Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory
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this guy swung the vote in Pennsylvania
He got the dead people voting
@@bobpro583 support trump or not, quit spreading this misinformation around. You're doing more damage than good.
@@hybridmems wth are you talking about, when i was alive, i was a republican, but while dead i heard this guy, and voted for Biden
@@fencino so you are dead ?
@@fencino haha you are hilarious. Shows that you're as intelligent as our current president.
Everyone’s arguing about whether this satirizes the left or the right, but no one’s stopped to consider whether it’s satirizing English majors.
Thank you, finally someone who understands the true meaning! He was using all this unusual words that definitely aren’t in anyone’s vocabulary no matter what political party you are apart of. Felt like someone intentionally using as many words as possible to reach the word requirement.
I think this applies to humanities majors in general lol
Are you stupid. You’re seriously unread if you believe those aren’t words used in feminist literature. Like it’s cool you didn’t know, but you should. those are actual quotes. The only word I had never heard before was “androcratic”
@@Bankable2790 Only feminists use those words
1Peasant and they are academics and write “academic research” using those words, which infiltrate into society as other leftist gain position at “woke” corporations quote those same academics. Every word you’ve heard from the left was coined by an academic
One of the most underappreciated Onion skits. Mainly because nobody understands the joke. The joke isn't that Republicans are stupid monkeys that can't read. The joke isn't that feminism bad. The joke is at the expense of those who only have a purely academic understanding of systemic issues. The joke is that no average person would ever be converted by such complex and irregular language regardless of how correct it might be. And the joke is made funnier by the fact that Trump voters are usually considered "simple". They tend to have very straight forward and simple issues with society, so it's totally ridiculous to think that they would ever be convinced by such a verbose description of any of these issues.
Very observant
@@sertgy. You can't change average joe's opinion by speaking like a nerd. They want a clear explanation.
Quite the exquisite response
It's sad how hard it is for people to get this very simple joke.
@@sertgy.
"If you need a job and want to keep more of your cheque, vote for me!"
Versus
"Either vote for me or be a complicit individual to the culture of systemic institutions!"
This actor and the wardrobe department deserve an Emmy. Everything about him is so realistic, which makes the satire even better. The Carhartt jacket, slick back hair, the way he talks, even the way he wears his glasses. It’s literally perfect.
Yeah, it's really, really good. Very believable, not corny, which is great.
Where is his Cumins Diesel baseball cap..... And cigarette in his right hand....
God I know right? Could not have been more accurate
except the carhartt is so new the collar isnt even folded, nor is the pocket zipped lol
@@followtheciaence those are his church Carhartts
I get why it’s called “The Onion”
This comedy has layers
...and could make one cry tears of joy.
Just like ogres!
@@user-lf8qu9un8y Ha _haaaaaa!_
Why not "The Cake". Cakes have layers.
....oooooooohhhh, well now I just feel silly
When me and the boys just casually attend a gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore
Why Swat lol
When me and the pals, comrades, folks, friends
Lina *individuals, toasterites, gaypeepees, ultra-straights, woman-men-women...*
Swarthmore is a great place to see those poetry slams, but the closest steel town is Reading an hour and change away. That's dedication right there. Props to this man
Lol same its always e talk about on the line
This man's performance is unbelievably flawless. If 6 year old, 2 minute TH-cam videos by parody news sites could be nominated for Oscars, I'd hope this would be at the top of the list.
You should look up Kids in the Hall - Social Justice Art Class all the way back from the 90s. Feels just as current.
It's not flawless. He mispronounces several words, unfortunately.
It is good. But he did not cry.
YT should have its own acting awards, The Tubies.
@@jamiedorsey4167 KITH is timelessly brilliant.
It's satirizing the disconnect between academics in the humanities and culture studies and typical people.
"Typical people"? The ones flying Confederate flags?
People really like to dissect this stuff but I’m pretty sure a couple folks got stoned and thought “wouldn’t it be funny if a regular ass factory worker got totally converted after binge reading some feminist literature?”
doesn't matter. if you express genuine commentary, which good comedy like this does, then you automatically carry genuine observations. Genuine observations spark useful discussion,
@@fnsdjkovnsdkvn not on the internet they don’t
Well, yeah, but why is it funny? I think the point is that the academic community is so insular and so full of jargon that the only people who understand it are those who already agree with them. Also I think it's poking fun at the idea that someone who chanted "lock her up" would be very much concerned with how the system oppresses women.
@@Hakajin Recently I started reading some academic authors (mainly Judith Butler) and at first I though ''how hard would it be to understand?'' and holy shit I had to google the definition of around 20 words in the first 10 pages. There is virtually no way for someone without previous knowledge of queer feminist theory to understand a single page of Butler's ideas.
@@Hakajin It's funny, because it's absurd. A diehard trump supporter from a coal area wouldn't start reading this kind of literature and suddenly start reflecting on his position in society.
Onion: The only fake news source you can trust!
Honestly having English as my third language, frequently I face comments such as yours and never really get it why you people call it fake news. Sad to say the least.
The Learner It’s because The Onion is actually fake. It’s all satire. Nothing the onion actually posts is real.
For example, this video is a paid actor reading from a script.
Dante Champion Please google search “is the onion satire” and direct yourself to the wikipedia page, where it states, “The Onion is an American satirical digital media company...”
Or, better yet, there’s a site you could go to that proves it:
realorsatire.com/theonion-com/ will directly tell you that it’s satire.
If you’re still not convinced, do your own research on it, and when you find out that yea, the onion is satire, don’t come complaining to me about it.
@@OclaxianEmpire The Onion is a real and reliable source of news. Anyone saying otherwise is misinformed and just plain wrong.
@Free Speech get back in the basement, no one wants to hear you.
The most unbelievable things about this video is a steel worker actually having a job in Pennsylvania.
Trump got his job back for him lol 😂
@@Timeward76 Over 200,000 jobs were offshored under Trump
The Onion really just attacked the left, the right, and English majors in one video.
😂 yeah
It's definitely not ENGLISH majors. Being that isn't about fancy words, at all. It's about understanding literature, most of which is written in the common language of the time. It's just when you're talking about Shakespeare and such, it's words from hundreds of years ago so they are different from current common words.
@@marshwetland3808 ok english major
@@bath_foam4576 Ah, so that's how illiterates attempt insults. Tx for the update!
@@marshwetland3808 you're welcome bestie
I would PAY to see this guy and his buddies discuss gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam “on the line” XD
I would commit murder in the white house to see this guy and his buddies discuss gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam "on the line"
@That One I don't know what you mean
@That One 🧐
TheViperFan C’mon man, you know the thing!
@@stormjet814 Im Joe biden and i forgot this message.
I like how this is basically making fun of everything at the same time
Eightosaurus Spelunk Pacifistic Centrism!
Nah it’s aimed pretty squarely at the inefficacy of bourgeois academic radicalism
Genius!
Ganga Din I’d say it’s two levels deep, it’s making fun of the strawmen the trump folks have made up of what the left is. Do you honestly believe most Democrats talk like this? Because if so, you’re the brunt of stage two of the joke.
Ganga Din and there it is. It’s beautiful in a way.
Skit makes fun of both sides, your response:
“lol look how good they made fun of those other guys hyuk hyuk”.
It’s still working on the mentally deficient literally YEARS later, and I love it
This guy really impresses me! There's no way I could read 800 pages of Judith Butler!
But it will pave the way to being invited to a gender fluid non-binary poetry slam event at some college. Totally worth it! 😂
@@JacoWium I mean as long as there's free beer I'd even go to a bondage sado maso gay party in the dark.
@@creampielover69 But would you be invited? With a name like "le porc," probably not.
@@creampielover69 bruh id kill to go to one of those lmao
Only two people are known to have ACTUALLY read 800 pages of Judith Butler. Both died of severe radiation poisoning.
1:48 his face after reading that line KILLED me
The Onion used to be satirical. If they're not careful they're going to accidentally win next year's Pulitzer Prize...
😂😂😂, I bet few people got your joke
@@usejasiri I sure didn't
@@battlemaster4208 the pulitzer is an award for good journalism
@@usejasiri Who among people who know what the Pulitzer is would not get that joke?
I was just about to comment something like this.
Maybe the real satire was the friends we made along the way
*walks off into the sunset hand in hand*
Maybe the real friendship is knowledge
Hahahaha, what friends?
Friends with benefits often share more than benefits.
The real satire was inside you all along.
My 70 year old white cishet blue collar dad is an unapologetic self-educated socialist. To me this is just a normal chat over the breakfast table lol
You're never tool old to wash your brain!
Based dad
What a good dad
my 70 year old dad and I discuss quantum physics and game theory while watching chess tournaments
@@kebabmarley2505while watching rick and morty and discussing our socio economic status
6 years later this damn thing is still relevant as alllllll fuck. Holy Hell.
I can't stop being left speechless by the quality of actors Onion keeps using in their clips.
I like your name. It has pretty letters
Agreed, I wonder how many takes is needed on average to get one of these videos done.
He almost...almost breaks character at 2:00
david owens Russian
david owens you might be ti
Arguably the best kind of political satire is the sort that leaves people in the TH-cam comments section arguing who it’s satirizing.
Edit: Over a year later, not only are people still arguing about who it's satirizing, neither side thinks that they're the ones being satirized, and that its actually making fun of the opposition.
Gold.
Totally agree
@illogicalrelish do you think you're smart
@illogicalrelish you can piss off both extremes by pissing on people
@illogicalrelish exactly. like most things in life, the right answer is somewhere in teh middle
It's honestly just sad it's gotten to a point where that's actually a rarity. True comedy and comedians never stick to one side and will make fun of whoever they want equally, that is what it means to be a comedian. These past 6 years or so with all these mainstream "comedians" turning into propaganda puppets and spewing uninspired and bad jokes comedian has turned into a shitshow. I'd say the only comedy hubs or comedians I know of who've stuck true to their comedic routes are the onion, norm macdonald and south park.
"...now it's all we talk about on the line..." 🤣
A while back a kid played this for our social studies teacher and the teacher thought it was real 😂
Legendary kid
Aint no way 😂 ima try that
This is peak onion. Simultaneously attacking everyone, and no one.
They were just making fun of liberals
@@richvee214 They were making fun of elitism. Not saying the ideas of feminist theory was wrong, more to the condescending tone liberals have towards Trump voters in assuming they're just uneducated, ignorant, fools and that if they simply read the right stuff, they wouldn't think like they do. The Onion is generally more left-wing when it comes to their satire, but an important thing to note is that leftist don't consider Liberalism to be left-leaning, rather centre-right. An oldie but still relevant to how liberalism is viewed by the Left th-cam.com/video/3cdqQ2BdgOA/w-d-xo.html
It’s attacking liberals...even an idiot can see that.
@@justinb864 you sound like you are uttering the gibberish the guy is reading from the book. Would you like 1000 more words to say absolutely nothing?
@@Creshex8 Dude, he used really simple language. It's really not difficult to understand
So many layers to this, it's like an onion. Wait...
or a cake
LAYERS! ONIONS. HAVE. LAYERS. OGRES! HAVE LAYERS.
I actually laughed out loud at this.
Bozokdraaf EEEEverey body loves cakes :D
somerandomdude3366 I HATE ONIONS THEYVE GOT LAYERS LAAYERS
The onion is chaotic neutral.
Finally he gets it!
you joke but a guy in a community college sociology class i took was literally this exact man. he was like 65 and a vietnam vet and the entire semester, that man’s mind was constantly being blown by our assigned readings on intersectional feminism, systemic racism, etc. his enthusiasm was unparalleled
Based
I enjoy reading comedy too.
@@Astricozy savage, brutal, absolute destruction
@@observeoutofthebox7806 Why are you being a hype man for a mediocre youtube comment bro?
@@Thebuzzki11er what bro ?
This is like the ascended version of satire, where everyone and no one is satirized at the same time
Schrodinger's Satire
You know its the good stuff when even the people that are offended cant place why.
Maybe it’s a satirizing how some people try to use rather abstract, academic language to try to appeal to people who have neither the education nor the inclination to understand it. It may be profound, but it’s as good as German without spending tens of thousands of dollars to understand it. I myself studied some sociology in school, but have no idea what that last line was about. I’d have to have read the book to even understand the concepts mentioned, because they’re either rather unique to that thinker or because rather esoteric
@@mc1s238 thats what Ive been thinking
It's anti Trump but mocks how people write shit to Conservatives.
No wonder nobody converted with all these fucking obtuse terms hahahaha
Me and the enbies organizing a genderqueer-non-binary poetry slam in the middle of a conservative rural rust belt town in Pennsylvania.
And we love you for that ❤
@@celestialhumanoid remember to take ur meds
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 you're literally a bot like take your skin and bone meds for fuck's sake
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 ok mr edgy
No
1:50 _"If I had just known that back in November..."_
😂😂🤣 This is gold
Everyone's so focused on pinning down who's being poked at here, but that's not the point. It's funny because of the juxtaposition and the unlikely scenario.
You could then argue that this is making fun of how leftist theory doesn't work, as it often is too wordy to actually hit its target audience (in this case, those that lean right)? So the video is basically saying that leftist theory doesn't work, and needs a change. The video can basically be called a critisism of that. That's what I believe, anyways.
The Onion videos _do_ tend to have a message behind them, even if hidden in several layers (heh) of comedy or absurdity.
@@BebxOfficial Uh, most Onion writers are pretty explicitly anti capitalist. Check their twitter accounts. They just hate mainstream liberals
It's about the idiocy of leftist theory and rhetoric. Those who already believe in equality only read these things to reaffirm their beliefs, meanwhile, conservatives will put their fingers in their ears rather than listen to it.
@@asherujudo7383 Quite literally no. Again, it pokes some fun at the academic, enlightened, relatively wealthy white men who are suddenly big leftist philosophers, but besides that LITERALLY the joke, VERY EXPLICITLY is that if conservatives read a book or two maybe they would realise that their worldview is based on pure emotional reaction and gut feelings.
@@asherujudo7383 to quote the big "intellectual" Ben Shapiro says, conservativism is literally "feelings over facts"
I can see buzzfeed posting the same video, just unironically
Except good luck finding a guy to play the part of the man and say it unironically. He wouldn't be a middle aged man who is clearly un-privileged and looks like he has lived a hard life, the best they could do to fill the part would be a shrill whiny voiced low testosterone 20-something gender ambiguous man with purple dyed hair.
More like I can see buzzfeed claiming it as one of their videos!! 😆
Yeah but its also critizing trump supporters. I guess you are just a one sided, simple minded, anti-feminest and therefore anti-left and therefore conservative fuck wit.
Imo it is critizing partisanship on both sides. The joke is that you would never see this happen because X side (in this case trumples) would never switch over. Just because it listed relatively far left social believes doesn't mean it is critizing the believes. They could be for sure but also couldn't. Onion News is pretty bipartisan in its parodies but who really fucking knows.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom definitely
I can't believe the number of people who seem not to get this.
This actually happened to me in college when I was in a women’s studies class, but it quickly wore off five minutes later when I realized my comparative politics class was across the hall and I had gone to the wrong room.
Are u playing, because are there ppl actually like this
The fact that he is from Pennsylvania makes this even better in 2020
Oh. my. god. LOLL
They should have ended it with a line like “well now that I understand I’m privileged, I’ll have a new attitude at the unemployment office in Pittsburg Monday.” Hahahaha. We’re all fucked
@@deepinmind83 Meh we're all gonna die someday Biden just makes it not imminent
@@lucient.m.8453 nobody’s life changes when a president got elected other than the other candidate you voted for
@@jotarokujo4787 I mean Trump's life changed when he got kicked out of the oval office
onion are you biased?
Onion: yes
To who?
Onion: yes
To whom
@@glassesthegreat6566 ok but did you know that they removed "whom" from the standard Grammar textbooks a few years ago because it isn't being used anymore?!? Just as I was finally getting the hang of that one! 😒
Emily Marie That is tragic...our dictionaries are being dumbed down. 😥🤧😐
@@j.h.6633 No, it's just language evolving as it always does.
GlassesTheGreat you can use both
Guys I figured it out. It's making fun of that one kid in your college who changes his entire worldview based on whatever his philosophy class is studying right now.
I just Kant with those people.
@@angelad230 Good punchline
Lmaooo @@angelad230
Some of the best work the Onion has ever produced.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Picturing this man and a bunch of his work buddies from the mill at a “gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam” is just gold 😂
@@littlefreb okay calm down-
@@notreallysurehonestly how about you get some humor instead?😂
@@littlefreb or you could just control your attitude man..
@@littlefreb who hurt you?
@Lil smackaroo what the fuck is wrong with you guys are you okay-
The reality has surpassed its satire.
yes and thats why comments and videos like this are scary
Really not
not sure if I agree, but cool phrase in any case.
This like had 666 like when I got here.
*It is a sign.*
Still better than hillary...the system works...
I would actually love to watch a long interview with this actor talking out his thoughts from when this part (and script) was presented to him 😂
They should show this to every graduation ceremony and the world will be different.
I love that Judith Butler quote. It's such dry, dense, academic writing, and this man just strode right through it without flinching.
Judith Butler is famous, even in academia, for her purposely obscure writing. See this quote:
“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”
@@randomperson2078 If you think this is though - Try Donna Haraway. She's outright enigmatic. Sometimes I wonder if Queer theory isn't science but more of an art form that isn't supposed to be understood.
@@krautreport202 it never was science.
@@krautreport202
If they replaced those theorists with just one of Larry Kramer’s books, it would be much more respectable. Out of curiosity, how did you come into contact with Haraway and Butler?
@@randomperson2078 It's like she had to prove that at the end of the day she was still as smart as the STEM lords
Next at 11:
"Oil Tycoon combats Climate Change after seeing Sad pictures of Polar Bears"
How about Greenpeace convinces CEO to quit his job and give them all of his money by ambushing him at the mall?
i swear the polar bears keep dying off every few years and somehow make the numbers back to do it again. but i could see them doing it out of spite or something. i still remember my grandfather's story of when a polar bear went miles just to beat up the helicopter they flew over him in, without even bothering with a single person in that camp
@@usul573 it's funny because the founder of Greenpeace quit then exposed them lol
@@dragonjo7550 polar bears r afraid of helis though
@@Mo__Joe not this one. this one was angry at helis
Onion goes crazy wtf
Between the brilliance of the wordsmith who wrote this, and the delivery of the actor who portrayed it, this is peak satire. The Onion can deliver sociopolitical commentary across the spectrum at once, while also being entirely correct in the point it's making, while most actual news can't even get their facts right.
“Do you know who REALLY tells it like it is?
Judith Butler.”
Best joke made in a decade.
With the post-its in the text!!!! 💀☠️💀
Based
@@mangonel Hitler was a politician.
@@mangonel she is a political philosopher, so she informs the politicians who back her
Damn, we really live in a society 😩
96 likes, that’s like what butt pillows?
What an astute observation
It really makes you think...
We live in a little barbecue
6969 Likes lez go
"7 years ago" no fucking way man
I've lost count of how many times I've come back to this video. Every time it hits like I'm watching it for the first time, even though I could quote large segments of it from memory. Absolute perfection of writing, acting, camera work and editing. Best satire piece of all time.
It’s great being on the line discussing gender fluid with the boys
The funny thing is that I understood the Judith Butler quotes better than I understood the colloquial American English. What does "on the line" mean?
@@omp199 I think it means "on the phone" like a landline cable
@@omp199 "On the line" could refer to being on an assembly line in a factory.
ah yes, the gender fluid
@@mkano7434 Hey Mike, I need five gallons of gender fluid over here!
The expression on his face when he looks up after reading the Judith Butler quote always kills me
it's great xD
Yeah it’s hysterical
1:51
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... The Humble mic drop killed me...
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 1CORINTHIANS 10:23 REPLY
This is beautiful on so many levels!! Well done The Onion.
When I can't tell if the onion is making fun of feminist, trump voters, or both its a good vid
@@J_1791 Hint,
They're making fun of both.
@@J_1791 lol all that critique he said is legitimate though - and if you read 800 pages of theory you'd realize the feminists have good critiques of the subtle ways gender roles play into our everyday interactions.
But also, liberals are stupid for trying to make that shit the center of their ideology when everyday Americans are just trying to do their jobs and pay their fucking bills.
Both. It's making fun of both.
It's not both. If you were laughing at the expense of Trump voters during this video then you're just projecting.
Unless you think that just the fact that this guy voted for Trump is a hilarious joke, or take the mentioning of a steel mill to be some brutal burn on those idiot Trump voters...
@@1Peasant Gheeze, you don't gotta take it personal lol.
Look man, part of the absurdist humor in this clip comes from the notion that a trump supporter would ever pick up a book on feminist theory.
Honestly, boiling it down to just "feminism dumb lol" is an insult to the onion writers. They're far more clever than that. They know how to poke fun at everyone all at once. And no, it's not about sick burns, it's not about being mean. It's about pointing out funny contradictions in our society.
@@SJNaka101 Well said.
This guy is about to get plagiarized by actual college students.
Hilarious how verbose so much of this when discussed in public discourse. I don’t understand how academics can’t realize their methods of commutation are so wildly important for media perception.
I have no clue why but the idea of older steel working men attending queer slam poetry nights and talking gender studies at work is a hilarious image in my head
I think it's because it has the earnestness of outsiders who have found their place juxtaposed with the joy of something edgy like a poetry slam, and the fact that a guy like him would never, ever, ever, ever be able to understand what I just said. And all that ironically placed with him being one of them. Absurdism at its best. And layers of the onion.
@@marshwetland3808 Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would employ a man before a woman competing at 75% his wage?
Uhh because it's totally ridiculous? The only people who obsess about that stuff are highly emotional and fragile, the complete opposite of older working class men
@@TheSundayShooter if i take away the wage gap, would it hurt?
@@handlethesenutz It would be extremely disprofitable
This is exactly how humanities majors talk.
@Joe Sniffs Childen's Hair Biden yup
*In America
No not really. I know plenty of humanities majors and they never talked like that. Not to mention some of them voted for Trump, so...
@@TheGeorgeD13 I'm also talking from personal experience, dude. And most I've known either voted for Bernie or didn't vote at all.
@@laurocoman Well, mine vastly differs from yours.
As a leftist I find this fucking hilarious 🤣
No, please don't call yourself leftist. That’s such a cringe way of identifying yourself. Call yourself left-leaning, or label yourself as whatever political subcategory you identify as. Leftist to me immediately implies "American Proto-Communist" or "Radical Socialist". And that's coming from me, a European Social Democrat.
@@guardianofthehill I don’t think that any other political identity really describes me. I’m not a socialist, liberal or communist. I’m a leftist.
@@MinnowTFLeftist is fine if that’s what you want to call yourself. Who cares what someone says it means to them. Good for you 😁. The only reason someone would go so far in their explanation is if they’ve been listening to the demonization from the other side. Leftist just means left of center. That’s about it really
@@guardianofthehill Leftist in the US actually has meaning of its own. Considering he isn't a liberal, he probably is more center-left which means he disagrees at least to some part with liberalism and is more conservative leaning.
the way he pronounces "cishet"
my knees
sisset
sissette
is that... not how it's supposed to be pronounced??
I didn’t even know that was a fucking word💀
@@Tocaraca its supposed to be sis-het, not sisset. if that makes sense
The *wokest* steel worker.
Rondsun steel woker, really.
Would have been more woke if he had the same lesson but still wanted the Destroyer of Libya Hillary “Bringer of Slaves” Clinton to be locked up for her crimes as a capitalist.
This is satire. You understood that, right? It’s mocking this kind of dialogue.
That gave me a good chuckle, thanks
@@seetclear8947
Pretty sure he's just continuing the satire...
Great satire striking perfectly in both directions.
“You know who really tells it like it is… Judith Butler” really got me😭
_"A couple of other guys from work attended [the gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore] too, and now it's all we talk about on the line."_
-Mike Bridger, former Trump supporter
stolen
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518
Late reply, but no, it wasn't stolen. I literally quoted the video and added quotation marks. Everyone knows where it came from.
Is your pfp the cover of Witches and Wizards?
@@catarinarodrigues4829 i have no idea where my pfp is from. I just picked a stylized letter B. Also, i looked up this wizards and witches thing and the letter is a W, so idk why you said that?
@@babbisp1 Each book has a different letter, but i read it years ago and they might change the covers from country to country (in my language both "wizards" and "witches" start with B). Anyways, its a cool B
I need to watch this video a few times a year to remind myself, "This is NOT who you are arguing with online."
@@oldjarhead386 ; Actually your's does, moronic drumpf crotch sniffer!
beautifully said
Wow!! That’s a good point. I need to remind myself of that more often.
💯
Yeah... very fair point
This is so beautiful, it made me cry. Thank you, onion.
If only they could read
"when i attended a gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam" that did it for me!!!!!! LOL
SAME
I really need to see that, that would be amazing
@@ravenwolf3715 Some new perspectives in a cool format like poetry slam
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu hell yeah :3
Where's the sign up sheet
This is making fun of everyone at the same time, without making fun of anyone, talking absolute bullshit while dropping truth bombs all over. This messes with my head
Hell yeah, brother.
It seems, to me, that it's, just, making fun, of the idea, that, if everyone was given this stuff, to read, they would change their minds, to what progressives think is right, without any, of their preconceived bias, acting, up
(I'm a progressive, but I'm not gonna pretend, that I'm incapable, of being biased)
@@sevencubed_ I think it's more making fun of the fact that some progressives believe that steel factory workers in the Midwest would care enough about this kind of thing. Whilst also making it almost indecipherable to most 'uneducated' people
My god man, that's far too many commas.
@@sevencubed_ I think, it’s, more making, fun, of the, fact, that if, conservatives, were to, actually, read 800 pages, of, this, sort of, thing, they would, probably, change their, opinion, but no, conservative from a rural, background, would ever, actually, do that
this video really is art
Expertly rips the piss out of both factions. Good work
If I didn't know the Onion I'd think this was serious
it IS serious.
No its not. It's a joke. It's the Onion.
poes law
Since it's the onion it's 10x more funnier
lmao, nothing about your affirmative action propaganda is serious...
“Cisetté white men like myself”
Fancy cishet
This guy is a wierdo
Super problematic that he didn't say "person of cishetromasculine identity" instead
That's the least cishet spelling of cishet I've ever seen :D
I say sishè sounds better
Thank you, I laughed my ass off. After the past week of news, I needed a good laugh, so thank you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent work. My head would explode if an actual trump voter answered a question like this.
"Jesus.." *stares into space* IDK WHY THAT HAD ME DYING THE WAY IT DID
It killed me as well I have no idea why
Same.
@@d.a.5788 It's the pinnacle expression of an existential crisis.
"Its now all we talk about on the line" lmao
Yeah, that was my favorite thing he said.
The real question is, did he mean on the line like the phone line, or like online with the Internet?
@@givecamichips maybe the assembly line or other factory line? He did say he comes from a small steel town. That's the first thing that comes to mind because I've been working in a factory though. Could just be my... bias? I don't think that's the exact word I'm looking for, but it's close enough.
It was definitely meant to be a factory line. I love how it demonstrates why this kind of philosophy can't sway regular working class people and how intersectional theory is mostly for middle class people. The only people who would be simultaniously educated enough to break through the language barrier and sheltered enough to be convinced by it are collage and university educated people who haven't done a hard day's work in their life.
@@MrCompassionate01 so you're saying you have to be educated to understand anything other than manual labor?
I agree.
Good to see The Onion is still relevant. Good work!
"Is this satirizing the right or the left?" Both. Don't you see? No one is safe from the Onion.
It’s surprising to see that some people are having trouble seeing that the skit is making fun of liberal academics.
@@The-NSA It's making fun of both sides. As the Onion often does.
@@jamie6506 tell me how it satirizes the man in this video.
@@The-NSA It satirizes the right because they lack the mental capacity to think beyond simple sentences, and it satirizes the left because they honest to god think an 800 word essay will change the minds of any working-class folk.
I don't know if The liberals are loving it because they are thinking oh he's spreading a good message through making fun of Republicans meanwhile Republicans are thinking oh this nonsense is way too stupid for anybody to actually take seriously like who actually likes Hillary Clinton or doesn't like her because she's a woman. No she's just corrupt.
He went on to become gender studies professor at yale
Thanks patriarchy
there is something very crisp and satisfying about this man's voice.
steel-coated vocal chords.
That's just the _patriarchy_ talking...
I took a bite into his vocal chords, and yep, they were crispy.
The one thing that everyone can agree on.... :D
gay
just 800 pages and he had an ideology shift? damn.
This really is an Onion of satire, it's taking on so many different themes on different layers. Very clever stuff, bravo.
"That's all we talk about on the line now" haha
That destroyed me!!
I long for the sweet release of death.
*opens book*
*glasses appear*
Reading glasses. You'll learn for yourself in a few decades.
Yuval Langer So when you begin to read a book glasses magically appear?
@@cacao1312 you cut out the process of fumbling for the eyeglasses and putting them on in editing.
Yuval Langer It’s a joke 🤦🏿♂️
@@cacao1312 But that is how I wear my eyeglasses. I cut it in post production.
This is gold. Making fun of both sides at the same time
You know it's an Onion article when it starts with "t-Rump voter reads...".😂😂😂
You know it’s onion news when it says someone changed their mind after reading a leftist article.
@@knowstradamusucka5713 Republicans are incapable of changing their minds.
They just get mad wherever the finger is pointing.
@@loneskankster2242same could be said Bout extremist leftist. Teo sides of the same coin but someone on one side of the coin are literally incapable of seing the other
Guys, stop arguing. I'm a Political Science major with an interest in Political Theory. He's targeting me 😔
Based and logic pilled
Based and unemployed, forced to sell body
You should get a real degree instead of a degree in BS that will have you flipping burgers.
Oh no.... I'm a high school Junior who wants to major in that....
@@MrTheclevercat You should get a degree in letting people do what they want with their lives. No one cares what your opinion on their degree is.
This is some next level satirical comedy. Too advanced for our understanding.
@Isaac Kamstra I hope not
@@RandoRandleman what's wrong with that?
@@Beans-do6wc Genetically Modified Skeptic has a great video called "4 Ways Quacks Manipulate Their Audiences." Peterson is a loonball hack who just happens to have a sane idea periodically.
@@claytonreeves150 In what ways from opinions of your own is what I'm asking. I dont really wanna watch a video about that when i can just see your views on it
@@Beans-do6wc That's unfortunate. It means you're not really interested.
Fück, I knew it was gonna be Judith Butler 😂
The best feature of this piece by The Onion, is the comment section below. I enjoyed reading these responses! Just wonderful.
Somebody give The Onion's caster a raise. The damn actors they get for these bits are always superb
PragerU ad right after this ended. The world has no sense of self, but certainly gets irony.
The Almighty Algorithm doesn't understand irony but is nonetheless an expert at it.
I've lucky stopped being bombarded by those stupid propaganda adds, if I knew what I did to make it stop I would tell everyone.
@@therousingcoin2561: Lots and lots of feedback on ads you dislike, I'm guessing.
Wait, TH-cam has PragerU ads? Now youtube has lost the rest of it‘s remaining credibility
Wait what? The people who said black people had better lives in slavery have youtube ads now?
This is comedic gold! It walks such a perfect line
You are not alone, Mike. You are not alone!
you know they didn't need to pick sides to make fun of right?
they can just....make fun of both.
and they did.
Or maybe they are in both sides at the same time... somehow.
Bitchslapped oh you mean to have so many layer and meaning at the same time, like, like an onion?
Centricide now!
Cady Jones OHH SHEITT
Just A Clown Go back to Jreg video!!
I see it as a reality check. While academics take themselves very seriously when they think of and write these things, given the degree to which they actually might have an effect on the average working person, they might as well be speaking a different language.
Yeah, something we the left have to act for, understand that why trump won was bc we were like aliens to the general population, then again, It seems like the left is becoming more intelligible
Academics usually are writing for other academics. It’s like expecting a chem professor to write for the 8th grade earth science class to understand.
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 Guess again.
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 you lefties just love patting yourselves in the back for spewing nonsense, Dunning Kruger effect in full force
@@Abadon852456 bwhahaah ikr? They really take a lot of pride knowing they are so educated about non-binary fluid people and the alphabet club.
I wanna go to a gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore so bad, bro.
literally what i was thinking