Origins and History of Woke | HISPBC Ch.1 (Hanson)

[@laynecori13]

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON & THOMAS SOWELL ! TWO HERO'S !

[@Gibbons-t3g]

I'm 41 years old and I have no doubt that Victor Davis Hanson is the wisest man I will see in my lifetime. Truly enlightening every time I am blessed with the opportunity to hear him speak.

[@JesusisFreedom2024]

I so agree with you. I am 55 yrs old. He is by far the most intelligent person I’ve ever heard or read. I have read a few of his books. I have a few more I want to read as well.

[@MCHillary1970]

I am 53 and I agree

[@robertwilkinson8421]

Agree 100%

[@jamescalifornia2964]

Don't forget Thomas Sowell 👌

[@norichesney]

I really pray that the people fortunate enough to hear VDH speak will "hear" and understand what he is saying. This man is a giant intellect, a humble hero, and a gift to our times. Thank you, Hoover Institute.

[@ronlipsius]

Brilliant - nobody does it like the Victor.

[@robertwilkinson8421]

Listening to VDH is a Moment to reset and I never pass up a chance to listen to what he has to say. Always Time well spent!

[@bettyreynolds6964]

I've always loved Victor Davis Hanson since I first heard his messages about our country. It's rare to find someone with an honest narrative. It makes me thankful for Victor and KZbin. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤

[@oldranger649]

Yes he is truly part of the old school |a western American with roots in America. And that's ok.

[@mego674]

Every time I think I'm so brilliant or Americans are dumb, I listen to a guy like Victor and tip my hat to a greater scholar and wiser man. Cut from the same cloth as Scott Nearing and James Durant. Bravo.

[@Viewer372]

VDH was at the top of his game in this video. Then again, he very rarely gets it wrong. Kudos Professore.

[@RN-lo6xc]

Bill is fantastic in setting up questions and keeping the audience up to speed. Victor with original ideas and historical analysis on current issues as always. Well done.

[@EverettBaland]

I've been hearing the woke term and had no idea what it was. This helped. And I wish the people following the pied pipers of the woke clan would awaken to see a clearer picture. The elites that desire a two-class system always use their followers to help them get there. The followers don't realize they will have no status once the elites are in control. Of course, the elites never learn from history that their empire will be a limited period of time, once the followers decide its time. This Hanson fan agrees with this, "it never ends".

[@norcalviking8992]

I always walk away after listening to a VDH talk, much more educated than I was before I listened.

[@janetleeadams7287]

We all are victims of one thing or another. I come from very poor roots--my grandparents, aunts and uncles--were from eastern Oklahoma and picked cotton. My dad's generation worked in a zinc smelter. And now I am a well past-retirement aged, grey-haired, wrinkle-faced woman. There is no level of woke that sees me as a viable citizen, a well educated and highly skilled teacher. They see grey and wrinkles. I don't care woke or sleeping. It means nothing when the average human can not simply see the average human in front of them. In my younger days when I taught overseas, I observed discrimination unknown in the modern United States. Not against ME; no against people from the southern part of the countries, people with darker skin tones, people who were not educated, who spoke with an accent, people from the wrong tribe, people who were not like 'us,' whoever us is. I am tired of people who prefer believing lies over demonstrable truth.

[@ronlipsius]

Thank you Janet, that was a wise, compelling and in fact, a moving comment.

[@peace1655]

Everyone being a victim has no relevance to slavery. 400 years of slavery is the worse crime committed to any one group in the history of the world. Your grand dad, your father may have had to work in harsh condition, but they got payed and treated like human being.

[@oldranger649]

You sound like you would make a great friend. [Said the hillbilly to the Okie]

[@helenaleahy9396]

Love Victor for his knowledge and honesty ❤

[@aj7aj]

I doubt that anyone who is woke can even comprehend the wisdom of his talk all the possible results of not comprehending his talk

[@galaxy-star-me]

Woke is totally BS. As an Asian American , I had nothing when I came to America but I am considered as oppressor as I study hard and work hard.

[@trent4barnes]

I worked 20 years to purchase a house years ago and now I am MSM "wealthy oppressor". (and evil).

[@tensecondbuickgn]

I married a woman from Hanoi and she's about to receive a massive culture shock when she arrives soon as an immigrant

[@andydouglas2108]

Very true

[@peace1655]

You know that's not true, if you were really Asian you would know this is a privilege man attempt to minimize Black people rights in this country.Victor Davis Hanson making a point to scare white folks about the word woke. Have you ever heard somebody used that term before DeSantis propaganda machine. Victor Davis Hanson is a man denying slavery, or Black people as whole, Hanson is condoning his ancestors right to abuse and disabuse an entire group of people for profit without repercussion.

[@oldranger649]

I managed to marry and green card a beautiful Taiwanese woman so I consider myself something of an expert. I say that the woke crowd will include Asians as long as they're useful but the minute they get conservative then they're an OPpressor

[@docvader2926]

VDH is a national treasure

[@eddiemunster8634]

Kind of arrogant for these people to assume that we were asleep, we've always been awake but somehow these people seem to have had some Epiphany and now they know more than we do

[@poetmaggie1]

When we look at the Ten Commandments and then look at the Society of the world we can see that the problem is spiritual, all the "Shall Not"s are being promoted and all the "Thou Shall"s are being stomped on.

[@davidpeterjameson7937]

I'm not certain that I agree with this video's definition, not that VDH is wrong, but he might be over-complicating it. I think that defining 'woke' is quite easy - it is the opposite of the 'American Dream'. Thus, one can be woke by simply refusing to participate in, or criticizing, or defying things traditionally associated with the American Dream. So, heterosexual marriage, having two-plus kids, home ownership, going to a Christian church, rugged individualism, patriotism, capitalism... all of these things are part of the American Dream and therefore anathema to being 'woke'. So, to be woke is to reject all of these in favor of their opposites: homosexuality, abortion, non-ownership, non-Christian or atheistic, collectivism, open borders, and communism. The fact that the opposites do not necessarily blend well together is irrelevant. The objective is to reject the American Dream, criticize it, demonize it, destroy it, and replace it with anything else.

[@joesmallwood593]

Thomas Sowell says the same things only happened earlier a great speaker national treasures both

[@6663000]

VDH is the wisest man in the world.

[@shaunwells5015]

idk if I am enamored by the concise speech of this man or if what he says just really makes that much sense! it's dangerous I feel, but I am hopeful! I am considered an autodidact, but I am by no means a person who exists in the collegiate sphere of society. (a disclaimer on my aptitude) I am here to learn; may it be time well spent. I place great value on the historians. This is the third video I've watched today (and listened to) and I am getting blown away by everything he has to say. I do not align to one party or the other, nor do I ride the proverbial fence. I am not apt to giving myself over to one cause or another as I find there are dirty details no matter where you look, with that being said, I can certainly identify certain nuances that plague the modern age that are leading society toward something that looks more like what you get out of situations like what's going on in fictional dystopian universes. (pick one) I find men like this to be of great importance to challenge herd mentality and the kinds of sensationalism that is perpetuated by tribalism. It seems to me that items such as equality and equity, have been hijacked by those who want no such thing in reality. But I have to keep in mind that the oppressed and the oppressors have an uncanny knack for switching hands with what one COULD describe as trained skill. anyway, ranting at this point. carry on.

[@johng.7560]

Where it came from is not important, how soon it can be forgotten and the world get back to sanity is what matters.

[@JamesTrower-b3b]

Where it came from is very important. It is disguised as a new way of thinking. It just goes to show these disgusting people don't care about the minorities, women or causes. This is all to cause our submission to their demands; immediately and completely. Similar to all marxist, communist and cult movements of the past.

[@danielpye7738]

When you got nothing to offer the world but your grievances for your lack of skills or your pretence to care about the hard lives of the long dead. You can always be woke make a noise and pretend somehow you’re doing something important and useful.

[@GeorgeStreet-m8c]

great talk, definitely worth the time

[@MOOREENGAGING]

I echo those who said Bill does a terrific job. And I echo those who underscore how much they have learned from Prof. Hanson. I am certainly a beneficiary of his incisive and courageous teaching. As one who has studied church history at the graduate level, I was also perplexed about Prof. Hanson tying wokeness to the Second Great Awakening.

[@peace1655]

You don't have to be courageous to condone slavery, you have to be a coward. Courage encourages us to speak truth, not promoting fear, baseless misinformation that's what Victor Davis Hanson speak to.

[@AKR1PT]

Thomas Sowell would have been awesome on this subject!

[@danielpye7738]

I can hear it. “Tom, what is woke?” Booming laughter and “Oh my gosh”

[@RobertPark-wm4up]

Wow, how good and well reasoned was that! Thank you, there is hope yet.

[@priscilla.colburn444]

TRUTH is WHAT we NEED to KNOW so that we CAN make GOOD decisions.❤

[@Jinkaza1882]

I love Victor, but he barely explained anything there. I will use my definition. "Woke is a confluence of communist coalition movements beginning post-WW2 (and earlier) that forgoes the "class struggle" to focus on non-economic issues (race and gender) with eternal goal of ending capitalism." The Frankfort School and Mao. Woke, at its core, is a Maoist style revolutionary force with training at a young age (education capture) and coalition building to expand into a majority large enough counter a societies cultural norms.

[@urameshi6254]

That's a lie. Woke came from Black American 100 years ago.

[@larryc5361]

Hanson rarely explains anything. He talks in circles, afraid to call out by name and ethnicity those who have been a thorn long stuck in the side of the West.

[@jimrogenmoser8843]

I love Victor, too. Here’s an 8 word sentence that has served me well, “Equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunities.”

[@TheKamperfoelie]

What about this definition? The making sacred of minority groups

[@wynshiphillier313]

​​@@larryc5361Agreed. What a whiner! "Why can't we go back to the good old days?? Boo hoo!” Why does the Institute have anything to do with him?

[@EvilMAiq]

Thank you for these talks.

[@sonofode902]

"Woke" is to be offended by other people's freedom. Unconscious sovereign.

[@facialsonDemand]

Woke: so open minded your brain fell out of your head.

[@charlysteenstevens9314]

Our enemies are held together by traditional values, not contemporary Western ones. They're not searching for some great utopian existence where not a mean word is spoken; no mean tweets. Cohesion is far more important to them. They are strong and we are growing weaker and weaker. What a shame it ended up this way.

[@neumoi3324]

India has done all what Hanson says in various forms like tearing down statues, defacing them, changing old names of places, attributing to Brahmins things that they didn’t do etc. The list of woke political movement’s commissions are long and happens everyday. What Kamala Harris is to USA, the current Indian President Draupadi Murmu is to India (though President Murmu, lacks the notoriety and the cackle that characterises Harris). The notorious DMK, a ruling party in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, even attempted to rewrite the epic “Ramayana”.

[@grahamcombs4752]

James Longstreet, a close aide de camp to Lee, advised Southerners not to indulge in the "Lost Cause" narrative.

[@lonjohnson5161]

I am oblivious to time when VDH speaks.

[@genius2005]

Very Well Said!

[@grk70s]

What was the problem with the military government ("dictatorship") of Greece? They where repairing the real problems the cuntry has, the language the morality of the culture and the economy, so what is the problem with that? Is the mess we have today (from this "democracy" joke) much better? What is Hanson geting at?

[@scottcusatis9071]

The woke need to wake TF up and stop with the victim hood crybaby bs.

[@peace1655]

Shameless indeed, he was not even challenged for deducing woke to mere skin color, identity! How do you respond that?

[@debrakelly4505]

I would love for someone to tell me how LeBron James is oppressed, while I grew up in foster homes

[@martinthemillwright]

Education is the great equalizer. But it costs huge amounts of money. Historically speaking, in the USA it’s white people who have had the money. Now the Indian and Nigerian newcomers are willing to take on debt and study very hard to get the high paying degrees that pay it off.

[@bartsolari5035]

THEY came to the U.S. prepared!

[@OldEnglandCathedral]

amazing

[@eddiewouldgo6328]

VDH is an American patriot.

[@kennethcfogarty]

MORE MORE MORE PLEESSSSSE

[@huntersmillie00]

VDH gave too much credit to Obama. Obama's ideas all came from his mentor Bill Ayers.

[@sofialeroy6168]

Yes getting hired or promoted by merit is a big issue in what is called Third world countries no matter what their religion is. That's one strong reason for the massive immigration to the Western countries.

[@farinshore8900]

A defiinition of "equality" would be useful.

[@campbellpaul]

I don't get why a channel who supports freedom of speech won't let me use the B-word when it's appropriate. It's kind of like Germany in the '30s, but on KZbin.

[@wynshiphillier313]

Are you serious? Do we have to say, ”You can have any color you want, as long as it's a person of color,” or some 'bot will come out and instantly erase the entire message?!?

[@carywest9256]

Define the B-word, please

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

what b word? b!tch? You can use that Batman? yep Bong Yep Bye Bye Birdie? sure. Bangladesh ? all day! Bungholio ? go for it!

[@TarpeianRock]

Woke as the Cultural Marxism heir.

[@CSGATI]

It started in a Soviet mental hospital?

[@angelalisle6914]

I think the latest emergence of WOKE is the way it's used for all types of oppression to come together as one to fight for each individual struggle. Therefore, whether the struggle is associated with race, class, culture or sexual orientation or even disability all these are meant to support each one of the others. The problem with this is that it's open to abuse and therefore dangerous. For example, what if you happen to be the only western white women on a work force with others: different ethnic minorities etc., those ethnic minorities can work together to push you out of employment despite the fact you might be the better candidate for the job. They may do this thinking they are acting according to the principles of WOKE but now an innocent women loses her job.

[@campbellpaul]

This channel reminds me of All in the Family, but without the laughs.

[@cathiehutcheson6556]

Being”woke” is simply being polite and considerate to everyone no matter what they look like or what they can do.

[@Bay0Wulf]

Gack! Spewing garbage …

[@Martytroutman]

The truth about how they spin words today and make their actions opposite of what the word means.

[@ElainesDomain]

The question is why didn't Hoover post this video years ago?

[@WhiskeyDale]

VDH !

[@DSisco-ov4zm]

If we had intellectuals running America like VDH, America would be Golden.

[@meinking22]

I have a lot of respect for Victor Davis Hanson, however, he's wrong about the origins of Woke. Wokism is of European origin and its heartbeat for the past 40 years has been the United Nations. James Lindsay has done an outstanding job painstakingly tracking it's ideological formation and spread in his work. His book 'Race Marxism' is an essential read in this regard. Popular figures like Obama, Kendi and DiAngelo were merely transmitters of the Establishment message after it had spread.

[@pattyevans9250]

Valid points, but VDH is correct in that the term "woke" was first used in America.

[@c.s.wachter7306]

I think both opinions have value as both streams have blended together to explain the origins of the term. The difference is between the history of the term and the history of the ideology.

[@JimiJames528]

Interesting. Woke creates a permanent under class that can never really break free from its bonds. 😂😂😂

[@petercondos1018]

Such Fluidity In VDH What Will He Be Saying In October 2024 ?

[@FatherGapon-gw6yo]

Say it Victor: j.e.w.

[@Utubegoogleguy]

Simply mind blowing, yes LeBron is a victim and needs reparations! I want to hear more.

[@donnied9432]

They do or don't know about Leadbelly? Didn't hear, guess that's my answer.

[@eyesyc]

I love to debate the "anti-woke". I usually play for forty acres.

[@itsjim2875]

Why are we watching an audience when we should be watching what THEY are watching...?

[@urameshi6254]

This is wildly incorrect. The woke term became prominent in the 1920s with the African American population. This is documented. It became an even more prominent term in the 1990s when African Americans tried to find their African roots. Then with social media non African Americans have been able to see AA discussions and have now known the term woke. It is an African American term.

[@pariahpeter7118]

(13:30) Censors' big black markers: "Marx-A-Lot".

[@titiwhai]

Eric Kaufmann calls it cultural socialism.

[@MaximusPeperkamp]

VDH doesn’t know or speak about the Disembodied Language (DL) , which also he, like everyone else unconsciously engages in

[@rickschuman2926]

1964

[@Vendictusx]

US the only multi ethnic country?? Dude needs to spend some time in Europe

[@tabuilder]

I love VDH, but this interviewer is poor at best.

[@arsumbris6392]

Hansen thinks the left invented race and identity politics "because marxism failed", but within his lifetime marxists trained his generation to think race "shouldn't" matter, to suppress their sense of ethnos or "having a people" like every successful civilization (including America for a time). Race (like sex) is our biological infrastructure, and you can't wish it away; what's in our genes matters, it binds us. Dionysus II (the famous tyrant of Syracuse) liked to import "diversity", using foreigners to water down the coherent ethnos that made his subjects strong, so they fought internally instead of resisting his tyranny. Hansen should appreciate that tyrants love to suppress race/ethnos, he claims to be interested in that era.

[@lotharlamurtra7924]

Victor is partly wrong This is not something that started centuries ago with the Reformation. and two, Woke is not only about race. There is neofeminism, and trans theory too, and a lot. And the Queer Thinking etc.

[@CSGATI]

It has become the imagination somthing is wrong without proff.

[@sofialeroy6168]

Why it's always two extremes ? Either Climate change supporter or denialist? Isn't democracy about debating ideas in a respectful manner? Isn't it about different opinions based on rational thinking not emotions?

[@GeraldSmallbear]

'The only multiracial democracy that works'. Laughs in Australian.

[@KennethCannon-f6r]

victor you know better and deny it you are not half of what you could be if only you put people better than money and promote greed

[@martinelongum9921]

You think you are the best democraty ?! Money and congress ? Money and health ! ? Look at scandinavia - US is exporting woke

[@m.j.s.3838]

Pretty good, but he lets the extremist womens movement off the hook, when they are huge allies in this.

[@nhmooytis7058]

I saw it start in CA in 1984!

[@jefferysmith5921]

Origin? Comes from the dude that runs the place that is very hot way down below...

[@kennethanderson8827]

Here’s my highly articulate response to the roughly 20,000 words that Victor(y?) wrote in defense of Trump: “wow”.

[@rosesoulis1840]

TRUMP LOVES YOU.....JESUS NOT SO MUCH

[@wesleytabler6446]

LOL

[@Philip-bk2dm]

Hogwash.

[@Fruktfisk]

Well this was uninteresting. I can't believe KZbin redirected me here from a Sabine Hossenfelder video.

[@pawelpap9]

They overestimated your intellectual capabilities.

[@lowersaxon]

@@pawelpap9 😅😂🎉

[@kindofbluenyc]

Victor gets everything wrong. His bias is actually astonishing. He has zero criticism as to the world that would birth the word "woke" in the first place.

[@strech5412]

If he wanted to teach in a non-left university, why not American Catholic U, Liberty U, Trump College, etc? They wouldn’t take him! The only U to take him is Fresno…

[@petehorsburgh4584]

Dumb comment.

[@pattyevans9250]

Explain.

[@rosesoulis1840]

Lol....he has been teaching since 1975