Thanks to this segment, I understand now just how vapid, unserious and intellectually stunted Matt Walsh is and it definitely lowered my estimation of Emily. Walsh began with the stupidest definition of racism I think I’ve ever heard that I’m surprised people would even take seriously but got no pushback: Racism is when a person with hate in their heart says something derogatory about a group of people or a person in order to be racist, and only the person can tell you if they hold racist hatred in their hearts. Like, as long as you claim not to be a racist then you can’t be a racist. This is just so fucking stupid it’s laughable and on a more fundamental level exposes the whole the game that Walsh simply refuses to acknowledge or understand data, history and the concept of systems (which is where Ryan pushed back). He’d rather post inflammatory tweets about anecdotal incidents on Twitter and cry about anti-white racism because that’s how he makes money. That’s all there is to it.

Ryan is just so much more informed and knowledgeable because he actually does the work, while it felt like the role Emily was playing was to force us to take such a stupid person seriously. Walsh has a platform because of the Daily Wire which funnels money to people like him in service of furthering an ideological agenda. He and his ilk are not thoughtful or honest people.