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Dude you are Genius. As a boomer, I was worried that younger generations had no care or value for reason and logic [because schools no longer teach it]. But I still think some logic is intuitive, because logic - in some sense, at least - boils down to consistency. And every child observes and learns from patterns and consistency, which establishes truth. Anyway, not to bore you with that, but you have real depth in your videos. I've gotten to where I tire easily with the usual blahblahblah of most video presentations, which are designed more to repeat what we already agree with. But I learn new insight from yours, on things I thought I already thoroughly understood better than most people. You present a very uncommon depth I haven't seen anywhere lately. I hope your viewers are getting as much as I am, because it's crucial that this generation understand what they're up against, how they're being hoodwinked and 'lead down the garden path' [as we used to say]. And Your videos are accomplishing that better than any I've seen yet. I want to write more because I just can't say enough about how great your content is, but it would probably get boring, and maybe you've heard it all before.....and I don't hand out compliments often, to anyone.
Yea I was recently told by a black woman who had far higher socio-economic status and power than me that racism was only racism if it was white on black because white people are the dominant race. Which felt very unfair to me, as someone who has experienced racism, disadvantage, and oppression...which I'm literally being told by someone of higher socio-economic status isn't valid because of my race....which seems an awful lot like another form of racism.
it’s not “another form” of racism - it’s just racism next time just walk away from people who spout nonsense like that and don’t let yourself feel small cause of some random black lady spewing toxic ideology
right, because when I was living in an all black community in Philadelphia and a black woman spit at me and told me to go back to my part of town it wasn't racist since I'm white.
I'm from Nigeria and in my own country people are racist to each other for being from a different tribe and we are all black or dark skinned anyone can be racist to anyone lol.
I mean going back to the history of Europe, it was basically a never ending wars of various European cultures and kingdoms. They only ever really united when posed with an existential threat like the Mongol or Muslim expansions for example, or plagues, or religious reasons etc.
Even white people are racist with each other, hell, 90% of European history is basically white people killing each other over their ethnicity. That's like the whole reason the balkans hate each other.
It’s the same in Europe, people seem to forget that “Frog” and “Hun” used to be slurs against Frenchies and Germans respectively, and as we all know the Irish and English have always got along just perfectly, especially in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
"Prejudice Plus Power" is an extremely ad-hoc redefinition of the word "Racism". It was designed to refer to exactly one scenario and accept one scenario only, and that being a country where blacks are neither the majority in population size nor in elected government seats. In the event that the nation in which a leftist currently lives in begins to see a black majority, they will deflect by bringing up a different nation, unless or until all nations are of a black majority, in which case the "prejudice plus power" redefinition will be replaced by another ad-hoc redefinition whose condition will likely be "Being biologically white".
That sounds like complete nonsense unless if there exists a possibility of an evidence of anyone espousing that exact point to be nothing more than a cover-up for ethno nationalism, which by no means has ever been supported by anyone who is not a right winger. Not like the right-left distinction matters, because many self-proclaimed leftists (Kautsky and such) held rather chauvinistic positions on matters of international policy, like prolonging the war for the interests of their own country instead of advocating international solidarity, so the whole distinction matters little in the context of class politics.
@@AnthonyBolognese710 Are you suggesting that the party who insists that "Whatever constitutes (×), it's always, sometimes, and never (x). Also that said series (of contradictions) never happens and it's good when they do." Would them go on change definitions to ensure they're always right? The gall of you! The nerve! I'll bet you don't even #Support the #CurrentThing! Next you'll try and tell me that 2+2 isnt 3. 5. Potato. And doesn't exist because math is a social construct. Or that we've never been at war with East Asia. When even a simpleton toddler knows that the East Asian people have always been our good and trusted allies against the evil Eurasian hordes! You read Goldstein's book, didn't you? Give me one good reason I shouldn't report you to MiniTruth so you can be kindly escorted to MiniLove to be corrected!
A primitive form of their native language Just enough to comunicate but not enough to understand any sentence longer than 5 words. That’s why whenever they try to produce a sentence longer than that it eventually becomes nonsensical drivell as they forget what they said at it’s beginning.
I saw someone on Twitter say that black people can't be racist, but they can be prejudiced. Prejudiced against what? Skin color. So they are prejudiced against someone's race... Wonder if there's a word for that. 🤦🏽♀️
Here’s a helpful hand for you the next time this happens. Ask them if Genocides originate from Racism. If they say yes then ask them about the Rwandan genocide. It was a recent genocide in Africa that was among perceived racial differences. If they say that Genocides are from Racism, and the Rwandan Genocide was a Genocide, then black people can indeed be Racist.
Yo Menti this comment is for you and I hope you read it. Midway through the video you talk about the argument that racism is based on systems of power and not on individual thoughts. I just wanted to point out that the people who say that don't actually believe it. If the majority of people in power were black and the majority of people in this country were black they would still say "black people good, white people bad" and I know this first hand. Around ten years ago in Baltimore the president was black, the mayor was black, the Cheif of police was black and the majority of people in Baltimore were black. The majority of rich people were black and the majority of poor people were black. Yet if you asked a Marxist if it was impossible for a white person to be racist in this city they would take exception and still say black people were oppressed and white people were oppressors. The argument of systems of power being a prerequisite for racism is just an excuse used to hold indefensibley racist views toward white people
Yep this is why I don't trust them at all to hold to their word that they'll just "stop" bring prejudiced against whites. They'll never stop because they will hold it accountable over whites for as long as whites live.
I agree. Iv seen this firsthand within my community/race aswell against whites. Be wary of racist people. They openly tell you their beleifs exist soley as a power grab. Not for legitimate reasons.
I am black man who is conservative. I have been unable to stop noticing this since 2014. When I left highschool. The things they say to and about white people would make my mother say that person is " extremely racist" and you should stay away from them.
My mother, who is white, was raised poor in a crumbling cabin in the woods of Florida with an abusive mother and no dad, with her mother having a constant carousel of boyfriends. My father, who is Congolese, immigrated to America in ‘87 and never looked back cuz he hated that place. He grew up in Kinshasa and there were days where he had no food. He was in a band where the leader stole and took credit for the music my father wrote, prompting him to eventually leave. He had to learn English on his own and faced hatred and discrimination. He lost everything in 9/11. Does it sound like I come from a background of privilege? Well I do, cuz my parents managed to turn their lives around. My family is still lower middle class and my life isn’t super easy, but going from nights where my father had nothing to consume but the very oxygen around him, and my mom living with neglectful and absent parents in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere, these are pretty good circumstances. Because this is what America is. This is the country where you can achieve what you put your mind to. The American dream isn’t false, people just need to make their dreams a reality. They need to stop dreaming, and actually wake up to manifest it
I'm also Congolese and my friend who lives with me in Namibia is racist towards whites who lives here just because they are white and are good at farming in an environment less favorable than back home (he Denise the greatness of such a feat because of their race while also knowing how hard it already to do the same thing is in a better climate).
@@madmouse4400 I can relate. My dads side of the family is sadly racist towards my white mother, causing there to be a lot of division. I pray that they someday see past their differences so we can accept each other as family 🙏🏽
You know what I hate about peoppe who say that White Culture doesn't exist? They will go to places like my home countries of Puerto Rico and Mexico and then complain that nothing makes sense to them because cultural "it's so foreign." White culture does exist, White Culture founded my two favorite genres in the world High European Fantasy, and American Old West. Tolkein is white culture, Marty Robins is white culture. Comic Books, Movies, Video Games. There's thousands of examples of White Culture. What these leftoids don't understand is that White Culture, like many cultures, had great philosphers and thinkers who experienced a variety of cultures and shared the unqiue ideas that these cultures had. Something that's been done since the dawn of society.
one culture gets successful results from certain traits (stage 1), other cultures started copying those successful traits from it (stage 2), and they become shared traits among various cultures (stage 3). its a natural thing. problem is when people like the ones who say that white culture doesn't exist basically look at stage 3 exclusively, see that various cultures share the same traits as the culture that created them, and then think that the culture that created those traits just has no culture of its own.
They dismiss its existance because they don't want it to exist. The Wild West and Cowboys are where American culture shines through the most -- self-reliant and confident, make your own life, American Dream, etc. Tolkien and Fantasy is where European culture shines through in a similar way. The left hates that, they cannot control it, and it served as an argument against their claims of needing massive systems of control. So, they refuse to recognise its existance so they don't have to justify trampling on it.
My favorite example of this was from ages ago when Wisecrack was a good channel. In their Earthling Cinema episode on Zootopia, they specifically used the word prejudice in their analysis. Many commenters were calling them out for not discussing the “obvious” racial analogies in the film. Their reply in short: There’s not enough actual differences between people of different races for that to be a solid point of the film. And that if you were to use the Herbivore/Carnivore dichotomy as a stand in for racial relations in the US. It’s very hamfisted and a self defeating film. Which brings me to my favorite use of “race” in media, superpowers=minorities. And everyone who is not super powered and is afraid of said supers is a fascist.
On the last one look to Kwanza osefjefo or however his name is spelled and his comic series Black AF where he gave only one group superpowers without thinking of the ramifications his idea had for his story.
Using the Carnivore/Herbivore dichotomy is a terrible argument for that movie because the carnivores are an actual danger to the herbivores by nature of being meat-eating, so the herbivores are food. The herbivores have a right be have some suspicion about them due to their literal nature. .... Yikes, better not make that about race.
@@renkol123 yeah , a similar problem in the movie "Elemental" , Water is *literally* deadly to fire , and fire can easily accidentaly kill some of the other elements , like they are incompatible down to the *molecular level* , which is also a reason why the racism allegory doesn't works
Thankfully Jake Brauer (Jake from Wisecrack) made his own channel. Still very media literate, still very interesting, even though wisecrack is just leftist nonsense now
@@ulforcemegamon3094 I mean it can "work" just not as an allegory for peaceful co-existence. Instead it's an allegory with some rather _concerning_ implications. It's why I hate HTTYD3. The first movie pushed the idea that two groups who've fought for generations can make a choice to end the violence. The second tackled the ideas of the cycle of violence and how people who are hurt go on to hurt others. The final movie some how came to the idea that because bad people exist the solution is F*^%ING segregation. "One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn't belong"
I saw someone online make a great point in regard to privilege. "Everyone is under the assumption that white priviledge is un-earned. It isn't. It was earned by everyone that looks like me that hasnt committed a crime. Its because of ppl that look like me that I almost never "match the description". I must say, it opened my eyes and made me realize how right they are.
How I see it- what they call "white privilege" is nothing more than basic human rights- western (white) people have worked hard and fought hard to get where we are, and it's not a privilege that can be taken away, it's a right that all can have if they stand up for themselves. Much of it is simply about respect, if you give it you get it back
It's always rich when a leftist tries to complain about how Western culture associates the color white with positive traits and black with negative traits, when that kind of symbology is found universally among cultures on the planet. The reason why is simple. White is the color of pure light, and mankind likes pure light because it allows us to see and interact more effectively with the world around us, to see things in their most unfiltered form, whereas black is the color of darkness, both inconvenient to try to live in as well as dangerous given all the predatory animals that can use darkness to sneak up on and attack a person. Traditional Africans religious beliefs that predate colonialism, just for example, assert that albino animals are pure and full of magic (which is why some shamen in Africa today have gotten in the news for kidnapping and killing albino people to use their body parts for the medicines they brew or the charms/divination tools they use).
Another reason - White things get dirty and ugly quite easily. White pants or dresses will get muddy if you step into the ground. You can see the faults in a White sofa much easier than Black sofa. Black things are more enduring - they don't get dirty as easily, because they already look more like dirt and soot and dust
11:00 I think the reason "the N-word" is so powerful now is because certain segments aren't allowed to say it. It is verboten, so contrary to the explanation I was given why it's verboten (to "take it back" and reduce its power), has escalated its power to the point that these people will try to socially cancel non-Americans for using it and even people speaking other languages that have a similar sounding word with a different meaning.
I really hate it when words are off limits. We are way past the point of racial slurs being taken back. Especially when black people use "the N-word" all the time for every single thing. From casual conversation to rap music. Nobody should police language.
At the end of the day, it is a curse word. I can't pretend it's that different to sl**** or fa*, which you should NOT say and you will be judged by it as the rude, shameless person you would be, BUT it's not that big of a deal.
Hispanics and Latino's have not adopted a shared Latino Experience. We may share the same language but in no way have we shared the same cultural experiences. Don't tell a Guatemalan that they are basically Mexican or tell a Puerto Rican that they are basically Cuban and so on and so on. Its incredibly disrespectful.
30:00, Also worth mentioning, the choice of marble in sculptures and decorative architecture, a material that just so *happens to be naturally white,* is also because of the quality of Marble as a very soft material that is easy to work with when it comes to shaping and sculpting, compared to other materials such as Granite, which are much more difficult to work with, either due to being too soft to form without crumbling them, or being so brittle that they can only be worked by chipping.
Bingo. I've worked with natural rocks, specifically tile. Marble is one of the easier natural rocks to work with (although all natural rock is harder to cut than ceramic).
Also, marble is typically very consistent in terms of composition, and not very grainy. This gives it a distinct advantage over most soft sedimentary rocks that might otherwise be suitable for carving.
Antic statues actually used to be painted, it’s just that ancient paint made of slugs, flowers and water on a smooth surface isn’t exactly the epitome of longevity. Renaissance statues tried to emulate antiquity how they saw it and since they didn’t have phorensics and scans to find microfragments of paint on the old statues they just thought they were unpainted by default.
This entire video is pretty much what I have thought for the past half decade now. I could just never put it into words. Thanks for another banger mentis wave.
I can't thank you enough for explaining these concepts so succinctly and thoroughly. Now, if only I could get any of the lefties to actually see watch them, as I'm usually met with the genetic fallacy of "You can't trust a RU-vid video!"
The only way to combat the genetic fallacy (while they ironically get stuff from RU-vid) is to go find the study you mention, quote the title, reference and some of the extract.
@@MentisWave do you have a discord server? I’m just wondering because I’m a recent subscriber and I would like to join the community (if you have one of course, I checked the description but I didn’t see any link unless I’m blind)
Often they can't even tell you why/how something is racist. I've literally been told "it just is". Then they will still demand that you declare yourself a racist and apologize to them for it.
Ha ha ha! Vickie199 was claiming that since the employee wants minimal hours and maximal pay, whereas the employer wants the reverse, that this is an IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT. Obviously, since they came to a mutually beneficial compromise where the labourer is working for a wage, this conflict HAS infact been reconciled.
The reason they concentrate on racism is because it’s the main difference between their ideology and nazism. Other than racism they actually have a lot of beliefs in common with Nazis.
In graph theory, the names, node labels, and visual representations of graphs doesnt matter. If the underlying structure is the same, graphs A and B are considered orthogonal. If you look at the world as groups, Nazism and Communism are purely Orthogonal.
Isn't it equally utopian to believe that other races will be happy (mainly African, Latin, and Mediterranean people) will be fine and cool with being a permanent underclass they have no hope of going out of it.. on the basis of it being "meritorious". Because all that says is that they didn't try hard enough or aren't virtuous enough as a collective racial group. Thats just putting salt into the wound by calling them morally or physically incapable of doing as good as a Asian, Jewish or White person.
@@honkhonk8009 Orthogonal is described as events that are statistically independent, or do not affect one another in terms of outcome. But how can this be the case with idea rather than events? Are we to believe that national socialism and communism didn't influence each other whatsoever? I find that very unlikely especially since both are left wing ideologies that places central planning as their defining features.
Hasan Abi is the definition of saying things with enough confidence that people just accept it without actually thinking about it. Also, the Roman statue point is laughable. IMO, Roman statues would look just as cool if not cooler if they were sculpted from black marble instead of white. The paint looks tacky no matter what. It reminds me more of white southerner nativity scenes than anything else. It doesn't remind me at all of any cultural objects from the global South no matter what Adam Something claims.
Yeah, Adam also glossed over the fact that people also enjoy unpainted statues that are not "white". It's just an overall very dumb thing to say that shows he hasn't studied the art of sculpting or modelling in any meaningful capacity, and is just projecting his racial obsession onto a field he doesn't understand.
Yes, most of the statues that people want torn down are literally black because they're cast metal. The paint literally covers up the craftsmanship and it is NOT ancient artwork, it is modern speculation covering up ACTUAL artwork from the past. No one knows what ancient marble statues looked like when painted, you can't just put any paint on there and act like that is authentic.
Im white, and im proud of my white heritage, culture and identity. White people have a lot to be proud of we created modern civilization and Western civilization
Exactly, I’m not white, but it is disgusting that the left treats whites this way. They are hypocrites who only say things when it benefits them. God Bless you🇺🇸✝️🙏
I saw a video of a black girl saying she would only date a black man to "preserve her heritage" and I related with that as a white guy. Too bad I'm the one that's racist apparently...
One important part of keeping statues unpainted is to avoid an "uncanny valley" effect where you get too close to being photorealistic without being all the way there. I've seen painted "death masks" and even though geometrically perfect recreations of the face they look wrong as the texture isn't perfect it triggers some instinct to fear of the unknown.
these people (like mentioned) seem to have no understanding of arts and the steps it takes to create believable forms. See, nature doesn't create even coloration on the entire surface of the thing, which is why the painted sculptures look so unnatural- real skin is not one color- tans, discolouration, blood supply to the area all affect the final color we see. Not to mention that skin is translucent which means that it reflects light in a different way than marble. This is why in 3d modelling we don't just slap a flat color on a mesh, we need to create a texture for it and either manually paint it or use a ton of procedual generation to get the effect of the real thing. Same applies to fabric, hair, metal, anything you can think of irl will look off when translated unfaithfully into another medium. That's the uncanny valley and why the paintjob on the sculptures is ugly
The Problem that I have with the Concept of “White Privilege” is that I, as an Individual, have NEVER, even ONCE in my Entire Life, ASKED Other People to treat me with Privilege, neither because of my Racial Demographic Group Membership, nor for ANY Other Reason. So, if THEY, of their own Volition, CHOOSE to treat me with Privilege, because of some sort of Mandatory Unspoken Societal Expectation of treating White People with Privilege, then that is THEIR Problem, NOT mine. I would just like to be treated with politeness, friendliness, and/or kindness, because that is the Way that I try to treat Other People, even if they are a Perfect Stranger, and regardless of their Arbitrary Superficial Skin Pigmentation, which I consider to be meaningless, by Default, until they have given me a Reason to treat them differently.
I have been thinking of all these ideas as its very relevant to Indian caste society and left wing politics here as well. I thank you for putting my thoughts into words. This really is a gold mine of a video going over so many perspectives.
Oh definitely. Collective guilt disguised as "muh equality" is a failed concept that has harmed many cultures and societies. I've read a bit about how the caste system is being twisted in modern India and suspected it suffers from similar problems.
@@MentisWave oh yes, as you went over the xanderhal part it was so cathartic lol. These guys don't realise what their ideas are doing to social fabric. You know how its leading to a more divided society and even minorities are felling into traps of nationalism (like black nationalism). In India (where the left has been a hegemon in political discourse) it is very troubling to see the ideas of critical theory inflitrating the university here and the great amount of social harm that it can done to an already fragile society that is India. Its very very troubling and upsetting like you I feel I want to do something about it and spread awareness. The patterns I see in America/Anglosphere is very relevant to India as well where society is being divided for eg. into Savarna (the upper castes) and a coalition b/w so called "oppressed groups" that is women, muslims, and the bahujan (or the oppressed castes) into this form of radical leftism which can set us years back. I can't tell you the million things wrong with such a conception of society that negates a lot of historical context. I am very afraid of it honestly. I hope to do something to combat it but I feel powerless.
This is really what opened my eyes towards the hypocrisy of leftist rhetoric. I'd always considered myself left-leaning when I was younger because I believe in things like lgbt rights and government assistance. They all seemed like pretty normal concepts to me, and one of the most consistent concepts I'd picked up was 'don't be racist, racism's bad yo.' which is also a very easy concept to understand because treat others as you want to be treated, etc. But then I joined a friend group with some very triggered people on it who were constantly going on about how racism is only bad when it's against oppressed groups, and racism against white people is fine actually. And that's when I realized these people were actually just not making any sense.
Oh, they are making sense. You just cannot look at it from the liberal perspective. From their point of view, anyk social norm and value is nothing more than the result of the elites enforcing that the system that will put them on top would sustain itself on it's own. Therefore, any social norm widespread within society that problems needs to be flip on it's head in order to abolish those injustices. Again, basic problem is seeing that any societal issue is the result of one side winning some sort of zero sum game over the other. It's something that is common withing radical left and it's simmilar to the problems with international-relations rationalism or ethnic nationalism.
To say any group is worthy of discrimination is radical rhetoric, not leftist. Conservatives aren’t commonly aggressively homophobic or transphobic, but those on the far-right are. Leftists commonly aren’t against straight people or racist, but those on the far-left are. Even then, those beliefs aren’t exclusive but usually appear in those circles. What they all have in common is not knowing what they’re talking about. Regular leftism says something more like: “The generational oppression left over from racism effects minorities more commonly, or is viewed with more prejudice/stereotypes”. Personally, my view on that take is contingent on the environment I’m in. In the Deep South this is especially true, my own family members are casually and outwardly racist. However, if I were to travel back to Israel for deployment, then the aforementioned racism would have varying intensities on different groups. Hope this makes sense.
Umm, the statue example was hilarious, considering the statues he pointed out literally used to be painted during the time of the Roman Empire. The paint just deteriorated over the few thousand years they've been around.
The argument the guy used for afirmative action is self defeating. "Why should your race prevent you from going to your dream school?" Your race WILL prevent you from going to your dream school if you arent one of the protected classes. If you're asian, its harder to get in because of your race. The very argument they use for afirmative action actually defeats the underlying reason for having affirmative action in the first place, but only for people who arent a part of the protected race. Its literally racist, but because it benefits them they are perfectly happy with it. Absolutely disgusting.
The stupidest take I've seen that tried to justify left wing racism is that "rascism has to be systemic, you can't be racist to white people in a white-dominated society". The definition of racism never mentions anything about it needing to be systemic. Racism very much exists on an individual level.
So without systemic oppression racism is just bad words. But with systemic oppression, even after those systems have been dismantled, merely existing is racist. I have to give progressives credit because I genuinely could never come up with an argument this stupid.
Adam something's video kind of hurt, because I agree with a lot of the points he makes about ugly architecture, such as the buildings in Dubai and Egypt.
Well, for what i know, those statues from the romans and the greeks were painted back in the day, so the argument of that person is stupidity and ignorance, but elevated 1000 times.
The problem with arguments *Against* racism is that they fail to account for the fact that humans learn through association, if you touch fire once and get burned you know that fire is hot and can hurt you. But fire is a 100% constant living organisms are less predictable. With animals, when you know how animal x and animal y are capable of behaving you're more likely to compose yourself a certain way around them, even if you know sharks may not be that harmful you're still going to be cautious because the chances aren't zero. Statistically when learning through association you pick various qualities a person possesses to make assumptions about groups, from their race to the way they talk to the the way they dress, even what food they like. If you meet (1) person from a certain race that was a shitty roommate and he's you're only experience with that race your innate survival instincts are going to tell you that all people of that race are like that because 100% of the people of that race you've had as roommates were like that. But if you have more roommates of that race you opinion begins to evolve as people of a certain race aren't all the same, so you find various qualities you like or don't like and make broader assumptions about that race. The simple fact is racism is justified from a statistical perspective, it's just when its negative traits being pointed out everyone loses their minds. If you were pointing out the high concentration of blacks in sports, no one would call that racism, if you were pointing out the high concentration of east Asians in math and technology, that's socially accepted too. But the moment you start pointing out negative traits that are common in various races you become "le ebil raysis". (I'm black btw, African too, a major outlier, but whatever).
another great video, you really find just the right balance when approaching topics. also a suggestion id like to see is a video on authoritarianism in general, not just covering places like china and the USSR, but also places like early south korea and Singapore.
10:10 Well, the bigger problem is that this isn't exclusively directed on an individual level, so someone who has done nothing wrong ends up being a victim, then wants revenge but ends up targeting someone else thats innocent...
To sum up, racism is a fundamentally collectivist idea, therefore the collectivists can't make good arguments against it, because any argument against racial collectivism could easily be modified to apply to their other beliefs.
@@cubeman22 I don’t think he will. He left back when the algorithm really started screwing with him, and then his dad fell ill so he went to go care for him
Racism is one of the most contested terms because they literally keep changing the definition. My favorite dictionary is Websters 1828 because it doesn't have any modern slang. But the term Racism isn't in it despite it supposedly existing through history. I started looking through historic dictionaries up to the present and found that it completely changed about every 20 years! Early definitions included "violence against others based on their race" but now it is just discrimination based on race. The problem I have with that is that discrimination on its own isn't necessarily bad. Therefore racism isn't bad anymore and its the leftists fault!
i mean ye discrimination on it's own isnt necessarily bad, if for example you're a secret service agency or some other form of group where going undercover might be a thing that happens you kinda do want to discriminate for certain things. you'd want operatives that fit in with the area they're supposed to be undercover in so you'd have to discriminate along some such lines
Hypothetical question: It would be moral for some Asian woman who carry her paycheck in purse to choice much longer way back home through populated by race X neighborhood , then much shorter through neighborhood populated by race Y, becouse she know of statistical data that say "Race Y on Asian crimes are 8x more likely then race X on Asian"?. Do she have moral right to value her wellbeing over interests/feelings of some group?
You don’t need to do any of that. The Asian woman is capable of choosing whatever path she personally deems as best for her. She might even choose the shorter path for convenience, but she could also just choose the longer route for security. Both of these choices are amoral
@@rhett3185agree. But to the one wanting to make a problem out of it, either choice she makes will be spun into irrefutable proof of her bigotry. They can even use the same dataset influencing her decision making and justify why she should be robbed by (race), and if she's that worried about it, maybe she should give (some or all of) her (undeserved) paycheck (to the authority) to help promote equity for (race). Then (race) wouldn't (but could still justify anyways) be tempted to rob her (of her inequitable paycheck). If she would just (always unquestionably) vote (like a good little subjugate of the party) and get out the vote (early often and ensure the dead vote at least twice) this wouldn't happen (but still very much could and that would still be her fault collectively). Because it's not about her choices, or what influenced her decisions. but the simple fact that she made any choice at all of her own volition, without being expressly instructed to be some authoritarian narrative. That's the actual reason she'd be excoriated, the bigotry (either real or more likely imagined) is only incidental to the greater narrative. She was not TOLD (by an authority figure her critic approves of) or ORDERED (compelled by force and/or fear of social and/or economic consequences) which neighborhood she should walk through. And don't even get them started on how much she was paid versus some arbitrary example they drug out just for this occasion or invented out of whole cloth to make her into a strawman to their audience.
22:59 I've been saying this for a while about white people. The same basically exists for "black people"". Black people are just the descendants of different ethnic groups from west and central africa blending together into a new culture/ethnicity/identity in the US. Honestly calling them white or black is kind of dumb but so are a lot of ethnic identity titles. But so is calling them "African Americans" or "European Americans". Because its not like they are immigrants.
@MentisWave Do you think you could do a video like this on "toxic masculinity"? I've been seeing it pop up everywhere and the leftist response to criticisms of "toxic masculinity" are usually the same which tells me the people trying to debunk aren't doing something right.
They have adopted "racial justice". If justice means people getting what they deserve, then what does "racial justice" mean? What does a particular race deserve?
You're asking for objective answers from a political philosophy that by necessity makes everything objective into a subjective, so that they're never wrong, and so that there's always more "progress" that needs to be done to reach utopia. That then turns around and insists their new subjective "definition" is now an objective quality and must be treated as an objective quality. Until they change the definition again, and then it's once more subjective, and then yet again that "definiton" then becomes an objective standard. (A) becomes (B). (B) now is (A). Wind shifts directions. Then (A) becomes (C). (C) is now (A). Cycle repeats ad infinitum. (A) can and will be everything and nay eventually even be nothing, but it will never actually be (A) again. In this instance, you use their term "racial justice". To you and me, that concept should possess some objective measurable value. If (×), then (Y), at the most dumbest downed level of understanding. If (condition) is met, then (problem) is solved. But that's the rub. (×) and (Y) are not objective qualities under the actual underlying philosophy that spouts "racial justice" as a solution to social ills. Because however impossible or absurd the solution, however unlikely it's demands and requirements, there would (theoretically speaking) be a solution. That's bad for business. They don't actually want solutions or care about conditions. They just want to be right, and they just want you to be wrong. They win, you lose, appeal to authority to make it happen. An actual solution would remove one tool from their utility belt. One less shield to deflect criticism and one less cudgel to use to beat you for wrongthink. It would neccesarily result in one less underclass of forever dependent victims who would nolonger need to be saved by them and their appeal to (authority). Can't have that! That would mean there would also be one less demographic to use as propaganda pawns to point to and say "look at the suffering and injustices of (group)" We (you) have to make things more better, (you need to)give more money and power to (my chosen authority) so that they can fix the problem (by blaming you for creating it, them never actually solving it, and then blaming you for that failure as well) Fully aware that the problem will never be solved and that they don't actually want or need it to be solved, they simply want to present themselves as if they actually care and so they can look moral to the untrained eye and feel superior. What do you mean you disagree with that premise? Why do you hate (group) and want them to suffer injustices? You're a bad person! You're why (group) can't have nice things! Ad hominem strawman attack. Ad hominem strawman attack. Imply secret harboring of istaphobia and attempt to publicly shame and humiliate you for expressing dissenting opinions or thinking for yourself. If that fails appeal to authority and demand that you be removed from the conversation, your piece be removed from the game board, and your voice be censored if not outright silenced. If that fails, appeal to greater authority and repeat demands. If authority fails to deliver, use threats, intimidation and coercion, first subtle, then overt. If target persists, call for fanatical members to "do what needs to be done" to be rid of you. "For the greater good". That's how their "racial justice" will work. The same way as all their (×)justice works. It mostly doesn't, and it's not a bug, it's an intended feature. Because it's not about justice, it's about (×). Whatever subjective that might be in current moment. Any descriptor or label or limiting factor put in front of "justice" by definition changes the meaning of "justice" into "justice (but only for group/identity)". Because their only real offered solution to any injustice or problem is not to end injustice or fix the problem itself, but simply change who decides who gets the shortest stick drawn for them. And then what happens to the ones who have their shortest stick drawn for them. Today maybe it's one group, tomorrow it'll be a different one. Its all about perpetuating the same thing they claim to be against while pretending they're not doing it and it's good when they do. Because they care and are morally better than us wrongthinkers. Always.
I am very grateful for your inserting of statue of frustrated thinking man or clown pepe. i process information pretty slowly, so when you're talking or showcasing someone else talking, the visual cues are very helpful bc sometimes i actually end up agreeing with the point that you are refuting. I know leftism is a mind virus, at the very least for the most part, and you clearing things up with the visual cues is very helpful. also i love your content. the only leftists i can really agree with some of the time after i've actually given it some thought are ana kasparian and destiny. but fr i wish i had your visual cues when there's an obvious red flag for me to see that i might miss lol
That's so true about clay renders but I had never heard the justification of the preference summarized. I used to do ceramic sculptures and to me the figure had the most personality before is was put through the kiln or glazed. Colors take away for the strength of dimensional expression and detail. I watched a show called Arcane recently and the intro song goes through images of clay renders of the characters and it's so beautiful.
i just wanna say that while watching this video, i randomly generated a word (coffee) and asked bing if coffee was racist. Sure enough, it answered with yes. I don't think i really want to live on this planet anymore
That Adam Something clip about the statues is just dumb. I mean, people like the look of natural stone, and realistic mannequins fall into the uncanny valley more often than not. I like the look of wood grain and if given a choice between painted wood and stained wood, I'm picking stained every time.
The possibility of an exception overshadows any use of a stereotype. If you need a stereotype in your reasoning, you may as well be arguing in bad faith.
0:49 i feel like that most leftist dont feel the need to explain why racism is bad since they probably assume that most people watching, whether left leaning or right leaning, probably agree that racism is pretty bad and dont see any point with convincing the few proud racist why its wrong which honestly is pretty understandable. I did see one video debunking phrenology which was really interesting, even though I know that phrenologys obviously wrong it was still interesting learning about the absolute gymnastics people went through to justify racism
11:48 i generally enjoyed the video but marxism is not for equality of out come, marx clarifies this in his "critique of the gotha programme" "one worker is married, another is not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right, instead of being equal, would have to be unequal."
Marx himself doesn't go for equality of outcome, but his followers in the modern day are almost completely driven by outcome bias which effectively results in an ideology that aims for equality of outcome when pushed to its conclusions. If Karl Marx was resurrected today and could see what has become of his work, he would immediately die again from a rage induced brain aneurysm.
@@MentisWave oh sorry i missunderstood you and i absolutely agree lmao, i saw a post on twitter today asking why as a communist you dont own a gun and the comments were hilarious marx truely wouldve hated what kind of people his work inspired
@@MentisWaveequality of outcomes is ludicrous and impossible, given the sheer volume of innumerable variables involved just in the circumstances of every individual birth itself. If the beginning isn't equal, there's no way to get the end equal. Even the most Orwellian dystopia on steroids couldn't practically make that a reality. Not 100%. Which is no doubt why it's easy to make emotional appeals based on it without thinking the greater implications through all the way. The perfect grifter agenda. An impossible burden with an impossible solution that is impossible to ever achieve. Infinite progress needed to solve an infinite and unsolvable problem. Always more work needed. It's an intellectually lazy fantasy only achieved by insects or machines. But I guess maybe if we all become robot bug people synced up to a hivemind, it'll finally be progress at last, eh? For all of ten seconds before a progressive (assuming still yet existed outside the hivemind somehow) declared that still wasn't progressive enough.
Way back then during Marx’s time period, the jobs were vastly different because we as a human race were just shedding ourselves of monarchs and the entire feudal system which rightly needed to be destroyed. The problem is how this ideology has metastasized into feminism and critical race theory which has led many into this absurdist view of gender and racism.
You’re giving vaush too much credit in this video. He isn’t stupidly ignoring the other person’s argument and he’s not making logical errors, he’s lying. It’s not an accident when he is illogical in the examples you showed, because it was done purposefully to deceive.
If those statues where pure black like most confederate war memorials are, the effect would be LITTERALLY the same. Its a singular plain color because it looks good. If the greeks had the machining process we do now, that statue wouldv prolly be made out of pure stainless steel
A bit late to the party, but thank you for your video! I know we would disagree on a lot of ideas, things, and political points, but at least I know we can agree on why we dislike many aspects of the modern Left.
"...chattel slavery..." That was 175 years ago dude, learn a new song. Seriously, if ancient grievances that never effected you in any meaningful way are all you have then you literally have nothing.
Everyone is racist, everyone discriminates in every action they take, in every person they interact with, based on all the information they have available, including race. It is logical for survival. It has nothing to do with overgeneralizing or hating people.
It always baffles me how Vaush can treat a video like a live conversation and be surprised when the prerecorded message doesn’t actually answer his questions.
I would sort of dispute generalisations, for some jobs like say being a politician, one has to treat individuals as part of a group for practical reasons, on Asians, rip them, those kids may suffer their childhood for absolutely nothing.
Any discrimination for an individual is necessarily discrimination against. Thus undermining the very idea that affirmative action and other positive discrimination schemas are not racist. They necessarily are in the very assumption that those races need or deserve assistance. See the bigotry of low expectations.
29:00 WESTERN CULTURE??? Bruh Im litterally Sinhalese and Buddhist. We wear white to the temple because the Buddha taught us that plain utilitarian clothing is best, as you wont have much attachment towards your looks. We litterally view the color white as great, as its a very simple and plain color. Alot of cultures view it as "purity". "White people" are not actually white. Their pale or tanned a bit. Im not sure what tier of brainrot people have thinking that white supremacy somehow is rooted in statues of highly tanned people (romans) being white.
Hassan’s argument is basically this: Tom Brady helped the patriots win numerous Super Bowls. Therefore, if I play QB for the patriots, I will also win multiple super bowls. He’s assuming the end result has more to do with the system than the persons performance.
your people as in "direct family and friends" meaning the social circle consisting of no more than 150 people that any human being realistically has the time, the ability to remember, and the capacity to bond with in any significant way, i find it difficult to give a shit about anyone beyond that group, like the separation of professional and personal relationships ill go to a friend's barbecue, because i know people there. i wont go to a random on the street's barbecue because that involves "getting to know" a bunch of people, or standing around awkwardly and eating food made by strangers. personally im all friended up, the majority of people bore the shit out of me anyway, i have a group of people i selected as my friends because everyone else sucks lol, no sharon from best buy, i dont care about and will not remember any of the people i throw a half hearted greeting towards that you introduce me to at the barbecue.
