Daily Wire host defends using anti-Black racial slur “in a friendly way”
Walsh: “No white person actually has any moral obligation to observe the insane, totally indefensible, ridiculous rule that decrees that this word is acceptable to be used in any and every context by one race, but in no context at all by another race”
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From the May 10, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): The claim, I guess, is that this Pizza Hut delivery guy just casually uses the n-word with customers as a greeting, because that's what it would be. Like, if he actually said it there, then that's how -- he didn't even mean it as an insult. He just -- this is apparently just what he -- this is his way of saying hello. And, if that was true, it would mean that at worst, he's guilty of using the n-word the same way that many Black people use it. And this is why we have to be careful here. It's important to point out that the claim is a lie. Even if it's difficult to hear precisely what word or phrase he uses at the end of the clip -- he obviously didn't say the n-word -- but, even as we call out this hoax for what it is, we should make sure that we aren't tacitly supporting the premise that if the delivery driver had said that word in that context, he would be guilty of some great moral crime.
Now, to say that word would be professionally and perhaps even literally suicidal, it'd be a self-destructive, extremely ill-advised thing to do. He would be guilty of creating huge problems for himself and getting himself fired. But, you know, no white person actually has any moral obligation to observe the insane, totally indefensible, ridiculous rule that decrees that this word is acceptable to be used in any and every context by one race, but in no context at all by another race. I mean, the idea that the pigmentation of your skin should determine whether you're allowed to utter certain syllables in a particular combination is totally absurd. And as far as I know, without precedent in the history of the world. I can't think of any other example ever anywhere in the world where one single word has been -- and -- been imbued with this kind of mystical power. So if he did say it in a friendly way, he would only be doing what millions of people in this country do every day, and it's never considered a problem.