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Not to be confused with the former The Daily Show correspondent, Matt Walsh.

“”If sex and gender are the same thing, Matt Walsh fans have never had gender.

—Anthony Fantano[2]

Matthew Walsh (1986–) is a conservative blogger, conspiracy theorist, and both career transphobe and homophobe who runs the aptly named Matt Walsh Blog. Most of his blogs involve him mischaracterizing and insulting things that he doesn't agree with or like. Especially targeted are things like trans rights and trans people, probably his favorite subject, as well as abortion, immigration, gender equality and feminist-oriented causes, such as the pro-choice movement.^[3] On top of all this, he also writes for the far-right webshite The Blaze. He also runs a podcast and is active on social media, mostly reposting articles from right-wing media on his favorite topics with short, often one-word, comments. He calls himself a “theocratic fascist” on his Twitter bio, along with calling himself a biologist and a scholar of women's studies, despite having never attended college.^[4]

Walsh currently hosts The Matt Walsh Show at The Daily Wire.

Wingnuttery[edit]

Abortion[edit]

He is anti-abortion, saying that "life is precious" (not quite).^[5][6] He has supported Alabama's 2019 bill that outlaws abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, as he believes forcing 12-year-old rape victims to carry to term would help them get their crime discovered and increase the rapist's accountability, and abortion would otherwise destroy the evidence and encourage the rapist to continue molesting without consequence.^[7]

He bolsters such a terrible take with Planned Parenthood conspiracies such as linking to an article from a pro-life propaganda site that accuses Planned Parenthood of a sex abuse cover-up,^[8] and again using the same website to claim that "[r]apists use abortion to cover their tracks and Planned Parenthood helps them."^[9] He also claims that "[t]he deadliest southern border in the world is the birth canal".^[10]

Transphobia[edit]

Matt Walsh is also very well known for his fervent transphobia, believing that being trans is a mental illness^[12] comparable to schizophrenia,^[13] stating that "[t]ransgenderism is a myth that will lead to sexual deviancy"^[14] and advocacy of pedophilia,^[15] claiming all trans people are narcissists,^[16] blaming acceptance of trans people for suicide rates of trans people,^[17] and considering trans allies to be "biology deniers".^[18] He would "rather be dead" than have a transgender child.^[19]

Walsh supported a bill banning the transitioning of teenagers, greatly simplifying it as "a bill banning the genital mutilation of children".^[20] He has also referred to gender-affirmation surgery as "surgical mutilation", accused the parents of transgender children of exploiting their children for attention and said that older children wanting to transition is difficult because it'll be "painful" to have to put your child into therapy.^[21] He has also gone on record as stating that transition surgery should be illegal for everyone. ^[22]

In one video for The Daily Wire, Walsh likened gender-affirming care to sexual abuse, saying that "a child who is put on hormones and who has their body being mutilated is being sexually violated in a way that is just as depraved or damaging as molestation or rape", and compared doctors who care for trans children to Nazi scientists.^[23] Such doctors, Walsh believes, should be executed or imprisoned for life.^[24][25]

In an act of staggering pettiness and audacity, Matt Walsh rented a home in Loudoun county because the school board meeting wouldn't allow non-residents of the county a place in discussing issues related to the school's residents and students. Despite having never lived in Loudoun county and having no family there who would ever attend that school's area, an act similar to someone purchasing a small house in Brazil to advocate for apartheid.^[26] The issue being addressed? Transgender people being able to refer to themselves as their gender, and requiring staff to use their consistently asserted gender when requests of the parents are given.^[27] In part of his speech, he shows some self-awareness saying that the school board are poison, and undermining his own ignorance as a science denier on transgender people by saying; “If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless. Worse, it is poison. You are poison!”^[28]

In late 2021, Walsh wrote a children's diaper "book", titled "Johnny the Walrus".^[29] If you can guess what this book is about, given the section you are reading, congratulations, you have a brain. It's a story about a boy who imagines he is a girl walrus, and when the intertubes find out about it, they force him to go to the doctor to be surgically altered into a girl walrus. The most concerning thing about this book is that it implies men and women are as different from each other as humans and walruses, which is batshit insane. As part of a massive troll campaign, it ended up as the #1 LGBTQ+ book on Amazon, which would admittedly be kind of funny if it wasn't hate speech.

In early 2022, Matt (rather poorly) attempted to recruit transgender people into being part of an anti-transgender schlockumentary. It would've been successful if it weren't for PhD candidate Eli Elrick exposing the front on her Twitter account.^[30] Later, on June 1, 2022, Matt released this shlockumentary, titled "What is a Woman?", on The Daily Wire's subscription service. Like other pseudo-documentaries proclaiming to speak the "truth," "What is a Woman?" is practically a 1-and-a-half hour gish gallop full of utter bullshit, pseudoscience, and logical fallacies.^[31][32] Like his usual delusional self, Matt has proclaimed that the film cannot be debunked and that "The Left is terrified of the film".

In early 2023, Walsh testified at a committee hearing in support of a bill banning "child mutilation" (gender-affirming care). When asked for his qualifications, Matt ignored the question to waffle about "chemical castration" (a common and deliberate misrepresentation of hormone/puberty blockers). He is noted to take much pride in the fact that he is totally unqualified to talk about these issues.^[33]

Creepy Uncle Matt[edit]

Despite his constant fearmongering about the LGBTQ+ community being filled with sexual predators, Walsh has espoused a number of very creepy opinions regarding human sexuality.

In June 2021, Walsh reviewed a children's book intended to teach children about consent, with the message being not to show physical affection (such as hugging or kissing) without permission. Walsh dismissed the book as "woke" and called it "the worst one yet", and seemingly promoted child grooming, stating, "I violate my kids' consent all the time". ^[34]

In a clip unearthed in October 2022 by Media Matters for America, Walsh stated that teenage pregnancy is not only acceptable, but ideal, as long as the girl is married. In November of 2022, a clip of Walsh espousing some quite messed up views on rape and consent in general was unearthed by The Serf Times, including of Walsh defending convicted or alleged child sex abusers such as defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.^{[35] [36][37]}

He has also gone on record as stating that 13-year-olds are pretty much adults and called the concept of adolescence a "modern plague". He further stated that 17- and 18-year-old girls who are "still in high school … want, biologically and metaphysically and with everything in their body, they want to settle down, they want to start a family."^[38]

Mental health[edit]

Anxiety and depression[edit]

Walsh does not seem to believe in the theory that chemical imbalances substantially contribute to depression,^[39][40] which it is strongly implied that he denies that antidepressants can treat it ^[41][42]. While claiming that suicide is a choice, he also claims that the notion of chemical imbalances causing depression has supposedly been "thoroughly debunked over and over again", then proceeding to cite how drug companies bring in hundreds of millions of dollars treating it, with Walsh not even bothering to explain how what is supposedly a lie can make companies that much money.

ADHD[edit]

He is also an ADHD denier, trotting out the usual old canards of the "environment filled with distractions" and that, like depression, it's just an invention of Big Pharma (never mind the processes of what actually goes into DSM-5; it's not easy).^[43] There's a bit of boomery griping about humanity's declining attention span, posted on Twitter, a site about short, shallow distracting soundbites. Never mind that ADHD has a long history, being documented as early as the early 18th century.

DID[edit]

Authoritarianism[edit]

Matt Walsh shows many signs of being a wannabe dictator. He staunchly endorses stripping people of the right to vote if he considers them to be "ignorant" or "non-contributing,"^[44] and specifically only wants people to vote if they pay taxes and have passed an 8^th-grade civics exam.^[45] Walsh has accused activists who want voting to be universal of voter fraud,^[46] and tweeted that it should be easier to buy a gun than vote.^[47] He also supports criminalizing adultery, drag queen story hour, and critical race theory.^[48]

Not only did Walsh condemn businesses that required masks to be worn during the COVID-19 pandemic, he believes that face masks should be made illegal.^[49]

After Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended an elected prosecutor for not prosecuting enough abortionists or gender-affirming care providers^[50] and arrested several people for legally voting,^[51] Walsh endorsed him for President explicitly because of his dictatorial actions.^[52]

Misogyny[edit]

Walsh presents a very cliched view of gender roles,^[53] often attacking men who he disagrees with as unmanly. On the flip side, he often expresses disdain for women in positions of authority^[54] or making public statements.^[55] Women becoming involved in many elements of pop culture such as music,^[56] entertainment, and sports,^[57] especially women's sports,^[58][59] he views as emasculating and threatening to the traditional place of men. He also supports cutting women's pay if they ask for a raise.^[60]

On his blog, Walsh has said that married women owe their husbands respect whether they've done anything to deserve it or not. In the post, he explicitly states that "a wife ought to respect her husband because he is her husband" and that women should "respect [their] husbands whether he deserves it or not". Notably, Walsh says that women even owe their husbands respect if they're "lazy, abusive or uncaring".^[61] Apparently, women have to respect men even if the man abuses them, simply because of a wedding vow.

Walsh also believes that men and women cannot be friends,^[62] and supports arranged marriages.^[63]

Homophobia[edit]

Walsh is anti-gay marriage, claiming that the legalization of gay marriage is part of a left-wing plot to destroy America by eroding and corrupting marriage via the legalization of sexual deviancy.

Walsh believes in the gay agenda conspiracy theory that states children are being brainwashed into becoming LGBT:

He has also claimed that same-sex marriage is invalid because gay people can't produce children (despite having no problem with infertile straight people getting married).^[66]

He is on record as saying that you can change your sexuality.^[67]

Walsh has also blamed the infamous Catholic Church scandal on "gay priests," a defense which can be viewed as either homophobic or pedophilia apologia.^[68]

Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Walsh went on his podcast and whined about how it was a result of the White House recruiting lesbians into the military and therefore making it more feminine.^[69]

After a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado in November 2022, Matt blamed the LGBTQ+ community for the shooting, going on a hateful rant about drag queens in which he claimed that drag shows were inherently sexual, and that drag queens who performed in front of children were pedophiles who are trying to make children queer. He stated that in order to end violence against LGBTQ+ people, drag queens should simply stop performing. ^[70]

Hit pieces[edit]

Walsh spends much of his bandwidth attacking a handful of progressive figures, such as Bernie Sanders^[71] and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,^[72] and organizations that back progressive causes or, in some cases, simply do not hold positions as extreme as his own. Bizarrely, he has also repeatedly tried to smear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as radical Marxist extremists,^[73] when a cursory look at their actual records and agendas would leave genuine Marxists sorely disappointed at best; in Walsh’s mind, everyone who doesn’t support the GOP is a commie, no matter how staunchly pro-capitalist they’ve always been.

Defending Ashli Babbitt (a terrorist)[edit]

Walsh has compared unjustified shootings of black people to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, a right-wing terrorist who was killed after charging a police officer while storming the U.S. Capitol, calling Black Lives Matter hypocrites for protesting over the deaths of unarmed black people but not protesting over the killing of a white terrorist. He also JAQed off during one of his videos on the subject, suggesting that the officer shot an unarmed woman out of partisan hatred for Trump supporters.^[74]

Genocide denial[edit]

Unsurprisingly, Walsh is a frequent denier of the multiple historical cases of ethnic cleansing of Natives in North America. He believes Andrew Jackson was a great man who deserves to be honoured,^[75] in spite of his many crimes such as the Indian Removal Act and the destruction of Negro Fort.^[76]

More recently, Walsh became an ardent defender of the Canadian residential schools in which hundreds of indigenous children were murdered,^[77] claiming that a mass grave is a completely normal thing for a school to have.^[78][79] He has also called the story a "nefarious hoax",^[80] thus putting his name next to that of asshole extraordinaire William Donohue on the list of people who claimed the deaths were fake news.

Climate change denial[edit]

Vaccines[edit]

Despite claiming to have "no stance" on vaccines,^[82] Walsh, in all seriousness, accused the Sesame Street character Big Bird of being a drug dealer with the voice of a 'child molester' for telling children to be vaccinated.^[83] He also released a video in which he discussed why he refused to vaccinate his children against COVID-19, complete with a segment of him spreading FUD about the vaccine's long-term effects.^[84]

Satanic panic[edit]

In October 2022, Matt Walsh argued that all anime is Satanic, in an effort to own the libs. He stated: "I have no argument for it. I have no argument for why it's Satanic. It just seems that way to me."^[85][86] He later added that anime will "literally lead to demonic possession in upwards of 87 percent of cases, studies show."^[87] The Church of Satan was not amused with Walsh's antics.^[86]

Stopped clock moments[edit]

• Walsh has criticized Donald Trump numerous times.^{[88][89][90][91]}
• He has criticized young Earth creationism and the belief that the word "day" in the book of Genesis absolutely must refer to a literal, 24-hour day.^[92]
• He supports restoring voting rights to convicted felons.^[93]
• He has shown awareness of police brutality,^[94] making a surprisingly levelheaded, nuanced video^[95] where he:
  • Admitted to dismissing the issue in the past
  • Acknowledged that the hysteria surrounding the issue was not as prevalent as he made it out to be and that there are still concerning trends within the police force
  • Dismantled common excuses that are often used to downplay or even excuse the issue.^{[note 1]}
• He argued with prominent alt-righter Nick Fuentes.^[96]

External links[edit]

• Matt Walsh's garbage dump itself
• The Anti-Matt Walsh Blog, a temporary blog dating from 2014 dedicated to documenting and refuting the views of Matt Walsh
• His YouTube channel

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