Woke Cambridge Students HATE Historian's FACTS - Rafe Heydel-Mankoo

Cambridge University students at the Cambridge Union didn't like hearing historian and broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo argue that Britain should not pay reparations for slavery & colonialism. Well-established facts about the British Empire, Asia and Africa, which were well known to earlier generations of students, seem to be completely new to many of them -- and some do not want to hear or believe anything that contradicts the narrative they've been taught.
Cambridge Union motion for debate: "The House Should Pay Reparations". Held at Cambridge University in 2022.

[@thegameskingdom811]

Imagine being at an educational establishment and getting angry when someone actually teaches you something

[@musicjunk8266]

don't know what it is they do there, but it isn't anything to do with education

[@Cenot4ph]

@@musicjunk8266 brainwashing primarily, they don't teach critical thinking skills any longer

[@HelerifiKtion]

They're there only for the title, they couldn't care less about actual learning. That's what nepotism and admission based on "diversity" does to an institution. It will result in total loss of integrity.

[@orionxtc1119]

The perpetually offended woke crowd do not use LOGIC... their fee fees are ruling their head

[@robertcottam8824]

It's Cambridge - what do you expect? It's not exactly the best university in the country, is it? Imagine what the yobs who go to Manchester, or Lincoln are like! Imagine those who don't go to university at all! 🥴

[@thepunisher3640]

Cambridge proves once again that education and intelligence are two different things.

[@tommeegunn9318]

Very well put :)

[@bluecat2991]

Further, there is a difference between education and indoctrination.

[@robertbodo6230]

Never had there been a truer statement

[@gueenjohndavila873]

And Cambridge' students don't have either of those....

[@ngonzales3781]

This is what happens when you give professors tenure

[@rolanddeschain965]

No one is listening but they all cant wait to have a tantrum. Absolutel embarassment.

[@raiky3259]

Did i watched another Video? In the Video i saw he spoke in a calm environment and gets applaus in the end.

[@dilligafwoftam985]

Yes Roland ... que the toys flying out of prams. 😊🇦🇺

[@MikeHunt-is5mx]

Children do not want to listen to the truth today. They want to develop their own truths. Which are not real.

[@couttsie]

@@MikeHunt-is5mxforreal, wtf is that? people my age are actually hellbent on ignorance and self importance. everything’s performative, they have no idea how to actually stick up for themselves because they don’t even know what they believe lol

[@hughmuir3063]

Their minds have been corrupted by bad teaching or indoctrination and social media.

[@jakealcock5905]

These people aren’t listening, they’re just waiting for their turn to talk.

[@toter-drache]

Exactly, just look at the kid behind him raise his hand over and over, They invited that man to speak there, but seemed to have no interest whatsoever in listening or hearing his words. 🙄

[@fido2644]

​@@toter-drachethat's because politics with the youth have become a cult and one thing about a cult is you can't tolerate contradictory arguments. Marxism has slithered it's way into every part of education in white countries and is indoctrinating the young and weak minded people to be it's foot soldiers.

[@annemarie1507]

Yeah, they want to get likes on Instagram. That's all all these childish brains care about nowadays.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

Not talk, run their mouths. It would have been platefuls of wordsalad, replete with all the en vougue phrases and fabricated terms supporting The Victimhood Dynamic. Eeeeew.

[@JerrySantiagoMedia]

Ego driven narcissists... flooding the pockets of mental health professionals. ​@@annemarie1507

[@MsDY45]

Isn't it sad that some of those young people behind him do not want to hear any alternative narrative other than their own? And these are university students who should know that you need to hear and investigate alternative viewpoints in order to make valid decisions. But I have been very suspicious of universities teaching free thinking as opposed to their own narrative for a long time.

[@WherEmEweeD]

You got all that from facial expressions?

[@Peter-oe2fe]

​@@WherEmEweeD Perhaps Diana '...got all that...' from the contemptuous disrespect shown to a guest speaker!

[@hellsbells7271]

@@Peter-oe2fe well said

[@marieparker3822]

The Cambridge Dictionary in 2023 changed its definition of 'woman' to include mentally ill men.😡

[@willcox4561]

We have allowed them to be groomed by left wing radicals since they started attending school.

[@ksiv423]

Well looking at the students inattention and rude behaviour, my opinion of Cambridge is dimished. I had thought it was somewhat prestigious!

[@leemitchell8501]

@Jon Gunson most of them seem like future Labour MP's to me, given their disapproval of facts that do not suit their agenda.

[@leemitchell8501]

@Jon Gunson one might say that oneself cannot try harder when he is only displaying the truth.

[@adamcotton2121]

I work with these folks sometimes. You are spot on.

[@whitetiana3022]

if you think that diminished it go look up the quality of the work of their new "youngest black professor ever" jason arday. it's a joke.

[@judyparsons1333]

Yea these spoilt kids should go back to kindergarten

[@PabloLaConecta]

I'm British. I want reparations from Scandinavia and Italy for the Viking and the Roman invasions of Britain.

[@speggeri90]

I’m Finn and want reparations from the swedes, russians, danes and Baltic pirates.

[@Miku-2020]

@@speggeri90 and about russia we have still people alive who deserve reparations from Russia, and it's not been even 100 years yet from Paris peace treaty where Finland was made to give up 2nd largest city at that time. not to mention what happened to Ingrian finns.

[@renevittruppetersen4470]

​@@speggeri90then come and get it girlyman, we vikings will be waiting..

[@DG-sc1yu]

I want reparations from the ancient animals that preyed on my ancestors.

[@swieseldorf]

Im sending you a check right now

[@williamjohnson4787]

Those kids laughing in the background do not deserve to be at that institution. Amazing argument.

[@LoisNapier-p8y]

You are totally correct. 11:56 The young, not so adult acting students, would benefit more from listening, not chatting amongst themselves.

[@chroffe15]

They are idiots, what can you do

[@shirleyac12]

Exactly kids ! Idiots

[@georgebarber3280]

No argument is flawless - if you find this absolutely convincing then you need to think more critically. Heydel-Mankoo is making a forward-looking argument for distributive justice, hence why he talks about current wealth distributions and foreign aid rather than corrective justice through reparations (he is not making the argument which many comments seem to attribute to him - that we have no international obligations). There are several reasons why you might disagree with his argument: 1) We are historically tied to past-colonies in the same way we're tied to fellow citizens. We were under the same legal web (government) and this justifies obligations which may not be present towards other countries which we do not have colonial ties to. You might argue that we are no longer historically tied, but this does not make a difference when the terms of dissolution were coercive or exploitative (which they obviously were - see France & Haiti for example). Imagine you own a restaurant with your spouse, then get a divorce, but your spouse blackmails you into accepting a bad deal. Would they still owe you money? 2) You might think that a wrong is continuously perpetuated for as long as it is not resolved. So if your great great grandmother was harmed, that could mean your great grandmother was also harmed, and your grandmother, mother, and you. Would this justify stupid examples like Scandinavia paying reparations to Britain? No, since "harm" is not simply lowering welfare; it can also be defined as depriving someone of basic necessities (this is one definition, based on the threshold conception of harm, and there are many others - another point which Heydel-Mankoo oversimplifies with his nonsense talk of "indisputable facts"). 3) You might think that the relevant counterfactual for colonialism (i.e. "Would they be better off?") is not "Would they be better off without colonialism?" but rather "Would they be better off with fair terms of cooperation?". Why choose the former over the latter? Either seems plausible. And on the latter interpretation, clearly colonialism was/is bad for the people of Jamaica as well. 4) The whole aside on the intra-African slave trade and the constant what-aboutism is just irrelevant. We are not responsible for what other countries do - we are responsible for what we do.

[@SuperDunk1000]

@@georgebarber3280 4) we are responsible for what WE do. Not our country, not our ancestors-our own actions. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@davidb9497]

It’s incredible how some students in this privileged place ignore this man and just keep on chatting with friends.

[@chrisoconnell6528]

I was thinking the same thing

[@bluepurgatory2927]

Your being too kind by calling them students.

[@JohnDoe-et8th]

In full view of the camera! That's how oblivious these students are. I can't imagine having a camera actually pointed in my direction and behaving like this in a lecture. Rude to the max.

[@madhavoc1]

Little spoilt brats . Plain and simple .

[@BlackRain_]

And playing with their phones... and most of those phones were manufactured by very cheap far-eastern labor (i.e. slavery) and include component mined by low-wage slaves in africa. But at least they have the latest "smart" phone.

[@myzenlifeinnature]

That ghastly rude girl behind deserves to be ignored herself. Parents - you did a crap job with these weak, insipid characters

[@lincolnengland5005]

Harsh but fair !

[@tocaat2410]

If you mean the blighter in the orange top, I think it's actually a boy - though you can never tell these days. The same nuisance kept his hand up for most of the time Calvin Robinson was speaking in the same debate (it's on KZbin somewhere). Calvin eventually gave way and he (the blighter in orange) muttered something about being under privileged. Calvin asked sternly, "In what way are you under privileged? You attend one of the most elite universities in the world, with the opportunity of getting an education second to none. How does that amount to being under privileged?" - Probably not an exact rendition, but that was the gist of Calvin's response. At all events, it seemed to shut him/her/it up.

[@BlookbugIV]

@@tocaat2410 Chinese kid is a male.

[@davefitzpatrick4841]

​@@BlookbugIVits 2023 , who knows ?

[@nate3721]

the one with a fupa? Si muy bein

[@ravendove8126]

It literally stupefies me to see how absolutely indoctrinated our youth had become, brings to mind how the enemy had “crept in unawares”

[@robertcottam8824]

Please resist being 'literally' stupified by something with which you disagree. It serves no purpose.

[@flamindigo]

all according to their plan

[@walterlaten7662]

We need a good purge all these snowflakes gotta go

[@mitchellfranklin5364]

Well said

[@darthmom1019]

Yuri Bezmenov was right .... and we didn't listen.

[@jerryogorman5895]

The immaturity of these Cambridge students is embarrassing especially the rude young woman behind

[@Glenn-F-Rice]

I agree. When this began i noticed a cell phone in action and at 8:13 the wall crowd they couldn't care less about the topic at hand.

[@LornaKellyZim]

She was so annoying and ignorant.

[@sahilbishnoi8944]

no it isnt half of what this liar said is false. he taked about india and said india benefitted from the british when in reality the british commited some of the worst attrocities of all time in india. they destroyed an entire civilisation.india constituted to 30% of world gdp in1700 and the british bought it down to 2%. they caused at least 30 famines in 150 years killing nearly 200 million people. the avg life expectancy dropped to 27 years during british raj. they stole 45 trillion dollars and compelety destroyed indian economy by making very unfair laws at gun point. the literacy rate when they left was 7 percent and they divided the country into 2 on the basis of relegion which would result in 100s of million people getting diplaced and result into further 10 million deaths. it boils my blood to hear know that this is what they teach you in britian. hiding and atrocity is an atrocety itself. i do not as for reperations, all i ask is to at least admit what they did bcs it seems like they have manged to cover up their crimes at least in their own country.

[@MN-vz8qm]

​@@sahilbishnoi8944 You unfortunately are speaking from prejudice and ignorance, and are easily fooled by weak arguments, unable to give proper context to numbers. India went from 30% of world GDP to 2% not because the GDP of the subcontinent decreased, but because of industrialization in Europe: Before industrialization, GDP was narrowly linked to population size, but the GDP of newly industrial powers skyrocketted. Then you speak of "unfair laws at gun point", which is true, this is what all non democratic states do BTW, and the entire historey of India prior colonization. Now are you questioning that the british have not immensely improved equality among indians, and between men and women? Are you questioning the fact that burning widows alive has been stopped by the british? etc... And your argument about indian population has been in advance countered in the video. The population of India has surged since colonization; as for famines, they were not a rare event on the subcontinent. A simple lookl at the demographic of colonized lands tells all there needs to be said of the question of the benefits of colonization, population surge implies higher life expectancy, implying in turn better life. The main issue with people like you is that you are guilty of presentism. You see events from past century out of context, incapable of looking at the realistic alternatives, and worse, think like a 21th century person at the issues of the time.

[@AmberSoleil1]

I came here to say this.

[@denisemeredith2436]

What rude little oiks sitting there snickering and playing on their phones nor did they clap. If they had listened they would have learnt something. Great talk Rafe.

[@Threemore650]

God save us from these people in the future.

[@kevinparker461]

These "Children" are why better birth control should be used, a disgrace!.

[@brianhannon3253]

They don't and won't accept the truth

[@grahamking4280]

The ginger minger

[@brentnevius2849]

Learn English and try again.

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

Hats off to Rafe for continuing his speech with dignity, clarity, and a refusal to be intimidated by the kindergarten on his right. These institutions need to be held accountable for the funding clearly being squandered on young people who hold no more claim to scholarship than a five year old.

[@DavidMusick-g3h]

The so called institution of higher learning are stuffy pseudo educational systems. We need to clean house.

[@davelundergoesunder]

Amen!

[@ajc5479]

Didn't you watch the video? No one tried to intimidate him. Even though he went on a rant of BS. Why didn't he mention that former British colonies are more likely to be war-torn? You people don't like facts, you just love BS

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

​@@ajc5479because they're not. Facts not feelings bud.

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

They're not even listening behind him.

[@sueharwood6681]

I am so impressed with Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He is a brilliant man : clever, intelligent, well informed and extremely articulate with a great sense of humour. These ignorant, unsophisticated children would do well to listen this gentleman and LEARN something. He was, sadly, "casting pearls before swine".

[@janetgray8638]

You can see how patriotic these privileged University students are, how they love Britain. They don’t have a clue what’s been before them and will be blind in the future to what they will have been party to.

[@ClayWeblogistics]

The instructors at these institution have a different less reasoned opinion. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo could never teach the "education/indoctrination system" would not allow him to teach. There is still grinding poverty there right in Britain. Capitalism has failed come to fruition, instead we have economic feudalism masquerading and capitalism. How to rectify that is what they should be looking to do. You cannot have righteous indignation and clutch your placard though. You have to think. A much harder thing. A lot of powerful people are seeing that you do not solve that problem.

[@johnnokov2852]

I’m Slavic, I want reparations from the Turks immediately

[@christineottens6007]

Slavs created the word slave btw

[@rieniekramer1912]

Cell phones should be banned from these sessions .... .

[@hb1338]

My daughter in law teaches at Cambridge University. She insists that her students switch off their phones and leave them on a table by the door. One such student started a campaign to have her fired for interfering with his "basic human rights"; thankfully the dean of the college "advised" him of the foolishness of his ways.

[@margaretflounders8510]

@@hb1338 Oh they'll know all about that! Basic human rights is prob. top of their lists....

[@SMacCuUladh]

@@margaretflounders8510 Hazelnut lattes are a human right!

[@chrisfell5073]

Probably are - but these students are ignorant.

[@chrisfell5073]

​@@margaretflounders8510EUHR

[@nimascolari1508]

As a law lecturer of a reputable UK university I can comfortably accuse the modern institutions as nourishing a mindset amongst their students where any fact which doesn't appease their ego driven, self delusional narrative gives them the right to be enraged, abusive and in some cases violent. This is devoid of any dialogue or conversation only that they're entitled to be disrespectful. Appalling behaviour that's sadly a common theme.

[@rah1721]

Disgusting. And to think that they're so brainwashed in their outlook that they cannot see how captured they are by this woke mentality is disturbing.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

I call BS to your statement, changes are here to stay, whitewashing history will be in the past soon.

[@danika9448]

I can believe that. I graduated from a UK university in 2006. I’m so grateful that I missed the woke wave…. We treated our lecturers with respect and awe, and they were worthy of that respect because they were highly intelligent and accomplished researchers. They knew some really interesting stuff. It was their job to challenge our thinking and to let us challenge theirs. They never treated us as “less than” but it was also clear they had more knowledge and life experience and so we listened.

[@16m49x3]

@@danika9448 2006? The lecturers of 2006 did not stop lecturing today. They are still there, and they are the ones putting these thoughts in these childrens mind

[@Tinkerstrade]

Cambridge University used to be a hugely respected institution. Watching this, I would never encourage anyone to study there. They need a complete fumigation to rid themselves of these so called students AND the professors responsible for it.

[@MyITRcom]

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell

[@donnaw3765]

So true. Students are taught 'what' to think and believe now and not 'how' to think.

[@JimmyDreadNDMS]

Another way of looking at this quote; with perhaps some empathy and self-awareness, would be to consider it from the perspective of the descendants of peoples stolen from their homelands, robbed of their names, robbed of knowledge of their tribes and original family lineage, culture and religion. A people taught a falsified "Christian" religion, that for example, removed elements that wrote of Moses and the Israelites escape from slavery, so as not to encourage dissent. Predicated on the propaganda of a blonde haired, blue eyed Jesus. As a side note; George Orwell's descendants were recipients of reparation payment as recompense for their loss of human property. A total sum, paid by the British taxpayers, not fully repaid until 2015

[@donnaw3765]

@@JimmyDreadNDMS No one has ever seen a blonde haired, blue eyed Jesus. He was Jewish. All of the many pictures never show Him as being white, nor black. Palestinians have not been robbed of homelands, names, etc...they have given up everything to support Hamas, etc...They do NOT want peace, land, or honor. It really took a long time for the final payment to be made. Thanks for sharing the info.

[@VVayVVard]

@@JimmyDreadNDMS People tend to mix though, most of us aren't purely of any tribe or ethnicity. And as said, had they not been "stolen" from their homelands, they would've lived under objectively worse conditions today. I doubt most modern people even know that much about their great-great-great-grandparents or beyond. I personally never really learned much even about my grandparents, and I have no idea what their parents were like. But that didn't stop me from developing my own identity. I think my main problem with this type of thinking is that it boils down to an attempt to group yourself with other people based on superficial commonalities that ultimately don't really define us as individuals. I feel like people should develop their identity via trial and error, by learning how they themselves react to organic real life experiences and how their own reactions differ from those of others. This seems much more useful to me than trying to study how your ancestors lived and what they believed in, given that today's world is so different from what it was a century ago, and given that we know so much more about the world now.

[@JimmyDreadNDMS]

@@VVayVVard on your point regarding mixing etc; I do agree. However, I do find it a bit odd for you to use that as the opening 'leg' with which to build the metaphorical table of your argument; considering this particular 'historian', Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, makes at least a good portion of his living as an oxymoronic example of his own existence. Decrying the failure of multiculturalism and ethnic mixing, while affecting the pomp of an eccentric English aristocrat. Sort of like if all the worst bits of Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and Jacob Rees-Mogg were genetically spliced together... The members of the African diaspora who were enslaved, were stolen from their homelands. That is not under dispute. The use of quotation marks to undermine the veracity of that fact is akin to being a holocaust denier. Do no persist in doing this. It is not an objective fact that remaining in their homelands and resisting European intervention (invasion) would have resulted in worse living conditions today. In an independent comment above, I list but a few examples of great achievements across the continent of Africa; to negate Rafe's insinuations and Eurocentric common perceptions. Even to this modern age, NGOs, working hand in hand with Nestlé visited various regions in the 70's, 80's and earlier, encouraging uptake of their branded baby formula, as superior to mother's milk. Due the propaganda of "West knows best" many babies died due to inadequate infrastructure for clean drinking water. Another such example is the so called "Angel of Death" in Uganda. A wealthy European American with barely a nursing qualification, who took it upon herself to travel to Uganda, under the guise of altruistic benevolent medical care. 100s of babies died because she didn't know her rectum from her forearm synovial joint. Underdevelopment and rampant theft of art, culture and resources; all while encouraging, via clandestine means, the displacement of governments focused on progressing African interests; from the toppling of Gadaffi, all the way back to the creation of political unions via intermarriage between ruling tribes and slave traders and in between with governmental coups, embezzlers and international fallout from US/UK created militant groups such as Al Queda funding civil war via brutality to gain blood diamonds. Similar to Oliver North and Ron Reagan's Nicaraguan Contra's funnelling cocaine into America. Western intervention is rotten. It's definitely subjective, not objective to say life would be worse with out it. But at the current circumstances, things are akin to burning down an African's house, stealing the natural resources in his garden; building him a corrugated iron shack, then telling the citizens of your country, and the rest of the world how kind you are for providing aid, and how lazy the African is for needing it. All while still owing him several thousand/millions/billions of pounds. I won't say there have been no benefits from colonialism etc. However, my view is these, and more, could have been achieved without European hindrance. In regards to identity; your personal, anecdotal experience is totally valid, I won't dispute that. I do find it strange you've used this quote from George Orwell, debating who it's most applicable to, is the most appropriate forum, but to each their own. I totally agree with you that one must find, within, and also build for oneself, their own identity. Not reliant on peers or blind nationalism, nor the long dead traditions of one's ancestors. Can you really ignore the rampant market growth of DNA tracing, websites like Ancestory.com and huge viewership of TV programs like "Who Do You Think You Are?", which trace family past history, and others, which reconnect adopted people, and others, who for whatever reason, have major obstacles in the way for them to trace even their recent history and relatives. I'm glad for you that your chose disregard for your familial past works; many, many others believe in the adage that "those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it". It's especially frustrating, when someone in your position talks of how you've been fine and dandy taking no interest in looking to your grandparents, or even beyond. That is not a luxury of choice afforded to all; many of whom had that choice forcibly snatched from them in traumatic circumstances.

[@suzannehaigh4281]

How ignorant that ginger girl and her friend are, talking and using phone throughout his speech, they just do not wish to hear the truths.

[@NoRemorse81]

Because they can't handle the truth

[@shirleyac12]

She hasn’t done her homework. Spoilt madam rude

[@BlurryFace-ro3mp]

I'm pretty sure they're looking up what he's saying tbh. I'd be doing the same thing if I was sitting there. If that's not something you would do then why not? You just accept or deny what someone says without verification?

[@shirleyac12]

@@BlurryFace-ro3mp laughing rudely is the way to act then ? Get a grip . I certainly hope they’ve learned more facts . There’s a thing called respect and they need to learn it . Time to grow up .

[@BlurryFace-ro3mp]

@@shirleyac12 Laughing is a reaction. It's not something we control. I'd say it's you that needs to educate yourself so when you see things you don't expect more from people than you yourself are capable of sweetheart. Laughter is an involuntary emotional response. In you as well as them. It's you that needs to do the growing up here. I sincerely hope you learn more about this. Have a good day.

[@molemarden5188]

If these students are the future then the country is well in the shit.

[@martinwardle6695]

Agreed. Morons.

[@bougeac]

They are, and it is…

[@DEMONIKMINION]

Our country has no future, it's well into end of life care measures, by design I might add.

[@daisyroots8926]

We are totally in the shit… we will be run by children who are narcissistic and who believe that the world owes them a salary…

[@johnleonard7134]

And they are the cream?

[@19.-ke2ld]

Privileged students at an educational institution laughing and smirking at someone actually teaching them facts. Thank you Rafe.

[@fritzhenning1]

Are you referring to the one girl in the stripey jumper who was always in shot.

[@angelawallismoore2283]

and the boy beside her.@@fritzhenning1

[@deemic23]

@@fritzhenning1and the sulky one in blue on Rafe’s left

[@bear1245]

Entitled , nepotistic feeble minds

[@Claustrophobic69]

@@raymondrinehart5957they should be. The man is ten times as intelligent as they’ll ever be!

[@scottnixon9236]

Applause. Facts are facts. Ignorance is ignorance. Brilliant, factual speech.

[@didyeaye2481]

Bullshit.

[@reven-docta79]

These kids are part of a generation that is too thoroughly in Doctrine 8ted to even think about what an opposing viewpoint looks or sounds like. Look at all their confused faces…it like they literally don’t understand what is going on; like they are looking around for their instructors to step in and save them from something.

[@hoojchoons2258]

Couldn't agree more.

[@basedmathh]

@@reven-docta79 They are being told their gods do not exist and its uncomfortable.

[@reven-docta79]

@@basedmathh 😂I concur 👍

[@GalloPazzesco]

Man oh man, I love this guy. Where might I be allowed-to contribute to his worthy cause of educating the young woke ignorant liberal masses? He deserves all of our support.

[@MrJimbaloid]

Probably the most accurate lecture they will ever have.

[@ordinarybear7037]

HiS'tory is no our Story, if you believe the narrative of mainstream you are sorely misinformed..... kind regards Legends

[@alexanderforsman2166]

I’m currently enrolled in university, nothing of the (apparent) caliber of Cambridge. But I see this in lecture theatres constantly, students chatting, playing games, sitting on their phones and just being immature while getting educated from the brightest minds in their field trying to provide discourse and encourage critical thinking. They couldn’t care less and It’s very hard not to get cynical.

[@yannickchayer1609]

Buddy. Look at your government while in session.

[@PKTraceur]

Fuck them, in level 3 IT I didn’t bother with my classmates, I focused on getting the highest grade and I did, it was only when I got a girlfriend that my uni years failed, too distracting.

[@John-wp5ok]

So sorry to hear this. When I was there, there was none of that.

[@nathanael9522]

I also got to university, and I imagine we are of different programs. Many individuals goto university through parental or societal pressures and thus do not see it as a blessing. However, in terms of my program many students are quite interested in the course material as well as the professor. I am in Greek and Roman studies, with a minor in archaeology and linguistics. Nonetheless, you should be proud you see your education and faculty for what they are. Do not worry about the others, many of them will not remain.

[@TimmyBobinson]

Its a Lefty uni now. What more did you expect from degenerate scum?

[@jeffstevens3625]

I am an African and from one of the minority tribes. I 💯 % agree with your analysis on slavery and colonialism (Speech).

[@UnShredded]

Facts are facts, your agreement or belief is irrelevant even if you're from Saturn or the Quanta Sea.

[@Gigatechi7]

You are not a Minority , your tribe might be but your Race Group in Not a Minority another lie pushed by the Woke Libtards. Black's , Indians , Chinese , Muslims are the 4 Major Majority Non White Race groups , you all possess your own home lands , that put your Race , Cultures , Values first in no way of form are you a Minority , your Non White Race groups are invading the only home lands Whites have left , and then using the lie of being a Minority. Yes well it might be true at that time in a white country you a minority , the real monster lies in wait , because Whites don't have homogeneous country''s any more while you Non Whites do. Non Whites will out breed Whites in a White country and wipe the Whites out. But ALL the mention above Non Whites race groups will still retain their Country's a 1000 years from now , because you don't sacrifice your Country , Race , Culture , Values for other Non Whites FACT. but you all expect Whites to destroy everything of theirs for Non White gain in a White Country. White people should come first in a White Country not Non Whites it's White Race , Culture , Values , History and if you Non White and can't respect this , then WHY ? are you wanting to live in a White Country.

[@firebyrd437]

Nice comment

[@brentnevius2849]

If being a slave is the best way to help your children, please don't breed!

[@user-pd9ju5dk5s]

An African banned Jeff Stevens 😂 Very African name indeed 😂 So many white ppl larping as other races online LOL

[@NiccaGeorge]

These kids have no respect.

[@michaelfraser5723]

they are Oxbridge, old boy

[@susanjackett9268]

No, they're like us as young ones, shocked rigid at the inhumanity of man to man. I can recall being outraged about the slave trade for years, outraged at the KLUX KLAN. Proud of Wilberforce and even prouder to discover, despite finding coal mine owners, that I also have Edward Stanley as a forebear, who created the name Freeman and was a leading abolitionist. Each country used slaves no matter the crede, and still do.

[@harrywll]

@@susanjackett9268no they’re not the speaker just isn’t regurgitating the same crap these intellectuals love to swallow and instead of being open to challenge they ignore it to protect themselves.

[@William-Marshall]

How rude they are , like speaking to stone walls.

[@bougeac]

You’d probably get more sense from a granite block…

[@memorimusic420]

The fact that these kids are not even willing to listen says enough...

[@Corey_Mckilling]

their niave toffee nosed southerners... what do you expect lmao when youve had the life of riley all paid for by your parents, it only breeds kids like these..

[@christopherhazell420]

Akin to a mob on the loose!

[@christopherhazell420]

Idealiogical subversion complete. Yuri Bezminov, 1983.

[@newtexan1]

Their dads will give them jobs. They don’t live in the real world

[@YukiPyro]

This is how communism works. Teach the next generation nothing and they will see facts as lies.

[@ericbrown7297]

Looking at those students behind Rafe reinforces the fact that these universities are no longer a place of critical thinking. Great speech Rafe, articulate and accurate. Well done.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

All public funding needs to be stopped

[@andy-maunder]

Agree. Those sat behind are typical of those capable of learning what is required in order to pass A levels to a high standard, whilst not opening their minds to the nuances of life itself.

[@kc_cobra]

A few of them seem to be listening. I can only hope the rest of them understand when, if ever, they grow up.

[@60something4]

Check out the two black students, the male was pissed and the woman was shocked he was allowed to say the things he did.

[@TheHarlequin100]

Schools & "Universities" no longer teach people HOW to think, they teach people WHAT to think. Not EDUCATION but instead INDOCTRINATION

[@RoxanneLavender]

I'm 1/4 Jamaican, huge close Jamaican family(my mum is half Jamaican). My ancestors were kidnapped in Africa by tribes in Africa, sold to outsiders, who paid and brought them to Jamaica, they at some points were probably treated badly. But, they now have their own country, that is probably nicer than the countries they originated in. So i'm okay with it, because Jamaica and Jamaicans are awesome. I don't need reparations, the country of Jamaica is enough.

[@jakealcock5905]

Thank you 🙏 ❤

[@mrkay24radio]

The real pain for me here is that the narrative has finally been tainted by the illogical claims that the West African indigenes themselves provided their own people to the British, as slaves. The history the spoke from is a total hogwash. The Africans were in perpetual fear of the colonial masters, and whatever they wanted, they got. They were for the most part frightened about the type of arms in their possession. The youngmen, that did those raids with the British of Communities were slaves were taken, where supervised and forced to take part in it. These strenuous attempts to evade responsibility, by this trending specie of blame game cannot work.

[@shirleyac12]

You’re very wise ❤

[@robert55726]

Japanese killed 30 million in ww2 I don’t want their money

[@margih7374]

And Jamaicans are awesome ! Sometimes, bad things happen to allow the best things to take their place. Be rightly proud of who you are ❤

[@JohnnyAmerique]

The entire notion of confiscating money from people who never owned slaves (and, in most cases, whose ancestors never owned slaves) to hand it over to people who were never slaves is so utterly absurd that it defies description.

[@africanman5915]

Wealth begets more wealth which begets more wealth... Over years, Land, shares, diversified wealth... History of wealth source dissapears Systemic racism + Generational wealth = Reparations 3:42

[@Nipponing]

Or who even had ancestors who were slaves.

[@Celtic-Texan]

@@Nipponing Or even worse, their people sold their people into slavery.

[@Tariusphantom]

can we take from the queen or king?

[@Bozzin]

All those that are slaves, please raise your hands. Right. None here. Carry on.

[@hellsbells7271]

He should have stopped his speech and asked these rude, disrespectful kids to put their phones down or get out. This man is amazing and these kids could have learned some truth if they had only listened to what he said. 👏👏 Well done Rafe.

[@Olivia-lu3gg]

Very few of those ignoramuses have had to struggle for anything in their lives, and simply indulge themselves with virtuous theories. They have had the luxury of a continuous and free education and now find themselves in one of the world's best universities where they arrogantly try to undermine the considered and educated thoughts of someone with infinitely more experience and knowledge than themselves. They are an embarrassment.

[@whiteonggoy7009]

Spoilt brats

[@hellsbells7271]

@@whiteonggoy7009 sure are

[@WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime]

They don't WANT the truth. It robs them of their place in the world and of the power they have acting as champions of the oppressed. The truth, would make them insignificant and set them back on a level playing field without pulpits to stand above the crowds. It's about power. It's about ego. It's about having a purpose that they feel gives them the right to set social politics and gives them a fake moral authority to rule. AND that elevated position they believe, means they don't have to adhere to any rules, even their own, in order to fix the problems and inequality they believe in. It's nice to be the king and not be held to any standards. Not even your own. Very few people would ever give that up.

[@desres2281]

Rafe is a great guy, very intelligent and articulate! The kids are stupid brats. 😏

[@thesneak536]

The deliberate ignorance of university students is beyond belief.

[@BushidoDevilDog]

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. History is Bunk.” 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale. The woke/left-wing nutters are using as an instruction manual.

[@darrenjones1413]

They would never do this in Oxford 😂

[@jeanalice4732]

They hate truth and FACTS.

[@aphilipdent]

@@darrenjones1413 Give it time.

[@hjs9td]

Sad to say, the more education you have today, the more deliberately ignorant you become.

[@big.cheese.007]

A british man talking to a room of modern nazis.

[@sojourn6697]

Watching those young people behind Rafe, the seem to be easily distracted.

[@elainewalsh6324]

I would use the word rude.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

Low attention spans!

[@Grumpy_Cyborg]

They lost interest after 140 characters.

[@shylockwesker5530]

Regular mouthbreathers

[@anthonycollingridge970]

Goldfish have a longer attention span than those disrespectful members of the audience.

[@silverstone0907]

Why are so many students so disrespectful? Parents….are you watching your brats here?

[@reneeashley2746]

Because he is not saying what they want to hear. Ignoramus's

[@shaitarn1869]

Because they don't want to hear facts; facts hurt their all important 'feelings'.

[@thedevilriders101]

No, they're brainwashed by the education system. So much, to the point that other viewpoints are not allowed.

[@SR-pr2xz]

It's a universal thing and with teenage kids myself, who are equally disrespectful. I am adamant it is the lack of corporal punishment. Being in the generation that saw the end of the cane and strap in school, I have watched the deterioration of society since that time.

[@aspiknf]

I agree with Queen B, it's to do with some parents not getting a grip on their kids.

[@haroldgodwinson5043]

Frankly, I'm appalled at the students in the audience. Some turned up in what appeared to be their pajamas, talked constantly throughout the presentation, fiddled on their phones, made faces all throughout the speech, and actively tried to interrupt. It was clear that they weren't engaging with the argument or the subject matter. I remember a time not all that long ago where children younger than the ones in the audience would be promptly disciplined for displaying such behaviour. It wasn't passionate behaviour, it wasn't active engagement, it wasn't enthusiasm, it was plain rudeness. I wouldn't expect such behaviour at a high school debate, let alone one at Cambridge.

[@judyhenderson1629]

These students have no respect for what was being said or for the speaker. The only thing they were concerned about was their own point of view and getting it out there. You notice that as soon as he mentioned Europeans being slaves, the two black students behind him rolled their eyes and laughed. Clearly, all these students need to learn REAL history. The slave trade was the first international trade, slave buying and selling has gone on since humans have existed.

[@bradsexton2315]

At least they weren't shouting him down like they would on an American campus.

[@roller4life784]

a generation of irresponsible twats that have zero critical thinking skills, zero self respect and so little understanding of history that they will turn on their own.

[@i1uvpreppyxo887]

@@judyhenderson1629 If you look more closely she rolls her eyes at something the guy next to her said not at the speech

[@paythefidler3252]

Well said

[@ShengProductions]

I always thought that Cambridge was a prestigious university and that the young people learn real stuff there, like history and other things. Not WOKE crap!!

[@TheHoodVoice2024]

If you learned real history you wouldn’t think the way you do. Study American history and tell me if black Americans aren’t owed reparations.

[@WeebsArePathetic]

​​​​​@@TheHoodVoice2024You aren't. Why the hell should I pay you money when I have nothing to do with you? Grow a brain, dude. If you wanted to do something with your life, you could. You're no slave. Just a slave to victimhood. The biggest thing holding some black people down right now are themselves. Notice how I say some since there are plenty of black people who don't play the victim and have normal lives.

[@javieraguilerajr9551]

@@TheHoodVoice2024naww

[@RisingFlag100]

​@@TheHoodVoice2024The same argument works here. The reparations were living in the technological society without being enslaved, the increase in quality of life was what they got and have had for long periods of timw

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

@@RisingFlag100 Invalid argument because everybody got increased quality of life.

[@richiephillips1541]

The reactions of those students is classic lesson in human phycology. Truth, facts and logic are a rude, awkward and uncomfortable intrusion into their emotion driven, virtue signaling bubble.

[@redpine8665]

Exactly. They programmed robots. Incapapable of independent thought.

[@bmacd2112]

I'm surprised most of them didn't flee to their "Safe Space" in tears.

[@1jet55]

I bet if you told each of them, for the next 30 years 1/4 of their earnings were going to reparations they would sit up and take notice to that which he said.

[@tommygun5038]

All this subterfuge is globalist misdirection on what they're doing.

[@josephwheeler1]

They're too young. I once got a 10 cent raise and I was excited about it because I had zero expenses. 20 years later I have a lot of expenses and a family. When you're young and you're not in control of your own finances IE college students you can be mentally free with your money and give it away here and give it away there. Once you realize your body is breaking down and you can't work as hard as you did in your youth for a little money then you start to realize how important it is to let people keep the money that they earn.

[@cybercifrado]

This has to be one of the most articulate, tactful, and well-delivered versions of, "Your argument is invalid, go away." I have ever heard. Well done, sir. Well done.

[@cmurph103]

Some of his arguments aren't entirely accurate, though. For example, he talks about how the idea of reparations is based on the principles of torts. This is somewhat true, but then he says that torts is about making the victim whole. This is not entirely true. For example, wrongful death suits are to make a victim whole per-say. However, the victim in those suits aren't the person who suffered directly from the crime because said person is dead. Thus, the primary victim cannot be made whole. So we allow a secondary victim such as family to sue for the damage done. The suit isn't just for the emotional damage to the secondary person but is also done to help make right a wrong that has been done by at least allowing the family to get something back to fill the void left by the death of the victim. Another example of where he is kind of correct, but there is more nuance, is his argument that we don't hold the innocent liable for the actions of their forefathers. Except we do sometimes. For example, say Person A drives drunk and negligently hits Person B and kills them. However, person A also dies in the crash. The family of person B can sue the estate of Person A. But why? Person A is dead and gone and that money would normally by law pass to his heirs. Should person A's children be punished by having less of an inheritance because of the actions of Person A? In fact, the heirs of person A could even be the grandchildren or great grandchildren of person A. Should they be punished for the actions of their ancestor? By law, yes, up to the point of the value of the estate. This can even be after the estate has been probated and given to Person A's heirs. Why? Because we believe it is more important that the wrong be made right by taking from what was person A's estate to do what we can to compensate the family of person B for the wrong committed to person B by person A. This obviously isn't exactly the same as reparations, but the concept is similar and exists within tort law. Thus, he is correct in saying it isn't the same, but he misses some nuance by neglecting this aspect. Next, he asks why the taxpayers should foot the bill for the actions of a small number of slavers. Then he doesn't really dive into that topic, so why don't we? First, governments are responsible for their actions, even if that money ends up being from the taxpayer. I doubt anyone here would object to the government having to pay out if one of its employees committed some harm to someone. For example, would you say the government shouldn't be able to be sued if one of its officers raped a woman while he was acting in his official capacity as an officer? If you say they should, then I could use this man's argument against you. Why should the innocent taxpayer have to pay for the tortious action of the police officer? Is it because the victim was injured by the government in some way, and thus, the government should pay in order to try to rectify the harm? If you say the government should be immune to such suits, then I have to ask you, why? Do you think that the government does not have some liability for the actions of those acting in its employ? Now, obviously, this is a more direct example of the government committing the harm. The British government didn't enslave anyone directly (to my knowledge). But that doesn't particularly matter to his particular argument here. His question wasn't whether or not we should hold the government responsible because it wasn't directly involved. His argument was why the common people should have to pay for damages done by the government via taxes. My response is, because the government already does that in plenty of circumstances where the government is responsible for some harm and most of us agree with this concept because the victim should be made whole and the government is the offender. We can have the later argument of whether the government should be held liable when it wasn't directly involved. But that is a separate discussion, and his argument here isn't a particularly good one. There is more that I think he says that there is valid critique of it, but I think these three in the first 2 minutes or so kind of demonstrate how his arguments seem to lack proper nuance.

[@plinnytheother6107]

@Utkarsh Gupta So you want their great great great grandchildren to apologize, and open the gate to people like you then saying, "see see, you are guilty,..pay us" you have a large chip on your shoulder

[@plinnytheother6107]

@Utkarsh Gupta Doubt you would go to the Mughals or the Mongols with the same argument

[@METALFREAK03]

@Utkarsh Gupta Apologise - at first. So I can deduce you are not british saying this. And secondly, WE FREED THEM ALL. You would still be in chains if it weren't for our forefathers. I think it is about jealousy at the end of the day by foreigners of today. We did the trade better than anybody else, we then made our society better so we didn't need the trade anymore.

[@CCDR07]

Your comment is nearly exactly the same as the students attitude behind him. I also think it's telling that we don't get to here any actual debate or response from the student body to his rhetoric. You can agree or disagree with reparations, but the majority of his points / arguments are irrelevant, mis-characterizing, or diversionary (or "invalid"). 1. For example, his comparisons of GDP between Caribbean and African countries: 1. Many caribbean countries may have a high GDP per capita, but only because of the soaring inequalities existing in these countries that are a direct result of the same imperial-economic apparatus that brought colonialism to them in the first place. Tax-haven institutional-infrastructure and citizen by investment programs bring lots of money into Caribbean island-states, but it remains concentrated in the hands of oligarchs and property "developers" within these countries in the same way the wealth generated by slave-plantation farming remained in the hands of wealthy plantation owners (or their investors back in Europe). I'd be much more interested in quality of life comparisons for the majority of people, or the statistical mode of earnings (or even Median), as per capita stats are bogus when wealth distributions are so skewed. 2. The African countries he talks about were also destabilized and suffered losses of resources and people at the hands of British/European imperialism over the same time period, which have far-reaching economic legacies up to today, and bear a large part of the reasons for their low GDP in modern times. Same with his arguments about the english language. Yeah, british imperialism spread the english language around the world (and wealth concentrating institutions and private property law) at the same time as it was siphoning the resources/wealth of other societies and committing genocide. Not a surprise that english helps you get by in the world to a better degree in the modern day than non-english speakers. Same with legal institutions that originated in English/European law. Britain/Europe created the rules governing our era's style of economic-imperialism, and roled out the institutions that follow those rules in their colonies. If you rejected these, e.g., Haiti or Cuba, you were serverely punished by the globalized economic elites. It's disingenuous and morally bankrupt to argue that this should count as a "benefit" of colonialsim. 3. The stories we tell, and the answers and arguments we come up with are explicitly defined by the questions we ask ourselves. I think much of this debate around reparations is intentionally funneled towards diversionary topics, rather than being allowed to focus on the underlying structures of economic-imperialism and entrenched hierarchies that oppress people in the present day as much as they did in the colonial past. For example, regarding colonialism: Why did so many Europeans want to uproots and leave their homes in the first place? It's a no-brainer if you were among the elite capitalists who could further their fortunes overseas, but why did so many labourers, tenant-farmers, etc., head over to the new world? Possibly because injustice, wealth inequalities and lack of equal opportunities at home in Britain/Europe pushed them? The speaker brings up the point that "innocent" modern-day tax-payers have no moral or ethical resposibility to pay back the descendents of slavery. Fine, but how about those dwelling within the entrenched hierarchies of wealth and power who benifitted from the inhuman exploitation of people and the land around the world during slave-colonialism, and continue to benefit from this legacy today? In many cases, the families and institutions of economic elitism of 200 years ago are the same existing today, and which continue to exploit people and the land both within Europe and abroad. Regarding reparations, I'd be all in favour of international efforts to re-distribute the vast concentrated wealth of the 1% globally and put it into social programs (e.g., health, education, justice) across "developing" countries and economically disadvantaged areas of "developed " countries. Let me know if you disagree and on what grounds

[@juliejohn4012]

Well said Rafe.

[@Gia1911Logous]

If these are the debates being held by the "greatest university in the entire world" then we are truly fucked

[@vaslav030547]

Daddy has dosh., and I am spoilt and always get my own way?????????

[@robins_rodeo]

If the kids sitting behind him are representative of the school, then Cambridge University should be embarrassed for what it is producing. Their behavior shows a lack of intellectual rigor, civility, and emotional self management.

[@FranticSloth]

That's because wokeism is not an intellectual stance, but a social acceptance strategy. It's value lies in social signaling to others. All the cool kids are woke! They're also anti- intellectual because cool kids know there's no social value in entertaining challenges to wokeism. It would be social suicide in fact. Leftists have hijacked young people's natural fears about not fitting in to serve their leftist political goals. Be woke and you'll fit in immediately! That other immature behaviors are reinforced by this group, brought together by their own immature needs, is unsurprising.

[@ThomasConrad-f3p]

'Dope heads' who just managed to 'scrape through' their Eleven Plus exams. I found more intelligence on a factory floor!

[@stevemarshall3481]

Can't believe how rude those students are behind him, it's almost primary school levels of attention not University.

[@sidween]

Because their mentality is equal to elementary shool children

[@SlayerOfTheDamned]

Exactly how my H.S was. I always wondered when they would grow up. Guess they never do

[@davidhathaway8271]

Exactly! How rude how smug how entitled those students who were sat behind not the behaviour I would expect from Cambridge University students . My expectations are that in a democratic debate you have the good manners to listen then make your argument/ reply rather than acting like smug school children it was very rude and immature.

[@buildingsweatequity]

I am not shitting you, I was asking myself why they had someone come in and speak with such sophisication to a bunch of teens. Well joke's on me, these are supposed to be adults!?!?

[@andrewdobson813]

It was not a lecture. I agree with everything the speaker said, but his refusal to accept questions and comments, especially from the gentleman behind him, who politely raised his hand several times, was an act of intellectual cowardice.

[@tessasinclair854]

Extremely worrying that these students are our future.

[@iamnotquitesureifiamrightb7423]

Dont worry, those individuals will be bunch of nobodies, their studies are pointless and useless, they just want an A4 piece of paper with Cambridge stamp on it, so they can be two positions higher in the corporation they will feed their soul to.

[@gdizzzl]

I sent my children to a brainwashing factory. “Im worried about these future leaders. “ these kids are on there phones. Because they are too smart

[@Paul-eb4jp]

I thought th emajority were perfectly polite, some lost interst as would happen with any group of young people.

[@jaysmith8329]

Hopefully WW3 will happen and we won't have to worry about the future

[@leehenry5764]

I blame labour & Tories

[@Tinkerstrade]

Seeing these students makes it obvious why the world is in such a mess.

[@simonestreeter1518]

What? They were raised by today's adults to have this attitude. It is the continual forcing down our throats since WWII of the idea that mature adults do not know anything important, and moreover cannot live with, adjust to, and even bring about change that has been the problem. A person rarely knows what is important until about age 60, so expect respect elders!

[@Rbb0828]

@@simonestreeter1518wrong. Most were raised on the internet.

[@robertcottam8824]

@@simonestreeter1518 Most people would argue that intelligence reaches its peak at around the same time as physical speed - round about the age of twenty-two. It becomes increasingly difficult to learn new things after that. Using language as an example, on top of English - my mother tongue - I was able to pick up French (one did in those days); Italian (from exposure to classical music); some German (on family holidays to Switzerland, the Rhine etc.), Spanish (because it’s easy), Latin and Classical Greek (at school, because they were hard 🫣). So that’s err… (lost count a bit) by age of twenty, in my case, when I graduated. I still ATTEMPT to learn new languages but it’s a hopeless task, I’m afraid. Now I’m sixty, it’s useful only to help exercise a shrinking brain. My sister has fifteen languages I think. I’ll never catch up. It’s impossible, unfortunately. She had at least twelve before she was thirty. Likewise music, my chief passion. I still try to fit in four hours or so piano practise per day. But I don’t get any better. I just stop myself from getting worse, more quickly. Thus, sad to say, if you had learned little before you were sixty - as you claim - it’s too late now, really. But you should still TRY to learn new things because you can - albeit at a much-reduced rate. Best wishes

[@robertcottam8824]

Hmmm. The world is always thought by the elderly, like us, to be in decline. The UK is currently f*ck*d, that’s true. But this is the exception, merely due to this Brexidiocy nonsense and the monstrous creatures which it has allowed to escape from under various flat rocks. The young people will sort us out. Throughout history, they always have, The majority of Spitfire pilots were very, very young. They saved their elders from the Nazis. Today’s young will be similarly heroic, I’m sure. Best wishes

[@simonestreeter1518]

@@robertcottam8824 I'm sorry for your frustration, truly, as we share two passions: music and languages. However, at 59, I have finally become fluent in everyday French (level B2) and am gaining proficiency and singing better than ever though I was professionally trained for four years. I also am not speaking of these kinds of acquired knowledge, I am speaking more of wisdom, e.g., the ability to understand other people, oneself, to choose more satisfying values, to achieve mental and emotional independence, to carry myself effectively in the world. These things have greatly increased for me since age 50.

[@user-pw6ei2mn7x]

A very interesting perspective. Thank you. Despite the very disrespectful crowd of students. You’d worry about the standard of education and morality they have. I Hope never to be dependent on people like them in the future ☘️☘️☘️

[@Threemore650]

I don’t think those people have much of a future.

[@hb1338]

@@Threemore650 Some of them may well end up running the country. Oxford and Cambridge are still the two leading universities in the country.

[@robertskinner1799]

The scariest thing I realized when watching this is that some of Cambridge students will go on to be leaders in the next 20 years. I fear what will become of western civilization as the result.

[@jackdeniston59]

Its not a perspective. He spoke cold hard truths.

[@gwynjames2077]

These are your future politicians because they will never get or keep a real job!

[@markseebaran8033]

Brilliant... As a black Canadian of West a Indian descent, I could NOT agree more! Furthermore, does ANYONE think that once reparations were handed out, that black people will admit that the debt is paid and that there would be an end to all this nonsense? I fear that people would say that this is only the beginning. No reparations.

[@xtlm]

Oh yeah, you start giving money...who knows where that leads. Slippery Slopes are not real remember.

[@barelymanilow7079]

Agreed. And it would probably come out of taxes. Which black people pay taxes too. Just like stimulus checks. Inflation again.

[@jamesking1495]

A black Canadian of West Indian descent , huh?🤔 trying to picture that ..I can't.

[@goldeneddie]

Anyone with any integrity wouldn't accept reparations - it's money generated by slavery. It's basically saying 'Hey, you sold my great-grandfather - where's my cut?'

[@nigelbardoe3771]

@@jamesking1495 Not too hard. I myself am a white West Indian of Canadian descent.

[@craigkelly4278]

Why does the tax payer pay for these young people to act so disrespectful to the speaker.

[@hazchem1]

50% of the students that we see in the background can't sit still long enough to absorb what is being said, let alone expect them to have the intelligence to take any of this information in.

[@nicetryb0z0]

That's the SSRIs they're all on. These people will shout at you how the world should be run but they're literally on drugs to keep their brain from telling them to kill themselves every day because they're so pitifully miserable

[@wolflightning2331]

I think the boy with a blue shirt is the only one that listened carefully

[@zarach9459]

Most of these students have never read a book in their lives unless forced to do so for an assignment, which makes them easy prey for propaganda.

[@richardcharlton-taylor6024]

They're only children.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@richardcharlton-taylor6024 You don't know what children means.

[@Tzhz]

Those kids in that room really think they know about the world yet have never experienced it outside the comfort of their parents wallets.

[@LibertarianLatina]

Correct, which is why I blame parents for the state of the world. Theyre Lazy, careless and irresponsible so it’s no surprise they’ve produced children that are the same

[@LibertarianLatina]

Theyre probably trying to fact check him so they can try to “gotcha” him and go viral on their tik toks

[@michaelc4060]

​​@@LibertarianLatinaI'm a parent and my 18 year son, who knows he is a man and has a female girlfriend, doesn't trust government, the media and despises all woke agendas. He knows the republicans are the flip side of the coin from the democrats. Same silver shekel. He once even offered fruit to furries at school to replenish their fruitness. He believes in God but knows that religions are control systems and quackery at best. He was taught the golden rule is the basis of all morality. He knows that ninety nine point nine percent of all wars are to make somebody rich and have nothing to do with protecting anybody. I also taught him not to believe a statement by myself or anybody else, but to investigate it and think about it himself. To use his God given intellect and moral compass to determine what is right and best. So don't blame all parents, just the ones who keep their mouth shut. Or agree with the establishment. Now, being that I am not a slave owner, what he chooses to do with the teachings I gave him are entirely up to him. If you ever become a parent or if you are, you will know or should understand this someday. Any child that is a clone of their parent never really became an individual. The best we can do as parents is to teach them to think for themselves. A well known fact is the preacher's daughter is often a complete whore.

[@Sapphiregirl3]

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[@neddyseagoon9601]

It's true of most modern children... Few if any ever had a part time job in recent decades. Very few walked to school in all weather, or lacking instant communications ever had to solve a genuine life or death problem...

[@robinmason9002]

This guy is an absolute legend! Nobody can argue with a single thing he said because he spoke nothing but facts 👏👏👏

[@bobshagit-io8lq]

no one can argue with him because they are a bunch of entitled brats that think they already have the world figured out

[@CarsonHughes85]

I agree with you that he’s likely right, but any topic can and should be argued with.

[@WattsFlyyest]

Whataboutism is facts now? Notice he did not show one receipt proving Africans SOLD humans and not kidnap or steal. He spent more time shifting blame from slave owners rather than proving a point as to why their accumulated wealth shouldn't be given to descendants of inhumanely enslaved humans.

[@ichmich9324]

​@@CarsonHughes85 yeah when you are in the same topic. Hopefully on the same facts with just a other interpretation. Or when facts are in question, better have a similar or better explanation why your facts are better and worth the comparison to find the truth

[@CarsonHughes85]

@@ichmich9324 definitely. I’m currently listening to the full debate.

[@leemanson3320]

What an excellent, factual speech. My worry is the fact that these folk sitting behind you, looking uninterested, not fully engaged in your words, looking at their phones, are the so called future of our country????? This makes me pretty sad. Very well done Rafe.

[@jeanalice4732]

More like scared!

[@anonygrazer3234]

@@jeanalice4732 Not most of them, more like quietly rude in their whispering, condescending in their looks and I saw only 1 or 2 of them all that looked like some of what the gentleman said actually _might_ have gotten through. God help those two to follow up in private reflection, the fate of the western world might depend on it.

[@brentnevius2849]

If slavery is soo wonderful, go ahead and put your money where your big mouth is and volunteer!

[@TheHarlequin100]

They are most likely looking up FACTS as they are not educated. Their little worlds will come crashing down in the very near future - these are some of the 4 billion "useless eaters" Klaus Schwab is trying to cull & they will be like lambs to the slaughter

[@conchhead1]

Kids tying to fact check him. Because they never heard anyone give those statistic before, people better off then African areas. British colonization areas higher in economy, higher life expectancy, higher educated, higher, better, greater, nicer.

[@AZMYTHKAMINSKI]

I love this guy, “not just yet, thank you”. A very courteous and quick shut down of opinions which are reacting emotionally, most likely barely hearing what’s truly being illuminated.

[@marjorie4310]

My thoughts exactly. What a remarkable speaker.

[@RareSoulKTF]

North Africa and the White Slave Trade needs to be taught in schools. If reparations where to be agreed upon then white people would be owed more.

[@oldman4021]

The sort of proper, well reasoned and well spoken lecture the world has come to expect and therefore respect of a British gentleman.

[@Linguiphile]

Too many Brits these days are the same sort of brainwashed morons as those heckling him.

[@MsgtMelton]

The children behind the speaker acted like spoiled brats!

[@silverlobo2135]

Some of the same "proper, well reasoned, and well spoken lecturers" were use to justify slavery, women having few or no rights, oppression of the LGBTQI+ community, and the stealing of lands of Natives, Aboriginal, 'primitive' people were viewed as 'inferior' because of different beliefs. cultures, traditions, education, language, daily wear, skin color, etc. to Imperialistic 'more cultured /refined' nations like England, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, etc.

[@oldman4021]

@@silverlobo2135 You forgot denying rights to transgender people who live in constant NEED to undergo surgical sex changes. Other than that you have hit just about all of the most useful and useless political lies in use today. Tell me something let's say you fear mongers get your way, how is that going to improve, not change, improve, human lives. Don't worry my People, the Pipil, an indigenous tribe of Central America, already know that whatever you say even if you actually BELIEVE it, what will really happen.

[@oldman4021]

@@silverlobo2135 Let me save you some pointless effort, other than some basic stuff to show they heard of us you won't find much about us in the net. We prefer it that way. And Silver Wolf, to us in Central America my real name means Red Wolf. We Pipil are very good at hiding.

[@chriscody1761]

Love listening to Rafe. He is so well spoken and articulate with his facts, and extremely well read. I don't think these infants realised lucky they were.

[@ScragNath]

They didn't listen to a single word. It would be good to reclaim the space they occupy on this planet and use it for something useful.

[@Michael-sf9yg]

@@ScragNath Indeed! Something that isn't a total waste of Carbon, Water and Oxygen.

[@JM-kb9wu]

Excellent speech. Shame some of the students were not gracious enough to listen and learn, instead they laughed and talked amongst themselves like primary school children. They don't have to agree with the speaker but the courtesy should be given.

[@nicoleking772]

This is how Zoomers roll. They are classless bores

[@michaelanderson2881]

But they DO have to agree, because slavery is not how you feel about it.

[@WiggaMachiavelli]

Perhaps it's practice for parliament.

[@Gowster86]

one of those asshats will likely be our PM in the next 20yrs with the way this country goes. Showing off their Cambridge education where they did nothing but joke and check their phone.

[@Pumpkin0_0]

I find it weird that anyone would disagree with facts and still be considered a sane individual.

[@PH-VG]

I am Swiss, and I want to ensure we get to be repaid toll fees from the french, when Napoleon walked with his army through Switzerland. How dare he pay no taxes and toll fees?

[@sylvesterdefoe]

I fear this topic may be too heavy for you to comprehend.

[@mariuslazar3287]

toll fees are only payed for cars/vehicles 😋

[@wertlosesmitglieddergesell6021]

Dude, you ever heard about Hannibal? 🤣

[@ryan_onlyy]

I'm deeply ashamed to be a part of Gen Z. Most people my age reject new ideas. It's directly connected to the use of social media and it's constant reaffirmation of the user's beliefs no matter how fringe. I'm terrified for the world I will be living in.

[@Blaine475]

Don’t be ashamed my friend. Each generation has their challenges and so does yours. Good for you to see it, now use it and build on it. Call out ignorance and idiocy when you see it. Talk with facts and common sense, that’s the best defense against it. And most importantly, teach your children how to think, not what to think.

[@Bayloy]

This is NOT a new idea. Open a history book if you wanna make things better.

[@elizabethdacosta5601]

Ryan: How wonderful that a young person in today’s world can speak as you just did. Would that there were more of you. I’m sorry you have to be fearful of the Western World, the place that was once the savior of all the rest. Those who have indoctrinated todays young and taught them to hate their own culture and worship the horror and chaos found on so much of the earth, are responsible for the decline of all that was good in the Western World. I am old and will hopefully be gone before the end. I am so sorry for the world you have been left with.

[@tomaszpacholczak6770]

They're not rejecting new ideas. They're rejecting facts.

[@solutreanswerethenatives3954]

It's the J wC o m s that been the problem and create lies!!

[@garethpegg4]

Shocking to hear the students calling out and to see them talking / laughing behind the back of this intelligent speaker.

[@jannepetersen4660]

I am sure that you know that stupidity are the pest of the world, because it can ruin even high IQ, unless high talented people resist's the dummies the meet on there way through life.....

[@mikemcknight1104]

Sadly it’s not shocking anymore, it’s a way too common occurrence and the universities are dying because of it.

[@melb5996]

That’s what university babies do nowadays unfortunately. All funded by China of course, somewhere that has a flawless reputation for the rights of people 😂

[@mechelledesigns]

Sadly, they are not as rude as college students from Ivy League colleges in the USA. They would not allow a speaker to even finish his speech.

[@adman1056]

How can anyone disagree with anything he said? Its literally 100% objective fact...

[@dqm6726]

I mean its not really. Yes there are facts, but how we all find meaning in them is clearly very different. His main argument against Britain taking responsibility for her past is bringing up the entirely true fact that other empires like the Ottomans and the Africans had their own slave trades. He's 100% right in saying this, but I still disagree with the overall conclusion he draws from it; that just because other people did it as well then our responsibility is somehow magically diminished. It's a crude link to make, and a good example of 'what-about-ism'. The topic of discussion here is about the Atlantic slave trade, which Britain was the leading orchestrator of - thats another fact that just can't be disputed. The cooperation of African kingdoms in the first stage of the trade, and comparisons drawn to other trades across the globe, does not do enough for me to detract from the scale of the Atlantic slave trade that we, the Portugese and the Spanish took part in for about three hundred years.

[@mantheman11]

​​@@dqm6726 No, His main point is that people today, both those who had ancestors who were slaves never experienced slavery just like those whose ancestors were slave owners never experienced slave owning, the guilty for reparations is entirely unjustified because a man should not pay for the sins he did not commit, but the ones thst have been put on by others and they have already been repaid by allowing all these slaves to even stay inside the countries they were enslaves in the first place as without that right they woild have far worse standards of life than if that happened. It appears you have selective hearing issues

[@davidhutchison3952]

​@dqm6726 how long did Africans take part in the African slave trade?

[@lightwoven5326]

Go to Dubai, see the indentured slaves, living in blocks with no air conditioning with the air temperature being 50 C. In 2024!

[@adman1056]

@@dqm6726 if one country has to "take responsibility for there past" shouldn't they all? Where is the line? Every empire in history has committed atrocities not just the "white" empires. The British empire literally paid it's "reparations" by almost single Handedly abolishing the trans-atlantic trade... It's people who perished fighting for the emancipation and enforcement of the sovereign entity.

[@Horton.1114]

How about the Barbary Pirates who took people from Britain and sold them to North Africa.

[@rgregoryful]

Well dressed, well groomed, well spoken, well prepared, well learned, and if I may add, well fed. Well done sir, well done indeed. My only observation is these spoiled narcissists we identify as young adults, seem not to need logic and history, but a good paddling and a hard labor job. That will clean them up right quick.

[@wp2746]

What idiot allows mobile phones in a class.

[@BVonBuescher]

Totally agree. They need someone to put hands on them

[@Jonathan-du8fs]

Well fed 😭😭

[@patricklandon7476]

You, sir, are a legend. Should we ever meet, I will buy you a beer.

[@secretPENGUIN69]

@@Jonathan-du8fs yea that was uncalled for lol

[@ventureted]

When I was in school, if you were sitting there talking during someones speech you were told to leave or be quiet. Immediately. One warning. These kids in view of the camera just chatting away are so incredibly disrespectful. Its maddening.

[@anitahand5699]

eggzactly ... i remember my first day at university, and some random dude interrupted the professor who was vigorously writing notes on the board to ask a dumb question... the prof said i dont have time to stop and answer questions from everyone in a class of 125 ... the dude said oh sorry i came here to learn .... and the prof said no more interruptions get out and come back to my class when you can shut up and act like a university student

[@AveryHyena]

It's because they're "the good guys". They're allowed to do and break any rule or law they want, because they have the moral high ground.

[@fadenmac8092]

Watch British parliament. Favor or disdain is expressed at every point. Why should a monologs of such importance be met with silence.

[@ericferre]

@@anitahand5699 but ... women dont have dicks.... I SAID GET OUT!!!

[@Teajryan]

that Limey horse-toothed bastard behind him is only at this lecture for that girl sitting on his lap telling him what to think.

[@gemlazium]

The kids stopped listening after the first statement.

[@Corey_Mckilling]

Hes not a tik toker or speaking in 10 second bursts with a helium voice, why would they? stupid cant understand nothing but stupid.

[@DavidWinterbottom-n7d]

No they did not stop listening. Perhaps you imagined that one could stand leaning on their eardrums? Maybe you!

[@stanrubin2276]

They don't actually think. They fit anything they hear to fit their brainwashing. I can't find anyone who knows tge big role Islamic North Africa played in tge slave trade, raiding sub Saharan villages for black people to sell and enslaving hundredsof 1000s of Europeans. Etc. History offends ideologies, including British and Anerican students. They are too woke to wake. Too many of their Professors are virtue signaling Marxists

[@learningtofish7036]

Bout time someone with the facts was heard publicly.

[@davidstallard3840]

Shut down 50% of all universities now , we don't need as a country this type of education we need plumbers bricklayers carpenter's nurses and other health care worker's

[@78yestor93]

Missed the point matey dah!

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Apprenticeships with day release to a "uni" should be the way for the vast bulk of employment.

[@mjones4083]

This type of " education" is dangerous . I call it what it actually is - brainwashing .

[@donedwards104]

I agree with what you say Dave, but I couldn't see any of the children in the background working on a building site

[@howardjones7370]

@Marta S. : THAN?? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤡

[@laurameszaros9547]

Some very ill mannered young people in the audience behind Mr Heydel Mankoo. The authorities managing the debate should have brought order to the proceedings.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Surprised if most of them still suck their thumbs and wear bibs

[@hb1338]

The Cambridge Union is run by students - look at the people in the officers chairs at the beginning of the clip and ask yourself if they have the air of people who have a clue about anything.

[@DearMr.Fantasy]

Exactly! That is the very reason that spoiled, rude, brats behave the way they do. There is NO order, much less any consequences to ridiculous behavior. The parents of the children, yes children that were rude and disrespectful are utter failures.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@DearMr.Fantasy "Parents", or a couple who managed to support the results of a biological act to an age generally considered to be an adult, and who had the money to send said results to college?

[@DearMr.Fantasy]

@@kevincrosby1760 🎯 KC

[@chriswhitcomb8675]

Never let truth, logic and historical fact get in the way of an opportunity for a woke tantrum.

[@paulocorrea2293]

Well, said mate!

[@chunkymonkey55555]

lalalalal I am not listening lalalalaa

[@guywilletts2804]

What tantrum? I see some young people fact checking a polemic in real time. You might never have thought to question what a middle aged man in a dinner suit says, but speaking as a middle aged man who wears a dinner suit from time to time I'm glad to see the next generation checking to see if they're being lied to. It's better than servility for servility's sake

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@guywilletts2804 Total disrespect from their dress to their lack of attentiveness. More people were there to comment than listen. THEY were the experts, he was there to listen to them! Cambridge has been turned on its ear: The patients are running the asylum. But one quick look from the start shows few took this lecture seriously. Facts RARELY matter more with this class than the political "Flavor of the Day".

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@guywilletts2804 BTW: He was 100% historically accurate. 100%. Prove me wrong. YOU CAN'T. FACTS MATTER.

[@bioweapon4425]

I cannot believe how rude those students are. Arrogance and ignorance all rolled up in an intolerable little package.

[@UchihaOokami2596]

Yeah he needed a pissed mom to tell those shits to shut up and stop being so rude to someone talking. Doubt any of these brats understand being disciplined or even told No.

[@CoffeeConnected]

How lovely of Cambridge University to allow some children to sit in on these lectures.

[@WestCoastGeoLover]

😂

[@Ashigeru47]

If only they would have been paying attention... They might have actually LEARNED something for once.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@Ashigeru47 You make the mistake of assuming that the students are actually there to learn. What is the point of learning if you already HAVE all of the answers?

[@WestCoastGeoLover]

@@kevincrosby1760 😂😂

[@CleverGirlAAH]

Yeah it was creepy how they all looked like 15 year olds.

[@rhebbhulett]

There is nothing more insufferable than a self-righteous, all-knowing, young person.

[@smithical100]

"Its a shame that youth is wasted on the youth"

[@peacemaker6662]

@@smithical100 If you are to qoute George Bernard Shaw correctly 'Youth is wasted on the young'

[@covingtonrace1]

They have a small handful of knowledge and think they are well armed.

[@opposed2logic]

they lack the life experience to have been corrected in the past. as we get older we will many times have experienced a change of opinions, be it because our morals and values changed or because we found facts that proved our previous stance wrong. young people have never had this happen to them so they have no reason to believe what they think is right could ever be wrong, it has never happened to them after all. they arent challenged in life either, teachers are overwhelmingly left leaning, universities are overwhelmingly left leaning, etc. they go through life with zero challenges so they become self righteous little brats.

[@jockmctodger]

Know it all more like know bugger all😂

[@susanshea8415]

I’m impressed that the students let him speak. Here in America if students even think you’ll say something in opposition to what they want to believe, they will drown out the speaker with shouting and tantruming.

[@moseshamlett3887]

You are correct.

[@Nonamearisto]

Depends on the school. U Chicago or Fordham wouldn't give the speaker a hard time, but try that in UC Berkeley, they'd probably shout at him, chant mindless slogans, and if that didn't work, throw stuff at him as if they were toddlers or something. The students would get a slap on the wrist at worst and the department which signed off on inviting him would apologize to the violent students for it, thus reinforcing the bad behavior.

[@grahambarlow1308]

es you arte right , they have also carried the bad habit into American Politics and into the FBI and CIA where lying under oath also seems to be tolerated. and bearing false witness a part of at least Democratic Party policy.

[@Tirnon]

What you think how many years left for the US to collapse?

[@kaasmeester5903]

Behaviour like that in a university ought to be grounds for suspension or expulsion. A university should be a safe space for IDEAS, not for feelings.

[@TJ042]

It’s infuriating watching those children leer at truth.

[@mattharrell3932]

I love that he explained "who" sold the slaves... and why dont we question these people. Who captured and offered the slaves for sale?

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

When I was a kid, the Donald Duck magazine had a history page "van nul tot nu" (from zero to now) describing the history of our country (The Netherlands) as well as our share in events elsewhere They did not hesitate to show the bad next to the good. For instance, the Dutch ships on average had the lowest death rate during transport, but they gave more profit as the main reason in the same picture The guys buying the slaves were depicted as pure evil, yet the ones selling were equally greedy in those pictures That comic would probably get canceled these days

[@anubis9151]

Let's not forget that they only sold one tenth of the slaves that they would get, according to what I heard at least, so yeah...

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

West african countries have apologies and given land to descendants who wanted to go home. They were questioned.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@jamaicanprincess4124 so... about the same as what the UK gave? Except that was for those who wanted to stay

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Africans did not enslave my ancestors for over 200 years, they did not take my language, culture, identity and religion away from me, they are not the ones who made laws to treat black people less than human for over 200 years after slavery ended. They are not the ones who wrote books of lies and misinformation about black people causing them to be ill treated when they seek medical help yo this day. They are not the ones who spread racism and anti- blackness around the world, making black people be ill treated wherever they go. Why would Britain expect to pay the same amount the Africans did when Britain is the one who did the most damage.

[@KillerBill1953]

I spent 25 years in UK secondary education trying to teach children like the girl in the green stripped top and her very ignorant and rude companions. Like many of them, she has obviously never been told no or that her opinions and feelings never trump the facts. I would say I can't believe people like her engage in further education, or go to university, but they do, unfortunately, and the UK is the worse for it.

[@votesaxon1]

Agreed she was a distraction during his speech - I’m so glad I’m not in university now and went through two degrees before the wilful dismissal of facts.

[@lesnorth9431]

Nothing to do with the way that certain 'media people' cherry pick facts to form a narrative?

[@kevwhufc8640]

Some choose universities instead of getting a job, getting drunk pulling girls and leave failing to graduate. I enrolled in my late 20s ( 89-92), studying field archaeology, students young and older behaved impeccably.

[@zantelion1052]

The major decline in society is that parents being allowed to discipline their children was taken away from them, spare the rod spare the child was a saying that holds so much reverence today!! Spoilt brats will never learn how to communicate or share with others so why would anyone think they would become good citizens?

[@slapdashdumper]

it's their parent's way of getting them away from the house.

[@lynandrews4160]

I cannot believe the rudeness of the girl in the green and white striped top and red hair. She talked all the way through the talk. She and the boy next to her were on their phones. They didn't listen to the speech at all. They need to be reprimanded for bad manners and told to grow up before they dare have an opinion on anything. What a couple of brats.

[@MrSychnant]

And they will be seen on You Tube for many years to come by their peers and others as shallow individuals.. justice is cruel.

[@simonphelon7221]

I wondered if they were fact checking what he was saying, at one point the phone was shown around, possibly showing a counter argument. As you say quite rude, but i dont think they were being dismissive or immature, i think they were showing their lack of exposure to ideas counter to their established narrative.

[@-JustHuman-]

@@simonphelon7221 "possibly showing a counter argument" Nothing of what he said was untrue, the idea of the noble peaceful tribes is a myth.

[@simonphelon7221]

@@-JustHuman- i never said it was untrue, but there are always counter arguments. Just as there should be in any debate. If you put forward a statement and then cannot defend that statement from counter arguments, then you lose the debate.

[@benfinesilver2250]

I think they were looking for arguments in the internet, uninterested in learning. You can go to a great university and still be entirely stupid.

[@thetaz31]

Phone addiction is a real problem... Everywhere you look people are looking down. The youth of today have been destroyed by phones and social media. Hopefully the next generation will see the problem.

[@AidanMcSweeney-rt7gh]

Even in this very video 😂

[@chris3640]

It is encouraging to see someone still has the courage to speak the truth on a college campus. Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[@seekerofthemutablebalance5228]

Yes, I agree but sadly this whole woke movement is or has become a type of religion and truth or facts will simply smash upon the mountain of certainty that agenda built belief has made.

[@adamvicari3295]

This 10 minute speech should END all talk about slavery and colonialism forever, should abolish the very idea of reparations, and should put the brain dead leftists in the dust bin of history...where they belong.

[@thernfoster5360]

It would have been worse if he was a white man

[@joejo4549]

The guy before him argued that the slave trade should've went on longer and the spread of Christianity was a major benefit. You're a huge moron to believe any of these are being repressed in the UK universities lol

[@Niyto]

Both sides are telling the truth. It is, like many turmoils... a class-ist difference of experience. Different aspects weigh higher for both when observed from the outside.

[@leebasham1107]

Rafe did a sterling job of ignoring the appalling disrespect shown to him by those arrogant, spoilt, opinionated brats. The world is on a downward spiral to oblivion when feelings out weigh facts. If these cretins are the future then we are in trouble as a species.

[@ThOmAsSs4563q]

As a 16 Yr old I'm finding it pretty funny that most of my classmates are 10x more intelligent and mature than these idiots

[@peterthornton8520]

Goodby Human race. I feel sorry for my Kids who are very planted and non confrontational and who believe in fair play for all, not just the 27 new genders which have popped up in the last few years and even these Lefties who really are to stupid to really understand what is actually happening in the world.

[@Torquemada70]

You know you're in trouble when the students behind you start rolling their eyes as if *you're* here to learn from *them*

[@87mrreynolds]

There you go you got it they are so arrogant and sure they are correct and know everything.

[@sugarspice7768]

Aren't those suppose to be the best and brightest of UK? 😮

[@-Believeinyourself-]

I suggest the wisest of your population to not give so much attention to the most emotional of your population, and every time you feel tempted to adjust your gaze to the weakest and most emotional of your species, do ask yourself, what would a strong and emotionally secure human being do in the face of such manipulated and infant like behavior? Ignore them and show them what true strength and true leadership looks like. Only someone who is just as weak would think the youth of a nation could snuff out the intellectually and emotionally security of a population. Only someone who is just as weak would allow this weakness and lack of wisdom infiltrate the very inner workings of your society

[@Torquemada70]

@@sugarspice7768 Nah, students are always like this. Usually you have to tell them to move out and get a job while they still think they know everything

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

Each generation knows a bit more than their ancestors. You can learn a lot from young adults like these 🙄.

[@greencraig8570]

The speaker makes the fundamental point- reparations are for the living, not descendants separated by hundreds of years from the actual injustice. Incredibly rude audience.

[@donnaewatson9548]

As a mature university student, I was appalled at the anti-British teachings by the overwhelming majority of lecturers. If i'd been a teenager and/or an international student, I may have been strongly influenced by their opinions rather than facts.

[@kevwhufc8640]

What was your subject ? I graduated in the early 90s , not a hint of anti British from our lectures/ lecturer. I was at Birkbeck, part of London university. Studying field archaeology, although it was more like history than archaeology .

[@donnaewatson9548]

@@kevwhufc8640 BA in Criminology and LLM in Human Rights Law.

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

one day for no reason at all, a new kazynski will emerge

[@kevwhufc8640]

@@donnaewatson9548 criminology , was it as interesting & as complicated as I imagine it to be, Human rights laws, I bet that wasn't easy either. Seems you really like a challenge , to choose such complex courses. I don't know what LLM stands for, Did you enjoy your time at college ?

[@donnaewatson9548]

@@kevwhufc8640 Master of Laws

[@ericcoyle3520]

The single most important skill a student needs to master is the ability to listen. Clearly we are failing the young by not teaching it hard enough in schools before they get to university.

[@TheHarlequin100]

This is why the majority of humans were born with 2 ears but only 1 mouth

[@marthakrumboltz2710]

I blame the phones clutched in their hands, giving marching orders and other useless info.

[@prepperpatti-rc3nl]

Obviously their parents failed to tea h them respect . What I can not understand is why Cambridge admitted them.

[@illbeyourmonster1959]

@@prepperpatti-rc3nl Too often those kids come from parents that couldn't get respect if they paid for it.

[@CapnSnackbeard]

False. The single most importsnt skill a student can learn is how to identify bullsh¡t. Filling their head with every stupid thing some lazy slavery apologist says is not a great use of time. This mans arguments are bad.

[@mikeboden8417]

It`s little wonder that British university education is no longer seen as a pinnacle in the world when a large proportion of the audience were not just paying little attention, but more than willing to interrupt the speaker to dispute facts solely because it did not fit their distorted agenda of the real world. Of all places it is inconceivable that those there to learn things see facts as somehow being dependent on their feelings.

[@laraegieske2465]

They were raised that way. Unplug your children from: TV, cell phones & social media. Raise your children. You get what you put in.

[@Mulberry2000]

British education is very good, esp. at university level. Most people in the audience do not study history they just go off their gut feelings and propaganda. I was asked years ago was it true the british ended slavery and i said yes. It was bit suprised etc.

[@Codex7777]

British university education IS still seen as the pinnacle. Oxford and Cambridge jostle for top spot in World university rankings and just behind them you'll usually find UCL, Kings College London, Imperial College, Manchester, Durham and Glasgow. All Russell Group universities rank exceptionally highly and plenty of other British universities rank well too. When it comes to higher education, two nations are dominant, the UK and the US. I can guarantee that you'll find as much, or more, 'wokeness' in America's universities. It's a common malaise amongst the youth of the Western World, unfortunately. The best we can say, is that it is, finally, beginning to be seriously challenged. The mere fact that he was allowed to speak is actually a positive sign, despite the rudeness of some of the students.

[@theresap3467]

​@@Codex7777 ​ Yes, it's good that he was allowed to speak, but the rudeness is appalling. It can be very discouraging to witness students like this, who are intellectually capable, but utterly lacking in life skills. It would also appear that they are incapable of any type of rigorous analysis, as evidenced by their discomfort and inattention. If I didn't know better, I would assume I'm looking at a group of high school students that suffer from ADHD. No joke. I can't help but think of a private college in the state of Missouri that is the antithesis of this (College of the Ozarks). I would choose the core values taught that student body any day over what is demonstrated here by these Cambridge students. 😕 I know who I would rather hire.

[@turbo8628]

You cannot accurately judge the merits of an education facility by looking at the students. I teach at a college and my success as a lecturer is more to do with my students interest and ability rather than my ability to teach.

[@xismecwilliams9604]

It’s just a room full of kids who don’t know history and choose to just be angry about non factual things. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@tutekohe1361]

Wow, to think this University claims to be one of the best in the world is incredible. The students visible and audible in this video were immature, rude and clearly not interested in hearing something that differs from their own ideologies. The whole point of Universities is to be a place where people with open minds can learn new or different ideas and then go on and create something new or better from them.

[@whiteknight6470]

Cambridge is no longer considered a AAA university, it is more an echo chamber for marxist ideology and a disemination centre for idiocy

[@minkeytalk]

Well said.

[@Gurzil-]

Wrong. The whole point of Universities is to indoctrinate you.

[@RacerX888]

They are just rich, spoiled brats, not real people.

[@zerospace101]

It is not a place for open minds anymore sadly...

[@franceskronenwett3539]

An absolutely brilliant lecture. This man knows his facts about colonialism which is a lot more than these hecking leftists do.

[@amberharmsen2497]

You would be surprised what leftists know If you want to blame education blame the republican president that was in charge of no child left behind George bush And as far as im hearing this dudes only arguement is that its too much money and therefore shouldnt be done If thats his view on things then damn he must not care at all about the orevious actions of britain when it forcefull enslaved and colonized countries that wanted nothing to do with it The fact that you defend this stance is honestly not surprising considering your a republican who hates human rights and loves greed

[@Folker46590]

The woke feel that "truth" is more important then FACTS, because their "truth" is based on feelings and not logic.

[@marcelrenes2435]

Why do you call them leftists like it's a dirty word? I totally agree with the historian, but you seem to do the same to those students as they did to this historian. Makes you look like your'e also a member of the cancel culture of this time...

[@JonHop1]

@@marcelrenes2435 they are leftists tho.. they are ignorant progressives.

[@dananderson6697]

@@marcelrenes2435 As if the students wouldn't identify themselves as being on the left. Nah, I'm sure they consider themselves free thinking centrists. Sometimes the shoe fits, and it isn't "cancel culture" to point it out.

[@lizmegginson3138]

The brain and the brainless! Rafe Heydel-Mankoo had at least researched the subject for debate and is an amazing speaker. Some of this little bunch seemed unwilling to listen to facts, especially the ADD group to his right. Heaven help the future. Well presented Sir. I (watching from Africa) enjoyed it.

[@normansidey5258]

You could add also the brainwashed, looking at some of those students, if they had the decency to concentrate and listen to what the very articulate knowledge laden speaker was saying they would have probably learned more truth in that brief lecture than the rest of their time at Cambridge. Their parents should be appalled at their offspring’s total lack of good manners.

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

He made a whole speech about whataboutism🙄. You better start writing those cheques.

[@andriaspindel9570]

These students don’t want to know anything true but to hold their biases and ignorance.

[@1AnononA1]

Imagine getting upset because the facts don't reinforce your beliefs. It's nursery school behaviour 😒

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

It's also the basis of ancient and modern Christian intolerance.

[@1AnononA1]

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 All religions are intolerant, in some form or another. Some religions more than others...

[@HamishBanish]

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Christian "intolerance" is a grand joke from you. Do share what is the Islamic version of "intolerance"? Genocide of unbelievers sound about right for you?

[@jbx1967]

@1AnononA1 NoooOOOOooo!!! You're gonna ruuUUUUUIIIIIiiiiiiin iiiiiiit... 😭

[@v-town1980]

​@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244Yeah, because Jews and Muslims are sooo tolerant. You gits are blind.

[@PaulCaruso53]

“ I never owned any slaves, and you never picked any cotton!”. Brilliant. Thank you Rafe.

[@johnlovin6465]

I have both slave and slave owner ancestors. Must I pay my right pocket from my left?

[@josephphelan646]

Most of them just looked bored ..!!

[@lenculpepper9150]

@@johnlovin6465 Yes, oppressor and oppressed. You have my deepest sympathy for the injustice you did to yourself, you racist pig!

[@lenculpepper9150]

@@johnlovin6465 Wish I could give 2 thumbs up for that!

[@aaronhandy3700]

If they need to be paid maybe the black slave traders that actually captured the natives in Africa and sold them in other countries

[@heather725]

I’m astonished by the rudeness of the students located behind Rafe. Rafe is correct in pointing out the silence about CONTEMPORARY slavery!

[@mattwagner3147]

It’s remarkable how every time he says something positive about Britain, there’s at least an 80% chance that the girl in the stripes looks towards her friends with a dopey smile on her face, looking for affirmation from them to consider what was just said ridiculous. She can’t think on her own and has to outsource it to her equally rude and ignorant friends

[@davezad]

It's because that doesn't really matter to them. The things happening in other countries have no bearing on their own lives. A fact he repeatedly pointed out. They look back on their ancestry with a mixture of shame and a grudge towards whomever is perceived today to be responsible for those events hundreds of years ago. The white descendants today are culpable for how these kids feel now, by being the only ones alive left to blame. And naturally the way to make things all better is a pay day.

[@virgilius7036]

The UN estimates that there are 50 million slaves today, mainly in Africa and the Muslim world! From Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, to Indonesia! Current students are grossly ignorant because they refuse to learn!

[@deemic23]

Complete and utter ignorance by these idiots. I hope their parents have seen and realising they are wasting their money

[@OneisTwo]

Well, I am from India and I can they do not need to pay the reparations now. Its childish to ask for this from them. But its right to teach them what really happened and not the modified history. Acknowledging the fact that what done was wrong would be more appreciated than returing few money out of 45 trillions stolen out of my country.

[@spartan_pilot]

Is this really what Cambridge students are like today? It’s really declined….bloody hell.

[@rogernewman5903]

As a parent it would shame me to admit those privileged little infants were any of mine. Their behaviour was deplorable.

[@commandervile394]

Their parents are likely the same.

[@brentnevius2849]

Better fix them with slavery.

[@martinpospisil3747]

Their parents are likely millennial marxists with pink hair.

[@maxmotors9497]

@@commandervile394 doubtful really. Numbers would say otherwise.

[@Kaige46]

Giggling, disrespectful - obviously have no wish to learn because they know it all!

[@Signals927]

Looking at most of those students faces they have already made up their minds not to listen to the facts that is being put to them. I am ashamed of you Cambridge Students.

[@paulmartin9194]

That's why he intentionally made his first point about being on the winning side of every debate but already knew the result of this one.

[@Zuxiasunicorn]

They closed their ears, indoctrination has already done it's damage.

[@kirpalani-griffin3706]

The rudeness of the students in sight is shameful. Their angry or revolted or smug, ignorant mocking demeanors are a disgrace to the university, which clearly is no longer holding the highest standards. Those are the faces of our failed future.

[@OgamiItto70]

They're nippers, Griffin. They'll come along. Right now they're living in a bubble, their comfortable, preferred narrative reinforced at all opportunities with vanishingly few opportunities to hear anything else and almost no incentive to investigate for themselves into the actual facts. But the curious ones, the ones who are honest with themselves, the ones with bullshit detectors will soon start to grasp that they're being led down the primrose path. I recall that at their same age I too was convinced of my invincibility, invulnerability, infallibility, immortality. That will start wearing off soon in the harsh light of actually having to make a living in an environment where it's results that count, not dogma-memorization brownie points.

[@jeffspicolli593]

The woke mind virus is very contagious.

[@23bit76]

Although I agree with a lot of what he says, I think you might need to seek a person to talk to possibly. It's not healthy to think this way about the future..a bunch of students eagerly wanting a say in a debate isn't going to destroy us all

[@jeffspicolli593]

@@23bit76 LOL. I'm guessing it's your kids in this video that all the posters here are appalled by.

[@analogdistortion]

They seem to giggle like high schoolers