Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “There's been a war waged on whiteness for a long time in this country”
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From the May 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now it's really — it is simple. If it's wrong to say the word, then it's wrong for anyone to say it. If Black people want white people to not say the word, then they need to not say it. If you say it, everyone else can say it. Point blank. It's that simple. That's how life works. Deal with it. No, you can't do that. You can't say, we can do this thing, but you can't. Doesn't work that way. It does not work that way. Well, it did work that way for a long time. It was indefensible, and it's just not gonna work that way anymore. Sorry. And no matter who is saying it, it's not any worse than any other slur or vulgarity. It's not special. The word is not magical. It's not some kind of mystical curse. It's not some kind of dark incantation that conjures evil spirits from the netherworld. It's just a word. It's a vulgar word. It's a rude word. It's a word that I believe polite people shouldn't say for the same reason they shouldn't use any other vulgarity. I'm using n-word right now instead of saying the actual word for the same reason that I would say f-word or c-word instead of those actual words. Those are vulgar words, but that's all.
The reflexive, indefensible, capricious, vacillating racial double standards are over. People are fed up with them. They are fed up with the game and they don't want to play it anymore. And that's all that this word has become. That's all that our quote unquote race relations have become, a game. A game with arbitrary rules and incredibly excessive punishments for anyone who breaks them. It's like the societal equivalent of a child, you know, trying to walk on the sidewalk without stepping on a crack. Eventually, the kid gets bored with it, starts walking normally again because it turns out that if you step on a crack, you're not really gonna break your mother's back. The rules are fake. And eventually, people get tired of following them. Telling white people and white people only that they can't combine two specific syllables under any circumstance, it's like telling them they can't touch their head unless someone says Simon says. OK? They're not gonna play the game forever.
White guilt is the fuel that keeps all this going. White guilt is what convinces white people to follow arbitrary rules that make no sense, to tolerate, even defend a system that's rigged against them with blatant double standards. It's what's compelled white people to acquiesce to a culture that says that, you know, every race can and should defend and root for their own. But white people, and white people only, should not be conscious of their race at all. None of it is fair or morally coherent. And the Karmelo Anthony case where a Black teen raked in half a million dollars as a reward for stabbing a white kid to death was for a lot of people the final straw. The final straw of many, many straws. It is no surprise that the Shiloh Hendrix case comes on the heels of that.
You know, a lot of people online are fretting that this is the beginning of some kind of race war, but I don't think it's a race war, and it's certainly not the beginning. I mean, there's been a war waged on whiteness for a long time in this country. So this cannot be the beginning of anything, but it may be the end of something. The end of racial level standards. The end of cancel culture. This is an ugly story in a lot of ways. But if history has shown us anything, it's that ugly things die ugly deaths.