that he lived after the war he served as governor u.s senator and railroad commissioner joseph wheeler was sent by alabama he joined the confederate army eventually rose to the closet but so he was but he was put up there because he was railroad commissioner we put a statue wade hampton was one of the most uh the wealthiest slave owners of the confederacy before this the um war broke out so he he was against secession because it was bad for his giant business of like forcing slaves to work on his plantation and then he led like a huge cavalry because he had the wealth to do that and then after the war came and everyone got back put um let bygones be bygones and said let's get together again and you know come together for the sake of this country yeah he got he was back into the you know governing structure of this country 335 slaves by 1860. yeah he was he was the wealthiest hampton was and where was he from what uh state was the governor south carolina incidentally go back and listen to what we have talked about during reconstruction the massacres that took place in south carolina the attacks on uh on on on black politicians in the black political class he may have came up actually with hampton yeah i i i suspect this guy was actually involved in the i don't know what we call this the restoration of white supremacy the restoration of white supremacy during reconstruction continue seceded and became a brigadier general of the cavalry for the confederates in the three decades that he lived after the war he served as governor u.s senator and railroad commissioner joseph wheeler was sent by alabama he joined the confederate army eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant general then after the war became a lawyer and eventually a politician he served in the house from 1881 all the way until 1900 these are not all people who are known to history solely as members of the confederacy many of them had distinguished careers after the fact that they were members of the confederacy as a reflection of the fact that they lived in the south so what congress is saying today is that southern states simply are not allowed slave owners massive slave owners massive slave owners
that they were members of the there i mean undoubtedly there were people who lived in the south who did not fight for the confederacy and there were slaves that revolted put up a statue of some of them well they put matt turner in there they didn't serve in congress for 19 years boy but if we had a slow we would we put up a statue for every person who served in congress for 19 years are you kidding me there would be no room for actual members of the house everybody would be a statue but continue with this guy and this guy's really like just this isn't just uh matt walsh's normal stupidity this is he's running some real interference here from some uh you know all-stars of uh slave owners uh many of them had distinguished careers after the fact that they were members of the confederacy as a reflection of the fact that they lived in the south so what congress is saying today is that southern states simply are not allowed to honor anyone who lived in or served.

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@damienm.9677 3 жыл бұрын

It's crazy how people forget that black people live in the south. Why not put up statues of many dozens of black senators from the Reconstruction Era? Or better yet, not even waste money on pointless shit and just get rid of the statues in general?

@HaeravonFAQs 3 жыл бұрын

I like the "not wasting money" bit. Let's do that. Or if we have to waste money, let's waste it teaching kids about the actual history of the Civil War/Reconstruction era.

@jeffgray4075 3 жыл бұрын

*It's crazy how white people forget black people live in the south. Even there people from the south.

@samuelbekele3601 3 жыл бұрын

@@dylangilreath^ Those statues were put up after the war and most were put up during The Civil Rights Movement to intimidate blacks. Bring them down and put them is museums with the full history. Even Lee said he didn't want statues and knew he was a loser.

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

It's not mutually exclusive. Also, what dozens of black senators are you talking about? There were only 2 in that era. But there were many other African American leaders in various capacities/offices back then, including sheriffs and mayors. Memorializing them is good, and it's also not mutually exclusive with remembering that our government killed a million of its own citizens, including 40,000 black people in the Civil War. This is pretty important, no?

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelbekele3601 The south deserves memorials for the fallen in the Civil War. It's not about venerating the leadership, which was an unparalleled failure. It's simply about remembering when our government in all its infinite wisdom decided to arbitrarily sacrifice the modern equivalent of 7 million of its own citizens in order to resolve a problem it created in the first place. The government failed. The leadership failed. 95% of those killed didn't even have slaves. Also ignored is the fact that 40,000 black people were killed; the modern equivalent of which is about 500,000. This was our government in action. I support reparations as well as remembrance. Never forget when your government sacrifices millions of your own countrymen. Tragically, it is part of this ignorance why the government continues to get away with it to this very day. The US gov still sacrifices millions of people around the world for mere speculative interest.

@hibernicus5685 3 жыл бұрын

Matt has over dosed on dye.

@harrypothead42024 3 жыл бұрын

I think you're wrong, shoe polish is his natural color

@kgt94 3 жыл бұрын

His droopy eye shows he likes to huff glue

@oblivious8868 3 жыл бұрын

@@aarondickson1898 View count has exactly what to do with the point about statues of people we don't need to honor?

@oblivious8868 3 жыл бұрын

@@aarondickson1898 What point? Walsh is a clown riding Ben Shapiro's coattails, having a manufactured outrage over unnecessary glorification. Having a certain amount of views doesn't make a point more or less legitimate; just means more people have seen it. Dude gets views in the hundreds of thousands as well, so even by your own metrics, hes not impressive. Yet I'm supposed to be cowed by his status and worthless take? Makes as much of an impression as your weak attempt at a burn.

@oblivious8868 3 жыл бұрын

@@aarondickson1898 You don't care, and yet you're responding. I'm thinking you might want to actually look up what the word oblivious actually means. Or projection.

@dissident1337 3 жыл бұрын

Saying we all want to be represented by people who killed their countrymen to keep slaves is actually anti-southern bigotry.

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

The south deserves memorials for the fallen in the Civil War. It's not about venerating the leadership, which was an unparalleled failure. It's simply about remembering when our government in all its infinite wisdom decided to arbitrarily sacrifice the modern equivalent of 7 million of its own citizens in order to resolve a problem it created in the first place. The government failed. The leadership failed. 95% of those killed didn't even have slaves. Also ignored is the fact that 40,000 black people were killed; the modern equivalent of which is about 500,000. This was our government in action. I support reparations as well as remembrance. Never forget when your government sacrifices millions of your own countrymen. Tragically, it is part of this ignorance why the government continues to get away with it to this very day. The US gov still sacrifices millions of people around the world for mere speculative interest.

@barbiquearea 3 жыл бұрын

Like it or not these people are considered heroes of the South. People venerate their heroes with memorials.

@Fafnd 3 жыл бұрын

@@pluckyduck11y the south and the confederacy deserve to be forgotten! Your confederate soldiers fought to uphold the particular institute of slavery. Everything you said is a lie perpetuated by the daughters of the confederacy to lionize the traitors and perpetuate white supremacy. Even Robert E. Lee was against putting up any statues of the confederacy, he just wanted the nation to heal. Too bad monsters like you wanted that healing to be crooked!

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fafnd It's not a lie that slavery was already being phased out. This is empirical and well established. It's not a lie that the north already had 75% of the nation's GDP and that share was increasing due to industrialization. It's not a lie that the government murdered the modern equivalent of 7 million people in the Civil War. This is all incontrovertible.

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fafnd As I already stated, I agree that the leadership did not deserve memorials. I was referring to the rank and file masses who were murdered by their own government. 90% of them didn't even have slaves. The North already had 75% of the nation's GDP before the war began, due to increasing industrialization which was phasing slavery out. Whether you approve the government murdering millions of its own citizens to solve its own problem or not, the problem was already going away. So why murder millions of people?

@DavidHeffron78 3 жыл бұрын

Guys, I feel Matt’s pain. They took down the Jimmy Savile statue in the UK.

@Fate263 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes... I think John Oliver mentioned something about that as well

@jj_abrams_aint_up_my_butt_yet 3 жыл бұрын

The “canceled” Joe Paterno’s statue too, on account of a comparatively minor occurrence in an overwhelmingly illustrious and successful career. Emphasis on the word MINOR

@DavidHeffron78 3 жыл бұрын

@@jj_abrams_aint_up_my_butt_yet if we don't keep the statues of peadophiles up how will we know other peadophiles are bad?

@UnrelatedAntonym 3 жыл бұрын

B-But we gotta protect our "heritage"... of inhumanity to our fellow man because we have tiny lizard brains and are scared of anyone who's different.

@MrDan11422 3 жыл бұрын

Let them know how true history thier leaders are about. Put in writing next to the statue how like Robert Lee was the top general who fought to own human beings.

@MrDan11422 3 жыл бұрын

If a future generation sees the real history of who he was instead of the bs they want people to see, it might cause people to think. Just a thought.

@UnrelatedAntonym 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDan11422 Aye. Thinking is dangerous to their BS narratives.

@MrDan11422 3 жыл бұрын

@@UnrelatedAntonym your not thinking about it as well. Play the game but make the rules

@MrDan11422 3 жыл бұрын

@@UnrelatedAntonym Robert Lee born xxxx vs Robert Lee a slave owner who was fought for the right to own human beings

@ihatetoshiba 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is on the "Daily Liar"? Well, he's definitely on the right grift-site.

@OwlsEyelash 3 жыл бұрын

"Daily Liar" so befitting! 😂🤣

@intuitionz1198 3 жыл бұрын

notice how he said the statues of soldiers that had served their country in the Confederate army. if they were in the Confederate army, they weren't serving their country. they killed our fellow countrymen. the fact that this was ever allowed, or even still an issue is mind blowing. 🤯

@sharper68 3 жыл бұрын

Idolizing litteral traitors to our country has no upside. Insurectionist is not a protected class.

@Fate263 3 жыл бұрын

@@sharper68 You'd think so, yet here we are, with people trying to idolize insurrecrionists even in present day.

@sharper68 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fate263 True. We just can not let them sell the idea of that criminals who overtly hate our democracy and freedoms are a protected class.

@RemixedVoice 3 жыл бұрын

Hilariously, the confederacy were all Democrats. However, they deny the party switch ever happening, because they want to say Lincoln was on their side. But at the same time, they are staunchly defending the Democrats during the war

@sharper68 3 жыл бұрын

@@RemixedVoice Hilariously the confederates were all deeply Conservative. The south was once entirely democrat and the north republican. That has changed and ignoring fact do not make it go away. The historically racist conservative south still votes for racists and conservatives. Nothing has changed except the focus of the respective parties and who they serve.

@thechief043 3 жыл бұрын

Matt Walsh claiming it's bigotry for taking down statues of slaveholders? Seems like another day in the 21st century.

@colinvandenberg3446 3 жыл бұрын

Of course he brings up "states rights" as a part of his argument. What about the rights of Northern States not to have the progress they fought for, died for, and won be undermined or erased?

@aheroictaxidriver3180 3 жыл бұрын

They can't even get a single sentence from the Constitution correct. It says "THE POWERS not delegated... are reserved to the States..."

@GeteMachine 3 жыл бұрын

They're also just saying the rights of freedom for slaves was irrelevant, but the right of the wealthy slave owners are the victims.

@thugstin6429 3 жыл бұрын

Oh the civil war was for "states rights"! Oh yeah, a states right to do what specifically?

@aheroictaxidriver3180 3 жыл бұрын

@@thugstin6429 This isn't rocket surgery. They claimed that the States had the "right" to leave the Constitution and the Union whenever they pleased. They did this because the North had an insurmountable majority in the House, which was balanced by the South's control of the Senate and the White House, until it became clear that Lincoln would be elected. Lincoln was elected in November of 1860 and South Carolina seceded in December of 1860. You must be a US citizen, because no one else could possibly be so misinformed.

@colinvandenberg3446 3 жыл бұрын

@@thugstin6429 I think the argument usually stops at, "the right to self-govern." What that government might have actually looked like isn't addressed, or if it is it's treated like a bug and not a feature.

@TheJustindolbear 3 жыл бұрын

I was born grew up and still live in Mobile AL. I wish these people on tv would stop taking up for the south. I say we should treat the confederates just like Germans did the nazis after the war. There is a lot of us in the south that don't share the holy love for those traders.

@thugstin6429 3 жыл бұрын

Same, from Arkansas. Its common to see that flag flying around by "patriots who love America" but dont care about the history it tells. I see it as the flag of traitors.

@jasons2210 3 жыл бұрын

Always found it funny that the same people who call themselves the "Party of Lincoln" spend so much effort defending Lincoln's enemies.

@ellenstonehill678 3 жыл бұрын

All sorts of blatant, impossible contradictions can coexist so peacefully in the republican mind

@Fate263 3 жыл бұрын

I don't find it so much funny as I do... pathetic. And for added measure, they want to frame the present day Democrats as racists and the originators of slavery... but in the same breath jump to the defense of Confederate statues that, by their reasoning, were of the racist Democrats.

@RoninDave 3 жыл бұрын

so many things have flipped. For example the NRA was started by Union veterans for gun safety and in the 30s they pushed for legislation to ban the sale of automatic machine guns but later they were hijacked by neo-confederates when a murderer from Texas became their president in the 70s.

@vogelvogeltje 3 жыл бұрын

Waaait….I thought they say there’s no bigotry and racism, and then they foam at the mouth to play the victim.

@bbqseitan7106 3 жыл бұрын

We’d have a lot more “southerners who weren’t in the confederacy” to memorialize But they were all killed the the Confederacy sooooo

@Br0nto5aurus Жыл бұрын

"Those statues are history's greatest participation trophies" -Joel Kim Booster

@alainab6644 3 жыл бұрын

The middle school next to my childhood home in NC had a "rebel" as it's mascot and a confederate flag in the school logo. This was a public school. They didn't change it until recently (after 2015). It's (of course) a predominantly white community but there were other races/ethnicities that were "educated" in that school. It doesn't add much to the conversation on statues, but I can't stop thinking about how messed up that whole situation was.

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

It's good they finally retired the confederate flag. But did you know that more than 90% of the people killed in the Civil War had no slaves? The government sacrificed the modern equivalent of 7 million of its own citizens to resolve a problem the government created in the first place. When your own government murders millions of its own people, your fellow countrymen and family, don't you think that's important to remember?

@alainab6644 3 жыл бұрын

@@pluckyduck11y absolutely! My grandmother is a genealogist. I know for a fact that I had distant relatives in the confederate army that were not slave owners. Although they didn't own other human beings they were still fighting to keep the institution of slavery. I think we should remember that part of our history certainly. However, we should remember it in museums with context and through accurate education in our classrooms. I don't believe that it should be memorialized in school mascot form or with the flying of a flag that brings pain to so many people.

@pluckyduck11y 3 жыл бұрын

@@alainab6644 I don't believe most of the rank and file fought to ensure the institution of slavery. Most of them were farmers. They just fought to keep their homes from being seized or burned down. People subscribe to this false dichotomy that if you oppose war and the killing of millions of people then you must be pro-slavery. This is a stupid false dilemma. Gandhi opposed the oppression and exploitation of his people, but he also did not believe that a bloody revolt was necessary. And he was right. It is true that if he would lead his people to take up arms, they could have had a very bloody revolt and repelled the British akin to the Haitian revolution. It could have beaten back the Brits quicker, with much more blood shed. OR the other strategy was to passively resist. It takes longer, but it meant less bloodshed. And it worked. We seldom discuss any conceivable alternative to the Civil War as it was prosecuted by Lincoln because of suggestion that anything else could be done. But they did discuss alternatives at the time, and they were almost all less bloody. One called for separation and a naval blockade against the south by the north's vastly superior naval force. Eventually slavery would be phased out as it was almost everywhere else. Again, this would take longer, but far more lives would have been spared. The North had the power to do this. But this is ignored by mainstream public education in favor of justifying the war as the optimal solution. It's always just easier to say the ends justify the means when it's the victor writing the history. BTW this is not an indictment against Lincoln or the north. I know almost none of them wanted to do this. Just like most people did not want to kill tens of thousands of civilians in Dresden. My message is we have to be able to learn from the mistakes of the past, but we cannot do this if we adhere to 1 narrative like gospel. Religions have a history, but this does not mean we should treat history as a religion. We come up with the best solutions and innovations through heterodox thinking, not orthodox.

@alainab6644 3 жыл бұрын

@@pluckyduck11y I think I understand what you're saying and appreciate you taking the time to talk to me about it. I don't think a bloody war is the answer to anything and I'm sure there were people fighting for, "states rights" and farm land. All of this should be taught along with the rest of the gruesome details. I don't think we should forget history. I just think we should remember it in a way that doesn't hurt our brothers and sisters. Statues are not history books. Flags are not education. I'm a southern girl through and through. I love my state. That being said, I can love the good parts of my culture and history without glossing over the bad. That flag hurts me and I'm not ADOS. Nobody owned or sold my great grandparents. I just can't imagine the pain people must feel when they see these confederate symbols and then to know their own neighbors and members of government are fighting to keep them. It just doesn't make sense to me.

@thugstin6429 3 жыл бұрын

Confederate flag should be seen as a disgraceful thing. Not only is it a mockery of the american flag and it symbolizes a hate for America.

@randyjax09 3 жыл бұрын

Conservative grifters will foment outrage about literally anything. I pity the people who buy into it.

@OfLaSoul 3 жыл бұрын

Matt Walsh back at it again...

@antonioisaac1986 3 жыл бұрын

On a long enough timeline, I wonder if we can equate the rhetoric from the 1% to the poor white folks of the 1800s to the rhetoric of the 1% to poor white folks today🤔

@stephennootens916 3 жыл бұрын

I just saw a video a couple of days ago how during the reconstruction era the new freed slaves and the poor whites were getting together to make a better society which of course meant raising taxes you can guess what the 1% did about that.

@Stephenwhite013 3 жыл бұрын

The irony of being pro confederate statue but let’s not teach about racism in school

@TheAdamisgay 3 жыл бұрын

Who will be the voice for those poor oppressed descendents of plantation owners? Matt Walsh gladly steps up to the plate.

@doctorthirteen5727 3 жыл бұрын

Why does Matt care, aren't those statues of Democrats? /s

@Kylora2112 3 жыл бұрын

*inserts Confederatelephant meme* Conservatives: "Democrats were the slaveowners, the KKK, and pushed Jim Crow and Republicans are the party of Lincoln! Also, Lincoln was a tyrant, the South was right, and I'm proud of my Confederate heritage."

@ChicanoOne760 3 жыл бұрын

Your magic ace is so lame.

@SickBuckNaStY 3 жыл бұрын

Yea speaking of doesn't Germany also have laws against honoring Nazis...

@vallewabbel9690 3 жыл бұрын

Many Nazis had "distinguished careers" in West German parties after the war. That's no reason to put up statues of them.

@blakeusry124 3 жыл бұрын

As a progressive Alabamian I'm disgusted at the amount of monuments, dams, waterways, buildings and State parks named after Joe Wheeler and George Wallace.

@jacobholland6969 3 жыл бұрын

The fact we even had confederate statues in our nations capital is ridiculous.

@ceceliawight7059 3 жыл бұрын

The problem was allowing the seceded states the rights of states again. They should have just had it be the Southern Territory with the same rights and representation as PR.

@sharper68 3 жыл бұрын

It is not bigotry. Traitor is not a protected class.

@satevo462 3 жыл бұрын

Can't imagine why these people are defending the people that fought FOR the preservation of slavery...

@kronikkronolov9793 3 жыл бұрын

We need statues of the real heroes of our time... Master Chief, Gordon Freeman and Adam Jenson.

@doctorbarber1 3 жыл бұрын

The CSA shouldn't be celebrated and men like Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, etc. shouldn't be depicted as great men who did great things.

@bornyesterday8730 3 жыл бұрын

There is always greatness as to be defined by virtue. But also greatness as defined by quantity. So that is to say if you go and kill a great amount of people. I'm not saying "That's virtuous" I'm just saying "That's a lot" So I think I got you on a technicality. I always base my jokes off of this simple little weird language quirk.

@doctorbarber1 3 жыл бұрын

@@bornyesterday8730 Point awarded

@solomongrundy6584 3 жыл бұрын

I thought they Democrats? Republicans can not wait to defend the "Party of Slavery" by their own statements. They can not pick an angle. You can not play both.

@doctorthirteen5727 3 жыл бұрын

@@whyamimrpink78 "Oh no the federal government is telling me it's wrong to own other human beings as property!"

@doctorbarber1 3 жыл бұрын

@@doctorthirteen5727 the one piddling little detail they tend to leave out

@noahthenormal 3 жыл бұрын

It truly bugs me that the only art righties will defend is uninterpretive, boring (and often, racist) statues and paintings. I guess I technically appreciate the talent that goes into some of it, but it's so boring compared to more abstract, interpretative art

@VMonkies 3 жыл бұрын

That's all fascists ever like. If art doesn't extoll the virtues of the state or "values" that they worship, they hate it. That's why you should always, always look askance at conservatives who want to gut art and music programs in schools.

@noahthenormal 3 жыл бұрын

@@VMonkies fr, the other day, I had a conversation with a rightie with, at the very least, fascistic tendencies who unironically argued that the only art of value was realism

@barbiedahl 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Matt, but living in the South had little to do with it as many Southerners joined the Union Army. West Virginia broke away from Virginia over it. Stop acting like it was just a "southern thing" when it was a racist, slaveholding traitorous thing.

@barbiedahl 3 жыл бұрын

@Yankee Heritage it's amazing that they will embrace the black sheep of their family and ignore the ones who did the right thing. It reminds me of the video I saw a couple of months ago with some Southern woman berating white supremacists and saying how her great-grandfather fought on the side of the union and wasn't a loser like their ancestors were. Hilarious and oh so true!

@dannya.2616 3 жыл бұрын

We should collectively refer to these statues as "Participation Trophies" and make fun of southerners for it.

@doctorthirteen5727 3 жыл бұрын

That's kind of what they are. They got statues instead of being hung for treason.

@barbiquearea 3 жыл бұрын

And maybe we should refer to Vietnam War memorials for those killed in action as "participation trophies" and make fun of them for it. Do you not see how in poor taste that is?

@VMonkies 3 жыл бұрын

@@barbiquearea not really. Soldiers were mostly drafted in Vietnam to fight a war they disagreed with and couldn't run from fighting lest they wanted to be branded fugitives and/or imprisoned for the rest of their lives. Southerners fighting for the Confederacy signed up to fight willingly to "preserve the Southern way of life" which is a complete euphemism for wanting to keep black folks as slaves because their skin color is darker than everyone else's. The South, and Southerners who still love the Confederacy, should be relentlessly mocked for their failures.

@doctorthirteen5727 3 жыл бұрын

@@barbiquearea Not the same thing...

@barbiquearea 3 жыл бұрын

@@VMonkies Many soldiers who fought for the Confederacy were also drafted. Both sides heavily conscripted you know?

@satevo462 3 жыл бұрын

Wade Hampton III was a Confederate States of America military officer during the American Civil War and politician from South Carolina. He came from a wealthy planter family, and shortly before the war he was one of the largest slaveholders in the Southeast as well as a state legislator. Wikipedia

@ragingnebula2179 3 жыл бұрын

As a person who lives in South Carolina, the only acceptable way to use "the South" and "bigotry" in the same sentence is "The South is an awful cesspool full of bigotry."

@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 3 жыл бұрын

lol He opposed secession, but fought for the Confederacy.

@diegoarmando5489 3 жыл бұрын

"Incest is the best; put Ivanka to the test." - Trump 2024

@MC-pt8kv 3 жыл бұрын

"These are not all people know to history solely as confederate generals." No? Then why are they depicted in statues in uniform?

@VetsrisAuguste 3 жыл бұрын

He goes on about how Wade Hampton’s post-war career is the obvious qualifier for erecting a monument in his memory, his accomplishments and distinguished service in this capacity is why we honor and remember him. As if the later chapters of his life eclipse and erase that brief time when he was a general in a traitorous army. Then why does his monument depict him as that general instead of any of his other career roles?

@eightfootmanchild 3 жыл бұрын

//These people are not known solely as members of the Confederacy// When it comes to the question of whether or not we should have permanent memorials to them...Yes they fucking are.

@joshuaDstarks 3 жыл бұрын

This guy looks like he doesn’t know a single damn thing, but really wants you to think otherwise.

@disrxt 3 жыл бұрын

Anti-traitor bigotry....

@jimtroy4380 3 жыл бұрын

That's what we call healthy patriotism. What happened to Republicans? In the 1860s they were killing slaveowners , now they can't sleep without their confederate pillow. Such loser snowflakes

@xray5984 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimtroy4380 maybe it had something to do with the party switch. I say we try to espouse those same values again.

@jesusfreak279608 3 жыл бұрын

Melt down the confederate statues and make them into statues of members of the black community that have made great contributions to equality and progress such as MLK Jr.

@satevo462 3 жыл бұрын

Why the hell are there confederate monuments in the capital?

@yourneighborhoodfriendlyme4242 3 жыл бұрын

So if a serial killer stops serial killing because he is caught and forced to stop by the cops then is for some reason elected mayor of his state then we should just completely disregard his past as a serial killer and only praise him for simply being a mayor?

@skaldlouiscyphre2453 3 жыл бұрын

Mayor Bundy was the greatest mayor this town ever had. Just don't get in his car or go home with him.

@yourneighborhoodfriendlyme4242 3 жыл бұрын

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 IKR!!!

@anathematic5083 3 жыл бұрын

So, I just did a background check on the examples walsh gives here of confederate statues that "aren't confederate statues", namely a statue of wade hampton who by walsh's own admission was a brigadier general for a confederate cavalry; There is a statue, produced in memoriam of hampton, which depicts a man in military uniform, presumably not union uniform, atop a horse. Who is responsible for the installation of this statue, you might ask? It was funded by the state commission of south carolina, *the daughters of the confederacy*, and *the united confederate veterans*. The second statue mentioned is of joseph wheeler. wheeler, for what it's worth, fought for the confederates during the civil war, and the U.S. army during the spanish- american war, yet, for some reason his totally not a confederate statue depicts him wearing a uniform complete with a belt buckle bearing the letters "CSA". I wonder what that could stand for.

@aheroictaxidriver3180 3 жыл бұрын

Orwellian antics of degenerate apologists.

@Kicksfascistass4783 3 жыл бұрын

They have Black folks who also live in the south....They don`t think it`s anti-southern....

@rebirthoflegend4797 3 жыл бұрын

I know it's an obvious argument, but you just need to look at wheelers statue. It's not of him in regular clothes. He's on military clothing holding a sword. Last time I checked people in the house/senate weren't running around with swords wearing military getups lol. They were honoring him for his civil war work, not his statesmanship after anyone with eyes can see that.

@katipunanball4799 3 жыл бұрын

“You want to take down statues of oppressors? Thats oppression!”

@LinkRocks 3 жыл бұрын

"Matt Walsh's IDIOTIC Claims"...you could have stopped there.

@joem1070 3 жыл бұрын

Living in the burgs of D.C. I often vacation down South and love history. And the idea that they call the Civil War, the War of Northern Aggression is the stupid that keeps on giving. I always print off the Articles of Secetion of the states I will be visiting and highlight in the fist paragraph where it says they are leaving the Union because of their right to own slaves. Why do I do this? Because every tour I’ve ever taken includes the denial that the Civil War was about slaves. And when I pull out those articles to show the crowd, they general laugh and on occasion have been called a ‘rude carpetbagger.’ A title I wear with pride.

@jusme4142 3 жыл бұрын

Southerners are the most humble people I met too.

@Fox.with.a.Dragon.Tattoo 3 жыл бұрын

Its amazing how matts word vomit is confused for intelligence by some.

@jaynecobb6711 3 жыл бұрын

The same low IQ people who think that Shapiro is the intellectual right .

@satevo462 3 жыл бұрын

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was an American military commander and politician. He is known for having served both as a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War... Wikipedia

@Shadowman4710 3 жыл бұрын

I believe he was also the American commander in Cuba during the Spanish-American War some 35 years later.

@roymerritt6992 3 жыл бұрын

Well as a southerner who has seen many of these statues to nothing more than traitors to the United States I can rightly say that these statues most times display these traitors dressed in Confederate garb. And if not there is a legend on the statue informing the viewer of the statue of their status as a Confederate officer or as a member of the Confederate government so it is false to imply removing these statues is specifically meant to discriminate against the south because a good number of southerners at that time remained loyal to the union. My state of North Carolina which was the last state to secede from the union, and I suspect the fact they were surrounded in the north by Virginia, on the west by Tennessee, and to the south by both South Carolina and Georgia in the southwest of the state perhaps had some influence on that decision, meaning of course it was surrounded on all sides by traitorous states, had numerous citizens who remained loyal to the union. Those who did were many of the Moravians in the state and many western yeoman farmers who vehemently objected to the institution of slavery and this fact perhaps was the reason why some 15,000 North Carolinians were volunteers and enlisted in the Union Army and fiercely fought to preserve the Union. I had ancestors who bravely fought and died for the Confederacy, but I nevertheless recognize the fact these people were traitors to the flag I served in harms way when I was a volunteer myself in the US Army. How about we replace those statues with ones dedicated to the many famous southerners who remained loyal to the United States of America. One I can name right off the top of my head was none other than Sam Houston of Texas. I'm sure there are plenty others who like him who was excoriated by their friends and neighbors, but still chose to remain loyal to the country rather than to their bloody state. I love my home state, but I would never allow it to take precedent over the country as a whole. I am an American first and foremost before I am a resident of the state of North Carolina.

@roymerritt6992 3 жыл бұрын

@Yankee Heritage Indeed they did. In fact in the Klan had a rebirth in Indiana in 1920 and the state was essentially taken over by the Klan until scandal over a rape charge and the subsequent suicide of the woman who was raped brought them into repute and led to the Klan's dissolution there in 1925. Various northern states fell under their political domination back then even the state of Maine.

@persebra 3 жыл бұрын

It's known as The Redemption" " Redemption refers to the overthrow or defeat of Radical Republicans (white and Black) by white Democrats, marking the end of the Reconstruction era in the South"

@morphykg1503 3 жыл бұрын

Dora the Explorer lasted longer than the Confederacy

@crotchy7667 3 жыл бұрын

I know people who repeat things verbatim from The Daily Wire. 😂

@russellward4624 3 жыл бұрын

If his statue was built because he was a railroad whatever wouldn't he be wearing a railroad hat in the statue? Instead of wearing a confederate uniform?

@firerunner35624 3 жыл бұрын

"Stop calling us racist, when we do racist things.' - Southerners

@bornyesterday8730 3 жыл бұрын

Lets not whitewash the past whatever we do. Also lets not keep a steamy dog turd warm just for the sake of keeping it warm.

@peter9162 3 жыл бұрын

That beard is hiding the weirdest chin and jawline.

@lordhigglebottum8377 3 жыл бұрын

Like being anti-south is wrong

@Smellanie4121 3 жыл бұрын

It is wrong to pointlessly south bash, BUT being anti confederate isn’t wrong. Don’t be one of those a holes that shits on rural southern people for no reason whatsoever. There are a lot of progressive southerners than people realize.

@cocoachaos1321 3 жыл бұрын

A reluctant traitor is still a traitor.

@PatrickCervantez 3 жыл бұрын

Anti-southern bigotry? I know Matt doesn't know what real bigotry looks like, but bruh...

@tmsphere 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah most whites in the south did not own slaves, so they're not "dixie" enough for Walsh i guess.

@elftax 3 жыл бұрын

Are the statues of these confederates wearing suits or in Civil war military garb? Are statues celebrating their war service or civilian careers?

@elihyland4781 3 жыл бұрын

Matt isn’t reading a script he’s reading talking points

@deino4753 3 жыл бұрын

Republicans: the democrats are the founders of the KKK. Democrats: let's remove the statues erected by KKK members. Republicans: nah.

@salsamonkey65 3 жыл бұрын

Excuse me while I build my statue to Benedict Arnold. Wait I can't do that? That's treasonous? What exactly is the difference between Benedict Arnold and Confederate leadership?

@heythere4732 3 жыл бұрын

Memorialize people from the south that fought against the south (slavery) memorialize the underground railroad people. How bout that?

@MWhaleK 3 жыл бұрын

Lots of places in the South like West Virginia, Jones County in Mississippi, the Ozarks and others sided against the Confederacy because they (Rightly) understood that the Confederacy was to be a "Aristocratic" nation run by the large plantation owners who were keeping the poor white folk in poverty. Lots of Southerner understood that they war was started by the large slave owners who were the main people profiting off slavery as well as the formation of the Confederacy.

@patrickmike2524 3 жыл бұрын

Wade Hampton’s statue depicts him on a horse in his confederate uniform and mentions the civil war battles he was in. This is not a statue depicting his time in government

@treedillinger5801 3 жыл бұрын

Who tf is Matt Walsh? 🙄

@carolinemaybe 3 жыл бұрын

One dude, one frigging dude, started this. He boasted about it in a New Yorker article. He even knows tweeting about what he did won’t hurt him.

@kazama195 3 жыл бұрын

He basically saying the racism doesnt matter but the white priviledge does cause he enjoys the latter

@w.s.soapcompany94 3 жыл бұрын

I bet if you chk their campaigns, they ran for those offices on their participation in the confederacy after the war.

@idkjustchangingmyname7343 Жыл бұрын

I am wade Hampton’s great great great grandson. Trust me, me and my family want nothing to do with the guy. Get rid of his statue please.

@murielvieux751 3 жыл бұрын

You should have told him these statues make minorities feel sad and disturbed, so just like teaching about racism and slavery in school, they had to be removed for the good of the children.

@Peasham 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate how you think honoring racist monsters is more important than the feelings of the people they once terrorized. Also, pretty sure YOU'RE supposed to be against teaching racism and slavery in school, did you get your talking points mixed up?

@murielvieux751 3 жыл бұрын

@@Peasham Obviously you do not get sarcasm

@reelzzz5642 3 жыл бұрын

Well we still got Jackson on the 20, put Harriet Tubman on the damn thing.

@Atmost11 3 жыл бұрын

Which could get you in SERIOUS trouble under Confederate so-called law? Sexually abusing a child which you legally owned? Or rescuing such a child from its owner?

@LiaMari 3 жыл бұрын

His description of wade hanson makes me think of neighbors describing the serial killer next door...”Well-liked in his community, Gacy organized cultural gatherings and was active in political organizations and the Jaycees civic group. He was married and divorced twice and had two biological children (in addition to two stepdaughters). Gacy worked as a fast-food chain manager during the 1960s and became a self-made building contractor and Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s.” And then, of course, there’s the fact that he killed 30 young boys. But please, remember to focus on the GOOD things he did as you gaze at his statue.

@KognitiveGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I personally disagree with memorializing these confederate peoples in the capitol, but in a museum so people learn about them...that's where i see the value in their life's contribution.

@Matt_Fields_29 3 жыл бұрын

1:22 If there were Mitch McConnell statues, I'd want them taken down.

@timfrye3586 3 жыл бұрын

Matt needs walsh his hair, it looks like somebody spilled dyw on his head.

@boozybibliomaniac2597 3 жыл бұрын

Who did his hair? Steven Seagal?

@ethandollarhide7943 3 жыл бұрын

I think Matt just blindly does and says whatever Daddy Ben tells him to do.

@Uwrath 3 жыл бұрын

That looks like a bi pride flag in the background of Matt Walsh 😆

@Shadowman4710 3 жыл бұрын

There were actually tens of thousands of white southerners who ended up fighting for the Union. NC alone sent at least 10k men. There were unionist areas throughout the South-which never gets mentioned by current neo-Confederates.

@Atmost11 3 жыл бұрын

Lets put up hundreds of monuments to those anti-confederate southerners then

@JPH1138 3 жыл бұрын

I can think of a Southerner from the Civil War who is uncontroversially honoured. Abraham Lincoln.

@Encoun2er 3 жыл бұрын

Can we just not PRAISE anyone with statues. Everyone has been racist, horrible, or has detestable vices. Can we just put up statues of ideas and movements instead?

@jewsco 3 жыл бұрын

First off they never should of been in public squares and if you want them in a museum fine. Secondly if you want statues of the soldiers and people lost fine but not the generals and politicians that were traitors . Finally loser traitors don’t get statues

@metalbrainmextrememetalent6810 3 жыл бұрын

They should face bigotry.

@jasjfl 3 жыл бұрын

What other nation on this planet would erect monuments in their own capital to people who organized an unsuccessful rebellion resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties?

@jennifreak63 3 жыл бұрын

100,000's of union soldiers fought and died for nothing, when a Confederate veteran of the civil war was allowed to hold office in the country he made war on! it's pathetic!

@alicelaybourne1620 3 жыл бұрын

It is hard to argue that they "died for nothing".... Most wars shouldn't have happened in the first place, but they do, and hopefully the "right" side prevails. Usually through tragic bloodshed.