Keynote Address: The Cost of America’s Cultural Revolution by Heather Mac Donald

[@sebastiankorner3586]

I love listening to Heather. So well spoken and intelligent.

[@ronrolph]

Agree 100% - I feel I get smarter by osmosis just listening to her. Even if it’s just in my writing, since her prose is amazing.

[@NickNicometi]

I just love Heather.

[@Nordic_Sky]

Heather Mac Donald: using facts the Left cannot deny to support conclusions they cannot abide. She is a treasure.

[@d.marques4700]

Heather Mac Donald is truly a National Treasury!... Thanks, Heather, for your bravery and wisdom!

[@benjamin4894]

It feels like just a matter of time until the Harvard University Medical Faculty starts teaching that anyone with 'problematic' political opinions is unworthy of treatment.

[@Game-of-Heroic-Meaning]

to carry out the metaphor, they might get treatment, but the doctors who give it will be fired.

[@TimBitts649]

One thing about women that always drives me nuts, as a man, is their emotionality. Compared to men, a lot more women get emotionally worked up about a lot of things. You see this a lot among SJW...getting emotionally worked up about "social justice" "fairness" and protecting the vulnerable. Why are women like that? In a word: Evolution My guess has always been that women's bodies evolved to appeal to men, but much about women did not evolve to appeal to men, it evolved to take care of infants. We humans would not still be here, if that were not true. Our survival depended on females keeping infants alive, during evolution. So I think much of women's physiology evolved for infant care. Women have strong instincts to care for the vulnerable, because that's what they were doing, for the past 200,000 years. This is obviously strongly related to the concepts of "social justice" and "fairness", which are all about protecting the vulnerable. So I don't see the SJWs as bad people. They are just women who evolved to have children, bond with those children, protect their children. They now live in a culture where women are encouraged to economically compete with men, to delay child birth often till they are 30 years old. This social organization of ours, based on feminism, starkly contrast and is at odds with women's evolutionary instincts. Feminist Carol Gilligan and Martin Kolhberg did a science paper on the stages of moral development in humans. They found an odd thing: Women and men had different levels of moral development. They divided up moral development into 5 stages, with stage 3 being the middle stage. This stage 3 was centered around emotion based morality. It turns out, women usually stall out at stage 3 and have a very strong preference for emotion based morality....compared to men. Why is that? Evolution, obviously. As women evolved to protect the young and vulnerable...babies...this involved being sensitive to the subtle emotional cues that babies gave off. Women who played this game well, who were very emotionally tuned in to nuance and emotional distress in infants, the children of those women survived. So SJWs are simply normal women whose evolutionary instincts are being thwarted by a sick feminist society that tells them not to have children. Women's emotional hardware, their emotionality is a good thing. It kept us alive. Trouble is, in the modern age, we tell those women not to have babies. Again with nature, by the time a woman is 30......90% of her eggs are dead. And what are we doing, with our culture? Contradicting the rules of evolution. No wonder women at university are so screwed up.

[@jonaskoelker]

@@TimBitts649 Interesting and very plausible theory. If I can either add or amend anything, I would suggest that women's instinct to care about the weak and the vulnerable can be a force for good not only in their family lives, but also if it is channeled* into charitable work. (* I guess maybe Freud would say "sublimated", but I'm not sure.) Giving to the homeless, academic help to struggling kids, animal shelters, these all take care of the weak and vulnerable, are respected by everyone and don't do any obvious damage if done half-way competently. Not so for politics. That's why we should encourage more of the former and less of the latter, as an outlet for the care-taking instinct. And I don't think we should be sexist about it; men should also be encouraged to give and to care, although perhaps with a greater emphasis on the volunteer fire service if that's still a thing, or other areas where women's unique gifts are less well suited than men's**. (** I'm talking about population averages, not all men are physically stronger and more emotionally blunted than all women, etc.) I like to joke that in the past, women looked after the young, the old and the sick in their home whereas today they do it professionally (nurses, kindergarten class teachers). I think I should add "and politically" to that. And I think there's something about the impulse that's right and good and necessary: I want to live in a society where those who can't take good care of themselves are taken good care of by the rest of us. And while I somewhat respect the underdog-ism that's motivating the SJWs, they tend to misindentify the underdogs. Jonathan Haidt put it well in one of his lectures: we should focus a lot more on class and a lot less on gender and race. (Me speaking again:) Of course, that will benefit those who genuinely struggle more than it will benefit the SJW class, which I'm fine with.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

@@jonaskoelker I'm a woman and I agree. I've channeled my emotionality into: 1. Rescuing and rehabbing animals 2. Working at disaster sites Caregiving can be a wonderful thing if we channel it towards either having children or in other ways like volunteer work. But if not, it can psychologically metastasize into a force for terrible societal destruction if it's turned against men ("the Patriarchy") or against one's own national heritage and people.

[@gailblue6803]

Tim Bucks I’m a woman and I believe women have produced their own problematic evolution here. I witnessed it beginning in the 70s. Wanting to prove that women could do anything men could do. Not realizing the importance of what they WERE doing. And now, 50 years later, I believe that women have emotionalized politics, policy, business, education and more. Name any dem. policy and I’ll identify the emotion behind it. Logic has been replaced. (This is my very brief hypothesis!)

[@bboucharde]

Heather Mac Donald = Brave, great fighter for Western Civilization. Respect to her!

[@MrJoefizzy]

Heather MacDonald doesn't get nearly as much recognition as she deserves. She is right there with Pinker and Haidt, although more to the right than both, profoundly sensible and interesting to listen to.

[@thunderstruck1078]

Pinker and Haidt are sitting on the fence, bragging about "the best world-wide stats we've ever had". Kevin McDonald and Jared Taylor on the other hand are working on things I could get behind.

[@DFENSFL]

Great lady, we need more women like her!

[@SvenErik_Lindstrom3]

Me afraid of cancel culture. Me done bad things.

[@TheCanalZone]

Such a great speech, I reflexively clapped even though I am sitting alone in my office.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

She is such a clear thinker and courageous.

[@peretzo]

John Coffey Totally agree. She’s phenomenal 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ronrolph]

She's smarter and has more balls than the vast majority of male "intellectuals" these days.

[@allin4395]

Need more voices like this to save our country

[@SvenErik_Lindstrom3]

Me afraid of cancel culture. Me done bad things.

[@former_dmcrt8614]

It may already be too late.

[@johndavidsohn2388]

My friend Heather is a national treasure - I wish you many many years of dedicated work. God Almighty bless you dear.

[@funkymonk5344]

ok Dave

[@dks13827]

Tell her to say IQ.........dont be PC

[@nathandillard6886]

I love the way Heather speaks. She’s very truthful and honest. I would love to vote for her as president.

[@mfitz4426]

God Damn thats a Black-pill, Brillant. this should be a MUST watch for everyone, period.

[@rodflump6709]

Heather Mac Donald is absolutely right about EVERYTHING ! She is both intellectually and morally brilliant. And I am a liberal !

[@soapbxprod]

I'm 60 and hopelessly madly in love with her. This lecture is one for the ages. Thanks, Heather.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

Who says intellect isn't sexy? 😄

[@scarletpimpernel230]

We'll, I'm sorta too, so at 55 perhaps I have a bit of a leg up?! And I am actually writing a manuscript on the origins of political correctness, so that may impress her too! In all seriousness, I agree that smart and morally courageous women are VERY attractive. I once had exactly the same reaction to a very logical but brief video on the necessity of freedom of speech by law professor and then head of the ACLU Nadine Strossen.

[@JackTheSkunk]

I am too....would love to have lunch with her and ask questions.

[@wiseonwords]

calm down, lad! It's just a bloody talk.

[@barbaranilan1539]

She is my hero!

[@soapbxprod]

The best, huh? Heather speaks the truth!

[@howardjaeckel6176]

Heather is brilliant and very courageous. Is it too late for voices like hers?

[@lumberpilot]

I taught English Literature in the inner city and I can tell you without a doubt that Maya Angelou simply does not compare with the sublimity of Kipling or Hardy. Students deserve nothing but the best regardless of the identity of the author.

[@RondelayAOK]

I agree. My son is at the Illinois Math and Science Academy and he's being taught that the Harlem Renaissance is just about all there is to American literature. And also the misty elevation of Maya Angelou. Frankly, I've skimmed her stuff and haven't thought much positive or negative about it.

[@lumberpilot]

@@RondelayAOK Try a Toni Morrison novel...

[@wiseonwords]

@@lumberpilot - She is, in fact, a very good novelist. Why not teach her within the context of American Literature instead of rushing to make silly pronouncements about the downfall of English Literature?

[@davidanderson9664]

We're looking in the wrong direction by dissecting the past - black creativity and voices HAVE been suppressed. Sadly a lot of that wisdom is gone forever. But..... we don't have time to dissect the past. Just be KIND - listen to people not on account of their skin NOW. And everybody will get a say in FUTURE....y'know..where we're heading. And dont' go up the sleazy, arrogant, bitter path Heather makes for you.

[@bonechillingtales123]

I agree! Kipling and Hardy are of completely different eras and American experiences than Angelou. They are not comparable, leave them in their respective historical and literary places. While men such as Kipling and Hardy were being exposed to some of the best the world had to offer, folks like Angelou were playing catch-up and were often still oppressed. The experiences are totally different and thus their works are as well.

[@DB-jj5gx]

What a brilliant, constructed and well-spoken person. I didn't knew her beforehand, she somehow looks like a femal counterpart of Jordan Peterson if I may say. Fighting against the darkness is a never ending story, we need beacons like these to guide people, especially the younger generation.

[@ronrolph]

I'd love to see Peterson & MacDonald debate any male/female leftist duo. It would be a delicious bloodbath.

[@p382742937423y4]

I AM a teacher, what McDonald says here is true in Europe too.

[@carlbyronrodgers]

Wonderful.

[@johnweiner]

When it reaches the University of Chicago and MIT, then I will know that we Americans have erased all intelligible understanding of why and for what the country was founded.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

We cannot hate the past because it was worse than the present. The past led to us, so if we think we're superior, we owe something to the past. It's the height of arrogance and meanness not to be grateful for the advances we've made and to think we have the virtue to sit in judgment of the past.

[@davidanderson9664]

Hold your pearls, pearl clutcher mate - U of C is indeed a good bastion against a bunch of SJW nonsense for sure... but let's keep a sense of perspective. Heather lost that sense a long time ago when she smashed young women for not being virgins. She's shot as far as I can see but keeps coming back (sort of like herpes!) -hehheh respectfully, D.A., NYC

[@christophergraves6725]

Neo-Marxism has reached Bob Jones University and the Southern Baptist Convention and their colleges. Herbert Marcuse is taught everywhere by people who might not even know who he was.

[@maciekkra539]

This country was founded by slave owners who declared that "all men are created equal"-hipocrisy at the outmost. It was the the thinking of Christopher Columbus and all subsequent "explorers" after him. Where do you think it will end? Obviously it was bound to eventually blow up in light skin folks faces. Even in 1960s there were still slaves being held deep down in the south, not many know that. This country is as backwards as ancient Rome, high technological advancements can not cover that fact. Untill people individually start questioning their motives, it will not change. Proper behavior starts at home, school is not to be held responsible because it is there only to reinforce home parenting. Unfortunatelly most kids are not PARENTED, but they are being raised like cattle, given i-phone and pretty much left to their own devices.

[@ronrolph]

@@maciekkra539 just a reminder that the US is the only majority white country that has ever elected a black president. And we did it twice. That wouldn’t be possible if this country were systemically racist.

[@therealtoni]

Brilliant and it makes me despair.

[@Rogerholberg]

I read a study earlier this week where the results showed that, on average, black students spend half as much time doing homework and studying as their white counterparts and only a quarter as much time as their Asian counterparts. Think that might have something to do with the academic achievement gap rather than the "systemic racism" b.s."

[@peterallemano8098]

An excellent presentation; thank you!

[@VIsionsOfJenna]

And... This is why we're homeschooling our four white sons. We will teach them civics, the Great Books and the greatness of Western Civilization, and will encourage them to live to their highest potentials.

[@ntodd4110]

Congratulations on ensuring that a new generation is no smarter than its parents. What a gift!

[@jennymisteqq695]

But what about all the Common Core instruction they’re missing?!!!

[@hankgoresich6836]

@@ntodd4110 Diversity Cult weighs in.

[@hankgoresich6836]

Congratulations on your courage and wisdom.

[@ObsoleteTutorials]

@@jennymisteqq695 I know right?! They'll miss the No Child Left Behind program.

[@SJM6791]

Heather is one of the few intellectuals in this country who’s willing to defend the police. I admire her courage and integrity.

[@MBE-qs5qb]

Awesome! Heather is right!

[@garyk.nedrow8302]

The most important functions of an American university are to transmit the legacy of Western Civilization and to teach students how to reason logically, write coherently, and read critically. Except for a few bright exceptions, our universities fail to do all four. Indeed, our most prestigious academic institutions are some of the worst, where neo-Marxists spend more time indoctrinating students than teaching them. Heather MacDonald is not exaggerating the problem. If anything, she understates it.

Brilliant lecture.

[@RondelayAOK]

Here's a cost to me: as a white male graduate student I was told that there'd be little interest in me by employers. I had to pursue something else as a career. And over the past years, I've been set aside while lesser qualified females got the job. But fuck me: I'm just a white guy, and wronging ME as an individual SOMEHOW remedies a past wrong in which I was not complicit. My family came to the USA in 1903 and never owned slaves but worked as tenant farmers. But I get screwed. . . and they want to screw me again and again, now talking slavery reparation. I'll never vote Democrat.

[@joemacdonald5402]

Your a smart guy flip the script on them, reverse racism all that shit, get em

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

As a Russian I am hearing this "white this white that" bullshit with an owe. 30 millions of Russians were killed by racist regime of Hitler and Stalin. No blacks suffered this kind of oppression in 20th century. Yet they play victim and we are considered to be opressors. What?

[@Ron239]

Heather MacDonald is a national treasure and should get a Nobel Prize of some sort.

[@robr.5044]

This needs to be heard by many

[@scarlet8078]

12:55 to 13:25 is a very strong point. Great talk

[@reekforceone1992]

Get em Heather!

[@elsenored562]

18:06 "Minority students who have been catapulted by racial preferences into schools for which they are not academically competitive inevitably struggle in their class: this is a burden that they don't deserve to bear."

[@cbrown9287]

Yes, something other great minds have pointed out. Affirmative action students who get picked to go to Brown, Yale, Harvard etc could have instead gone to a local university in Florida or North Carolina and succeeded and fit in well. Instead at universities which typically include the cream of the crop these students often struggle. So yeah in time they need safe spaces and their own dorm rooms and have feelings of resentment and no longer have an interest in paying attention to another lecture from another white professor, unless he/she/they/them is an ally. Some students who make it into a local university on their own and work hard and succeed then go to a university such as Brown, Yale etc to further their education. If that's the path they take the likelihood that they will succeed is so much greater. It's an old argument and it seems logic is losing the battle.

[@cynthiamoyers9805]

Actually, i would think that the history books were actually more factual in the past as opposed to now since our history is being changed constantly and the people re-writing the history books are usually extremely liberal.

[@lolzhammer8281]

An excellent talk, only one point I would disagree on: sport. "Social Justice" has in fact infested our sports organizations, in the form of demanding "trans-women" be allowed to compete in women's sports... including combat sports such as Mixed Martial Arts. There was a case last year of a female MMA fighter being pitted against a transgender opponent, without even being warned. The poor woman's skull was fractured in the opening moments of the first round, she may well never fully recover. Worse, early this year, "she" was given an award for breaking down walls in sports for the trans community.

[@briandillon8041]

LolzHammer women wanted this shit. Here’s yer skull fx. Sad

[@xcen1]

Don't worry the war between women and trans is on. A high school (group) female are suing CT over transwomen beating all female competitors in high schools. The war is on.

[@peoplelikeus3684]

I know. this is a disgrace. As a gay man, i'm against trans women competing in women's sports. Its grossly unjust.

[@TimBitts649]

Women should not go to college in their 20s. They should be married, be home making babies. All the Social Justice nonsense on campus is there because women evolved with instincts for compassion, for care of infants. We suppress those instincts, but nature wins in the end. Those instincts just get manipulated and directed by unscrupulous people. How to end this: Encourage women to be married and with children, when nature intended: in their 20s. Change the culture. The science backs me up: By Age 30, 90% of a woman's eggs are dead. By age 40, 98% of her eggs are dead. Sperm is different. It's made new, every day. A man can be a dad when he is old. A woman only is given a few years, by nature, to be a Mom. Women did not evolve to compete for power against men, in their 20s. They evolved to make babies in their 20s. Our culture is bullshit.

[@TimBitts649]

One thing about women that always drives me nuts, as a man, is their emotionality. Compared to men, a lot more women get emotionally worked up about a lot of things. You see this a lot among SJW...getting emotionally worked up about "social justice" "fairness" and protecting the vulnerable. Why are women like that? In a word: Evolution My guess has always been that women's bodies evolved to appeal to men, but much about women did not evolve to appeal to men, it evolved to take care of infants. We humans would not still be here, if that were not true. Our survival depended on females keeping infants alive, during evolution. So I think much of women's physiology evolved for infant care. Women have strong instincts to care for the vulnerable, because that's what they were doing, for the past 200,000 years. This is obviously strongly related to the concepts of "social justice" and "fairness", which are all about protecting the vulnerable. So I don't see the SJWs as bad people. They are just women who evolved to have children, bond with those children, protect their children. They now live in a culture where women are encouraged to economically compete with men, to delay child birth often till they are 30 years old. This social organization of ours, based on feminism, starkly contrast and is at odds with women's evolutionary instincts. Feminist Carol Gilligan and Martin Kolhberg did a science paper on the stages of moral development in humans. They found an odd thing: Women and men had different levels of moral development. They divided up moral development into 5 stages, with stage 3 being the middle stage. This stage 3 was centered around emotion based morality. It turns out, women usually stall out at stage 3 and have a very strong preference for emotion based morality....compared to men. Why is that? Evolution, obviously. As women evolved to protect the young and vulnerable...babies...this involved being sensitive to the subtle emotional cues that babies gave off. Women who played this game well, who were very emotionally tuned in to nuance and emotional distress in infants, the children of those women survived. So SJWs are simply normal women whose evolutionary instincts are being thwarted by a sick feminist society that tells them not to have children. Women's emotional hardware, their emotionality is a good thing. It kept us alive. Trouble is, in the modern age, we tell those women not to have babies. Again with nature, by the time a woman is 30......90% of her eggs are dead. And what are we doing, with our culture? Contradicting the rules of evolution. No wonder women at university are so screwed up.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

When i was at Uni as a Mature Student in 1981 on the site i was on there were 2 lecturers out of many 1 of whom was pro Mao Zedong era and 1 pro Russian. Neither of them had been outside the corridors of academia and neither of them had been to the countries they admired so much. There were quite a few mature students with real world work experience. It was so easy to pull apart their arguments piece by piece. Maybe Universities should have people who have lived under so called socialist/communist regimes and escaped them do talks about what it was really like and educate these brainwashed students and their lecturers. Welcome to the future of mediocrity courtesy of the left. One of my lecturers on Technology and underdevelopment was Ethiopian he was warning everybody about this all those years ago.

[@jimsmith4658]

i think your a little confused because you mention china and russia (but i assume soviet union). They both called themselves communist but they have totally different economic systems. Soviet system was a socialist system and the chinese system is a capitalist system.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

@@jimsmith4658 No im not confused these 2 lecturers were always arguing about the differences although to us there was no difference beteeen the 2 countries.

[@xcen1]

@@jimsmith4658 hello, China isn't capitalist. China is Fascist. Fascism is the merger of capitalism and totalitarian government. Just like Hitler's germany.

[@jimsmith4658]

@@xcen1 fascist, you mean just like the u.s.a. remember "too big to fail" , or all those military bases in over 100 countries.....that sure doesn't sound like capitalism to me

[@xcen1]

@@jimsmith4658 Okay what did I say about usa? I would say its capitalist, because the capitalist forced the government to bail it out. You must be trolling. You're throwing everything all at once. When I'm talking fascist I'm referring to how its run internally. When you say it has 500 military bases around the world, well that sounds like Imperialist. Fascist would be Hitler waging a war for his own pleasure. That is the people in governmental power control everything. America is capitalist because the capitalist control the elected officials.

[@Rodzilla5332]

It’s getting so bad I worry that black doctors who have poorer scores and therefore likely higher malpractice will be covered by the system to continue to harm patients.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

Inevitable

[@JackTheSkunk]

Bernie will take care of the doctor's insurance and the patient's medical bills. (sarcasm)

[@ntodd4110]

Tell you what - next time you go to the doctor, make sure he/she is a black one. Then when he/she tells you what to do for your health, do the exact opposite. That way you'll be sure to be acting in your best interest. You should ask him about the medical benefits of taking strychnine...

[@michaelhopek2286]

Work in K-12. She's absolutely right. Especially in high schools.

[@drstrangelove09]

my hero!!

[@christinaridder1451]

I took my son out of public school when he was in second grade and placed him in Catholic school because of this insanity. He received an excellent education because in Catholic school, everyone is truly equal and the rules are enforced on everyone equally. Since he is now a well adjusted and productive member of society at the age of 34, I think I did the right thing.

[@joeycottone7755]

Evergreen, Yale, and everywhere are admitting ghetto like behavior

[@1234shanewhite]

Brilliant, sexy American woman with a champion intellect and the courage to defend her position-Yes, Yes!

[@anindochoudhury8926]

In the talk (near the beginning), Heather MacDonald castigates the excesses of the left but also those on the right who elevate Donald Trump to the status of a 'truth speaker'. However, it would be interesting to hear how she makes the distinction between herself and her intellectual position on the one hand and the people on the right whom she criticized but nevertheless support and celebrate her.

[@JasonAStillman]

This HAS aged well.

[@intlprofs1]

Hysterically over the top

[@tonymorelli1571]

I told the HR manager that if we were to discuss anything at all he would have to address me as a human being and not a resource. There is no such thing as a human resource.

[@MrJm323]

I can't remember when it was, when it was changed from "Personnel Department" to "Human Resources". Was it the 1970s?

[@MrJm323]

@airscrew1 ...I just went and searched online for when the change occurred. Strangely, most articles (including those on Wikipedia) were very cagey about pointing out when the change in terminology came. This article www.hronline.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-personnel-management/ says it occurred in the Eighties.

[@tonymorelli1571]

@@MrJm323 The police used to be peace officers, today they are referred to as Law Enforcement Officers.

[@tonymorelli1571]

@airscrew1 Trees,water,air etc. are resources. Need anymore be said? Personnel breaks down to person nel. Person being operative.. Person as opposed to resource. Each must decide which is which.

[@upsidedown4734]

Critical Theory has replaced Critical Thinking.

[@christophergraves6725]

You have hit the nail on the head, Up. Critical Theory is exactly where this junk is coming from and you are correct in saying they don't accept reason. They see all rational argumentation as mere claptrap to rationalize one's "privilege."

[@guzinkarides3871]

My only issue with what she’s saying is that she thinks us folks on the right view Trump as a smooth statesman and truth sayer. Not true. We se him for what he is. He blusters and he bends the truth in the name of hyperbole, but he’s willing to go to the mat for us and we haven’t had someone like that lead us in a very very long time. So we’ll take him, faults and all, as long as he keeps fighting.

[@ppss.6302]

What has he done except pardoning crooks and war criminals and feeding the rich?

[@guzinkarides6670]

@@ppss.6302 That's a ridiculous question asked by a ridiculous person, who is clearly so consumed with hate and delusions that you can't be a part of any rational discussion. Move on, ridiculous person. I've no interest in engaging with fools.

[@hulley5223]

That wasn't meant to be a blanket statement. It isn't true of every Trump supporter, but it is true of enough Trump supporters to be a problem.

[@ppss.6302]

@@guzinkarides6670 pull your head from trumpist propaganda arse first, your perceptions are too twisted for any rational discussion? What the crook in chief has done for you? I know you get warm and fuzzy kicks from the fuhrer, but it has much more to do with the right wing propaganda machine littering working stiffs minds for decades than with trump. They zombified you to the point they can train you to idolize just about anything and anybody.

[@guzinkarides6670]

@@ppss.6302 Keep talking, moron. All you do is prove my point.

[@plaidpaisley5918]

Very curious if all of this helps contribute to the seeming explosion of “mental illness” issues amongst young people from grade school to the early 20’sb& beyond. When you label someone a “victim”, their self image must suffer immensely.

[@TheEpikak]

Ive seen this happen in real time. As an anecdote: I once had an acquaintance pronounce with pride that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and ptsd. Never mind that would probably make him a nonfunctional human being but he seemed to be doing fine...

[@TimBitts649]

Women should not go to college in their 20s. They should be married, be home making babies. All the Social Justice nonsense on campus is there because women evolved with instincts for compassion, for care of infants. We suppress those instincts, but nature wins in the end. Those instincts just get manipulated and directed by unscrupulous people. How to end this: Encourage women to be married and with children, when nature intended: in their 20s. Change the culture. The science backs me up: By Age 30, 90% of a woman's eggs are dead. By age 40, 98% of her eggs are dead. Sperm is different. It's made new, every day. A man can be a dad when he is old. A woman only is given a few years, by nature, to be a Mom. Women did not evolve to compete for power against men, in their 20s. They evolved to make babies in their 20s. Our culture is bullshit.

[@TimBitts649]

One thing about women that always drives me nuts, as a man, is their emotionality. Compared to men, a lot more women get emotionally worked up about a lot of things. You see this a lot among SJW...getting emotionally worked up about "social justice" "fairness" and protecting the vulnerable. Why are women like that? In a word: Evolution My guess has always been that women's bodies evolved to appeal to men, but much about women did not evolve to appeal to men, it evolved to take care of infants. We humans would not still be here, if that were not true. Our survival depended on females keeping infants alive, during evolution. So I think much of women's physiology evolved for infant care. Women have strong instincts to care for the vulnerable, because that's what they were doing, for the past 200,000 years. This is obviously strongly related to the concepts of "social justice" and "fairness", which are all about protecting the vulnerable. So I don't see the SJWs as bad people. They are just women who evolved to have children, bond with those children, protect their children. They now live in a culture where women are encouraged to economically compete with men, to delay child birth often till they are 30 years old. This social organization of ours, based on feminism, starkly contrast and is at odds with women's evolutionary instincts. Feminist Carol Gilligan and Martin Kolhberg did a science paper on the stages of moral development in humans. They found an odd thing: Women and men had different levels of moral development. They divided up moral development into 5 stages, with stage 3 being the middle stage. This stage 3 was centered around emotion based morality. It turns out, women usually stall out at stage 3 and have a very strong preference for emotion based morality....compared to men. Why is that? Evolution, obviously. As women evolved to protect the young and vulnerable...babies...this involved being sensitive to the subtle emotional cues that babies gave off. Women who played this game well, who were very emotionally tuned in to nuance and emotional distress in infants, the children of those women survived. So SJWs are simply normal women whose evolutionary instincts are being thwarted by a sick feminist society that tells them not to have children. Women's emotional hardware, their emotionality is a good thing. It kept us alive. Trouble is, in the modern age, we tell those women not to have babies. Again with nature, by the time a woman is 30......90% of her eggs are dead. And what are we doing, with our culture? Contradicting the rules of evolution. No wonder women at university are so screwed up.

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

What about when you deem someone an "oppressor" because of his gender and skin color? What about when you disregard all the other components of his life. There is no defense, no safe space, no consideration for the officially recognized "oppressors".

[@johnstewart7025]

@@TimBitts649 Yang, who is running for president, is in favor of a universal basic income to compensate for jobs lost to robots etc. I have thought about giving a check to every family that is having a kid to help keep families together. In other words, the family wouldn't get the money unless they were hitched.

[@hyacinthlynch843]

"Your oppression is a delusion." Props to you, Ms MacDonald.

[@stillwatersfarm8499]

If you ran for president, I would vote for you.

[@howardjaeckel6176]

Here's my question, Heather: What is to be done?

[@peretzo]

is she phenomenal or what

[@JackTheSkunk]

Blacks have never had it as good as they do now. They can attach "Black" to TV shows, even a TV channel, universities, a political caucus, beauty contests, a history month whereas if whites did the same exact thing it would be called racist. You would be hard pressed to find TV shows, commercials, newscasts, talk shows, movies etc, etc that do not include blacks....most of the time they outnumber whites. And why are Hispanics and Asians not complaining because they are not near as well represented?

[@shannonelam1949]

Nobody can with common sense could not see the iceberg ahead.

[@yellowfish555]

45:25 wow this is almost prophetic.

[@jsgehrke]

She says “[W]e’re in uncharted territory,” but in fact, we have the example of South Africa.

[@RJStockton]

And China in the '60s.

[@aservantinbabylon]

Yep. Rhodesia as well among many, many others.

[@joemacdonald5402]

See the future be the future

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

USSR. The kingdom of the left, where they put Russians in GULAG so that they create equality for minor nations who preffered knives over books 200 years ago and nothing changed. The West supported genocide of Russians by Caucasians, now support genocide of Russians by Ukranians. God help us to servive this century.

[@Apriluser]

I think college and professional sports teams should reflect the racial makeup of our country. I wonder how that would work out? 🙄

[@nowaskmehow]

Isn't there an opening for a schools that promotes good-faith, serious, independent learning? Maybe with a very, very strong Law School. Give kids a real option.

[@Chris-hq7nl]

👍🏻

[@evdokiademetriades4975]

So disappointed with google. Can’t believe the madness

[@newtalking3]

Identity thinking pits all against at all and ends in violence - only solution. Is to rise above this to our shared humanity and shared thinking process and create space between us for discussion - staying in tribal thinking closes all ears

[@elsenored562]

1:43 "I think we are in an emergency."

[@SolamenteRecords]

Typically brilliant Mac Donald...

[@lorenzo6mm]

"The Culture of Narcissism," C. Lasch, 1979. .......Self destruction........ EXACTLY........ what Sigmund Freud predicted for post World War II Western Democracies and the Liberal Social Welfare Spending Agenda. Epidemic Narcissistic Personality Disorders replacing Neurosis as the predominate psychological problems in the developed world. PS: I love Heather MacDonald. And, Camille Paglia. And, Jordan Peterson.

[@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184]

John Locke Foundation is excellent.

[@johncusson5703]

Wall Street does what it wants while battles are being waged over ideologies that should not be.

[@kathyleland4045]

It is ALL EVIL!!!

[@otisjacksonjunior9795]

Great talk. As to the last question, the answer is in the question itself, as the questioner framed it. We simply need to stop lending credulity to the assertion, made by anti-whites, that any expression of white identity---and any defense of our shared interests----entails the legitimization, normalization or enabling of aggression or animosity towards, or exploitation of, any non-white groups or individuals. We know it's a false assertion used to disempower us. Why do we let them succeed in that dishonest tactic? Just laugh, roll your eyes or point out how it doesn't follow, next time someone tries to make that claim. They have no other means of suppressing us, other than violence and outright, naked censorship. And we are stronger than them anyway.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

Try that when you're applying for a job and they're the gatekeepers in HR. It's happening.

[@johnstewart7025]

I would say there is nothing wrong with expressions of American heritage, British, Irish, French, German, Swiss heritage. However, there is no such place as "white land." None of us has that heritage. On the other hand, it is a historical fact that no black American -- anyone descended from survivors of the slave trade -- have any sure way of knowing what country, nation, kingdom or even geographic region that they are from in Africa. So, they have little choice but refer to their "black heritage." When it comes to hispanics, they are much more likely to talk up their Mexican, Guatemalan or Puerto Rican roots.

[@otisjacksonjunior9795]

@@DarrylWhiteguitar correct, but what's your solution? If the corporate world is too compromised then go a different route. Start a business. Go into a field that doesn't have that type of corporate HR culture. Learn a trade. There's no sense in just despairing and being blackpilled.

[@DarrylWhiteguitar]

@@otisjacksonjunior9795 I didn't advise despair, I just realize that some are going to get shafted because of the sector they're in.

[@aservantinbabylon]

Always inspiring to listen to Mac Donald except for one major exception, and it isn't just with her, this is pretty well ubiquitous among the "acceptable" right wing activist camp. The constant framing of how "defective" the US used to be in terms of racial oppression specifically, and therefore, by default, Western culture as a whole, needs to stop. It needs to stop because it just isn't warranted, in other words, it just isn't true, and it puts our camp at an extreme disadvantage in the culture war. How terrible were American cultural norms "back in the day"? Compared to what? Arab cultural norms of the same period? African cultural norms of the same period? Native American treatment of one another? Just how terribly "racist" was a society that allowed this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist) I understand that framing the issue as such is rather shocking to the vast majority, it would have been to me 20 years ago as well, but this is only because the overton window has been pushed so far to the left in recent decades. And no, I'm not "justifying slavery" or "white supremacy", or anything as such. Such statements are nonsensical. The point is that if we are to apply the cultural standards of yesteryear to all peoples of today, every culture, without exception, would fail miserably, and yet, this is not being done. What is being done is that yesteryear's standard is only being applied to white, western culture, not any other, and this is not by accident, not in the least. It is a calculated attack, and by apologizing for it constantly, especially in the manner that Mac Donald and other right wing academics and pundits do, plays right into the hands of the left. I mean, how can you therefore then say, which she does , and does so constantly and passionately, that "you will find deep meaning, truth and diversity in the classics of the past"? How so Heather? You just finished groveling about how the US completely betrayed it's own values from the outset through racial exploitation. Surely a culture that would do such an abominable thing wouldn't be worth studying at all. And this is EXACTLY what leftists say. Yes, it can be admitted, and should be, that there were abuses in the past. But these aren't "betrayals". These weren't "gross oppression". These abuses were simply a sign of the times and were due to fallen human nature, across the board, in ALL CULTURES. Furthermore, if you really wanted to drive the point home, maybe most of these so called "abuses' or "oppression" were common sense strategies for dealing with a disparate, multi ethnic society. For example, since the complete dismantling of segregation and the implementation of the civil right's act, there has been a tsunami of black violence against whites, while the inverse, completely contrary to the hysterical claims from the left media, is totally absent. Black run cities and areas have almost exclusively devolved into third world like, barely operating slums. Maybe in the so called "ignorant, abominable past", as described by Mac Donald and others, our forefathers weren't as dumb as we are today and could plainly see, as one can today if they wish, if you give complete "equality" to black culture in a western nation the results will destroy your society. And in order to prevent this from happening, you must use some pretty strict methods. This of course in itself is a good argument against "diversity" and multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies. I will no longer apologize for the so called "sins of the past" of my culture. Not in the least, in fact, I will do the opposite, and this is the only winning strategy. If any apologies are to be given, it is for the current times and what is being done TODAY to this great society by radical leftists and minorities.

[@ronrolph]

Pro tip - when you have to caveat your argument with “no, I’m not justifying slavery” that’s a good indication that it’s probably not a compelling or well thought out argument.

[@aservantinbabylon]

@@ronrolph Pro tip - when you discard a well written, several paragraph, logical argument based on 4 words because they obviously trigger you in an infantile, illogical manner, you reveal yourself to be a complete idiot and would have been much better off no responding at all. As the proverb says, "even a fool can be thought to be wise if he remains silent".

[@kkonacreed8638]

I mean the best argument that exists against multicultural is simply pointing out the success of countries like japan, Norway, Israel, Iceland and so on. Countries that don’t have the issue of low social trust because people aren’t constantly effected by subconscious biases. Everyone has a subconscious hierarchy for how they see people, there is no way around that. Homogenous nations have an easier time passing social programs intended to help the disadvantaged because the people who would be footing the bill won’t have an extra layer of animosity towards the people who will be receiving the payout. This is not an endorsement of disliking other groups of people, simply an explanation of the strongest argument against multiculturalism. The strongest argument for multiculturalism is that it helps the economy, by gathering a diverse group of people who think differently from one another. It is easier to solve a problem with a bunch of different perspectives looking at it and finding a solution. But again I think people seriously underestimate just how important societal trust is…when the going gets tough, people will retreat into tribalistic tendencies if they have the option to do so. If an easy (albeit unfounded) scapegoat is available, people will without much hesitancy dogpile on that scapegoat. When that option isn’t available, then people start asking themselves the tough questions. Life gets a whole lot simpler when there are less excuses and nobody to blame but yourself, or when it’s clear and obvious who’s fault it is for a problem occurring. It is for all these reasons that I say multiculturalism is neither bad nor good, it is a trade off. A nation gains the potential for more dynamic economic growth while sacrificing social cohesion to get it. I guess it depends on what you prioritize as a nation, for a place like America where the culture is literally freedom and rugged individualism, I see why multiculturalism would be welcomed by societal institutions and those in power (as an American I have no qualms about saying America is a historical anomaly, there is no nation remotely close to what America is like and there will never be, it’s a bizarre set of circumstances that somehow against all odds created one of the most unique and powerful nations in history). However for cultures that are more focused on maintaining the status quo, valuing long term stability and not taking any big risks that could lead to collapse, I understand why they would be more hesitant about multiculturalism. Also it’s important to remember that it’s not totally black and white, this thing is a spectrum in terms of ideology. Lot of grey area. Anyway those are my thoughts. I’m sure plenty of leftist keyboard crusaders would love to crucify me for saying this, despite the fact that I said nothing insensitive about any group and pointed out merit on both sides of the argument. It matters not. “Your boos mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what makes you cheer”

[@robertberger4203]

Family breakdown doesn't cause poverty . Poverty causes family breakdown .

[@joeycottone7755]

No, terrible values are encouraged and learned. Many many many black girls have babies just to collect welfare.

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

Nope. Morals first. Imdustriousness and responsibility brings wealth. Not vice versa.

[@charlestodd5685]

Lot of folks talking about this. Is there anything being done to fix it ?

[@willhelmberkly3025]

24:42 "For all of our historical sins..." So it turns out that Heather, for all of her seething bluster, has not yet figured out that apologizing for your history is the true catalysis for producing the nascent rot that that is social justice as this sets a self actualized and moral precedence for the elimination of entire groups of people.

[@sennewam]

God protect this woman! 23:17 Cultural Revolution in China was pushed by those in power, also 54:32 At the final question here, she gets so close to saying that students ought to pray, expressing Christian gratitude and identity, but she just can't bring herself to do it. We have forgotten Christ, and so can only return to Him through ash.

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

Christ is Jewish folk tales, filled with victimhood. Europe only did better after church reformation.

[@MW-eg4gu]

University was never meant for everyone anyway. It long ago became a business. Much of what it was intended for has been watered down or eliminated (academics of history, literature, arts, philosophy, religion, etc.) Replaced by training for professions. And please young ladies, get married, have children, and stay home and take care of family!!!

[@usafvet100]

Race and culture are two distinct and seperate things. There may be considerable overlap in the middle of the Venn diagram, but that does not make the two synonymous. Race and ethnicity refer to immutable, hereditary physical characteristics, but a culture and its ideas and values can be embraced or rejected by those of any race or ethnicity.

[@typingcat]

As she said, SJWs tend to think East Asians are successful because they also had some sort of white privilege. East Asian countries were also invaded and colonised by western countries during 18~19th centuries. They had lots of wars during the early & mid 20th century. Japan was bombed by two atomic bombs, Korea had a 3-year civil war that was initiated by communists who were tied to the Soviet Union and China. The two countries were almost completely destroyed. None of them has any special natural resources like oil or gas. The economic situations of those two countries at that time were not better than today's Africa. Yet, these countries are doing a lot better than African/Latin American countries now. The key was working hard and educating the next generation. Korean parents sent their children to universities even if they were hungry and had to work till night. Just consuming the free stuff that Western countries are giving and doing nothing won't you get out of poverty. I would say it is a cultural thing. East Asian countries value knowledge (learning, study) very much. But the reason why they were so weak when Europeans invaded them was that they were spending most of their intellectual power on some stupid philosophical studies while the Europeans were greatly advancing scientific and utilitarian studies. In the 18th centuries or something Korean intellectuals (who were also government officials, because government officials were first decided by tests) formed two groups and fighting on a subject of whether people are born good or evil. I'm not joking. During that time, Japan got the new scientific and utilitarian knowledge from the West, got strong, and then colonised Korea in late 19th century.

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

Thanks for the example. It reminded me of Greek monks who were discussing is angels have wings or not during the conquest of Constantinople by Turks in 1453.

[@gary100dm]

Lift all boats

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

It bothers me that I have to listen to someone sympathetic to the Hoover Institute to get some needed explanation. For a lefty that's hell, and it hurts if they learn truth from the right. What happened to self-critique and internal controversial debate among the left, and the commitment to avoid following cults? Did they all become de facto Stalinists or Maoists without noticing? Why can I find hardly any one decidedly progressive who stands up with vigor and principle against this "Culture Revolution"? (Except Chomsky perhaps). Everyone on the left seems to say that it's pure hyperbole and exaggeration to see parallels to the Maoist Culture Revolution, and I used to kind of believe that. But I see now the parallel to Maoism increasingly clearly, because many decades ago I was a sympathizer of Maoism - at that time when China was so utterly closed up that no information could escape, except state propaganda and what the CIA would spread as counter propaganda - but who would listen to the CIA, an instrument of American imperialism. I still remember that it felt so good and self-righteous to be a Mao fan, and it gave me the illusion of "purpose" as a young student, and my world view was considerably simple and none complex. Boy - how my my eyes opened and how depressing it felt when finally the truth came out about the horrors of that epoch. I swore to myself there and then to never assume something to be a correct world view if there is nothing left that could potentially falsify it. If there is any theory of a society that explains "everything" and leaves nothing out, than it must be wrong in a big way. The complexity of human society can't be simply explained away by any ism. But still, there got to be (moneyed?) interests - at the highest places - that made it way too easy for this cult to almost completely succeed holding the universities by the balls, and increasingly all institutions - even including justice. I must again have missed something big, and everyone else must have been asleep - or payed off(?).

[@sasa-ke2024]

Look at that rude woman reading a book while another man is speaking. Ironic when this is about fall of standards

[@cynthiamoyers9805]

I also find it egregious that a concentrated effort is being made to destroy Southern History---literature, culture and monuments. We are told that all southerns fought to preserve slavery and that is quite false. It is simply another political plot to further separate people in this country. The worst part is that our emotionally incontinent culture falls for it hook, line and sinker.

[@willhelmberkly3025]

Why would it be a pejorative against the south if they had fought to preserve slavery? Slavery was the economic engine which drove both the Northern and Southern economies prior to the maturation of the industrial revolution. Slavery is what made European colonization in the new world economically feasible. Only the the most incredible troglodyte would ever dishonor the memories of their forebears on account of the "historical crimes" that screeching wench Heather Mac Donald drones on about.

[@xcen1]

I can't wait until one day corporations will start their own Univs. Apple and google have billions and colleges / univs are profitable. I hope there will be an apple U, google U, microsoft U.

[@arpadzigisfari5819]

The problem, as Heather MacDonald noted, is that corporations are now infested with the diversity mentality as well. All I can say is that it took progressives 100 years to get us to this point. We need to be as determined to continue to push back. There will not be just one solution, just lots and lots of people contributing what they can.

[@xcen1]

@Annie Springer all corporations depend on profits from consumers. When their bottom lines are taking a hit and investors realize the problems they have to adjust and fix things or they'll lose out to their competitors.

[@melikey3758]

xcen1 yeah they are still going to try and control the narrative, they can’t help themselves.

[@shannonelam1949]

The Big Work Firms moved to China !!!

[@subcitizen2012]

This is what it looks and sounds like when you're perfectly allowed to complain for a living about not being allowed to complain for a living... The right to free speech (liberal democratic ideal) was never the right to force others to listen or accept what is said (authoritarian maxim). The end.

[@ryanmbira3968]

this is the fault line... all the old fashioned americans watch her speech with unconcealed joy

[@shaunpatrick8345]

The reason this hasn't infected sport is because achievement can be measured more easily there. If a player is more often 2nd to the ball or keeps missing his shots, you know he's not very good. But if you get a slightly worse injection-moulded product or a less compelling book review than you'd have got if you hired the person with the unfashionable skin, that's not so obvious. The title of the address is "The Cost of America’s Cultural Revolution," and the hidden cost is in having jobs in industry held by people who can only reach academic standards when their exam is not fact-based, or who have not been filtered out the elite by having to demonstrate their ability to analyse the change from romance to realism in European novels. We're not just spiritually poorer for seeking proportionality in success quotas or for having our history and culture deprioritised in favor of the new, we are materially poorer too.

[@joeycottone7755]

It's hit women's sports

[@bartroberts3634]

Racism,Skin Color?I don't get IT!When I was in the Service a bunch of would go to the Beach on Weekends!My Dark colored friends sat in the Shade to Lose Color and my Lighter colored friends sat in the Sun to get Color!I think the Human Race has LOST IT!

[@crewalpha]

Weber, as I understand the quote, is rather incorrect because he falsely presumes the existence of the notorious fact-value dichotomy. Not only is the matter under investigation selected based on what is already taken to be valuable, but more broadly, what is valuable is a matter of fact. Sadly, even so-called conservatives have embraced this dichotomy because what passes for conservatism today is heavily liberal in the philosophical sense. Talk of "conservative values" or "American values" already betrays an "ideologicalization" of values. So while we may disagree about the value of things, this view presumes that we acknowledge the value of things as real and not merely some mental projection. Furthermore, neutrality is a tricky concept. What exactly is neutrality? Either something is true, or it isn't. We may disagree about what is true, but there is no neutral given that somehow escapes human judgement. Of course, we have a tradition and humans in general are bound to agree on a large number of things. Summa summarum, I think sanity can be found in a natural law theory of ethics. This view implicitly would place human nature and sex differences and so on back into the discussion. The idea of justice would have a grounding in reality instead of mere ideological assertion. An appreciation of tradition as the memory of a civilization, a rich treasure trove of things to consider, an opportunity to learn instead of a dictum or command, should also be taught.

[@falconinflight6235]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 1957 "Who is John Galt?"

[@Aleksamson]

I'd understand if race would be the last thing to consider when you're looking for a new employee. If you end up with two equally capable -impressive candidates and you don't know which one too choose. If it comes down to random decision between person A or B...instead of flipping a coin I would say: Let's give the black guy a chance.

[@redbear2269]

Politics is not tribal, the groups are way too large to be called tribal. Tribes like communities are small groups of people able to house clothe and feed themselves. Politicians rely on Farmers not the other way around...

[@pahakuutti]

"There isn't a civilization in history that wasnt racist towards the other". -There were until they got wiped out by the racist tribes.

[@pahakuutti]

@mickey7411 Hopefully You'll never have to break out of that peace time normalcy bias bubble. In the mean time You can choose to read what happened to the good people of a once great city called Merv. Bye. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Gosh, if only we still had segregation no gay rights and holy shit this is gonna be lots of fun to wade into.

[@petertraudes106]

Rare jongens en meisjes die Amerikanen ze zijn absoluut geschift

[@elsenored562]

1:06 The campus rape epidemic does not exist

[@robertburatt5981]

What is "nihilism" but the disassociation of the individual from the society, managed by a political bureaucracy and a viscious, soulless economic system that is wholly materialistic and commercial ?

[@margaretcooper797]

This is so demeaning and condescending to Black young people,treating them as victims who can’t make it without a leg up from society.It sends a toxic message to the country that highly intelligent ,accomplished black folk have not made it by means of their own merit,such an insult.

[@joeantonelli5533]

Yes, affirmative action graduates look like the standards were lowered for them. Clarence Thomas wrote about this in his autobiography I think.

[@learkingofalbion8520]

5:50. The hierarchy flipped. Students are customers, according to creepingly changed attitudes post-1970, and “the customer is always right.” Professors are captive of students these days. The video out of Yale a couple of years ago illustrated the point in extremis. There obviously are many monkey wrenches in the various systems. One Heather probably has not considered is “the Bunny Rabbit Effect”. The Bunny Rabbit is a supervisory professor, denied even diploma credentials, but also ability to speak as a lecturer at even Community colleges. A street person doing street research, among other things, for 20 years. Students are on streets and need to be tough in front of “who cares about what adults have to say?” Scripture was only partially right. “And the children-goonies shall lead us.” Scripture left out what many children ended up being - and frankly did not define well what children are....