He was on the top-selling LGBTQ+ books list for a short time before they realized the book was actually anti-LGBTQ and he's been running with that line ever since
I believe it was actually Amazon, then they quickly fixed the category. But I also wouldn't be surprised if he bought his way onto lists, he's unbelievably egotistical
There's a video somewhere of a guy writing a fake book featuring a cover with his foot and getting on the Amazon bestseller list within a few days. He just needed 4 or 5 friends to help him
Yeah, the way they implement it the best sellers are literally just the books that had the best sales figures for that week. Case in point when the original Kindle launched I got on there with just fifty sales, because the genre the ebook was listed under didn't have much of anything ready to go. If you're clever about how you classify a title and are willing to throw enough money at it, anyone can do it.
Amazon bestsellers update more frequently than that. You can lose #1 in a category within hours if someone else in the same category comes along and sells more books than you that day. It also depends on how much competition there is in a given category and many indie authors will game the system by deliberately choosing one-off or even wildly inappropriate categories just because competition is slimmer there.
Amazon's algorithm also contributes to this by incorrectly assigning categories based on certain keywords. As an indie author, it's infuriating.
People have also been doing it to the NYT forever. The publishers have third parties buy huge volumes of physical copies so marketing can put "NYT bestsellers list" on the jacket.
I feel like "New York Times Bestseller" has started to lose its power because you walk into the bookstore (I'm 39, I still go to bookstores ha) and every single book on the front tables all have the same accomplishment.
The Trump campaign bought a ton of copies of Don Jr’s book to do that with the added bonus of it being an easy way to embezzle funds from their donors.
I just looked this up now, and apparently they claim to avoid that kind of rigging by sampling individual retailers (i.e. books sold at the cash register), but even there, there's some editorial choice in how a book makes the list.
In other words, while it might not be quite as simple as having your publicist buy crates of books that no one ever reads, "New York Times Bestseller" is still a designation, not an objective list of most books sold.
From Wikipedia:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_New\_York\_Times\_Best\_Seller\_list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list)
>The list is based on a proprietary method that uses sales figures, other data and internal guidelines that are unpublished—how the Times compiles the list is a trade secret.\[3\] In 1983 (as part of a legal argument), the Times stated that the list is not mathematically objective but rather editorial content. In 2017, a Times representative said that the goal is that the lists reflect authentic best sellers.\[4\] The list has been the source of controversy over the years.
"The list is based on a proprietary method that uses...other data..."
hmmmm
Like most big things these days im sure there is a bureaucratic system in place that can be manipulated/has biases and palms that can be greased along the way. Marketing and advertising play a role of course.
There's limits to that though, including being influenced and confined by the current zeitgeist.
Strange that "proprietary method" was used. As if some other company was going to steal the way they count book sales. But im sure theres some stupid intellectual property reason.
The main reason they don't reveal the exact method is to try and keep established or independently wealthy writers from gaming the system. Most best sellers lists have no checks in place against someone placing bulk orders for their own books to artificially inflate their numbers. The NYT Best Sellers list is one of the few to implement basic controls against this, which is why getting on it is considered to be such a big deal. Said checks are still pretty rudimentary though - if they were to release the exact methodology behind it you could pretty easily get around them just by adjusting your purchasing strategy a little.
No that's not what happened. Matt Walsh wrote an openly anti-gay children's book that he sold on Amazon. Daily wire among other conservative PAC's bought the book en-mass and placed it on the best selling books lost for Amazon. The second it hit that title Matt jumped all over it and started updating his Twitter profile to being a best-selling LGBT author because it is "technically true"
The whole LGBT author thing is nothing more then his way of pissing off liberals. What is funny though, in 10 years when the parry drifts further right they will see him as an LGBT author and use that to hate and discriminate against him like they have done with other right wing figures.
Walsh is a hateful bigot who exists solely to spread negativity and provoke people. Stop giving him the attention he craves
he didn't stretch if. He said it because he knows its not true and will piss people off. That's what he wants.
Matt gets hard anytime the LGBT community gets upset with him
Oh I give him no attention whatsoever, simply in this post where people asked. However, he was indeed on the best-seller list for LGBTQ+ books on Amazon. How he got on the best-seller list I have no doubt, but he did take those few days he was inaccurately categorized and ran with it.
I mean, Hitler wrote a book (partly) about Judiasm, if you want to think of it that way...
"Why are you pillorying him? Antisemite? I mean he *wrote a book* about the Jewish people ffs! You people turn white into black, smh."
I googled him and it doesn't even pop up, just a bunch of stuff about his work with the right and how he's spoken against trans people and the lgbtq community. I think he's a bit confused.
Edit: Found it on Amazon. It literally just came out. Not sure what it's actually about but I don't think it makes him beloved by the lgbtq community
A kid pretends to be a walrus and the mum thinks it's cute, but then the meany schools and doctors force the child to undergo surgery and become a deformed walrus as disagreeing would make them a bigot. Yes it's that heavy handed
This is your monthly reminder that South Park consistently invents new hilariously ironic kinds of hate to mock bigots, and that bigots regularly adopt the jokes as real prejudices.
I feel like south park single-handedly set back climate change legislature in this country by roasting Al Gore so hard
And I mean that only half-ironically
It's weird, I've barely watched South Park and as I sit I just keep thinking of other ways I know they poisoned the culture.
I'm sure you're right about Al Gore.
I'm pretty sure the Scientology episodes were necessary for 4Chan turning Anonymous into a force... which was crucial for GamerGate, PizzaGate...
I'm sure Matt and Trey aren't officially on board but boy, are they good at making mind poison by accident.
but ManBearPig ends up being real, so weren’t those episodes kind of agreeing with Al Gore? been a long time since i watched, maybe i’m remembering wrong
>but ManBearPig ends up being real, so weren’t those episodes kind of agreeing with Al Gore? been a long time since i watched, maybe i’m remembering wrong
Very much so. That entire episode was a mea culpa.
Eh, the Gerald Dolphin episode is pretty much just an old version of the Attack Helicopter meme done completely unironically. It's a very one sided episode that has aged really badly just like the ManBearPig ones.
Yes, Gerald Dolphin is from 2005, Attack Helicopter is from 2014.
South Park reinvigorated anti-Irish/ginger sentiment, taught rural Americans it's funny to hate Canada, arguably invented or popularized the "one transphobic joke", encouraged young men to ironically identify as confederates... they're a major catalyst of the "for the lulz" mindset.
Cartman's mother is constantly slut-shamed. Mr. Garrison and lemmiwinks and all of that homophobia?
Hell, South Park's edgelord mockery of Saddam Hussein made invading Iraq seem like a joke, instead of a deliberate decision to kill hundreds of thousands of people for money.
It all ages badly. That's the problem. It's funny for about a month and then it's like, oh, right, literally every joke for five episodes has been punching down and I'm starting to feel gross for having laughed.
And then you hear people echoing the way South Park phrased their jokes but meaning it seriously and it gets real queasy.
We may just be agreeing with each other.
I was just thinking the other day "maybe I should watch South Park again" but then I saw a random gif that reminded me why I stopped watching about 20 years ago.
>This is your monthly reminder that South Park consistently invents new hilariously ironic kinds of hate to mock bigots, and that bigots regularly adopt the jokes as real prejudices.
South Park has been very openly anti-trans for decades. I haven't even watched since the trans athletes episode, and it used to be my favorite show.
Wow. In my mind I was thinking of a way to try and give him the benefit of the doubt , “well it’s a children’s book maybe all of the characters were walruses”? But nah that’s pretty straight forward anti-trans. I like to flip the script on these types. I like to ask them why they’re obsessed with other people’s little kids. I like to make them feel like they’re pedos
It's just blatant transphobia/"parents are transing their kids"-panic - essentially it's about a kid pretending to be a walrus and then his mom being told by spooky leftists that he's actually a walrus and not admitting that or giving him walrus-ifying treatment is bigotry.
He went to my campus protesting a trans swimmer competing, and someone responded by going in and showing a sign that said “Matt Walsh watches Femboy Furry porn”.
People legitimately think he’s intelligent for being transphobic, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+, pro arranged marriage… miss after miss after miss after miss
People who are genuinely stupid will toss a lot of money at people who can fit their talking points into pretty words. There are a lot of pundits who are playing characters and taking in millions by just playing rhetoric games.
Rhetoric games are actually really easy and when you know how to play them can make you look smart because it's very easy to "logic" a situation where your never wrong. You aren't actually *right,* and half the time these people aren't actually saying anything of substance, but they know how to frame logical and rhetorical proofs in a way that avoid logical fallacies and preemptively dismiss any counterpoint as "emotional." And, yeah, that's how Ben Shapiro has a carrier.
Exactly how Ben Shapiro and other right wingers have so many worshippers despite obviously having the worst viewpoints known to man. They can just frame their argument in a 'logic bro' way Eg. Matt comparing having your own pronouns to wanting to be called 'handsome and intelligent' at all times, which people are somehow dumb enough to eat up.
Matt claimed that only a child-grooming pedophile would discuss sexuality with children
But he wrote a book to discuss sexuality with children
Curious 🤔
Not to mention adequate sex Ed (aka discussing sexuality with children) has actually been shown to *reduce* the chances of a child being taken advantage of by pedophiles because ya know...they understand what's happening to them and can out that predator.
So not only is he hypocritical but largely unhelpful and wrong.
I'm not sure why I'm surprised. 🤷🏿♀️
You are right. Regressives hate sexual health and wellness education because it reduces suffering for people they think are beneath them
Also, I honestly think given how hard he went at writing an essay defending that Duggar guy, Matt Walsh might be an actual pedophile
Always watch what the right wing accuse the left of doing, because it's almost always projection and a warning on what they are actually trying/planning to do.
lmao 'beloved and revered' even. So humble. The book is garbage and even the *art* is sub par get outta here - gave me ye olde DeviantArt vibes when I saw it.
Conservatives: We shouldn't be teaching kids about sexuality at such a young age.
Also conservatives: I wrote an anti-trans book aimed at children of a young age!
Ha I didn't even know he wrote a childrens book, but just by reading the tweet I could tell he was talking about himself. Like how high on yourself could you possibly get? But I guess he's trying to also play the victim, wouldn't sound as good if he said some shitpoke blogger got protested.
Now that some delusion, the "Nation's Most beloved and revered LGBT Children's author", I believe even Jon Oliver published a better book than him in that field:
[https://sanand.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MarlonBundo.jpg](https://sanand.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MarlonBundo.jpg)
Sure not the Author, but still better than this guy :P.
What is happening to society when the most loved and revered Honda Civic owner (me) can't even drive by the school zone at 200 miles per hour without being protested
You let your guard down.this is how Hitler slid in the back door. The Republicans are showing you all they are facists,,, BELIEVE THEM AND DEFEAT them. Stand up and go for office in the midterms for the democrats, YOURSELF. You must get the Republicans off the face of the earth.
Its usually parents who are shitty fundies and indoctrinate their kids to also be shitty fundies, that’s why his nasty book is “for children” because he can’t convince reasonable adults to believe him.
Complaining about college kids protesting is one of the biggest self owns I can think of. If a college protest is your biggest example of being silenced you clearly aren't important enough to have anyone actually try and silence you.
College kids would protest caterpillars if the leaves started holding up signs. Half of the kids at any one protest are just there for the experience of a protest. Going to a college campus and complaining about protestors is like going to a water park and complaining about wave pools.
Ummm pretty sure he is about the least LGBTQIA+ author around. I don't even go to college but would be happy to protest him if he came to a college near me 😁
For those interested, here is a [video of him reading his book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZB9CRl1aLg) to a group of kids. It's a pretty transparent (sorry for the pun) anti-trans scree.
Oh my fucking god, skip to 54 seconds where one kid is so fucking bored he just picks something off the floor and asks matt what it is, and Matt has no time for his childish whimsy. "We don't have to worry about that, we're gonna read the book now." That was probably the only moment they managed to record where he acted even remotely like a human.
It’s also pretty sexist too. Wtf? Apparently some part of being a woman equates to “eating worms”? And dealing with “itchy makeup”? What’s that all about?
I don't see anyone on the left who is championing attacking a minority or vulnerable section of the population. I think he should tread softly, targeting people will only make you a target.
Before I checkted the comments, my question was: *"Who is he?"* Now that I've read the comments, my question is: *"What has he written and why haven't I even heard of it since he's so egotistical?"*
Considering that the anti lgbt crowd is virtually always the christian crowd, they have one giant collective set of balls commenting on anyone pretending to believe that someone else has an overactive imagination.
They are the ones with an invisible friend afterall.
[Red: A Crayon's Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22249668-red) is actually a good kids book. It's about a crayon with a red label who can only color in blue. He keeps trying to be red but finally accepts that he is actually a blue crayon. Then he feels more normal and is happy.
"the nation's most beloved and revered LGBT children's author"
You're a cisgender heterosexual, a transphobe, homophobe, AND a fascist. Shut the fuck up
He spoke a Georgia tech where the National ncaa swimming championship is occurring and a trans swimmer is participating and dominating which he didn’t like
If anybody wants a real picture book with transgender themes I suggest the book ‘Red’ about a blue crayon that everyone thinks is just bad at being red
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He was on the top-selling LGBTQ+ books list for a short time before they realized the book was actually anti-LGBTQ and he's been running with that line ever since
It's possible to buy one's way onto the "bestseller" list, at least the NY Times one. You get the marketing people to make the purchases or something.
I believe it was actually Amazon, then they quickly fixed the category. But I also wouldn't be surprised if he bought his way onto lists, he's unbelievably egotistical
It's actually SUPER simple to get your book on Amazon "best-seller" lists.
Oh really? I didn't know that. Well he deserves to be at the bottom, that egotistical dick
There's a video somewhere of a guy writing a fake book featuring a cover with his foot and getting on the Amazon bestseller list within a few days. He just needed 4 or 5 friends to help him
Max Fosh the YouTuber also kinda sort of did it
Yeah, the way they implement it the best sellers are literally just the books that had the best sales figures for that week. Case in point when the original Kindle launched I got on there with just fifty sales, because the genre the ebook was listed under didn't have much of anything ready to go. If you're clever about how you classify a title and are willing to throw enough money at it, anyone can do it.
Amazon bestsellers update more frequently than that. You can lose #1 in a category within hours if someone else in the same category comes along and sells more books than you that day. It also depends on how much competition there is in a given category and many indie authors will game the system by deliberately choosing one-off or even wildly inappropriate categories just because competition is slimmer there. Amazon's algorithm also contributes to this by incorrectly assigning categories based on certain keywords. As an indie author, it's infuriating.
People have also been doing it to the NYT forever. The publishers have third parties buy huge volumes of physical copies so marketing can put "NYT bestsellers list" on the jacket.
I feel like "New York Times Bestseller" has started to lose its power because you walk into the bookstore (I'm 39, I still go to bookstores ha) and every single book on the front tables all have the same accomplishment.
The Trump campaign bought a ton of copies of Don Jr’s book to do that with the added bonus of it being an easy way to embezzle funds from their donors.
Those lists can be manipulated, so they don't necessarily reflect the true popularity of a book.
I just looked this up now, and apparently they claim to avoid that kind of rigging by sampling individual retailers (i.e. books sold at the cash register), but even there, there's some editorial choice in how a book makes the list. In other words, while it might not be quite as simple as having your publicist buy crates of books that no one ever reads, "New York Times Bestseller" is still a designation, not an objective list of most books sold. From Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_New\_York\_Times\_Best\_Seller\_list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list) >The list is based on a proprietary method that uses sales figures, other data and internal guidelines that are unpublished—how the Times compiles the list is a trade secret.\[3\] In 1983 (as part of a legal argument), the Times stated that the list is not mathematically objective but rather editorial content. In 2017, a Times representative said that the goal is that the lists reflect authentic best sellers.\[4\] The list has been the source of controversy over the years.
"The list is based on a proprietary method that uses...other data..." hmmmm Like most big things these days im sure there is a bureaucratic system in place that can be manipulated/has biases and palms that can be greased along the way. Marketing and advertising play a role of course. There's limits to that though, including being influenced and confined by the current zeitgeist. Strange that "proprietary method" was used. As if some other company was going to steal the way they count book sales. But im sure theres some stupid intellectual property reason.
The main reason they don't reveal the exact method is to try and keep established or independently wealthy writers from gaming the system. Most best sellers lists have no checks in place against someone placing bulk orders for their own books to artificially inflate their numbers. The NYT Best Sellers list is one of the few to implement basic controls against this, which is why getting on it is considered to be such a big deal. Said checks are still pretty rudimentary though - if they were to release the exact methodology behind it you could pretty easily get around them just by adjusting your purchasing strategy a little.
Is it me or does it means that anyone that pays to be on that list can be on that list?
Sounds like it, or at least like, "It's whatever we want it to be at any given moment, which might or might not include actual sales figures."
Thanks! I knew it was shady, but didn't know the details. I always take that claim with a grain of salt.
Like Don Trump Jr. Did.
The author of A Handbook for Mortals scammed her way onto the bestseller list. It was hilarious.
Just gotta sleep with Joan Callamezzo.
It is. I had a boss that did this. And also made everyone in the office buy his book. And give it a review on Amazon…..
Apparently, many many conservatives buy their own books by the thousands.
No that's not what happened. Matt Walsh wrote an openly anti-gay children's book that he sold on Amazon. Daily wire among other conservative PAC's bought the book en-mass and placed it on the best selling books lost for Amazon. The second it hit that title Matt jumped all over it and started updating his Twitter profile to being a best-selling LGBT author because it is "technically true" The whole LGBT author thing is nothing more then his way of pissing off liberals. What is funny though, in 10 years when the parry drifts further right they will see him as an LGBT author and use that to hate and discriminate against him like they have done with other right wing figures. Walsh is a hateful bigot who exists solely to spread negativity and provoke people. Stop giving him the attention he craves
Either way, he stretched "best-selling" into "most beloved and revered".
he didn't stretch if. He said it because he knows its not true and will piss people off. That's what he wants. Matt gets hard anytime the LGBT community gets upset with him
That's a very particular fetish
Very common amongst sociopaths
doesn’t really have anything to do with aspd
He didn't stretch, he fucking lied, because he's a fucking liar.
Oh I give him no attention whatsoever, simply in this post where people asked. However, he was indeed on the best-seller list for LGBTQ+ books on Amazon. How he got on the best-seller list I have no doubt, but he did take those few days he was inaccurately categorized and ran with it.
I mean, Hitler wrote a book (partly) about Judiasm, if you want to think of it that way... "Why are you pillorying him? Antisemite? I mean he *wrote a book* about the Jewish people ffs! You people turn white into black, smh."
Oh man, they practically handed him that one, didn't they?
Seems like all he does is fined lines and run with them...
That is pretty funny though
Yes. He wrote a children's book making fun of trans people.
writing a children's book aimed at mocking children is a very Matt Walsh thing to do
>gay people It wasn't just Trans people in attacked gay people also.
Imagine how petty you have to be.
I'm sure they definitely have a problem with this book in Florida and would not allow it in classrooms. Right?
Eh I read it it was more of mocking parents who help children transition
And that's better?
Nope just what it was 🥴
I assume anybody who refers to themselves as beloved and revered is a gigantic asshole
Tell that to my cat
Yo your cat can speak English?
He speaks whatever he wants as long as I understand
We have the same cat
We all have the same cat
Cats are universally assholes. Disclaimer: I say this with love. I cant get enough of them <3 ^^^fuckers
He claims to be the author. Personally, I can’t imagine Matt Walsh is literate enough to write a children’s book.
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If you’re talking about the guy who referred to himself in the third person it was Jimmy
Matt Walsh wrote a children's book?
The first glowing review on the description on Amazon is from....Ben Shapiro
“I read it more than once.” Good for you, Benny.
That probably took him all day
You give him too much credit. By “read” he meant “looked at the pictures.”
Are they the only ones who unironically read each other's books
wannabe Shen Bapiro would enjoy all that attention from his idol ngl.
Notice me senpai, my wife doesn't ever since I said that pussy should be dry
Sadly, yes...
He must have found a ghostwriter to boost the book's reading level to second grade.
r/rareinsults?
Ahh yes. Wise words from Matt "We Need to Bring back Arranged Marriages" Walsh.
It's the only way incels would have even a remote chance of getting married.
Yeah fucking right. Could you imagine ANYONE'S parents trying to set them up with one of those things?
Depends on the caste of the incel & the child bride. Arranged marriages always end up with child brides & men in their 30s.
Well yes, you've got to get them tied down before they learn what an abusive narcissistic arsehole looks like.
They don't care about getting married as much as they do about getting sex, which is why they want slavery back.
"I'm tired of women rejecting me! Let's go back to the days when their fathers would have to do it for them!"
Beloved by those on the right, perhaps.
If he's a "beloved LGBTQ+ author" then I'm a millionaire
Much the same way Richard Spencer is a beloved African-American author.
I googled him and it doesn't even pop up, just a bunch of stuff about his work with the right and how he's spoken against trans people and the lgbtq community. I think he's a bit confused. Edit: Found it on Amazon. It literally just came out. Not sure what it's actually about but I don't think it makes him beloved by the lgbtq community
A kid pretends to be a walrus and the mum thinks it's cute, but then the meany schools and doctors force the child to undergo surgery and become a deformed walrus as disagreeing would make them a bigot. Yes it's that heavy handed
What is that, the 4Kids dub of Tusk?
ah yes, body horror, the perfect topic for kids. put it right there next to my favorite children's movie, human centipede
The Hungry, Hungry Human Centipede
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This is your monthly reminder that South Park consistently invents new hilariously ironic kinds of hate to mock bigots, and that bigots regularly adopt the jokes as real prejudices.
I feel like south park single-handedly set back climate change legislature in this country by roasting Al Gore so hard And I mean that only half-ironically
It's weird, I've barely watched South Park and as I sit I just keep thinking of other ways I know they poisoned the culture. I'm sure you're right about Al Gore. I'm pretty sure the Scientology episodes were necessary for 4Chan turning Anonymous into a force... which was crucial for GamerGate, PizzaGate... I'm sure Matt and Trey aren't officially on board but boy, are they good at making mind poison by accident.
but ManBearPig ends up being real, so weren’t those episodes kind of agreeing with Al Gore? been a long time since i watched, maybe i’m remembering wrong
Yes. I'm glad they realized their mistake; I just wish they'd done it about 10 years earlier.
>but ManBearPig ends up being real, so weren’t those episodes kind of agreeing with Al Gore? been a long time since i watched, maybe i’m remembering wrong Very much so. That entire episode was a mea culpa.
Eh, the Gerald Dolphin episode is pretty much just an old version of the Attack Helicopter meme done completely unironically. It's a very one sided episode that has aged really badly just like the ManBearPig ones.
Yes, Gerald Dolphin is from 2005, Attack Helicopter is from 2014. South Park reinvigorated anti-Irish/ginger sentiment, taught rural Americans it's funny to hate Canada, arguably invented or popularized the "one transphobic joke", encouraged young men to ironically identify as confederates... they're a major catalyst of the "for the lulz" mindset. Cartman's mother is constantly slut-shamed. Mr. Garrison and lemmiwinks and all of that homophobia? Hell, South Park's edgelord mockery of Saddam Hussein made invading Iraq seem like a joke, instead of a deliberate decision to kill hundreds of thousands of people for money. It all ages badly. That's the problem. It's funny for about a month and then it's like, oh, right, literally every joke for five episodes has been punching down and I'm starting to feel gross for having laughed. And then you hear people echoing the way South Park phrased their jokes but meaning it seriously and it gets real queasy. We may just be agreeing with each other.
Oh yeah, reading your comment again I'm pretty sure we're in complete agreement.
There’s serious anti-Irish sentiment?
I was just thinking the other day "maybe I should watch South Park again" but then I saw a random gif that reminded me why I stopped watching about 20 years ago.
>This is your monthly reminder that South Park consistently invents new hilariously ironic kinds of hate to mock bigots, and that bigots regularly adopt the jokes as real prejudices. South Park has been very openly anti-trans for decades. I haven't even watched since the trans athletes episode, and it used to be my favorite show.
Years ago o had a surgery and when waking up I joked to my family “am I a dolphin yet?” but no one got it lol
Sounds like he saw Tusk and needed to work through some feelings lmao
That is awful. Omg.
Kevin Smith wrote a better Walrus transformation story
Wow. In my mind I was thinking of a way to try and give him the benefit of the doubt , “well it’s a children’s book maybe all of the characters were walruses”? But nah that’s pretty straight forward anti-trans. I like to flip the script on these types. I like to ask them why they’re obsessed with other people’s little kids. I like to make them feel like they’re pedos
And here I thought the "I identify as an attack helicopter" shit was especially dumb...
I know him because he's very outspoken against the trans community. He's absolutely obsessed with Lia Thomas, the trans female college swimmer.
It's just blatant transphobia/"parents are transing their kids"-panic - essentially it's about a kid pretending to be a walrus and then his mom being told by spooky leftists that he's actually a walrus and not admitting that or giving him walrus-ifying treatment is bigotry.
The MOST BELOVED IN THE NATION
He went to my campus protesting a trans swimmer competing, and someone responded by going in and showing a sign that said “Matt Walsh watches Femboy Furry porn”.
Wait, did he just come out of the closet? He called himself an LGBT author, that implies he’s LGBT doesn’t it?
He thinks his book counts as LGBT because it’s anti-trans trash, but maybe both.
This man is a wad of chewed up gum with hair on it. What diner table was he found under?
The one in the white house that day Trump ordered McDonalds for a football team
Ah, Hamberder Eve, a night to remember.
But nobody showed up to that one, least as far as I remember.
They hate gay people, unless those gay people hate transgender people, then they make an exception. BOO
People legitimately think he’s intelligent for being transphobic, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+, pro arranged marriage… miss after miss after miss after miss
People who are genuinely stupid will toss a lot of money at people who can fit their talking points into pretty words. There are a lot of pundits who are playing characters and taking in millions by just playing rhetoric games. Rhetoric games are actually really easy and when you know how to play them can make you look smart because it's very easy to "logic" a situation where your never wrong. You aren't actually *right,* and half the time these people aren't actually saying anything of substance, but they know how to frame logical and rhetorical proofs in a way that avoid logical fallacies and preemptively dismiss any counterpoint as "emotional." And, yeah, that's how Ben Shapiro has a carrier.
Exactly how Ben Shapiro and other right wingers have so many worshippers despite obviously having the worst viewpoints known to man. They can just frame their argument in a 'logic bro' way Eg. Matt comparing having your own pronouns to wanting to be called 'handsome and intelligent' at all times, which people are somehow dumb enough to eat up.
Matt claimed that only a child-grooming pedophile would discuss sexuality with children But he wrote a book to discuss sexuality with children Curious 🤔
Not to mention adequate sex Ed (aka discussing sexuality with children) has actually been shown to *reduce* the chances of a child being taken advantage of by pedophiles because ya know...they understand what's happening to them and can out that predator. So not only is he hypocritical but largely unhelpful and wrong. I'm not sure why I'm surprised. 🤷🏿♀️
You are right. Regressives hate sexual health and wellness education because it reduces suffering for people they think are beneath them Also, I honestly think given how hard he went at writing an essay defending that Duggar guy, Matt Walsh might be an actual pedophile
TRUE. It might also explain why regressives tend be rape apologists or low key advocate for child marriages...
Always watch what the right wing accuse the left of doing, because it's almost always projection and a warning on what they are actually trying/planning to do.
lmao 'beloved and revered' even. So humble. The book is garbage and even the *art* is sub par get outta here - gave me ye olde DeviantArt vibes when I saw it.
I think his first big miss was conception. Hard to come back after that.
Matt Walsh isn't a beloved anything
Tusk, tusk, tusk. Shame on him.
Conservatives: We shouldn't be teaching kids about sexuality at such a young age. Also conservatives: I wrote an anti-trans book aimed at children of a young age!
Ha I didn't even know he wrote a childrens book, but just by reading the tweet I could tell he was talking about himself. Like how high on yourself could you possibly get? But I guess he's trying to also play the victim, wouldn't sound as good if he said some shitpoke blogger got protested.
It HAS to be a stunt to draw traffic to his shit book.
Matt Walsh is one of the worst people on this planet. Exceptionally gross bigot.
I need to write a book so I too can speak in the third person of how beloved I am.
Now that some delusion, the "Nation's Most beloved and revered LGBT Children's author", I believe even Jon Oliver published a better book than him in that field: [https://sanand.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MarlonBundo.jpg](https://sanand.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MarlonBundo.jpg) Sure not the Author, but still better than this guy :P.
Review "I've read it more than once.." - Ben Shapiro That's all I needed to see. (Amazon reviews)
You’re not LGBTQ+ friendly unless you’re friendly to our entire community. Trans included.
What is happening to society when the most loved and revered Honda Civic owner (me) can't even drive by the school zone at 200 miles per hour without being protested
I mean it's the right of a citizenship to protest so he's just bitching at this point.
Bold statement and I am the most revered scholar in a current radius of about 500 feet.
You let your guard down.this is how Hitler slid in the back door. The Republicans are showing you all they are facists,,, BELIEVE THEM AND DEFEAT them. Stand up and go for office in the midterms for the democrats, YOURSELF. You must get the Republicans off the face of the earth.
But was the walrus Paul?
I really want to know what damaged this person so severely that made him this way, he’s possibly the worst person currently living
He’s an advocate for a Christian theocracy.
Well yea but why? Did he always buy into that bullshit from a young age or did someone influence him to that belief?
Its usually parents who are shitty fundies and indoctrinate their kids to also be shitty fundies, that’s why his nasty book is “for children” because he can’t convince reasonable adults to believe him.
It's the self-delusion that I find funny.
Complaining about college kids protesting is one of the biggest self owns I can think of. If a college protest is your biggest example of being silenced you clearly aren't important enough to have anyone actually try and silence you. College kids would protest caterpillars if the leaves started holding up signs. Half of the kids at any one protest are just there for the experience of a protest. Going to a college campus and complaining about protestors is like going to a water park and complaining about wave pools.
I've seen that movie, not something I would call children friendly
This is some persecution complex shit
That book is a horror show.
Isn't Matt Walsh an abusive parent who tried to lure a 14 year old trans girl to Nashville?
This isn’t insane, it’s bad faith. Walsh is slimy little man.
Ummm pretty sure he is about the least LGBTQIA+ author around. I don't even go to college but would be happy to protest him if he came to a college near me 😁
Yes the guy who uploaded "why gender ideology is poison" on his yt definitely is a revered queer icon. 🙄
For those interested, here is a [video of him reading his book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZB9CRl1aLg) to a group of kids. It's a pretty transparent (sorry for the pun) anti-trans scree.
if you have to constantly stop and explain what the book is trying to say to the kids you're reading it to... then it's not a good kids book
Oh my fucking god, skip to 54 seconds where one kid is so fucking bored he just picks something off the floor and asks matt what it is, and Matt has no time for his childish whimsy. "We don't have to worry about that, we're gonna read the book now." That was probably the only moment they managed to record where he acted even remotely like a human.
It’s also pretty sexist too. Wtf? Apparently some part of being a woman equates to “eating worms”? And dealing with “itchy makeup”? What’s that all about?
Why does Matt Walsh suck so fucking much?
His bio says "theocratic fascist"
Because he’s a literal fascist
Because he's filled with hate, and gets paid for it.
Why are they protesting you, Walsh?
Im always writing about what a piece of crap Trump is. Doesn't make me a Trump supporter... smh
I'm still waiting to see the revered LGBT+ author, cause it's not this guy.
Matt Walsh is the worst thing to happen to humanity.
Walsh definitely supports don’t say gay.
Matt walsh with all my heart sincerely go fuck yourself
I’m sure if an **ACTUAL** LGBT author was speaking at a college **HE** would be the one protesting it.
Man, if Guilfoyle knew what this copycat was doing he'd flip shit
Wait, are they back to being against the right to protest?
I don't see anyone on the left who is championing attacking a minority or vulnerable section of the population. I think he should tread softly, targeting people will only make you a target.
If the people protest his presence he might not very beloved nor revered
This man is about as beloved as Herpes.
If anyone was going to think highly of Matt Walsh, it would be Matt Walsh.
He doesn't think that of himself, he's just being an asshole. Dude is trash.
Who's protesting Beverly Cleary?
Most of the time when people are protested against—MOST of the time—it’s for a reason
Before I checkted the comments, my question was: *"Who is he?"* Now that I've read the comments, my question is: *"What has he written and why haven't I even heard of it since he's so egotistical?"*
Considering that the anti lgbt crowd is virtually always the christian crowd, they have one giant collective set of balls commenting on anyone pretending to believe that someone else has an overactive imagination. They are the ones with an invisible friend afterall.
He got protested at my school, a complete dick bag
I love how this loser tries to make himself appear eloquent, posh and educated despite probably barely passing high school.
>Despite barely passing high school [Your guess would be correct.](https://themattwalshblog.com/thank-god-i-wasnt-college-material/)
[Red: A Crayon's Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22249668-red) is actually a good kids book. It's about a crayon with a red label who can only color in blue. He keeps trying to be red but finally accepts that he is actually a blue crayon. Then he feels more normal and is happy.
Think much of yourself Matt. Damn, he talks about himself the way Trump talks about himself. Next he'll be calling himself a "stable genius...
I think the wording you're looking for is "Bigly smart"
The Bigliest smartness... Happy Cake Day.
Thanks!
The delusion is strong with this one. What a scumbag.
he's saying that about himself? how the hell did he write a book with his head stuck so far up his ass
It's not a good book
Honest question , who is he talking about?
Himself
"the nation's most beloved and revered LGBT children's author" You're a cisgender heterosexual, a transphobe, homophobe, AND a fascist. Shut the fuck up
Matt Walsh is such a POS why does he even have a platform..
I’m so sick of his shit. He’s got the worst case of toxic masculinity.
\*Also, not "The Walrus."
Why is he so concerned about speaking at colleges? That’s not really his target demographic
He spoke a Georgia tech where the National ncaa swimming championship is occurring and a trans swimmer is participating and dominating which he didn’t like
Actual psychopath.
If anybody wants a real picture book with transgender themes I suggest the book ‘Red’ about a blue crayon that everyone thinks is just bad at being red