My black friend said I'm not racist and the coolest non black person they know. They said I could say the n-word and everything. Yup it all checks out. Glad I found the sole ambassador of a whole race to approve all my bullshit.
When he gave that example of black people being incarcerated longer than white people for the same crime I wanted to jump up and down screaming "THAT'S SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT'S SYSTEMIC RACISM HOW ARE YOU SPEAKING AT OXFORD?!". It genuinely blows my mind that he's made millions off of this.
Let me explain his point to you. He is saying that there are more black people statistically in prison for certain crimes than white people, and this is due to things like up to 75% of black people having no fathers at home and also black people being more likely to resist arrest due to their negative perception of the police which just creates a vicious cycle.
Funny how Rubin felt the need to point out that Larry Elder "happens to be black" to qualify his argument as valid but then dismisses the vast majority of other thinkers "that happen to be black" who totally disagree with Elder and present the opposing argument as using "identity politics". The Rules of logic is not strong with Rubin!
The US is one of the only countries to have to deal with cops shooting unarmed people, even if they are punching cops. So I don't think it's about having "low expectations" for black people. it's about having high expectations for the cops. And the cops are absolute shit here. US cops kill more people in a month than UK cops have in 100 years. That is a fact. Their expectations can't get any lower. There video of a guy with a knife attacking UK police and they're able to subdue him with only a few officers. That is high expectations. The UK demands that of them. They're not saying the guy with the knife is expected to do that because he's white trash. They're saying the cops are expected to be held accountable for their actions. As they should be. The police should be held to a higher standard than the criminals they encounter.
Mike Brown was unarmed, standing 35 feet from a cop who shot him multiple times. But that cop was in danger, right? It amazes me how the facts fly right over your thick, empty head...
Once again, he was 35 feet away and unarmed when he shot the kid; he had a choice. I didn't even account for the 2 construction workers caught on survaillance tape reacting to the shooting in real time who said he had his hands up(look it up on youtube). Darren Wilson is 6, 3" 235lbs, hardly an 8 year old going up against an intimidating, giant, as he testified......
Imagine paying insane money to study in Oxford, the greatest university in the world, and using this time to go listen Dave Rubin, LOL! Out of all reputable world class speakers that you have an opportunity to listen to you spend it on a fraud e-celeb like him. Their parents must be so proud of them...
I am the humble recipient of one of those units that Ruben speaks of and I am so glad that my 55 hour work week doesn’t allow me the time to run into too many likeminded folks. I am uncomfortable enough when I have the audacity to use the buildings gym 😓
How does Rubin's sister know which people are living in rent subsidized apartments? Did they all tell her? Do they wear a special patch on their clothing?
Richard McCoy I'm tired of listening to intellectuals. We've been taking cues from intellectuals and experts for decades, where the f@ck has that got us?
He thinks agreeing with everyone on his show makes him and his guest seem like an intellectual, but when he goes out and tries to explain things on his own, he gets their talking points confused and makes no sense.
Larry Parr The guy just “left the Left” about 5 minutes ago because, as he put it, the left is longer liberal. Then he finds himself, like most others believe, going in the only other alternative “direction” which is the to the“right”. Listening to this guy, it’s clear he’s at odds with the the current right wing orthodoxy rhetoric as well... He sounds confused because he IS CONFUSED.
Jason Carroll That wasn’t capitalism? Are you certain you’re aware what capitalism is? Capitalism is most certainly colourblind, say, if a business didn’t want to serve white people, white people would go to another business doing the same thing but serving white people and that business would grow and gain a better reputation, the business refusing to serve white people would fail.
@@italianwaffle5592 Capitalism is when a country's businesses are controlled by private owners. Racist private owners harnessed capitalism to economically exploit others and vice versa capitalists harnessed racism in ways which boosted their profits. Examples are slavery and sharecropping. Addressing what you said about business. Do you really think racists denying service en masse to minorities was as simple to fix as blacks going to a different store? If there were access to separate but equal quality services, why would blacks have not just gone elsewhere? It's because as the Supreme Court said, separate is inherently unequal.
Rubin could make the argument that black ppl are generally poorer than whites therefore live in poor neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods are policed way more due to crime levels in general. From that point, it is socioeconomic. But if u take that argument a step forward and ask why black ppl are in poorer neighborhoods then you will immediately find out how generational wealth was held from black ppl via exclusion from land grants, low interest rates loans etc
The opposite is true, the community reinvestment act (which strongly influenced the creation of the GFC) and the system in government and banking it created caused MORE low interest rate loans and lower checks for those in lower income neighbourhoods. Good try though, I know you lefties are working with significantly less brainpower.
Because there was legislation to create the opposite in results and most in the banking sector are leftists apart from wanting lower taxes. Funny enough you can't give any proof, you just pretend your nonexistent anecdotal evidence wins the argument. Delusional.
Jean Luc Bergman CRA was passed in 77 because low interest rates weren't given to African Americans till that point. Redlining occurred in various forms. By the 70s, the drug war had begun and African Americans were being put in jail in droves so mass wealth couldn't be accumulated
Again, watching this from Europe, living in a highly regulated welfare state (and paying the corresponding taxes and contributions), I simply do not understand the mindset of American libertarians/conservatives. How does kicking people out of basic social rights help with social cohesion? And why is it so difficult to recognise the historical burdens of current society (Americans seem to have much less problems with that concerning European countries...)? How does denying basic support in social crises like unemployment or sickness contribute to individual freedom? I live a very comfortable and secure life in the most livable city of the world (named that for seven years in a row), where the authorities actively fund social housing with stabilized rents all over town, which has guaranteed that no social ghettos could develop in the last 70 years. We have low crime rates (despite the so called refugee crisis - do not believe everything the American media are trying to sell you about the current results, my friends and I are still out and about all over town at night without being constantly assaulted or robbed), general well-being at a high level, overall happiness rising, a well running economy, dropping unemployment rates - all of which countermands the postulates of libertarians. Social democracy really can work if you do not close your mind to evidence and instead go for ideology...
nina1608 they have an "I got mine. No one else gets any." Mentality. He thinks people working hard don't necessarily deserve the same things he does because he earned them and if they earned them they would have them already. So if they want the same treatment, they must be asking for special concessions. It's a disgusting uneducated way to think The failure is the long term erosion of the US education system. People are not being taught how to think. They're being taught to fear ghosts and witches and get out the pitchforks.
sooo whats this thing called the european debt crisis? is that a thing? would it make any sense if i went deep into debt paying the bills for 20 people, and then went online to brag "i dont know why everyone else doesnt do this, they must be so selfish!".. absolutely ridiculous nationalistic bs.
another strawman. avrysatos, libertarians are not against helping a single person. they are against doing it by means of coercion. if your position was so strong, you could at least do your opponents the service of correctly framing their position. guess what, theres 70 million democrats in the united states. and conservatives give even more to charity than democrats. plenty of people to help others voluntarily. we need a different model anyways. ever since the welfare state began, poverty has not decreased. therefore the programs do not achieve what they were intended to do. instead it traps people into a permanent dependent class. and the social effects are even worse, because by changing incentives, it has weakened the family unit, and fatherlessness has become an epidemic in 1 to 2 generations. you are government indoctrinated, pretending you know something about libertarianism.
beatsNstrings There was a debt crisis of some Eurozone member states but not an overall European debt crisis (again, do not believe US media uncritically). My own country is a Eurozone member and does economically very well, thank you (better than many US states). Germany has similar social rights and is currently going into a fiscal surplus year. And that's all with the same amount of personal freedom (and less of fiscal burdens and better environmental progections, for instance) as the US. At the same time Germany stepped up to solve a humanitarian crisis at the border instead of actively producing one.
"do not believe US media uncritically" i havent even watched it for a decade plus. okay though. i guess the european debt crisis is all just fake news...
I have no clue. I have worked at a few universities in Europe and I can guarantee you can't just invite anybody who isn't a professor or a recognized scholar to talk about nothing just because you feel like it.
I think Sam misread the flaw in Dave Rubin's thinking toward the end there. Firstly he says systemic racism doesn't exist, he incorrectly defines it, then continues to give examples of _systemic racism._ Then towards the end, when he is giving his "anticdotal" account, he says the rent in his sister's apartment building is kept low for 50% of the apartments to ensure that they are available to people of "certain ethnicities" (i.e. non-Caucasians). But he goes on to debunk himself when he says you lose the incentive when your income goes up! By that logic, your ethnicity changes to Caucasian when you earn more because the incentive, according to him, is ethnicity not income level! Either that or he doesn't understand what he is talking about.
I think what he means is government incentives to minorities is stopping them from getting rich. If you just take all the government welfare programs away then everyone will want to get rich and live happily ever after. "Goverment - bad, Big Businesses which give me money - good". Dave's libertarianism in a nutshell.
@@saikrishna-lr7dz Yes, I see that too. The entire premise is such a concoction of illogical gobbledygook. The idea that people will avoid getting a higher income so that they can continue paying rent at a low cost is just ludicrous.
IIRC 27 of the largest 30 cities in the country have Democratic mayors, the other 3 (Jacksonville, Ft. Worth and Jacksonville) are highly dependent on military bases for their economy, although San Diego is a great place year-round.
Rent controlled is not for just certain ethnicities it's for people native to the area, so people don't get forced out of that area unfairly.... he is a clown
That's a racist dog-whistle he's using by the way. He assumes only one ethnicity lives in the bad part of town. Guess what that (or rather those) ethnicity are.
He got invited by the oxford union, not oxford university. They have a lot of public figures, many of whom are very controversial on both sides of the aisle.
sprybug it's a common thought among people who belong to the Sam Harris cult. I still am baffled by the logic of one I engaged with: "I'm not islamophobic. I have Muslim friends that agree with Harris."
Yeah, Harris is not somoene I paid much attention to. I know he gets a lot of shit, but he's one of those guys that I don't really give 2 rats asses about, so I don't really care what he has to say one way or the other. To be honest, I don't know what he's even talking about half the time. Sometimes what he says sounds like word salad to me.
David Murray > specific > systemic You seem to not understand what the word systemic means. Every individual example of racism is part of a system that systemically allows for and supports racism.
Diaberu monk I’m aware of the distinction. Allow me to clarify by saying I’m jumping ahead a few steps. I am conceding racism DOES exist, I just find it is quite RARE. Hence my interest in identifying SPECIFICALLY who it is that IS racist. I suspect you’re taken back by my previous comment. I suspect this in large part because I suspect you and I apply very different metrics to determine racism. I define racism by 1 metric, has the person in question caused physical harm or injury to another of a different race without self defense (ONLY) justification. If not, he/she is not is NOT racist. Overt name calling, white supremacy rhetoric, eugenics rhetoric, welfare system rhetoric and euphemisms like, food stamps, urban, thug etc however repugnant, offensive, and quite frankly, I find STUPID, you or I might find those words to be, are NOT RACIST. They’re words, words don’t physically harm people. If anything, the rare number of people who do actually believe AND articulate such rhetoric have saved time and effort of minority groups from wasting more. Now if some KKK member is guilty of actually lynching blacks, that IS unquestionably RACIST! And must be stopped!
After hearing Mr. Rubins eloquent reply to this question, I would like to ask him another that is more on par with his intellectual acuity. Mr. Rubin what sound does the doggy make?
Very simply systematic/institutional racism is a system of which punished and rewards individuals based on race. All laws may be equal, but how those laws are applied is the issue.
Hey Rubin... So Anti -semitism isn't ' a thing'? You are a Jew right? So tell us Dave, we are all ears. Let me guess.. ' Oh well, that doesn't count! Of course there is systemic anti-semitism'.
I know this comment is 2 years old but this is too good to pass up- "Because he has beat them systematically, or systemically, however you like it" - David Rubin
Of course a person who hasn't been faced with systemic racism thinks that there is no systemic racism.. this truly show a serious amount of white privilege.. oh and a person of color can show amounts of white privilege also
Exactly! Dave is a classical jew, why didn't he mentioned that 60% of Harvard graduates are Jews.... Talk about "there is no racism" what a hypocrite....
That's as mind bendingly stupid as Golda Mier and NUT-and-a-yahoo saying: "We can forgive Palestinians for killing our children.We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill theirs".- Golda Mier "It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just."-Benjamin Netanyahu,Prime Minister Top ZOP
Oh gawd, I can hear someone saying, well Jews have a higher ratio of smart people and it's not racism that causes more successful graduations, it's cuz they're smart. Wholly shit the chosen people by god herself is a racist??? Making them born smarter?? ha ha ha There was a time Chomsky told of when he was a kid Jews were excluded from schools, and then next I hear that slavery, the buying and selling of black people or any people indentured servitude even was an idea created by opportunistic Jewish people. Round and round we go.
Dave Rubin "There's no such thing as systemic racism in America" 'let me just follow that statement up with 2 examples of systemic racism that I do believe exist but don't seem to understand that they are systemic racism'
As someone who lives about 5 minutes away, I'm rather insulted by the statement that Ferguson is controlled by Democrats and has been for 20 years. Like Rubin's whole argument here, that's false to the point of being absolutely ridiculous.
Rubin: There is no systematic racism. Also Rubin: Here’s a list of things that are totally NOT or do not reflect systemic racism (but actually are and do).
The whole point of talking about racism as systematic, is that the laws don't need to explicitly mention race to have outcomes based on race. Dave's misunderstanding is so ass backwards he thinks it means the literal opposite of what it does.
Just to clarify what Rave Dubin was saying regarding black incarceration.. he makes the statement that blacks stay in jail LONGER for minor offenses and that you can link this to social economic variables, meaning they can’t make bail. Which is even more of a reason to end cash bail.
Dave Rubin... The same guy that when asked by David Pakman, "what would be your idea of a single-payer health care system?" Rubin replied with the definition of the individual mandate system. Why am I not surprised?
" ... (looking around the studio, stuttering) ... his inability even to maintain his own internal logic over the course of a sentence and a half is ... (eyebrows go up, mouth open, about to say something) ... almost artistic" God, why do I love MR so much? This has to be a favorite quote right there.
This is just an unfair critique. Some people are just limited and pathologically self absorbed. How can we really expect Dave to understand intellectually challenging concepts such as irony.
They just despise poor people. They hate them. They want them out. Outside the walls, please. They should clean the sewage and keep the windmills intact but please don't come close and don't ask for a decent life next to us. We're rich. We want other rich people around us. We want to enjoy our nice little spaces amongst each other. Isn't it great, Stuart. You are rich and I am rich and we're getting along so fine and isn't it a lovely day. The sun is out, we're sitting here comfortably surrounded by people that look like us and who carry enough money in their wallets to give us even more comforting feelings of security that we're gonna be all fine and rich and well dressed together. Oh, how swell. Imagine if they we're browner and had less money. Sitting here and sipping the same coffee, Stuart. I don't know about you, but I'd feel unsafe. They would start threatening us probably. Asking for some change. I mean, who knows. Can you bring me a new drink, please. And don't expect a tip. Work harder. But do it outside of my peripheral view. Ew, you poor swine.
How do the students at Oxford see Dave as a credible voice? Considering his level of intellect, it is not an institution I would’ve thought would’ve had any interest in providing him with a platform. Solid points Maj Rep!
He seems to have a kind of simplistic view of the role of governance and the how's and why's of it. He thinks moving to a different state is a great solution, as if a million people can just disagree with Massachusetts laws and move to Vermont. There aren't enough jobs, housing, infrastructure, etc, to supplement that. It would crash the economies of both areas. The reality is that we have to deal with the problems and have as much oversight add possible without being overbearing. Allow the free market to work and respect the regulations that have been put in place as reactions to exploitative behaviors within the market. I wonder what his ideas are on money in politics because I think it's completely antithetical to a democratic system and we have ability with our advancements in communications to have fair representation in elections without having monies interests buying up all the air time. It leads to a kind of frenzied piranha atmosphere in election seasons and almost completely diminished the power of each vote and by extension us as voters become nearly powerless compared to those who direct money into politics.
Ironically, Rubin touted the efforts of the Wolf-PAC (An anti-lobbying PAC) while he was on TYT, now he works for the biggest perpetrators of corporate-election-meddling by far. The Kochs will reach all the way down to city council level races to keep their pollution farms running. It may be the truest statement one can make about our society when we dissect the impetus of a person like Rubin in turning his back on his own conscience and social-status in pursuit of coin.
P.S. Can Dave Rubin talk to ANYONE without trying to convince them that Democrats are responsible for stated Republican policies? These are BRITISH KIDS! What does he get out of talking shit about Democrats? Does he just have no ability to critically think beyond the two or three scripts he's memorized?
Firstly I can't believe that Dave was invited to the Oxford union. Clearly he was, I can't believe even more that 97 per cent of those kids didn't laugh their asses off at his transparent bullshit for the next 2 weeks.
Structural racism is a certainly a thing, but to be honest, when I meet American students who claim that racism is only about "systems and power, not about personal acts or beliefs" it blows my mind - where did American's make up this bizarre definition? Or worse, when they claim things like "I can't be racist because I'm black". Please, my lovely Americans, you sound ridiculous when you say these things abroad.
You are literally strawmaning a minority of people with views most Americans disagree with black or white. To infer this is the view excepted by most is either disingenuous and daft
At first I thought that conservatives just weren't aware of their ignorance of concepts such as "systemic racism." But after seeing the same dynamic play out time and again, there's no doubt that seasoned propagators just want to get "talking points" out to their conservative audiences. This works, as do most conservative debates, not by being truthful but by portraying unyielding confidence and ignoring facts and what anyone says.
I googled "Black Oxford Students" and the first result is an article by a white girl called "The real reason Oxbridge accepts so few black students". She goes on to say "The roots of the lack of diversity at Oxbridge lie not in institutionalised racism - as MP David Lammy would have us believe - but in the low education standards in deprived areas. " She alludes that racism is over estimated and not part of the admissions process, at all. How can she be the first person in a google search on this subject?
Conservative logic always boils down to this: if you try to do anything good, bad things will happen somehow. So just stop doing good things and purely act in your own self interest and good things will happen... Somehow.
"Oxford University which I believe is in London, is that right?" oh lol, silly Americans. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which I believe is in New York, is that right?
14:37 - let's just clarify the real issue here. This is a guy whose intellect and education have failed to even enable him to understand how to pronounce (or likely spell) the word "anecdotal". The fact that he's speaking at Oxford is an embarrassment.
Dave admitted he was drunk during this speech because he went out for drinks in the morning with Nigel Farage lmao Not like it makes that much of a difference though
To be fair, "systemic racism" does *sound* to most people like it refers to openly racist laws or written policy. It's a bad wording, at least for common speech. It's not useful to shit on Dave Rubin for being semantically ignorant when he agrees with the actual concept. Clarify the misunderstanding and move on.
w4fjhDU514I1 it's not bad wording. It's a failure of the education system that these people cannot understand such concepts and don't have the intellectual capability to even teach themselves. If we start excusing everything as a bad term we place the burden on verified concepts to change because people are too stupid to understand them, rather than asking people to learn these concepts if they want to talk about them.
w4fjhDU514I1 Well your point is fair when it comes to the average person in the street. But Dave Rubin markets himself as somewhat intellectual and knowledgeable about these subjects. He has no excuse for not knowing such a basic basic concept. We need short names to explain complex things, we do it all the time, but some people will willfully misinterpret the meaning in order to pander to their base. Others will do what Rubin does and be too lazy to look it up.
As a Black person in Chicago , I do have to say , I don’t have to work a day. Didn’t you guys know Obama hand delivers money to every black person in Chicago? This is why I decided live a life of crime and own a gun. Because I get all my money from Obama.
Hmm, I'm white, about 20% below the poverty line, and rely on public housing type programs to not be homeless. Clearly... I'm actually black. Dave Rubin needs to spend a day in my shoes, complete with my daunting list of physical and mental conditions, and then tell me about how rent-stabilized housing is bad. Oddly enough, he does have the thinnest line of a point with the whole, "If they make a little more money, they'll lose their benefits" thing because that is actually a problem, as the cut-off for "too much money" is still well below living wage, nevermind that I CAN'T WORK. Some people, I swear.
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I asked a black guy if systemic racism exists and he said no, therefore it doesn't.
Black Brit wow
My black friend said I'm not racist and the coolest non black person they know. They said I could say the n-word and everything. Yup it all checks out. Glad I found the sole ambassador of a whole race to approve all my bullshit.
truly an intellectual awakening
Systemic Racism is definitely Real.
Lmaooooo
What the heck is that guy doing at a University? He has zero academic credibility.
You mean like alot of the fucking idiot professors who take kids money to teach them victim hood and outrage?
@@v11cu96 no lol
and to pay him outlandish speaking fees!
v11cu96 wow way to perfectly answer his question with your mere existence
Gustav - something something...free speech, something-something... ideas Or snth?
There's something hilarious about seeing Rubin surrounded by books
atariDC_ this is a highly underrated comment
Devin Caramma highly
I get the suspicion that the books around him would be like the books in the Beauty and the Beast room in BoJack Horseman.
he doesn’t need books, he’s got more powerful ideas than books
It's like an Oxymoron
Dave Rubin: identity publics is wrong!
Dave Rubin: I know a Conservative who is *Black.*
Also Dave Rubin: Did you know that I'm gay?
@@wvu05 and a jew, he loves to use that one
@@wvu05 funny
Bunch of rich white kids nodding along to a rich white guy saying structural racism doesn't exist. Imagine my shock!
@Arkd Dee it is relevant because it informs his ideas and worldview
2sp00ky people really wanna just pretend race and culture doesn’t affect perspectives whatsoever lol
There is no such thing as structural racism, systemic racism, institutionalize racism, and reverse racism. It’s just racism.
@@jonjonboi3701 Well those are all racism, so yeah, I guess.
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How can you argue against the existence of systemic racism by citing a classic example of systemic racism?
Dave Rubin can. What a moron lol
When he gave that example of black people being incarcerated longer than white people for the same crime I wanted to jump up and down screaming "THAT'S SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT'S SYSTEMIC RACISM HOW ARE YOU SPEAKING AT OXFORD?!". It genuinely blows my mind that he's made millions off of this.
@@ipodtouch495 This.
@@ipodtouch495 Right! How did nobody in that room stand up and say "you sir are a fucking moron"?
Let me explain his point to you. He is saying that there are more black people statistically in prison for certain crimes than white people, and this is due to things like up to 75% of black people having no fathers at home and also black people being more likely to resist arrest due to their negative perception of the police which just creates a vicious cycle.
Goes from "there is no systemic racism" to "the system favors certain races" in reference to subsidy 🤦
I thought Oxford was a bastion of uncompromising intellectual integrity.
Who's next on the guest list? Dr. Phil.
Lol. More like John Edwards.
They just invite z list celebs now, look up past events
Funny how Rubin felt the need to point out that Larry Elder "happens to be black" to qualify his argument as valid but then dismisses the vast majority of other thinkers "that happen to be black" who totally disagree with Elder and present the opposing argument as using "identity politics". The Rules of logic is not strong with Rubin!
I know, right.....self hating blacks...smh
Right wingers already use black people who talk like them to valid their point without being label racist themselves
Classic Right wing 101
The US is one of the only countries to have to deal with cops shooting unarmed people, even if they are punching cops. So I don't think it's about having "low expectations" for black people. it's about having high expectations for the cops. And the cops are absolute shit here.
US cops kill more people in a month than UK cops have in 100 years. That is a fact. Their expectations can't get any lower.
There video of a guy with a knife attacking UK police and they're able to subdue him with only a few officers. That is high expectations. The UK demands that of them. They're not saying the guy with the knife is expected to do that because he's white trash. They're saying the cops are expected to be held accountable for their actions. As they should be. The police should be held to a higher standard than the criminals they encounter.
Mike Brown was unarmed, standing 35 feet from a cop who shot him multiple times. But that cop was in danger, right? It amazes me how the facts fly right over your thick, empty head...
Once again, he was 35 feet away and unarmed when he shot the kid; he had a choice. I didn't even account for the 2 construction workers caught on survaillance tape reacting to the shooting in real time who said he had his hands up(look it up on youtube). Darren Wilson is 6, 3" 235lbs, hardly an 8 year old going up against an intimidating, giant, as he testified......
So they’ll let anyone in Oxford now.
David Heffron Yes! If you get the grades.
Clair Duffy I think he’s talking about Dave Rubin.
Imagine paying insane money to study in Oxford, the greatest university in the world, and using this time to go listen Dave Rubin, LOL! Out of all reputable world class speakers that you have an opportunity to listen to you spend it on a fraud e-celeb like him. Their parents must be so proud of them...
Oleg Gnashuk. It’s not a private school. It costs pretty much the same to go to Oxford as any other university. You just need very good grades.
Having said that he is talking bollocks!
I am the humble recipient of one of those units that Ruben speaks of and I am so glad that my 55 hour work week doesn’t allow me the time to run into too many likeminded folks. I am uncomfortable enough when I have the audacity to use the buildings gym 😓
How does Rubin's sister know which people are living in rent subsidized apartments? Did they all tell her? Do they wear a special patch on their clothing?
She probably just assumes people of color who live there are getting a rent controlled apartment.
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Rubin really thinks he is an intellectual
He's ineffectual at being an intellectual.
Richard McCoy
I'm tired of listening to intellectuals. We've been taking cues from intellectuals and experts for decades, where the f@ck has that got us?
Lincoln Lloyd Redley
Thank you SIR...
He thinks agreeing with everyone on his show makes him and his guest seem like an intellectual, but when he goes out and tries to explain things on his own, he gets their talking points confused and makes no sense.
Larry Parr
The guy just “left the Left” about 5 minutes ago because, as he put it, the left is longer liberal. Then he finds himself, like most others believe, going in the only other alternative “direction” which is the to the“right”. Listening to this guy, it’s clear he’s at odds with the the current right wing orthodoxy rhetoric as well...
He sounds confused because he IS CONFUSED.
like, how stupid would you have to be to think Rubin is smart?
jo smith You just have to complain about SJWs, PC culture and the "regressive left" and right wingers think you're an intellectual juggernaut.
Patched, that's literally how I see it nowadays. It really has gotten that ridiculous.
I just love how evangelicals will defend Carl Benjamin and Armoured Skeptic while conveniently ignoring their videos calling evangelicals idiots.
I guarantee everybody in that room went away wondering why they had been subjected to someone quite as stupid as that.
jo smith right? Lol
Thus, Oxford's reputation has decreased a little more in my eyes...
Dave Rubin is pure cringe. He doesn't understand any of the things he talks about.
Im a simple man. I see Dave Rubins name on a majority report video, I click.
That’s the exact point of this his show sucks so he tries to get views off popular figures
As am I. Nothing does it like seeing a new Dennis Miller clip.
Even if your computer isn't on?
Trill God
You're a slave of western oppressive patriarchy and toxic masculinity
Me too. I just can't stop watching other people dunk on him. I can't help it.
Jamie telling Sam Seder that racism and capitalism are both intertwined is why I am watching the Majority Report
TheLazyAnarchist Racism does not stem from capitalism, capitalism is colourblind.
Jason Carroll That wasn’t capitalism? Are you certain you’re aware what capitalism is? Capitalism is most certainly colourblind, say, if a business didn’t want to serve white people, white people would go to another business doing the same thing but serving white people and that business would grow and gain a better reputation, the business refusing to serve white people would fail.
@@italianwaffle5592 Capitalism is when a country's businesses are controlled by private owners. Racist private owners harnessed capitalism to economically exploit others and vice versa capitalists harnessed racism in ways which boosted their profits. Examples are slavery and sharecropping.
Addressing what you said about business. Do you really think racists denying service en masse to minorities was as simple to fix as blacks going to a different store? If there were access to separate but equal quality services, why would blacks have not just gone elsewhere? It's because as the Supreme Court said, separate is inherently unequal.
@@jasoncarroll6541 that would be the simple fix if we actually implemented capitalism
@@italianwaffle5592 redlining
Rubin could make the argument that black ppl are generally poorer than whites therefore live in poor neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods are policed way more due to crime levels in general. From that point, it is socioeconomic. But if u take that argument a step forward and ask why black ppl are in poorer neighborhoods then you will immediately find out how generational wealth was held from black ppl via exclusion from land grants, low interest rates loans etc
The opposite is true, the community reinvestment act (which strongly influenced the creation of the GFC) and the system in government and banking it created caused MORE low interest rate loans and lower checks for those in lower income neighbourhoods. Good try though, I know you lefties are working with significantly less brainpower.
Conveniently leaves out redlining that went on well into the 60's from your basic retort.
Any evidence of this? Entirely conspiratorial.
Because there was legislation to create the opposite in results and most in the banking sector are leftists apart from wanting lower taxes.
Funny enough you can't give any proof, you just pretend your nonexistent anecdotal evidence wins the argument. Delusional.
Jean Luc Bergman CRA was passed in 77 because low interest rates weren't given to African Americans till that point. Redlining occurred in various forms. By the 70s, the drug war had begun and African Americans were being put in jail in droves so mass wealth couldn't be accumulated
Rubin's insincerity gets on my nerves.
Again, watching this from Europe, living in a highly regulated welfare state (and paying the corresponding taxes and contributions), I simply do not understand the mindset of American libertarians/conservatives. How does kicking people out of basic social rights help with social cohesion? And why is it so difficult to recognise the historical burdens of current society (Americans seem to have much less problems with that concerning European countries...)? How does denying basic support in social crises like unemployment or sickness contribute to individual freedom?
I live a very comfortable and secure life in the most livable city of the world (named that for seven years in a row), where the authorities actively fund social housing with stabilized rents all over town, which has guaranteed that no social ghettos could develop in the last 70 years. We have low crime rates (despite the so called refugee crisis - do not believe everything the American media are trying to sell you about the current results, my friends and I are still out and about all over town at night without being constantly assaulted or robbed), general well-being at a high level, overall happiness rising, a well running economy, dropping unemployment rates - all of which countermands the postulates of libertarians. Social democracy really can work if you do not close your mind to evidence and instead go for ideology...
nina1608 they have an "I got mine. No one else gets any." Mentality. He thinks people working hard don't necessarily deserve the same things he does because he earned them and if they earned them they would have them already. So if they want the same treatment, they must be asking for special concessions.
It's a disgusting uneducated way to think
The failure is the long term erosion of the US education system. People are not being taught how to think. They're being taught to fear ghosts and witches and get out the pitchforks.
sooo whats this thing called the european debt crisis? is that a thing? would it make any sense if i went deep into debt paying the bills for 20 people, and then went online to brag "i dont know why everyone else doesnt do this, they must be so selfish!".. absolutely ridiculous nationalistic bs.
another strawman. avrysatos, libertarians are not against helping a single person. they are against doing it by means of coercion. if your position was so strong, you could at least do your opponents the service of correctly framing their position. guess what, theres 70 million democrats in the united states. and conservatives give even more to charity than democrats. plenty of people to help others voluntarily. we need a different model anyways. ever since the welfare state began, poverty has not decreased. therefore the programs do not achieve what they were intended to do. instead it traps people into a permanent dependent class. and the social effects are even worse, because by changing incentives, it has weakened the family unit, and fatherlessness has become an epidemic in 1 to 2 generations. you are government indoctrinated, pretending you know something about libertarianism.
beatsNstrings There was a debt crisis of some Eurozone member states but not an overall European debt crisis (again, do not believe US media uncritically). My own country is a Eurozone member and does economically very well, thank you (better than many US states). Germany has similar social rights and is currently going into a fiscal surplus year. And that's all with the same amount of personal freedom (and less of fiscal burdens and better environmental progections, for instance) as the US. At the same time Germany stepped up to solve a humanitarian crisis at the border instead of actively producing one.
"do not believe US media uncritically"
i havent even watched it for a decade plus. okay though. i guess the european debt crisis is all just fake news...
Dave Rubin scored a invite at Oxford ? What were they thinking.
They are so silenced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't work hard at Oxford...
You'll be as clueless as the numpty we've invited!
I have no clue. I have worked at a few universities in Europe and I can guarantee you can't just invite anybody who isn't a professor or a recognized scholar to talk about nothing just because you feel like it.
Almost 2 years on and my brain is STILL in recovery mode from taking in all these high level, important ideas
I think Sam misread the flaw in Dave Rubin's thinking toward the end there.
Firstly he says systemic racism doesn't exist, he incorrectly defines it, then continues to give examples of _systemic racism._
Then towards the end, when he is giving his "anticdotal" account, he says the rent in his sister's apartment building is kept low for 50% of the apartments to ensure that they are available to people of "certain ethnicities" (i.e. non-Caucasians). But he goes on to debunk himself when he says you lose the incentive when your income goes up! By that logic, your ethnicity changes to Caucasian when you earn more because the incentive, according to him, is ethnicity not income level! Either that or he doesn't understand what he is talking about.
Mongz Motlhabi exactly what I picked up on, too.
Im dying laughing reading this😂
I think what he means is government incentives to minorities is stopping them from getting rich. If you just take all the government welfare programs away then everyone will want to get rich and live happily ever after. "Goverment - bad, Big Businesses which give me money - good". Dave's libertarianism in a nutshell.
@@saikrishna-lr7dz Yes, I see that too. The entire premise is such a concoction of illogical gobbledygook. The idea that people will avoid getting a higher income so that they can continue paying rent at a low cost is just ludicrous.
People like Dave Rubin always bring up Detroit and Chicago but conveniently fail to mention cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland.
IIRC 27 of the largest 30 cities in the country have Democratic mayors, the other 3 (Jacksonville, Ft. Worth and Jacksonville) are highly dependent on military bases for their economy, although San Diego is a great place year-round.
"He's just an idiot" -- that's how every analysis of Dave Rubin should end, lol.
Billy Badass san francisco has no middle class
Those are white cities. Socialism works great in white countries but fails when you add blacks and hispanics.
It's called "Cherrypicking".
Rent controlled is not for just certain ethnicities it's for people native to the area, so people don't get forced out of that area unfairly.... he is a clown
That's a racist dog-whistle he's using by the way. He assumes only one ethnicity lives in the bad part of town. Guess what that (or rather those) ethnicity are.
How in the world does this guy keep getting people to listen to him in such "established settings"? The can't hear that he's a scam artist
He got invited by the oxford union, not oxford university. They have a lot of public figures, many of whom are very controversial on both sides of the aisle.
The guy is a sure duffer. It was a painful logic to follow. Thanks Sam, you did one hell of a job here.
Dave Rubin can't understand that it's better to be rich even if the government helps poor people.
Shinobi_Madero he doesn’t understand much
I nearly spit out my drink when he said systemic racism doesn't exist.
sprybug it's a common thought among people who belong to the Sam Harris cult. I still am baffled by the logic of one I engaged with: "I'm not islamophobic. I have Muslim friends that agree with Harris."
Yeah, Harris is not somoene I paid much attention to. I know he gets a lot of shit, but he's one of those guys that I don't really give 2 rats asses about, so I don't really care what he has to say one way or the other. To be honest, I don't know what he's even talking about half the time. Sometimes what he says sounds like word salad to me.
sprybug
Ok, I’ll bite.
Where specifically, is this systemic racism?
David Murray
> specific
> systemic
You seem to not understand what the word systemic means. Every individual example of racism is part of a system that systemically allows for and supports racism.
Diaberu monk
I’m aware of the distinction.
Allow me to clarify by saying I’m jumping ahead a few steps.
I am conceding racism DOES exist, I just find it is quite RARE. Hence my interest in identifying SPECIFICALLY who it is that IS racist.
I suspect you’re taken back by my previous comment. I suspect this in large part because I suspect you and I apply very different metrics to determine racism.
I define racism by 1 metric, has the person in question caused physical harm or injury to another of a different race without self defense (ONLY) justification. If not, he/she is not is NOT racist.
Overt name calling, white supremacy rhetoric, eugenics rhetoric, welfare system rhetoric and euphemisms like, food stamps, urban, thug etc however repugnant, offensive, and quite frankly, I find STUPID, you or I might find those words to be, are NOT RACIST.
They’re words, words don’t physically harm people. If anything, the rare number of people who do actually believe AND articulate such rhetoric have saved time and effort of minority groups from wasting more.
Now if some KKK member is guilty of actually lynching blacks, that IS unquestionably RACIST! And must be stopped!
After hearing Mr. Rubins eloquent reply to this question, I would like to ask him another that is more on par with his intellectual acuity. Mr. Rubin what sound does the doggy make?
"we can fix the racially disproportionate incarceration rates if we just free-market that shit."
im literally perished from that ironclad logic
dave misdefines words. a play of semantics.
KAWAII OBAMA who else do you know that does that? (privelege+power)
Yup. Whenever he is asked a question he doesn’t like he’ll ask his own question and answer that one instead.
Very simply systematic/institutional racism is a system of which punished and rewards individuals based on race. All laws may be equal, but how those laws are applied is the issue.
Do you think Larry Elder would understand that explanation?
Jonny Fyre I'm pretty sure he understands he just is paid to say the opposite
Jonny Fyre he would considering he's a older black make over 53, which means he didn't have his full rights as a citizen until 1965.
Hey Rubin... So Anti -semitism isn't ' a thing'? You are a Jew right? So tell us Dave, we are all ears. Let me guess.. ' Oh well, that doesn't count! Of course there is systemic anti-semitism'.
"They keep the rents low for minorities"
Since... what year???
TL;DR : Dave Rubin doesn't know what the word "systemic" means.
I know this comment is 2 years old but this is too good to pass up-
"Because he has beat them systematically, or systemically, however you like it" - David Rubin
my I.Q. just gave me an evil look and walked off in disgust. i just can't. #ThisFuckingGuy
“There is no systemic racism. The justice system is racist but that is just because the economic system is racist.” Brilliant argument.
You should only be allowed to come speak at a college if you can get into it LOL
Then they'd NEVER get a speaker!
"I'm just interested in ideas but I'll reject with prejudice the ones I don't feel good about"
bingo
no that's the conservative motto
Coos Oorlog no it’s the liberal motto.
-So we're talking about Dave Rubin and how...
-BUT LIBRULS!
One of the best takedowns I've ever heard.
Great job Sam.
he starts to feel himself when hes wearin sexy gray polo
Did anybody in that room get up and say "wtf?!"
Of course a person who hasn't been faced with systemic racism thinks that there is no systemic racism.. this truly show a serious amount of white privilege.. oh and a person of color can show amounts of white privilege also
The rent is too damn high because the rent is too damn low! That's some next-level stupid shit. 15:00
Exactly! Dave is a classical jew, why didn't he mentioned that 60% of Harvard graduates are Jews.... Talk about "there is no racism" what a hypocrite....
raitiC1 How is that statistic proof of racism?
That's as mind bendingly stupid as Golda Mier and NUT-and-a-yahoo saying:
"We can forgive Palestinians for killing our children.We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill theirs".- Golda Mier
"It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just."-Benjamin Netanyahu,Prime Minister Top ZOP
Oh gawd, I can hear someone saying, well Jews have a higher ratio of smart people and it's not racism that causes more successful graduations, it's cuz they're smart. Wholly shit the chosen people by god herself is a racist??? Making them born smarter?? ha ha ha
There was a time Chomsky told of when he was a kid Jews were excluded from schools, and then next I hear that slavery, the buying and selling of black people or any people indentured servitude even was an idea created by opportunistic Jewish people.
Round and round we go.
raitiC1 is that sarcasm?
Dave Rubin
Oh. wait, I gave a punch line.
There is no joke.
Dave Rubin "There's no such thing as systemic racism in America" 'let me just follow that statement up with 2 examples of systemic racism that I do believe exist but don't seem to understand that they are systemic racism'
Wonder why Dave Rubin has never invited Dr. Gerald Horne to do an interview with him...
Oh, nevermind, I know why now. Lol
Gerald Horne would destroy pretty much... everybody
This is a bit of a low blow, but Jesus Christ those shoes clash with that suit SO badly.
And that TIE, ugh.
They should have blocked him from entering Oxford for that tie and sock combo alone.
Thanks for the common sense rebuttal to this pure absolute clown sam.
As someone who lives about 5 minutes away, I'm rather insulted by the statement that Ferguson is controlled by Democrats and has been for 20 years. Like Rubin's whole argument here, that's false to the point of being absolutely ridiculous.
I can point to about 70 libraries of books and peer reviewed research proving Rubin wrong here
can you please mention some, or as many as you can??
"Anticdotal..." You know I think that's all I need to hear.
19:52 rebuttal to the 'if we help poor people they will just want to stay poor' argument.
Rubin: There is no systematic racism.
Also Rubin: Here’s a list of things that are totally NOT or do not reflect systemic racism (but actually are and do).
Dave Rubin is living proof that we do not live in a meritocracy.
20:14 "Why doesn't his sister just make less money?" LOL
Dave was here saying that racism should be called out and stopped. But when people try to do that, he attacks them for trying to stop the racist.
The whole point of talking about racism as systematic, is that the laws don't need to explicitly mention race to have outcomes based on race. Dave's misunderstanding is so ass backwards he thinks it means the literal opposite of what it does.
Just to clarify what Rave Dubin was saying regarding black incarceration.. he makes the statement that blacks stay in jail LONGER for minor offenses and that you can link this to social economic variables, meaning they can’t make bail. Which is even more of a reason to end cash bail.
Dave Rubin... The same guy that when asked by David Pakman, "what would be your idea of a single-payer health care system?" Rubin replied with the definition of the individual mandate system.
Why am I not surprised?
Oh my goodness. I never need to hear Rubin ever again!
What is Dave Rubin doing a Q&A at Oxford?
Proof that the intelligence is going to hell
" ... (looking around the studio, stuttering) ... his inability even to maintain his own internal logic over the course of a sentence and a half is ... (eyebrows go up, mouth open, about to say something) ... almost artistic"
God, why do I love MR so much? This has to be a favorite quote right there.
I have dreams sometimes where I hear sam seder say "PAUSE IT! NOW WAIT A SECOND"
“Privileged shill falls upward.”
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell ya!
This is just an unfair critique. Some people are just limited and pathologically self absorbed. How can we really expect Dave to understand intellectually challenging concepts such as irony.
They just despise poor people. They hate them. They want them out. Outside the walls, please. They should clean the sewage and keep the windmills intact but please don't come close and don't ask for a decent life next to us. We're rich. We want other rich people around us. We want to enjoy our nice little spaces amongst each other. Isn't it great, Stuart. You are rich and I am rich and we're getting along so fine and isn't it a lovely day. The sun is out, we're sitting here comfortably surrounded by people that look like us and who carry enough money in their wallets to give us even more comforting feelings of security that we're gonna be all fine and rich and well dressed together. Oh, how swell. Imagine if they we're browner and had less money. Sitting here and sipping the same coffee, Stuart. I don't know about you, but I'd feel unsafe. They would start threatening us probably. Asking for some change. I mean, who knows. Can you bring me a new drink, please. And don't expect a tip. Work harder. But do it outside of my peripheral view. Ew, you poor swine.
I never get tired of good Rubin bashing
And i thought Trump couldn't speak english...
How do the students at Oxford see Dave as a credible voice? Considering his level of intellect, it is not an institution I would’ve thought would’ve had any interest in providing him with a platform.
Solid points Maj Rep!
"Jordan Petersons constructs are basically Libertarian" I've never got this impression in the slightest, could someone expand?
He seems to have a kind of simplistic view of the role of governance and the how's and why's of it. He thinks moving to a different state is a great solution, as if a million people can just disagree with Massachusetts laws and move to Vermont. There aren't enough jobs, housing, infrastructure, etc, to supplement that. It would crash the economies of both areas. The reality is that we have to deal with the problems and have as much oversight add possible without being overbearing. Allow the free market to work and respect the regulations that have been put in place as reactions to exploitative behaviors within the market. I wonder what his ideas are on money in politics because I think it's completely antithetical to a democratic system and we have ability with our advancements in communications to have fair representation in elections without having monies interests buying up all the air time. It leads to a kind of frenzied piranha atmosphere in election seasons and almost completely diminished the power of each vote and by extension us as voters become nearly powerless compared to those who direct money into politics.
Ironically, Rubin touted the efforts of the Wolf-PAC (An anti-lobbying PAC) while he was on TYT, now he works for the biggest perpetrators of corporate-election-meddling by far. The Kochs will reach all the way down to city council level races to keep their pollution farms running. It may be the truest statement one can make about our society when we dissect the impetus of a person like Rubin in turning his back on his own conscience and social-status in pursuit of coin.
This clown doesn't know the different between de jure and de facto. Even your basic first semester undergraduate knows that. FFS.
Don Burgundy
De Jure segregation is formal. Segregation mandated by authority.
P.S. Can Dave Rubin talk to ANYONE without trying to convince them that Democrats are responsible for stated Republican policies? These are BRITISH KIDS! What does he get out of talking shit about Democrats? Does he just have no ability to critically think beyond the two or three scripts he's memorized?
Firstly I can't believe that Dave was invited to the Oxford union. Clearly he was, I can't believe even more that 97 per cent of those kids didn't laugh their asses off at his transparent bullshit for the next 2 weeks.
War on drugs, instantly disproven.
Don't do drugs?
jon beatty come on dude he's history illiterate or he just blindly doesn't understand certain things were done in this country
Exactly, a former aide in in the Nixon administration admitted that one of the reasons for the war on drugs was to target the black community.
It was to target two communities, the black community and the hippy community
Theo Dixon
It couldn't possibly be that simple, could it? Lol.
Systemic =/= formal
9:35 “Well, he is dumb...”
Democrat controlled neighborhoods? Ferguson's mayor is a Republican and has been since before the Michael Brown shooting. What is he talking about?
How to argue like Rubin:
1.) Make a claim
2.) Make an argument for the opposite claim
Structural racism is a certainly a thing, but to be honest, when I meet American students who claim that racism is only about "systems and power, not about personal acts or beliefs" it blows my mind - where did American's make up this bizarre definition? Or worse, when they claim things like "I can't be racist because I'm black".
Please, my lovely Americans, you sound ridiculous when you say these things abroad.
You are literally strawmaning a minority of people with views most Americans disagree with black or white. To infer this is the view excepted by most is either disingenuous and daft
The rubster strikes again!!!
At first I thought that conservatives just weren't aware of their ignorance of concepts such as "systemic racism."
But after seeing the same dynamic play out time and again, there's no doubt that seasoned propagators just want to get "talking points" out to their conservative audiences. This works, as do most conservative debates, not by being truthful but by portraying unyielding confidence and ignoring facts and what anyone says.
I googled "Black Oxford Students" and the first result is an article by a white girl called "The real reason Oxbridge accepts so few black students". She goes on to say "The roots of the lack of diversity at Oxbridge lie not in institutionalised racism - as MP David Lammy would have us believe - but in the low education standards in deprived areas.
" She alludes that racism is over estimated and not part of the admissions process, at all. How can she be the first person in a google search on this subject?
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I hate.
I love watching Dave Rubin fail at life. I imagine that's why Sam Seder and Secular Talk are covering him so much recently
Conservative logic always boils down to this: if you try to do anything good, bad things will happen somehow. So just stop doing good things and purely act in your own self interest and good things will happen... Somehow.
5:37 beautiful definition of systemic racism.
Oxford uni is in Oxford. Duh! NOT London.
"Oxford University which I believe is in London, is that right?" oh lol, silly Americans. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which I believe is in New York, is that right?
TR0N Clean your room bucko
Calm down. He made a mistake. Something I'm sure you've never done.
And they say seppoes don't understand irony.
He corrected himself, damn. You never made a mistake?
Race, ethnic group, income level, and more. Some people have to deal with multiple issues. The whole system needs to be overturned.
14:37 - let's just clarify the real issue here. This is a guy whose intellect and education have failed to even enable him to understand how to pronounce (or likely spell) the word "anecdotal". The fact that he's speaking at Oxford is an embarrassment.
Dave Boobin
Great refutation of Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell here guys you really took them down.........................oh wait. There isn't one.
Dave admitted he was drunk during this speech because he went out for drinks in the morning with Nigel Farage lmao
Not like it makes that much of a difference though
Denies systemic racism, *proceeds to define systemic racism as part of his argument against its existence.*
To be fair, "systemic racism" does *sound* to most people like it refers to openly racist laws or written policy. It's a bad wording, at least for common speech. It's not useful to shit on Dave Rubin for being semantically ignorant when he agrees with the actual concept. Clarify the misunderstanding and move on.
w4fjhDU514I1 it's not bad wording. It's a failure of the education system that these people cannot understand such concepts and don't have the intellectual capability to even teach themselves.
If we start excusing everything as a bad term we place the burden on verified concepts to change because people are too stupid to understand them, rather than asking people to learn these concepts if they want to talk about them.
Avrysatos
Is that really a hill worth dying on? Our opponents are just too stupid for our profound ideas?
w4fjhDU514I1 Well your point is fair when it comes to the average person in the street. But Dave Rubin markets himself as somewhat intellectual and knowledgeable about these subjects. He has no excuse for not knowing such a basic basic concept.
We need short names to explain complex things, we do it all the time, but some people will willfully misinterpret the meaning in order to pander to their base. Others will do what Rubin does and be too lazy to look it up.
Matt Lamb
so Dave Rubin is too far left now? what a dark time to be alive
White privilege isn't an "excuse" for people's shortcomings, Matty, it's an explanation. Particularly applicable to yours.
As a Black person in Chicago , I do have to say , I don’t have to work a day.
Didn’t you guys know Obama hand delivers money to every black person in Chicago?
This is why I decided live a life of crime and own a gun. Because I get all my money from Obama.
I don't think Rubin even merits being spat at... much less this segment denouncing his disgusting idiocy.
Hmm, I'm white, about 20% below the poverty line, and rely on public housing type programs to not be homeless. Clearly... I'm actually black. Dave Rubin needs to spend a day in my shoes, complete with my daunting list of physical and mental conditions, and then tell me about how rent-stabilized housing is bad. Oddly enough, he does have the thinnest line of a point with the whole, "If they make a little more money, they'll lose their benefits" thing because that is actually a problem, as the cut-off for "too much money" is still well below living wage, nevermind that I CAN'T WORK. Some people, I swear.