Matt Walsh says Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is a “DEI graduate” of The Citadel
Matt Walsh: “Thanks to people like you, every uniquely masculine and exclusively male space, including those spaces that had very good reason to be uniquely masculine and exclusively male, like the military and related institutions, has been feminized”
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From the January 28, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): The point is Nancy Mace's feminist girl boss routine, and that is what is pushing me over the edge and forcing me to do this segment, which I don't really wanna do, but I have to.
If she would just stick to taking credit for things she didn't do, we wouldn't have to talk about it. I can deal with that, but I can't deal with this. And I'll tell you the reason.
You know, Nancy, you say that you fought like hell to be the first female graduate of The Citadel. Well, first of all, your dad was the commandant when you were there, so I imagine, you know, you had some help in that fight.
But second, you say that you care so much about protecting female-only spaces. Well, great. The Citadel was a male-only space until it was forced by law to admit females — to admit you — in the name of diversity and inclusion. You were quite literally the beneficiary of a DEI program. You were a DEI graduate. That's what DEI is.
Now they didn't call it that back then, but it's the same thing. Forcing an institution to change their standards in order to admit a more diverse group of people, all in the name of being progressive and inclusive, is DEI.
And it's also the exact same argument that trans identifying males use to invade female spaces. So we rightly lament the death of female-only spaces, but the truth that you are so helpfully bringing to light is that male-only spaces died a long time ago. Thanks to people like you, every uniquely masculine and exclusively-male space, including those spaces that had very good reason to be uniquely masculine and exclusively-male, like the military and related institutions, has been feminized. The feminism that you champion set the stage for trans ideology. It essentially is trans ideology.