What happens in a world where everything is “racist”? | Brendan O’Neill 

People who never owned slaves paying people who never were slaves.

asking for forgiveness over historical events... that did not concern us nor the people whom might lay claim to deserving an apology. Beyond ridiculous.

Bring our WORKING CLASS men and women back into the conversation.

If everything is racist, then NOTHING is racist.

Brendan O'Neill is brilliant! The world needs more like him to refuse to buckle to the ,'woke' ideology.

I’m a women and this nonsense about language is ludicrous, it infuriates me……who made up these rules!! The lack of focus on really important issues is maddening.

We live in a nightmare that grows darker with each passing week.

Chairman Mao didn't call it woke, he called it Communism

Brendan at 40m - DO NOT BEND THE KNEE! Right on. Right on.

My daughter and I live in an apartment and the tenancy agreement states no pets allowed. However, my daughter identifies as a cat! I'm afraid one of my neighbours might report me.

if we don't want to fight for our rights it's our own fault

Nice to have someone open the curtains open the window and let some fresh air in! Well needed.

Well, I'm a scientist, and by that, I mean real, measurable science like Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and there is a concept called Equilibrium. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced". This concept is a general rule for how reality works throughout the universe. It also applies to things like economics, supply and demand etc. A good example is in Biology where biological organisms will eat all of the available food until a balance is reached between the population size and need and available food. So, assuming no external artificial influence is applied to the system, any system, balance will naturally occur. When apex predators are killed off by an external, artificial mechanism (by humans usually) for instance, the entire food chain can break down. Predator 2 overpopulates, eats all of Predator 3, which causes Predator 4 to overpopulate and so on, and the entire system breaks down. So what you ask, that's science, what's it got to do with "Woke"? Well, I think most people in the modern advanced world have a decent sense of right and wrong, and fair play. Over many years our systems have artificial systems in place to actively discriminate against certain groups, but in the past 30-40 years those practices have been removed to avoid discrimination and allow the market to determine who gets a job based on merit. Systems are in place to call out and stop discrimination. One of the fundamental differences between Left and Right politics is that the Left believes in artificial systems, like taxes to control how markets work, whilst the Right believes in a free market that will find it's own balance, based on supply and demand, similar to the biological example. I think "Wokeism" (man I'm tired of the Woke word) is fundamentally dangerous on 2 levels. Firstly, it's perpetuated by people who see inequity everywhere based on personal bias rather than facts and logic, and secondly, based on their incorrect assumptions they want to artificially control the market to make it the way they want. So, what's wrong with that you ask? Well, the problem is, systems DON'T WORK that way, systems will always try to achieve equilibrium, and these artificial mechanisms are stopping it, so the system will ALWAYS be under pressure, causing chaos.

are people in Africa banning anything that is too black

de-nationalization of nations - that's the underlying project

Love Brendan O'Neill's work and this is another great conversation.

‘female influence’ if I said any more, RU-vid would block me.

I need to watch in doses...I'm completely distraught at the 11 min mark...and I'm Canadian!

The word “man” like human, man kind, fellow man, etc is the most inclusive because it is not gender specific and the fact that it is now considered offensive really blows my mind.

Yes. They have made the whole world depressed.

totally agree Australia is lost too

In a war, the best position you can find yourself, is that your enemy is sleeping

Its like sawing through the branch you’re sitting on.

My grangmother loved Rudyard Kipling. By the 1960s nobody assigned his work in school. But now, putting him within the context of his time, it's "acceptable" to read him again. She used to quote his poems to us. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you/ If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowances for their doubting too/ If you can waite and not be tired by waiting/ or being lied to don't deal in lies...". It's a long poem. A good poem. Not Chaucer, Shakespeare or Milton. Seems like those are worth a look too. What was "bowdlerizing". Didn't Bowdler try to clean up Shakespeare? Fascinating subject. By the way. The word "woke" is a totally toxic word.

and who educates these young people ??? LET ME GUESS

From the sound of the comments, this so call America will never change too much hate in the heart's of men.

The Hoards are at the gate. Camille Pagila. Late stage Rome empire. Rome was horrible but the parallels are stark as it applies to western society.

It’s great to see Brendan again. I’ve been wondering where he is as he used to be on GB News often , but not recently.

I'm sure none of those (incidentally) primarily white woksters can name three authors from each and every "non white culture" that are tought in schools of these cultures or countries that are as relevant there as someone like Billy Shakespeare would be for English speaking countries. And that's where his relevance also basically ends cos him or Milton are pretty irrelevant in France, Italy, Greek where other authors are tought and where the majority of the population is pretty darn white too. Pretty sure no European or American auther is relevant in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Russia.... how racist of these many non western nations... and I don't give a crap 🙄 Gosh.

"We want to be sensitive service while we're killing people", that is, after all, their job. Can you imagine an entire ships company breaking down in tears because their ship fired a missile at an aggressors ship?

I recently read a comment from a Nigerian who stated that Orwell's '1984' is the only book taught "by a non-African author" in Nigeria. So Nigeria excludes (presumably white) European and American authors, let alone Russian, apart from him.

One gripe. Ukraine was invaded before 2022 when Crimea was occupied by the Russians many years before. When nobody cared

If you don’t know history then you will repeat it. History is should not be hidden but transparent and understood and discussed

Sorry, but there are way too many wet noises when this man speaks. I can't make it past the eight-minute mark.

If you make fun of them by calling them snowflakes you run the risk of thinking this is about them being weak. The same "snow flakes" were not at all phased by what they saw and heard happened to women and children on Oct 7th. This isnt about sensitive people, its about people gaining POWER.

Thunberg should show up in fig leaves and loin cloths

If you don't hate someone or something no one listens to you.

Europe and Israel and America produce knowledge, technology, medicine and more. It’s no longer possible to just outsource production nor is that evil. Such outsourcing raised the standard of living and lowered mortality for developing countries. How did ch8na otherwise go from being a backwater 50 years ago to major force in all sectors now?

Great content. Thank you.

As a mathematician I can say that wokeness has not engulfed the trade in idiocy yet, and probably will not, since mathematicians are very intelligent and do not care about the race or color of their finest. If some of the important ones were to be labeled racist, and their works were to be banned, math will simply stop working. A search of the internet do show reports of Indigenous/black female mathematicians who feel treated differently or mocked because of their origin, but that must surely be a consequence of personality disorders or similar mental conditions, that lures them to wrongly conclude that they are pursued. I can asure everyone, that mathematicians do NOT care about race/origin/gender since it would be downright stupid. Disrupting ones self of taking advantage of new gained territory. And mathematicians are NOT stupid.

I'll do an education lecture for you. I just wrote a story called School 2094, which decribes in detail what a real school would be like if we actually valued education or even understood it. The story will be in my book of collected visionary stories called Beryllium Sushi (amazon kindle). But try The Impossible Mall and Titanium Sushi for starters. I am the Nicholas Tesla of creative writing and visionary concepts. 😊

😅this is one of the most interesting and common sense debate I have come across thanks

How can we know their history when they are destroying faster than you can read it.

Lots of good points but you should resist the temptation to dismiss climate change as just another woke trope. While excessive alarmism is not good, it is real and a significant long term challenge for humanity. Avoid the trap of confusing science with ideology otherwise you won’t be much better than the wokeists.

Taking a stand against Genocide does not mean students etc are ‘standing with Hamas. But sure Jews are angels 👍🏼

enlightenment in in truth beginning of all this darkness

This is a cultural revolution. The same thing happened in china under mao zedong.

"prison of the present" that tells in all in3 words❤

FIRE🖤

Americans are tired of funding everyone accept americans

Theres a very good indiscriminatory pronoun for all of them.i used it for the first 12 years of my life and can pick it up again where i left off. That pronoun is "comrade".

australia looks extreme woke

It has already destroyed English and British identity. My ancestors fought for this country in both WW1 and WW2, but if there is ever another war, I won’t be lifting a finger, that much I can promise.

The ABC is Australia is so left leaning. It's often not hard to watch

I thought these guys were against identity politics?? Moving forward.??

As a gay guy, when I was a kid, I would try play dress up in my sister's clothes. I suppose it's because I knew I was different and trying to figure out what that was. Well, I was gay. I have zero desire to put on a skirt or a dress or anything. Trans is real, but it is such a small percentage and your child is just trying to figure who they are, do not make a decision until their brains are developed. Period.

I will keep saying this is the Twilight zone .

As a 67 year old woman who grew up in the 60s and early 70s, it will only get worse. Our music and styles were considered horrible. We were never going to amount to anything. Its all so Orwellian

Shakespeare, the writer of Othello, is racist? Wow.

History Cleansing, 😢 without History How do we Know Anything, or Learn from the Mistakes of our Ancestors,❓

Who tf gave this person a mic

that's how you know its a religion 8:25

What happens in a world where everything is “antisemetic”?

36:00 Woke Marxism. It's called Woke Marxism.

Didn't we simply have the same system but had reverence for the wealthy and powerful, where you could in the past lose your. Livelihood if you spoke out of turn or even your life. Surely wokeness is just another version of that with a different group as the focus.

The punishment is coming

This speech really reads ‘older generations trying to maintain society as it is and has been’ yes wokeness can be used in a way that is cringe… but when you break it down, what are the younger generations speaking up about ‘caring about the planet, humanitarian rights, people feeling safe and respected’ why is this being demonised in this discussion? The younger gens are fighting for everyone’s equality and don’t want to leave anyone behind, the aim is equal human rights and to build a more sustainable world for the future. Just because you may find the new language annoying or inconvenient for you, maybe have a thought of what is behind these words and allow space for society to change, grow and evolve.

This guy started out good. But when he started with his 'you must choose a side" regarding Isreal and Palestine. I thought "oh! He seems to think way to simplistic here." That kind of black and white only begets more war. That's not the answer to anything but death to the many and more wealth to the super wealthy few. Then when the woman asked if he thought maybe there is a more comprehensive theme to the world events since 9 one one. He disregarded it out of hand. Then it became more intriguing to me. He is either truly myopic and shallow thinking or he is intentionally feigning interest in the west and all it has built just to win our hearts and minds so he can then redirect our observations of these other issues and the whole cohesive nature of the continually ramped up insanity.

this is the worse time look how young people taking drugs and are totally lost souls, just when going on date end in murder

I think it is too late, I noticed this coming long time ago and was so surprised how no one saying anything and myself can not do anything

In its most basic form anti woke is pro prejudice. In the huge majority the anti woke are white men scared of losing privileges of gender and melonine. Calling the "Australian" First Nations "Aboriginal's" is racist. This is from Copilot AI "when someone calls out language that perpetuates stereotypes or offends a particular group. For instance, if someone uses the word “Jew” to mean “cheat,” a “woke” intervenor might challenge this language. However, such interventions are often met with outright dismissal or claims of oversensitivity1.

a bit short-sighted as far as Palistina is concerned

Mindless

Yet capitalists always say if you dont like a product, dont buy it. Hows this not cancel culture?

This is beneath the CIS. This level of intellectual parody belongs in a circus.

It is planned. And you are naive. We did not invite this in. It looks amorphous to you because you don't understand it.

I haven't met someone who has asked me to call them any of these things, but when I do, I won't. It would be asking me to speak incorrect English, which I will not do. Simple!

sorry have to make his remark, but alex jones is starting to get more and more correct if you watched his "endgame :blueprint for global slavement" and some other of his videos

the intricate multi faceted 100 year Palestine/ Hamas /Israel issue was portrayed in simplistic colonial terms by BON - IRONY

"Well it's only the dumb kids." Guess who taught them.

"True Blue" John Williamson.

Overall a superb diagnosis, but sadly the prescription will be quite insufficient. It will require a tremendous shock to their system to change anything. Unfortunately the only thing that can possibly teach them is fear and pain.

Yes !!!!!!!!

The Khmer Rouge did not die in Cambodia. It is alive and well in the United Kingdom, the greatest country in the world.

In the meantime, people from Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania are posting fascinating mathematics videos.

I think maybe we modern people never did stop shrinking those heads, that's why we have to hide the South American heads in the basement.

Great content. Thank you ❤

These Australians all seem so soft spoken, timid and cowed, no spirit. What happened to them?

Please do👍

So now, If I don't want my kid to be exposed to gender Identity agenda, I need to support an apartheid, colonial, genocidal state? What are the logic or reasoning here? Israel is a colonial, apartheid state. Has been described so, by most experts. The deliberate starvation and aid blockade is so apparent, that even German and US judges in the ICJ had no choice but to declare Israel could be in the process of Genocide, or ethnic cleansing. I've been watching CIS all Sunday, and so far, I've not been able to find any serious logical arguments against any of these claims. A lot of the people who are voting for the left ideology, are doing so because of crazy illogical biblical stances of the right against reality and indirect conflict with an unpolitical consciousness. The main challenge of the Right, is to be humble , and accept that in some long held believes, they are wrong, and there is a need to examine their stance against reality in the ground. if that's to happen the support of a center right policies will be phenomenal and overwhelming.

I agree with all the comments about woke garbage, spot on. He completely strawman's the opposing right wing position on the Israel/Palestine conflict though. What those of us in my camp are saying is simply "this is not our war". I understand why Israel is doing what it's doing. I don't like how it's doing it, but I don't have an answer. I don't care about their ancient blood feud. I want no part of it. I don't think Israel is any real benefit to the average citizen of the Anglosphere.

A limbo of lies.

When everything is racist, that's definitely not good. That word should carry weight, and unfortunately its been overused. However, there's another word that seems to get thrown around quite frivolously these days, but that's different, right?

Western countries exported most of their productive industries to cheaper labour countries. Letting other people make the effort and be productive. Western countries turned to non productive 'wealth' creation by investing in and inflating house prices. If the British voting citizens majority voted for less immigration in the last few elections, then the democracy is fake. Indigenous Europeans are swapping their ancestral homelands for imported goods upon which they are dependant. Caucasians want to make money non productively ie property investing, shares, gold and silver, digital currencies. So immigrants are economically crucial to tenant all the investment properties and pay rent by milking the cows. Production vs consumption. Woke, Islam, trans, blaming politicians etc is all a distraction from this reality IMO. What do European people produce in exchange for all the imports they consume?

I agree with everything said here except for your take on Christianity. All monotheistic religions are authoritarian and harmful to humanity. The idea of eternal punishment is probably the worst idea in the world. We should never attribute our good moral ideas religion, as we have and could always have come up with them irrespective of it.

So dont buy into it ...resist it... I love all my history of old ... and look forward to the future for myself and my family.

Can't listen to this. Russia is not "Sweeping across Europe".

I cant finish listening to this, its just yelling misunderstanding with every other word. Looking forwato the young having power

Are those black socks with brown shoes?

I think you are correct sir