Destroying the Fabric of Society - My Truth and Social Justice
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Justice and Truth, need no modifcation... however in their aggressive pursuit of a better society... many activists of today have forgotten history.
In the past, books and artwork were burned in piles... today the mob clamors for the demise of childrens shows and media entertainment. Any and every depiction of police as anything other than villainous has become "Entartete Kunst.
This pursuit is not noble, it is not Just, and is closer in kind to
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@Medx How many times are you gonna ask for that?
I agree that i hate cancel culture and think its gone too far in the sense that twitter is just lynching people for allegations but i also think why are we keeping up statues of known slave traders and confederate traitors yeah take them down because having those statues up negatively affects how people look at your community so yeah makes sense why protestors drag them down. but they should be in a museum not put up to honor them.
Those people built the country and the system currently allowing to post such a stupid opinion.
Like it or not, that is our past, those are our foundations: we should not disrespect the people that allowed us to be here today just because we disagree with them now.
Paw Patrol? Seriously? A kid's show? Ok this has been stretched a bit too far when you have to go after a kid's show that has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation.
I have a question for ya. What's up with that giraffe at the end of the video. why is that your outro?
_"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak to it."_
*~ George Orwell*
@Haitian Xu Your attempt at being deep and philosophical is pathetic and misdirecting. There's truth at least in our observable universe for example : Society order and justice needs common sense and intelligence to persevere and to exist in a stable state , Humans need sustenance to live and for their metabolism to work. Therefore if you observe animals behavior you will not find any society or semblance of stable order or even justice. Nor will you ever find a human that can persist without hydration or nutrition for eternity Your attempts at refuting the concept of truth is deeply illogical and quite frankly intellectually bankrupt.
@Dog Faced Pony Soldier That's probably because its ideas are directly drawn from the worst parts of the human illusion of control. People always feel better about a situation when they feel that they are in some way in control of something or contributing to something no matter how insignificant. This extends all the way to whichever people are currently in power, although they would deny it to their dying breath. And if you want to get high off control, you need to go all the way.
@@Reddotzebra the only real way of retaining any control in this world is to control what you do, everything else is able to be affected but never truly controlled. The faster people learn that truth the better.
@Haitian Xu your right about a few things, but wildly wrong in others. Humans need food to live, that is objectively true (it is 100% verifiable and reproducable hundreds of times). They also need air to live (also objectively true, can be verified 100% and reproduced hundreds of times). Gravity is also objectively true. All these things can be proven over and over to happen, and can be observed to happen in the same way everytime, maybe not exactly the same, but the results will always be the same, that is how we come up with truth. Now if we take into account society, yes all of it is subjective, people act irrationally, things change, and frankly people are stupid most of the time (myself included). But you can generally please a majority of people with specific ways of achieving justice (laws for example). We people decide laws, and can even decide how they are enforced, but I wouldnt ever stray to removing freedom, otherwise you'll find "subjective truth" can be as detriment as it is a strength.
@Haitian Xu yes there is. To be alive means your are an object that can reproduce and metabolise. You are converting energy into movement and mass. That is what makes you different from a rock. If you wish to test the truth of needing to breath, please be our guest.
This woman sounds like an absolute joy to work with, the kind of person that management quietly looks for an excuse to fire.
Well, if they weren't before they most certainly are now.
This kids is who we call a work Karen or Kyle.
She doesn't realize it now, but she is guaranteeing that she will never get another job. Ever.
When they fire her(when, not if) because she messes up thrice (because honestly, no one never makes any mistakes) she will never get any callbacks.
If she's lucky, someone might explain that no one will hire someone that does this kind of thing.
She'll then complain about discrimination and in a weird way she'll be right, but not for the reason she thinks: she'll be discriminated as a result of her behavior.
And if she's very lucky, she won't be fired from her current job for creating a hostile work environment.
Management usually doesn't have to look too hard with those people for insubordination or creating a hostile work environment.
Also the management that regrets giving her an interview in the first place.
*"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."*
- Henry Louis Gates
Companies choosing what not to broadcast on their platform is not an act of censorship. Censorship is incurred by other people preventing you from speaking, but no one owes you attention or the platform by which you seek it.
@@joshualane1716, Publisher or Platform
Telephone company vs Newspaper outlet
People have the right to Speak on a platform the only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. A true platform does not engage in these kinds of restraints, for a platform is not responsible (legally) for the content that is posted.
@@hydrogenone6866 correct, even more so when said "platform" gets countless millions in subsidies and grants from the taxpayers.
The only thing that separates a hero and monster is who wins the war, had the south won, the lynchings would have been just.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." CIA Director - William Casey
"Truth is not what you want it to be. It is what it is and you must succumb to its power, or live a lie" - Myamoto Musashi.
Musashi lived over 500 years ago... Boy, did he call it or what?
If you can figure out the truth. Just like history, truth is hard to determine and you must look at all viewpoints available with as little bias as possible. How many times has propaganda been presented as the truth only for people to find out decades or centuries later it was all a lie? The Truth is not as simple as people want to say it is.
@@weirdofromhalo That is a good statement
UEG's take is at least better than other people's takes that linger in radical right, but at the same time it gives me curiosity on WHAT is the point of view of the people he is mentioning, because,at least for me , he isn't "humanizing" those opinions either.
...well, truth doesn't get old ...
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@@AkelasanAK 🖖🏿 Amen. Words to live by. I hate repeating myself a lot of the time but I'm a broken record for when I feel like the widsom just needs a pickaxe approach
Just look how's she's acting over a small disagreement, an she wonders why no one hangs out an chills with her after work hours.
I actually lost a friend recently because of this. Couldn't handle multiple people disagreeing with her and calling out her ideals and flipped out.
When she is looking for employment in the future, prospective employers will see this very public display and determine (rightly) that she is very hard to get along with. When she has difficulty finding a job she will likely chalk it up to racism.
I have had employees like her before they are a problem from the start and they are the most difficult to get rid of once they are working for you because they will sue you over even perceived slights.
@@kurtheil4922 so basically speaking, you support hostile work environment if it's benefitial to you.
@@stupidpol They're saying it's like remove an absurdly dug in tick, if you don't remove it it'll kill you very slowly, but if you try to remove it, it will will dig in even further and cause even more damage immediately, even if you remove it in the moment it'll do about three years worth of damage.
If people feel that everyone they encounter is "racist", then why would you demand their acceptance?
Control.
A very good point.
Yes, used as an insult to defame others and control them.
The paw patrol puppy lmao whats going on
The woman complaining about harassment is the real toxic person. She's clearly not ready for the real world.
We had someone like this at work a while back. They got fired when the upper management noticed that they caused duress among the other employees.
word Aquaman - she is ... when you always look for the mean and bad in something - you will find it and even when you dont and keep looking you will make something up that something is bad. Even i myself fall into that trap sometimes that i think too much about it but i am able to "relativize" things after a good long shit so to say.
Feminist™: Raddaradda this that an the other yadayada
Man: *glares*
Feminist™: ASSAULT. ASSAULT!!!
She’s more successful than I will ever be. If only I were so petty as to kill myself in the face of such injustice.
do you know her personally?
“My truth” is sjws favorite words. Whats THE truth. Idgaf about your truth. Theres your story...my story...and THE story.
Ironically, the "truth" is also SJW's least favorite word because they got hit by reality check if their own truth backfired.
My truth also known as you’re probably wrong because it’s only theirs or their clique
To quote Jack Nicholson "You can't handle the Truth."
Relativize the absolutes and absolutize the relatives
@sir snoozel They'd never denounce their angels. They just want a side to be mad at, that's all anyone wants.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.
It sometimes seem that people are even eager to "forget" history in order to repeat the past mistakes as soon as possible. It´s not 100% accurate to say communism is back, but it´s close enough to use it as an example. Give or take few, 200 million people dead, and yet it´s not enough for a warning...
Indeed
The Red Guard were given explicit authorization to commit violence against “rightists” by CCP leadership in August 1966, initiating the Red Guard’s transformation into a revolutionary paramilitary group.[x] The police and military were simultaneously given direct orders by the Ministry of Public Security to “only [maintain] order” and use “peaceful means” to stop violent conflict.[xi] Sent to major Chinese cities, the Red Guard commenced a preplanned policy of class cleansing upon arrival. The unspecified nature of the “rightist” and “reactionary” threats resulted in the indiscriminate destruction of all things and people deemed non-Leftist (for instance through the ‘Destroy the Four Olds’ Campaign which targeted ‘old ideology, culture, habits and customs’). Other mass organizations originating from the propaganda and general atmosphere of the Cultural Revolution campaign joined in the destructive efforts.
sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2016/12/14/china-the-cultural-revolution/
All sides will be monsters at the end of the war, but the winner will paint their sun yellow and the trees vibrant and green in the dark of winter when it comes to recount the war.
Remember when truth was just truth? "My truth" is dangerous because is subjective.
Right. There's no "My Truth." There's your personal experience. There's your personal interpretation. But there's only one truth.
I don't remember a time when truth reigned. Not sure if there ever was paradise.
Truth has never been true. Everything you know to be true is colored by human observation so if you read it you don't know its true. Even if you see it you don't know its true. Every bit of information you consume has a human touch. This is why we need to seek out multiple opinions and find the middle ground.
*loses a competition*
"Well, my truth tells me that I actually won."
"Oh. I guess it's okay then."
@Haitian Xu Science, mathematics, and social experimentation across hundreds and thousands of years.
"An empire toppled by it's enemies can rebuild again, but one that crumbles from within, that's dead" Zemo: Captain America Civil War
Well Zemo was wrong he didn't kill the Avengers forever.
@@emberfist8347 No. Zemo was right. It was just that the effect he was hoping to achieve was not permanent, it was only temporary.
Well, he was right. He was an outward force trying to destroy them. He was ultimately responsible, you can blame Bucky, you can blame Cap’s lie, you can blame Stark’s ego and emotion, but ultimately, an outward force was responsible for sending Bucky on the mission, and it was only revealed to Tony by an outward force.
The point I was trying to make with this comment was that Zemo's words and thinking from Captain America Civil War have a similar connection with what is going in the world today.
Say it how it is: any modifier to justice is an injustice. Therefore social justice, is by definition, injustice.
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"My Truth" is not actually the Truth, and "Social Justice" is not Real Justice.
@Haitian Xu I disagree with the notion that objective truth doesn't exist. For example, an objective truth could be that 1 + 1 = 2, there is nothing subjective about that. That is a fact that cannot be disputed.
@Haitian Xu - Loser..... I guess you don't breathe.... that's just some people's "truth". What a dumbass "my truth" that you labor under.
@Haitian Xu Gravity doesn't exist.
I wonder what Social Justice actually means or better yet what you think it means.
Fostering a just society doesn't seem that bad to me
@@maxb2244 Gravity is a terrible example. If we use Aristotle as a starting point (which it honestly probably predates him), it took the human race more 2,400 years to reach our current scientific understanding of gravity, and it still remains incomplete. I struggle to think of a scientific concept that has undergone more revisions.
"If People don't like you, they don't have to." Thanks for stating that. I really hate it when people try to be liked just for the sake of being liked.
I hope that people who support the idea that an allegation alone is enough reason to "cancel" a person will get into that situation themselves and learn how this feels.
tbh I think some of this culture is going to start making individuals targeted by it commit suicide...
They won't learn or "SEE". These ppl truly believe they have done nothing wrong.
@@AshnSilvercorp already been a few, one of Anitas friend's did that to a guy last year.
@@lonelobo-bh9ps Unfortunately, alot of these people are aware of their wrongdoings, but they refuse to admit to them or their personal faults. It's not out of ignorance, but out of fear that this Mob Justice continues to exist
@@AshnSilvercorp Im sure some already have. Due to social media, it is almost impossible to hide from allegations.
You don't have to respect everyone. Tolerate, yes. But if I don't agree with how you behave yourself, I don't have to listen to you, interact with you, or respect you. Yes, you're here too, but that doesn't automatically mean I have to respect you too. This is what gets us into trouble, saying that everyone's opinion has the same value, and that you should respect everyone despite their actions.
Odd from what ı learned from around me and my faimly we have the thought of respect everyone until they do or say something disrespectfull if they do still be act respectfull (because dealing with bad with bad is bad and sstuff like that) but you don't have to respect them
But theres also the problems with definition because to some people respect means slightly different means like in Vikipedia it says something in the lines of allowing people to practice and do their religions cultures ideas etc assuming they aren't evil or ill intended
While in some other google search it said it as admiring someone which is kinda similar but in its core its something different
Extend basic courtesy to everyone, respect is earned. Exploiters try to conflate respect with courtesy and tolerance.
Everyone deserves courtesy unless they prove that they don't, but respect is earned and shouldn't be given for free.
@@GodActio I guess I could have just read your comment great minds think alike I guess.😅
Fully agree
Can you imagine the privileged life someone must live in order to consider this sexist and racist?
This is a very intelligent young man. I'm probably old enough to be his mother but I really enjoy his social commentary, he gives me hope for today's youth. I hope his parents appreciate him.
It never ceases to amaze me just how akin to the Nazi's these people are.
They call themselves antifacist, they don't even know what fascism is.
Fortunately i know how to defeat both.
Please tell me how like the nazis they are.
I mean, you are the ones arguing that it was wrong to take down Hitler's statues all over europe because they are "historical" and people are forced to maintain monuments to bad people with their tax dollars.
Rafael Neumann did you not watch the video? You see all these shows and monuments under scrutiny or being flat out cancelled or destroyed which is exactly what nazis did. And maybe I just haven't seen it yet, but I've heard nobody in this comment section say that we should've kept the statues of Hitler. I think you are just trying to be angry right now and just blocking out all other opinions. It's in your right to do so, but it is not healthy to you as a person.
@@rafaelneumann8365 I dont think there are any statues of Hitler... But if there are any they are probably in a museum. Regardless, if they made a statue of him; a historical figure I would even advocate not to tear that one down either. Then again if we erect a statue over here in Europe it tends to be of figures who we know alot about. We get taught in school who these figures are and if there is a context around a statue it tends to have a plaque or signs next to it explaining to people who and/or what it is about.
You gain nothing by defacing or destroying statues and (probably) the only goal of it is to destroy history or alter peoples perspective of it. Because the people who are doing this dont like to think about these things that happend in the past.
History belongs to us all. We cant change it and if we dont educate people on it (warts and all) then the mistakes made in the past will just be repeaten over and over. If you dont know the past you cant learn from it.
If you touch a nation's statues you are touching its history. These vandals are defacing and attempting to destroy something that belongs to the people. If they dont like the statues or want the narrative around them changed they can do it via the proper channels; probably the city council. What these people are doing is a horendous crime and the fact that so many people are cheering this on disgusts me... It is no way different from the Nazi book burnings or the beeldenstorm (image storm I guess to the english speaking people?) that happend in the middle ages.
At a friend's recommendation, I'm currently reading The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The series has several very relevant philosophies in the form of the Wizard's Rules. The two most applicable ones (so far, I just started book 10 of 11) are the sixth and tenth.
"The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists, what is, is and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced. Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death."
-Goodkind, Terry. Faith of the Fallen (US Hardcover ed.). p. 319.
"Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self."
-Goodkind, Terry. Phantom (US Hardcover ed.). p. 12.
This is the essence of scientific study. Human senses and simplistic reason (what "makes sense" or is "obvious" to casual observation) are inadequate. The tools and methodology of science allow us to discover what is objectively true, even if it goes against what we perceive or believe to be true.
The sky isn't blue, red, or any other color. It only appears so because of the way light interacts with our atmosphere and the impurities in it. Our planet appears to be stationary, with the sun moving around it like the moon, but that isn't true either. Solid matter appears to be whole and unmoving, but is in fact full of empty space and only held together by the fundamental forces of the universe.
On another note, if you haven't read the Wheel of Time series, that's another good one.
Ah Faith of the fallen. The best book in the series and one that was once described to me as Richard Rahl vs. Communism
There’s something just so scummy to me to have all these personal conversations and discussions, and essentially dealing with it in private like you should, and then preceding to dump onto the internet when it becomes expedient to your career. It wasn’t even that bad, she just sees an opportunity to get ahead by destroying her cohorts. It honestly makes me nervous to get into the entertainment industry in any form, because you can be nuked at anytime for any transgression.
I love how you had rome playing in the background, reminds me of another Empire drunk on its power spiraling out of control
Likely intentional
Who knew SJW and Cards Against Humanity are two things that don't go together?
I know right?!?
I had the same happen when I worked at a retail store. I told a girl she looked nice, a coworker, and I was openly gay. She filed a sexual harassment report the next evening.
I left the next week because the ladies I worked with refused to speak to me on shift, even when the store was empty.
there is no skirting around it anymore, people feel morally right being buttholes to people. They claim to care about people's identity for who they are and then proceed to tear down a homosexual or black person just because they gave an individual thought...
AshnSilvercorp I think it’s literally that people have started to feel the draw of social power and influence and think they’re entitled to some fraction of it. People are using the protests to incite riots, while others are using the same to “cancel” people just for their continued existence, and yet if you really think about it, no one is using any of it for national reform, just for their own personal gain.
My coworker likely didn’t want me around because she found my sexual identity displeasing and used her good standing to make my professional life hell. I can guarantee she got my hours when I left (I had an associate who was hired soon after I left tell me so. She didn’t last long there either.)
@@AshnSilvercorp There is a story of white "BLM" members chasing and trying to beat up a black cop. Figure that one out.
This wan an incredibly well made video. You have really outdone yourself. Just a couple of days a go, A friend I have had for 12 years, disowned me from his life, because I wouldn't support the actions of BLM. He wouldn't even listen to what I had to say. Society falls apart when we are no longer able to just sit down and talk.
I've had at least three people remove themselves from my life since Floyd was killed. A few more over my support of Trump, one of whom was my girlfriend at the time, and another one after the Parkland, FL shooting.
Leftists certainly are the tolerant ones.
the true friend wont do that stuff, cuz u both have same opinions, no offense, this can differ. As an old proverb says: "tell me who your friend is, and ill tell you who you are"
Had the same happen to me, friend of 5 years. Apparently calling out the riots for being garbage and how systemic racism by the stats cannot be proven makes you a ‘Trump cultist’. The best part about his tripe, is that he said “you are on the wrong side of history” Like a good little SJW. Wtf, that’s some real communist shit you just spewed there. The worst part? I still care for him because I know it’s just lies he is trained to say by CNN.
@@convergence1point After the Parkland, FL shooting, I advocated for waiting until the facts came in to see if a change in the law was warranted. I was told that I was an emotionless robot who wanted more dead kids because I didn't immediately support gun grabs. And when I say immediately, I mean immediately. It was less than 24 hours after articles and videos started coming out and the investigation had barely even started. This was from someone who I'd known in-person for around 5-6 years at the time, and he hasn't spoken to me since.
@@SevenDayGaming Yeah,. no. I'll go to Tim Pool or Dave Rubin for my liberal perspectives thanks, been to the Hill, it's pretty tripe too. Must have triggered you pretty good, if you are defending CNN. If a liberal like Tim Pool thinks CNN is trash, then it's trash. The old joke of Communist New Network stands strong for a reason.
I'm so glad I listened and read the comments. As a 58 year old privileged poor white male I was beginning to believe there was no one left to fight for the truth. My kids and grandchildren love gaming. Thank you all so much. I will sleep tonight knowing someone is willing to speak the truth.
There was a time when I thought every person who looked wrongly at me or laughed, was making fun of me. The whole world revolved around me and therefore everything in the world related to me, for good or bad. Everyone should accommodate me and make me the centre of their existence.
I was about five years old, I think.
Funny how some people never seem to grown up.
this video comforts me a bit. I been feeling lonely and frustrated, being super highly criticized for merely being skeptical about some things.
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Innocent until proven guilty." I still believe in this and until a court says anything differently that is what matters for me.
Just as Alfred said to Bruce Wayne in the Dark Knight Rises: "It's time we quit running from the truth and let it have its day." I could stand behind any cause for greater equality, but we can't succeed if cold, hard truths are not factored into the solutions!
The one cold, hard, truth that the SJW crowd never accepts is that no matter what they accuse other people of, they have blood on their hands too.
@@Reddotzebra Right. And they have done far more harm than good.
I'm bisexual. I cannot understand, for the life of me what they are doing.
One of the things they do that urks me is this idea that my sexuality is this "identity." I can't wrap my head around that. How did that become an identity? Of all the things to define yourself as, we're going to go with whether you prefer cock or pussy? Really?
That's not an identity! And to sit there and say that children's cartoons now have to acknowledge LGBTQ people or else LGBTQ people will feel "marginalized" and "Invisible." Dude, you are asking for approval from a 5 YEAR OLD!!! You want to feel accepted? Try having friends your own age!
But I guess it's easier to manipulate people when make it an identity. Now you can make a case for how that person has to behave. You want to support gay rights? Vote democrat. You can't be a Christian because they had a history of antigay attitudes.
Well, f- that! I'm a conservative and I'm a Christian. In fact, I rather my identity be about things that I chose, than the things that I didn't.
And yes, it is perfectly compatible with being gay and being a Christian. Sort of. Christianity is NOT about being natural. It never was.
@@TheRisky9 I dont deny them the ability to have an identity, just that others have to accept that identity, it's like batman saying people have to accept him as batman. He has two identities, and can be either one, you dont have to respect either for him to still be a person. Identity is for you, not for others lol.
I'm for equality. I'm not for violence, arson or thievery. I will fight to the bitter end for your right to protest but I will stand against violence, arson and thievery. People have every right to protest, not to riot.
@@digitaldevil7522 Well said, and I agree 100%... Did you know that 9000 rioters and looters were arrested, and also still to this day we see peaceful protests.
I am terrified for the future of our species.
Don’t worry. People are much smarter now. With things like cameras and internet. We just have to be braver. Use words carefully, choose our words carefully, and be willing to accept humility in all its forms.
This video perfectly articulates the red flags and sirens constantly sounding inside my head regarding the distortion of truth and justice that I couldn't quite put into words. Pure gold.
Absolutely agree. I find it real difficult to understand how these people don't see how what they're doing is harming more than helping by a long shot. Then I remember that a lot of these people probably know that and still don't care because they are ignorant, selfish, narcissistic, and morally inferior. Everyday lately it seems like their stranglehold on the culture grows stronger, but I'm hoping that isn't the case. Thank you for putting this video out. It's important.
Wow that was the first time I've heard "don't skip" before an ad and actually listened.
next time you hear someone shouting my truth and the likes of that, go up to them and ask them: "are you saying that to me, or to yourself?"
Could you imagine employing these people? The tender care you would have to use on a daily basis.
You mean HR nightmares
Videos like these are why I like this channel so much. Actually relevant social commentary rather than just whining about evil publishers, like some other TH-camrs
You wouldn't believe how refreshing it is to see videos like this. Virtue signaling plagues the site in every corner. People just falling in line, societal pressure all around and people just straight up shamed in to submission. Brigading dissent and corporate censorship of art in the name of justice. It's a difficult time and it seems like there's no escape, no hobby or passion is safe. The thought police is out in full force. Stay safe and do not give in.
After reading "The Coddling of The American Mind" I now have a framework to explain behaviors like these. I highly recommend everyone read it.
Finally somebody willing to say the words that A lot of people need to hear
This insanity has to stop.
People tarring everybody with the same brush is the exact way that civilizations fall.
Keep telling THE truth brother, keep saying what needs to be said, eventually people will hear
Just ignoring bullies never ever made them go away.
Fuckin'ay! This is why I'm so worried about things that have come to pass recently. The death of social discourse is the death of agency, and free will. If we can't be free to disagree. If we can't be free to observe, or choose. We decapitate ourselves. We lose the opportunity to grow, and evolve. The truth sets us free, and justice emboldens even the weak to pursue the truth. I hope we can see the fault in these things clearly enough to remedy the fallacy. We won't last long if we can't come to our senses, and be allowed to speak with honesty, empathy, and truth. It will always be the path of least resistance, and the path to salvation, and retribution. Be safe, be happy, and be honest.
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Too Far’ is really the right way to put it. You said it right dude
Since we're at German phrases anyway, here's a quote from Heinrich Heine:
"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
~ "That was only a prelude, where books are burnt, people will be burnt eventually."
Oh, one thing I do want to point out, your poll is lacking one answer.
Neither is "No, they grow and learn" accurate to what I think, nor is "Only if proven completely".
I think that noone should be cancelled in the way we talk about. *If* they are guilty, they should be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law, and not cancelled by the social media hivemind.
Bravo to you sir....this is what needs to be said, again and again. We are (as a society) far too ignorant of history, for the lessons of where this leads are entirely clear, and terribly frightening.
As always you make amazing points. Thank you for the work you do.
Have to agree, and I'd add that those aren't the only polluted terms in circulation right now. "Systemic racism" leaps out rather forcibly at the moment. Racism is racism, regardless of who's doing it to whom, and it doesn't need to be coming from societal institutions in order to be a bad thing. Once you make it "systemic" though, now nothing is free of the accusation and it removes any possibility of an institution being a good thing or even a necessary evil at worst. Worse, it ignores when bad people game a system in order to be bad people. Seems to me that labeling something "systemic" is just a means to self-justify a desire to destroy that thing, regardless of how many people would be harmed by doing so, and try to escape culpability for that damage.
I don't comment often on video's, but I just wanted to say that your video's are always my favorites to watch. Especially when you comment on these social issues, you are a voice of reason amidst the enraged screams of the perpetually offended.
So thank you for these well reasoned videos.
Ironically enough i've been calling the social justice movement 'societal braincancer' and earlier today compared their actions to the nazi regime... and then i find your video drawing even clearer lines. Love your vids, keep up the work
A very simple, and true phrase, provable time and time again. "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."
That's because the things from the past that we'd like to not repeat are generally built upon what comes preinstalled in our brains, the knowledge of what went wrong last time are akin to software patches...
Well said. These are the kind of words I’ve been looking for myself. I mean, I consider myself a fairly liberal person and I totally agree that this has gotten way out of hand.
Same. I live on the left of the political spectrum and I hate being lumped in with this shit. This kind of stuff is largely hated by anyone who isn't on the extremes of the spectrum.
@@PJBonoVox Exactly!
History also teaches us very important lesson, the one you didn't mention. And that is, you don't talk to people like these, instead, you slay them, brutally without hesitation. The notion that everything or even anything can be accomplished by going through "communication channels" is exactly the reason why we are living in the state of the world we currently live in. When you attempt to talk to corrupt people, they send their people to talk to you. And you talk and talk and talk for days, months, years and centuries. And so you get idea that something is changing, something is being done and it has effects. No it doesn't and no its not. While you talk to their people they sent to talk to you, all supervised under their made laws, legislation and rules, they still do everything they want behind your back and nothing is really changed besides the change in the way they want for everything to go. While you waste all that time talking to one hydras head, the other heads ravage. The solution is in taking the sword and cutting all the heads.
Bwahaha!
“And BEFOREYOUSKIP!”
Made me chuckle.
Another more subtle method of book burning we are seeing in mass, is deconstruction of favorite characters in movies and games. So taking a loved IP or character and writing them out of the story or making them over into pathetic images so you can replace them with characters who reflect the new ideology.
"I have a dream! That my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin, but by the content of their character!" - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr would be horrified by what the Left are doing today.
There seems to be a lot of people that are so ultra focused on race (or other individual characteristic) that literally everything in their life revolves around their personal warped view of how people are supposedly treating them because of their race, gender, sexuality etc. when they are actually just having regular interactions with others who have no notion that those things are involved in any way whatsoever. Madness.
First they came for the racist, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a racist.
Then they came for politicians, and I did not speck out,
because I was not a politician.
Then they came for the Nazis and Fascist, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a Nazi, nor a Fascist.
And then they came for me, - and there was no one left to speak for me.
Minneapolis has 55 million dollars in property damage
In my experience I’ve seen more “racist conservatives” help out those black business than BLM and the whole alphabet of liberal organizations
If we are working off the premise that 'they' came for these groups as they are defined, I have no idea why any of these groups would speak for us in the first place if we did not belong in to these groups. If we are working off the premise that 'they' are blindly and incorrectly labeling people these things, then presumably they came for us when they came for these other groups, not after. Let's be a little more principled than this.
@@ihatejasonfu It's clearly a play on a classic quote from the holocaust. People can fall outside of those groups and still be targeted later. Hispanics for instance could later said to be "too conservative" or "too white passing" one day if trends continue. Just like the nazis or stalinists, this movement is a tyranny of a minority on the larger society, and it starts by picking on other smaller groups then morphs into something that consumes just about everyone, even those initially in that original 'in group'.
@@JCDenton3 Thanks for the civil response in a time where we're lacking such. I'm aware of the quote origins, but I find fault in extending that analogy to the groups in question- especially since one of the groups in question ironically shares the authoritative ideology that lead to the birth of the original quote. I don't think the quote maintains legitimacy if one just substitutes any group into that quote, and stretch what it means to 'come for' someone from state violence to societal inconveniences (albeit harsh ones). Because that last sentence just doesn't ring particularly true anymore. The enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend. But perhaps the poster was just purposefully trying to be ironic. Sometimes it's hard to tell.
And they do wonder why the legitimate cases gets to go unnoticed or gotten away.
If anyone has ever seen The Hateful Eight, the monologue from Tim Roth's character about "Frontier Justice" comes to mind.
That's what I've said about the concept of "social justice" all along.
i absolutely hate the angry mob that jumps out over an accusation. in my eyes everyone is innocent until proven otherwise.
Exactly.
This situation reminds me of an old proverb: You can lean on bayonets, but you can't sit on them.
I always heard “you can build a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long”
"my truth" is another redefinition of truth to be subjective and not objective. "truth is subjective" is a self-refuting statement because it is an objective claim. it falls on itself and naturally, self-destructs anything it touches.
Gaming has become a direct front in the nascent conflict that we are experiencing, you don't have to look very hard to realize that things are being changed very quickly, in very abrupt ways, and that you are required to support it, or else; The Last of Us 2 is an apex example of this trend. We're well over a decade past the 'representation' argument being remotely valid, now we're straight up saturated with it, title after title of non-stop gender and woke activism; social propaganda normalizing the activist ideologies of those running these studios.
Generally, people understand historic pop-cultural quotes with something of a dull-eyed myopia... The apocryphal Sinclair Lewis quote, for example, about how "when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" was directed at a 1930's Depression-Era American zeitgeist. It meant, given the dominant social values of the age - that fascism would cloak itself in whatever beautifully idealistic dogma most appealing to that expression of American culture. People today uncritically read the quote to mean cross - flag - fascist, and so have uncritically focused their ire in that direction to the exclusion of all others. The problem being, the warning is meant to illustrate that emotive social ideals are the ideal mechanism for opportunistic and coercive political movements to seize power. This is what is happening today. All around us. Yet no one seems to care because the utopian promise of the lie is too compelling - it simply can't be questioned - and thus becomes a fallacious but powerful social litmus test.
Whoever is brazen enough to level criticism of the ignorantly woke are systematically attacked and berated. Read Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals and Eric Hoffer: The True Believer... It's all there.
I agree with you 99%. The only part where I think I might deviate from what you said, is if I would consider these people actual protesters. I consider this group of people to be "rioters", in a literal and metaphorical way. They are simply over-reacting because they can and have a platform to do so. This completely discredits the good work that the actual protesters are doing, and I think you pointing this out is perfect. I know you didn't speak on that specifically, but It certainly has some similarities.
"you turned her against me!!!"
"You have done that yourself!"
This creature is just one example. Imagine how many like her are portrayed as being genuine when they were in fact over sensitive and has caused others to pay the price for their being over sensitive. This kind of BS is caused by HR depts which have far too much power and authority.
Well said.. Reminds me of the witch hunts in the late 1600's.
Very well said. I’m very worried about where these concepts will take us.
Y'know it's a common phrase that what people fear the most is what they actually understand the least. Why do you fear the concept of: 'social justice and progress' over the banality of dark age: 'traditions' of which have systemically oppressed and lead millions upon millions of innocent vulnerable people world-wide dead? No please tell me why your full on 1984 disliking an entire concept; that's not logical? It's dogmatic and dangerous.
also im so glad you used a roman themed game cuz its funny to think that there is a possibility that we can fall just like Rome so thanks its awesome that you put that in even if you didn't think of that
Thank you. This is like one of those videos that should just be shown in schools, nowadays.
I’ve been following and watching upper echelon gamers content for about a year now. Whenever I do, i have come to expect a level of quality, professionalism and thought out reason. Watching this episode I have not been left in wanting... Upper E delivers again a reasoned, researched and article point of view that even IF you disagree with you cannot fault its merit. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next rambling... ;-)
That's the problem, the people who are campaigning for their 'truth' and social justice will fault the merit, they will denounce any and all points and evidence that you present to attack and belittle you. Whether it's on gender, race, beliefs or any form of minority, if you even slightly disagree with them then you will be attacked. There is no middle ground, no room to compensate, it's their way unequivocally or your an enemy. You deserve to be segregated and oppressed because your beliefs do not match with theirs. Ironic right? All this does is further the divide between minorities people pretend so much to want to include and the rest. Talks should definitely be had. I think I can comment as I belong to the disabled minorty so I have some idea of what it is like to be prejudiced based on physical appearance or predetermined stereotypes. It sucks. You know what sucks even more? When someone jumps in and berates the person who judged me as that person will be less likely to engage with me further. Rather than use the opportunity to educate and slowy work towards a better, more accessible and accepting world there is now a gap because someone's social justice has turned them off.
Fantastic video, I'm in the UK and the export of this attitude from the USA has seen 3 shows removed from streaming services and statues of a black poet and Winston Churchill being defaced under the guise of social justice. I have no idea how this is going to end but I can't see it being happy.
Twitter is a cesspool that should be avoided but to my limited knowledge, the Paw Patrol thing was originally meant as a meme. Twitter, in of itself, is a joke.
"Twitter is a cesspool" should be code for us who understand what a mess that place has become, and that it really should have been put away a long time ago, and public remarks on it really shouldn't be held against people to the same levels of acting upon it unless serious illegal stuff is happening...
I'm glad I only heard about it as a high schooler and never ended up getting one. Cause if I did I'm certain someone would have clipped something I said and would harass me with it...
As someone who always enjoyed studying history, I find myself more than a little concerned that the period of time we are living in right now, will not be properly documented for future generations to read about and learn from. When large groups so violently appose even the mention of a positive image toward police, how can we be certain that wont negatively influence the way the facts surrounding these events are told in the history books? Honestly there is so much madness going on, from so many fronts; The political, the economic, the global, and the social, I wonder how much of it will be lost in the mix. Even in our modern age of the internet, where the truth is readily available for those willing to seek it out, we still see alarming numbers of people who choose ignorance. Would it even matter if we document it all? Maybe im just rambling at this point. Either way this kinda stuff scares me.
Sad but true, especially now in 2024, of course!
Gotta thank TH-cam's biases for censoring this video's reach..
What do you mean? Is it possible to tell whether it's being pushed down?
@@PJBonoVox with how cryptic TH-cam is now there's no exact way to tell. But they have admitted to taking content down that they don't agree with, even if it isn't written in their TOS.
Upper Echelon is not even a gaming channel anymore. So much deep talk we have here, is like a special agent undercover inside this crazy world we ive in.
She's just out of money and going around to anyone who knelt previously. It's similar to a mob protection racket.
No better way to repeat history than destroy and ignore it.
Thank you for including the name of the game being played in video. This is a pet hatred of mine, that videographers do not include the name of a game that I may find interesting, yet cannot find because they did not supply the damn name anywhere. Not in video, not in the info bar, not in a comment. It is infuriating. On this occasion I was aware of the game being shown, but on many, many occasions I have not and have been left to desperately scramble, sometimes for months, trying to find out what game that was. Frankly, TH-cam should issue automatic strikes to anyone failing to clarify the name of the game being shown in-video. Just kidding. Maybe...
I'm 100% with you re: the content of the discussion. In the larger picture, we need to act now before we lose our countries as we have come to know them, and not for the better as in free of racism and other Utopian fairytales we are sold. We will be forced to live in Marxist nightmares. But I know you understand this as well as anyone.
'Act' means different things for different people according to their spheres of influence. But the time for sitting on the sidelines muttering and quietly giggling while the madness passes by, taking with it a little bit more of our liberty, is over. The time to make a stand is now, damnit.
Every time Sarkeesian speaks up about something, it seems overwhelmingly likely to me that she's simply run out of money or clout, and needs to stir up some more muck from the bottom of the pond of public opinion.
That's it...time to download RYSE: Son of Rome again.
Even if people tear down historical statues, these historical figures have achieved historical immortality and will never be erased.
They want to erase all bad things from history like trying to erase the fact Chernobyl was gonna happen the big wigs literally wanted to do that.
Interesting essay, but it has a small flaw.
"The Truth" can be objectively evaluated, but justice can not.
It depends on your specific cultural and mental framework, and changes from group to group.
This means that a capital J "Justice" can not exist.
Don't forget that there are places it this world where you can get stoned to death for public hand holding, and an overwhelming majority of people are A-OK with it, and perceive it as just.
And a PS:
No matter how well you researche your topics, they'll alway be "your truth", as there is no way for you to obtain and objectively evaluate every single relevant (now there's another topic XD) fact. So "The Truth" definitely exists, but is something impossible for us to obtain in any matter more complex than "who stole Johnny's apple".
That just... like... your opinion, man. *shrugs*
@@shanegrayson7068 XD
Live PD was not cancled purely due to the current issues with police, but more due to the fact they destroyed video evidence(legally) of a man in police custody being choked to death and A&E are the ones who pulled it for now with plans to come back.
I just want to say thank you. I keep trying to think of an eloquent way to say it but I don't think it's necessary, so just thank you.
This video is literally 100% fact, and it does reflect on how I think how social justice was used, by some certain select people that abused it to the point of being as you have explained, warped into a dark representation of what it should be. It's just fraudulent and wrong. I call those sorts of people that abuse social justice, social justice abusers rather than warriors, because quite frankly, this is how those select people are using it.
What Societhy ?
The functuional basis of human species is already been broken
Now now, respect should not be given to anyone, as respect is earned.
MGS 2 predicted this
this
1984, Animal Farm, Bioshock, even Star Wars predicted this crap.
as someone whose whole career was in software development, I am SO glad that I retired a few years ago.
Remember when this channel was only about gaming news? Me neither.
thank you for saying this.
I'm quite literally done with 2020 and what people have done. I'm getting to the point where me being egged on just because I'm white is genuinely making me feel like I want to die. I already feel depressed enough in life.
Reverse racism is still racism. Please act like a human... I'm human too...
Excellently articulated, as usual. Troubling times indeed.
Nice! You got ads in this one, watched them all. I like hearing you discuss mainstream social issues.👍👍
Making Whole
The Fabric of Society
Collective Consciousness controls what you will see.
MGR soundtrack is very appropriate for these times.
I honestly could not have said it better myself. Thank you for having the balls to put this out there.
Americans with their constant pandering raised their own equivalent of taliban.
"If people dont like you, they dont have to." Fucking. THANK YOU.