James Lindsay Explains Where Social Justice Warriors Came From

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James Lindsay explains in detail where Social Justice Warriors come from. Clip taken from Modern Wisdom Podcast episode #124 James Lindsay | Social Justice Explained: The Foundations Of Wokeness.
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[@rpminc1974]

It comes from unproven, unreasonable, ungrateful little kids that have not accomplished anything in life that think they know what is best for society !!

[@StimParavane]

Perhaps the fact that we have dealt young people a bad deal might have something to do with it.

[@Malepresentingtimelord]

@@StimParavane young people today are still better off than their grandparents. And the solution isn’t to put everyone’s group identity in front of their individual identity, get rid of free speech, and become communists. We should be working to upgrade the institutions we already have and have the maturity to understand there is no perfect world or utopia and scapegoating white men for every social injustice is just perpetuating more racism.

[@Zurvan101]

@@StimParavane is that by accident or by design?

[@aescubed]

I hear you, but I want to comment on the "ungrateful" label. Nobody asked to be born. Nobody has a kid for the kid's sake. I think kids ought to be ungrateful.

[@chrisgavin2794]

This is funny because Karl Marx’s mother said of him “if only he was more interested in earning capital than writing about it” 😂 His own mom called him a bum

[@tips4truckers252]

"You never see a riot at a trade school" mike rowe

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Well, maybe not now. There were in the bigger revolutions of the past century.

[@Pilot_the_Dune]

100%. Tradesmen are focused on a goal that is to learn a trade quickly and efficiently as to get into the work place and start their career earning money as fast as possible. While colleges mainly have a broad focus on higher ed, the trade school is hyper focused on one trade/class.

[@Gitfiddle]

Plenty of riots in the early 20the century while the unions were being formed tho. Just saying...

[@MeanBeanComedy]

@@Gitfiddle Exactly. This is why we need to study history. Too many people don't know these things.

[@donm2067]

@@Gitfiddle check out battle of Blair mountain, it was over the right of coal miners to unionize

[@almor2445]

I remember in 2002, I was just about to graduate university when I met a strange young lady who was trying to convince me gender and sex meant different things, that there were lots of genders and that a black lesbian was automatically less well off in all measurable ways than every straight, white male... even a homeless guy. It struck me that she was bat-spit crazy but she had been studying this stuff for 3 years. Her degree was called "Gender Studies" and had a few credits in "Ethnicity Studies" or some related topic. The moment I discovered there were funded courses vomiting out this non-fact rubbish, I knew we would be in for a culture war. I have spent the last 18 years following this stuff, boring everyone I know about it's dangers. It's almost funny to me now that people can see daily riots in major American cities while the British news completely ignores it all... and they still don't think there's anything to worry about! But then these are people who think the deaths of 100 million people under Communism don't count because the 15 murders regimes were all "not real Communism!"

[@tonydio666]

Utopian pipe dreams were being sold in Universities during the 90s but we had a easier time distinguishing bullshit from reality? Unfortunately you cannot teach people common sense and that's what a lot have appeared to have lost. It's difficult to determine whether to pity these idiots or hate them

[@FortBaker2011]

At the same time, governments across Europe were pushing “gender mainstreaming”.

[@SoulDelSol]

I remember 2003 i took a course where they taught us that race was a social construct. Later in grad school in 2010 or so i had professor demand all white students admit they were privileged in order to pass. More recently at a job in 2017 i had a feminist boss force all employees to read an article that white men carry a napsack of secret codes of privilege and clearly favored certain employees (who would claim they only got same raise as other people instead of more bc they were young women of color - even though they called in all time and didnt perform as well). For over 20 years now this has been all that younger generation knows

[@deathtakes]

@@SoulDelSol this has been going on for 50-60 years. The Jordan peterson and camile paglia talk covers this, she explains it well.

[@hugopelland]

Did you purposely mix up at least 4 different topics in 1 comment for comical effect? ...or are you really just that ignorant after 18 years of "warning" about that "stuff"?

[@63mckenzie]

Would i be too unkind to say it was started by people too unattractive to get a partner and therefore wanted to make everybody else's life a misery?

[@MW-dd8vk]

Bullies

[@JB-pk4ck]

there is a lot of that in it. People who are either bitter and suffering and want others to suffer the same. The other type are megalomaniacs who want the power to control everything and everyone around them

[@dangc8315]

you are not that far off. outrage culture has nothing to love for other than causing more outrage. you become an ugly person inside/outside

[@larrysiders1]

Ugly chicks have never been more effective...or destructive.

[@2davivadiva]

Whenever I’ve been around liberal crowds whether by force (ie work) or choice (friends of friends or some group that’s invited me out) they are usually some of the most unwelcoming and judgmental bunch I’ve ever seen. Their entire identity is based around their education, their politics, their gender, their sexual orientation, etc.

[@b.entranceperium]

I'm actually a liberal and can't stand what this social justice & political correctness trope has done... The democratic party definitely does not define most of my values anymore...

[@willsweat5413]

Because you're an actual liberal. We miss you guys! You seek education, understanding and insight to solve problems. Traditional liberals were and are typically wonderful people.

[@EM-cg4iy]

I’m with you.

[@HolyknightVader999]

You're a classic liberal. SJWs are radical liberals. It's the difference between Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx.

[@akoubek3]

Same and agreed

[@SM-si6nl]

libiterian v liberal

[@Coupal1]

This is EXACTLY what people should be searching for - WISDOM.

[@Macheako]

Wise > Educated

[@ProkofNY]

Matthew, isn’t that a type of false dichotomy? I believe a person can be both educated and wise. Do you really believe wisdom and education are either mutually exclusive or negatively correlated? For me at least, wisdom is the ability and discipline to behave and think objectively-to analyze while taking opposite sides under consideration all while being aware of the limitations of your own bias and emotions. In other words, a key component in wisdom is the ability to act in a non judgmental way for the greater purpose of objective truth. It requires emphaty, but not the type of empathy that is just one-directional (Critical Theory). I think a person can be trained to think critically but I feel that certain personality types are more inclined toward nuanced thinking and other aspects that constitute wisdom (I based my hypothesis on what I understand about personality theory). Education is different in that it is mostly based on experience and can thus take many directions according to your discipline of choice. Perhaps certain disciplines emphasize wisdom, critical thinking and objectivity more than others. But even if one can use objectivity and empiricism effectively in his or her chosen field, that doesn’t necessarily mean such skills will translate to other areas of life. Which leads me to think emotional intelligence is also an important for wisdom. It could be that emotional intelligence correlates wisdom just as intellect correlates with education, but again, this is just my own hypothesis.

[@richcampus]

"In Wisdom Elohim Creates"

[@rachellamb5508]

Social justice: addressing the inequalities of yesterday by creating inequalities today.

[@LudiKr1s_Quasar]

I must admit, I have been thinking a lot about the kind of person who would address a serious issue by directly engaging in it or something alike. That kind of person is straight-up stupid.

[@connorsmith5991]

Yuri Bezmenov told us nearly 40 years ago

[@cuckingfunt9353]

Solzhenitsyn told us all we need to know.

[@Macheako]

The founding fathers did too.... None a yall kids like to listen tho 🤣

[@freddieflintstone5544]

They are educated from kindergarten to college. We need to change or redo our education system.

[@anthonygarcia3097]

They have been indoctrinated from kindergarten to college and even paid for it.

[@nowaskmehow]

Hungary, fairly recently, shut down all Gender Studies programs.

[@dannygreen7473]

@@nowaskmehow All liberal arts programs should be shut down and the marxist professors should be hung for treason. All these POS SJW's should be rounded up and shipped off to war somewhere. Put them on the front lines and let them fight or die. Don't let them back until they've learned how fucked up their world view actually is and have learned to appreciate how lucky they are to be Americans.

[@MrMarmalizer]

I often think social justice warriors are deficient in some way; be it looks, lack of academic achievement, mental instability, personality disorders, etc., and they’re raging against every kind of success out of pure bitterness.

[@burnbabylonburn78]

All of the above, and then some.🤣

[@libertytree1965]

I think it arose from the era of Richard Dawkins and his atheist ilk. It wasn't long after that young people abandoned religion. The link is pretty clear.

[@brendandubalos2149]

@@libertytree1965 Absolutely. Kingdom of God on Earth religion.

[@hwnboy925]

Is that why conservative chicks are usually hot 🔥?

[@jasonji1900]

Liberty Tree the internet you communicate on now comes 95% from atheists. Silicon Valley is among the least religious regions in the country. It isn’t possible to be data driven and religious.

[@MrDaddynomates]

As a kid growing up in the 80s I was told that we were progressing to a time when race, gender and sexuality would be irrelevant. That we would all be equal in each other's eyes. Now here I am in 2020 where race, gender and sexuality is all that matters. Everyone is judged. And apparently my race, gender and sexuality puts me in the bad guy group.

[@Bingewatchingmediacontent]

My brother (who is significantly older than me) started dating a girl when he was in high school, when I was a little kid, who was the first SJW in my life. Her father had been a civil rights worker marching with the farm workers. My parents were hard working “pull yourselves up by your bootstraps” conservatives, and suddenly our Irish Catholic family had this teenage girl hanging around our family all the time yelling at us for everything we said and did, offended by everything, and shaming my Dad for eating Frito chips and grapes long after those things were “problematic”. He had picked crops as a migrant farm worker in his childhood and lived in a tent and didn’t take crap, so he didn’t care and laughed it all off as he continued to eat his chips. But it made a big impact on me. Why was she at our house all of the time if she hated us all so much? She even eventually moved in with us because her family life was unstable and dysfunctional, while ours was a safe haven. Gee, I wonder why? Theories are great, aren’t they? Sadly, he married her and she never stopped trying to destroy our family and tell everyone how to speak and eat. She’s terrible. But still hangs around our family because her own (morally superior) family was destructive and unhealthy. Funny how that works. Conservatives are better at raising kids and decent healthy families and better communities, but somehow can’t be trusted at anything else? Lol

[@Fluvanna]

The wide spread use of the internet during the 90's, people who would otherwise be too meek or self-conscious to speak up finally had a voice. These people were able to speak about all kinds of topics and express opinions ranging from normal to radical with little to no consequence at all. As the internet grew and with almost no regulation other than bans by moderators from various forums, and these people who do not go out, do not interact with others, do not travel to other parts of the nation let alone the world turned the internet into their own echo chamber. For every radical comment or opinion, there were 20 equally radical comments or opinions trying to shut down the one guy who's probably just a trolling 14 y/o anyway. Fast forward 30 years, and the outrage mob has taken the internet by storm and are oozing into the streets, finally brave enough to speak up since all the alphas are indoors for lockdown or otherwise social distancing. Social Justice may have been born LONG before the internet, but the internet was the catalyst that brought that garbage into the mainstream.

[@burnbabylonburn78]

It gave a voice to people who never should have had a voice to begin with.

[@JC-qz8dn]

I call it the ‘village idiot’ phenomenon. Most of these people were the village idiots but now they band together like a team which in turn influences real life on the streets.

[@lightowl4345]

The internet has had serious negative consequences. I think it has increased envy which is a very ugly emotion that can lead to very bad behavior.

[@Incomudro1963]

Fluvanna, I agree with you - as I've lived through and watched the whole thing happen.

[@irresponsiblyblue1411]

I don't think that frontier internet extremism had any major effect on this phenomenon, except in an indirect manner: the centralization of social media and diminished anonymity brought on by a few of those early adopters. You rarely see the described behavior in people that were around back then. It wasn't the loners, but the herd. The mass adoption brought on by phones and highly centralized (and thus easy to find by even the least proficient user) social sites has been a more or less separate wave. It was not malicious nerds that corrupted the masses. The masses arrived virtually overnight. With their distaste for dissenting views and the commercialization of the internet, it necessitated extreme moderation, which by design gradually turns any major forum into an echo chamber. The easily offended masses, corporate adoption of social justice, and the sheer fear brought on by knowing you could have your life ruined by any one of the billions that just may come across your message. It's a dangerous cocktail.

[@nnotny]

I don't usually (or ever, really) make Star Trek references, but the Left reminds me of the Borg, hell bent on assimilating everything into its hive mind. And young people are especially susceptible to this because the social media they're so addicted to is, I think, a precursor to a hive mind experience of life.

[@dd11111]

decent analogy, however there is one flaw ( from what I know) The Borg never had gatekeepers to decide who gets to be assimilated into the collective and who gets ejected into space.

[@nnotny]

@@dd11111 I think today's Borg want everyone to be assimilated, but if you show signs that you're assimilation is imperfect, then yes, you're ejected. Thank God these mutants dont have the trchnological means to force perfect assimilation. Yet.

[@cherylmockotr]

I am not a trekkie either, but that thought has come to me several times! It's their inability to comprehend a differing opinion that gives the Borg impression. The other analogy is when I work with autistic children who lack theory-of-mind. They cannot comprehend that another person has different experiences, and therefore different knowledge than they do. These children get angry when I deny knowing what Olaf said to Elsa in the movie Frozen. I tell them I never saw that movie and they think I am lying to them... "Yes you did! Remember when..." They become so upset they get to the edge of a meltdown, and that's when I redirect them to something else. Somebody forgot to redirect these SJW kids before their meltdown consumed them!

[@nnotny]

@@cherylmockotr That may be an even better analogy. It's no wonder that they don't comprehend the Western valuation of the individual.

[@33Donner77]

The smart phone where one uses the techniques of an African thumb piano created the hive thinking.

[@vladimirslavutsky3394]

My guess they all came from or escaped from local mental institutions!

[@untunedguitar45]

Guess now we know where they went after those were all shut down

[@vivianebernardon9954]

Lol

[@Macheako]

@@untunedguitar45 exactly...they were "released"

[@aucourant9998]

I wish the interviewer hadn't interrupted him when he was talking about when Marcuse felt things were getting out of hand.

[@Legionary42]

Making other people “aware“, raising their consciousness, or helping them “grow“ are all very attractive ideas to those with the vision of the anointed. Similarly, while polarization is to others something to fear, to those with the vision of the anointed it is a confirmation of their own superiority to the benighted. Indeed, the very concept of polarization is usually applied only to the actions of the benighted and those resisting the imposition of a new authority. Whether it is the mandator busing of school children for racial balance or the imposition of new policies on gays in the military, these are not thought by the anointed as polarization which they are creating. It is only those who object who are said to be creating polarization. -Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed

[@Orson2u]

Cf, the 1993 movie PCU. On KZbin, view the video on how PCU predicted the future!

[@robertcoeymanjr.2550]

We have not polarized, we are pluralized. We are no longer one people. We live in overlapping, different worlds.

[@pippip8744]

Look up the Old logo of the Fabian Society. What an eye opener.

[@BradYoga108]

Had to go look it up... Dang.

[@elscorcho4158]

Geez. I just did. This all makes so much sense now

[@JC-qz8dn]

And what US president was a Fabian socialist? 🤔😲😳

[@goofverdinus165]

"Hiding in plain sight".

[@Jim-Mc]

I guess they chose this because they endorse "gradual" change and the Trojan horse was taken?

[@random1309]

Thinking? No , indoctrination is not thinking it’s just mindless marching.

[@tutenvanman2715]

When these women went to the opticians and ordered those silly glasses the optician fried their brains, end of.

[@TheJoshuamooney]

Holy shit! 30 seconds into the interview it was obvious to me that James totally knows what he's talking about. And is more articulate and compelling than 80% of my Ivy League college profs. Good interview.

[@Incomudro1963]

Shades of Jordan Peterson here. Very intelligent discussion.

[@NedJeffery]

My God I miss Peterson. He's like the Avatar, went missing just when the world needed him most. I hope it doesn't take 100 years of world war for him to come back.

[@MrWhiskeycricket]

Jordon Peterson isn't very intelligent. He's pretty average as a college professor and middling as a writer - only made famous through a few viral videos. No public intellectual would pay any attention to him if it hadn't been for the controversy.

[@NedJeffery]

@@MrWhiskeycricket well as one of the pathetic uneducated unwashed masses, I really appreciated what he had to say and found it very insightful. And that's good enough for me.

[@creatrixZBD]

I’ve been live reading our way through “12 rules” on our fb book page since my Australian city went back into lockdown. Some parts have resonated strongly and added new elements to my perspectives, and others I have gotten quite sharp and taken him to task, or wanted to know more about why he thinks the way he does. It’s been really fun, we are about ⅔ the way through so far. He’s an interesting mind if you just take him for who he is and don’t try to put him in a box. Edited to add a missing word

[@BboyKeny]

James is a mathematician that we just let shoulder the responsibility of fighting back against tyrany

[@joedoe783]

Very impressed with this guy. First time encountering him and he has an unreal grasp on political movements and their motivations.

[@DJ-qi4ry]

They came from universities and the majority are women.

[@edstevens4439]

Empowerment of women has always preceded the collapse of civilizations......

[@elainesoto1567]

@@edstevens4439 just a question, why do you say that? I ask that because not all women want what men have. Some of us simply want to have the opportunity to have a choice, i.e.) work at a law firm without being told that being a mom hinders our chances of move ahead. I am simply curious about your statement.

[@edstevens4439]

@@elainesoto1567 I am not saying that is the cause......it is a condition that has always been present....probably part of the cycle of human nature that brings about the rise and fall of civilizations......we in this cycle are exhibiting this condition now....about fifty years in....as this civilization heads into collapse.....I have read about this in writings on the rise and fall of civilizations....

[@elainesoto1567]

@@edstevens4439 all right. I was curious as to what you meant. Thanks for the response. I mean that.

[@michaels4255]

@@edstevens4439 JD Unwin discovered this, unexpectedly, after surveying the history of a numerous cultures and published his findings in a book, "Sex and Culture," in 1934.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

so short answer: hell.

[@merlingeikie]

Well done and many thanks from Australia.

[@somanygustavosonYT]

i think tumblr was a big breeding ground for the newer members of this ideology

[@Orson2u]

Political scientist Zach Goldberg has data proving this. Just search his name for more! Oh. I misread you. Twitter is the villain here. Not tumblr.

[@awesomemccoolname7111]

Hell. They came from hell.

[@Orson2u]

A band new book documents this. Title? “Karl Marx and the Devil” by Kengor.

[@sienkiewiczmonika1161]

What we have in the West now is a combination of fascism and communism: - Nazism in the past - Jews were guilty of being Jews. - Nazism today - The white man is guilty because he was born a white man, that is, white guilt and white privilege. - Communism in the past - Gulag prisoners were forced to participate in their trials, but not in the way that is known today. They did not defend themselves, they had to accuse themselves and complain. But they stayed in the gulags, often for the rest of their lives. - Communism today - cancel culture, get on your knees and apologize for 10-year-old tweet, but the SJWs will still get you fired for it.

[@koobea4859]

Very well stated!! I may have to quote you at some point.

[@johnpeters2650]

How old are u ? Are u old enough to have experianced gulags that now u slaying the ussr so much? You've been there? You've done that? Cause last i checked, it wasn't all that bad with it.

[@conforzo]

The original idea of tabula rasa (the blank slate human that can be programmed) and the victimized human came from Jean-Jaques Rousseau.

[@Orson2u]

Tabula rasa, Which is an older idea than Rousseau, even if he wrote the classic statement. But it’s false. Even my bed bugs have genetic inborn knowledge to find my dominant leg’s ankle. They all do!

[@robjohnson6875]

Nine eleven....20+ years of war A sheltered generation of entitlement. Lots of things

[@annedoering6386]

It might be a consequence of having unearned material wealth while being socially and morally devoid, lacking perspective, illiterate despite being able to read, and unable to think critically yet still advanced to adulthood.

[@Orson2u]

In other words, the consequence of being children. “It’s not fair!” Tantrum thrown.

[@Estabanwatersaz]

Thank you James.

[@rickhall517930]

Excellent job.

[@andrewrobertson3894]

"We are able to outdo ourselves even in how hollow we are." Buy that man a drink.

[@dramares]

8:42... ... SO MANY IDLE HANDS... What else could they do... But tear it apart...

[@sanmigueltv]

Wow this was a great video. SUBSCRIBED!

[@pepperorchid]

Can the person who does illustrations to go along with brilliant explanations like these do one for this rollercoaster, please? I need to show it to my 11 year old before she goes back to school.

[@virvisquevir3320]

The Grand Wazoo - Misery loves company. Let me tell you a personal story. I grew up with a control-freak older half sister and an unbelievably angelic younger sister. The older sister was consumed by politics, manipulation, deceit, intimidations, fears, etc., and the younger sister by helping and nurturing and healing, etc. Each assumed that everyone in the world had their inner life, their secret thoughts, their motivations, their communication style. The younger sister said what she thought and meant what she said. The older one crafted every communication for maximum political effect. The younger one naively believed that everyone communicated the way she did and the older one assumed that everyone was crafty and out to control her and put her down through double-entendres, etc. The younger one was open and sharing with her communication and material goods and money and the older one jealously guarded and hid any knowledge or material goods or money she had - paranoid that it would used against her and be taken from her as she was always on the lookout for what she could get on and from others. She liked having soft targets around she could manipulate and use. She didn't like me around or anybody independant, strong-minded and strong-willed. She was very intimidated by people she perceived as higher than herself on her social hierarchy schemata and she didn't have friends for a long time. The younger one has lifelong friends and doesn't even see hierarchies, so she's never intimidated or uncomfortable. The older one went to law school and bought into the while Marxist-SJW-feminist thing not because she had any empathy for the poor and struggling but as a hammer to hit people like me and my father and others for not fitting into the categories of "socially correct thinking" and thereby walk away the "winner" of any discussion - and as a fallback excuse why she's not popular, respected, never got married and never had children. I once asked my father why he thought she never had children and his answer was "Because she cannot give!" The younger sister lives in nature more or less as a hippy - she and her husband are well off, they build houses from scratch, own a big piece of land, pick up trucks, have beautiful children and grandchildren. Her politics isn't very theoretical or bitter: just be kind to people and roll up your sleeves, do what you can to help. She believes people are basically good and deserve a second and third and fourth and fifth, etc., chance. The older one assumes the worst; the younger one assumes the best. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Seek and ye shall find." The younger one has a very noble sense of reciprocity, a kindness done will be owed and returned; the older one has no sense of reciprocity, if someone is stupid or weak or misjudging enough to do something for her, as she sees it, that's their problem, it's a dog eat dog world. For her, people would only do something because they have a political angle, to get something on you, to humiliate you, to manoeuvre into a more powerful political position, etc. I know I have the potential to do a lot of harm but choose not to. It's ugly. It's shameful. It's caring too much for dysfunctional things. It's not worth it. It doesn't bring anything. Unless I was in a tribe 10,000 years ago and it was a question of take the food from another tribe or my tribe starves to death, then I would do it all out. But luckily, we don't live in such a world. I use my two sisters as examples of types of people. I have met more of each type but most people fall somewhere in between - they will not steal or manipulate, an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, not much heroism, not much holiness, afraid of being excluded from the group. Cheers!

[@benfearn2746]

Thanks for sharing. Now I have so many questions about development and family dynamics. It's possible a middle child of the opposite sex redistributed the "wealth" of security in the home. A wiser man than me once said... bitches be crazy.

[@virvisquevir3320]

Ben Fearn - LOL. Yes, I am the middle child. Besides the two sisters I described, I have an older brother with Alzheimers - he is awkward and uptight and easy to manipulate by the older sister, he is two years younger than she - and a younger brother, the youngest of the five, very good looking but a bit of an inconsiderate playboy. The biggest mystery is why did we each have such a different spirit? Same parents, upbringing, church, schools, houses, diet, etc., but so RADICALLY different. I don't think that order of birth explains it. I have two children of my own now, an older daughter and a younger son, and they are VERY kind towards and supportive of each other. Genetic lottery? Calling from God? Old spirit - new spirit? I don't know...

[@phwbooth]

From a recent job advertisement at Cardiff University: "The School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University is seeking to appoint a Fixed-Term Lecturer in Medieval English Literature for 24 months (with the possibility of renewal). The successful candidate will be expected to design and deliver specialist undergraduate and postgraduate modules and also to contribute to a team-taught medieval module. The successful candidate will have teaching and research interests in Middle English literature. Applications are especially welcome from candidates whose expertise also includes medievalism, other medieval literatures, and/or theoretically-informed approaches such as disability studies, ecocriticism, gender and/or queer studies, or race studies. Applicants should note that the School is committed to the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from groups often under-represented in the academy: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, people who identify as LGBTQ+ or are from lower social and economic groups."

[@PlainsPup]

Here “theoretically informed” probably refers to Critical Theory, which is the origin of today’s wokeness (Neo-Marxism).

[@mogznwaz]

They think white Brits just want to whitewash our history. But seeing it through the lens of an 'oppressed' group, with an agenda of victimhood and negativity towards our past, is no less biased.

[@jonathanleblanc2140]

So a mediaevalist who’s scholarly work is not politically conscious, and who isn’t any of those minorities listed, isn’t getting the job? Basically if you’re just a white man with an expertise in medieval literature you will not be seriously considered for this job in medieval literature, because jobs are a thing that white men no longer deserve.

[@Jim-Mc]

TF is a "visible minority"? How are they allowed to make that assessment?

[@EnricTeller]

Excellent breakdown.

[@dennisgreen6222]

brilliant analysis

[@josephmagil1149]

James Lindsay gives a remarkably clear and concise history of the SJW movement.

[@jonnyw82]

They come from the pit of hell

[@virvisquevir3320]

Jonathan - You're right. Their end goal - consciously or subconsciously - is not a bright utopia where everyone is healthy and happy but rather, it is nothingness. No life, no being, nothing. Life has not been kind to them so they will take their revenge on life. Their basic motivation is: "If I'm not happy, why should anybody else be happy? If I'm not healthy, why should anybody else be healthy? If I can't have it, then nobody else can have it either!" And they can't have it. They can never have it. So the only recourse is to destroy EVERYTHING. Only then - to their mind - will everything be "fair" and "equal" and "just". This is what Nietzsche warned about after "The Death of God". "God" here not a being but the end goal of our highest, healthiest aspirations, a hope, a reason to keep trying and striving in spite of resistance and challenges and set backs. The healthy and joyful drive to more life and overcoming.

[@jonnyw82]

I agree mostly but the vast majority of SJW’s are the most “privileged” people in the history of the world. Born in western liberal democracy, hasn’t been hungry a day in his/her life, more freedom than anyone who has lived before, attending university etc. There has never been a more privileged, fortunate, spoiled class of people.

[@jon123xyz]

Nice analogy guys

[@nancywysemen7196]

nice,quick history. good jumping off point.thank-you.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

they were here after we entered their dimension after the end of 2012....we MUST get back to our original dimension. the one that does not have sjws

[@alexkulp9727]

trippy... I wanna go back to that alternate reality. I don't think you actually mean dimension though. More like... man I don't know the name for it... but it's based off of the theory that their are infinite alternate universes/realities and it's almost like you are saying we somehow paradigm shifted into this fucked up one with SJWs. But a dimension would just be a higher level of consciousness... or a higher perspective, which coexists at all times with the present moment. Think 3rd dimension (what we exist in), then 4th, 5th, 6th ect ect. These all exist concurrently at the same time and they are not an "alternate reality or universe" they are a higher level of perspective, something we can barely comprehend and something I'm not sure there are even correct words to explain yet LOL

[@lordfawkesvonproudhon9656]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5PapYtnicuWq80

[@hullbreach33]

I dont know where they came from, but i know where they need to go.... "Get in the helicopter comrade"

[@chrisgavin2794]

Great overview of this overall ideology.

[@michaelhopek2286]

"You can actually take a step back and say man we are f*ucked" is the best part. How does this dynamic resolve? The only solution I can think of is a nationally televised tribunal hearing. But neither side would want that.

[@kreaturekie6753]

hate of those who enjoy and embrace life. Dehumanizing all is profitable

[@ew10662]

The Frankfurt School... If only they stayed in Germany...

[@Regigigas135789]

Devin Hargrove those people he wrote about, I didn’t hear many of their last names when James was speaking

[@sergioreyes298]

To defeat your enemy, you must understand him.

[@xaviertaylor759]

Very informative. I had to chuckle at a philospher called Leotard. lol

[@MsCelestialSecrets]

They want to be gods among kings and peasant.

[@mmille10]

I got a question, though, re. the current situation. I know this is trying to pull you guys to one side, but isn't the Right's reaction, saying, "If the Left gets power, we're fucked," a rational one, given the way they're going? I know James said what we're witnessing is "existential polarization," but I think what I'm asking is who do you think is more delusional? I've laid my cards on the table, but I'm interested to hear what you think.

[@fatalrob0t]

The reason the right says we're fucked has to do with the very communist ideas and policies that the left wants to implement. Socialized healthcare, free college, drain the rich, will ultimately make all the rich leave to save their money from unlawfully being seized, drain the middle class into poverty until everyone has to rely on government assistance. It's a modern day slavery to the government. If they get power, they will take the guns from the people and render the populace unable to defend themselves from being able to Express themselves much less from the poverty that inevitably comes from communism. Look at any place that has implemented socialism and communism, they are of the same communist coin, and you will find dictatorships and slavery to the government.

[@mmille10]

@@fatalrob0t - I agree, but I always want to check my blindness to my own bias. James seemed to be saying that both sides have lost it. I was pushing back against that, because while the Left thinks that the Right's reaction confirms what they've predicted, that this is "corporate takeover," or whatever, I think the Right's view is that the Left is following a course that's also been predicted for many years, which I think they were right about it, which is that they're moving towards authoritarian socialism. They've been doing that since Obama was president. The Right is saying, "If they get in, we're screwed," because of this, which I think has a high probability of being right, at this point. I wouldn't have said that even 4 years ago, even though the Right was saying that then, too. I just think that while James has a point that the "existential polarization" presents a problem for our society, I think one side's "existential" reaction is much more rational than the other's. What I'm getting at is it may be that what he's observing is a positive feedback loop, that as the Left gets more delusional, the Right hardens its position, for the rational reason that if it doesn't, it's just going to enable the Left to keep getting more delusional. As Tucker Carlson said recently, even though the Republicans are feckless, they're all we have against this, so we *have* to support them, even though so many of the politicians in the party are worthless against the onslaught. There is no other option, unless we want to give in to the delusion. The reason I ask this is even though James is on the Left (he hasn't changed that), he clearly sees a problem with the far Left, and he sees it's a major influence on the political movement he supports. I just wondered whether, from that perspective, he could see clear to think that, at this moment in history, that the Right is less delusional than the Left.

[@christinemarie6976]

@@mmille10 The left is delusional if they think corporations are on the right. Name one multi-national corporation that isn't proclaiming its wokeness.

[@mmille10]

@@christinemarie6976 - I agree. Well, I have heard about a couple corporations that are not proclaiming their wokeness, which are Red Bull and Goya Foods. Red Bull recently fired a few executives who were pushing the company to virtue signal. Good for them. I wish I could say that I'd like to buy their drink for this, but I tried it many years ago. It tastes super sweet, which is okay, but I didn't like it that much. I wish them the best. Goya saw its sales increase, despite the Left's complaints and intimidation tactics, after its CEO came out in support of Trump.

[@VespoLiveGaming]

@@mmille10 red bull is the new red pill

[@manbearpig7521]

Great to hear Walter mentioned.

[@warmflash]

Fascinating

[@remittanceman4685]

Here’s a question: What if you like both strip clubs and poetry? Satanic death metal and classical music?

[@lordfawkesvonproudhon9656]

Sounds like someone I'd have a beer or a spliff with.

[@northernsoul4477]

Not allowed. You have to stay in your box!

[@blackbarnz]

Uhmm... "Liberation Theology". The term "Social Justice" was popularized in North America by Father Charles Coughlin. He was the 2nd largest radio star of his time, he had his own radio show & magazine titled " Social Justice". Coughlin refered to his followers, audience, & subscribers as "Warriors". Coughlin was initially a FDR supporter but eventually became his Arch Enemy & V.P. Wallace became his nemesis. Coughlin seeing the direction the Roosevelt administration was going became an advocate of Fascism and accused Wallace the grandfather of Progressive politics in America of being a secret communist. Wallace spearheaded legislation that effectively silenced Coughlin. Though the victory would be short lived for Wallace as Coughlin's allegations of Wallace began to gather steam and eventually ended Wallace's political career. Not sure how he wasn't mentioned. The term has been popular twice in N. America now & other time by Coughlin. Ya think average American in the early 20th century were more open to Atheist Communist or sympathetic Christians? Don't take my word for it, look into yourself. How does this happen?

[@michaels4255]

Fr. Coughlin was right all along. Wallace later came out as an open Communist. Harry White was a secret Commie too, in direct communication with "Uncle Joe" Stalin and he had foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which Moscow diplomats were discreetly encouraging the Japanese to undertake because they wanted to draw the US into WW2.

[@johmquinn7353]

Thank you! Great presentation! If I might add: 1. "Social Justice" appeared in verbiage by Yuri Bezemenov, Former KGB Propogandist (Bezemenov called SJ a Marxist tactic). 2. Thomas Sowell put it this way: "After WW2, so called progressives and liberals...viewed the majority as the problem". Also, Professors Kevin Mac Donald and E.M. Jones have great insight on the matter.

[@manubishe]

Wow, Chris looks so young !

[@miamello8161]

They come from hell.

[@virvisquevir3320]

Mia Mello - You're right. Their end goal - consciously or subconsciously - is not a bright utopia where everyone is healthy and happy but rather, it is nothingness. No life, no being, nothing. Life has not been kind to them so they will take their revenge on life. Their basic motivation is: "If I'm not happy, why should anybody else be happy? If I'm not healthy, why should anybody else be healthy? If I can't have it, then nobody else can have it either!" And they can't have it. They can never have it. So the only recourse is to destroy EVERYTHING. Only then - to their mind - will everything be "fair" and "equal" and "just". This is what Nietzsche warned about after "The Death of God". "God" here not a being but the end goal of our highest, healthiest aspirations, a hope, a reason to keep trying and striving in spite of resistance and challenges and set backs. The healthy and joyful drive to more life and overcoming.

[@aksks762]

@@virvisquevir3320 i am not a nietzsche expert, but as i recall, he mentions something along the same lines. i saw a video by dr stephen hicks about it. i will try to find it. here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZOkanSChNd7l6M

[@virvisquevir3320]

Brian Smith - Thank you.

[@bathysphere1070]

Where do social justice warriors come from? Actually, I would argue that they have always been with the human race. It is a type of human behavior that exhibits common symptoms; totalitarianism, us vs. them mentality, everything framed in either black or white with no possibility of nuance, a tendency toward violent usurpation of power, a preoccupation with dividing mankind into various classes to which specific qualities or responsibilities are assigned, etc. In to this mold the Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists, Antifa, BLM, Islamic Jihadists, the KKK, conspiratorial anti-semites, French revolutionary factions before Napoleon, and various others all fit.

[@michaels4255]

All the groups you mention are post Enlightenment (even modern Jihadists, who are more ideologically fanatical than medieval Muslim warriors), so you have not shown that SJWs have "always been with" us. Also, SJWs are firmly within the Marxist tradition (hostile to families, churches, and private property). Their ideas are uniquely dysfunctional and unsuited for the human species. It is hard to find a pre-Marx analogue for them, and especially not among the Nazis, Jihadists, KKK, but perhaps a little among 18th century French radicals such as Rousseau (Marx's ideas were in no small part an outgrowth of French Revolutionary ideas). As bad as he was, Stalin actually represented a pragmatic retreat from some of the more radical Marxist ideals. After all, he had to make things work. Plato had some radical proposals in _The Republic_ , but no one actually tried to implement them.

[@adaynasmile]

This was interesting in light of current events.

[@petersurdo4984]

Learned something here.

[@johnrichmond.4783]

Around 10 mins, the speaker wonders why post modernism was dismissed in Europe but captured the imagination of US left wing intellectuals. It's an interesting question though the answer will not delight educated Americans. The reason US minds were less able to resist post modernism is clearly a lack of cultural heritage. This will not be obvious to an American for reason that will be clear if my supposition is correct. This also partly explains the US obsession with 'race' as defined by post modernism. The problem is that this is incurable and really, cannot be effectively countered by education or debate. America is an adolescent polity but it regards itself as fully matured, despite the clear evidence. This is why talking to American SJWs is like talking to badly educated teenagers with lots of certificates who thinks they are clever. Europe is also fully infected.

[@perrywidhalm114]

LOL Europeans have already forgotten your two world wars that killed a hundred million people. Now, go one and lecture we Americans about race.

[@johnrichmond.4783]

@@perrywidhalm114 Already forgotten? I have just returned from my favourite Roman ruins at Abbey Park, in Leicester. Can't remember why I even bothered to visit now;) Anyway no, sorry. No race lectures. My lectures are not that boring, or so I've been told.

[@jackjones3657]

I feel ashamed of people like Rouchamboush, mid 1900s Baptist "social justice" originator. I'm Christian and sad and sorry to see so many in churches embracing these narratives. It is NOT biblical Christianity.

[@acolytes777]

Wait until you read James Coney. The man was a racist black supremacist.

[@33Donner77]

"How does that stop?" It usually stops with a despot taking control. We have weak leadership today across the spectrum, either from weak individuals, or weak support for individuals. The strong despot is waiting in the wings for the time to fill a sudden power vacuum.

[@Drixenol86]

I noticed the similarities and I was right!

[@andersjohnson9565]

17:54 "[T]he Left [...] sees the Right as choosing against their own interests, [...] whereas the conservatives are like, 'The liberals are trying to do some damn social engineering program [...], and if they do that, society's gonna collapse.' And you can actually sit back for, like, two seconds and look at the dynamic and think, 'Man, we're fucked!'" It's funny because it's true.

[@hermanbril2682]

Interesting!

[@zincwick99]

Very interesting conversation. I had also reached the same conclusion. We are f.......d.

[@nomanssky1500]

We’re fucked! If anger is a result of the inability to articulate your side of the argument, what happens when the other side doesn’t even trust or care about your argument? It has to lead to violence, surely? Not good. We need our sense-making apparatus to be fully intact.

[@delaineu7340]

Now I understand how the moniker, 'deplorables' gained traction so fast and with such emotion.. I was in my libertarian closet thinking both sides had lost their minds.. Thanks guys!

[@MsChitterchat]

What a happy ending. On with the day

[@lunasinger8702]

An excellent, short book about this is A Tale of Two Utopias, by Paul Berman. Also, The Strange Death of Europe, by Douglas Murray is superb.

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

why the conspicuous absence of the name of the tribe behind all these revolutions?

[@georger6624]

When women’s studies in the colleges started these women 20 years later or single it destroyed your lives

[@Californiasnow]

Watching Chris's eyes glaze over during James' 10 min long explanation of social justice. 😂😂😂

[@philipswain4122]

This is an excellent overview of postmodernism’s development

[@Monicablackbelt24]

God knows.. but can’t we send them back there .. ASAP!

[@dramares]

Any overstep EATS ITSELF. - The ONLY question is... Can we stop the REPETITION with BETTER communication?...

[@jedichild6815]

I choose artwork and poetry every time. My friend (boy) chooses football and Westerns. We meet in the middle with beer, comedy and intellectual conversations. He’s wiser than me in certain ways. I’m wiser than him in complimentary ways. Most importantly, both of our minds are creative and open. He pulled me outta the left, not by force, but by his insights.

[@mikehileman9476]

They came straight from the bowels of HELL!

[@pauld9561]

Too much comfort for far too long.

[@christinedennison7770]

I wish they would go back

[@oisnowy5368]

Good video. Shame about the audio mishaps in the last ten, eleven seconds. Guess it needed proving that even shallower and hollower could be reached indeed.

[@mofogie]

mainly UC Berkeley spread it. and what's awkward is the Unabomber warned about it

[@Dragoon803]

"Man we're fucked" Could not have put it better myself.

[@scottmiller2591]

18:35 for succinct summary.

[@DanSchallerforPOTUS]

Two things before voting this year; First, make sure you use the "write in" section of your ballot and put Dan Schaller as candidate for POTUS this year (2020). Second, everyone should watch the "A Time For Choosing" speech by Ronald Reagan. - He was more than an actor, governor, or president. He was also logical and was able to see what was on the horizon. He warned, but still nobody did anything to get back on the correct path.

[@iplz]

We have TRUTH fight back

[@justinfreeman4614]

Hey! I used to do karate with Mr. Lindsay.

[@Cyserist]

The last half of this where they discuss application to current politics is interesting, especially given the state of things a mere 7 months after this video was made. Mid year 2020, holy poop.... 'We're fucked' is an understatement.

[@warrencampbell4417]

Brilliant. I think critical thinking and post modern route isn't talked about enough. lets have nuance revolution.

[@BubbleOnPlumb]

Could not have scripted a more perfect ending to this video. If you want to know how this video can be all summed up then just drop in at timestamp 18:37

[@Rustsamurai1]

An excellent contribution, thankyou. Dr. Ed Dutton / The Jolly Heretic suggests in a recent You Tube monologue that there is (also) a genetic aspect to this political polarisation; well-worth a look.