When a STUDENT asks about JK ROWLING this happens

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2024
  • #jkrowling #debate
    You will see the transformation / epiphany occur in real time.
    A critical thinking exercise with students about not what to think, but how to think. I have no opinion. Discussing the controversy surrounding JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter.
    Subscribe to support the channel and new weekly critical thinking episodes.
    On X @WTSmith17

ความคิดเห็น • 7K

  • @mikeford1273
    @mikeford1273 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6288

    The teacher is 100% correct and sensible so expect him to lose his job any time now!

    • @8iker
      @8iker 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +473

      That's an incredibly sad statement because unfortunately it's probably true!

    • @AXE668
      @AXE668 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +338

      This is the problem: the mere fact he's trying to analyse what's being said and how it's being interpreted would put him as a transphobe.

    • @daviru02
      @daviru02 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      lol probably true!

    • @profylr
      @profylr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +200

      @@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6ttnew to the internet? Unfortunately he is the type of person who gets cancelled. He isn’t “picking a side”.

    • @-WiseGuy-
      @-WiseGuy- 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

      ​@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt
      You need to learn how to read more carefully!🤦‍♂️

  • @jimh472
    @jimh472 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3342

    "I'm just going off what a lot of other people have said"...sums things up perfectly.

    • @AlisonL520
      @AlisonL520 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      See this is what it feels like. I'm trans myself and have looked into it all and you can see a clear path of transphobia. Starting from loose comments, then donating a large amount of money to transphobic TERFs and then justifying herself in in a great big paper that made things worse. I'm not saying everyone should search up everything but should be critical
      I will say though, I grew up with Harry Potter and I will still consume the media because in my opinion, my joy out ways my little bit does. Though I pirate films and either read old books or pirate those online too. Just cheaper

    • @phoebecaulfield4062
      @phoebecaulfield4062 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +295

      @@AlisonL520 I think you need to stop calling women "TERFS". You cannot expect to be treated with respect while you disrespect others.

    • @AlisonL520
      @AlisonL520 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@phoebecaulfield4062 It's literally what so many people call them and many of themselves

    • @L_Martin
      @L_Martin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

      @@AlisonL520 It's weird that your are replying to a comment about going off of vague character slander with zero facts, and your reply is exactly that: you are making incredibly vague statements and you're even altering your behaviour to steal from JKR by illegally consuming her work for free, based on...what? "a clear path of transphobia" - apparently not clear enough for you to be specific.

    • @L_Martin
      @L_Martin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +169

      @@AlisonL520 In the UK, the belief that men cannot become women and visa versa is a protected belief, as in we are legally allowed to think male and female are real and gender identity does not take precedence over biological reality. If you want to call all women who hold that belief "TERFs" (regardless of if they are even radical feminists), that is the result of your ideology about gender identity theory, an ideology the rest of us are legally allowed to not believe in.

  • @geoffneal9146
    @geoffneal9146 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1606

    "People have been saying..."
    "I haven't really thought about it"
    2 problems with the world right there!

    • @smithy2365
      @smithy2365 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      It's all about regurgitating what people have heard, or think they've heard.. Nobody can think for themselves anymore or have personal opinions. It's like everyone's scared to be called out

    • @JK-hu4lu
      @JK-hu4lu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I disagree there's a problem here given his age and willingness to learn. Maybe the guy doesn't use twitter, maybe he's not that interested in the debate, and has heard a common trope about a very famous author and a very famous set of books. And when the guy has said throw a challenging subject at me, he's automatically used a very worldwide challenging subject. He's young, he's learning, no one knows everything and he's taken it on board. The problem is the people who don't question it when presented with a response. I think good on the student for opening his mind, not getting angry or confrontational, and seeing the other side.

    • @Serpenzeye
      @Serpenzeye 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@smithy2365 I agree that I think people are afraid to be called out. If you go against a common thought, whether it is somebody’s personal opinion or regurgitated opinion, these days you can expect to be attacked by a mob mentality. This was a wonderful example of teaching critical thinking, but it is not the easy way to go for sure.

    • @Serpenzeye
      @Serpenzeye 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@JK-hu4lu I don’t think age has anything to do with it. Even if they are an older person in their 70s, if they are willing to have an open mind and learn to critically think, it’s a beautiful thing. This guy is young and learning, yes… but anyone can also be old and learning. Never stop learning is the important thing!

    • @velvetinedrapes4359
      @velvetinedrapes4359 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@smithy2365 I noticed this years back around 2015 with Some videos where students protested people like Ben Shapiro or Milo Yannopoulis. Students would turn up to protest hate but didn't know anything about the person they were protesting and they couldn't give any examples. Part of it I think is a level of FOMO but its like induced by peer pressure. Making your presence known to the extremists to stay out the spotlight and have an easier time in college

  • @grendelbear
    @grendelbear 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +137

    This man is EXACTLY what we should be praying that ALL of our teachers are. The fact that he was fired shows how weak and awful the people are that run the school (and most schools). This is upside down world and it's a tragedy. Shame on them.

    • @mads597
      @mads597 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Why pray

    • @dcmarcello
      @dcmarcello 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No. This is what we should be praying all artists are. He has made you part of his art, and you don't even know it. If irony were a liquid, everyone in this comment section would have been drowned by now and wouldn't even know why. This is sheer genius.

  • @smellyfinger684
    @smellyfinger684 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2121

    They hate her because they're told to. That should alarm you.

    • @a1pha_star
      @a1pha_star 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      Most people are sheep.

    • @arcon97
      @arcon97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Reminds me of 2016-present with Trump.

    • @steelblueflame
      @steelblueflame 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It DOES, Greatly...

    • @mammybelle7302
      @mammybelle7302 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      They hate her because she speaks facts and not playing into their ideology illusion. < Fact!

    • @RavenMobile
      @RavenMobile 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@arcon97 In what regard? People being told blindly to hate Trump, but not having any actual examples of him being a sexist racist?

  • @eccehomer8182
    @eccehomer8182 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1255

    “I haven’t really thought about it.” No 💩
    The whole problem of our society summed up in a few words.

    • @slowcatto
      @slowcatto 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One dumb, naive or unprepared student proves your point, eh?

    • @jamessones4044
      @jamessones4044 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      All planned that way.

    • @helgashouseofpain
      @helgashouseofpain 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Exacerbated by “I don’t really have an opinion, I’m just going with the herd” (in so many words, mind you I’m paraphrasing)

    • @ZiffXGames
      @ZiffXGames 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Its insane people can have such a strong hateful opinion toward someone without even knowing why or thinking about it...

    • @colupton7415
      @colupton7415 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Exactly, it's actually really sad and only leading to a negative outcome for society

  • @booker0110
    @booker0110 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +961

    Full marks to that student who found his critical thinking and admitted his error.

    • @thecloudtherapist
      @thecloudtherapist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Yes, extremely rare these days, especially on your side of the pond. Things seem sooo polarised now.

    • @constructenglish1
      @constructenglish1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yes, credit to him. He seems like a good kid

    • @hirakaiko5570
      @hirakaiko5570 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      This is exactly what teachers are supposed to be doing. The student isn't stupid for thinking the way that he did, his past teachers had let him down - esp. obvious in this case because the student was clearly eager to learn.

    • @bobdarrick2628
      @bobdarrick2628 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, but to go a step further it needs to be taught that tr*ns stuff is wrong & that being negative towards it is not a bad thing.

    • @duki8616
      @duki8616 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      not really an error. Just never had the knowledge to make that assertion. An assertion which is true.

  • @Marshmellow3971
    @Marshmellow3971 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +649

    My favorite part is the teacher never argued in the negative, he wasn’t taking the position that Rowling wasn’t transphobic and debating the student, he was just asking questions and letting the student reach a conclusion using logic. Phenomenal teaching.

    • @lefantomer
      @lefantomer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@SoiSomething The kid is obviously struggling to hold on to the woke belief that Rowling is "bigoted" for stating reality. Rowling never needed to apologize. "Transsexualism" is not objectively true and no one has the right to insist that you parrot the notion that it is. People who insist on pretending to be the opposite sex should be tolerated as that is their right, but they have no right to demand that others believe it to be true.

    • @ronhoward121
      @ronhoward121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I disagree; after investigating two tweets, he asked "Now that we found you agree with those two tweets, do you think it is fair that so many people are piling on her?"
      But it's vitally important to consider that there are many other examples of Rowling being transp hobic. In no way should either he or the student be jumping to conclusions on whether OTHER people are justified in THEIR atta cks on Rowling which may be related, for example, to her misinformed essay against transwomen in womens' spaces. Until that question, the teacher was doing very well; just had to had in a biased jump to conclusions at the very end.

    • @ronhoward121
      @ronhoward121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lefantomerThose tweets aren't why she's bigoted, and it's not for saying "sex is real" which is believed by basically all trans people. Nor are people criticizing Rowling "only for" being gender critical; it's because of her support for anti-trans activism, making it harder for trans people to live in society, support for prison policy that, by the numbers, results in more SA (but only for the trans women in men's prisons), her unfounded skepticism gender affirming care. All of these things are positions she's allowed to hold... but they are also transp hobic.

    • @lefantomer
      @lefantomer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ronhoward121 Good for her. What the hell makes you think you have the right to insist that other people "affirm" your "transsexual" nonsense? There is no such thing as changing your sex. Feel lucky that you are tolerated and stop trying to bully others into "affirming" that 2+2=5.

    • @AzureTwilight
      @AzureTwilight 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      This is how REAL teachers teach. Instead of taking a stance and only teaching based on that they teach their students how to think for themselves and define their own values for themselves. He taught only the ability to research so the student could find or not find evidence to support their argument. The students convinced themselves they were wrong in their own eyes. He did not just say "you are wrong". Too many people in the profession now don't understand how to teach like this and even more don't seem to care to.

  • @xanx1234
    @xanx1234 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +806

    Full applause to the student who eventually realised and said “I feel like an idiot now!”, excellent teaching method.

    • @samhilton4173
      @samhilton4173 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      He'll probably still virtue signal and believe whatever source of information he looks to tells him.

    • @SneedTechIndustries-gf5hn
      @SneedTechIndustries-gf5hn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly. People can be wrong or informed or make mistakes. What matters is the openness and willingness to look at themselves or issues critically and assess them logically and move forward if wrong. The biggest problem today is people will 'die on the cross' of being wrong rather than seek the truth.

    • @hanssvineklev648
      @hanssvineklev648 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @xanx1234. But why didn’t he “feel like an idiot” to begin with?
      “If five people are saying it, it must be true.” Really? REALLY??!?
      He shouldn’t have needed for someone to show him he was an idiot. It should have been intuitive.

    • @south6bt
      @south6bt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@samhilton4173 Nah, I give credit where credit is due, in the past any push back to these claims being made by the students in colleges and universities were met with contempt and anger, now it's met with a debate which is clearly how it always should have been. Kids these days have been told all this stuff, so they agree with it, but they don't know why they agree with it so they're more likely to ask why it's the case rather than just conforming to it being the case. Well done to this young student for be open to push back.

    • @tonyr.3435
      @tonyr.3435 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd have to disagree and say this student is going to remain as is, be tossed about by the loudest grievance to catch his attention or simply happen to be nearest to for the foreseeable future and most likely the duration of his time above dirt.
      He couldn't give his own opinion or thought on a single question asked of him.
      In the end, yes he said he felt like an idiot, but he couldn't even make his own mind up on that either.
      My analysis:
      Name: Ken, future cuck, will vote blue no matter who.

  • @alihenderson5910
    @alihenderson5910 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1148

    Wow, that kid learned more in five minutes than in his whole previous education.

    • @stephenmason5682
      @stephenmason5682 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did he learn? Or did he simply lick his wounds and return to being his own self confessed idiot?

    • @andrewbevan3933
      @andrewbevan3933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Hopefully he came away knowing less...having unlearned much that he thought he knew from his previous "education". And he's all the wiser for it. A lot of highly educated people know a lot of things that are not true.

    • @andrewwelsh6638
      @andrewwelsh6638 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Not sure what his previous eduction was if anything.

    • @alihenderson5910
      @alihenderson5910 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt Way to miss the point, nevermind.

    • @imopman
      @imopman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Shows what can be done if you do not have a woke or woke cowered teacher.

  • @VivianStorm
    @VivianStorm 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    Thank you Warren. I am sorry that sharing this very calm and educated dialogue has come with a cost for you personally. I appreciate your voice.

  • @ellexusse
    @ellexusse 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +202

    I am so happy to see a real TEACHER. Not an influencer. Not a propagandist. A teacher to teaches people to critically think. Thank you!!!

    • @opinion3742
      @opinion3742 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      No, you are happy to see someone who appears to back your opinions. Did we learn who the woman was that was forced out of her job just for saying sex is real? Was that really all there was to it?

    • @Grigeral
      @Grigeral 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@opinion3742 he didn't support any theories, he pushed the student to think for themselves, that's it. All he said was "Do 'you' think it's bad?" because he kept reiterating what 'other' people think.
      And seeing as he's just lost his job because of this, I'd say yes... That 'is' all there is to it.
      The left are perpetually shown to be hypocritical, self-righteous, bigoted and hatefilled people who do nothing by tear down anything that disagrees with them. They scream oppression while simultaneously 'being' the oppressors on every single platform they have. There are so many examples of this that at this point, the only possible excuse for not knowing this is by actively and intentionally closing your eyes to it.

    • @KingPossum
      @KingPossum 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@opinion3742 people with critical thinking skills clearly saw the teacher teaching the student who did seem to learn something from the lesson the teacher taught the student. we didn't need to "learn who the woman was that was forced out of her job just for saying sex is real?" as that was what Rowling said and wasn't the point of the lesson. by the way you failed the lesson.

    • @liamn2030
      @liamn2030 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@opinion3742 You wayyyy missed the point. And for your information, I'm inclined to believe you can find an example of what you ask for if you look; after all, google is free. But you're not going to. You'd rather assume that none such example exists because that goes along with YOUR opinions. Confirmation bias applies to everyone, even me. In any case, the reason I'm not going out to check is because it doesn't matter. The point was the teacher guiding the student through reevaluating his stances which he discovers he doesn't actually agree with under further inspection. For all it matters J.K. Rowling's tweet was one of opinion and meant in a more symbolic stance. The teacher is not supporting J.K. Rowling in this or saying that what she says is true. He's simply asking the student to look deeper into the stances he thought he held, but on closer inspection doesn't, which is something we all should do. Whether there was more to the tweet or not is a question of hypotheticals and otherwise not relevant to the discussion at hand. You prefer to interpret everything as a political statement, and any doubt of your beliefs is an attack against your identity. Any discussion that might rebuke parts of your ideology is suddenly offensive to you. Please learn to be more empathetic with your fellow man, to consider what others are saying, because we all have reasons for doing what we do and it's important to understand them. I believe in you. You can do better.

    • @opinion3742
      @opinion3742 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@liamn2030 "Even me" - love it! I am doing better. Context - I absolutely insist. My objection is to people calling this the teaching of critical thinking skills. And I'm asking what kind of critical thinking skills don't include asking the student if he gained his opinion from the tweet alone or within the context of the tweet and any other information he had on the matter? But where does politics come in to any of this? Rowling has made explicitly transphobic comments, and taken explicitly transphobic actions. If I have pointed out that these play into the hands of reactionaries and fascists it is in response to other remarks made to me. But the view that trans people exist is not political. It is a belief I hold. One that I think is based on sound information. And there is good reason to believe that there is more than a simple lesson in how to think going on in this video. And there certainly is among many of the people responding to it here. It could be yourself included. I would have to look back at your other comments. And I have to say that is too much effort at the moment. I could guess, or you could tell me, or you could repeat that it is irrelevant. There is always more going on that is expressed on the surface of words.

  • @swagmanandy
    @swagmanandy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +762

    Jk wasn't apologising, she was just reiterating a fact.

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      She was being diplomatic.

    • @raoulduke344
      @raoulduke344 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      Good, she had nothing to apologize for.

    • @berserkasaurusrex4233
      @berserkasaurusrex4233 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@raoulduke344 She has a lot to apologize for, just not in that particular instance. Her years of pandering to these nutjobs with all the suddenly black Hermiones and what not were not helpful, though.

    • @chuchu5946
      @chuchu5946 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@berserkasaurusrex4233I wanna see Malfroy call black Hermione “Mud blood” in the upcoming tv series. That would be wild af.

    • @Byorin
      @Byorin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      @@berserkasaurusrex4233 JK Rowling created the Harry Potter universe. It’s hers. She just decided to share it with the rest of us.
      She doesn’t have to apologize ever, when it’s Harry Potter related. She could approve of Hermione being white, black, albino or polka dotted and it would still be within her authority, regardless of what entitled readers think.

  • @trailertrish2587
    @trailertrish2587 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1264

    She has no reason to apologize.

    • @gumse666
      @gumse666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When you apologise they smell weakness and attack 10 times harder. With that said she brought this upon herself by years of woke virtue signalling. So the woke crowd saw her as an ally and when she broke ranks they considered her a traitor. So in the end, as so often before: notmyproblem.jpg

    • @outsidelookingin4657
      @outsidelookingin4657 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      True, when you actually listen to what she wrote in reply to the first comment it was a apology she was just repeating what she said in the first comments in a different way. Love the author.

    • @martinborm2871
      @martinborm2871 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Agreed. And she didn't apologise. She just clarified.

    • @user-rm8lr3tt7m
      @user-rm8lr3tt7m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@martinborm2871she kinda said i'm sorry you feel that way. In a more sophisticated manner.

    • @backintimealwyn5736
      @backintimealwyn5736 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      and she never did.

  • @lorilopez5037
    @lorilopez5037 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    You were patient and brilliant. They didn’t deserve you.

  • @joedonahue5687
    @joedonahue5687 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +559

    This teacher should be the new president of Harvard! Bring some sanity back!

    • @tunasandwich8049
      @tunasandwich8049 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Rationality isn't appealing to suckers willing to spend a life's fortune for a useless degree

    • @terribletimmy2
      @terribletimmy2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He'll need to plagiarize a LOT more if he wants that job

    • @sherieharkins2460
      @sherieharkins2460 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Love them both for the dialogue!

    • @teamtundra2619
      @teamtundra2619 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What

    • @1hipcrip771
      @1hipcrip771 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Perhaps commissioner on education for the USA!

  • @DinoAlberini
    @DinoAlberini 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +488

    Kid: “JK is extremely transphobic”
    Same kid a minute later: “I don’t really think she’s transphobic”

    • @geologick
      @geologick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That's not a kid, that's a grown woman who's been on testosterone for a year or more

    • @sheridan5175
      @sheridan5175 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The exact quote is “she has had a history of being extremely transphobic” which is a totally different statement but go off

    • @potatoheadpokemario1931
      @potatoheadpokemario1931 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Transphobic is just another word for based

    • @DinoAlberini
      @DinoAlberini 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@sheridan5175 yeah, “totally different” 🤣🤣🤣

    • @PH4RX
      @PH4RX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@sheridan5175you forgot the important addendum: "I have heard".
      So it’s not "this is the truth" but "someone else claimed this to be the truth" which in the further conversation extended to "and I haven’t confirmed but believed it based on a large number of people saying so".

  • @clareblom1
    @clareblom1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +878

    This is what education should be. Teaching students to think critically.
    Bravo.

    • @noelpucarua2843
      @noelpucarua2843 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What do you mean by "critically"?

    • @furrycow9263
      @furrycow9263 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@johnludwig8291If you could think critically, then you would not present your speculation as fact

    • @vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898
      @vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I lost my job because of that. 😃 It was 2009, I think. I was teaching critical thinking, but then teachers who had formation in certain universities were not allowed to teach anymore, mine included. These schools were based on critical thinking, but teacher from classical teaching schools (obey, comb your hair, don't chew gum) were fine.

    • @SecretScholars
      @SecretScholars  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      @@johnludwig8291 This was not scripted. I assure you. I do make narrative films, but this was just a random conversation I almost didn't post.

    • @punchinpupun
      @punchinpupun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@johnludwig8291 comments as dumb as yours make me lose faith in humanity 😮

  • @daftpunk89
    @daftpunk89 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +188

    These are the types of teachers we desperately need in our schools

    • @Bear10174
      @Bear10174 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I promise you, schools, college and universities are still full of these kind of people. They are the ones busy actually teaching useful things to young people and don't have the time to push "the agender". They are also to busy teaching what needs to be taught to have these conversations with every single student. This whole video s about not just relying on a vocal minority with an agenda to form your thoughts.

    • @mikeross4
      @mikeross4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I bet he would not last long in a Texas school under present circumstances.

    • @michael1
      @michael1 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Better to put them where people go to learn

  • @javiersds8081
    @javiersds8081 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This is one of the best teacher - student interactions I've seen in my life. The professor is not trying to put this kid down or patronize him, but help him learn a lesson via his own means. Amazing.

  • @mgkelly3389
    @mgkelly3389 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1221

    He’s a real educator. We need more like him.

    • @spoonerbooner
      @spoonerbooner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      There are loads of us

    • @psibug565
      @psibug565 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@spoonerboonerWe can always do with more.

    • @spoonerbooner
      @spoonerbooner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@psibug565 I'm trying! 😁

    • @ALinn-vr3nl
      @ALinn-vr3nl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@spoonerboonerThank you. What grades do you teach, please?

    • @spoonerbooner
      @spoonerbooner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ALinn-vr3nl post 16, creative practice. Critical thinking being a key part

  • @clairetasker9181
    @clairetasker9181 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +428

    Hats off to this teacher, helping young people to actually see what is real and how to reason through these minefields. Hats off to JK Rowling for standing up for what she believes in.

    • @JohnSmith-kf8mv
      @JohnSmith-kf8mv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      And hats off to the student for his "oops" realisation at the end.

    • @mrow7598
      @mrow7598 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Need more teachers like this. Force kids to explain their positions and not just repeat what other people have said.

    • @daved5071
      @daved5071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@mrow7598need more teachers for adult ‘education’ too, unfortunately

    • @lethalsub
      @lethalsub 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Hats off to the teacher for using the same tactic as Ben Shapiro. Hats off to Rowling for being involved with Helen Joyce, who has said that trans people are a 'huge problem to a sane world'.
      EDIT: bugger, I forgot the \s.

    • @Mistmantle88
      @Mistmantle88 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@lethalsubpretty sure she said trans ACTIVISTS are the problem, not trans people generally.

  • @mr.anderson9863
    @mr.anderson9863 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +326

    Critical thinking was mandatory highschool coursing back in my day. This is beautiful.

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And y’all still fell for right wing conspiracies.

    • @thecloudtherapist
      @thecloudtherapist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Reasoning and philosophy should be added to that. Most people not only utter the wrong words and mean something else but they can't read the words or someone else and interpret them through a passionless lens.

    • @drooooop
      @drooooop 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dewilew2137They’re also falling for this video as if it’s real and not a script…conservative IQ is barred at 85

    • @iTzic21
      @iTzic21 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thecloudtherapist I'm not from the americas but isn't this what English class in English speaking countries is supposed to teach?

    • @Cobalt1520
      @Cobalt1520 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is there any other type of thinking?

  • @doctornov7
    @doctornov7 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +223

    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    - Christopher Hitchens

    • @MartinHiggins1972
      @MartinHiggins1972 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Obv.

    • @thecloudtherapist
      @thecloudtherapist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not surprised Hitchens would choose the "how" over the "what" and "why".

    • @doctornov7
      @doctornov7 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Speak plainly, please.@@thecloudtherapist

    • @user-ro2yf4hq2i
      @user-ro2yf4hq2i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      CH R. I. P. Was the best!

  • @andrewturner6642
    @andrewturner6642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1491

    It's a shame all teachers aren't like this.
    JK Rowling should be lionized for encouraging children to read.

    • @user-rm8lr3tt7m
      @user-rm8lr3tt7m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You mean in the way Jeff Bezos became a billionaire by selling books?

    • @BennettMats
      @BennettMats 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Should she be lionized for lying for people that are transphobes, or spreading ideas of trans women being predators or referring to trans women as "men in dresses"?

    • @Offshoreorganbuilder
      @Offshoreorganbuilder 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@user-rm8lr3tt7mI know nothing about the man. Which books did he sell?

    • @andrewturner6642
      @andrewturner6642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@user-rm8lr3tt7m so are you saying you would rather children remain illiterate?

    • @paulneilson4106
      @paulneilson4106 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-rm8lr3tt7mhow many books did he right.

  • @dryster123
    @dryster123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +897

    Unfortunately, social media is telling people what to think, instead of people learning how to think.

    • @enterpassword3313
      @enterpassword3313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Lol how ironic, you just randomly said that because you heard other people saying it. You didnt learn a thing from the video

    • @dryster123
      @dryster123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You are interpreting what I said the wrong way. That is the consequence of 2D text.

    • @enterpassword3313
      @enterpassword3313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dryster123 lol no, nice excuse... "2d text"... hilarious

    • @enterpassword3313
      @enterpassword3313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dryster123 i love how you felt the need to specify 2d text, like maybe 3d text would have been correctly interpreted lmao

    • @Atlas718
      @Atlas718 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      @@enterpassword3313 So its ironic because someone found a phrase true and fitting and decided to use it? Would you say that its ironic to say that gravity is real because other people said it aswell?
      There is a difference between throwing out phrases that have no correlation with the topic.
      And using your own brain on whether you agree with the phrase or not and using it appropriately.
      Just because other people have said it, it doesn't make it brainless to use it. It becomes brainless when you use it thoughtlessly.

  • @Beachgirl00213
    @Beachgirl00213 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    She's not bigoted. She's honest. She is not transphobic.

    • @EmlynBoyle
      @EmlynBoyle หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's not transphobic for being honest about her transphobia? Okay then...

    • @davids.2317
      @davids.2317 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@EmlynBoyle the Scottish police don't think she is transphobic.

    • @andrewganner6581
      @andrewganner6581 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Poeple can't handle truth anymore

    • @averyintelligence
      @averyintelligence 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@EmlynBoyle what evidence of her being transphobic is there?

  • @user-wj6yg3zt4k
    @user-wj6yg3zt4k หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    We live in a a time where having unbiased basic critical thinking is taken as something incredible.
    What a shame this time is.

  • @popcorn3407
    @popcorn3407 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +933

    I'm relieved this video went the direction it is. To everyone I spoke to that said JK Rowling is bad, they never even know what she said. People are such virtue signalers I swear.

    • @trailertrish2587
      @trailertrish2587 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      Sad isn't it?

    • @caitlin1142
      @caitlin1142 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      People are sheep

    • @markpostgate2551
      @markpostgate2551 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      At the top of that propaganda chain someone read it, then decided "I must make sure that none of our believers read this" and then passed the message down the chain: "this is hateful and bigoted, whatever you do, don't read: it will upset and disgust you too much and besides by reading it you are being complicit by giving her a platform in your mind." and that is enough to scare the others off from reading.

    • @andrewjoyner4133
      @andrewjoyner4133 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      I remember having a back and forth with someone in the comments and I asked them to give an example of when JKR was bigoted. They said 'well they wrote this essay' bla bla.
      They can't give examples because there aren't any so they make it as vague af.
      JK did indeed write an essay but there is nothing transphobic there. It is their interpretation.

    • @markpostgate2551
      @markpostgate2551 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      @@andrewjoyner4133
      It depends on your definition of "transphobic". The people labelling her as transphobic literally believe it is transphobic to not agree with the statement "transwomen are women". By that definition, most people are transphobic! By that definition "transphobic" just means non-believer. It would be like labelling anyone "Christophobic" who didn't believe the consecrated communion wafer is actually the body of Christ.

  • @Lebatron1970
    @Lebatron1970 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +508

    Right off the bat he demonstrates why we call these people sheep. In the first minute he admits he's just going by what he was told and didn't come to the conclusion himself.

    • @ryanweaver3910
      @ryanweaver3910 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      but have you ever changed anyone's mind by calling them a sheep? the teacher didn't call the student a sheep (and judging by the voice, we're talking about a kid here), nor did he deride the student in any way for not thinking critically. Instead, he calmly and respectfully lead the student through a discourse that showed him the errors in his thinking. these people that we call "sheep" (and, trust me, I've been guilty of this far too often as well) are not sheep. they are people. a sheep does not have the ability to learn to think critically, a human does. if we want the "sheep" to learn, we need to treat them with respect and dignity, and help them to see the gaps in their thinking processes, just as this shining example of a teacher did in this video.

    • @Strange9952
      @Strange9952 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      @@ryanweaver3910 Yes he's not "literally a sheep" It's drawing a comparison to people who are afraid to think for themselves and just follow the crowd, like a sheep.

    • @markpostgate2551
      @markpostgate2551 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​​@@nataliavorontsova5174
      Cows then? Cows move around in herds just like sheep, but they are frickin frightning when they all move towards you and state threateningly.

    • @johnthecloud
      @johnthecloud 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      In a lot of cases you're taught to be a sheep, to unquestionably follow authority. That's instilled in you from the moment you start school, and continues throughout employment, and throughout religious observance. They want people who will obey, not people who have critical thinking abilities.

    • @ohwellwhateverr
      @ohwellwhateverr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@markpostgate2551 Cattle, not just cows. You don’t want to be charged at by a bull.

  • @pingislife2653
    @pingislife2653 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

    The world today needs millions more teachers to guide and students to grow like these.

    • @glenp3985
      @glenp3985 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It isn't a teacher's job to help bratties grow. That's the parents' job. Teachers are there to teach core subjects and what is needed to get yourself a career, not deal with hour sexual inadequacies and confusions.

    • @harrishoppee2802
      @harrishoppee2802 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I disagree. A teacher is an adult outside of the household environment that a child has grown up in, who has very different understanding of the world than than that of a parent. Positive role models like teachers show students that there is more to life than what might be the herd mentality of a family or of a social group. Yes, foremost they are there to teach, but to have an unsociable and uncaring teacher at the front of a class, whose soul focus is on the work and not the integrity and upbringing of the children they are teaching is the very thing that make children embrace herd mentality and listen to masses instead of forming their own opinions.

    • @jasonwhite4828
      @jasonwhite4828 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Trying to find people that are ACTUALLY skilled in their profession is extremely hard. Most people can do almost any job. Very few people can do that job WELL. I could do most of your jobs and get paid to do it. There are a few jobs I would absolutely dominate in and take everyone else to class. The hard part is finding what those jobs are. I happen to have found one. Go find yours.

  • @raybeezs
    @raybeezs 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +44

    And as prodicted, this sensible man has lost his job. Happy thinking America! What a disgrace.

  • @freddieqmercury5961
    @freddieqmercury5961 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1290

    This is the kind of teacher we need, one that calmly and respectfully demonstrates how to THINK CRITICALLY.

    • @mitchjohnson4714
      @mitchjohnson4714 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s been a few decades now. I consider myself a careful and thorough thinker. I still have no idea what “critical thinking” is.

    • @formulaic78
      @formulaic78 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      ​@@mitchjohnson4714it means not just accepting what you are told or read. Critically analysing instead. Which is the same as being careful and thorough.

    • @fookoff9220
      @fookoff9220 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@mitchjohnson4714yeah the irony lol

    • @mitchjohnson4714
      @mitchjohnson4714 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@formulaic78 I don't know why we need to call that "critical thinking." It seems very vague.

    • @justinshears879
      @justinshears879 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I would like to click the thumbs up a hundred time for your comment.

  • @awf6554
    @awf6554 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +382

    Rowling was badly beaten by her ex-husband. It's not surprising she's protective of women's spaces.

    • @catherinerobilliard7662
      @catherinerobilliard7662 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She ended up thrown out on the street with a baby. No wonder women don’t want men in their shelters, they need to know they’re safe now.

    • @levibull6063
      @levibull6063 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Didn't know that and honestly very understandable

    • @AVMamfortas
      @AVMamfortas 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      So she says. Have you asked the husband? Did you see it happen?

    • @essyc4258
      @essyc4258 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@AVMamfortas If you google ''Did Jorge Arantes abuse JK Rowling?'' he's talked about it openly.

    • @AVMamfortas
      @AVMamfortas 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@essyc4258 Thank you for that. :)

  • @user-yb2tp4qf1r
    @user-yb2tp4qf1r 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    What an awesome teacher. In my university critical thinking was the most important part of my studies, how to think and analyze problems and never take anything "you hear" for granted. But that is what they teach us on since studies where is social studies it's the other way around.

  • @karlayoungblood4355
    @karlayoungblood4355 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My dad was a teacher and he said that during his career, he watched the education system move from focusing on teaching kids how to think to teaching kids how to follow instructions. The dumbing down of America has been quite successful.

  • @davidacharles1962
    @davidacharles1962 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +469

    in less than 5 minutes he forever changed a student's life. well done!

    • @risksikrikak903
      @risksikrikak903 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ikr.its beautiful and kids need more teachers like this.credit to the teacher.

    • @marcelmurgatroyd5272
      @marcelmurgatroyd5272 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Remembering what a real teacher looks like, not an activist indoctrinator.

    • @sinenomine2681
      @sinenomine2681 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      This video is blatantly scripted/staged and if you cannot see that then you need to consult a real educator in an actual place of learning.

    • @midiprog2266
      @midiprog2266 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@sinenomine2681 You like to believe it's staged because you disagree. But even if it is staged, it's still true what's being said. Staged or not, it doesn't change the message.

    • @sinenomine2681
      @sinenomine2681 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@midiprog2266 Well, that's a worrying logic there. "Staged or not, it doesn't change the message" - are you willing to commit to that idea? Whether or not a message is based on falsehood, whether or not the vehicle for this message is one steeped in deceit, "it doesn't change the message"? Oh I think it does. If the message is sound, then it has no excuse to be expressed in a manner of lies.
      I do not "like to believe it's staged because [I] disagree" - I am inclined to believe it is staged because it is obviously staged. If it made the opposite point, one that I agree with, I would still point out that it is staged. The conversation seems inorganic, it is unclear just what this man is a professor of and what class he is teaching, you cannot hear the rest of the class, he refers to "these guys" at the start of the video but it seems that the conversation is played out between "the professor" and the off-camera "student"... None of this is definitive proof but I can say with absolute confidence that the conversation in this video is unlike any conversation I have ever been in or witnessed in the real world - never mind in a school between a student and professor. I have never been alone in a room after class with my professor filming a conversation with them. I do not know how that would come about - I don't know a student or professor who would be willing to or have the time to do any of this and upload it to TH-cam, especially talking about this specific (highly controversial) topic. It is incredibly fishy.
      But what you have expressed is that you do not care whether or not it is staged. You believe the message is true, so it doesn't matter that it's staged. If it turned out that the moon landing footage had been staged (and I obviously don't think it was) and this had been proved with very little room for conceivable doubt, would you be arguing that "well, it doesn't matter, because those astronauts clearly went to the moon!" That is preposterous. "staged or not, it doesn't change the message" - give me a break. Yeah, it doesn't change the message, but it CERTAINLY changes the credibility of it as it is being expressed in this instance, and that of who is expressing it.

  • @Wolf88888
    @Wolf88888 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +604

    This teacher deserves an award for his profound patience in helping this young person navigate a minefield of brainwashing and stupidity.

    • @CheatersHaveSmollPP
      @CheatersHaveSmollPP 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      i don't look forward to the future where most teachers are the other way and only a small percentage will have someone save them from being ignorant.

    • @deadworld953
      @deadworld953 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@CheatersHaveSmollPP That's not the future, it's the present.

    • @melissagodwin1594
      @melissagodwin1594 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Seriously. It’s sad that we have to teach people how to think for themselves now. I honestly wish this guy could teach EVERYWHERE.

    • @skasteve6528
      @skasteve6528 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@melissagodwin1594 People have had to be taught to think critically since way before Socrates. It's the education system that is at fault.

    • @ALinn-vr3nl
      @ALinn-vr3nl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@skasteve6528 And the fault of parents. Mine made sure we knew how to think critically, such as about religions and the bible before kindergarten, so that we knew about how religions use peer pressure and other manipulations to suck people in and sink their claws into them and never let go.
      They then taught us about all kinds of manipulations used by groups large and small, including using kids at school or in the neighborhood to pressure other kids.
      We were trained to analyze and think critically about what our teachers taught, and how to stand up for what we believed, out loud, and withstand peer and teacher pressure, all before the onslaught of peer pressure of kindergarten. Young kids can and should be taught all this well before kindergarten.
      The gender identity gibberish is being inculcated in preschool now. Parents beware and teach your kids early.
      Parents have a responsibility to protect their kids by debunking that gibberish and teaching preventatively. This, religion, and how cults operate, are perfect topics for teaching how to think critically and be wary and watchful of how groups operate.

  • @catshez
    @catshez 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    I have been trying to advocate compulsory subjects in UK education, in Philosophy, Ethics, Theology and critical thinking for many years now. The reason being it was obvious to me as a student in my teens that I wanted to discuss, debate and involve myself in the intricacies of life. My mum is French / Italian and she told me how she was schooled for her BAC. For students in France and Italy(back then and to this day) the subjects I named above are compulsory , and have been for decades.
    Once a person reaches the next level of maturity , puberty being the catalyst, around 13-17 years old, we must give space for this.
    I know how important this is personally, but the fact that my Mum had this opportunity to learn in compulsory subjects whilst she was educated.. Yet under the British education system I did not get this same chance.
    My journey was self-made out of necessity.
    I have brought my children up to analyse and philosophise ,
    To question, to understand Thesis - Antithesis = Synthesis.
    Your simple interaction with this one student's Thesis, brought the Antithesis, and at the end the Synthesis ❤
    Beautiful.
    Thank you, Warren Smith, I am an advocate for what you are striving to achieve.

    • @MusicismoreImportant
      @MusicismoreImportant 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And make obvious biology facts great again
      And strong families matter

    • @missnomer5800
      @missnomer5800 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Critical thinking is being taught in most British secondary schools. Trouble is HOW critical thinking is being taught.
      In my experience of working with teachers, critical thinking is based on critical theory, which aims to deconstruct the notion that there is an objective truth.
      As a result students are taught to relativise and accept whatever.

  • @joedoe783
    @joedoe783 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The kid who's speaking off-camera is actually pretty decent. He's just been led up the garden path by progressives.

    • @robinblick9375
      @robinblick9375 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I can't see what is 'progressive' about not not thinking for yourself. 'Group' think' occurs right across the political spectrum, from the far left to Trumpistas.

    • @tarasubramaniam6191
      @tarasubramaniam6191 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You mean retro gressives who have wooly muddled thoughts
      and follow the mob.. please recall the cunning tag line by Marc Antony; " ....Brutus is a Honirable Man!" which drives the Mob ro kill the srong Cinna
      Transphobe + Bigotted belong to this tag line!

  • @BM-fz9yc
    @BM-fz9yc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +990

    When this JKR thing blew up I immediately went and looked at her statements to judge for myself and she literally has the most reasonable opinions on the topic. 95% of people accusing her of being a transphobe cannot name one “transphobic” thing she’s said. The outsourcing of opinion in this age is truly scary.

    • @dannyt4663
      @dannyt4663 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      It really is. It’s crazy to me that there are people calling for her to be violently attacked, murdered, and worse for literally these tweets and yet see themselves as holding the moral high ground. It’s insane and terrifying.

    • @ladislasayano9406
      @ladislasayano9406 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Exactly!!! I am in her boat. I was a HP book fan before. I like her even more because she stands up for Women!!!

    • @ladislasayano9406
      @ladislasayano9406 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Exactly!!! I am in her boat. I was a HP book fan before. I like her even more because she stands up for Women!!!

    • @ladislasayano9406
      @ladislasayano9406 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Exactly!!! I am in her boat. I was a HP book fan before. I like her even more because she stands up for Women!!!

    • @ladislasayano9406
      @ladislasayano9406 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly!!! I am in her boat. I was a HP book fan before. I like her even more because she stands up for Women!!!

  • @brweeks881
    @brweeks881 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1120

    She's suffered the highest form of character assassination ever.

    • @loganblackwood2922
      @loganblackwood2922 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      She was all on board with lunacy and then reaped the rewards of it.

    • @georgek2499
      @georgek2499 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      And she can weather it due to her status and ability to communicate. Imagine the average person confronted with this bologna.

    • @SvenTviking
      @SvenTviking 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because a tiny minority seeks to oppose 50% of the World and in seeking their rights, they are destroying the rights of others, and that is not the path of wisdom.

    • @contraitaly7800
      @contraitaly7800 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@loganblackwood2922 Exactly

    • @PhattyBolger
      @PhattyBolger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      More just schoolyard rumour on a massive scale. They 're convinced that she's an evil bigoted person, yet very few of them even know what she said.

  • @craigcoughlin1834
    @craigcoughlin1834 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    We should all be so lucky to have a teacher like this.

    •  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We were. THIS is normal.

    • @cookslooking10
      @cookslooking10 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You had a teacher who would record his students asking questions, post the video on the internet and then do a media tour about it to promote his TH-cam channel?
      If you believe he really is a teacher then what he is doing is incredibly unethical.
      I don't see any evidence he really is a teacher, he is certainly not claiming an affiliation with a recognised academic institution and there is no mention of any private mentoring/tuition business on his website.
      In all probability the 'student' is stooge reading from a script.
      Ironically if you had any critical thinking skills you would have figured this out for yourself.

  • @nichill7474
    @nichill7474 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Excellent teacher. I would send my kids to your class for sure.

  • @user-yn7ll3qz1p
    @user-yn7ll3qz1p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +279

    "i don't have an opinion, i'm going by what other people think", the biggest problem in the world today...

    • @ribbonsofnight
      @ribbonsofnight 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To be fair we really can't have an opinion on everything. The problem is that he still says "given that she is bigoted".
      I actually have no objection to "I have heard she is a bigot" from anyone who is willing to do the work if it matters.
      It's the ones who would never research it that are the problem.
      It's like "I've heard OJ Simpson was a murderer".
      Notably words like bigot (and Nazi etc.) get thrown around so much that I'm less likely to believe someone is a bigot than a murderer until it matters enough for me to research it.
      The other massive problem is that if you try to research it you get hit pieces that weave together a bunch of partial quotes out of context with incorrect paraphrases and the author's incorrect opinion (e.g. the goblin bankers represent Jews).

    • @nerdyali4154
      @nerdyali4154 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An even bigger problem is that half the sheep think they're wolves. Conspiracy theories predominate and the believers are of the opinion that they've escaped the matrix. Someone like Trump or an RFK can vomit up any amount of lies and filth and all attempts at correction will be ridiculed.

    • @james.lambert
      @james.lambert 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      For sure. I suspect he has that attitude because he doesn't want the mob to turn on him.

    • @chamuuemura5314
      @chamuuemura5314 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @user-yn7ll3qz1p
      This is how students are programmed in college.
      Sometimes going with the flow goes wrong.

    • @channel1_channel
      @channel1_channel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This applies across political and religious group thinks too. Right and left. All that.

  • @federov100
    @federov100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +340

    “She’s really transphobic…I’m just going with what other people are saying…”

    • @ScratchySlide
      @ScratchySlide 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If only there was such a thing.

    • @Lana-ww9qw
      @Lana-ww9qw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I love! Jk Rowling! For dealing in facts! So even reality! is transphobic! These days..how low have the masses sunk.

    • @squatch545
      @squatch545 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just like YOU are going with what other people think (that she's not).

    • @mkaz3997
      @mkaz3997 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The cognitive dissonance was excrutiating!

    • @michaelfitze7894
      @michaelfitze7894 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      A teacher myself, I found that statement alarming. I thought about what my own boys are like. From the time they could reason, I asked them "what do you mean?" and "how do you know?" I told them that to know the truth, then would need to constantly ask themselves those questions. The idea that one would believe something because others do is sometimes called "bandwagoning." All children should be taught to avoid such fallacious reasoning in school.

  • @user-ro2yf4hq2i
    @user-ro2yf4hq2i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    She says women are women and men are men you can't change you sex! She's factual not bigoted!

    • @Dark_Aeon
      @Dark_Aeon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Well... I think that's out the window given her recent tweets implying that all trans women are mysogynistic men making a mockery of womanhood. Sounds pretty bigoted to me to make that generalization.

    • @FireGlitch
      @FireGlitch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Dark_AeonCan you copy and paste the Tweets in question?
      I would like to read what those comments say.

    • @davids.2317
      @davids.2317 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Dark_Aeon she didnt say all trans people at all..she was refering to one individual trans activist..

    • @Thelona
      @Thelona 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The holocaust denial sealed the deal. She is indeed bigoted.

  • @michaelgreig7760
    @michaelgreig7760 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    This is how 99% of students talk....clueless.

    • @schnapps2241
      @schnapps2241 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah, they're students. they're there to learn.

    • @jeremybuckets
      @jeremybuckets วันที่ผ่านมา

      Of course they’re clueless, they’re kids. This is how they learn. The problem is the adults who fire people like this teacher for actually teaching critical thinking skills.

  • @Malky5279
    @Malky5279 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +297

    That student sounds terrified to have a opinion outside the herd.

    • @alihenderson5910
      @alihenderson5910 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      That's the whole point of groupthink.

    • @mcihs2
      @mcihs2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The vast majority of people don’t like to think…..

    • @YautjaPrime-gw1on
      @YautjaPrime-gw1on 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      'Groupthink' is definitely up there as a modern day oxymoron!

    • @weyoun6535
      @weyoun6535 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      None of us are immune, there’s a reason that we are bombarded with propaganda day in day out. Even if you think you are immune some of it will shape your sub conscious opinion. We are communal animals with a need to feel secure in our peer groups, and that is what gets exploited by those that use divide & rule. It’s all about keeping attention away from the real crimes.

    • @mtb416
      @mtb416 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The left wants people to be fearful and see thinking for themselves as wrong.

  • @bluebassboy22
    @bluebassboy22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +316

    Helping his student think for himself in real time. Very honorable.

    • @ABaumstumpf
      @ABaumstumpf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hopefully the student has learnt that his whole approach to reality is flawed and that it is not just this one scenario.

    • @Relativecalm2
      @Relativecalm2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed and well done to the student for being willing to recognise his own folly and own it with humility. 👏🏼

    • @jerkchickenblog
      @jerkchickenblog 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      honorable? it's his fucking job

    • @HeldIntegral
      @HeldIntegral 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine learning basic comprehension skills in your 20s

  • @crookedbiden6163
    @crookedbiden6163 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nice to see e real teacher in action. Those kids are luckier than they know.

  • @Adam-tj4oy
    @Adam-tj4oy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is how you wake people up and free their minds. Nice job!

  • @NoahStephens
    @NoahStephens 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    He slowly made the student realize he had no basis for his opinion. Good job

    • @Medina-bk2fo
      @Medina-bk2fo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I like the way he let it flow and the kid realized it wasn't HIS opinion at all -

    • @retsuza
      @retsuza 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Almost as if this is an extremely transparent badly acted written sketch. How are the transphobes this unbelievably credulous?

    • @1dog2cats5
      @1dog2cats5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@retsuzaIt must be sad to live such a pathetic life that you call anybody who states a FACT and doesn’t just puppet your talking points (lies) a transphobe.

    • @bipple4588
      @bipple4588 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@retsuza what are you, a conspiracy theorist?

    • @netaverse7694
      @netaverse7694 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@retsuza I hope you find some help. There are free resources depending on your state

  • @mammybelle7302
    @mammybelle7302 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +544

    "Let's just learn how to critical think" well done Teacher 👏👏💯

    • @williamfrench9973
      @williamfrench9973 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So critical is okay - as long as its not about race…. Got it

    • @James-xu2dc
      @James-xu2dc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@williamfrench9973 there's no hope for the willfully ignorant. Have a good day fighting straw men William

    • @mammybelle7302
      @mammybelle7302 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@williamfrench9973 Your comment does not make any sense at all regarding to critical thinking. Can you elaborate more, please?

    • @williamfrench9973
      @williamfrench9973 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mammybelle7302 I was referencing “critical race theory”, which is cryptonite to conservatives.

    • @JH-ci7gu
      @JH-ci7gu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@williamfrench9973not much grey matter there bub

  • @doryn931
    @doryn931 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    So, he is fired now. Makes sense!
    Can't reason if you want to be a teacher.

  • @AwakenYaMind
    @AwakenYaMind หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for this great interaction.. I definitely appreciate you trying to teach students how to think and not operate from other's opinions

  • @zoefree3950
    @zoefree3950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +503

    Jk is trying to protect biologically female spaces…that is not transphobic 🤷‍♀️

    • @BennettMats
      @BennettMats 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      biological female spaces are not under any threat. This is fear mongering against trans women.

    • @lewinwickes9882
      @lewinwickes9882 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      "Biologically female" is redundant.

    • @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs
      @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      ​@lewinwickes9882 no, it isn't, it's just an inconvenience to you.

    • @CurlyJack22
      @CurlyJack22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​@@lewinwickes9882 not when people can now be seen as female in only a legal sense

    • @simon15117
      @simon15117 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      The gender debate is lunacy

  • @alexandrabauer9180
    @alexandrabauer9180 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    Dear lord. This is terrifying how they can't think for themselves.

    • @jeeveekaa5880
      @jeeveekaa5880 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That’s the whole problem

    • @josephnebeker7976
      @josephnebeker7976 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      It's not that they can't think for themselves. This kid eventually did.
      It's that they don't want to think for themselves as pointed out when the kid said he didn't have an opinion, he just accepted what the majority stated.
      This is why a pure democracy is a very, Very Dangerous thing.

    • @travisb1757
      @travisb1757 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      They are conditioned NOT to think for themselves. They are easier to control that way. There is a sinister force at work here.

    • @Medina-bk2fo
      @Medina-bk2fo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Oh, this kid is in almost total self-control, compared to what I see online - and he actually went to the prof for help sorting it out. You must not be in this struggle online yet, because this kid is an ANGEL and a genius, compared to the norm - and this exchange gives me great comfort - online you deal with the people who are making up the group think -(the kids this kid was talking about), and THEY are TRULY terrifying.

    • @cango5679
      @cango5679 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how mind control works. Mass formation. at least he is still malleable...

  • @globaldesikan
    @globaldesikan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    You saved a life from drowning in blind hatred bro. More power to people like you.

  • @annkennedy7422
    @annkennedy7422 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Excellent teacher.

  • @NomoSapienss
    @NomoSapienss 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +254

    "I feel like an idiot"
    At least he could admit he was wrong and learned valuable lessons here. Being able to admit when one is wrong or has made a mistake seems like a super power, that is rare nowadays. So many people pretending and just trying to one-up on each other it's sad.

    • @zogjones
      @zogjones 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It really is a super power. It’s amazing to me how much people do NOT want to acknowledge that they were either fed lies or influenced by other people’s opinions. It will change though. People will grow up. It’s already starting to change a little. The backlash is on the way.

    • @jerkchickenblog
      @jerkchickenblog 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he shouldn't feel like an idiot, at least not alone. they both should feel like idiots because two tweets are hardly the breadth of trouble she starts, all aimed at one particular group. i'm not trans and i'm not an activist on their behalf... but rowling has brought all this on herself and yes, many of her tweets ARE transphobic, which is likely why he found one of the apologies. but there's a lot more to her online activities, and she'd be wise to not have made those comments, attack people or continue it, yet she just will not stop causing trouble.
      critical thinking yes, but two tweets are from the whole story or even representative of he words and attitudes and repeated unnecessary attacks

    • @bulletsix
      @bulletsix 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      very true

    • @winstonsmith3690
      @winstonsmith3690 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What exactly has she said that is so bad?​@@jerkchickenblog

    • @zerothefaceless4888
      @zerothefaceless4888 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@jerkchickenblog Can you give me ONE example of such a tweet? I looked over enough of them to know what her opinions are and I sincerely doubt you'll find one.

  • @rowantree198
    @rowantree198 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +599

    This is how education should be. Teach them how to think, not what to think.

    • @elenabob4953
      @elenabob4953 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It seems to be haptin college sothay is a regression considering that in the past that way of thinking was taught since the first years of highschool.

    • @satanasteguarda
      @satanasteguarda 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah, sadly this is 1 in a million. Most teachers are only content if they can mold the students way of thinking to be exactly the same as theirs

    • @thehitmanisup
      @thehitmanisup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is the parents job. Not the school teacher. Teachers will do what the state tells them.

    • @metaLungiez
      @metaLungiez 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I graduated college in 2010 so maybe things have changed since then but this is exactly how I was taught to think for myself, I don't know where the notion came from that college programs thought but I suspect it's being promoted by people who have never been to college and didn't value higher learning in the first place.

    • @joshs2986
      @joshs2986 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One problem is teaching them HOW to think is still teaching them what to think.
      He is telling WHAT to think about thinking. Sounds like semantics. But it isn't.

  • @sincerityissacred5101
    @sincerityissacred5101 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Classic approach to teaching foundational thinking skills -- by asking questions, and more questions, and more questions. Thumbs up! I'm wondering about the context though-- this is one-on-one, and how much one-on-one time do students actually get?

  • @yodoleheehoo90
    @yodoleheehoo90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I wish you a long and prosperous career as an educator, Warren! You're teaching methods are easy to understand for students and you have such patience and calming presence without making the student feel self conscious or dumb when they are caught with mistakes or misconceptions about the world! I wish every kid in schools had a teacher like you~!

  • @rigilchrist
    @rigilchrist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +341

    If only more teachers were like this.

    • @gumtreeterry9904
      @gumtreeterry9904 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      If only more students were like this young man too, eh?

    • @keithwatson4602
      @keithwatson4602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      All teachers were like this until the turn of the century when they got pushed out for having their own opinions.

    • @user-ef5ug6jx5n
      @user-ef5ug6jx5n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@keithwatson4602 Oy vey, stop noticing. Only by not teaching critical thinking can we fully support israel and open borders mass immigration (except, naturally, in isarel)

    • @rouninpanda6318
      @rouninpanda6318 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@keithwatson4602 Before the 90's even? I'd say the majority of my teachers and instructors were not like this.

    • @megg.6651
      @megg.6651 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There are - we are just on the DL so we aren't chased down the street with pitchforks.

  • @somai_1
    @somai_1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +374

    This is what should be taught in school. How to look at both sides and think critically. It's a lost art.

    • @duncansteward4331
      @duncansteward4331 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      you dont need to taught how to think; all you need is to put the effort into thinking, its your choice, if you want to be lazy and go along with the mob, then so be it.

    • @Nbomber
      @Nbomber 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it takes a higher IQ than the general population have

    • @ilfautdanser9121
      @ilfautdanser9121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@duncansteward4331lol. That's some serious critical thinking

    • @BennettMats
      @BennettMats 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But what if children are thought to think critically and they still believe that JK is a transphobic bigot?

    • @user-rm8lr3tt7m
      @user-rm8lr3tt7m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ilfautdanser9121he's using common sense. Yeah, I'll agree that is not very intellectual, but is still better than whatever those college students are saying. I would remind you that those college students DID take critical thinking at university. And they go with the mob.

  • @pixiesujira6995
    @pixiesujira6995 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why did i cry watching this? Thank you for your service sir.

  • @gametime2473
    @gametime2473 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This train of thought, going along with what "people say" is a really dangerous thing. Thank you. We really need to bring back the Socratic Method, especially with how offended people get over anything. Asking questions seems like the best route toward unity. Argumentation only entrenches people IMO.

  • @pauljackson2409
    @pauljackson2409 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +222

    Excellent dialogue. The teacher was calm and respectful, but challenged the student, and the student had the maturity to admit that he was wrong.

    • @fedm6296
      @fedm6296 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I'd say 'normal' dialogue and that we have we lowered our expectations quite a bit lately

    • @pauljackson2409
      @pauljackson2409 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@fedm6296 Sadly true.

    • @WinkLinkletter
      @WinkLinkletter 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not to mention that the student had the awareness to ask the question to begin with, even if the sway of 'popular' opinion bias was woven into the asking.

  • @mehitabel325
    @mehitabel325 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +269

    I'm so glad I'm not a teacher. Dealing with these dim light bulbs every day would drive me nuts. You have to admire the teacher's patience!

    • @zogjones
      @zogjones 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Lol! It takes patience! But at the same time, it’s important to give people the space TO think for themselves. Every time we tell them they’re stupid, that just reinforces their perspective as they dig their heels in even more. But if there’s no pressure or “rules” and only an inquiry, the thought experiment can have the space and time it needs to happen. If we want to see this sort of healthy thought process on a mass scale, we’re all going to need to allow others the time and space they need to come to THEIR own conclusions-not everyone or anyone else’s conclusions. We g it’s important to you enough, maybe you can try to inquire calmly like this professor when confronted with someone who you and I likely both agree is an idiot. 😆 But for real, that’s what it will take. Peace begins with me. Peace begins with you.

    • @SteelGunner76
      @SteelGunner76 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I was struggling listening to this student also. Like explaining to a baby how to use a spoon.

    • @jerkchickenblog
      @jerkchickenblog 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      that's not what they are. they are students they are learning. please never have children with this attitude

    • @AWT8900
      @AWT8900 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Patience of a Saint...but doing his job.

    • @HeldIntegral
      @HeldIntegral 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      How do they even get here? I thought universities were supposed to have requirements

  • @monn-tan
    @monn-tan 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    We truly need people like you. You challenge and taught the student critical thinking. And you are patient with him too.
    The people who fired are the ones that are afraid of your passion. So fly high man. Go far beyond!

  • @vibir1234
    @vibir1234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    There are still professors out there who're teaching students how to think and not follow the crowd blindly. Bravo!

  • @bavros1998
    @bavros1998 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    Exactly 250 years ago Immanuel Kant tried to teach people to use their own brain without the help of others. And here we are in 2024!

    • @noelpucarua2843
      @noelpucarua2843 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you saying Immanuel Kant was a failure?

    • @bavros1998
      @bavros1998 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@noelpucarua2843 Of course not - it‘s just frustrating how the world is unable to learn.

    • @diane4488
      @diane4488 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      The Socratic Method is being used here.
      Developed by the Greek philosopher, Socrates, the Socratic Method is a dialogue between teacher and students, instigated by the continual probing questions of the teacher, in a concerted effort to explore the underlying beliefs that shape the students views and opinions.
      This was taught by Socrates, over 1,620 years ago, as a method to develop critical thinking for oneself.
      He was put to death for teaching it.
      Not much has changed in education, it seems.

    • @noelpucarua2843
      @noelpucarua2843 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bavros1998 Are you saying Immanuel Kant was successful?
      If so, what is this stuff about 2024?

    • @ernestmoney7800
      @ernestmoney7800 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How can I use my brain, given that it is part of the phenomenal world and not the noumenal world?

  • @jd-putts
    @jd-putts 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +211

    And a student learns what is fact and merely parroting what he thought "everyone" was believing. Definitely worth the price of admission to that class. Kudos to the lecturer!!!

  • @baky5372
    @baky5372 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I had a teacher in high school Mr. Fisher who was just like you. I will never forget him. TY for all that you do.

  • @real2gone
    @real2gone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    More critical thinkers like this in our society please. Well done, Warren Smith.

  • @paulbrereton5149
    @paulbrereton5149 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +195

    This is the teacher that every single kid on the planet needs, now!!

    • @errorx_x1063
      @errorx_x1063 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can see "those" parents getting offended and pulling the kid out for this type of teacher

  • @andrewwallace3047
    @andrewwallace3047 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +486

    Big respect to the student for saying he felt like an idiot. Big respect to the teacher for examining the facts properly.

    • @dave93x
      @dave93x 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      He will still go out there and parrot that she's "transphobic". These types normally just fold in a conversation like this because they can't handle looking like an idiot. They have no backbone and so they will carry on going with what others say.
      These kinds of conversations don't do anything for my faith anymore. I've seen these types of conversations and then they just carry on as if it didn't happen.

    • @yomomma9687
      @yomomma9687 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I've always been transphobic and I think that's fine cos I can't really help it. A phobia is an irrational fear. I'm scared of spiders. Should I be? Probably not, but I still am, cos they creep me out. And I have a phobia about trans people cos they creep me out. Cos it's weird and just looking at them induces a feeling of regurgitation in me. That's why.
      I can't really help it. There's just something not quite right about it

    • @ken90017
      @ken90017 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yomomma9687Have you met a trans person? Are you *sure* 😂 maybe you just think your phobic if when you actually test it you love them. Like Brussels sprouts. Just messing with your logic. Btw: Jumping spiders don’t act like other spiders, maybe you don’t mind jumping spiders. And pictures aren’t accurate. You might like durian looking at pictures, but irl you might throw up. In terms of people, same.

    • @pilferedbrimley657
      @pilferedbrimley657 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dave93x she is transphobic

    • @shiftylad9938
      @shiftylad9938 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This teacher will probably be sacked for actually thinking 💭🤷‍♂️

  • @stukennedy195
    @stukennedy195 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Such a great calm manner whilst slowly dismantling logical inconsistency by getting the student to see it for themselves. Expertly done

  • @heydonray
    @heydonray 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Well for one thing, let’s discuss the definition of “Phobic”.

  • @Archpope
    @Archpope 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    4:20 he's proven he's not an idiot. He learned. An idiot would double-down on the preconceived notion he had in his head.

    • @boing615
      @boing615 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah, I respect the kid for admitting they were wrong instead of screaming abuse and stomping out of the room.

    • @rosablume4346
      @rosablume4346 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      exactly, he sounds very young, and just the fact that he asked his teacher about it is good, he is curious and rather open minded. I bet this dialog will be with him forever, and probably next time, someone tell him about a person "being bad", he will definetely have the details first
      great handling by the teacher, only questions, no condescending or anything

    • @StillAliveAndKicking_
      @StillAliveAndKicking_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Exactly. Making a mistake is not stupid.

  • @noah1502
    @noah1502 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    ive had this EXACT conversation with friends, peers at work, etc. and they all go through the same stage of "its well known that jkr is transphobic" to "oh well i just heard she was, you can find it online" to "oh yeah i just read what she said and theres nothing wrong with it" to "oh wow people are being attacked by mobs for saying sex is real and it affects our lives, esp women's lives"...

    • @jinneasbushindo7554
      @jinneasbushindo7554 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They don't realize that the same group of attention seekers are the ones who derailed the equal rights movement in the 60's by stepping on everyone else to try to present themselves at the forefront. Everyone's alt lifestyles were subjugated as a result and THAT'S why the L's & G's disassociated with them for so long. Chappelle's skit about the car with everyone riding in it hating them was on point. The car can't get anywhere if attention getters are constantly stepping outside their lane to make everything about them, instead of taking a backseat and realizing their perspective doesn't represent reality. Categories exist for a reason and not recognizing that medically can have horrific consequences, just like not acknowledging a severe allergy.

    • @randytyson7262
      @randytyson7262 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, happens a LOT in conversations about liberalism and conservatism. That's why there's a #WalkAway Campaign.

    • @DonnaBrooks
      @DonnaBrooks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not a conversation about liberalism and conservatism. If you think it is, you are part of the problem. Tribalism is not the goal. Polarization is not the goal. Those things are going to destroy the U.S. The goal is to judge people & policies based on evidence & reason & not engage in groupthink. The group doesn't matter if you can't think critically & with nuance. @@randytyson7262

  • @theoconstantinou2839
    @theoconstantinou2839 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We need more mentors like this to teach the next generation as this one is lost

  • @Bleakertube
    @Bleakertube 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well done.

  • @minhearg8331
    @minhearg8331 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    "Because some people were saying JK Rowling is transphobic then, I thought, it must be true..." That's called 'groupthink'. Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning or evaluation of the consequences or alternatives. Groupthink is based on a common desire not to upset the balance of a group of people.

    • @marquisdemoo1792
      @marquisdemoo1792 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Damn, commented that it was groupthink and then went down the comments to find yours!

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You left out how group think is a tool of Marxism, one of their main ones.

    • @stevecarter8810
      @stevecarter8810 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And oh boy is twitter upsettable. We networked everyone's hind brains together to create a machine for generating knee-jerk reactions on a global scale.

  • @austenlawson5993
    @austenlawson5993 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

    “Let’s learn how to critically think”. I love this guy

    • @CitanulsPumpkin
      @CitanulsPumpkin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      None of this is critical thinking. He's just going through one dog whistle filled statement and ignoring all context, intent, current events, subtext, and double speak.
      This video is a clueless simp proving he doesn't understand what dog whistles are and relies entirely on the pedantic nitpicking dictionary definitions only debate style of Ben Shapiro.
      At the end of the day, we are all judged by the company we keep. Joanne's stans deserve to be judged just as harshly as the actual nazi propagandists Joanne has spent the last 5 years palling around with.

  • @miketaverner4451
    @miketaverner4451 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    She was not apologising , not in the slightest. She was clarifing nothing more . If we where all to be open and honest 90 % of us would say much the same . There is nothing bigoted about the woman any more than there is about myself and everyone i know.

  • @David-lj2rt
    @David-lj2rt 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Well done Warren! You were gracious and calm and well-reasoned. A great teacher! God bless you!

  • @Gamber_G00
    @Gamber_G00 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +212

    That man did a wonderful job! He didn’t just talk at him, he forced him to take a stance based on personal alignment or misalignment. Well done!

  • @rogercarlson2319
    @rogercarlson2319 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +187

    This is the kind of critical thinking that should be taught at university. Sadly, the opposite is true. Today, universities teach "think as we tell you to think."

    • @Kelsea-im8ob
      @Kelsea-im8ob 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It should be taught at home or failing that, primary school.

    • @JackHaveman52
      @JackHaveman52 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      If he said that Rowling was transphobic, to a great many of university teachers, they'd pat him on the head, tell him what a good student he was and give him an A on his next assignment. No one would ever state why they think that because they don't have to. Dogma is to be repeated not to be discussed or induce thought.

    • @audie-cashstack-uk4881
      @audie-cashstack-uk4881 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Genetic issues cannot be trained better

    • @clemdane
      @clemdane 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      University is pretty late imho

    • @heron6462
      @heron6462 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The problem is that people don't know how to be friendly other than by agreeing with each other on unexamined and off-the-shelf opinions.

  • @readyraito9154
    @readyraito9154 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    THANK YOU ♥

  • @Keymandll
    @Keymandll 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This is a brilliant video and should be mandatory to watch for every student on the planet.

  • @milton7763
    @milton7763 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Terrific teacher!
    Not shouting down the opinion. Not being pedantic about the student’s opinion. But 100% focused on helping his student think through his argument, walk through the facts and mor consistently draw conclusions whatever they are

    • @LadyGodivaBelgium
      @LadyGodivaBelgium 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      In other words: a true teacher, doing what teachers should be doing. Calmly guiding a youngster through a learning experience.
      Kudos to him.
      The student can be very happy to have had this conversation.

    • @nowandrew4442
      @nowandrew4442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just a shame it was scripted and not a real exchange.

    • @PablitaPicasita
      @PablitaPicasita 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you know​@@nowandrew4442

    • @dacookiemonsta963
      @dacookiemonsta963 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nowandrew4442how do you know that?

    • @nowandrew4442
      @nowandrew4442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dacookiemonsta963 for a fact? No. Then again we don't know for a fact that the President of the USA isn't inhabitated by body-snatching aliens.

  • @ginaferraro1967
    @ginaferraro1967 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    Exactly! I was a tertiary education teacher for 22 years myself. I, too, tried to teach students HOW to think. I would often give them activities to practice critical thinking and to question popular opinion. That's the job of a teacher. We are not supposed to be propagandists! Well done to this guy.

    • @Art-is-craft
      @Art-is-craft 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is no such thing as critical thinking. There is the use of logic nothing else.

    • @randomnumbers84269
      @randomnumbers84269 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@Art-is-craft semantics

    • @ellensovlange
      @ellensovlange 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@randomnumbers84269 it’s not semantics.
      It’s the perspective that shapes your world view:
      Is a glass half full or is it half empty?
      Is it critical thinking to use your brain or is it logic to use your brain?

    • @user-fe7mg5ot9z
      @user-fe7mg5ot9z 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Art-is-craft Here's a question for you. Inductive or deductive logic? It takes critical thinking to decide which is more appropriate to use at any given time. The point is to be able to actually think things through.

    • @Art-is-craft
      @Art-is-craft 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@user-fe7mg5ot9z
      Critical thinking is a wishy washy term that has no real meaning. Critical thinking in academia is the implementation of critical theory but I am almost sure that is not what the original post implied.

  • @fr57ujf
    @fr57ujf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In a world where sound bites have replaced reason, this is so refreshing.

  • @thebarkingyears
    @thebarkingyears 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Deprogrammed this kid in real time

  • @sandsmarc
    @sandsmarc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    How can someone say “I’m just going off what other people have said” and not immediately die of embarrassment? What a vacuous confession of intellectual impotence, and yet he just puts it out there like it’s practical and acceptable.

    • @envirojim187
      @envirojim187 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a grip, he’s clearly a young person being taught critical thinking skills and even acknowledged his lack of said skill at the end of the video. If anything, kudos to him for the growth he demonstrated. And fuck you for your attitude of smug superiority

    • @professorfrog7181
      @professorfrog7181 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Almost as much as thinking that this video wasn't staged lol, imagine the embarassement from doing that! The sheer intellectual impotence it would imply... Crazy

    • @chrisb9377
      @chrisb9377 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @professorfrog7181 how is this staged?

    • @jerkchickenblog
      @jerkchickenblog 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      he's a kid, he's learning cut him some slack. jesus

    • @MrJerichoPumpkin
      @MrJerichoPumpkin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you seem to underestimate that this is not only an accepted, but also encouraged behaviour. Why should he feel embarassed by stating something that he deems totally normal?

  • @OutOfElmo
    @OutOfElmo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

    Won't his mind be blown when he finds out the actual truth about all the crap he's been fed by his peers. None of the stuff they believed was true.

    • @jt_climbing
      @jt_climbing 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yeah he totally found the actual truth by reading one tweet. good for him

    • @YammoYammamoto
      @YammoYammamoto 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is how a conservative anti feminist, anti diversity person is born. :D
      ...by feeding them truth and teaching them how to think for themselves.

    • @RenaldTremblay
      @RenaldTremblay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      people like him should not be able to vote. he never thought and doesnt have opinions. no intelligence there.

  • @LeadFrog
    @LeadFrog 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Get this man a job at Harvard in speech and debate

  • @LazzieMazzie
    @LazzieMazzie 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    like he got fired cuz he teached a kid that 2 sides to story always exists?!