It might seem theoretical but it's all true. I was recently forced out of my job for objecting to speech censorship imposed by a newly formed "diversity team". They did exactly this: imposed a speech code in the name of making people feel included and welcome. Some of the now-forbidden words included things like "guys" and "peanut gallery". They told us they were "educating us" to understand that those words were problematic. Their justification was that they work with different types of clients including "African Americans" (their term, not mine). My boss even admitted he didn't like walking on eggshells around people, but felt it was necessary. When I objected, it became clear they were working to force me out, so I resigned. The irony that by doing this, they had made me (and other employees) feel unwelcome and excluded was totally lost on them. It's absolutely true, the company became more "diverse" and "inclusive" by excluding someone who had a different point of view. More Orwellian it could not get. I eventually had to hire a lawyer to write a demand letter to get them to pay my last invoice - justice apparently doesn't mean paying the salaries of objectionable people. This stuff might seem crazy but it's dangerous and evil, and we need to fight it.
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The entire thing is theoretical, since the idea that this leads to any kind of functioning society that would be desirable to anyone is pure fantasy. Just like all the forms of communism over history, it looks like somebody's utopia on paper but ends up being a living hell for everyone except the very highest elites.
J T G American Capitalism is leading us to a living hell for everyone but the wealthy elites, so what’s your solution?
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@@filmjazz I don't necessarily think capitalism is the answer. Maybe we can start by not instituting an obviously and acutely destructive and divisive ideology, then when we can talk to one another without being mired in nonsensical obsessions with privilege and oppression, perhaps we will come up with a solution.
Such a drag and I'm sorry. We sometimes have to resist quietly, or else like in this case they win. Even if you say 'guys' by accident can they fire you, ehh not really. That's not legal. If they were so dumb you could go after them for a huge court settlement and not have to work for a year or two. Therefore, resist but be clever. And remember that almost nobody putting these nominal 'justice' movements forward personally believes in them, they don't sincerely believe these hollow fake words - and among these people you know, there are more allies than real enemies.
FYI, I'm black and I've always chafed at the term African-American. My family has been in the U.S for 7 generations, I'm the 8th gen on my mother's side. I think we can drop the hyphenated nationalities. Keep up the good fight.
I was thinking this, white men will segregate and more then likely white east Asians since they are considered white, and both these ethnicities male in some capacity will ha e fathers running big big corporations and they will go into the work world bitter and anti social and all the people that pushed them out again will be the ones to suffer.
This is perfect. My Company just produced one of these DEI videos and sounds like they’re going to encourage talks around them. I’m doing everything I can to prepare myself to properly and honorably stand up to these ideas.
Robt Reich wants a Truth & Reconciliation Commision. Ibram Kendi wants a Dept of Anti-Racism, along with a Constitutional Amendment. K Harris is a vocal proponent of DEI protocols. Almost every HR dept in every industry currently uses DEI as a framework.
@@johnc.wrigley6147 Chaos is where all change originates, good and bad. No Order is perfect, some Chaos is required for positive change, but this bulk overthrow being demanded is nearsighted and ill-considered. Political conversation is supposed to filter out dangerous change using the powers you outlined before integrating it into the system: Valuable contributions from Chaos become new parts of Order. A flow
I work for a restaurant franchise and corporate wanted us to watch "diversity" videos. The owner refused to make us watch them and told corporate, who keep track of the videos assigned to us, that they will not make us watch them.
I wonder how long they'll wait before trying again. Hope it goes well for all of you. I'm thinking it's coming soon for tradespeople like myself. I'm thinking I won't be granted immunity from participating, even though my current apprentice is a 19 year old black lesbian. I'm not really sure what these programs are meant to reach me. Pretty sure I'll be told I have a bias or defecit somewhere in my thinking.
I worked for the biggest media and communications company in the world and they made us sit in a zoom call where Dr. Robin Diangelo told us we were all racist. Eventually they fired me because they said (in a very round about way ) that they needed to hire more diverse people of color.
Diversity: Conformity of thought to support the "oppressed identity groups" Inclusion: Exclusion of the "oppressive identity group" by punishing any real or perceived conflict with members of the "oppressed identity group" Equity: Inequality of treatment of identity groups to ensure "equality of outcome"
I greatly appreciate your comment. Previously, I was confused; now i understand fully: the goal is to make stupid people feel smart and smart people stupid. Then the earth will truly fall off its axis. I was scared before but I now see how diabolical this DEI really is.
Comment - Equity: Inequality of treatment of identity groups to ensure "equality of outcome", being the oppression of the perceived "oppressive identity group" forever. The goal is power over all people. The goal is the eradication or enslavement of white people, the subordination of men, and the elimination of tradition, culture, nation, religion (except wokism), and creation of a planetary gulag.
it is so complicated that it took me some time to wrap my head around it, but it actually all makes sense. That's exactly what I have experienced with those people. It's Orwellian, it's scary...
This is the propaganda that has indoctrinated universities (and enterprises) across the West; the place of higher learning has become the place of microaggressions, trigger warnings, and safe spaces. We desperately need more people to stand up against this tyranny otherwise we will absolutely repeat the horrors of the 20th century.
I think his argument contends that 'obfuscated' is a better descriptor than 'complicated'. The core principles of woke authoritarianism are in fact cartoonishly simplistic, but a baffling shroud of word salads and misdirection shields these ugly principles from immediate detection.
This video laid out all the missing pieces for me. I've been watching Black Live Matter march on livestreams for months now. The only time they ever leave anybody alone is when they bow down to the ideas of critical race theory. Even then, the slightest infraction can cause one of their own to be disowned in an instant. The rules are changing constantly because "nobody can know the truth." It's insanity.
I do not recall when/where I first heard the following phrase, but I did not understand it at the time, quite some years ago. The left will eat itself.
How ironic. A TH-cam ad just interrupted (as they do): Stanley Black & Decker speaking with reverence about how Diversity and Inclusion has blossomed at their company. Spokesperson: D&I Chief Officer Lady. She seemed nice. Edit: I came back to ask you not to mistake me for someone who takes the end of civilization lightly. Thanks.
I get ads like that all the time now. They are certainly targeted. Also watch a video and set your phone down. Don't move, but wait 5 minutes and move or pick up your phone. I do this and get an ad immediately as if my camera is looking for a change in pixels to throw an ad.
Talking isn't going to fix this. Trump and the Right understand this, but America didn't like him because he is "unpolished". what liberals fail to understand about conservatives is when we see a problem we work to change it immediately with the means we have at hand within our moral limits. Conveying the philosophical reasons behind our actions are secondary to solving the problem ahead of us. This misunderstanding of our motives is the source of contention between all of our conflicts. Example Illegal or mass immigration - We think it harms poor citizens that should be helped first, and with no checks criminals can slip into the country along with the good. Too many immigrants strain social systems to the point of impotence that help no one. Our duty is to help our fellow citizens before lending a hand somewhere else when applicable. Not that we blindly hate "brown" people or are xenophobic. Sorry if I assumed your liberalness.
Unfortunately just a fart in the wind. Those of us that understand this already are the only ones watching. The opposition won't waste their time watching.
I think that the tl;dr of this is something like "When people tell you something and then they redefine all of the words in what they just said, they are lying to you."
lt’s caIIed “narcissistic abuse” and it is a weII-researched and documented pattern of maIadjusted behavior exhibited by certain peopIes who are now trying to train their minions to appIy on the targeted popuIation.
@@albeit1 understanding it is meant to be hard. The point is to mangle and manipulate language till it confuses you to the point you can't respond. That way they control the language and therefore the outcome of the conversation. They inturn, can't seem to understand plain, rational logic. Rather than understand, we just need to reject their language. They'll want to argue (since they love a good power struggle), but just say "No, you're wrong" calmly and watch them have a hysterical meltdown
There is no tl;dr If you don‘t pay attention to this, you‘ll wake up some day in a world where you‘re no longer free. And that some day may come quite soon, because people can‘t be bothered to read, watch and listen. “Grandpa? Where were you when all this happened?“ “Oh dear, I don‘t know, there was so much to watch on Netflix...“
@@georger64 Until we have Socialism, we will never be free as a society. Under capitalism, unless you are rich & allowed to do work that is meaningful to you, then you are a slave.
I have to share this with everyone... there was an ad that popped up that had to do with diversity and inclusion. Right in the middle of this speech! 🤣🤣 By the way... super good talk. I am taking notes and everything.
"Trojan horse" was a jibe used by the BBC and far right groups who pointed the finger at Muslim head teachers running schools in Birmingham UK. The real Trojan horse was in fact the changes Tony Blair made to the education act in 2004 that specified that religious head teachers should take over states schools and start preaching to the kids and using school time to push religious ideology. I remember Lindsay from twitter years back.
Finally. Halfway through and my mind's on fire. Love the comment that (para) "Foucault softened his ideas". Rather like 'Pol Pot softened his ideas and became more of a Maoist'.
He's very, very good at picking these mostly intangible things apart, isn't he. When I heard him introduced as - if i remember correctly - a mathematician, I wondered what on earth he'd be able to offer in a discussion or presentation on complex social issues and viewpoints. After watching just one video, I could see that he had taken the study of these things very seriously. I am always impressed by how well he makes this stuff understandable for a person like me who most often reacts "What f***ing nonsense this is." That's my limit. He, though, spends the time to get to know why and how people fall for this stuff. There are other good thinkers on this topic, too. Helen Pluckrose (She and he have worked together) is equally good at this, perhaps 'better' (from my personal point of view).
Thank you so much James for this enlightening talk. As I listened to your talk, all I could think of is "this is brainwashing". People actually have a different view of reality. If that is this case, where can we find common ground? I don't see where we can.
It's weird, right? They did the same thing to me. That means TH-cam recommended this video to me because they, justifiably, believed I'd be interested, but then they also think I'd be interested in Buzzfeed? Maybe they think I'd like to hate watch it.
That’s the problem, most people have no idea what CRT is and those few that do usually oppose it but stay quiet about it. That’s why we are in the current predicament
That is so sad, he said that organizations (like christian churches) who are actually trying to be "inclusive, diverse and equitable" are hit the hardest, because they can always be blamed that "you're not doing enough! it's not enough!!"
I don't understand how diversity hires don't feel immediately belittled that their skills and knowledge come 2nd to their skin color or sexual organs lol.
In their minds all people are equal and have equal skills.. so them not getting the job in the past is because of their skin color or sexual organs, which in turn means that everyone who is not of their skin color or sexual organs is "non-merit" hire to them. Because there are no skills, only privileges :D
Excellent talk as usual. Unfortunately, anyone ostensibly sane and rational, who has been convinced racism is everywhere and embraced this cult, also tends to be extremely unwilling or unable to listen to long exposures or criticisms of the ideas under the hood of the beliefs they’ve accepted. Good god, my dad who is a moderate scientifically minded centrist, won’t accept raw data on policing and the video of white Tony Timpa dying in almost identical circumstances to George Floyd, to at least pause for thought on the idea that black people are being oppressed by near genocidal policing across the West. BLM has tapped into his moral and emotional circuits and the fact that everyone in power agrees likewise, means he just will not accept the truth. Therefore, these speeches are preaching to the converted and will not get past the wall of taboo and polarization which says to disagree IS racist and the arguments against this stuff, Russian disinformation and Trumpian “white supremacist” propaganda. Critical race theory has won hearts and minds though emotional appeal and the erroneous veneer of being a continuation of the just and heroic civil rights movements of yesteryear. Then closed the door on scepticism by branding it as sinister lies and propaganda from shady foreign influences or as akin to the naysayers who supported slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and Apartheid when Wilberforce, MLK and Mandela were fighting those actual racist systems. Therefore, sending this video to even a moderate who has embraced this stuff, is almost certainly not going to work. I wish we could come up with a simple but effective list of questions to pose, from Lindsay’s work. I can think of a couple from his talk right here, but if we collectively compile as many as possible. Then just pose them to as many moderates as possible, we could start winning back some hearts and minds. EG: 1. Do you think anyone is qualified to judge your private, unseen thoughts and intentions and legislate against you, punish you or deny you opportunities or exclude you based on their judgement? 2. Do you believe in socially engineering absolute equal outcomes across every single identity, in every single corner of society? 3. Do you believe that everything involves identity based power politics, EVERYTHING! 4. Do you believe we should discriminate to ensure power based politics, (as manifested in unseen thoughts, language and “systems”), NEVER favour white people, straight people and men? 5. Do you believe that people who disagree with all of the above or merely decline to support it, are complicit in white supremacy? 6. Do you believe that, under that definition of white supremacy and complicity, we need legislation or a revolution, to topple white supremacy and those who are complicit in it? There must be more and better questions, if anyone can think of any. The point is, posing a question they couldn’t possibly agree with and asking politely if they agree, opens the door to showing them what is under the hood of this ideology. But I know, just sending a video of James Lindsay or Douglas Murray, or Brett Weinstein, is too much content (sometimes hours of listening), comes on a platform (TH-cam) seen as unreliable by those who still rely on the mainstream media, and will instantly be suspected as right wing or Russian disinformation, due to the gaslighting of the trusted legacy media, Democrats, and the unanimity of opinion in almost every education institution, political class and educated, professional elite in polite society across the West. Most of whom saw Trump and Brexit, got a bit deranged by both, saw the George Floyd video and embraced BLM, and are now incapable of seeing anything else due to extreme polarization and the idea that counter argument is all disinformation by shady Russian influences and racist Trumpite forces who are the real threat. A list of probing, pointed questions are probably the best way to cut through this Gordian Knot. I hope James sees this comment, agrees and can compile such a list for us to use on our woke loved ones.
I think this is a great idea. I’ve been trying to have these conversations with people around me and such a list would make braking the barrier so much easier. I don’t think I’ve been successful every time at braking the barrier, but one time I just showed them the Ibram Kendi quote about discrimination being okay if it leads to equity, and asked them if they agreed with it. It was an instant “no” and the conversation went well after that. I hope Lindsay sees your message.
Honest, I feel that. You're right that it would be the rare woke-inclined who cares to submit to conversion therapy. I like what you said about circuits...lots of application to a faith such as this. Baghossian suggests in "Difficult Conversations" that you first ascertain the willingness of the person you're talking to. Then, you start with a lot of listening. Again it's the rare believer who wants to be cornered by a racist. It's clear to you and me, but I've blown a couple of sincere attempts to discuss by pulling out too many facts, too fast. Ugh. I'll keep trying.
@@paigemccormick6519 yes, facts and data don’t beat emotion, elite consensus which has its own set of counter facts and data and the poisoning of the well whereby inconvenient facts and data can be dismissed as lies and propaganda. I’m English so the situation is slightly different in my country but the solution is probably the same. Basically, our media (especially the BBC) has a far longer history of reliability and impartiality than anything on the other side of the pond. For people of my parents generation, if the BBC doesn’t consider the death of Tony Timpa, policing data showing very few police murders of any race, massive crime rates in the black community, very high interracial violence from black to white and very low from white to black, BLM/Antifa riots, intimidation and terrorism on a scale far far far higher than the tiny Charlottesville rally, to be of consequence. And continue to refuse to give people like James Lindsay a platform, whereas continue to platform those who say we live in a white supremacy, then that narrative pretty much becomes the solid gold standard of truth. As presented by the most unbiased and professional media organization on earth. TH-cam videos of James Lindsay or Brett Weinstein or the Sam Harris Podcast, just don’t compete. It’s like arguing against the clergy in the Middle Ages. Futile. The moral and institutional authority of the cult is unassailable. The BBC says that Trump is a Hitler type character, BLM are a legitimate civil rights movement and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant, a Russian bot or lying to benefit Trump’s insidious administration. So facts and data are absolutely useless. They have the few videos of black men dying in police interactions and the one statistic showing black people are stopped, frisked, arrested, incarcerated and die at police hands at a higher level than their percentage of the population. Case closed. I, like you have tried arguing with logic and data. Been told I’m wrong so used Heather MacDonald articles, Sam Harris and Glenn Loury podcasts and Mike Nyna’s documentaries about Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian’s work. All to no avail. The harder I try, the more entrenched they become and more likely they are to flip out and call me racist. Ending the conversation. So, I stepped back. Now just occasionally ask such probing questions and don’t even expect an answer. I just respectfully listen to them wax lyrical about racist oppression and ask if they agree with a tenet of BLM/CRT and step back. Sporadically planting seeds of doubt. Not trying to win the argument, just let them speak and each time poke a tiny hole of potential doubt in their ideology. As an example of how this has been playing out for me. My 80 year old moderate, centrist dad came out as fully in support for BLM. I made long detailed arguments with data. He shook his head and said I was wrong. So I linked him to a Heather MacDonald article. He shook his head harder and said she was an arch conservative who thinks climate change and COVID19 aren’t real problems, therefore she wasn’t credible. So I sent him a Glenn Loury podcast with John McWhorter. Two black Americans, one a liberal, both saying similar things but by this time dad’s wall had gone up. I doubt he watched the podcast and if he did, he probably dismissed them as having been hoodwinked by disinformation in the age of Trump. So I asked my dad what he would consider a respectable source. He told me the BBC, The Economist, The Telegraph and so on. Basically Britain’s old, established legacy media. So I now always keep my eye out for the occasional glitch in that matrix. When those outlets occasionally air the kind of things Lindsay says. Which they very occasionally do. Then I read the article, try to find one glaring piece of evidence and impossible to deny condemnation of CRT/BLM send him a link, cite the data in the article and ask him if he agrees with a tenet of CRT/BLM the article highlights as dangerous or absurd. I rarely get an answer but I think, it’s the best, indeed only way to change his mind. Find a source he told me personally that he trusts and keep incrementally chipping away with data and questions from those sources. It would be a slow process no matter what but it’s made all the more slower because the legacy media rarely airs such heresy and the heretic writing the article cannot be obviously right wing or have ever faced racism accusations, which is often the case. Slim pickings. A list of pointed questions we could all use that wouldn’t require linking to a heretic, but could be shown to be relevant questions by citing a critical race theorist, would be almost bulletproof.
@@anabelrodriguez5418 yes, citing the most celebrated CRT/BLM thinkers, rather than their critics is probably the best way. Although they cleverly cloak their insidious ideology in opaque, complex, often nonsensical and confusing jargon. Plus redefine words. So it’s still a tough one. I would’ve thought that their incessant demands to “abolish whiteness” would be enough to highlight their obvious racism but they weasel out of it by defining “whiteness” as a system etc
I think he is nothing short of a hero. I have been following him for some time now and donate to his Patreon. He has placed the burden of delving into this insanity and exposing it, which I believe has taken a toll on him. I wish the best for him.
My place of employment just sent an email basically saying “prepare to receive training on DEI in the coming weeks”. I clicked on this to find out what that means. Very disappointing to say the least.
Me too. It was for Buzzfeed and focused on a black woman fighting for the fact that black people are 12 point whatever percent of the population but only 2 point whatever percent of the wealth.
Sept 2023: Just look at Boston University, where Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Antiracist Research, which has raised over $42 million dollars, is now under investigation for mismanagement and has fired half its staff. After two years the institute has produced only two research papers.
Someone should tell the raging CRT advocate in Loudon County Schools - Andrea Weiskopf - one of the ones compiling LISTS of those against their equity programs. She teaches Latin and is a very vocal supporter of CRT in schools.
@@gg_rider I hear ya there, I don't want television either except football but I caught the Jake change online watching streams, after a few weeks they released a commercial with BOTH 'Jake's' in it, then the white Jake was sent to gitmo.
I absolutely agree that they were trying to make a statement. But I guess what I’m trying to get at without baiting you into an argument or some “woke” “not woke” discussion is what’s the problem? Why is your concern based on “Jake’s” color, I guess? Why cant Jake be black I guess?
I follow a fellow fitness trainer. She’s from Canada and in her early 30’s (I’m 40 and from Northern Ireland, though now I live in the USA). This person is 100% woke. I’ve come close to blocking her so many times but I will instead use her as an example to others of what not to become. Everything is about oppression. In fact, she’s now keeping herself fat because to lose weight is racist 🤦♀️ In a recent post she announced how she won’t workout to model good habits for her kids because… wait for it… it’s ableist and you should do things like that ONLY for yourself, not to impose your beliefs on your kids. Hmmm, I reckon she doesn’t see all the other beliefs she imposes on her kids and her followers.
This is BY FAR the best account of Foucault I’ve seen on TH-cam. Having made Foucault the main focus of my time in grad school, it’s good to see that someone actually read him and tried taking him seriously. However, at the end of Lindsey’s account, he loses the narrative. Wokeness is EXACTLY the same thing as a repressive church to Foucault, and the only means of mitigating it is a thoughtful, intentional system of personal responsibility, what Foucault calls ‘self construction.’ Foucault is the best rejection of wokeness outside of maybe Rorty.
Wow. The whole talk was great, but that part about stolen land really hit home. In Australia, just about everything starts with an 'acknowledgement of country'.
Everybody wants diversity except when it's inconvenient. Everybodys obsessed with "natural" and "organic" except our place on the chain. Not ok with GMOS but transgender operations are courageous
Well I'm ok with GMOs because that word is so broad it doesn't really explain what someone is talking about. Pesticides. That's what the conversation is about. But not all pesticides are equally toxic. Yet GMOs are more likely to be heavily sprayed. But not necessarily! This is why the conversation shouldn't have coupled GMOs and human health, but pesticides and human health, which has plenty of data and study showing links. Transgender medicine on the contrary is something that occassionally alleviates some people's dysphoria and makes them happy but also has not had ANY longterm medical studies to examine safety. Two very different issues really if you know more details
Everyone wants diversity except when it promotes hated and racial division. Everyone wants organic except when they can't afford it. Biological women need protection, women only spaces and sports and fighting for that is courageous.
@@LipSyncLover genetically modified organisms typically means hybridization or genetically splicing. Genetic splicing typically has no long term testing and is often done with very different species, where they'd be impossible to hybridize naturally. Like corn being spliced with genes from salmon
James is giving the gift of understanding. Understanding allows for precision attacks to this divisive and corrosive ideology. James should consider the posibility of some ideologue taking matters into his/her/ze/zurs own hands. I hope he has a ccw. I want him around for a long time.
I’m totally curious if they’re gonna go for a literal equity and just start claiming peoples houses for other people. Could Invision it as a rich couple with no children in the home has a giant six bedroom house and the state will come along and give that rich couple a two bedroom apartment and tell them they need to vacate their house and allow someone with 12 children to move into their six bedroom house
"Could Invision it" That happens. The government did that in Venezuela (among other things) about 15 years ago. A way to kind of summarize where the country is right now would be: They made it illegal to declare that a child died during labor in order to skew that particular metric. Who knows what the real numbers are but according to Wiki: Since 2016, the overall inflation rate has increased to 53,798,500%.
@@taunokekkonen5733 That’s true and then I think they went through a famine because the people that stole the farms didn’t know how to harvest the food or plant the food
@@riotnichtruhe that's Zimbabwe, but they are currently looking at changing the law in South Africa to something similar. ANC government visited Zanu-Pf during lockdown.
Why are these ideas pushed by HR, schools, the media and museums? Who decided that overnight? It appears that it all just came out in a coordinated fashion after GF. I mean, we are still talking in circles about healthcare, income inequality & gun violence...but these ideologies can be pushed out overnight and pop up in school curriculums without public debate? That’s like an enforced cultural revolution for reasons unknown... except for sewing division in society.
Actually, it's "khutspa"/חוצפה ("kh" as in Khruschev or Khomeini or Bach), but don't hold your breath expecting Americans to pronounce ANY sound that isn't already part of their English-language phonetic inventory.
Very useful analogy, the tailor shop. The double-bind there reminds me of Gertrude Berg's routine, How to be a Jewish Mother: first, buy your son 2 shirts; when he wears the first one, ask, what's the matter the other one you didn't like? As with White Fragility and White-Supremacy-as-a-state-of-being, no riposte is correct; there are no conditions under which the initial assertion might be false.
Mr. Lindsay, I greatly appreciate your intricate knowledge of this deep, broad, and, please forgive me here, diverse, subject matter. It can be difficult to navigate more than 150 years of this foolish rhetoric to understand exactly where we find ourselves now, but your ability to speak clearly and logically about it is an absolute godsend. I can see your disdain and abject loathing of these subjects in your demeanor and hear it in your voice. I feel as you do, sir, and am working to grasp this knowledge to be able to fight and win against these deranged forces. Please do not relent in your pursuit of disseminating this information. I honestly do not know how you have been able to stomach the literature that you have had to digest in order to acquire the knowledge that you possess. Kings to you, sir. Kings to you. E Pluribus Unum
This is and has been taught to 2 generations of public school children. We may be doomed as we see the results pouring out on the streets. What can we do now James?
nothing. we have to take over the institutions, academia, and education, along with political entities. but i dont see that happenening. the woke crowd will cause quite the stir if their power is challenged.
The ordinary people can only do so much. It’s mostly up to our government and school administrators to shut this down. Biden just signed the bill for CRT to be taught in schools and our school administrators are not pushing back at all
After thinking about it, critical race theory can be described with one word: paranoia. It's when you assume everyone is judging you or hates you just because of your skin color regardless of whether it's true or not.
Don't think most of the ones pushing it actually believe it, though. They don't. It's a tool to claim power and destroy their enemies-nothing more. If you find yourself talking to one of their puppetmasters or would-be puppetmasters, don't waste time explaining problems with their theories or showing that their policies don't work. They know that already, and don't care. It's for manipulating who they see as the underclasses to force of arms against the established order.
Thank you James. Too many people simply ridicule ‘wokeness’ without putting the effort in to appreciate what it took to seed and metastasize it throughout our culture. That is to underestimate the huge threat it now poses regarding civil unrest, authoritarian compliance and the fracturing of familial bonds. So much damage has already been done. So much cultural territory already ceded. The demoralization and destabilization is prolific.
This new totalitarian thought often reminds me of the specific detail in 1984 where Orwell says that 'Ingsoc' was successful where all other totalitarian thought failed precisely because it didn't discriminate racially or by class status. Ingsoc (and by direct comparison, wokeness) is as Lindsay says "uniformity with different coloured faces". What's coming scares the absolute hell out of me... This movement has grown and grown in utter defiance of the bedrock fundamentals that the western nations stand on. It is only a matter of time, the cultural revolution WILL touch you and your family at some point in the future and you have a moral obligation to stand against it even if it means your demise; for if this parasite takes root it will begin to scrub clean the blemishes from the pure whole. These ideas are MURDEROUS, these ideas are GENOCIDAL, these ideas MUST BE OPPOSED AT ALL COSTS. When the barbarians land on your shore, what will you do next?
They may suddenly "find" something on his hard drive and ruin him. Sinister, yes but not beyond their means. He needs to keep his nose clean, I'm sure he's on someones list.
Keep it up James Lindsay, not many sober voices on this, the Weinstein bros, Heather heying, Douglas Murray and a few others. Please keep cutting woke ideology up with your clear logic. We need you bro.
Modern liberal values are about highlighting systemic power. Systemic power they claim is unjust, but want for themselves. It's about highlighting race and racism. Making everything about race in an effort to prove how people besides themselves are racist. It's about taking care of the group before the individual. And those who don't agree without question are not part of the group. I grew up in a very liberal area. I listened to them for years, trying to fully understand the ideology. I asked questions where there were gaps in my knowledge, but they took the questions as treason. THEY pushed ME away. They wanted me to agree that minorities could not stand up for themselves. That they needed assistance because they were lesser than the white man (???!!?). They wanted me to be opinionated on anything and everything even if I knew nothing about them from TH-camrs, movie actors and other public figures and if you didn't have an opinion it was because your opinion is secretly the 'wrong' one (?????). I could keep going. Modern libs project so much hatred it's hard to take them seriously. I find it hard to believe they ever reflect on anything they're saying. Minorities need assistance because they can't fend for themselves? LOL that one still makes me laugh every day.
I agree with everything James just said, from the left. I’ll also add when I listen to the president who is also speaking “his truth” of “alternative facts” I’m concerned he’s also playing with postmodernism. I hope we can all get back to working from a base set of facts and then arguing over how to reach a goal, hopefully with a bit of give and take.
this isn't about offence that's what it masquerades like. this is about power and control. you can see that in the texts James talks about. these people see everything and I mean everything through a lens of power
I didn't know James Lindsay was this good! A couple of picks: "Identity First Policy", From "Workers all over the world unite!" to "Races all over the world, divide!" Very interesting. James Lindsay gives the (pseudo-)intellectual underpinnings of Woke. Thanks!
Great talk. Not only is “reality” still out there beyond the systemic discourses, the bio-physical world more specifically and a material environment life depends on for survival.
It might seem theoretical but it's all true. I was recently forced out of my job for objecting to speech censorship imposed by a newly formed "diversity team". They did exactly this: imposed a speech code in the name of making people feel included and welcome. Some of the now-forbidden words included things like "guys" and "peanut gallery". They told us they were "educating us" to understand that those words were problematic. Their justification was that they work with different types of clients including "African Americans" (their term, not mine). My boss even admitted he didn't like walking on eggshells around people, but felt it was necessary. When I objected, it became clear they were working to force me out, so I resigned. The irony that by doing this, they had made me (and other employees) feel unwelcome and excluded was totally lost on them. It's absolutely true, the company became more "diverse" and "inclusive" by excluding someone who had a different point of view. More Orwellian it could not get. I eventually had to hire a lawyer to write a demand letter to get them to pay my last invoice - justice apparently doesn't mean paying the salaries of objectionable people. This stuff might seem crazy but it's dangerous and evil, and we need to fight it.
The entire thing is theoretical, since the idea that this leads to any kind of functioning society that would be desirable to anyone is pure fantasy. Just like all the forms of communism over history, it looks like somebody's utopia on paper but ends up being a living hell for everyone except the very highest elites.
J T G American Capitalism is leading us to a living hell for everyone but the wealthy elites, so what’s your solution?
@@filmjazz I don't necessarily think capitalism is the answer. Maybe we can start by not instituting an obviously and acutely destructive and divisive ideology, then when we can talk to one another without being mired in nonsensical obsessions with privilege and oppression, perhaps we will come up with a solution.
Such a drag and I'm sorry. We sometimes have to resist quietly, or else like in this case they win.
Even if you say 'guys' by accident can they fire you, ehh not really. That's not legal. If they were so dumb you could go after them for a huge court settlement and not have to work for a year or two. Therefore, resist but be clever.
And remember that almost nobody putting these nominal 'justice' movements forward personally believes in them, they don't sincerely believe these hollow fake words - and among these people you know, there are more allies than real enemies.
FYI, I'm black and I've always chafed at the term African-American. My family has been in the U.S for 7 generations, I'm the 8th gen on my mother's side. I think we can drop the hyphenated nationalities.
Keep up the good fight.
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - 1984
“Permanent Revolution“. Marx
Bingo
What we are seeing is simply the continuation of ww1.
@@WatchmyPlaylist.
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I was thinking this, white men will segregate and more then likely white east Asians since they are considered white, and both these ethnicities male in some capacity will ha e fathers running big big corporations and they will go into the work world bitter and anti social and all the people that pushed them out again will be the ones to suffer.
This is perfect. My Company just produced one of these DEI videos and sounds like they’re going to encourage talks around them. I’m doing everything I can to prepare myself to properly and honorably stand up to these ideas.
Picture them in their underwear.
Live not by lies
Unfortunately, standing up to this will likely result in getting fired.
@@retrograd332 maybe it's better to get fired than live a life against your principles.
C_R_O_M______ I agree, but now I’ve got to figure out what to do for my wife and 4 kids lol
This is some serious 1984 wordplay here, they're practically creating ministries of truth
oh believe it, that'll come next
@@skurinski Already there I would say. The party just isn't in power. But the party and all it's various ministries have been built/
Oh we’re WELL on our way there.
Robt Reich wants a Truth & Reconciliation Commision. Ibram Kendi wants a Dept of Anti-Racism, along with a Constitutional Amendment. K Harris is a vocal proponent of DEI protocols. Almost every HR dept in every industry currently uses DEI as a framework.
Of Course! Duh!
This is Chaos waging war upon Order.
Order must be restored against Chaos using the divine powers of Reason, Logic, and Morality (I capitalized those words because I'm a fanciful dipshit)
@@johnc.wrigley6147 Chaos is where all change originates, good and bad. No Order is perfect, some Chaos is required for positive change, but this bulk overthrow being demanded is nearsighted and ill-considered. Political conversation is supposed to filter out dangerous change using the powers you outlined before integrating it into the system: Valuable contributions from Chaos become new parts of Order. A flow
True. Armageddon
I kinda disagree, it is imagined order waging war on chaotic reality.
@@gerardmulder7656 The order is reversed in this case and the word 'imagined' is a redundant descriptor in the case of anything conceptual
I work for a restaurant franchise and corporate wanted us to watch "diversity" videos. The owner refused to make us watch them and told corporate, who keep track of the videos assigned to us, that they will not make us watch them.
I wonder how long they'll wait before trying again. Hope it goes well for all of you.
I'm thinking it's coming soon for tradespeople like myself. I'm thinking I won't be granted immunity from participating, even though my current apprentice is a 19 year old black lesbian. I'm not really sure what these programs are meant to reach me. Pretty sure I'll be told I have a bias or defecit somewhere in my thinking.
Now THERE’S the proof that systematic racism really does exist. 🥴
A huge kudos to the owner who refused. 👍🏻 My boss is the opposite.
I worked for the biggest media and communications company in the world and they made us sit in a zoom call where Dr. Robin Diangelo told us we were all racist. Eventually they fired me because they said (in a very round about way ) that they needed to hire more diverse people of color.
Really?? Your boss is a BOSS!
This needs to be spread far and wide so people understand what we're up against
Flip a coin. Heads you're racist, tails you're racist. ---- "Stop being played!"
@@evan7618 your opinion means nothing whitey.
@@PossibleTango LOL at the fact that we’re even white
If you care about racism, you will always be getting played.
hahahaha. Three sentences. Well said.
It is not necessary, to flip the coin:
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-folly-of-scientism
This is 'required watching' for all eighteen year-olds, to be done outside of school hours.
I think for all employers that babble along not knowing what they actually agree to as well.
I'm sending this video to my HR department in case they ever think they can submit me to diversity training.
Best response i saw was someone whos work asked them to read white fragility. "I'll read that on the condition you read 1984"
It will probably get you fired tho
@Man Among Heathen I do have an escape plan just in case worst comes to worst.
I have nothing but respect for you brother. Stand up straight. We should all adopt this mentality
@@zakcl00
Wow I am going to remember that. Thanks for sharing
Diversity: Conformity of thought to support the "oppressed identity groups"
Inclusion: Exclusion of the "oppressive identity group" by punishing any real or perceived conflict with members of the "oppressed identity group"
Equity: Inequality of treatment of identity groups to ensure "equality of outcome"
I greatly appreciate your comment.
Previously, I was confused; now i understand fully: the goal is to make stupid people feel smart and smart people stupid.
Then the earth will truly fall off its axis.
I was scared before but I now see how diabolical this DEI really is.
Comment -
Equity: Inequality of treatment of identity groups to ensure "equality of outcome", being the oppression of the perceived "oppressive identity group" forever.
The goal is power over all people. The goal is the eradication or enslavement of white people, the subordination of men, and the elimination of tradition, culture, nation, religion (except wokism), and creation of a planetary gulag.
it is so complicated that it took me some time to wrap my head around it, but it actually all makes sense.
That's exactly what I have experienced with those people.
It's Orwellian, it's scary...
1984 gets scarier by the day
This is the propaganda that has indoctrinated universities (and enterprises) across the West; the place of higher learning has become the place of microaggressions, trigger warnings, and safe spaces.
We desperately need more people to stand up against this tyranny otherwise we will absolutely repeat the horrors of the 20th century.
I think his argument contends that 'obfuscated' is a better descriptor than 'complicated'. The core principles of woke authoritarianism are in fact cartoonishly simplistic, but a baffling shroud of word salads and misdirection shields these ugly principles from immediate detection.
This video laid out all the missing pieces for me. I've been watching Black Live Matter march on livestreams for months now. The only time they ever leave anybody alone is when they bow down to the ideas of critical race theory. Even then, the slightest infraction can cause one of their own to be disowned in an instant. The rules are changing constantly because "nobody can know the truth." It's insanity.
@TheStefaner problem is they'll take everyone down with them
I do not recall when/where I first heard the following phrase, but I did not understand it at the time, quite some years ago.
The left will eat itself.
Love James, he gives me hope but man I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t feeling extremely pessimistic about our Orwellian future.
James is brilliant at explaining this stuff. We all need to know this.
No, he is not. He does not have good understanding of what he is trying to talk about. He language is rather poor.
I wish every politician was required to take a 6 week course under James Lindsey
How ironic. A TH-cam ad just interrupted (as they do): Stanley Black & Decker speaking with reverence about how Diversity and Inclusion has blossomed at their company. Spokesperson: D&I Chief Officer Lady.
She seemed nice.
Edit: I came back to ask you not to mistake me for someone who takes the end of civilization lightly. Thanks.
@@user-zw6uk5gu8b Thanks, Black Dot. I find ad starts inoffensive and strangely newsworthy. Curious about your recommendation...
I get ads like that all the time now. They are certainly targeted. Also watch a video and set your phone down. Don't move, but wait 5 minutes and move or pick up your phone. I do this and get an ad immediately as if my camera is looking for a change in pixels to throw an ad.
@@The_Lord_has_it Sad. Where is that happiness we've been promised. Meet you at the Resistance!
I feel I'm witnessing an historic speech. A depth charge, as historianTom Holland referred to Paul's letters. This was stupendous!!
Talking isn't going to fix this. Trump and the Right understand this, but America didn't like him because he is "unpolished". what liberals fail to understand about conservatives is when we see a problem we work to change it immediately with the means we have at hand within our moral limits. Conveying the philosophical reasons behind our actions are secondary to solving the problem ahead of us. This misunderstanding of our motives is the source of contention between all of our conflicts.
Example
Illegal or mass immigration - We think it harms poor citizens that should be helped first, and with no checks criminals can slip into the country along with the good. Too many immigrants strain social systems to the point of impotence that help no one. Our duty is to help our fellow citizens before lending a hand somewhere else when applicable. Not that we blindly hate "brown" people or are xenophobic.
Sorry if I assumed your liberalness.
Unfortunately just a fart in the wind. Those of us that understand this already are the only ones watching. The opposition won't waste their time watching.
@@charlesjones5579 apology accepted. Now you can assume my post-liberalness, my Integral-ness.
Damn, James you have honed this speech to near perfection. This is your best presentation yet. My thanks and respect.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.” - George Orwell
James, these videos are a goldmine. Hopefully these will be for avoiding dangers, rather than for understanding the destruction they left behind
This is the best lecture you'll hear on the topic.
This fella may be the most important thinker of our time. He is exposing the roots of the real disease that has been tearing us apart for decades
Any interview with Lindsay will be the best lecture you will hear on the topic. The man is brilliant and an expert.
check out this th-cam.com/video/QIJPUX6SYu4/w-d-xo.html a different angel from 'non authentic homosexuals'
Dr. Jordan Peterson has been speaking about this since 2016.
@@Leandro-bj6jh He's literally not qualified at all...
I think that the tl;dr of this is something like "When people tell you something and then they redefine all of the words in what they just said, they are lying to you."
lt’s caIIed “narcissistic abuse” and it is a weII-researched and documented pattern of maIadjusted behavior exhibited by certain peopIes who are now trying to train their minions to appIy on the targeted popuIation.
Understanding this superficially will not help us take this down.
And we absolutely must take it down. Or it takes us down.
@@albeit1 understanding it is meant to be hard. The point is to mangle and manipulate language till it confuses you to the point you can't respond. That way they control the language and therefore the outcome of the conversation. They inturn, can't seem to understand plain, rational logic. Rather than understand, we just need to reject their language. They'll want to argue (since they love a good power struggle), but just say "No, you're wrong" calmly and watch them have a hysterical meltdown
There is no tl;dr
If you don‘t pay attention to this, you‘ll wake up some day in a world where you‘re no longer free. And that some day may come quite soon, because people can‘t be bothered to read, watch and listen. “Grandpa? Where were you when all this happened?“ “Oh dear, I don‘t know, there was so much to watch on Netflix...“
@@georger64
Until we have Socialism, we will never be free as a society.
Under capitalism, unless you are rich & allowed to do work that is meaningful to you, then you are a slave.
THIS IS HANDS DOWN THE BEST SPEECH ON THIS SUBJECT MATTER EVER.
Ya, this crap has to go. To be honest it's time to have the fight.
@@kush1000ful war should be a last resort but these pernicious ideas have been exceedingly getting out of hand over the past 1/2 decade.
“reality is the thing you run into when your beliefs are false“(18:30)
I have to share this with everyone... there was an ad that popped up that had to do with diversity and inclusion. Right in the middle of this speech! 🤣🤣 By the way... super good talk. I am taking notes and everything.
The first time I heard James speak was the Critical Race Theory Trojan Horse three part series. Brilliant stuff.
One of the best set of videos ive seen on this topic. Absolutely loved them, watched them twice
!wkdzyu3y
@@robertforester635 ?
"Trojan horse" was a jibe used by the BBC and far right groups who pointed the finger at Muslim head teachers running schools in Birmingham UK.
The real Trojan horse was in fact the changes Tony Blair made to the education act in 2004 that specified that religious head teachers should take over states schools and start preaching to the kids and using school time to push religious ideology.
I remember Lindsay from twitter years back.
@@DJWESG1 Really? Are there any good articles on this? I haven't heard anything about Tony Blair's decision, and the teaching of religion?
"afraid to speak all of the time because they never know what the wrong thing is."
Me too
Finally. Halfway through and my mind's on fire. Love the comment that (para) "Foucault softened his ideas". Rather like 'Pol Pot softened his ideas and became more of a Maoist'.
This man is one of a kind. An important dissonant voice in this sick post modern western society.
He's very, very good at picking these mostly intangible things apart, isn't he.
When I heard him introduced as - if i remember correctly - a mathematician, I wondered what on earth he'd be able to offer in a discussion or presentation on complex social issues and viewpoints. After watching just one video, I could see that he had taken the study of these things very seriously. I am always impressed by how well he makes this stuff understandable for a person like me who most often reacts "What f***ing nonsense this is." That's my limit. He, though, spends the time to get to know why and how people fall for this stuff.
There are other good thinkers on this topic, too.
Helen Pluckrose (She and he have worked together) is equally good at this, perhaps 'better' (from my personal point of view).
Thank you so much James for this enlightening talk. As I listened to your talk, all I could think of is "this is brainwashing". People actually have a different view of reality. If that is this case, where can we find common ground? I don't see where we can.
This is 💯 attempted brainwashing.
(If it sounds like a crime, it probably should be 🔥)
Just finished his book Cynical Theories: how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender and identity - and why this harms everybody.
@@henkdeslayer It’s very good
And TH-cam drops a pro intersectionality buzzfeed ad on this video 🤔
It's weird, right? They did the same thing to me. That means TH-cam recommended this video to me because they, justifiably, believed I'd be interested, but then they also think I'd be interested in Buzzfeed? Maybe they think I'd like to hate watch it.
Same ad for me, also weird
It's probably just because of the title of this video.
Buzz feed can choose which videos their ads are played on
Ad blocker?
"We are later". God, this scares me. People still aren't listening.
i have a really bad feeling. this wokeness is accelerating, exponentially.
That’s the problem, most people have no idea what CRT is and those few that do usually oppose it but stay quiet about it. That’s why we are in the current predicament
That is so sad, he said that organizations (like christian churches) who are actually trying to be "inclusive, diverse and equitable" are hit the hardest, because they can always be blamed that "you're not doing enough! it's not enough!!"
I don't understand how diversity hires don't feel immediately belittled that their skills and knowledge come 2nd to their skin color or sexual organs lol.
That paycheck makes it easier to swallow.
Also they feel entitled to it from being told that their prosperity was snatched away from them.
This is exactly the critique offered by people like John McWhorter and Glenn Loury. It IS patronizing. It IS offensive.
It's a grift.
In their minds all people are equal and have equal skills.. so them not getting the job in the past is because of their skin color or sexual organs, which in turn means that everyone who is not of their skin color or sexual organs is "non-merit" hire to them. Because there are no skills, only privileges :D
Excellent talk as usual. Unfortunately, anyone ostensibly sane and rational, who has been convinced racism is everywhere and embraced this cult, also tends to be extremely unwilling or unable to listen to long exposures or criticisms of the ideas under the hood of the beliefs they’ve accepted.
Good god, my dad who is a moderate scientifically minded centrist, won’t accept raw data on policing and the video of white Tony Timpa dying in almost identical circumstances to George Floyd, to at least pause for thought on the idea that black people are being oppressed by near genocidal policing across the West.
BLM has tapped into his moral and emotional circuits and the fact that everyone in power agrees likewise, means he just will not accept the truth.
Therefore, these speeches are preaching to the converted and will not get past the wall of taboo and polarization which says to disagree IS racist and the arguments against this stuff, Russian disinformation and Trumpian “white supremacist” propaganda. Critical race theory has won hearts and minds though emotional appeal and the erroneous veneer of being a continuation of the just and heroic civil rights movements of yesteryear. Then closed the door on scepticism by branding it as sinister lies and propaganda from shady foreign influences or as akin to the naysayers who supported slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and Apartheid when Wilberforce, MLK and Mandela were fighting those actual racist systems.
Therefore, sending this video to even a moderate who has embraced this stuff, is almost certainly not going to work.
I wish we could come up with a simple but effective list of questions to pose, from Lindsay’s work.
I can think of a couple from his talk right here, but if we collectively compile as many as possible. Then just pose them to as many moderates as possible, we could start winning back some hearts and minds.
EG:
1. Do you think anyone is qualified to judge your private, unseen thoughts and intentions and legislate against you, punish you or deny you opportunities or exclude you based on their judgement?
2. Do you believe in socially engineering absolute equal outcomes across every single identity, in every single corner of society?
3. Do you believe that everything involves identity based power politics, EVERYTHING!
4. Do you believe we should discriminate to ensure power based politics, (as manifested in unseen thoughts, language and “systems”), NEVER favour white people, straight people and men?
5. Do you believe that people who disagree with all of the above or merely decline to support it, are complicit in white supremacy?
6. Do you believe that, under that definition of white supremacy and complicity, we need legislation or a revolution, to topple white supremacy and those who are complicit in it?
There must be more and better questions, if anyone can think of any.
The point is, posing a question they couldn’t possibly agree with and asking politely if they agree, opens the door to showing them what is under the hood of this ideology. But I know, just sending a video of James Lindsay or Douglas Murray, or Brett Weinstein, is too much content (sometimes hours of listening), comes on a platform (TH-cam) seen as unreliable by those who still rely on the mainstream media, and will instantly be suspected as right wing or Russian disinformation, due to the gaslighting of the trusted legacy media, Democrats, and the unanimity of opinion in almost every education institution, political class and educated, professional elite in polite society across the West. Most of whom saw Trump and Brexit, got a bit deranged by both, saw the George Floyd video and embraced BLM, and are now incapable of seeing anything else due to extreme polarization and the idea that counter argument is all disinformation by shady Russian influences and racist Trumpite forces who are the real threat.
A list of probing, pointed questions are probably the best way to cut through this Gordian Knot.
I hope James sees this comment, agrees and can compile such a list for us to use on our woke loved ones.
I think this is a great idea. I’ve been trying to have these conversations with people around me and such a list would make braking the barrier so much easier. I don’t think I’ve been successful every time at braking the barrier, but one time I just showed them the Ibram Kendi quote about discrimination being okay if it leads to equity, and asked them if they agreed with it. It was an instant “no” and the conversation went well after that. I hope Lindsay sees your message.
Honest, I feel that. You're right that it would be the rare woke-inclined who cares to submit to conversion therapy. I like what you said about circuits...lots of application to a faith such as this. Baghossian suggests in "Difficult Conversations" that you first ascertain the willingness of the person you're talking to. Then, you start with a lot of listening. Again it's the rare believer who wants to be cornered by a racist. It's clear to you and me, but I've blown a couple of sincere attempts to discuss by pulling out too many facts, too fast. Ugh. I'll keep trying.
@@paigemccormick6519 yes, facts and data don’t beat emotion, elite consensus which has its own set of counter facts and data and the poisoning of the well whereby inconvenient facts and data can be dismissed as lies and propaganda.
I’m English so the situation is slightly different in my country but the solution is probably the same.
Basically, our media (especially the BBC) has a far longer history of reliability and impartiality than anything on the other side of the pond. For people of my parents generation, if the BBC doesn’t consider the death of Tony Timpa, policing data showing very few police murders of any race, massive crime rates in the black community, very high interracial violence from black to white and very low from white to black, BLM/Antifa riots, intimidation and terrorism on a scale far far far higher than the tiny Charlottesville rally, to be of consequence. And continue to refuse to give people like James Lindsay a platform, whereas continue to platform those who say we live in a white supremacy, then that narrative pretty much becomes the solid gold standard of truth.
As presented by the most unbiased and professional media organization on earth.
TH-cam videos of James Lindsay or Brett Weinstein or the Sam Harris Podcast, just don’t compete.
It’s like arguing against the clergy in the Middle Ages. Futile. The moral and institutional authority of the cult is unassailable.
The BBC says that Trump is a Hitler type character, BLM are a legitimate civil rights movement and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant, a Russian bot or lying to benefit Trump’s insidious administration.
So facts and data are absolutely useless.
They have the few videos of black men dying in police interactions and the one statistic showing black people are stopped, frisked, arrested, incarcerated and die at police hands at a higher level than their percentage of the population.
Case closed.
I, like you have tried arguing with logic and data. Been told I’m wrong so used Heather MacDonald articles, Sam Harris and Glenn Loury podcasts and Mike Nyna’s documentaries about Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian’s work.
All to no avail.
The harder I try, the more entrenched they become and more likely they are to flip out and call me racist. Ending the conversation.
So, I stepped back.
Now just occasionally ask such probing questions and don’t even expect an answer. I just respectfully listen to them wax lyrical about racist oppression and ask if they agree with a tenet of BLM/CRT and step back.
Sporadically planting seeds of doubt.
Not trying to win the argument, just let them speak and each time poke a tiny hole of potential doubt in their ideology.
As an example of how this has been playing out for me.
My 80 year old moderate, centrist dad came out as fully in support for BLM. I made long detailed arguments with data. He shook his head and said I was wrong. So I linked him to a Heather MacDonald article. He shook his head harder and said she was an arch conservative who thinks climate change and COVID19 aren’t real problems, therefore she wasn’t credible. So I sent him a Glenn Loury podcast with John McWhorter. Two black Americans, one a liberal, both saying similar things but by this time dad’s wall had gone up. I doubt he watched the podcast and if he did, he probably dismissed them as having been hoodwinked by disinformation in the age of Trump.
So I asked my dad what he would consider a respectable source. He told me the BBC, The Economist, The Telegraph and so on. Basically Britain’s old, established legacy media.
So I now always keep my eye out for the occasional glitch in that matrix. When those outlets occasionally air the kind of things Lindsay says. Which they very occasionally do.
Then I read the article, try to find one glaring piece of evidence and impossible to deny condemnation of CRT/BLM send him a link, cite the data in the article and ask him if he agrees with a tenet of CRT/BLM the article highlights as dangerous or absurd.
I rarely get an answer but I think, it’s the best, indeed only way to change his mind.
Find a source he told me personally that he trusts and keep incrementally chipping away with data and questions from those sources.
It would be a slow process no matter what but it’s made all the more slower because the legacy media rarely airs such heresy and the heretic writing the article cannot be obviously right wing or have ever faced racism accusations, which is often the case.
Slim pickings.
A list of pointed questions we could all use that wouldn’t require linking to a heretic, but could be shown to be relevant questions by citing a critical race theorist, would be almost bulletproof.
@@anabelrodriguez5418 yes, citing the most celebrated CRT/BLM thinkers, rather than their critics is probably the best way. Although they cleverly cloak their insidious ideology in opaque, complex, often nonsensical and confusing jargon. Plus redefine words. So it’s still a tough one.
I would’ve thought that their incessant demands to “abolish whiteness” would be enough to highlight their obvious racism but they weasel out of it by defining “whiteness” as a system etc
@@honestjohn6418 Your intent and thoughtfulness are great assets. I appreciate how some connection would be more satisfying. Thanks for writing.
I think he is nothing short of a hero. I have been following him for some time now and donate to his Patreon. He has placed the burden of delving into this insanity and exposing it, which I believe has taken a toll on him. I wish the best for him.
God have mercy.
This is by far the best clip I’ve watched in a long time! Thanks James!!
you are a brave man to stand up with only the truth. I apposite the work you have put in to this attach on everyone .
My place of employment just sent an email basically saying “prepare to receive training on DEI in the coming weeks”. I clicked on this to find out what that means. Very disappointing to say the least.
you need to resist
Same here
Be thankful you stumbled upon the antidote before you were forced to swallow the poison. Good luck.
An intersectionality commercial popped up during this. Google - be evil.
Same here. The irony is palpable.
Me too. It was for Buzzfeed and focused on a black woman fighting for the fact that black people are 12 point whatever percent of the population but only 2 point whatever percent of the wealth.
The algorithm bases on the title lol. The algo doesn't understand context
@@shanewade5654 the people who write algorithms do.
I get no pop-ups or adverts - all blocked!
Sept 2023: Just look at Boston University, where Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Antiracist Research, which has raised over $42 million dollars, is now under investigation for mismanagement and has fired half its staff. After two years the institute has produced only two research papers.
I was told by diversity team at work that I could not have a Latin quote in my bio because it was oppresive
Someone should tell the raging CRT advocate in Loudon County Schools - Andrea Weiskopf - one of the ones compiling LISTS of those against their equity programs. She teaches Latin and is a very vocal supporter of CRT in schools.
Very valuable. A rigourous and clear grounding of a confusing topic. Thank you.
Anyone else remember when Jake from State Farm became black over night..?
I was creeped out, nervous, and angry all at the same time.
@@gg_rider I hear ya there, I don't want television either except football but I caught the Jake change online watching streams, after a few weeks they released a commercial with BOTH 'Jake's' in it, then the white Jake was sent to gitmo.
What about the cute Hershey’s kisses Christmas commercial that was ruined ??
I thought I was taking crazy pills.
Why is that a problem? A genuine question, not a critique?
I absolutely agree that they were trying to make a statement.
But I guess what I’m trying to get at without baiting you into an argument or some “woke” “not woke” discussion is what’s the problem? Why is your concern based on “Jake’s” color, I guess?
Why cant Jake be black I guess?
I follow a fellow fitness trainer. She’s from Canada and in her early 30’s (I’m 40 and from Northern Ireland, though now I live in the USA).
This person is 100% woke. I’ve come close to blocking her so many times but I will instead use her as an example to others of what not to become. Everything is about oppression. In fact, she’s now keeping herself fat because to lose weight is racist 🤦♀️
In a recent post she announced how she won’t workout to model good habits for her kids because… wait for it… it’s ableist and you should do things like that ONLY for yourself, not to impose your beliefs on your kids.
Hmmm, I reckon she doesn’t see all the other beliefs she imposes on her kids and her followers.
Excellent speech! One of James Lindsay's best.
This is BY FAR the best account of Foucault I’ve seen on TH-cam. Having made Foucault the main focus of my time in grad school, it’s good to see that someone actually read him and tried taking him seriously. However, at the end of Lindsey’s account, he loses the narrative. Wokeness is EXACTLY the same thing as a repressive church to Foucault, and the only means of mitigating it is a thoughtful, intentional system of personal responsibility, what Foucault calls ‘self construction.’ Foucault is the best rejection of wokeness outside of maybe Rorty.
I so want to post this in my company's "diversity, inclusion, and belonging" channel on Slack. I'm sure that would go over super well. 😂
I pay nothing for your effort, but I ask you to do it.
Wow. The whole talk was great, but that part about stolen land really hit home.
In Australia, just about everything starts with an 'acknowledgement of country'.
Everybody wants diversity except when it's inconvenient. Everybodys obsessed with "natural" and "organic" except our place on the chain. Not ok with GMOS but transgender operations are courageous
Well I'm ok with GMOs because that word is so broad it doesn't really explain what someone is talking about. Pesticides. That's what the conversation is about. But not all pesticides are equally toxic. Yet GMOs are more likely to be heavily sprayed. But not necessarily! This is why the conversation shouldn't have coupled GMOs and human health, but pesticides and human health, which has plenty of data and study showing links.
Transgender medicine on the contrary is something that occassionally alleviates some people's dysphoria and makes them happy but also has not had ANY longterm medical studies to examine safety.
Two very different issues really if you know more details
Everyone wants diversity except when it promotes hated and racial division. Everyone wants organic except when they can't afford it. Biological women need protection, women only spaces and sports and fighting for that is courageous.
@@LipSyncLover genetically modified organisms typically means hybridization or genetically splicing. Genetic splicing typically has no long term testing and is often done with very different species, where they'd be impossible to hybridize naturally. Like corn being spliced with genes from salmon
I hope you post these on rumble. The censorship is getting widespread
This is a great summary of the sophistry that forms the foundation of critical theory
Well put.
All the focus on how bad Trump is, is what those in magic call "misdirection"......
Or perhaps Trump is objectively bad just as CRT is objectively bad. Can't we just all agree to try to see things as objectively as possible?
John MacArthur, a favorite pastor of mine, is how I got here.
Isn't he an atheist? Or am I thinking mcwhorter
@@LipSyncLover you were thinking of the black guy. YoU RAcIsT
James is giving the gift of understanding. Understanding allows for precision attacks to this divisive and corrosive ideology.
James should consider the posibility of some ideologue taking matters into his/her/ze/zurs own hands. I hope he has a ccw. I want him around for a long time.
I’m totally curious if they’re gonna go for a literal equity and just start claiming peoples houses for other people. Could Invision it as a rich couple with no children in the home has a giant six bedroom house and the state will come along and give that rich couple a two bedroom apartment and tell them they need to vacate their house and allow someone with 12 children to move into their six bedroom house
Wait that’s still not equity the rich couple would need to be two people in one room so they would move into a one bedroom apartment
"Could Invision it" That happens. The government did that in Venezuela (among other things) about 15 years ago. A way to kind of summarize where the country is right now would be: They made it illegal to declare that a child died during labor in order to skew that particular metric. Who knows what the real numbers are but according to Wiki: Since 2016, the overall inflation rate has increased to 53,798,500%.
It happened already South Africa. They are taking farms from whites and giving to blacks because guilt.
@@taunokekkonen5733 That’s true and then I think they went through a famine because the people that stole the farms didn’t know how to harvest the food or plant the food
@@riotnichtruhe that's Zimbabwe, but they are currently looking at changing the law in South Africa to something similar. ANC government visited Zanu-Pf during lockdown.
Why are these ideas pushed by HR, schools, the media and museums? Who decided that overnight? It appears that it all just came out in a coordinated fashion after GF. I mean, we are still talking in circles about healthcare, income inequality & gun violence...but these ideologies can be pushed out overnight and pop up in school curriculums without public debate? That’s like an enforced cultural revolution for reasons unknown... except for sewing division in society.
Very true it sounds planned
This is the best lecture I’ve watched since Jordan Peterson first broke out.
Major facts
Go, Doc!!! Keep going! Michael…thanks for fighting for the Church and thank you for introducing me to Doc Lindsay!!! I love you, Both!!!🙏
Excellent lecture. One teeny little quibble, chutzpah is a Yiddish word usually pronounced "hut-spa".
also mispronounces milieu
Actually, it's "khutspa"/חוצפה ("kh" as in Khruschev or Khomeini or Bach), but don't hold your breath expecting Americans to pronounce ANY sound that isn't already part of their English-language phonetic inventory.
@@TJ-kk5zf Unlike YOU, of course, who are perfect!
@@DieFlabbergast what are you, a 14 year old girl?
Very useful analogy, the tailor shop. The double-bind there reminds me of Gertrude Berg's routine, How to be a Jewish Mother: first, buy your son 2 shirts; when he wears the first one, ask, what's the matter the other one you didn't like? As with White Fragility and White-Supremacy-as-a-state-of-being, no riposte is correct; there are no conditions under which the initial assertion might be false.
So in the middle of this video, TH-cam throws an ad about racial justice in wages. Wrong audience for that ad TH-cam!!!
Thanks for these talks. That you all for your insightful comments. I am encouraged.
And all this folly is the work of the Enemy!
Yes, he was reciting the recipe for Hell.
the woke of the enemy?
Amen, sister. I love my brother's and sisters of all ethnicities. God made us equal. This is a cynical attempt to divide us.
"we shouldn't study society to understand it, we should study it to change it".
Mad. Change as absolute = chaos.
“CH-utzpuh” 😂
Love you, James!
Loved the video but that was hilarious!
Mr. Lindsay, I greatly appreciate your intricate knowledge of this deep, broad, and, please forgive me here, diverse, subject matter. It can be difficult to navigate more than 150 years of this foolish rhetoric to understand exactly where we find ourselves now, but your ability to speak clearly and logically about it is an absolute godsend. I can see your disdain and abject loathing of these subjects in your demeanor and hear it in your voice. I feel as you do, sir, and am working to grasp this knowledge to be able to fight and win against these deranged forces. Please do not relent in your pursuit of disseminating this information. I honestly do not know how you have been able to stomach the literature that you have had to digest in order to acquire the knowledge that you possess. Kings to you, sir. Kings to you.
E Pluribus Unum
This is and has been taught to 2 generations of public school children. We may be doomed as we see the results pouring out on the streets. What can we do now James?
nothing. we have to take over the institutions, academia, and education, along with political entities. but i dont see that happenening. the woke crowd will cause quite the stir if their power is challenged.
The ordinary people can only do so much. It’s mostly up to our government and school administrators to shut this down. Biden just signed the bill for CRT to be taught in schools and our school administrators are not pushing back at all
Great speaker, I will seek his materials out on different platforms.
After thinking about it, critical race theory can be described with one word: paranoia. It's when you assume everyone is judging you or hates you just because of your skin color regardless of whether it's true or not.
Yes and just imagine an entire country soaked in CRT. It will
Be disastrous
Don't think most of the ones pushing it actually believe it, though. They don't. It's a tool to claim power and destroy their enemies-nothing more. If you find yourself talking to one of their puppetmasters or would-be puppetmasters, don't waste time explaining problems with their theories or showing that their policies don't work. They know that already, and don't care. It's for manipulating who they see as the underclasses to force of arms against the established order.
Outstanding lecture - informative, clear, precise, motivating and terrifying. Thank you.
Hero of our times
Thank you James. Too many people simply ridicule ‘wokeness’ without putting the effort in to appreciate what it took to seed and metastasize it throughout our culture. That is to underestimate the huge threat it now poses regarding civil unrest, authoritarian compliance and the fracturing of familial bonds. So much damage has already been done. So much cultural territory already ceded. The demoralization and destabilization is prolific.
This new totalitarian thought often reminds me of the specific detail in 1984 where Orwell says that 'Ingsoc' was successful where all other totalitarian thought failed precisely because it didn't discriminate racially or by class status. Ingsoc (and by direct comparison, wokeness) is as Lindsay says "uniformity with different coloured faces". What's coming scares the absolute hell out of me... This movement has grown and grown in utter defiance of the bedrock fundamentals that the western nations stand on. It is only a matter of time, the cultural revolution WILL touch you and your family at some point in the future and you have a moral obligation to stand against it even if it means your demise; for if this parasite takes root it will begin to scrub clean the blemishes from the pure whole. These ideas are MURDEROUS, these ideas are GENOCIDAL, these ideas MUST BE OPPOSED AT ALL COSTS. When the barbarians land on your shore, what will you do next?
Let's toss a coin to decide which person to serve first 😅
"I know there is no universal truth, but there're many universal untruths." - Wolfgang Hildesheimer
My workplace is also now beginning to trot out this horrible CRT crap.
My next T shirt ..... Proud member of the oppressor class !!!!!!!
If I try to talk about this to any of my remaining friends or family. I would immediately be dismissed and written off as a conspiracy theorist.
James is a treasure. May he be blessed and protected for the work he does 🙏🙏🙏
They may suddenly "find" something on his hard drive and ruin him. Sinister, yes but not beyond their means. He needs to keep his nose clean, I'm sure he's on someones list.
Keep it up James Lindsay, not many sober voices on this, the Weinstein bros, Heather heying, Douglas Murray and a few others. Please keep cutting woke ideology up with your clear logic. We need you bro.
Modern liberal values are about highlighting systemic power. Systemic power they claim is unjust, but want for themselves.
It's about highlighting race and racism. Making everything about race in an effort to prove how people besides themselves are racist.
It's about taking care of the group before the individual. And those who don't agree without question are not part of the group.
I grew up in a very liberal area. I listened to them for years, trying to fully understand the ideology. I asked questions where there were gaps in my knowledge, but they took the questions as treason. THEY pushed ME away. They wanted me to agree that minorities could not stand up for themselves. That they needed assistance because they were lesser than the white man (???!!?). They wanted me to be opinionated on anything and everything even if I knew nothing about them from TH-camrs, movie actors and other public figures and if you didn't have an opinion it was because your opinion is secretly the 'wrong' one (?????). I could keep going. Modern libs project so much hatred it's hard to take them seriously. I find it hard to believe they ever reflect on anything they're saying. Minorities need assistance because they can't fend for themselves? LOL that one still makes me laugh every day.
Excellent! Thank you.
I agree with everything James just said, from the left. I’ll also add when I listen to the president who is also speaking “his truth” of “alternative facts” I’m concerned he’s also playing with postmodernism. I hope we can all get back to working from a base set of facts and then arguing over how to reach a goal, hopefully with a bit of give and take.
stop watching CNN
One rule can sum the title up and it starts with us, ”treat everyone the way you want to be treated.”
Didn’t we all grew up watching Southpark? Then how in the frikkin hell did we become so easily offended???
this isn't about offence that's what it masquerades like. this is about power and control. you can see that in the texts James talks about. these people see everything and I mean everything through a lens of power
Real talk Brother ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
#BlessedBeThee🦋
The perfect storm has hit as these toxic ideas matured with the millennials, the fragile generation (see Jonathan Heidt).
I didn't know James Lindsay was this good! A couple of picks: "Identity First Policy", From "Workers all over the world unite!" to "Races all over the world, divide!" Very interesting. James Lindsay gives the (pseudo-)intellectual underpinnings of Woke. Thanks!
Maurice Samuel, 1924 book.
"YOU GENTILES"
Thankyou James for what your doing
This video only having 14k views is representative of exactly the problem.
177,528 views to day.
Identity politics and speech censorship is dangerous to free thought, expression, and should be resisted strongly.
I would love to hear James in conversation with Douglas Murray
Great talk. Not only is “reality” still out there beyond the systemic discourses, the bio-physical world more specifically and a material environment life depends on for survival.
THE SPEAKER OF THIS VIDEO IS A GOOD SOUL. LISTEN TO HIM.
I have been hooked on James for a wee while now and he has really clarified all this mess for me. I need to go cold turkey soon lol