It’s called an ambush. The things you could articulate years ago but have taken for granted are attacked and you are unprepared to defend them in the moment. Given an hour or two to think, you’d be fine. They use your kindness and uncertainty against you. Don’t let them. I tell my daughter, never immediately agree to anything you feel is wrong. Take time, on your own, to think about it. If they won’t wait for you to consider a thing, they are bullies, sophist and liars. Don’t fall for it.
Well said, they also do this to the poor, nonconformist & aggressive in that threatening time incarcerated unless one agrees to enter into these struggle sessions. In Federal Prisons it is called Drug School, at the county level it is Reconation which came from Scientologists.
@@marcgrundfest1495 That would be falling into their trap. They want to bring down the economy and society. Conditionally withholding tax would be a better way, so the economy isn't damage. Wokism and Marxism and Communitarianism are branches of communism. Communism was created by the super rich global elites for the purpose of gaining unassailable control and power. It takes away our inalienable rights. Capitalism exploits human nature, and Communism subverts human nature.
Some of the worst moments of my life were struggle sessions and I didn’t realize it till years later. When I was in college I got kicked out of the student tv station I helped create. I was told last minute about a staff meeting and walked into an ambush where I was blamed for everything from broken equipment to sexism to mismanaging funds…and my refusal to accept blame was proof that I was difficult to work with. This went on for over an hour until my accusers got tired and decided two adjourn. The next day I showed up at the tv station and was locked out. When I went to the building sup. She threatened to call the police if I didn’t leave. They had told her I was trying to steal equipment.
When those that smiled at you a few minutes before, tell you that you must confess your "crimes" to the whole group, and when you reasonably decline and they become ruthless, and they begin using the group as a cudgel against you, watch out.
You just described a jehovah's witness judicial meeting. Someome accuses you of something for whatever reason, and then you get pulled into a backroom by a group of older men.
Excellent video. I believe this happened to leaders in my church. I quit my job as an engineer to take over leadership in the church and your content has been very helpful in spotting false gospels. Keep it up james.
Amen. Well done. Same thing happened in my church. Except it is unclear if the people who took over are fully aware of the false gospels that were deeply imbibed previously. I am not sure they are. We left when the church, state and corporations all had the same exclusionary view which did not care for free will.
Thank you for doing this! God bless you. Some people in the church are blind. They don't realize that wokeness is coming for the church. It's a part of why I am now attending Mass and RCIA classes to convert to Catholicism.
Ultimately, the fundamental issue is that bad people are willing to commit evil for no other reason than maintain power. The key is to ensure that observers realize that it’s a power play. Once the mask is off , the good guys aren’t seen as good anymore.
It's not bad people committing evil. It's normal people, converted to religious zealots, thinking they are righteous and doing the Ultimate Good, and are morally superior to others.
@@redpillsatori3020 no, good people don’t chase power for selfish reasons. Don’t try and pull some original sin BS here… good people don’t knowingly destroy people for personal benefit.
@@Xplora213 They're doing it for the 'greater good'. There isn't any original sin BS, you admitted such with the clarifications; 'knowingly' and 'personal benefit'' "good people don’t knowingly destroy people for personal benefit.". Well what about instances when a good person doesn't know? What about when they're doing it for the 'greater good', or the 'good' of the individual they're destroying?
@@SoMuchFacepalm that’s a lot of waffle. The definition of a good person is someone who isn’t going to stomp others needlessly for personal gain. There is a difference between competing and evil, and if you can’t tell the difference you aren’t the good person you think you are.
00:35 🚫 The hard truth about struggle sessions is that once you capitulate, the loss incurred is almost final, making it very difficult to come back. 01:03 🔄 A struggle session is a form of psychological torture used to force a false confession to a contrived crime, aimed at making you adopt the beliefs of a totalitarian system. 03:34 🌐 In diversity, equity, and inclusion training, struggle sessions aim to get you to adopt a specific mindset for the purpose of equity. 05:52 ⚖️ Once you confess in a struggle session, the pressure doesn't ease; you're accused of insincerity, and the cycle of pressure and confession continues. 07:56 🛡️ Confessing in a struggle session means giving up a part of your beliefs and it's hard to recover from, as the pressure to conform only intensifies. 11:59 🛑 There is almost no coming back from capitulating to a struggle session; you're either out of the game or slowly molded into the enemy's camp. Stand firm in your beliefs to resist.
A form of Struggle Session is demonstrated in the Tv show SEVERANCE on Apple TV. They call it "The Break Room" (Where they break your mind and force you to confessed to a contrived crime over and over again.)
Until I listened to this episode I didn’t have a proper way to describe what my eldest son was doing to me. He moved away several years ago and married into a very different culture then our family culture. Because he’s so far away I couldn’t visit him anymore. We spoke a few times earlier in his move. But over time I felt him turning cold towards me and with the election of 2016 and our family supporting DJT. He became demanding and highly insulting and insistent that I apologize and change my views. He would not listen to anything I said and he wouldn’t accept my “we are just going to agree to disagree” argument. It’s been highly frustrating and emotional. To this day he’s not speaking to me. I guess you can say I didn’t capitulate to that Struggle. But I miss my beautiful firstborn son and all that we once had together. 😞
@@dogwklr One that has impressed upon him to totally destroy his ties with his family of origin. He refuses to live in harmony with his family until we (I) do as he says. 🤷🏼♀️This is not how I raised him. He’s being a total bully 😞
That’s terrible hopefully he will come around one day. In any case you can’t really have a relationship with someone who holds the relationship hostage if you don’t believe or support everything they do.
It might help, should one find oneself in such a session to kee in mind something I once heard Douglas Murray : why attribute value to the opinions of people whose sentiments are fundamentally dishonest ?
Trump's lawyers that folded with plea deals(Georgia RICO) went through struggle sessions. I remarked that they went through Room 101 (from Orwell's 1984) and came out saying 2+2=5.
Someone pointed out that members of the Labour Party in England were talking about legislation to make sure AI or algorithms could not be systematically racist. I thought, there it is, the beginning of the end. DEI cultists will call anything that does not provide equal outcomes by group racist. Equal outcomes are not possible with free individual choice, so the AI or algorithm will automatically be considered racist. They will redesign it towards the goal of equity by group (a new Lysenkoism) and the DEI/woke tyranny will begin in earnest.
Not surprised. It is so much advanced in many ways across the pond..within their system. It’s in the works to create active and prevalent racism against European and European descended people..
Psychiatrists use this tactic like crazy. Authoritative behavioral health workers in particular. Also happened in the Alex Jones Sandy Hook court as well as the Jan 6th Fed-filled court.
@@MichelleyB-zk3ehMedical field in general. It's a very common tactic they use, shuts the patient up and the medical worker still gets paid to be useless.
It's all about power over others. They believe forcing dominance (power) over someone gives them authority over them. Admitting a wrong gives them that momentary power and authority, that is used as in ever increasing measures. Never give away your right of self defense. The power you give them will be used against you. They're not a benevolent dictator like you're parents or school teachers of old. They're goal is power, by any means necessary.
Same here for me, it's been going on for a year. I'm stuck living with woke Marxists and it damages your brain, particularly if you already have a mental condition.
Hi james thank you for this, i would really like more content about struggle session and how to defeat them, how to call them out, how they work and everything else about it. Thank you
OMG, this episode made me see that Jordan Peterson has been put through 2 struggle sessions, one against the trans and the most recent because of his tweet about Hamas
14:00 "you may come back individually ... but you can never make the difference which you hoping to make" 🎯🎯🎯 I came back from struggle sessions many a times.. I'm from an ex commie state.. but I'm not the same man, I'll never be.. Thank you so much James 🙏
They also do this to the poor, nonconformist & aggressive in that threatening time incarcerated unless one agrees to enter into these struggle sessions. In Federal Prisons it is called Drug School, at the county level it is Reconation which came from Scientologists.
Whats a real life example of a struggle session? I guess getting cancelled on twitter is one but how about offline, for the average bloke? The only example I can think of from my personal life was when my coworkers and broader community was placing a lot of pressure on showing some form of obedience with covid measures. It didnt matter if the measure would actually be effective against covid in any way it only mattered that you displayed obedience.
@@morganpauls1873 reckon Lindsay is gonna get sued for calling people groomers? You seen this? I was calling this months ago. Pretty funny. He's basically infamous for it. What a struggle!
8:02 I dont see myself confessing. I guess it depends on what you mean by "apologizing" in this situation. If I said something I regret, not on their terms, something I regret on my terns, then I will apologize. But I wont confess to their ideology, not by one bit.
Struggle session is actual torture. I see it grounded on the idea that reality is a social construct. With it, anything that the power that is wishes to be true is true. It's the power of Big Brother in 1984. With the idea of a reality as a social construct, struggle session can be presented as "teaching". Any dissent will be dearly paid by a session where the peer pressure is maximal. Torture has been given up because the victim said anything that he thought it could end the torture session. Again in a socially constructed reality, it's fine. The point as you note, it's to break the victim. Then it can be "educated" again and again. The victim accepts reality as a social construct since he lives by it after the torture session. Fear to go through another struggle session then increases the pain of it. It's basic torturing method. A big help for such sessions is the fact that truth, based on the thing outside the social construct, is hard to reach. The anxiety associated with the absence of any understanding of reality (the thing outside the social construct) is a huge help to torture. In the end, faith (as a religious thing) can be built into a person by torturing him. That's the entire goal of the thing. I fear struggle sessions.
Back because of the struggle session slash attempt to divide the opposition. People jumping in trying to create conflicts between people and force the audience to take sides. Not dropping names because it does not matter, the issue is not the issue, the goal is the struggle and splitting apart and the weakening of what will become a strong movement against the cult!
I was definitely made for such a time as this. Finding myself actually grateful for my allegedly sub-clinical Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Born Rebel. I wish, I wish, I wish someone WOULD try me. It's neVer worked before, not gonna start complying with bs now. I'm too old for such reindeer games. 🤔🤨_😑💀
@@mercychoke4475 haha someone is monitoring my responses or something, my reply disappeared. Probably that paranoid clod Lindsay. All I was doing was trying to point you towards the daily Kos Predator list
Tom MacDonald or Eric July come to mind. Independent Artists and writers who refuse to tow the line. Middle fingers in the air and succeed, despite the hatred.
JUST STICKING TO THE PURE GOSPEL OF JESUS OUR CHRIST…THE TRUTH AND WAY…. AND KINGDOM LOVE PURITY AND HOPE AND POWER TO CHANGE. WE CAN NOT EMBRACE PERVERSION IN THE NAME OF GOD!!!!!!!!! FROM FORNICATION OF ANY TYPE…WE HAVE LOST GODS WAYS HELP IS WITH THE PURE WORD…NOTHING LESS WILL DO NO TICKLING EARS OR FLESH…IT REALLY HURTS AT FIRST
@@leonardticsay8046 Right! And then there are photos and they end up on social media. And then the person who was struggled gets the stink-eye from everyone in the office... It's all by design. So insidious. I can really tell it's a Friday. I can't take anything seriously.
The dynamic is the same as in the 30 January 1942 Berlin speech given by Hitler "The others may laugh or mock as much as they wish. It does not matter. They may go against us. That does not matter; then we will defend ourselves. We will not capitulate." all while this same figure accelerated into the spirit of the age using a carefully controlled mass media published a manifesto entitled "My Struggle" authored and edited first by a Jewish man Emil Maurice who was awarded the title Honorary Aryan. To learn you are being played is not as important as being able to pronounce the name of those who have played you.
How long has this been going on for? , I got a friend who is a 48 years old and he was telling me about his behavior when he was in high school and it sounds like he already adopted the mindset of somebody who was punished by a struggle session.
Spar with strangers anonymously online. Because if it's gameday and you haven't shouldered the hate that tracks all the way back to Cain...you're probably gonna get cooked, man.
No James, we not on the left, HAVE to forgive those that break. Thats the only way to tell if something is evil. Evil never forgives and never forgets.
This doesn’t work on people who aren’t desperate to be approved of, those who don’t need to be part of the “OK” group, those who think for themselves and aren’t afraid of rejection by “the group.”
Hmm, by this definition, I have misused the term, maybe. Does the crime have to be made up in the sense of, it's not a real crime, or, could a false accusation of a real crime count as part of a struggle session?
Every time the 41%-rate people spam Lindsay’s Twitter with that old meme, I want to forward them to one of the struggle session videos, but maybe they’d just mass-report the TH-cam comment section. Maybe the solution is to make a banger meme and post that under their inevitable smear jobs.
It reminds me about the concept of Martyrdom in Christianity where people refuse to renounce their faith and how Islam has the concept of Taqiya which is the denial of religious belief and practice. There is a big difference between Christian and Muslim martyrs.
13:43 Why don't people come back? I can imagine someone giving in and issuing a hostage apology, and then a little later saying "I was pressured to apologise and I did it because I was placed under so much stress and my friends were all disassociating from me, I didn't want to drag my family through any more of it, etc. - but now I've had time to be out of the mob's crosshairs, I see what was done to me, and it was xyz." ^ I've seen people come back in that manner from online struggle sessions, so why not?
People normally don't come back because they realise the consequences of not being a bigot aren't actually that bad. Infact, it's nice not living in fear and wallowing in self pity and hatred.
@@L_Martin lol if I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that fictional book on this channel. You do know it's fictional? Have you even read it?
@@L_Martin lol if I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that fictional book on this channel. You do know it's fictional? Have you even read it?
@@rgghjs9270 Widely recognised as one of the best books about communist totalitarianism, that people living within the USSR were passing around in secret and commenting on how eerily well it captures the experience of living under a totalitarian regime. I do see the value in Orwell’s work, it does describe the human temptation towards totalitarian impulses. Not really sure why the book is less powerful for being fictional. But then, the person who writes of struggle sessions: “[the target] realises the consequences of not being a bigot are not all bad, they see it’s nice not living in fear and wallowing in self pit pity and hatred” doesn’t see the value in Orwell’s work? I’m shocked, just shocked.
Is this for, like, public people or something? I have a bunch of lefty friends and they know I lean conservative and they have never put me through a struggle session... I even have a small exmo podcast and I have never had to go through this. Basically I'm just unknown and/or ignored by the broader exmo crowd since they left one religion for DEI. No struggle.session though.
He has some fun on occasion. And the cursing makes me laugh now and then. Best examples might include the podcast on the "Thinking Sex" essay, and his "What Radicalized You, James Lindsay" podcast. I think podcasts on the topic of queer theory contain more sarcasm, on average.
Paradoxically, being labelled a ‘white devil’, an inherently flawed version of humanity, feels like a superpower. Also, denying my status as a white devil only proves that I am such a thing. So, I embrace the subversive power of the shadow they cast upon me for it is a shield. A devil has no master and makes it’s own rules. I’m guessing this speaks to my very tough childhood when defiance was a survival strategy. Compliance felt like dying. Why would you expect kindness and compliance from a devil? If my accuser sincerely believes me to be an abomination, then I am beyond redemption and they should have the moral courage of a true warrior for freedom and end me in any way they can. I accept the terms. By definition I am forever lost, so any attempt to reach me is a contradiction and speaks to my accuser’s cowardice/deceit.
Because they aren't in the praise vs. blame game, they are in altering the social forces that construct reality game. Your behavior and how it effects you and those around you is the target of their aims Your saying those words and others hearing it will alter the way the social world is constructed. AND THAT IS ALL THERE IS.
@@jeffreyscott4997 Correction, that's all they believe there is, which is why they try to manipulate reality in the first place. There's nothing an ideologue hates more than a genuine fact.
They're not seeking truth. The point is to psychologically break you, demoralise you by making you knowingly lie in adopting a stance you don't believe in. Living a lie is stressful, it weakens you.
What do you do if you have a nuanced view of the truth? Because oftentimes, as i understand it, they will try to force you to agree to something that is true, and then force you to agree to something that is false. Is it capitulating to them by agreeing to what is true, even if you don't agree with them ro what is false?
I think there you have to call out what is false and explain why. Don't let them ignore the contradictions in their views. It weakens their arguments to everyone who sees it.
I don't think there's a formula for responding, but if people are playing those sophist entrapment games is there really any point in talking to them? You can probably find better things to do with your time. Also you have to be careful that the things you think are 'true' aren't just some previous high watermark of progressivism that you weren't around to see instituted.
@@stevem815100 on the 2nd paragraph. I see noobs using language that didn’t exist 20 years ago. E.g., “marginalized community”…what does marginalized mean? underserved”(they use the most services), climate “catastrophe”/“denier”, toxic anything that isn’t named 4 flouro chloro dimethyl. …what ever, shared history, allyship, “someone who *looks like* you”, and more recently: occupier, apartheid, open air prison…. And hundreds more.
@@stevem815 That works if you are in a struggle session that you can freely leave with no consequence. But sometimes you are trapped, like if being done as part of a work program or disciplinary hearing.
Wonderfully creepy, James. An occasion to reflect on the "struggle sessions" I've been in. I was abused by a pastor's son as a little boy; he berated me until I broke down and cried. This was a win for him, as he felt himself to be doing the righteous Christian thing by "convicting me of sin." So I know the emotional territory very well, of being broken down and made to conform to another's will, "for my own good." I've avoided that positionality every since. As an adult, I am conscious of the good aspects of Christianity, as well as its carniverous need to break everyone down and make them CONSCIOUS OF THEMSELVES AS SINNERS. I don't spend my time in church; I spend it maintaining traditional culture like Homer & Vergil. Third, as a teacher I was dragged into four day workshop where prejudices would be broken down. I saw the dynamic in play, didn't like it. Fourth, as a boy-lover, I've read any number of accounts where the boy and the boy-lover are subjected to sessions where they are forced, by social pressure to confess the badness of what they've done. VERY INTERESTING.
It’s called an ambush. The things you could articulate years ago but have taken for granted are attacked and you are unprepared to defend them in the moment. Given an hour or two to think, you’d be fine. They use your kindness and uncertainty against you. Don’t let them. I tell my daughter, never immediately agree to anything you feel is wrong. Take time, on your own, to think about it. If they won’t wait for you to consider a thing, they are bullies, sophist and liars. Don’t fall for it.
Just walk out.. with no one to actually work...it will not last long..
Well said, they also do this to the poor, nonconformist & aggressive in that threatening time incarcerated unless one agrees to enter into these struggle sessions. In Federal Prisons it is called Drug School, at the county level it is Reconation which came from Scientologists.
2+2=5 Winston Smith.
@@marcgrundfest1495 That would be falling into their trap. They want to bring down the economy and society.
Conditionally withholding tax would be a better way, so the economy isn't damage.
Wokism and Marxism and Communitarianism are branches of communism.
Communism was created by the super rich global elites for the purpose of gaining unassailable control and power. It takes away our inalienable rights.
Capitalism exploits human nature, and Communism subverts human nature.
It's called communitarianism
This is exactly how cults work. "Struggle sessions", isolation. Same tactics.
Nanananananana Batman! I mean Leader! Leader! Leader! The Simpsons join a cult.
Essentially these are DEI workshops public school teachers go through now. 🤦♂
Some of the worst moments of my life were struggle sessions and I didn’t realize it till years later. When I was in college I got kicked out of the student tv station I helped create. I was told last minute about a staff meeting and walked into an ambush where I was blamed for everything from broken equipment to sexism to mismanaging funds…and my refusal to accept blame was proof that I was difficult to work with. This went on for over an hour until my accusers got tired and decided two adjourn. The next day I showed up at the tv station and was locked out. When I went to the building sup. She threatened to call the police if I didn’t leave. They had told her I was trying to steal equipment.
Didn’t realize this has been happening for so long. Crazy.
When did this happen?
Did they turn the ltv station into a conflict ideology propaganda broadcast?
Many people have been through things like this. Stay strong my friend. Humans are vicious.
@@Xbalanque84 Whenever you have women involved into projects requiring physical labour for establishing but not for operating.
When those that smiled at you a few minutes before, tell you that you must confess your "crimes" to the whole group, and when you reasonably decline and they become ruthless, and they begin using the group as a cudgel against you, watch out.
You just described a jehovah's witness judicial meeting. Someome accuses you of something for whatever reason, and then you get pulled into a backroom by a group of older men.
"This isn't one of those cheerful, peppy episodes"
Lol. I think i missed that one.
Excellent video. I believe this happened to leaders in my church. I quit my job as an engineer to take over leadership in the church and your content has been very helpful in spotting false gospels. Keep it up james.
Amen. Well done. Same thing happened in my church. Except it is unclear if the people who took over are fully aware of the false gospels that were deeply imbibed previously. I am not sure they are. We left when the church, state and corporations all had the same exclusionary view which did not care for free will.
God bless you brother. May you serve as a beacon of His light in these dark times.
Thank you for doing this! God bless you. Some people in the church are blind. They don't realize that wokeness is coming for the church. It's a part of why I am now attending Mass and RCIA classes to convert to Catholicism.
Ultimately, the fundamental issue is that bad people are willing to commit evil for no other reason than maintain power. The key is to ensure that observers realize that it’s a power play. Once the mask is off , the good guys aren’t seen as good anymore.
It's not bad people committing evil. It's normal people, converted to religious zealots, thinking they are righteous and doing the Ultimate Good, and are morally superior to others.
@@redpillsatori3020 no, good people don’t chase power for selfish reasons. Don’t try and pull some original sin BS here… good people don’t knowingly destroy people for personal benefit.
@@Xplora213 They're doing it for the 'greater good'. There isn't any original sin BS, you admitted such with the clarifications; 'knowingly' and 'personal benefit'' "good people don’t knowingly destroy people for personal benefit.".
Well what about instances when a good person doesn't know? What about when they're doing it for the 'greater good', or the 'good' of the individual they're destroying?
@@SoMuchFacepalm that’s a lot of waffle. The definition of a good person is someone who isn’t going to stomp others needlessly for personal gain. There is a difference between competing and evil, and if you can’t tell the difference you aren’t the good person you think you are.
@@Xplora213 Man, you didn't even read my comment. For example, where the hell did you get competition from? Cause I didn't mention it.
00:35 🚫 The hard truth about struggle sessions is that once you capitulate, the loss incurred is almost final, making it very difficult to come back.
01:03 🔄 A struggle session is a form of psychological torture used to force a false confession to a contrived crime, aimed at making you adopt the beliefs of a totalitarian system.
03:34 🌐 In diversity, equity, and inclusion training, struggle sessions aim to get you to adopt a specific mindset for the purpose of equity.
05:52 ⚖️ Once you confess in a struggle session, the pressure doesn't ease; you're accused of insincerity, and the cycle of pressure and confession continues.
07:56 🛡️ Confessing in a struggle session means giving up a part of your beliefs and it's hard to recover from, as the pressure to conform only intensifies.
11:59 🛑 There is almost no coming back from capitulating to a struggle session; you're either out of the game or slowly molded into the enemy's camp. Stand firm in your beliefs to resist.
Thank you for this.
If speech is violence , how should we reply to speech?
Methods like struggle sessions are common in many cults.
A form of Struggle Session is demonstrated in the Tv show SEVERANCE on Apple TV. They call it "The Break Room"
(Where they break your mind and force you to confessed to a contrived crime over and over again.)
Loved that series so much I immediately watched all over again.
Until I listened to this episode I didn’t have a proper way to describe what my eldest son was doing to me. He moved away several years ago and married into a very different culture then our family culture. Because he’s so far away I couldn’t visit him anymore. We spoke a few times earlier in his move. But over time I felt him turning cold towards me and with the election of 2016 and our family supporting DJT. He became demanding and highly insulting and insistent that I apologize and change my views. He would not listen to anything I said and he wouldn’t accept my “we are just going to agree to disagree” argument. It’s been highly frustrating and emotional. To this day he’s not speaking to me. I guess you can say I didn’t capitulate to that Struggle. But I miss my beautiful firstborn son and all that we once had together. 😞
What kind of different culture?
@@dogwklr One that has impressed upon him to totally destroy his ties with his family of origin. He refuses to live in harmony with his family until we (I) do as he says. 🤷🏼♀️This is not how I raised him. He’s being a total bully 😞
That’s terrible hopefully he will come around one day. In any case you can’t really have a relationship with someone who holds the relationship hostage if you don’t believe or support everything they do.
Oh he's gay.
@@guybrushwayne4388No he’s married to a Jamaican/Haitian woman. Her family is extremely leftist in ideology.
It might help, should one find oneself in such a session to kee in mind something I once heard Douglas Murray : why attribute value to the opinions of people whose sentiments are fundamentally dishonest ?
Trump's lawyers that folded with plea deals(Georgia RICO) went through struggle sessions. I remarked that they went through Room 101 (from Orwell's 1984) and came out saying 2+2=5.
How original
@@rgghjs9270 Whether it's original is irrelevant. What matters is whether or not it's true.
Someone pointed out that members of the Labour Party in England were talking about legislation to make sure AI or algorithms could not be systematically racist. I thought, there it is, the beginning of the end. DEI cultists will call anything that does not provide equal outcomes by group racist. Equal outcomes are not possible with free individual choice, so the AI or algorithm will automatically be considered racist. They will redesign it towards the goal of equity by group (a new Lysenkoism) and the DEI/woke tyranny will begin in earnest.
Not surprised. It is so much advanced in many ways across the pond..within their system. It’s in the works to create active and prevalent racism against European and European descended people..
Are you white?
Psychiatrists use this tactic like crazy. Authoritative behavioral health workers in particular.
Also happened in the Alex Jones Sandy Hook court as well as the Jan 6th Fed-filled court.
100% true and very disturbing
@@MichelleyB-zk3ehMedical field in general. It's a very common tactic they use, shuts the patient up and the medical worker still gets paid to be useless.
It's all about power over others. They believe forcing dominance (power) over someone gives them authority over them. Admitting a wrong gives them that momentary power and authority, that is used as in ever increasing measures.
Never give away your right of self defense. The power you give them will be used against you. They're not a benevolent dictator like you're parents or school teachers of old. They're goal is power, by any means necessary.
I (legitamately) have severe OCD. This is basically what goes on in my head on a daily basis. Woke is a mental illness.
Same here for me, it's been going on for a year. I'm stuck living with woke Marxists and it damages your brain, particularly if you already have a mental condition.
Jodie Shaw is the only academic I can think of who didn't capitulate to the woke in 2020. So, basically, one person out of a million.
Thank for your very important work James. 🤔
Hi james thank you for this, i would really like more content about struggle session and how to defeat them, how to call them out, how they work and everything else about it.
Thank you
This is great. And totally correct.
Hard hitting. This is your best short-form yet!
Maoism: "...the people"
American Leftism: "...the democracy"
OMG, this episode made me see that Jordan Peterson has been put through 2 struggle sessions, one against the trans and the most recent because of his tweet about Hamas
Thank you James. Really appreciate your work.
One of the longer comments threads covered a few good examples. Sometimes about a college TV station in one of the root comments.
14:00
"you may come back individually ... but you can never make the difference which you hoping to make" 🎯🎯🎯
I came back from struggle sessions many a times.. I'm from an ex commie state.. but I'm not the same man, I'll never be..
Thank you so much James 🙏
This was done on a national level with the recent referendum in Australia.
The Duluth Model reminds me of a Struggle Session. How did it become the model treatment for allegations (!) of domestic violence?
Bingo
Because Obama and decades of feminists jury-rigging the system in their favor.
People always ask what they can do. Here is one of those things
They also do this to the poor, nonconformist & aggressive in that threatening time incarcerated unless one agrees to enter into these struggle sessions. In Federal Prisons it is called Drug School, at the county level it is Reconation which came from Scientologists.
@AdamA-pm3yn I bet Evolutionary Psycology as prescribed by Dr Jordan Peterson, would be better as therapy than struggle sessions are
I'm currently struggling (although not too hard) to understand why TH-cam unsubscribed me from this channel without my knowledge or consent.
Thanks, Buddy!
Whats a real life example of a struggle session?
I guess getting cancelled on twitter is one but how about offline, for the average bloke?
The only example I can think of from my personal life was when my coworkers and broader community was placing a lot of pressure on showing some form of obedience with covid measures. It didnt matter if the measure would actually be effective against covid in any way it only mattered that you displayed obedience.
Was it wearing a mask? Masks protect vulnerable people. Did they ask you to wash your hands? Sounds traumatising anyway, are you okay now?
@@rgghjs9270 masks are for bacteria not virus, they protect no-one from covid thats for sure lol
@@rgghjs9270Ya, masks aren’t a thing anymore w/ a few notable exceptional circumstances.
Come back to reality.
@@rgghjs9270 youre not paying attention and your response is fair rude
@@morganpauls1873 reckon Lindsay is gonna get sued for calling people groomers? You seen this? I was calling this months ago. Pretty funny. He's basically infamous for it. What a struggle!
8:02 I dont see myself confessing. I guess it depends on what you mean by "apologizing" in this situation. If I said something I regret, not on their terms, something I regret on my terns, then I will apologize. But I wont confess to their ideology, not by one bit.
You come across as very sincere, but anyone who would subject you to a struggle session is not.
Struggle session is actual torture. I see it grounded on the idea that reality is a social construct. With it, anything that the power that is wishes to be true is true. It's the power of Big Brother in 1984. With the idea of a reality as a social construct, struggle session can be presented as "teaching". Any dissent will be dearly paid by a session where the peer pressure is maximal. Torture has been given up because the victim said anything that he thought it could end the torture session. Again in a socially constructed reality, it's fine. The point as you note, it's to break the victim. Then it can be "educated" again and again. The victim accepts reality as a social construct since he lives by it after the torture session. Fear to go through another struggle session then increases the pain of it. It's basic torturing method.
A big help for such sessions is the fact that truth, based on the thing outside the social construct, is hard to reach. The anxiety associated with the absence of any understanding of reality (the thing outside the social construct) is a huge help to torture.
In the end, faith (as a religious thing) can be built into a person by torturing him. That's the entire goal of the thing.
I fear struggle sessions.
James, i like ya, and ya do good work bro.
You have to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.
TH-cam keeps deleting my reference to the book Gulag Archipelago
Back because of the struggle session slash attempt to divide the opposition.
People jumping in trying to create conflicts between people and force the audience to take sides. Not dropping names because it does not matter, the issue is not the issue, the goal is the struggle and splitting apart and the weakening of what will become a strong movement against the cult!
I was definitely made for such a time as this. Finding myself actually grateful for my allegedly sub-clinical Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Born Rebel. I wish, I wish, I wish someone WOULD try me. It's neVer worked before, not gonna start complying with bs now. I'm too old for such reindeer games.
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Based. We need more with this attitude about this bs.
What's it like being tolerated?
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You've got it backwards. We tolerated the people pushing the bs by merely ignoring them. NeVer again trick. It's up. 😆💀
@@mercychoke4475 haha someone is monitoring my responses or something, my reply disappeared. Probably that paranoid clod Lindsay. All I was doing was trying to point you towards the daily Kos Predator list
Keep up the great work!
Give us a live example being acted out of a struggle sesion. And exactly what one says to beat it and to support peers going through it.
Tom MacDonald or Eric July come to mind. Independent Artists and writers who refuse to tow the line. Middle fingers in the air and succeed, despite the hatred.
Yes, this is for you, Jenna Ellis.
You got $500k to help her stay out of prison or are you just going to ride Trump's sack into oblivion?
From the way James describes it sounds like the whole idea of a culture war is also a struggle session. Arn’t we all just individuals in the end?
JUST STICKING TO THE PURE GOSPEL OF JESUS OUR CHRIST…THE TRUTH AND WAY…. AND KINGDOM LOVE PURITY AND HOPE AND POWER TO CHANGE.
WE CAN NOT EMBRACE PERVERSION IN THE NAME OF GOD!!!!!!!!! FROM FORNICATION OF ANY TYPE…WE HAVE LOST GODS WAYS
HELP IS WITH THE PURE WORD…NOTHING LESS WILL DO
NO TICKLING EARS OR FLESH…IT REALLY HURTS AT FIRST
The struggle session isn’t officially complete without a struggle snuggle.
Come on... bring it in close. Big hug!
@@scillyautomatic “no! No! No!” *muffled screams*
You’re getting snuggled whether you want it or not. That’s why it’s called a “struggle snuggle”.
@@leonardticsay8046 Right! And then there are photos and they end up on social media. And then the person who was struggled gets the stink-eye from everyone in the office... It's all by design. So insidious.
I can really tell it's a Friday. I can't take anything seriously.
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The dynamic is the same as in the 30 January 1942 Berlin speech given by Hitler "The others may laugh or mock as much as they wish. It does not matter. They may go against us. That does not matter; then we will defend ourselves. We will not capitulate." all while this same figure accelerated into the spirit of the age using a carefully controlled mass media published a manifesto entitled "My Struggle" authored and edited first by a Jewish man Emil Maurice who was awarded the title Honorary Aryan. To learn you are being played is not as important as being able to pronounce the name of those who have played you.
Wonder if ole Maurice was a friend of $oro$.
@@leonardticsay8046 Given Maurice's award of The Blood Order medal, they both did serve the same cause.
@qlippoth13 I didn’t understand. Could you explain in simpler terms?
Whether you believe Robin Di Angelo or Hitler you are being scammed. These are the same ideas. The same logic with different variables.
@@MadofaA The perfect victim creates the enemy from itself in order to maintain total control over the outcome.
“This isn’t one of those cheerful peppy episodes”… where can I find the cheerful, peppy episodes? 😉
How long has this been going on for? , I got a friend who is a 48 years old and he was telling me about his behavior when he was in high school and it sounds like he already adopted the mindset of somebody who was punished by a struggle session.
Spar with strangers anonymously online. Because if it's gameday and you haven't shouldered the hate that tracks all the way back to Cain...you're probably gonna get cooked, man.
why can't companies (and better, the people who run them) be sued..?
As well as suing if someone's punished or fired for refusal to participate..?
Thankyou :)
No James, we not on the left, HAVE to forgive those that break. Thats the only way to tell if something is evil. Evil never forgives and never forgets.
This is episode 69.
How apt...
Watched it. Good vid
This doesn’t work on people who aren’t desperate to be approved of, those who don’t need to be part of the “OK” group, those who think for themselves and aren’t afraid of rejection by “the group.”
Holy...crap. This video was super informative.
Niceeee
Haven’t listened to episode yet… but Trumps Lawyers are going thru a struggle session.
Hmm, by this definition, I have misused the term, maybe. Does the crime have to be made up in the sense of, it's not a real crime, or, could a false accusation of a real crime count as part of a struggle session?
Every time the 41%-rate people spam Lindsay’s Twitter with that old meme, I want to forward them to one of the struggle session videos, but maybe they’d just mass-report the TH-cam comment section. Maybe the solution is to make a banger meme and post that under their inevitable smear jobs.
Episode #69
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James is a great example of a based homosexual. I really appreciate your work as a right wing gay.
Videos seem to be getting a lot less frequent on this channel, and they are all only billets this month.
It reminds me about the concept of Martyrdom in Christianity where people refuse to renounce their faith and how Islam has the concept of Taqiya which is the denial of religious belief and practice. There is a big difference between Christian and Muslim martyrs.
Are the guilty pleas and words in court by the accused acknowledging that they are guilty count as struggle sessions?
Interesting how James uses left and totalitarian interchangeably, in this context.
Because they are, even outside this context.
13:43 Why don't people come back? I can imagine someone giving in and issuing a hostage apology, and then a little later saying "I was pressured to apologise and I did it because I was placed under so much stress and my friends were all disassociating from me, I didn't want to drag my family through any more of it, etc. - but now I've had time to be out of the mob's crosshairs, I see what was done to me, and it was xyz."
^ I've seen people come back in that manner from online struggle sessions, so why not?
People normally don't come back because they realise the consequences of not being a bigot aren't actually that bad. Infact, it's nice not living in fear and wallowing in self pity and hatred.
@@rgghjs9270 Ah yes. After a struggle session, people come out much happier and non-bigoted, like Winston at the end of 1984.
@@L_Martin lol if I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that fictional book on this channel. You do know it's fictional? Have you even read it?
@@L_Martin lol if I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that fictional book on this channel. You do know it's fictional? Have you even read it?
@@rgghjs9270 Widely recognised as one of the best books about communist totalitarianism, that people living within the USSR were passing around in secret and commenting on how eerily well it captures the experience of living under a totalitarian regime. I do see the value in Orwell’s work, it does describe the human temptation towards totalitarian impulses.
Not really sure why the book is less powerful for being fictional. But then, the person who writes of struggle sessions: “[the target] realises the consequences of not being a bigot are not all bad, they see it’s nice not living in fear and wallowing in self pit pity and hatred” doesn’t see the value in Orwell’s work? I’m shocked, just shocked.
This reminds me of the inquisition
Isn't the movie Oppenheimer ultimately about a struggle session?
That's my simplified understanding of the film
Is this for, like, public people or something? I have a bunch of lefty friends and they know I lean conservative and they have never put me through a struggle session... I even have a small exmo podcast and I have never had to go through this. Basically I'm just unknown and/or ignored by the broader exmo crowd since they left one religion for DEI. No struggle.session though.
At all costs ---don't capitulate.
Its all true
They did this to that poor sweet girl Lindsay Shepherd - for showing a Jordan Peterson clip to her class as a TA
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Jesus... so what would this look like in a given modern situation?
If you are saying this without providing a solution while you're in it, what's the point of the video?
Man! This is depressing!
Are any of these episodes cheerful and peppy?
He has some fun on occasion. And the cursing makes me laugh now and then. Best examples might include the podcast on the "Thinking Sex" essay, and his "What Radicalized You, James Lindsay" podcast.
I think podcasts on the topic of queer theory contain more sarcasm, on average.
Concrete examples?
I am unbreakable.
Hey James... can you do an episode of Franco supremisism and .Marxism.. in Quebec? The Marxists won. Thanks.
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You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
2+2=5 Winston Smith.
Paradoxically, being labelled a ‘white devil’, an inherently flawed version of humanity, feels like a superpower. Also, denying my status as a white devil only proves that I am such a thing. So, I embrace the subversive power of the shadow they cast upon me for it is a shield. A devil has no master and makes it’s own rules. I’m guessing this speaks to my very tough childhood when defiance was a survival strategy. Compliance felt like dying. Why would you expect kindness and compliance from a devil? If my accuser sincerely believes me to be an abomination, then I am beyond redemption and they should have the moral courage of a true warrior for freedom and end me in any way they can. I accept the terms. By definition I am forever lost, so any attempt to reach me is a contradiction and speaks to my accuser’s cowardice/deceit.
remember that you lose only when you have thought yourself to have lost
Jenna Ellis?
Why do a struggle session if the point is to elicit a false confession?
I'm afraid you have a lot of catching up to do. You'll have to go back to Lindsay's first videos on the subject.
Because they aren't in the praise vs. blame game, they are in altering the social forces that construct reality game. Your behavior and how it effects you and those around you is the target of their aims
Your saying those words and others hearing it will alter the way the social world is constructed. AND THAT IS ALL THERE IS.
@@jeffreyscott4997 Correction, that's all they believe there is, which is why they try to manipulate reality in the first place. There's nothing an ideologue hates more than a genuine fact.
They're not seeking truth. The point is to psychologically break you, demoralise you by making you knowingly lie in adopting a stance you don't believe in. Living a lie is stressful, it weakens you.
The goal is conformity to the Party line, it is never about Truth, Remediation, or Redemption.
think i was the 69th like on 69th episode, as my reward please fix that clicking its out of control
Easy solution: stay based, fuq the other side.
What do you do if you have a nuanced view of the truth? Because oftentimes, as i understand it, they will try to force you to agree to something that is true, and then force you to agree to something that is false. Is it capitulating to them by agreeing to what is true, even if you don't agree with them ro what is false?
I think there you have to call out what is false and explain why. Don't let them ignore the contradictions in their views. It weakens their arguments to everyone who sees it.
I don't think there's a formula for responding, but if people are playing those sophist entrapment games is there really any point in talking to them? You can probably find better things to do with your time.
Also you have to be careful that the things you think are 'true' aren't just some previous high watermark of progressivism that you weren't around to see instituted.
@@stevem815100 on the 2nd paragraph. I see noobs using language that didn’t exist 20 years ago. E.g., “marginalized community”…what does marginalized mean? underserved”(they use the most services), climate “catastrophe”/“denier”, toxic anything that isn’t named 4 flouro chloro dimethyl. …what ever, shared history, allyship, “someone who *looks like* you”, and more recently: occupier, apartheid, open air prison….
And hundreds more.
@@stevem815 That works if you are in a struggle session that you can freely leave with no consequence. But sometimes you are trapped, like if being done as part of a work program or disciplinary hearing.
@@AtrusOranis yeah sure, but how often does that actually happen?
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Wonderfully creepy, James. An occasion to reflect on the "struggle sessions" I've been in.
I was abused by a pastor's son as a little boy; he berated me until I broke down and cried. This was a win for him, as he felt himself to be doing the righteous Christian thing by "convicting me of sin." So I know the emotional territory very well, of being broken down and made to conform to another's will, "for my own good." I've avoided that positionality every since.
As an adult, I am conscious of the good aspects of Christianity, as well as its carniverous need to break everyone down and make them CONSCIOUS OF THEMSELVES AS SINNERS. I don't spend my time in church; I spend it maintaining traditional culture like Homer & Vergil.
Third, as a teacher I was dragged into four day workshop where prejudices would be broken down. I saw the dynamic in play, didn't like it.
Fourth, as a boy-lover, I've read any number of accounts where the boy and the boy-lover are subjected to sessions where they are forced, by social pressure to confess the badness of what they've done. VERY INTERESTING.
Pretty much what they are doing with President Trump right now.
Thats a cult tactic....Jim Jones style
Ok .. let's what u fit 4 me today
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