This is a very powerful video and I love that it was aired on Juneteenth. We need to stay focused and remember "The revolution will not be televised" so stay woke.
Easily one of my favorite video essay creators. You deserve way more views it’s insane. I saw a TikTok the other day that was along the lines of “video essay people” being white. And a joke is a joke sure. But it doesn’t bother me cause I’m white lol. It bothers me because there are hundreds of wonderful POC video essays. Like have people never heard of cornbread tube?? Like honestly it’s a self report cause it shows that people just choose not to watch POC lol. What is the the most annoying about it is that usually POC video essays are the most impactful and meaningful, and they are everywhere. And even those that view it. There is no need to make POC insecure to learn things on the internet. People just choose not to listen to POC when they talk about things that matter, and as someone who is white and makes video essays, it’s clear as fucking day. Idk. Ig we should all hate people that gatekeep things lol
He might not want to say it but I can confirm that what you say is true. I watch A LOT of video essay content and the reception tends to fall in line with the audiences reception to the content creators race. Especially Black content creators with good quality videos like Sleven, I see them struggle to gain the views and support they deserve. It's almost as if their credibility is synonymous with their ethnic background and it's frustrating to see
@@Mdew7 absolutely. Hate the idea of other white people saying “this is a white people thing.” Whether it’s international or not, it discredits thousands of non-white creators. Learning things in the internet should never be a race thing
Evil corrupts what good forces have made or something like that I heard when Amazon announced The Rings of Power. Incredible how it still applies to this day.
Dope vid have you tried shorting your titles it might be more appealing to the viewer when going to click for a vid bc you already have great thumbnails all is missing is the title
It's true that some words do change over time, especially if they are intended at some point to represent a vaguely defined cause or movement, or set of principles. That lack of definition makes it easier for the word to change, and any attempt to keep a word the sole province of a group based on something arbitrary like skin color was probably doomed to failure. "Politically correct" went the same way. It used to mean using language that was considerate, and it stayed that way for about ten minutes before it was used as a device to control what people said and did. The mantra became, "You can't say that, it isn't politically correct". It swiftly became a pejorative, and announcing that something isn't politically correct has become a sarcastic mark of approval. Woke may have started out being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination, but quickly came to stand for identity politics, racial representation over merit, cancel-culture, equity over equality, and eventually the so-called victim hierarchy. People started to notice that those who called themselves woke, were often the most intolerant and aggressive individuals, who weren't merely alert when it came to race, but rather were obsessed with it. It started to flood out of the education system in people who felt morally righteous, but were blind to their own excesses. That's the point it become a pejorative. When the behavior of people using it became so repellent, others decided that if that's what woke was, they wanted nothing to do with it. How do you recover a term when an army of black-block angry students have stomped across it, assaulting people they don't agree with and calling for either extreme Socialism, or even Communism? The current usage is so far removed from what it once was. Groups like the oxymoronically named Antifa now own it. Far-left activists own it, and it doesn't have the same meaning any more.
@@varelmarais2222 Well the short answer is look at history, but that's not particularly helpful. So ... Means of production that are not privately owned cannot be exchanged and bartered, so no market prices emerge, especially when you've abolished a trading medium like money. Without those, no profits and losses. Without those, we don't learn whether we're using resources effectively, and we don't respond to shifting supply and demand issues. This leads to waste in some areas, shortages in others, and often through history deprivation and misery. Under-supply in some areas oversupply in others. Not enough bread, but a huge surplus of toothpicks, etc. The classless component just doesn't work with humans. There will always be some level of class structure, because we're all different, and we're all capable of different things. I may be really good at balancing an egg on a spoon, but that's not particularly useful. You may be particularly good at advanced and theoretical mathematics. Instantly we have a divide which is the basis of class. One of us has skills more valuable to society, and is thus elevated by society. This then plays out across the population. If 50% of society have the ability to do one thing, but only 0.01% of society have the ability to do something else, that 0.01% is going to be highly valued, assuming what they can do is important. Stateless? How do we predict that working? Some level of national administration will be required, and while Communism makes a big deal of workers owning the means to production, in reality a political party "Of the Workers" ends up owning it 'on their behalf'. In a Communist society that manifests as a mono-party outside Democratic processes. In history, they have routinely turned tyrannical because there are no democratic constraints to temper them. The only way then to remove them is by violent means such as assassination, a military coup, or bloody revolution, or the collapse of society and a return to Capitalism and possibly Democracy. There's no peaceful way to replace those effectively in charge, so Dictatorship. So to get back to your question, in theory there's nothing wrong with merely 'wanting' Communism as some theoretical aspiration. It's only when we try to implement it that millions die, because it's an idealistic vision of a utopia that is poorly thought out and doesn't take into account human nature or the cold realities of existence. In the family unit? Works to a point. Roll it out across society, and people suffer en-masse because it just doesn't work.
I hope both you and BackOfTheBus focus on how a Black woman, Prof. Kimberly Crenshaw created the vehicle for the co-opting of The Black Struggle through the creation of the paradigm of "INTERSECTIONALISM".
it doesnt even have a specific definition for the well off people who use it as an insult. to them it simply means "resisting eurocentric cultural norms, including monarchy, feudalism, slavery, child labor and marital r4pe/forced marriage"
its an umbrella term just like what sjw is and mainly about the constant modern Leftleaning ideology forced into Entertainment and most of the time it is really bad especially idiotic is the inclusion of that ideology in history because it really makes no sense discussing capitalism or communism in a time where it didnt existed ,all the Ideologies are very modern and sound really retarded for people way in the past , for example the ideo of individualism really didnt exist even if you were a high noble your identity was heavily linked with your family and not you as an individual
This is a very powerful video and I love that it was aired on Juneteenth. We need to stay focused and remember "The revolution will not be televised" so stay woke.
Its so hard to deal with people and how they refuse to do research on things with easily find-able facts. instead they just wanna stir up trouble
Easily one of my favorite video essay creators. You deserve way more views it’s insane. I saw a TikTok the other day that was along the lines of “video essay people” being white. And a joke is a joke sure. But it doesn’t bother me cause I’m white lol. It bothers me because there are hundreds of wonderful POC video essays. Like have people never heard of cornbread tube?? Like honestly it’s a self report cause it shows that people just choose not to watch POC lol. What is the the most annoying about it is that usually POC video essays are the most impactful and meaningful, and they are everywhere. And even those that view it. There is no need to make POC insecure to learn things on the internet. People just choose not to listen to POC when they talk about things that matter, and as someone who is white and makes video essays, it’s clear as fucking day. Idk. Ig we should all hate people that gatekeep things lol
I appreciate that man & hope I continue to drop Video Essays you enjoy 🤝
He might not want to say it but I can confirm that what you say is true. I watch A LOT of video essay content and the reception tends to fall in line with the audiences reception to the content creators race. Especially Black content creators with good quality videos like Sleven, I see them struggle to gain the views and support they deserve. It's almost as if their credibility is synonymous with their ethnic background and it's frustrating to see
@@Mdew7 absolutely. Hate the idea of other white people saying “this is a white people thing.” Whether it’s international or not, it discredits thousands of non-white creators. Learning things in the internet should never be a race thing
Awesome video! I hope it goes viral.. Definitely needs to be seen.
Tight videos. On point as usual.🙏🏾
Appreciate you always supporting!
Beautiful Description on the Cloning of the Word for Other groups to steal the Air out of our Sails!
AMAZING WORK! can't wait for the next parts💖
Thank you! We're working on getting Part 2 out as soon as possible.
Evil corrupts what good forces have made or something like that I heard when Amazon announced The Rings of Power. Incredible how it still applies to this day.
Makes sense.
Mmmm, appreciating this. Respect.
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Appreciate you! 🤝
dope video
Dope vid have you tried shorting your titles it might be more appealing to the viewer when going to click for a vid bc you already have great thumbnails all is missing is the title
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to test it out an see what happens.
It's true that some words do change over time, especially if they are intended at some point to represent a vaguely defined cause or movement, or set of principles. That lack of definition makes it easier for the word to change, and any attempt to keep a word the sole province of a group based on something arbitrary like skin color was probably doomed to failure.
"Politically correct" went the same way. It used to mean using language that was considerate, and it stayed that way for about ten minutes before it was used as a device to control what people said and did. The mantra became, "You can't say that, it isn't politically correct". It swiftly became a pejorative, and announcing that something isn't politically correct has become a sarcastic mark of approval.
Woke may have started out being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination, but quickly came to stand for identity politics, racial representation over merit, cancel-culture, equity over equality, and eventually the so-called victim hierarchy. People started to notice that those who called themselves woke, were often the most intolerant and aggressive individuals, who weren't merely alert when it came to race, but rather were obsessed with it. It started to flood out of the education system in people who felt morally righteous, but were blind to their own excesses.
That's the point it become a pejorative. When the behavior of people using it became so repellent, others decided that if that's what woke was, they wanted nothing to do with it.
How do you recover a term when an army of black-block angry students have stomped across it, assaulting people they don't agree with and calling for either extreme Socialism, or even Communism? The current usage is so far removed from what it once was. Groups like the oxymoronically named Antifa now own it. Far-left activists own it, and it doesn't have the same meaning any more.
Thoughtful commentary right here.
I don't get it, what's wrong with wanting a stateless classless moneyless society?
@@varelmarais2222 Well the short answer is look at history, but that's not particularly helpful. So ...
Means of production that are not privately owned cannot be exchanged and bartered, so no market prices emerge, especially when you've abolished a trading medium like money. Without those, no profits and losses. Without those, we don't learn whether we're using resources effectively, and we don't respond to shifting supply and demand issues. This leads to waste in some areas, shortages in others, and often through history deprivation and misery. Under-supply in some areas oversupply in others. Not enough bread, but a huge surplus of toothpicks, etc.
The classless component just doesn't work with humans. There will always be some level of class structure, because we're all different, and we're all capable of different things. I may be really good at balancing an egg on a spoon, but that's not particularly useful. You may be particularly good at advanced and theoretical mathematics. Instantly we have a divide which is the basis of class. One of us has skills more valuable to society, and is thus elevated by society. This then plays out across the population. If 50% of society have the ability to do one thing, but only 0.01% of society have the ability to do something else, that 0.01% is going to be highly valued, assuming what they can do is important.
Stateless? How do we predict that working? Some level of national administration will be required, and while Communism makes a big deal of workers owning the means to production, in reality a political party "Of the Workers" ends up owning it 'on their behalf'. In a Communist society that manifests as a mono-party outside Democratic processes. In history, they have routinely turned tyrannical because there are no democratic constraints to temper them. The only way then to remove them is by violent means such as assassination, a military coup, or bloody revolution, or the collapse of society and a return to Capitalism and possibly Democracy. There's no peaceful way to replace those effectively in charge, so Dictatorship.
So to get back to your question, in theory there's nothing wrong with merely 'wanting' Communism as some theoretical aspiration. It's only when we try to implement it that millions die, because it's an idealistic vision of a utopia that is poorly thought out and doesn't take into account human nature or the cold realities of existence.
In the family unit? Works to a point. Roll it out across society, and people suffer en-masse because it just doesn't work.
I hope both you and BackOfTheBus focus on how a Black woman, Prof. Kimberly Crenshaw created the vehicle for the co-opting of The Black Struggle through the creation of the paradigm of "INTERSECTIONALISM".
I'll look into that. Be on the lookout for part 3
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it doesnt even have a specific definition for the well off people who use it as an insult. to them it simply means "resisting eurocentric cultural norms, including monarchy, feudalism, slavery, child labor and marital r4pe/forced marriage"
its an umbrella term just like what sjw is and mainly about the constant modern Leftleaning ideology forced into Entertainment and most of the time it is really bad especially idiotic is the inclusion of that ideology in history because it really makes no sense discussing capitalism or communism in a time where it didnt existed ,all the Ideologies are very modern and sound really retarded for people way in the past , for example the ideo of individualism really didnt exist even if you were a high noble your identity was heavily linked with your family and not you as an individual