Roger Scruton: How Fake Subjects like Women Studies Invaded Academia

Sir Roger made these remarks while delivering an address to the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia’s premier free market think tank. To learn more about the work of the IPA, visit www.ipa.org.au. It takes a lot of effort to provide added educational value by selecting the videos for this channel, philosophyinsights. Usually, there are hours of work involved to skim through videos and edit it, in order to make a fit to the channel. If you enjoy the selection, consider subscribing! Also check out the facebook page of philosophyinsights, where we discuss the videos: / philosophyinsights-139...
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
In recent years he taught courses in Buckingham University, Oxford University and University of St. Andrews.
In this clip he talks about fake subjects like women studies that invaded academia with their postmodernist views. Complete videos edited with permission:
• Roger Scruton: Liberty...
--
This channel aims at extracting central points of presentations into short clips. The topics cover the problems of leftist ideology and the consequences for society. The aim is to move free speech advocates forward and fight against the culture of SJWs.
If you like the content, subscribe to the channel!

[@PhilosophyInsights]

For more content on political philosophy with a focus on free speech and classical liberal ideas and a critique of feminism, social justice, post-modernism, Marxism and far-left ideology in general, follow me on my new Facebook page: facebook.com/PhilosophyInsights-1392403627480197/

[@PhilosophyInsights]

Atm Facebook is just a very big platform to reach a lot of people. If they go on with their censorship, I am pretty sure soon it will be as popular as Myspace. Same goes for KZbin.

[@DomingosCJM]

Hope so, but there is something big coming because this left feminist 3th wave is every where, Brazil included. Something is being orchestrated around the west.

[@Zelousmarineinspace]

PhilosophyInsights If KZbin goes worse, will you move to Vidme?

[@belascialoja4812]

PhilosophyInsights -- re Facebook & KZbin: dear God, let us hope. I'd love to soon say, "Remember KZbin, how they tried to police everybody's speech and then died an ugly death?"

[@IAmJaguarPaw.ThisIsMyForest.]

Feminism is cancer.

[@jgesselberty]

Subjects like Gender Studies and Women's Studies, along with many of the minority oriented studies are not teaching how to think, but what to think.

[@platypups]

The arts in general, and that's coming from an ex-arts student who just wanted to study literature.

[@colinfarrelly2513]

They are for people with no real intellect, so they can qualify with a degree in "F" all useful.

[@emilgabl9069]

Gender studies is not the same thing as a history-based minority studies program. These studies fill the gaps in history that were left out or underemphasized. They also give a voice or record of marginalized groups that make up the American experience. It's not minorities' studies fault when students hear for the first time all the atrocities the US government has inflicted on its own so-called citizens from its conception that they become "woke". Woke means most of the information taught in schools is incomplete and whitewashed aka "asleep" and when you start to learn that our history has many more stories and people than what was previously taught. Women's studies are more of an ideology that has different motivations and goals that are not rooted in reality.

[@philosopher1a]

YES

[@ericle7299]

The scarier thing is close to 80% of American law school students have majored in "Women Studies, Black Studies, Liberal Art Studies, Sustainable Studies, Climate Change Studies, Asian Studies, and Latino Studies" before heading to law schools.

[@every1665]

It's hard to have any respect for a subject that must not be examined and debated openly.

[@spool8881]

no such subject exists

[@timmasters1195]

Oh no random KZbin commenters don't respect a subject because they aren't allowed to debate the value of equality

[@marcustulliuscicero2676]

@@spool8881 A sociology pseudoscience/grievance studies major, I presume?

[@spool8881]

@@marcustulliuscicero2676 social sciences are as real as anything else- finding truths through observation and experimentation. Questioning foundational principles is always based in ignorance.

[@spool8881]

just like in physics or math

[@TrueYankeeFan]

Remember that time a professor submitted a paper using writings from Mein Kamp, only with the vocabulary changed to promote feminist ideology, as an experiment to see if it would pass the peer review process? Well of course it did, and if that isn't proof of what's happened to universities I'm not sure what is.

[@erikstigter7897]

Or it might be proof that Hitler wasn't saying outrageous things all of the time, a lot of what he fought for resonated with a lot of people.. little did they know what his regime would turn into.

[@thomasfisher4833]

I don't know much about Mein Kampf, but I expect this isn't quite the heavy blow you think it to be. Sure, if you just entirely change the semantics of a piece of writing, without changing the structure or style, you may go from condemnable to acceptable. Or in other words, surely the Nazis were bad because of what they said, not how they said it?

[@betterperspectives_]

Could you please mention which paper this was and where can I find it?

[@random.3665]

Yeah, this i kinda interresting if it is the case. Do you have any sources we can look up?

[@michaelcoletta4547]

​@@betterperspectives_Apocryphal

[@jhomastefferson3693]

The story about oxford taking 100 years to decide if they need an english department really is a sticking point for me. "African American studies", "Women's studies" and so on aren't specific disciplines in which one should be able to earn a degree. They're like subsets of history, anthropology, and sociology and should remain as such.

[@zdave6083]

Except that sociology, anthropology and history are all biased in favor of the male perspective. have been. Always will be. Hence the need for womens studies to balance the subjects.

[@Fredrickthe2nd]

@@zdave6083If that's true shouldn't it be about taking the male dominance out of those subjects instead of making entirely new subjects but this time making it hyper-focused on women that just feels like taking 1 step forward 5 steps back it makes no sense

[@zdave6083]

@@Fredrickthe2nd ok, but who could take the the male dominance out of the field ? Men ? Seems unlikely. Isn't freedom of intellectual thought enough license for women's studies? Should degrees be denied in these fields because they're too specialized in your view?

[@Fredrickthe2nd]

@@zdave6083 Well it's fighting fire with fire it will just make a bigger fire your not lessening the divide but widening it and by the fact that women studies exist I do believe that you could take out male dominance in these fields but of course, that's if there is much there to begin with

[@zdave6083]

@@Fredrickthe2nd Those in power control the teaching of these subjects very guardedly. We both know who's in power.

[@BunneRabb]

"WE DEMAND USELESS DEGREE COURSES!" "Here ya go." "WE DEMAND JOBS!" ~crickets~

[@xoranginho]

Bunne Rabb because of fuckheads like these, uneducated people wont get any jobs, as these womens studies students at least have a bachelor at some point, but since they wont be having any jobs available to them outside of their university, they will compete with normal people for shitty jobs. Obviously the employer will take the mor educated one.

[@BunneRabb]

But the thing is, once upon a time, you went to university to learn critical thinking and to grasp an overview of a wider scope of life's tapestry. Now it's a shitty trade school that will happily teach you utter rubbish while inculcating you with 10¢ short of ludicrous, faux ideologies to which YOU MUST ADHERE, all while putting you ass deep in debt for the privilege. It's just one more cash cow designed to strap you to penury. Like the lottery. Only if you win the lottery, they actually pay you

[@AtheistEve]

Bunne Rabb These courses in gender studies actually do equip people for careers. I should imagine, just like all other courses, there are loads of students who end up working in jobs that are not related to their field. Education shouldn't just be about training someone for a job.

[@BunneRabb]

*+JE Hoyes* I agree and I was essentially stating that that's what academia has become and they're doing a pretty poor job of it.

[@douglasgillard9248]

JE Hoyes then they should not push the employment argument.

[@anthonyphan702]

Getting a Gender Studies degree to "smash the patriarchy"? It's called going to trade school: become a welder, logger, auto mechanic, masonry worker, finish carpenter, crane operator, coal miner, oil rig technician... Oh, wait, that's peasant patriarchy. Can't break one of those liberated nails with manual labor

[@nowayshay]

Or kitchen is right there

[@platypups]

😂😂😂 based

[@Holupgarcon]

Funnily enough they can only frivolously waste their time and money because of the patriarchy's support and coddling.

[@michaelterry1000]

Yes because getting a Gender Studies degree to learn how to articulate gender inequality in society is a much better idea then just simply getting a STEM degree to "smash the patriarchy".

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

​@@michaelterry1000Get into Gender studies instead of science, so you can complain about not being enough women in science... Infinite IQ stunt.

[@MrStivi1981]

This man just spent 5 minutes describing canada. And did a really good job!

[@user-cc5kl7qv8f]

Or the red guards lol

[@familhagaudir8561]

Canada is now the land of White Guilt.

[@larrydugan1441]

​@@blakeariusCanada is a joke but he tells a true story.

[@notilluminati1295]

In first year university, I too a mandatory "ethics in science" class for my program, that class was taught by an award winning women's studies professor. This was back before I had any idea what these kind of classes were about, so I just saw it as a GPA boosting class, since there was no studying required, all I had to do was ask myself "what answer does this 'award winning' feminist want to hear us say" and you basically just got 100%. I just saw this as an annoying, but very useful class since I could get the same amount of credits out of it as my Neuroscience, Chemistry and Physics classes but with zero effort.

[@martymcfly1776]

What you have to understand is that there are many people who find it difficult to pass courses such as the one you described.

[@benhayat851]

Yeah I would, although I consider myself fairly left thinking if I found myself forced onto a normative ideology I wouldn't just conform

[@martymcfly1776]

@@benhayat851 It's my belief that the reason so many people are self-centered and entitled these days is because that's what they teach in the schools. That definitely cuts both ways. I consider myself a socialist but woke liberals can be every bit as entitled as the most ardent defender of gun rights.

[@martymcfly1776]

@@benhayat851 Most people go to school because they want to pass - because the want to be nurses or dentists, or lawyers or school teachers. Everybody takes the odd course just for the credit. So you just play the game. In my experience though, if you are reasonably bright, if you're not abusive, if you participate in class discussions, if you can back up your opinions with reasonable arguments you should do alright. What people need to understand is that you can understand and analyze what people are saying, even if you don't like it. When I say people have difficulty passing courses like that, I mean that they find the course work difficult, which wouldn't be obvious to a math or physics major.

[@tara34952]

Women's studies: "It's a subject constructed around an ideology". Yes! I've never heard it so succinctly explained. It's so obvious to me now that he said it.

[@BrunoRodrigues-bt3vb]

Like everything else. Like economics... 🙄

[@OneTheBlue]

That is what anthropology started out as also.

[@mikearchibald744]

Thats idiotic, EVERYTHING is an ideology depending how its approached. Thats like saying there's no such thing as 'black studies' or 'native studies' or 'child studies'. Even 'mens rights' groups are now clamouring to be taught in schools, and in some courses and places they are.

[@JOHN----DOE]

What's terribly sad is that gender studies COULD have been a legitimate branch of literary study. But that would have taken historical and interpretive hard work these parasites don't want to do. Or can't.

[@mikearchibald744]

@@JOHN----DOE How do you know they don't. You seriously saying that gender studies takes NO notice of history or literature? But it most certainly is not a 'literary' study, nobody would accept that. Its like studying labour history but only 'as seen on cinema', that would be crazy.

[@Thx1138sober]

Here is what is really funny, graduating college with a degree in Womens Studies and having $68,000.00 in student loan debt. There ain't no Safe Space from student loan debt.

[@laxave1767]

68 dollars? That should be fine. Even with such a degree

[@AmaryInkawult]

Yeah, no safe space will hold back those interest rates either

[@rompellini]

lol!

[@patriciawashko2435]

Thx1138sober these children do not understand that, they just default. The numbers on defaulted loans is shocking.

[@taumpytears6999]

FIDDLESTIX !!! Just go down to the Womens Studies Factory and get a fat union job for 23.50$ an hour working a Womens Studies Industrial Lathe . Build some battleships for the upcoming gender wars

[@hoi-polloi1863]

A common factor here is that most of these new subjects are basically "oppression studies"; that is, representing an interest group that feels like it has been historically wronged, and wants to talk about it at great length.

[@liarwithagun]

They also piss me off so much when it comes to the history of what it actually was like to be a woman back then. These women's studies courses are insults to what women of the past did. They did vital, important work and actually did have influnce in society. They just didn't sit around home doing nothing all day like a stereotypical 50s housewife. Sure, women had strict guidelines for behavior, but so did men. And both men and women were responsible for enforcing these rules on society, in mutual agreement. To deny all that various work woman actually did do and the things they achieved with their lives, and just reduce it down to "Women never did anything of import because they were oppressed victims" is an insult.

[@familhagaudir8561]

The whole underlying principle of all these Critical Race/Gender Theory classes is "White people bad, Men bad, the fewer of them the better, we reach utopia when these are at zero".

[@hunterkincaid4972]

The biggest problem is that people, regardless of education or college, attach informed and uninformed opinions to their egos. That precludes those people from rational debate or discussion. A separation of opinion and self-image should be what we strive toward in education. Once that is achieved, people will be more receptive to other points of view and/or seek out information to inform an opinion.

[@cactiguide]

So you mean, once the impossible is achieved, things will be great?

[@henrystan7797]

University is for seeking facts, we don't care about your opinions especially if they're wrong.

[@crix_h3eadshotgg992]

@@cactiguidebasic introspection is impossible? Idk man seems doable to me

[@cactiguide]

@@crix_h3eadshotgg992 ok, well you let me know when that happens. I will be waiting

[@mkmbstudio6950]

​@@crix_h3eadshotgg992while it seems doable to you and other rational thinkers, it does not seem so easy or at all possible for most people with radical/ideological worldviews

[@richarddeckard8143]

As an American, I truly appreciate this intelligent Brit pointing out the truth about what our country has become - "You can't talk about it freely in America on the whole." I work at a state university and people just do not realize the indoctrination happening to their children and to the tune of $80,000 in debt.

[@jamesrmorris1952]

You can do it in England easily, if you say the wrong thing you can be arrested

[@jamesrmorris1952]

And I UK Court decided that "context is irrelevant"

[@Prince_Sheogorath]

They also don't mutilate their sons' genitals like evil idiots, too!

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

This, exactly.

[@leonharrison800]

Scrutiny is a reactionary Bigot who denies history. A history that is racist, sexist and lgbt hating to the core and only now is being rewritten.

[@BloodofPatriots]

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

[@morganclare4704]

George Oswell.

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@morganclare4704 Jaw Jaw Well

[@Raspse7en]

The truth is quite deadly to those who benefit from universal deceit for obvious reasons. That's why those people are so hellbent silencing those who's not afraid to speak the truth and try to bury or outright destroy the truth... Even though truth itself cannot be destroyed since truth is reality, which is something these delusional lunatics reject.

[@CannibaLouiST]

@@kiwitrainguy Jar Jar Binks

[@faithboucher5407]

Oh please, "deceit" means two-facedness, not disagreeing with white men's history, get a grip Mr. Blood

[@seananderson5334]

In 2013 my then girlfriend and I lived together and went to college. She majored in Gender Studies before it ever came on my radar. She started constantly talking about patriarchy and oppressive forces. It got sick really quick. It wasn't until a couple years later than I saw this crap starting to spread like wildfire.

[@peanutbutter5237]

good that you broke up with her then, a bullet succesfully dogded!

[@1495978707]

Turns out, people getting indoctrinated en masse (being taught what to think, not how) has an effect

[@JOSECANUCCJ]

I hope that you had enough sense to dump her.

[@slewone4905]

what freaking job will she get with that major?

[@williamschlass6371]

@@JOSECANUCCJHe wrote "then girlfriend" hello?

[@pauljoseph3081]

5 years later, here we are dealing with people who not only feel victimized but also enjoys the narrative in which they created.

[@navmanster]

Cope and seeth

[@simonphoenix3789]

Long ago when I was fresh out of high school, me and two of my friends were looking for a class to fill an empty period that we all had. Not knowing any better, we picked a class that satisfied one of the transfer requirements- Women's studies. I had no idea of feminism as anything beyond the casual "women who want equal rights". But when we joined, it was rather surprising since we were the only three men(boys really as we were still not yet adults) in the class. Pretty soon it was even more strange as the teacher began picking on us and mocking us at every turn. At one point she asked me how many genders there were, and I replied "2", sure that I could not be wrong on such an obvious question. That made her irritated and she went on to talk about how there could be many more. I was shocked at being exposed to the lunacy of this worldview when she began talking about how there were genders in between genders and more in between that as well as unknown genders that we had not "discovered" yet, as if this was all some scientific pursuit. Eventually we got tired of the bullying and began fooling around, upon which she kicked us out of class, saying that all we do is "talk like a bunch of girls". As soon as we walked out, we started laughing at her last statement, wishing that we had replied and called her out for that line which she would have considered sexist if it had come from us.

[@CoNteMpTone]

What a classic

[@jackhhun2698]

I took women's studies in College and couldnt help laughing at every class the teacher hated me for I aced every Test I always checked my grade and it was allways an A but she gave me a D for this bs homework she never told me about. Literally how do you ACE 100 on every test and not pass the class simple a feminist class cannot allow a man to get it and I got it that its all a Grift after that day I turned from laughing at women studies to down right hating it

[@graemeroberts3069]

You should have stayed and learned then you would understand instead of still being stuck in your childhood.

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

It couldn’t have been _that_ long ago. 😏

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Our of all the people I've met, the gender obsessed idiots are the most sexist and misogynist of them all: To them, femininity is anathema to strength. That's why they feel so comfortable saying shit like: "This woman is trans because she (or he) is strong and athletic". Also why I will never stop laughing at their unfettered stupidity.

[@jn6305]

I briefly worked for a company where a woman was at a director level and she proudly liked to talk about her Women’s Studies degree like it meant something. She also repeatedly made intellectually dishonest statements about the state of equality and diversity in the Work place I was gone within two weeks

[@dingfeldersmurfalot4560]

By whose choice?

[@boli4203]

It's what they do. They're parasites.

[@honeybunch6473]

"In this company we refer to people by their prefered pronouns". Translation: "myself and a couple of woke colleagues will patrol and bully everyone threatening disciplinary procedures and firing if many of you do not make yourself less so that one person can be more". Next morning: resignation letter 🎉

[@Vriappiopoi]

One day she will realize that her degree is nothing more than a very expensive piece of paper.

[@johnord684]

My misses is a director of a company ,but she has a degree in Quantity surveying so not a worthless degree ,and she doesn't bang on about it.

[@SimonASNG]

I graduated high school nearly 30 years ago. "Women's Studies" was a new thing back then. One of my close friends (a sweet girl that everyone liked) took it. I remember she explained it as "The same as a liberal arts degree, but we focus on the women who made a difference." Since she was a woman, she thought it would be inspiring. She came out a radical and unpleasant feminist 4 years later.

[@sircarlos3767]

Liberal arts degrees get confused with these subjects quite often due to the word liberal. Liberal arts degrees are usually 2 year degrees which have no focus rather get you a wide variety of basic classes in science math English and other extras.

[@AnnaAndRazel]

these things has been 30 years old ?? i thought it just happened recently

[@SimonASNG]

@@AnnaAndRazel Now they are mainstream. Back then, most of us thought "Womens Studies" was a kooky subject to take and even mentioning it would get a lot of questions about "what the heck is that?". I recall other friends saying things like, "Oh yea, the underwater basket weaving class is really challenging in that course", They didn't realize it would actually be "Lesbian Dance Theory" that would have the most academic rigor.

[@jubileepup6877]

Unpleasant to YOU

[@futurefighter2008]

To me too. But of course, you may say the same to me. @@jubileepup6877

[@Cleisthenes2]

What he says around 5:00 is exactly right: people in these 'disciplines' justify their bias by saying 'the world is based!' But a group of people based around a theory about how the world has gone wrong isn't an academic department, it's at best a think-tank and at worst a political party

[@stevenluethje1356]

I took an elective of Roman and Greek mythology in 1984 that was taught by a professor from Women’s Studies and the entire class was about finding oppression of women in classics like the Iliad and the Odyssey. I’m proud of the fact that the professor commented that parts my final exam paper were BS. Lol

[@KianoUyMOOP]

I hope you passed regardless.

[@wilson2455]

I remember taking an elective on Childhood Development as part of my Masters Degree. I was stunned when a Assoc. Professor (female) explained in great detail that the reason more men than women suffered from high blood pressure & strokes was that when women begin their monthly cycles, the blood loss acts like a relief valve within the circulatory system. I was going to ask for any scientific data to support her 'theory', but why waste my time.

[@Z3nt4]

Couldn't have picked a more appropriate year.

[@Tugela60]

Well, your answers likely were BS since you missed the point of the course by your own admission.

[@normansidey5258]

@@Tugela60troll

[@briteness]

It was interesting that Sir Roger mentioned theology as perhaps the earliest example of a university curriculum in which orthodoxy took precedence over a search for truth. In the 90s, through a strange set of circumstances, I studied theology in a lefty Catholic seminary in the US. We rarely studied any theologian who wrote pre-Vatican II, and when we did it was pretty much exclusively to debunk their views. The goal really was to limit our understanding of the theology of an institution with a 2000-year history to a select portion of the views developed in the past 30 years. It was clearly a revolution, and the people I studied under were the front-line revolutionaries. I was, so far as I know, the sole open dissenter among the entire student body. They did actually let me graduate, because they knew I could make arguments and write better than most of the students, but they sure did not like me. They knew that I saw through their game. So, perhaps Sir Roger was correct, that when theology was the dominant subject, although orthodoxy was crucial, there was some tolerance for a search for truth. Although I was dealing with the revolutionary side, it was essentially a mirror image, with everything the same but reversed. They certainly saw the promotion of their new orthodoxy as central to their work, but they did allow questioning of that orthodoxy to an extent. I do wonder whether a women's studies program would allow similar questioning of their core faith. I tend to think they would not, but I do not actually know.

[@mariussielcken]

Let me know when the catholic church enfranchizes women and we'll speak of 'revolution'.

[@Ignasimp]

Well here in spain is the other way arround. Those who study theology here are only told about the old ways. To the point that new priests are far more conservative and closeminded and elitist than those who are now old. They also dislike mystics even though they are older than that. It's a weird thing really.

[@Treviscoe]

@@Ignasimp Interesting. Is that a hangover from the Franco era?

[@ram0166]

When I come across conservative Spaniards on Twitter they seem to believe that the world went completely wrong at the onset of the Reformation and the Enlightenment. I think they’d love to see the Vatican empowered to institute inquisitions on every nation in the West.

[@Richard-gp5tg]

They don't; they won't, they are drunk with power.

[@nicolaiitchenko7610]

Had to do semesters of Women's Studies while seeking every level of my academic career and was disappointed each time I was forced to do so because it never lived up to its promised name...

[@realphillipcarter]

I just studied women (and men, to be inclusive) from the top of the tallest tree on campus. After a while they called me the wankmonkey

[@vulture3874]

You should have stuck it out. Many of those women, between them, will have a variety of differing shapes of dong...

[@raymond_luxury_yacht]

That's what the internet is for man.

[@manuelklitschke3230]

I also study and inspect women very deeply xD

[@nicelydunwell5681]

Studying women's anatomy is one of my favorite academic pursuits!

[@alikhidzam9007]

Are there any practical experiments?

[@MK-ex4pb]

It was a genius scheme by unemployed sociology phds in the 80s and 90s. They created new fields and pitched it to colleges and got grants

[@jacobblanton5179]

All part of the "Long March Through the Institutions" McCarthy wasn't just right, he was *underestimating* the danger as the disclosure documentation released in the mid 90's of the communist investigations of academia and Hollywood shows.

[@thedreamer6930]

I laugh at the thought of how many employers just throw away resumes that have "woman studies" under education.

[@paullangland6877]

Well to be fair the words Gender, Feminist, or Women in front of the word "Studies" just raises a red flag because they know these people could very well bankrupt the company with a sexual harassment lawsuit and they also know that it could take one petty joke or some petty statement that might be sexist to also unseat a CEO or supervisor because these people went to college to learn how offensive many jokes and terms really are. Shoot you could say that there is a rule of thumb and this could trigger the women into bringing domestic violence and origins of the term associated with it(which actually has been proven false). In an era where Metoo movement has wrecked reputations for good or bad, many offices and employers are beginning to realize that maybe it's better to employ men over women and to employ people with practical degrees instead of these fields in Grievance Studies.

[@vickmurray5751]

@@paullangland6877 All of the rhetoric and controversy over this feminism issue is part of a much deeper problem. But, it is the result of the constant bombardment and culture indoctrination saturating our society from the SJW Leftist and radical feminist. Who's main agenda is to spew out propaganda through educational institutions, TV/movie industry programming, commercials, and electronic mainstream media in order to indoctrinate young boys and "shame them" of their natural masculine traits & become effeminate_ more like girls, and tell young girls that their natural femininity has no value unless they become more masculine_ like boys to gain some notion of a perceived power which they must attain. Although, from their perspective, intentions are good. However, their noble efforts have become radicalized ideology which is ripping deeper & deeper at the bottom of the foundation of our Nation and society (the traditional family). It seems the radicalist structure, leftist politicians, and feminist won't be satisfied until we find ourselves living in a bizarro world with the sexes switched completely upside down. I think that only the delusional individual could believe that a world with a society like that would be healthy and thriving?

[@strawberriwitch8295]

My mum told me she once saw a resume with “Gender Studies” under education and she couldn’t throw it away fast enough!

[@cmonman3639]

I threw a woman's resume right in the trash once when I read that she had curated a feminist art show

[@andrewgora3672]

Does daygaming count as women studies !

[@SirShiv7]

I dropped out of college for many of these reasons; I went to learn and develop a skill, not be indoctrinated. Academia in the US, at least, is academia in name only.

[@ashleyburns6752]

I got my History degree in 2014 and my Masters 2016, I think I was among the last generation of students at real ''free thinking'' universities. My plan was to do a PHD and then become a professor in the UK, clearly that is impossible for a straight white male such as myself who refuses to conform or submit to any political orthodoxy. I moved to East Asia for work in 2018, and now I have moved on from that dream, just as western academia has moved on from education, truth and reason. I doubt I will ever even live in West again, let alone teach there 😂.

[@globex6389]

I am doing a history masters too and am wanting to become a lecturer. What career did you go into in East Asia and what job opportunities were open to you with a history masters?

[@ashleyburns6752]

@@globex6389 Well you can lecture in history over here if you want, but a lot of countries (China especially) require a degree for you to get a VISA anyway, they arent soft like the West. I originally went to China for a year to teach English to save money for my PHD, but with the UK getting worse every year and China getting better I realised this was the place to be. While over here I have taught at schools, but also done part time one to one teaching at home, I own a Durian store, and have done various business enterprises with my wife such as owning a mask factory at one point. I still intended to do my PHD and go into lecturing again, but with everything that has happened since 2020 especially in academia and British society in general (let alone issues like crime, economics and illegal migrants arriving by boat every day) I finally decided to abandon that dream.

[@euripidesghost2197]

I have seen this in my own field of clinical psychology as well (in which I hold a doctorate), particularly in the area of 'multicultural' issues. Reminds me of George Orwell's animal farm in which "all are animals are equal, but some are 'more equal' than others."

[@ha6ni6el6]

Euripides' Ghost :Orwell was a greater and more accurate prophet than some we are forbidden to name!!

[@ha6ni6el6]

strontiumXnitrate : Brown face good! White face bad!!

[@simperingham]

Can you elaborate on this?

[@dpnast8301]

Orwell was genius. The point is - universities loose their most important institution - that is freedom of speech. Freedom of speech - the freedom to discuss the ideas is the most important contributor to the progress. People should not be offended by the ideas - there is no point in being offended but rather they must discuss and debate the merits and the consequences. I dont mind debating with the facist, communist, marxist or even terrorist - but as long as there is a debate. The freedom of speech is that foundation civilization is build upon. Freedom of speech must be protected.

[@QuiteNot]

DPN AST It is crazy that safe spaces are even suggested and trigger warnings. You are supposed to be challenged and think, to get offended, get uncomfortable and learn how to deal with it. Without this fundamental principle of universities what the hell is the point except indoctrination?

[@MrUndersolo]

I took an optional seminar while studying for my master's degree. It was called "Feminist Textuality". At the end of the semester, I asked the diehard believers what they had learned from those sessions. No one could give me a clear answer; some of them even admitted it was a waste of time... A small glimmer of hope? Dr. Scruton needs to be heard and disseminated...

[@TeaParty1776]

> I asked the diehard believers what they had learned from those sessions. No one could give me a clear answer They learned to have no clear answers, another Leftist victory.

[@Orson2u]

TRUTH.

[@steveguse4481]

Tf is textuality

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@TeaParty1776 They learned to repeat the slogans, and not ask questions.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@mrbigglezworth42 Communist re-education camp. Comprachicos-Ayn Rand, online; describes the conscious, deliberate and systematic mind-destruction of Progressive ed. John Dewey, creator of Progressive ed.,explicitly attacked knowledge because it has no social gain. Leftists are destroying children. See the July 9 Boston Globe, front page, for a story about teachers requiring children to discuss transgender experience. CNN, July 9, attacks social media for sexually exploiting children for profit. I dont know if its true, but Leftist schools sexualize children, not for profit, but political power. This encourages children to be mindless sexual victims.

[@jasonbrasington7880]

The two most important lessons I have learned from politics, that also effect academia is 1) The science is settled, 2) Trust the science. It seems no matter what it is, those in power will develop a religious fervor, even when that belief appears to be secular. Self preservation and self benefit (individual profit) are two of the strongest human instincts. One a relatively small group of people have power over academia we all become feel the cost of only benefits that small group. The more nonsensical a policy is, the more likely that policy will only benefit a relatively small group of people.

[@penguinmonk7661]

Well I don't know about outside of STEM but the science is not settled, not in the slightest, go to any major academic conference in any STEM field and you will hear many differing theories and new insights that constantly change the field, recently with the advent of chatGPT many people in Deep learning have made advancements on so called "Transformer" models whilst simultaneously pointing out inherent flaws. Politics may claim science is settled but in academia everyone knows that such claims are hogwash.

[@HamasAreTerrorists]

Ah yes, gotta trust the totally legit and 100% not made-up science xD

[@user-en5vj6vr2u]

DO NOT trust science. Recent research is full of flaws, limitations, and errors. Any study you read needs to be taken with logical skepticism

[@abumohandes4487]

5 minutes, packed with more insights than a year in Harvard.

[@rickkearn7100]

Good thought but I believe there are no insights gained attending Harvard, only indoctrination.

[@user-nc8hv7jb2m]

@@rickkearn7100 Yes just listen to Alex Jones....there is something call books....there is something called independent mind".......you are just another victim mentality

[@PeteBooty-Juice]

Indeed. I would also add that individuals with common sense realize the same in nano-seconds. On a different note, I had some Latino classmates at the University of Southern California who were amazed that I refused to take a Chicano Studies class as a Humanites/Social Science elective. First, not ALL Latinos are Mexican (I had to remind them). Second, as a Latino who has actually lived in the USA, Europe, and Latin America whilst my father (a Latino) was an executive for the Nestle Corporation -- I honestly felt that a "Latino Studies" class was a way to inject a certain ideological proclivity into the minds of students. I mean, what could I learn from some biased professor whose entire life experience was only in the USA when I had actually LIVED IN LATIN AMERICA? I also know that Latinos as a whole cannot be grouped into a single community and assigned a false history, ideology, culture, etc. from a revisionist and political perspective. To do so would be fallacious. In sum, I think many if these types of courses and majors are a sham.

[@yanniszaxaro]

that is what you buy or have for free in a lecture of a person in such level

[@user-nc8hv7jb2m]

Nesrtle executive? are you proud how that company literally killed thonsend of centralAmerican kinds.@@PeteBooty-Juice

[@Wagnar6000]

I remember way back when friends of mine started taking these kinds of courses and I watched them become angry and bitter at the world .

[@hjones1]

“... can’t talk about it in America...”. He’s absolutely correct. So much for our country being a free speech country.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

BS. " They " had the goddamned nerve to cancel Mercedes Lackey but when certain individuals tried to cancel me I simply told them that by the time I'm through blacklisting the retards in the theater and movie world nobody is gonna hire the Bolshevik Woke garbage to do a Xmas Pageant. Never heard from them again! But a Professor terrified of his students is so Soviet Union. I guess Soros- and now Alex- really doesn't give a rat's ass about retraumatizing the entire communities as long as he gets what he wants. But then Uncle Georgie was a Jew Hunter during the war.

[@catholicpeaces6257]

America is totalitarian under dems-look at AOC and squad , Hollywood who thinks they speak in illuminating transformative ways to educate the peons-America has lost its way-social media tech giants are responsible for the vapid ideas not just of youth but adults too

[@adamroach3771]

You can talk about it, just not at university.

[@catholicpeaces6257]

@@adamroach3771 not in my workplace, or even around neighbours. Social media has brainwashed ppl and conformed into 1 way of thinking.

[@rodrigossgardelis7384]

I honestly wish the best for your country because it seems to be in the brink of social collapse.

[@peterd788]

Roger Scruton was a nervous speaker but he had a lot to say and he deserved to be heard.

[@Finisl]

What an honest and direct comment! We are increasing subjects around ideology more than subjects teaching intellectual methods.

[@autismtreatedcured]

I am a woman and I say bravo to Roger Scruton for speaking the truth. Truth is what matters and truth is what gives true power.

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

I have seen people speak in the same manner like they took a course of speech making because it was a subject. I wonder if good politicians went through the same courses. The art of speaking for an hour but saying not much must be very difficult. Is that why kids fall asleep in class. It's like a politician taking questions and while Answering questions but not really saying anything. The english language is quite interesting and sometimes difficult to understand because of the double speak. I will say this but of course I mean that so you miss understood.

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

You can't cure autism whatever you are.

[@jonathonengel5027]

Women ought not express opinions on societal issues. It's not your place as a woman.

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

@jonathonengel5027 So, what is my place as a woman?

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

@@edwardst-pierre1020 If you listen properly, you'll see this is a hate speech against women as is this entire channel.

[@robertfranklin8704]

I started doing a Ph. D. in an Australian university. I wanted to research three religious Poets, but the head of the English department, Marxist and a Feminist, and her cronies gave me such a hard time, i quit their joke of a dictatorial campus!

[@simonphoenix3789]

@robertfranklin8704 That does not surprise me. Religion can't be associated with anything positive or it would affect their mission to cleanse this world of religion, men and housewives.

[@terryarmbruster9719]

Lol! You never did a post grad degree at all. Head of Eng dept has nothing to do with your choice of what you do for a thesis. Thats totally up yo you and your doctoral sponsor along with grad department. Lol your university doesn't even pass or fail your thesis. Goes to profs at other universities who are experts in subject you chose. Lol at your bs. Probably didn't even graduate high school or such

[@JiMMY-my1ds]

Western Australian Uni I bet!!

[@fortunatomartino8549]

Which 3 religious poets?

[@robertfranklin8704]

@@fortunatomartino8549 Alec Hope, recently deceased, and Pagan; Les Murray, a Catholic Christan, who also died recently. Both Australians. And the one after my own heart and head: British born Kathleen Raine. She espousec what Aldous Huxley, who I did s Masters thesis on, called thr Perennial Philosophy. The notion that Ultimate Truth is at the centre of each of the world's major faiths, but not exclusive to one alone.

[@claireglory]

here in the philippines we have a subject on how to behave well. GMRC. good manners and right conduct subject. most people would say it is useless and doesn't have anything to do with academics. but this subject would definitely help americans.

[@paulgianni]

"We're going through a time in which truth is being increasingly marginalized."

[@malcolmt7883]

Isn't it cheating for a woman to study women? That'd be like me taking, lazy bastard studies!

[@huejanus5505]

MTRredux You got an F BECAUSE you studied really hard.

[@daviddavis7752]

Ed Harley Don't give the "university" any ideas. It might be a college course like, "Laziness throughout History."

[@felicciasc]

Phd in ZZzzzzz. For my dissertation I will nap every afternoon.

[@allenatkins2263]

Ed,I took that course! I failed, didnt do the work.

[@malcolmt7883]

Allen, are you available? We're looking for a Dept. Chair (bring your own chair)

[@Brian.001]

Thanks, Roger. I am a PhD philosopher too, and I have immense respect for you and your intellectual insight and honesty.

[@behawiorystka98]

It's a very utilitarian point of view. Youth must understand one thing before choosing their field of study: not every one is profitable.

[@Marvellousme1]

😂😂😂 I quit my Alevel (AP) English literature class after one month of studying feminist literature. Even at 17, when I was naive and knowing nothing about wokeism or left-vs-right schools of thought I instantly recoiled at the thought of what I was being presented with as I read the materials. I thought it too extreme and saw it as only good for sowing divisions among the sexes, having no desire for bringing about a reconciliation between the genders at all. Anything that claims to give you a view of the world 🌎 and your place in society that doesn’t offer a solution that fosters true justice (which is not just inverse justice), peace and reconciliation is just poison for the same society. even as a lady, and a person of colour myself, im really getting concerned about the state of academia these days. Even the hard sciences have started bending to woke ideology, such as the assertion that some how maths can be racist. I study medicine now and we had to read papers in our ‘non-medical science’ class from gender study phds. I was like, I’m studying to be a doctors for goodness sake but why can’t I escape these so-called feminist intellects and their writings 😂 I complained to the course writer; I basically said, this is not science but indoctrination. The same course writer also tried to used the term ‘Protestant Work ethic’ and ‘capitalism’ like it was a bad thing, somehow connecting it to why poor people can’t access healthcare in the only country where it’s literally free at the point of care for everyone 😅 I was like I cant believe the nonsense being taught at this university 😅 of course it was allowed to happen because there’s no quality control for what curriculum she was presenting to us. She was just the named expert, meaning she was allowed to wash some 100 plus future doctors with whatever opinion she’d taken from wherever 💩💩

[@adhardino9781]

Fantastic that you remain True to yourself and don't succumb to the tribe!

[@nolanolivier6791]

When I was in university I found my introduction to post-modernism to be fascinating; there were a couple of these old-guard professors who had nothing but bile to utter about, and I couldn't understand why for the life of me. nearly 10 years later: I fucking get it now!

[@rickgruffman7132]

That was an awesome comment.

[@zeldaharris6876]

@@rickgruffman7132 'awesome'???

[@mwfmtnman]

I have been saying things similar to this man, and holy shit the looks and contempt thrown my way by females.

[@Dr-Shlomo-Cohen]

Firs year in college, i met a freind fron high school. She said she is going to learn womens studies. I said great! You are going to be a gynocologist! She said no, im going to study the role of women in society. My brain went numb for a moment. I said you are going to get your BA in role of women in sociey? She said hell no! Im going to get my masters in it! My brain went numb again. She has her phd now.

[@jhess6406]

Supersize it

[@Mick0722MX]

mgsfan15 is just another brain dead zombie who refuses to learn anything about critical thinking.

[@bunnyhop6911]

Shlomo Cohen What's the friend doing now? Is her only decent-paying option being a gender-studies professor?

[@TheDivineFeminine94]

Welp, I might run into her at my local restaurant. These “feminist” irks my nerves. Why go to college for studying the role women have in society? I’m a woman in STEM, women studies is a WORTHLESS degree and biased based on the 20th century, let it go! 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@TheDivineFeminine94]

Bunny Hop exactly, the only job they’ll get is teaching the stupid course at a college because it’s worthless in the real world.

[@elbowroom7993]

Universities are also decimating other subjects such as philosophy by imposing their fixed interpretations of philosophical texts and of philosophy itself. One thing for certain, you will not learn to philosophize in a philosophy course - you will only learn to memorize ancient philosophers and to repeat current politically correct opinions. This was my experience while trying to study philosophy at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada.

[@AviKats66]

Wow, I found my experience at AU to be very different. I took courses under cultural anthropology and remember a lot of the reading questions and assignments to be about asking what our stances were based on the readings and explaining them. Different subject, different professor?

[@TheHughabbott]

Brilliant, simple, brave insight ... well done Roger Scruton !

[@CaseyFinSF]

*Absolutely Spot On.....* noticed with sadness in my heart to *the failings of our current educational acumen* across the board in all places of the so called *"higher education faculties".* *The dumbing down of America* has a stranglehold on our ability to strive to be the best, and this *needs to come to an end.*

[@Fopenplop]

That's not what "faculties" means

[@FallNorth]

A couple of years ago I met a lecturer in Women's (or was it Gender) studies. Just would NOT shut up ranting about Trump like a form of obsessive behaviour. You didn't argue and quietely nodded as if you argued you feared it would lead to batshit crazy behaviour, you steered the conversation away as it was tedious as hell, then a minute later it was back onto Trump again before you could stop it. Ranting away using the usual idiotic words such simple woke people use but don't understand like "fascist" and so on. Everyone has their own opinion on him as he's a controversial figure, many valid points might be made, but the almost obsessive fanatical way they kept going back to RANT about him and every subject no matter what somehow led back to these rants, it made me wonder if they were mentally fit to teach the alphabet to a rock, never mind be lecturing to impressionable people at a University.

[@pilroberts6185]

Truth be told there really isn’t anything ‘controversial’ about Trump. It’s all fabricated..,

[@RemsHusband]

This one aged like milk considering Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse. And that Trump tried to get the election overturned via an insurrection cause he couldn't handle losing.

[@janeblogs324]

You never leave high school, she clearly has a crush on him

[@vociferon-heraldofthewinte7763]

TDS is a real mental affliction.

[@vulture3874]

Trump's only 'crime' was cheating the liberal media of eight years of Hillary. Just think, if Hillary had won, what sort of armbands you'd be wearing now.

[@Jerry-sn4nx]

Five years later this video is even more spot on. Wow.

[@Theywaswrong]

Everyone should question college curriculums across the board. I graduated with a BA in business. Went into accounting and very quickly realized how little I knew about accounting. The firm I went to work for out of college had a weeks long crash course in accounting. Then as I went along it was surprising and a little strange as the lights began to come on. My point is that four years for an undergraduate degree is nothing but a money pit for colleges, their staff and facilities. Yes fake degrees. You can take a reasonably intelligent high school graduate and train them in accounting in one year max and get better results in a CPA examine. Undergraduate degrees should be more concentrated, more precisely aimed at the field you intend to enter. Bachelor degrees can be easily designed for two year community colleges, even premed.

[@martymcfly1776]

I wonder about that. I have a friend who teaches business and she always makes sneering comments about how useless math is. It made me wonder, because I would have thought that there are a ton of possible situations where I would imagine business people doing calculations. I would think you would learn a lot of math in a business degree, and you don't, what do you learn? An interesting sidelight to this is that at one time so many graduate students in physics were going into careers in financial modelling, that they started teaching financial modelling courses for physics students.

[@castertr0y357]

@@martymcfly1776 I can kind of understand the professor's statement. Today, there's enough software and existing tools out there to cover the math knowledge of a business student. Today, business is effectively about gambling with some probabilities behind it (that someone who knows math figured out), and interfacing with people. The business people are the ones with the money usually, and so they find it easier to hire someone who knows math, and can do all of the boring things so they can focus on something else.

[@datdabdoe1417]

You got a bacc in Business and went into accounting, OF COURSE IT DIDNT HELP. THOSE ARE ENTIRELY SEPARATE CAREERS.

[@rustyshackleford1465]

Sir I do not know about this... I mean, can you theoretically understand a Bachelor's level of Engineering in two years of study?? Sure, but are you going to enjoy the process? Hell no! You are seriously underestimating the study time for the math side of a Bachelor's, and you mention pre-med! That's even more ridiculous, because from my understanding medical degrees DEPEND on a sheer amount of information volume that takes many years to memorize and practice!

[@savos2229]

People who have degree in the make-believe subjects should sue universities who sold them worthless diploma's instead of asking for cancelling student loan debt.

[@Kommander_Rahnn]

No. They should slap themselves for being morons.

[@youngmonkey2504]

They chose to take the courses though, its like when people sue Mcdonalds for getting fat

[@davidcottrell1308]

yup...

[@savos2229]

@@youngmonkey2504Yes, but there is still the question of whether they made an informed decision.

[@bigdummy6286]

The world is worse off because of this “they made the choice to get conned and ripped off!” mentality

[@Londonfogey]

Over 25 years ago I had to take a subsidiary course (what you would call a 'Minor' in the US I think) in something called 'Social Policy' as part of my degree in English literature. In the very first lecture we were given a sheet which was a sort of 'credo in unum deum' about what we were supposed to believe.

[@MrRight0930]

I saw the title and I subscribe! This is GOLD and it was already online 5 years ago with only 800k views?

[@StephenAbootman]

Most of what passes for profound critical analysis is just academic overstatement of obvious realities, underpinned by the vague promise of "solutions" for them.

[@joespheagles5798]

A breath of fresh air in academia. In my day the mid to late 70s sociology still had some integrity there still was some interchange with the cultural anthropologists . Also one of my psych professors was Austrian and taught us that in Europe at the time psychology was more eclectic in its approach rather than Freudian vs.The behaviorists .

[@marcustulliuscicero2676]

Don't think sociology had any integrity in the 70s. Richard Feynman called social sciences an example of pseudoscience. Anthropologist Nigel Barley in his classic The Innocent Anthropologist published in the early 80s said: "Sociologists, it is well known, are humourless, left-wing purveyors of nonsense or truisms." I guess the only thing that changed is that they dropped truisms and focused on nonsense.

[@jackhhun2698]

Oh F the behaviorists seriously I'm so tired of the crappy arrogant therapists that ram pills down peoples throats

[@1370802]

Anthropology major here. I’m an archaeologist, so most of my classes were archaeology courses. There was a sociology major in one of my classes that claimed archaeologists shouldn’t do sex estimation on ancient remains. My final paper in that class was on the sacrificial victims of Teotihuacán. The pyramid of the moon had male and female victims, all deposited at the same time. The pyramid of the feathered serpent had all male victims deposited over the course of years. If people did what the idiot in my class wanted, that information would have been lost.

[@jackhhun2698]

@@1370802 I know he was likely there are no differences between gender types. As a biologist I scream YES THERE ARE its Basic Biology 101 womens Bones are less dense and they are more Flexible their brains are smaller on average their hips Wider. You just need a woman's wrist bone to determine her sex

[@jacobblanton5179]

In the 70's the German government was intentionally housing orphaned children with pedophiles and encouraging sexual interaction. When you learn about this, it is worth looking into Weimar Germany and the degenerate stuff they were up to before the Gender institutes were shut down by the Nazis...

[@wtan1851]

A subject, like a tool, cannot be real or fake. Just useful or useless. Roger is speaking for what many bosses already know.

[@klarachiamarsi5935]

Any real knowledge is useful. It is only useless, when it is not real (hence fake), just a lot of empty words with no connection to real life on earth.

[@ukbloke28]

What rubbish. You type on your keyboard and words appear on the internet. This is the result of science, which is indeed real. These fake subjects, on the other hand, fundamentally boil down to - I feel this. Who gives a s++t what these people feel?! Not I.

[@truejim]

@@klarachiamarsi5935I think it’s a matter of degree though. Some subjects are more likely to be more useful more often. Understanding of arithmetic is useful often; understanding of Sumerian poetry less often.

[@digitalnomad9985]

Whether a truth is useful or useless depends on the prospective use. It is well understood from universal experience what is meant by the shorthand "fake subject". A "curriculum" whose content is calculated to enhance the power of actual or would-be oppressors, or mere frauds. This will invariably be accompanied by a sort of gaslighting projection; representing the actual scholarly body of knowledge as the same sort of thing (a body of propaganda serving power) that the fake subject is in fact.

[@ukbloke28]

@@digitalnomad9985 that's your projection of what the term means, nothing more. we mean a subject that lacks intellectual rigor, an attempt at unbiased consideration etc. As the gentleman in the video explains to you. Perhaps if you were not emotionally invested and capable of academic detachment, you could take on board his points.

[@mikaelgrande6968]

5 years later this has become even more apparent.

[@rileymosman2808]

"Stop teaching fake subjects" says the philosopher 🤭 (I am a Philosophy major)

[@Xdgvy]

The first day I walked into my ethics class, my teacher asked us what philosophy was. "And you can't use my father's answer: a degree in unemployment." It was a good class. Interesting. Learned quite a bit.

[@SmeagolTheBeagle]

I love this guy. He's cutting and serious in his tone, because what he's talking about is no joke.

[@nledaig]

He's a poor, poor speaker. He is given to exaggeration and generalisations. An expert in aesthetics... for pete's sake - talk about pots and kettles

[@wendyharper8245]

So glad I went to college when the subjects taught were actually what was listed in the course description. "Yeats and Irish Renaissance" writers actually taught about Yeats and Irish Renaissance writers, "Beawulf " actually taught about Beawulf. We didn't have politics in every course. I did study Foucault, but on purpose, not as another class that politics sneaked in.

[@Morten_Jaeger]

Beowulf

[@mastermichaeldunchok]

@@Morten_Jaeger Right, "Beawulf" is the insidious feminist version, like "Thealogy."

[@sim9373]

Letting you into college was the problem. Giving you rights to vote another one. We’ll be taking them away soon

[@animusadvertere3371]

When feelings are more important than truth

[@A190xx]

In the UK, Tony Blair set goals for 50% of students to get degrees, so we have students undertaking physics degrees full-time for 3 years versus drama where they study for 1/3rd the time over 3 years for the same qualification. Diplomas and HNDs had a thesis tagged on them to make them degrees, despite requiring only a fraction of the effort.

[@jessieje8218]

The most important task people can undertake who care about undoing the damage done to Western Culture is striving and attempting to become at least 1/10 as educated and learned as this man. Then take your words and your knowledge to the public.

[@cynthiamoyers9805]

What an amazing gentleman. I would so love to sit and have a long conversation with him and learn from his wisdom.

[@bart-v]

unfortunately this is no longer possible 😪

[@ReinoldFZ]

@@bart-v best thing we can do is to share his voice. I remember somebody from Ecuador in a chat told me about him, and I as a Peruvian told about him. Is like listening to the last of the classics, or the last Westerner. I am not Westerner and as so I think savages and greedy globalists and neo-Marxists are using the good will of Westerners to destroy themselves, which is something I don't want to see because is what happened to the civilization of our ancestors, it was a mixture of a few invaders and a lot of our own corrupt politicians. It is like we don't know how to be ourselves.

[@nocturnaljoe9543]

@@bart-v Did he..? Damn. All the sane people are leaving.

[@daintiestquarters3411]

Yes, here is a piece of his wisdom: "Aphorisms are like a bouillon cube". Whether you take him seriously or not, is up to you.

[@alvinwagner6085]

I got a degree in bacon studies. Which of course is the study of bacon-the flavor, the texture, why it curls, the fat…. Oh it was a glorious class.

[@rustler160]

It takes courage for a lecturer to say that. I admire this guy. There aren't many people in universities that will stand up against the politics like him

[@stanbartsch1984]

We have done this by inculcating the Historical Point of View. The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer’s development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man’s own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the “present state of the question.” To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded... -Screwtape, [aka C.S.Lewis] Thus History is never a source of "Truth," but simply an echo of the "school of thought of the day" - so nothing is true.

[@lorenzbroll0101]

Friedrich Nietzsche (Existential Philosopher) it seems was quite right. Primitive and crude lust for power is the motivator.

[@jeremyeblack4987]

I'm just so glad that he's so articulate and charismatic.

[@jimmyalderson1639]

A similar intellectual suicide is occuring in the arts as well. Not in the same way as described here, but with the same force behind it: feeling sand desire to be special. In the srts, particularly music, you have conventions. And in recent times people have begun betraying these rules for no reason other than their own laziness, then any criticisms pointed out are treated like ad hominens. It is a similar thing, in a different form, to what Scruton is describing here

[@frankmccarthy1779]

In my field of te Visual Arts if you are of Balck Latin gay or a female combination of any you will be granted exhibitions and scholarships such as the MacArthur Fellowships. All the gallery shows, and Museum openings are catered to "diversity and inclusion. What about we White Male artists?

[@vincentphilippart4669]

Architecture on the other hand has become the most closed off, dogmatic of all fields. It's modernism or die.

[@Fopenplop]

Do you actually think that musicians have only been experimenting recently? Imbeciles who refuse to listen to any living musician have been complaining about the excesses of contemporary classical since the 40s.

[@Fopenplop]

​@frankmccarthy1779 there at plenty of successful white male artists. If you're finding that you aren't getting a MacArthur Fellowship, it might be because you're a mediocre artist. No reason to insult white males who actually have something to offer the arts.

[@blackbird5634]

''conformity to an ideology takes precedence over intellectual method." -exactly!!

[@shaneconnor86]

this sounds so profoundly true, if I may rely on such an outdated value.

[@NelsonClick]

Clarity. That's what I got from this. Cheers. Thank you.

[@gimenovax1]

My brother-inlaw is a sociology prof and he is the least open minded person I have ever met.

[@tapejara1507]

My sister too. Funny thing is she cant see her own ignorance and hate, only in others.

[@3mi3mi]

The first problem with this is within the title. How can something be a "fake subject"? By definition, a subject is something concerning something which is said or done. Anthropology is the study of mankind, and women's studies is just a subset of that. Problem two: 2:20 - 2:22 : "... (women's studies) is a subject centered around an ideology." As is theology, or any subset of philosophy, art, history and liberal studies. Everyone has a credence at best or a bias at worst. This could even be said of science or math, as there are principles, laws and theories that one must adhere to. Three: 3:22 - 3:43 "...there is one particular influence of those theorists who say that truth isn't something which we can rely upon at all because it is a historically given thing which changes with the power structures of domination or the society in which it is uttered." However, to completely deny a very real aspect of recent history, sociology and philosophy as not meriting discussion, debate or research reveals a personal dislike or disdain that interferes with subjective thinking, making you the very thing you accuse your opponent of doing. Four: 4:30 - 4:46 "..by saying that English Studies has been an exercise of male power over the female gender. So I'm going to turn it upside down and make it an exercise of female power over the masculine domination." I believe it was Clay Shirkly who said that when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. The whole point of academia is to discuss and debate. To make a simplistic generalization of an entire field of study as "fake" shows a lack of sincerity and willingness to listen and consider the opposing side. The fact that this a man attacking a field of study relating to women shows very plainly that he feels that his position is being threatened.

[@mikefletcher9755]

And they're getting rid of classes like wood shop and mechanic shop in highschools

[@SKstudiosfin]

In what part of the world?

[@kevhead1525]

Among other things, it doesnt matter the courses taken, as long as the "school" gets it's money.

[@TheRisky9]

It's the studies for people who are in college who really shouldn't be in college.

[@Mark4Jesus]

We need more people like this.

[@Sandvink]

It is beautiful to see how his stuttering and feeling uncomfortable (grabbing the table tight, hand to his neck, etc) changes more to the end of the speech.

[@rockinunderscore52]

i always thought that these degrees were essentially subdivisions of sociology, economics, or other recognized social science degrees. faculty and personal motivation are much more important to critical thinking than course subjects imo. A good prof can turn economics 101 (example) into an amazing insight into social workings, and a bad one can turn it into a dogmatic and boring experience.

[@annelarrybrunelle3570]

Part of how we got here is that we have become a credentials society (perhaps today approaching post-credentials). In my 70s now, I recall how in my childhood my parents, and those of my peers, wanted their children to go to college. Why? In large part vecause they had seen in the workplace how employers promoted or otherwise favored those with degrees, even irrelevant degrees, over those who were "merely" competent. Add to that how college students could avoid conscription AND, if later conscripted, become officers or skilled NCOs not likely to be on the front lines (not to mention the entire continued avoidance open to teachers, engineers, and the like), and the ready availability of cheap student loans, in some cases with forgiveness provisions, and the market for degrees swelled severalfold. Colleges could actually make or become profit centers! And Vietnam put the whole rush into overdrive. (In late 60s money,) who wanted to be a $22/mo buck private/potential corpse when he could be a $5K annually (soon to be $10K) teacher in a public school with 5-year loan forgiveness and no chance of being shot? Nobody called it social engineering; I think few of the authors of it saw it that way. In the early 70s, there was a brief glut of new engineers and teachers, which the market absorbed with only a slight delay. But we had achieved a social stratification based on credentials. Now it was not entirely pervasive. I myself aspired to play in an orchestra. There, the ONLY thing that gets you in is a display of summit competence in a screened audition, before musicians themselves of summit competence whose ears cannot be fooled, and who care not a fig for your degrees. It was (and remains today) an endeavor so highly competitive that being better than the next guy is not enough; one must simply pursue perfection. But this field is an exception. The outcome is obvious. With so many schools offering paper of one sort or another, and that often online, soon EVERYone will have some kind of credential. And soon after that, they will mostly be so diluted as to become meaningless. Always, there will be some who can discern competence and hire for that, even train for it. And there will be too many who will follow a too-empty 12-13 years of pro forma publc "education" to consume another few years gaining an empty credential and a big debt. Finally, perhaps, the whole "industry" (for that is what it is) will collapse if its own weight. And by then, perhaps we will all be economic slaves to China.

[@delphi202002]

During the late 80's and early 90's it was considered that you needed a degree to get a job so students did anything to get a degree....some did the easiest degrees they could find which was Sociology which was then broadened out to things like Women's Studies. The early 90's (in the UK) was also when degrees were not not free anymore and many resented this so it helped further the Leftist ideology, and Feminism with their perceived patriarchy which explained away everything with a very simple minded analysis.

[@loreleiletslivetogether3767]

I think these subjects appeal to people who got into university with substandard test scores as pert of an affirmative action program, to help them stay off academic probation when they wouldn’t survive being graded on a Gaussian curve in other subjects

[@mylesjordan9970]

Well said, Sir Roger. It’s also an eye-opener how “Deconstructionism” has now evolved into its most fatuous trope in “Intersectionality.” Both have had a devastating impact on the value of higher education and both were inevitable, given the educational sector’s wholesale adoption of Milton Friedman’s changes to its business model forty years ago. A child could have predicted it-I was one at the time, and I did-but any way forward left to real education now is not so obvious.

[@droogie76]

"Claim authority of nonsense." Love that.

[@Macheako]

Seriously, just gotta vent for a second, but I've been saying this shit to my friends and family for fuckin YEARRRRRRRS and they'd always chime in with how sexist or an ass hole I was....now Roger Scruton is saying it, and the shit's fuckin "philisohpical".....I fuckin hate this world sometimes lol really, if we ALL could just like get OVER the fact that we start out as ignorant ass holes from birth it really would do a wonder for everyone in terms of happiness haha.

[@process6996]

Matthew Morton Dude, calm the fuck down. There's a difference between being something and being thought as.

[@colonelhart5721]

Good work on continually saying it despite the smears people will give in response. If the only way people can defend their beliefs is by social pressure and reputation-blackmail, that's a pretty good indication that they're full of shit. My response to that is to question their bullshit even harder, because as Scruton and numerous other actual remaining scholars have noted, the more power these people get the more closed and authoritarian the system becomes. Ideologues are shallow people who have nothing original to contribute and who crave the power to increase their own status by persecuting others through their ghoulish bureaucracy. I'd say we're moving past the McCarthyism stage and into the Stalinism stage at this point, at least here in Canada.

[@Anonymous-yw1cv]

Postmodernism. If only the naysayers knew they were supporting the counter-enlightenment, NOT "fighting for people's rights or whatever".

[@happyjourneygateway]

Maybe those people aren't really your friends

[@MyMy-tv7fd]

he is just so sweet and nice - when one of the real philosophers in the room gets a hard on we will be hearing: 'intersectionality is unmitigated gibberwank', and 'feminism is spite on a stick and femsplaining', until then, yawn on, Horatio...

[@paulrodberg]

In 1973, at Temple University in Philadelphia I took Women’ Studies as a Biology major. Just fabulous.

[@AntonSmyth-od6rc]

When I did my English Literature we did various "sections" of Literature as it's a vast body of work. All we did is study works of merit by female writers, which naturally contained themes and issues around women. What is silly or odd about this? We did Augustan literature too, and discussed themes. What's the issue with learning?

[@gurugeorge]

The title "Women's Studies" is a classic example of a built-in Motte & Bailey rhetorical trick. They are of course simply Feminist/Marxist studies, but if you challenge that, they can say to you, "What, you're against _Women's Studies_ - you must be against _women,_ you misogynist beast!" Again, "social justice" has nothing whatsoever to do with justice as that has traditionally been understood (in terms of "suum cuique tribuere"), it is in fact radically _unjust._ But if you criticize it, they can say, "What, you're against _justice?_ You fiend!" The Left is about 20% sensible, colorable claims, and 80% rhetorical tricks intended to shut down debate and cover power-grabbing. Leftist "ideology" itself is in fact largely rhetoric and attempts at persuasive redefinition.

[@dnizzle8905]

Anna D those aren't men.

[@psychicbyinternet]

How about: 1. Rimming 2. Dick sucking 3. French kissing

[@jkboone90]

The thought of french kissing a chick after a rim job isnt super pleasant so i'll turn #1 down Gene, you do you tho man.

[@GeorgiaRose86]

Genevieve55 wtf is wrong with you? You are disgusting.

[@Macheako]

GeorgiaRose86 haha he's a man....and one whose proud of it! That's his only "problem" here lol. You want wholesome? Then WHY the fuck are you in the comments section of KZbin lol that ones on you!

[@TheJohnCooper]

Great video. How on earth have we allowed Ideaological Trojan horse degrees to infiltrate our universities?

[@Scriptorsilentum]

it began in the 1970s. i saw it clearly as a first year student in 1983. How did this happen? Camille Paglia's essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders"/

[@williewonka6694]

Worse than that, they've infiltrated our civilization spreading false narratives and power grabbing.

[@JMARTIN1947]

When I am driving my cab, I display my diploma for Gender Studies. So far, none of my cab passengers have been impressed.

[@TheJohnCooper]

@@Scriptorsilentum I thought Camile is against all this?

[@TheJohnCooper]

@@JMARTIN1947 😂

[@dilbertfan1]

"Conformity to orthodoxy takes precedence over intellectual method..." 2:39 Bravo

[@williewonka6694]

"Claiming authority for nonsense". Brilliant description of the social sciences.

[@user-tr4ej8mw4s]

Great analysis from a great man. RIP Sir Roger Scruton. Thank you.

[@zaidwasilbyjus4819]

Get a life you fuckin imbecile

[@TheyCalledMeT]

he was and still is spot on .. he's just expressing it too soft .. it's a more serious problem than hinted at

[@raymond_luxury_yacht]

famous British Understatement. When we say things obliquely it's a fooking disaster.

[@TheyCalledMeT]

@@raymond_luxury_yacht sometimes it's necessary to point out clearly how bad the situation is

[@asanablue]

Theres an unbelievable number of classes in colleges universities that have blown my mind. And I try to keep an open mind.

[@madeleinegrayson8372]

Universities used to be where debates were encouraged, along with independent thinking. Those days are long gone.