Got a chance to take 1 of his class at PSU. I didn't engage alot but he is a nice teacher that likes challenge us to think critically about our beliefs.
@@ngapik6985 Ya I took 1 class and was like this dude is awesome and took 3 more. I’m surprised he lasted so long at PSU but glad he found a better place to teach.
@@ngapik6985 Few things better than a smart professor who is more interested in the critical thinking of his students than shilling for some political dogma.
THIS SPEECH IS BRILLIANT. These 40 minutes should be required viewing for anyone who is not fully aware of the core ideas and the machinations of the social justice ideology and its adherents. It's concise, clear and terrifyingly accurate.
@@DavidHeffron78 so what? Not enough people have even realized this stuff is so bad. His voice is a reasonable one. His message doesn't have to be particularly complex or new to anyone paying attention. It does have to be smart enough to challenge the morons who are paying attention and guilty of what he's speaking against, and smart enough to simply convey to normies what's happening. He's good at both of those things.
how do you reconcile clear thinking with him just lying and changing what he's saying depending on who he's talking to? I don't care one way or another about his message, but to me he just seems like a failed academic trying to find a grift.
@@DavidHeffron78 Perhaps you can identify the talking point, explain what you find wrong with it (and why) and suggest an alternative way of understanding the phenomena discussed here.
"Nobody will be forthright, for fear of losing speech rights, which ironically, they have already given up." Is one of the most profound enunciations of truth I have heard in years.
I'm in awe. Peter's work (along with the work of his peers at New Discourses) should be required reading in every high school and university in the land. The fact that it's not tells me that we really are living through an Orwellian nightmare.
That's the worst part of it all: Social Justice "principles" are always applied very selectively. It's a way of creating conditions under which they can do/say anything they want... while your choices are limited to obey or be beaten down. Take "inclusion" for example. It's not even that no one is allowed to say anything that might offend ANYONE (caps for emphasis, not anger)... it's that no one is allowed to offend CERTAIN very specific GROUPS. You can say any vile, hateful thing that comes to mind about whites, men, heterosexuals and the "cis-gendered". Hell, you can even go so far as to openly call for violence against those groups and not only will they not bat an eye, they may well praise you for it!
Oh, it's gone beyond just being white, cisgendered, hetero, or male. These people have been attacking and excommunicating anyone who doesn't agree with them. POC's are considered race traitors, women are claimed to be indoctrinated by the patriarchy, and everyone else has been labeled the opposition. It's disgusting, and most never noticed it was happening because they were able to hide their bigotry back in the early days. Today, they don't obfuscate these actions anymore. These people are now zealots to their ideology.
@@alexkennard2422 Guillotines showing up in demonstrations, and online memes. AS IF everyone doesn't know that by the closing of the French Revolution, which had some legit anti-monarchy views, so many of the originators were jailed killed or guillotined including Robespierre. And Jefferson almost got killed for speaking out as critical of the excess gratuitous violence against Royalty.
The scary truth of this comment is what saddens me. I've seen these social justice advocates beat down white people for holding an opinion against theirs. But what happens when I hold the same opinion? They try to understand me, simply because I am not white but a POC. The fact that my opinion on a topic holds more credibility in the eyes of these people, because I am not white, is disgustingly unjust.
Regarding words being seen as "violence", I imagine that how one thinks about words could impact how one's brain responds to them (same thing could even apply to real violence). We already know that cognitive behavior therapy can influence brain function in disorders like panic disorder. So, if we define things in the most catastrophic way possible (words are violence!), it's psychologically bad for us since it can make us less resilient and more prone to being needlessly more severely affected by things. As Jonathan Haidt pointed out, cognitive therapy is about interpreting things in a more accurate and self-helping way (at least it used to be), making them less catastrophic rather than more. Let's reduce the negative impact words have on us by defining them in a way that let's us preserve resilience, freedom of thought and real social justice!
The "violence" done that they refer to is the discomfort you experience when encountering views and ideas you disagree with. The woke insist that they have the right to not encounter dissenting opinions. It's pathetic and anethema to higher learning. Normally a Communist revolution is led by intelligencia and fortified by the uneducated. The colleges have become places where the intelligencia indoctrinate their students into principled ignorance. College is the culmination of the indoctrination along with cultivation of intellectual laziness engendered into students beginning in grade school. Teacher's colleges were the first colleges to embrace critical theory and send out graduates to indoctrinate children and then those students insisted the colleges accomodate their views. Now it's everywhere and I can't see how it can be defeated.
@@jaik195701 yeah, one of the "cognitive distortions" in cognitive behavior therapy. It seems like those who adhere to critical theory tend to buy into a lot of them. Since they don't value rationality, you can't call them out on it, either. So gross to see lol
I'm a psychotherapist at a university and I'm seeing exactly this in the students. I find they are being encouraged to engage with what we call "cognitive distortions" and basically as therapists we try and undo those maladaptive thinking patterns (often to no avail unfortunately as the tutors encourage this type of thinking).
This happened to my 55 year old friend. She put her arm / hand across neck / back area of a male friend. He was distressed. He had just done a tragic death notice of a child for a regional newspaper (2015). A young female worker, sitting opposite, reported her for sexual harassment. She was offended on his behalf. The man, whom my friend was arrempting to console with a few kind words etc, and my friend had worked together for 15 years and were good friends. He is gay. They socialise outside work. The result: 9 hours retraining for my friend around workplace harassment etc.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🤖 Introduction and Background - Peter Boghossian's personal experience with social justice backlash. - Invitation of James Damore to discuss gender issues at Google. - Purpose of inviting Damore and the backlash it received. 02:25 🛡️ Defining Social Justice - Definition of social justice: Reconstructing society based on principles of equity, inclusion, diversity, and recognition. - Emphasis on the interconnectedness of diversity and justice. 03:19 💼 Censorship and Intimidation - Social justice advocates employ methods to suppress divergent opinions. - Intimidation tactics used against those challenging the orthodoxy. - Violent incidents and damage to equipment during Damore event. 05:24🛡️ Parahesia: Speaking Truth in Hostile Environments - Introduction of "parahesia" (frankness, truth-telling in face of danger). - Parahesia as a moral duty to address flawed thinking. - Boldness and sincerity in communication, regardless of opposition. 07:25 🛡️ Social Justice vs. Parahesia - Social justice's deliberate effort to suppress forthright speech. - Impact on articulating morally unfashionable views. - Damage to authentic communication and formation of genuine friendships. 08:36 🛡️ Social Justice and Name Calling - Name-calling as a prevalent tactic in social justice discourse. - The expansion of terms like "nazi" and its effect on discourse. - The concept of "Nazi Fragility" in response to critique. 09:59 🛡️ Speech as Violence - The fallacy of equating speech with physical violence. - Consequences of framing speech as violence on mental health. - Justification of political violence based on this premise. 12:48 🛡️ Inclusion and Restricted Speech - Inclusion as synonymous with creating a restricted speech environment. - Parahesia's struggle in an environment where speech is restricted. - Impact on honest, clear, and direct communication. 15:36 🛡️ Disinvitations and Suppression of Diverse Views - Disinvitation trend on college campuses, affecting diverse speakers. - Motivations behind disinvitations, including ideological disagreements. - Social justice activists' attempts to curtail audiences' freedom to listen. 20:10 🛡️ Bias Response Teams and Reporting Offense - The proliferation of Bias Response Teams on university campuses. - Encouraging students to report speech perceived as offensive or marginalizing. - The intention behind these teams in creating more "inclusive" environments. 25:35 🔍 Bias Response Teams and Freedom of Speech - Bias response teams on university campuses investigate and potentially sanction students for biased speech. - Examples of biased speech include political beliefs and comments on social media. - Legal protections against discrimination already exist, but bias response teams may stifle freedom of speech. 30:39 🛡️ Cancel Culture and Freedom of Speech - Cancel culture is a form of boycotting or shunning individuals for perceived offensive speech. - It creates a climate of fear, discouraging open discourse. - Forgiveness and redemption are more constructive approaches than canceling individuals. 34:05 🧠 Idea Laundering: Pseudoscientific Validation - Idea laundering involves using peer-reviewed journals to legitimize moral and political beliefs. - Social justice scholars refer to these journals as evidence, but the content often lacks true knowledge or evidence. - The process can lead to the propagation of ideologically driven and unfalsifiable ideas. 37:24 🗣️ Recap of Ways Social Justice Impacts Freedom of Speech - Recap of the seven ways social justice ideology hinders freedom of speech: name-calling, speech as violence, inclusion, disinvitations, bias response teams, cancel culture, and idea laundering. - These tactics collectively work to suppress open discourse and challenge opposing viewpoints.
Thank you, for speaking the TRUTH, to all the “misplaced” insults. Jesus Christ endured the SAME. They even said that He was the “devil”. “There is nothing new under the sun.”
@@just_another32 That's a good explanation. :) About the usefulness I have no simple answer. Partly because I'm only at the middle of the third chapter and partly because I'm living in Budapest so it's possible that we have a little different problems here (although the situations described in the book are very familiar to me). What I can say based on what I've read so far is that this book is full of good advice, interesting examples and a lot of good intentions. I definitely recommend it if you want to improve the quality of your impossible conversations but I cannot promise you that this guide will solve all of your problems.
@RED PILL PORTAL Much like its parent ideology, Social Justice looks good on paper much like communism its bad in practice. This is why we aren't communist nations in the west.
@@adamsmith3413 Respectfully, no. Violence is violence. Words and silence can be hurtful, or withholding, but they do not ever rise to the level of actual violence. That is a flagrant abuse of the harm principle and it needs to stop. The remedy for bad dialogue, or no dialogue, is better dialogue. However, violence does not solve violence, although it may be necessary to defend oneself. This specious conflation of language with physical damage perpetuates a dangerous metaphysics which is, in part, responsible for the bogus imbroglios of so-called social justice. That way lies fragility. Designating anything that makes one uncomfortable an act of violence paves the way for actual applications of real abusive force. The left is no less susceptible to this than the right. QED:BLM.
Look, I am a Catholic evolutionist who disagree with Peter Boghossian’s atheist bias towards religion, but when it comes with his views on science and his willingness to stand up to SJW madness and postmodernism, I am 100% supportive of him.
Why would you disagree on religion ? I don't see the difference. Religious people can be called out for justifying their action on something nonsensical too.
I've been following Boghossian and Lindsay for years, and I didn't know about this video at all until now. What a great analysis! Since it was read from a script, the text should be available on line; but I haven't been able to find it.
I believe in God. Peter thinks God is a silly fiction but I really like this guy because he believes in discourse and listening. He doesn’t have to believe what I do to made good sense.
Gonna be totally flip here. All this is why people love animals. Peter, James, Helen, Jordan, Gaad, Joe, Tim, Glenn, and Oh hell you know them. All the teachers are with us. We can learn.
Debra:. And, we ARE learning from Peter, Helen, James, Gaad et al.....and what they are teaching us is you burn this BEAST down by 'brain draining' it and making new, NON-CANCELLABLE institutions of our own......
@@ChessErwin my born name is Deb Nelson. I am a 5 great granddaughter of a declaration signer Thomas Nelson Jr. Americans uniquely know who they are, no matter what "country" they live in. Perhaps they will bring liberty into their own home countries. Thank you!
@@alaskahudson hello again! Love good company. Want a good belly laugh go to powerlineblog.com this week in pictures so you know me better. Luv u no matter what.😎
@drpeterbhossian I am fully aware of how old this is, however the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Is what I was taught. I'm not sure why but I feel it's a very important distinction.
It should be noted that although they use the term equity they do not actually mean it. When an arrangement is equitable, this means that it is agreed upon and deemed satisfactory between two parties. It is a negotiated settlement. Both parties have to agree to it. The version of equity in social justice is not this. It is a single side making demands.
Thank you to the heroes & dissenters, who had the courage to speak for those of us who have been beaten into submission by woke crap. My son, who is 24, just now called me a nazi, screamed & ranted & raved at me, because I mentioned the Evergreen incident. It happens a lot in our house, where fear of covid & hatred for Trump reign supreme. I do not tolerate his disrespect, and I don't stand down. He learned his deeply liberal ideologies from me, after all. This is something entirely foreign & frightening, though, so Thank you for your courage in speaking out against this tyrannical epidemic that has infected our planet.
Thank you so much. This is going in my favourites as a reference work. It will also go on my FB page, no doubt inviting some unthinking friends to whine about it.
At 4:16. Some of this reminds me of the experiences Charles Murray experienced in America. He could be talking about a subject, and protesters would claim he said or wrote something in the past that was offensive. They shut down a major speech at one university where his life and that of the hosting professor was threatened. A favorite technique to shut down a speech is disruption verbally or pulling a fire alarm. If security is a concern the university will cancel the speech.
I have to admit that I am frequently resorting to calling the woke, liars, and idiots and labeling their arguments as BS. Their statements are so often blatant lies I have decided they need to be labeled as such just so they do not get off scot-free. I know it is the lazy way out. I will try to do better.
I would love to hear Peter's take on boiling the current climate down to Aristotle vs Plato in regards to justice and action. As I understand it, one side believes that as long as believe all the correct things, your actions will always be just, because they are based in just beliefs. The other side states that your actions are Supreme, and that no manner of belief system can be used to justify inherently harmful and detrimental actions.
παρρησία (four syllables, accent on the ι, pronounced par-rey-SEE-a) = outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege
I wonder what would happen if you parroted their own tactics back at them endlessly. Tell them "my lived experience is that social justice is racist", and if they challenge that, start crying and scream "why are you erasing my identity?!?" and "you're HARMING ME!"
Evil ALWAYS hates truth. Evil is of Satan, who‘s goal is to pervert, corrupt, and destroy. If something abides in Truth, evil will always attack it. “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:19-21
Excellent job articulating the truth here, Peter. I so incredibly appreciate everything you guys do in boldly speaking out like this. The silencing and intimidation tactics of Far-Left Orthodoxy are some of the many components that support the case for crossover with emotional abuse. Far-Left Orthodoxy (FLO) has a subculture that resembles the mannerisms, tactics, and rhetoric of emotional abusers. Those caught up in FLO who are well-intentioned, and genuinely seeking to advance what they believe is "justice" (a majority of FLO adherents, in my estimation) adopt this subculture, and then go on to unwittingly function as emotional abusers towards the rest of society, and the cancer spreads. Feel like you're always needing to walk on eggshells? Feel anxious, and like individualism or sharing doubts or contrary opinions will be met with threats, hostility, or worse? That's what an environment of abuse feels like, and we're all now experiencing it to some degree or another.
It's been a while sinse I've delved into these discussions of Wokeism, (regressive)Progressivism and etc. Aparently, one unexpected side effect of my reduced social interactions with people was that I came across people under that world view much less frequently. I even have a feeling that these ideas, while still alive and more influential than I would wish they were, they are losing favors with the general public and the "movement" is loosing steam. I don't know if that is largely the fact or an incorrept perception (completely non-data-based anyway, just a personal hunch). But now, I saw a couple recent videos such as this discussing the topic, and I am happy to see it has evolved on that side, as they display a more precise grasp of the taxonomy of this system of though and its consequent behaviour. The more recent discussions have a better vocabulary and mapping out of it in a way they can describe many larger aspects that are more "fundamental" and a point of origin of the secondary consequent unfoldings of them. This school of though seemed more weird and hard to describe in its entarity concisely before, but now I see discussions where it is done often and competently. Its encouraging. Sorry for the verbosity, I'm having a hard time putting thought my thoughs more clearly without overly explaining it. My bad haha.
I became so weary of trying to explain to people what James Damore was really asking! I would share his interview with Rubin but they weren't interested. They didn't want to think.
the "idea laundering" concept is something that many people still don't know about. yeah, many already assumed that something like this probably exists, but they couldn't verify it. i think it's very important to provide as many solid information on this issue as possible. if there are clear cases of idea laundering they should be called out regularly and loudly. the more those charalatans are called out the harder it will get for them to use this method. sure, they'll probably never stop using it, but right now it's much too easy. greetings from germany :)
The entire "white privilege" canard is an example of this. It was first coined by Peggy McIntosh in a 1989 article. It was not "research" and contained zero scientific evidence for its assertions. It is now considered "true."
My grandmother was Polish, and her brother was killed in WWII in Poland by Nazis. I disagreed with a Far Left ideologue and they accused me of being a Nazi, I explained how that term was really insulting to me given my family's history, he then said, exactly you are the worst kind of Nazi. I literally have been saying that exact thing for the last five years, it is so disrespectful to Jews, Poles, Romanians, and other Slavic groups to throw that term around.
So true. An example about (sexual) education. My late woke (socialist) mother used to say ‘When a girl says no to you, it means no, but when a girl says yes to you, it only means that she is too afraid of you to say no, because you are a boy and you have more muscular power.’ (Thank you)
Why did people stop calling the police to arrest those who are making threats of violence which was illegal last I heard? Often we know who these bullies are and yet no one seems to take action against them legally. Why is that? Doesn't that mean we are accepting and condoning people who break the law?
My favorite teacher of all time! He broke me from the wokeness I once suffered
Very happy for you. JP broke me from mine via his trans debacle.
Got a chance to take 1 of his class at PSU. I didn't engage alot but he is a nice teacher that likes challenge us to think critically about our beliefs.
@@ngapik6985 Ya I took 1 class and was like this dude is awesome and took 3 more. I’m surprised he lasted so long at PSU but glad he found a better place to teach.
@@ngapik6985 Few things better than a smart professor who is more interested in the critical thinking of his students than shilling for some political dogma.
Welcome home!
Brave and brilliant talk. I wish everyone would listen to Peter Boghossian.
THIS SPEECH IS BRILLIANT. These 40 minutes should be required viewing for anyone who is not fully aware of the core ideas and the machinations of the social justice ideology and its adherents. It's concise, clear and terrifyingly accurate.
This should be required viewing in school as early and as often as possible. Peter is a true warrior for freedom of thought and speech.
One of the most clear thinking and straight forward voices out there. Whenever I see something new with Peter Boghossian, I just click.
I find his to be at best, a rather middling intellect with no new or unusual insight.
@jon scott he's just regurgitating the same tired old talking point. Nothing new or original to say.
@@DavidHeffron78 so what? Not enough people have even realized this stuff is so bad. His voice is a reasonable one. His message doesn't have to be particularly complex or new to anyone paying attention. It does have to be smart enough to challenge the morons who are paying attention and guilty of what he's speaking against, and smart enough to simply convey to normies what's happening. He's good at both of those things.
how do you reconcile clear thinking with him just lying and changing what he's saying depending on who he's talking to? I don't care one way or another about his message, but to me he just seems like a failed academic trying to find a grift.
@@DavidHeffron78 Perhaps you can identify the talking point, explain what you find wrong with it (and why) and suggest an alternative way of understanding the phenomena discussed here.
"Nobody will be forthright, for fear of losing speech rights, which ironically, they have already given up." Is one of the most profound enunciations of truth I have heard in years.
It's amazing to me that a college campus would disinvite anyone from speaking. It's the antithesis of open discourse and free speech.
Yes.. they use to be.
People in a cult cannot tolerate facts and evidence.
😊😊😊😊😊😮😅 40:47 40:47 40:47 40:47 40:47 40:47
I'm in awe. Peter's work (along with the work of his peers at New Discourses) should be required reading in every high school and university in the land. The fact that it's not tells me that we really are living through an Orwellian nightmare.
Very brave....I think it was Orwell that said in a world of lies telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act....keep it up sir.
It's a war on intellect. That's why we see the juvenile behaviour from them. Popular culture has kept them at the level of teenagers.
Absolutely incredible!
Thank you for your insight.
Thank you for your courage.
You are bringing sanity to the world.
The truth has set me free!!!! 🔥❤
That's the worst part of it all: Social Justice "principles" are always applied very selectively. It's a way of creating conditions under which they can do/say anything they want... while your choices are limited to obey or be beaten down.
Take "inclusion" for example. It's not even that no one is allowed to say anything that might offend ANYONE (caps for emphasis, not anger)... it's that no one is allowed to offend CERTAIN very specific GROUPS. You can say any vile, hateful thing that comes to mind about whites, men, heterosexuals and the "cis-gendered". Hell, you can even go so far as to openly call for violence against those groups and not only will they not bat an eye, they may well praise you for it!
Like old ladies confessing to impossibly difficult acts of sabotage of the USSR during the purges
Oh, it's gone beyond just being white, cisgendered, hetero, or male. These people have been attacking and excommunicating anyone who doesn't agree with them. POC's are considered race traitors, women are claimed to be indoctrinated by the patriarchy, and everyone else has been labeled the opposition. It's disgusting, and most never noticed it was happening because they were able to hide their bigotry back in the early days. Today, they don't obfuscate these actions anymore. These people are now zealots to their ideology.
@@alexkennard2422 Guillotines showing up in demonstrations, and online memes. AS IF everyone doesn't know that by the closing of the French Revolution, which had some legit anti-monarchy views, so many of the originators were jailed killed or guillotined including Robespierre. And Jefferson almost got killed for speaking out as critical of the excess gratuitous violence against Royalty.
The scary truth of this comment is what saddens me. I've seen these social justice advocates beat down white people for holding an opinion against theirs. But what happens when I hold the same opinion? They try to understand me, simply because I am not white but a POC. The fact that my opinion on a topic holds more credibility in the eyes of these people, because I am not white, is disgustingly unjust.
No one ever addresses that sjws ARE the status-quo and the very definition of "privilege", it's about time people started pointing that out.
Phenomenal talk. Clear, concise, logical. Thank you.
I agree. Like a breath of fresh air isn't it.
A year later and look where we are in the US and abroad. He was and is “spot on”.
This man is a true genius!!
Sometimes I watch videos and can feel myself getting more stupid. This time I'm glad I gave these 40 minutes. Wonderful speech.
I’ve sure enjoyed this channel and being from Portland originally I am AMAZED that he’s still employed at PSU!!
They’re doing every thing they can to get rid of him
I'm not a activists but I am now is the time to peaceful work to preserve our free speech in our community s. Don't know exactly what it looks like
It gives me hope that he is still employed as PSU!
Sure glad he is!!!
Maybe a good sign the SJW's are not as powerful as they want to be, and hopefully will never be?
He resigned because of the backlash he was getting from the University. Ironically, because he brought other perspectives to students 🤣
Regarding words being seen as "violence", I imagine that how one thinks about words could impact how one's brain responds to them (same thing could even apply to real violence). We already know that cognitive behavior therapy can influence brain function in disorders like panic disorder. So, if we define things in the most catastrophic way possible (words are violence!), it's psychologically bad for us since it can make us less resilient and more prone to being needlessly more severely affected by things. As Jonathan Haidt pointed out, cognitive therapy is about interpreting things in a more accurate and self-helping way (at least it used to be), making them less catastrophic rather than more. Let's reduce the negative impact words have on us by defining them in a way that let's us preserve resilience, freedom of thought and real social justice!
The "violence" done that they refer to is the discomfort you experience when encountering views and ideas you disagree with. The woke insist that they have the right to not encounter dissenting opinions. It's pathetic and anethema to higher learning.
Normally a Communist revolution is led by intelligencia and fortified by the uneducated. The colleges have become places where the intelligencia indoctrinate their students into principled ignorance.
College is the culmination of the indoctrination along with cultivation of intellectual laziness engendered into students beginning in grade school. Teacher's colleges were the first colleges to embrace critical theory and send out graduates to indoctrinate children and then those students insisted the colleges accomodate their views. Now it's everywhere and I can't see how it can be defeated.
@@ARFthegodking I was responding the Lisa Feldman Barrett's claims that he mentioned in the talk...
“Catastrophizing”
@@jaik195701 yeah, one of the "cognitive distortions" in cognitive behavior therapy. It seems like those who adhere to critical theory tend to buy into a lot of them. Since they don't value rationality, you can't call them out on it, either. So gross to see lol
I'm a psychotherapist at a university and I'm seeing exactly this in the students. I find they are being encouraged to engage with what we call "cognitive distortions" and basically as therapists we try and undo those maladaptive thinking patterns (often to no avail unfortunately as the tutors encourage this type of thinking).
This happened to my 55 year old friend. She put her arm / hand across neck / back area of a male friend. He was distressed. He had just done a tragic death notice of a child for a regional newspaper (2015). A young female worker, sitting opposite, reported her for sexual harassment. She was offended on his behalf. The man, whom my friend was arrempting to console with a few kind words etc, and my friend had worked together for 15 years and were good friends. He is gay. They socialise outside work. The result: 9 hours retraining for my friend around workplace harassment etc.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🤖 Introduction and Background
- Peter Boghossian's personal experience with social justice backlash.
- Invitation of James Damore to discuss gender issues at Google.
- Purpose of inviting Damore and the backlash it received.
02:25 🛡️ Defining Social Justice
- Definition of social justice: Reconstructing society based on principles of equity, inclusion, diversity, and recognition.
- Emphasis on the interconnectedness of diversity and justice.
03:19 💼 Censorship and Intimidation
- Social justice advocates employ methods to suppress divergent opinions.
- Intimidation tactics used against those challenging the orthodoxy.
- Violent incidents and damage to equipment during Damore event.
05:24🛡️ Parahesia: Speaking Truth in Hostile Environments
- Introduction of "parahesia" (frankness, truth-telling in face of danger).
- Parahesia as a moral duty to address flawed thinking.
- Boldness and sincerity in communication, regardless of opposition.
07:25 🛡️ Social Justice vs. Parahesia
- Social justice's deliberate effort to suppress forthright speech.
- Impact on articulating morally unfashionable views.
- Damage to authentic communication and formation of genuine friendships.
08:36 🛡️ Social Justice and Name Calling
- Name-calling as a prevalent tactic in social justice discourse.
- The expansion of terms like "nazi" and its effect on discourse.
- The concept of "Nazi Fragility" in response to critique.
09:59 🛡️ Speech as Violence
- The fallacy of equating speech with physical violence.
- Consequences of framing speech as violence on mental health.
- Justification of political violence based on this premise.
12:48 🛡️ Inclusion and Restricted Speech
- Inclusion as synonymous with creating a restricted speech environment.
- Parahesia's struggle in an environment where speech is restricted.
- Impact on honest, clear, and direct communication.
15:36 🛡️ Disinvitations and Suppression of Diverse Views
- Disinvitation trend on college campuses, affecting diverse speakers.
- Motivations behind disinvitations, including ideological disagreements.
- Social justice activists' attempts to curtail audiences' freedom to listen.
20:10 🛡️ Bias Response Teams and Reporting Offense
- The proliferation of Bias Response Teams on university campuses.
- Encouraging students to report speech perceived as offensive or marginalizing.
- The intention behind these teams in creating more "inclusive" environments.
25:35 🔍 Bias Response Teams and Freedom of Speech
- Bias response teams on university campuses investigate and potentially sanction students for biased speech.
- Examples of biased speech include political beliefs and comments on social media.
- Legal protections against discrimination already exist, but bias response teams may stifle freedom of speech.
30:39 🛡️ Cancel Culture and Freedom of Speech
- Cancel culture is a form of boycotting or shunning individuals for perceived offensive speech.
- It creates a climate of fear, discouraging open discourse.
- Forgiveness and redemption are more constructive approaches than canceling individuals.
34:05 🧠 Idea Laundering: Pseudoscientific Validation
- Idea laundering involves using peer-reviewed journals to legitimize moral and political beliefs.
- Social justice scholars refer to these journals as evidence, but the content often lacks true knowledge or evidence.
- The process can lead to the propagation of ideologically driven and unfalsifiable ideas.
37:24 🗣️ Recap of Ways Social Justice Impacts Freedom of Speech
- Recap of the seven ways social justice ideology hinders freedom of speech: name-calling, speech as violence, inclusion, disinvitations, bias response teams, cancel culture, and idea laundering.
- These tactics collectively work to suppress open discourse and challenge opposing viewpoints.
Dr Peter Boghossian.. Intelligent man!
Thoroughly enjoy listening to him.
Great talk, he is awesome...Thank you, Professor Boghossian.
Thank you, for speaking the TRUTH, to all the “misplaced” insults. Jesus Christ endured the SAME. They even said that He was the “devil”. “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Thanks!
So much respect for Peter's proffessionalism. No bs from this guy
Thanks Peter, great presentation! Your book "How to Have Impossible Conversations" has just arrived today. Accident? I don't think so.
Maybe because you ordered it a few days ago? :) I am considering buying it too... is it useful?
@@just_another32 That's a good explanation. :) About the usefulness I have no simple answer. Partly because I'm only at the middle of the third chapter and partly because I'm living in Budapest so it's possible that we have a little different problems here (although the situations described in the book are very familiar to me).
What I can say based on what I've read so far is that this book is full of good advice, interesting examples and a lot of good intentions. I definitely recommend it if you want to improve the quality of your impossible conversations but I cannot promise you that this guide will solve all of your problems.
It was Jesus.
Excellent talk at a time humanity needs such amazing logic.
One of my favorite thinkers. Love me some Peter.
Bravo bedros, I love your work. Hachoghutyun kezi
A very important explanation. Many thanks for making things clearer.
It's like dealing with snakes or totalitarian philosophy. Well done to the speaker for ignoring threats.
it's like dealing with religious people... any opposing view comes from Satan.
Beautiful.
SJW: Words are violence!
Also SJW: *Screams at people*
In a stunning example of cognitive dissonance that surprises no one, recently they've been insisting that the BLM violence is speech.
Silence is violence also words are violence.
@RED PILL PORTAL Much like its parent ideology, Social Justice looks good on paper much like communism its bad in practice. This is why we aren't communist nations in the west.
SJW: Screams at people labeling them
@@adamsmith3413 Respectfully, no. Violence is violence. Words and silence can be hurtful, or withholding, but they do not ever rise to the level of actual violence. That is a flagrant abuse of the harm principle and it needs to stop. The remedy for bad dialogue, or no dialogue, is better dialogue. However, violence does not solve violence, although it may be necessary to defend oneself. This specious conflation of language with physical damage perpetuates a dangerous metaphysics which is, in part, responsible for the bogus imbroglios of so-called social justice. That way lies fragility. Designating anything that makes one uncomfortable an act of violence paves the way for actual applications of real abusive force. The left is no less susceptible to this than the right. QED:BLM.
This is so perfectly succinct. Brilliant to explicitly define, yet tacitly model parrhesia. Bravo
Look, I am a Catholic evolutionist who disagree with Peter Boghossian’s atheist bias towards religion, but when it comes with his views on science and his willingness to stand up to SJW madness and postmodernism, I am 100% supportive of him.
Why would you disagree on religion ? I don't see the difference. Religious people can be called out for justifying their action on something nonsensical too.
Excellent presentation
I've been following Boghossian and Lindsay for years, and I didn't know about this video at all until now. What a great analysis! Since it was read from a script, the text should be available on line; but I haven't been able to find it.
Great presentation. The idea laundering bit was something I'd never heard before but it makes absolute sense.
I believe in God. Peter thinks God is a silly fiction but I really like this guy because he believes in discourse and listening. He doesn’t have to believe what I do to made good sense.
So thankful for ND!
Haha! Kept me sane in June/July 2020 when BLM became mainstream in the UK!
Let's go TRUTH!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤❤
Speech is not violence, and money is not speech.
Gonna be totally flip here. All this is why people love animals. Peter, James, Helen, Jordan, Gaad, Joe, Tim, Glenn, and Oh hell you know them. All the teachers are with us. We can learn.
Debra:. And, we ARE learning from Peter, Helen, James, Gaad et al.....and what they are teaching us is you burn this BEAST down by 'brain draining' it and making new, NON-CANCELLABLE institutions of our own......
@@ChessErwin my born name is Deb Nelson. I am a 5 great granddaughter of a declaration signer Thomas Nelson Jr. Americans uniquely know who they are, no matter what "country" they live in. Perhaps they will bring liberty into their own home countries. Thank you!
@@alaskahudson hello again! Love good company. Want a good belly laugh go to powerlineblog.com this week in pictures so you know me better. Luv u no matter what.😎
Boghossian is the man
I remember the old university debates between Oliver North and Timothy Leary back in the 80’s. Speaking of crazy!
@drpeterbhossian I am fully aware of how old this is, however the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Is what I was taught. I'm not sure why but I feel it's a very important distinction.
It should be noted that although they use the term equity they do not actually mean it. When an arrangement is equitable, this means that it is agreed upon and deemed satisfactory between two parties. It is a negotiated settlement. Both parties have to agree to it. The version of equity in social justice is not this. It is a single side making demands.
Thank you to the heroes & dissenters, who had the courage to speak for those of us who have been beaten into submission by woke crap. My son, who is 24, just now called me a nazi, screamed & ranted & raved at me, because I mentioned the Evergreen incident. It happens a lot in our house, where fear of covid & hatred for Trump reign supreme. I do not tolerate his disrespect, and I don't stand down. He learned his deeply liberal ideologies from me, after all. This is something entirely foreign & frightening, though, so Thank you for your courage in speaking out against this tyrannical epidemic that has infected our planet.
Introduce him to "protected groups" who are anti-woke. People like Ruined Leon, Gothix, Blaire White, Zuby, Merci Meroki etc
Thank you so much.
This is going in my favourites as a reference work.
It will also go on my FB page, no doubt inviting some unthinking friends to whine about it.
Important words and ideas. ❤️
Outstanding
Outstanding presentation!
36:00 I like that he pronounces Ecosystem like Echosystem. A nice (probably unintended?) play on works.
Very important work, thank you. Fight the madness 👍
Those who hated being bullied are now the bullies.
Well said. We need to have open discussions
Thanks
At 4:16. Some of this reminds me of the experiences Charles Murray experienced in America. He could be talking about a subject, and protesters would claim he said or wrote something in the past that was offensive. They shut down a major speech at one university where his life and that of the hosting professor was threatened. A favorite technique to shut down a speech is disruption verbally or pulling a fire alarm. If security is a concern the university will cancel the speech.
Awesome speech!
People who say words are violence have never been punched in the face.
I listened twice
That must be anti- silence... and doubly violent ???
I always do that when I come across a good one too.
Re parahisia: “You can throw away your weapons if you like. Just know that there will be somebody who will pick them up.” - Orwell
We have arrived at a time in history we're university professors are called on to explain to us what society has always know to be true.
thanks! this was a great talk
I have to admit that I am frequently resorting to calling the woke, liars, and idiots and labeling their arguments as BS. Their statements are so often blatant lies I have decided they need to be labeled as such just so they do not get off scot-free. I know it is the lazy way out. I will try to do better.
Wonderful and timely presentation. Please also look to Dr. Jordan Peterson for equally thought provoking presentations on this matter.
You don't stop a violent hysterical mob with reason and kindness.
im glad i found this, bravo
I would love to hear Peter's take on boiling the current climate down to Aristotle vs Plato in regards to justice and action. As I understand it, one side believes that as long as believe all the correct things, your actions will always be just, because they are based in just beliefs. The other side states that your actions are Supreme, and that no manner of belief system can be used to justify inherently harmful and detrimental actions.
Great!
I, myself, do NOT ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FEELINGS that other people FEEL. PERIOD.
Excellent!
παρρησία (four syllables, accent on the ι, pronounced par-rey-SEE-a) = outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege
I was about to make this comment, but you beat me to it! Χαῖρε!
Let he who is without bias cast the first stone.
Social Justice without redemption.
I wonder what would happen if you parroted their own tactics back at them endlessly. Tell them "my lived experience is that social justice is racist", and if they challenge that, start crying and scream "why are you erasing my identity?!?" and "you're HARMING ME!"
Tempting but I think it might be better to kill them with love.
I love him
4:00 I would've expelled those students on the spot for that, but I'm guessing nothing happened to them. No disciplinary action of any kind.
Clear cut excellence.
Evil ALWAYS hates truth. Evil is of Satan, who‘s goal is to pervert, corrupt, and destroy. If something abides in Truth, evil will always attack it.
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
John 3:19-21
Are we just throwing away "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?"
Excellent job articulating the truth here, Peter. I so incredibly appreciate everything you guys do in boldly speaking out like this. The silencing and intimidation tactics of Far-Left Orthodoxy are some of the many components that support the case for crossover with emotional abuse. Far-Left Orthodoxy (FLO) has a subculture that resembles the mannerisms, tactics, and rhetoric of emotional abusers. Those caught up in FLO who are well-intentioned, and genuinely seeking to advance what they believe is "justice" (a majority of FLO adherents, in my estimation) adopt this subculture, and then go on to unwittingly function as emotional abusers towards the rest of society, and the cancer spreads.
Feel like you're always needing to walk on eggshells? Feel anxious, and like individualism or sharing doubts or contrary opinions will be met with threats, hostility, or worse? That's what an environment of abuse feels like, and we're all now experiencing it to some degree or another.
Yes..that's exactly what's going on, it's crystal clear. Thanks.
We need logic and accountability in America. Everyone has a opinion but nobody has a ethical solution.
DOWN WITH THE HORSESHOE!
THE CENTRE MUST SORT THIS OUT!
So good. And I also got put onto the colonialism essay by Bruce Gilley.
It's been a while sinse I've delved into these discussions of Wokeism, (regressive)Progressivism and etc. Aparently, one unexpected side effect of my reduced social interactions with people was that I came across people under that world view much less frequently. I even have a feeling that these ideas, while still alive and more influential than I would wish they were, they are losing favors with the general public and the "movement" is loosing steam. I don't know if that is largely the fact or an incorrept perception (completely non-data-based anyway, just a personal hunch).
But now, I saw a couple recent videos such as this discussing the topic, and I am happy to see it has evolved on that side, as they display a more precise grasp of the taxonomy of this system of though and its consequent behaviour. The more recent discussions have a better vocabulary and mapping out of it in a way they can describe many larger aspects that are more "fundamental" and a point of origin of the secondary consequent unfoldings of them. This school of though seemed more weird and hard to describe in its entarity concisely before, but now I see discussions where it is done often and competently. Its encouraging. Sorry for the verbosity, I'm having a hard time putting thought my thoughs more clearly without overly explaining it. My bad haha.
Is he saying swatstickers to avoid the google algocensors?
I became so weary of trying to explain to people what James Damore was really asking! I would share his interview with Rubin but they weren't interested. They didn't want to think.
the "idea laundering" concept is something that many people still don't know about. yeah, many already assumed that something like this probably exists, but they couldn't verify it. i think it's very important to provide as many solid information on this issue as possible.
if there are clear cases of idea laundering they should be called out regularly and loudly. the more those charalatans are called out the harder it will get for them to use this method. sure, they'll probably never stop using it, but right now it's much too easy.
greetings from germany :)
The entire "white privilege" canard is an example of this. It was first coined by Peggy McIntosh in a 1989 article. It was not "research" and contained zero scientific evidence for its assertions. It is now considered "true."
Peter love this I want to animate these 7 ideas
where is the continuation in which Peter promised to discuss the tactics.
My grandmother was Polish, and her brother was killed in WWII in Poland by Nazis. I disagreed with a Far Left ideologue and they accused me of being a Nazi, I explained how that term was really insulting to me given my family's history, he then said, exactly you are the worst kind of Nazi.
I literally have been saying that exact thing for the last five years, it is so disrespectful to Jews, Poles, Romanians, and other Slavic groups to throw that term around.
Has anyone dared call Jonathan Haidt a Nazi yet? Just wondered if his sane (and non violent) voice has escaped this so far...
He's been called that too.
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So true.
An example about (sexual) education. My late woke (socialist) mother used to say ‘When a girl says no to you, it means no, but when a girl says yes to you, it only means that she is too afraid of you to say no, because you are a boy and you have more muscular power.’
(Thank you)
Well, this is def true in some cases. But not all.
Why did people stop calling the police to arrest those who are making threats of violence which was illegal last I heard? Often we know who these bullies are and yet no one seems to take action against them legally. Why is that? Doesn't that mean we are accepting and condoning people who break the law?
They want diversity to avoid discrimination yet they dont want diversity of thought and discriminate diversity if thought. How ironic.
What a coincidence. I rewatched the video from last October yesterday!
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@32:32 Hear, Hear Peter. Insightful. #TheWarpAndWoofOfItAll