At last week's mayoral debate in New York, Communist and part-time Islamist Zohran Mamdani attempted to shame Andrew Cuomo for not visiting mosques. Yes, less than 25 years after 9/11, this is now an attack point from the left, one that plays pretty well in New York City, of all places.
Cuomo didn't help himself with his stumbling, stuttering response in which he tried to protest about all of the work he has done with the Muslim community. His response to Mamdani should have been, 'And? So? What's your point?'
But that kind of response doesn't play well with leftist voters who worship anything anti-American, so it probably never even occurred to Cuomo that Mamdani didn't actually have a point, just the usual far-left tactic of shaming.
On Friday, conservative Matt Walsh went off about this moment on his podcast, claiming that the last thing America needs is more 'tolerance.' The full show is below, but (for anyone not interested in listening to Walsh talk about sex robots and fish cams), the relevant segment begins at the 27:46 mark:
Don Lemon’s Violent Fantasies, Democrat Money Laundering Schemes, S*x Robots, & More
— The Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow) October 17, 2025
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 00:40 Opening
02:11 - 21:50 Don Lemon’s Violent Fantasies, Democrat Money Laundering Schemes, S*x Robots, & More
24:40 - 27:45 Matt's Defends His Studio Fish
27:46 - 38:43… pic.twitter.com/n1kLojwkPh
It may sound shocking, and Walsh does enjoy sounding shocking, but he is absolutely, 100 percent correct. We do not have to 'tolerate' anything the left pushes on us, whether is is radical Islam, trans ideology, mass illegal immigration, or abortion. (All of those are just varying forms of Marxism anyway.)
Because 'tolerating' evil is the first step on the path to being forced to affirm it, then celebrate it, then participate in it.
Walsh cites many examples of this axiomatic progression, but here's another one. Take 'trans kids' (which do not exist). It seems like merely five minutes ago that the left and their celebrity spokespeople in Hollywood were merely asking that we 'tolerate' children who've been brainwashed into thinking they were born in the wrong body. But right now -- RIGHT NOW -- in states like Minnesota and California, the government will actually take children away from their parents if they refuse to participate in the delusion.
On that issue, tolerance escalated to forced compliance faster than the speed of light.
Just because Walsh likes to be provocative doesn't mean he is wrong. And he was not wrong in this case simply because his words upset the usual suspects on the left, including Cenk Uygur.
Matt Walsh said, “We need to be intolerant. Intolerance is a virtue. Intolerance is good, intolerance is holy, intolerance is Christian, intolerance is moral and courageous.” This is why I'm on the left.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) October 19, 2025
When some on the right say this about any of us - Muslims, blacks, gay…
... gay people, etc. - you're saying we don't want you! Ok, I heard that loud and clear. Then, do you expect my vote after you told me you can't even tolerate me?
I know he doesn't speak for everyone on the right, or even a majority. But it's guys like him who use culture wars to divide us. Another reason why I hate the culture wars.
I think our greatest strength is when we are the UNITED States of America.
I'm not sure if Uygur is too stupid to understand what Walsh was saying, or just intentionally gaslighting the commentary. I probably should embrace the power of 'AND.'
First of all, Walsh never even mentioned black people. Uygur just stuck that in there because he's a race hustler. As for Muslims and gay people, Walsh never once said to reject the individuals. He rejected ideologies.
But this is the game that the left loves to play. And they're very angry that conservatives aren't playing by their rules anymore.
We don't embrace universal tolerance because some things simply should not be tolerated, as Robby Starbuck pointed out to Uygur.
Cenk,
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 20, 2025
Should we tolerate people who want to give 13 year olds double mastectomies or chemical castration drugs? Should we tolerate rapists and killers? Obviously no. Discernment about when to tolerate things is important, and it’s equally important with what we don’t tolerate.
Intolerance isn't just a virtue, it is a necessity for a civilization to survive. Aristotle knew this thousands of years ago.
— T.A.R.S. 🏴🇻🇦 (@TARSRel0aded) October 19, 2025
Even more modern liberal thinkers have known this, as Walsh's more mild-mannered (but equally principled) colleague Michael Knowles pointed out.
But tolerance itself presupposes some form of intolerance. The father of liberalism, John Locke, explained this fact in “A Letter Concerning Toleration,” as did the father of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, in his most famous essay, “Repressive Tolerance”! https://t.co/TL3pnSWmsa
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) October 20, 2025
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions"
— Joshua D Phillips (@JoshPhillipsPhD) October 20, 2025
G.K. Chesterton pic.twitter.com/wfdPXQUem8
Uygur doesn't care about any of that. He just knows that the word 'intolerance' sounds mean, so he wants to use it as a cudgel into compliance with his ideology.
I won't even get into the hypocrisy of someone like Uygur lecturing anyone about unity.
United? When the Left is constantly dividing us by race, nationality, gender, class, etc.?
— Aggie The Barbabe (@AggieTheBarkeep) October 20, 2025
That kind of hypocrisy is his stock in trade, and always has been, despite a few moments of clarity from him every blue moon.
Of course, Uygur refuses recognize that he practices intolerance every day or his life. He even named his show after some of the most ruthlessly intolerant people in history.
*hates intolerance*
— The Middle-earth Mixer (@MiddleearthMixr) October 20, 2025
*names his show after the Young Turks https://t.co/pxZCJZSriQ
Oops.
Finally, Uygur states that he 'hates' the culture wars. Leaving aside for the moment that, in his own way of thinking, hate is equal to intolerance (another oops), there is one reason that he doesn't like the culture wars.
He is losing every one of them.
Maybe not in far-left strongholds like New York City, where Demcrats are -- astonishingly -- poised to elect a man who happily poses for photo ops with one of the co-conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, but across America, the left is losing on every front.
If Americans overwhelmingly believed in mutilating children for gender ideology, save for a small percentage of outspoken conservatives, Uygur would not hate the culture wars at all. He wold happily be cheering them on, urging his viewers to be 'intolerant' of anyone who didn't fall in line with that practice.
His indignant response to Walsh is nothing more than virtue-signaling, hoping that people will agree with him because the word 'intolerance' sounds mean.
It didn't and it won't work. Because Walsh is correct. Tolerance of evil is a sin in Christianity. (It is in other religions as well, but Walsh was only speaking of his religion.)
Intolerance IS a virtue. Because what intolerance ultimately means is that we are exercising good judgment and having a firm moral core from which we refuse to be swayed. Obviously, people can disagree on what is evil or not, but there is no question that we all exercise intolerance about those things we consider to be wrong. Uygur just doesn't like that people are becoming intolerant of the horrible things he believes in.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows my Twitter account to know that I embrace intolerance. And I will never apologize for that.
I am intolerant of 'transing the kids.'
I am intolerant of flooding our borders with millions of people who have no interest in becoming Americans.
I am intolerant of murdering children in the womb.
I am intolerant of far-left politicians who express nothing but hatred for America and its voters, and who want to 'fundamentally transform' our great nation.
And yes, Cenk Uygur, I am intolerant of media hacks who think they can scold me for adhering to those principles.
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