The psychosis of whiteness | LSE Event

[@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533]

Why does he want rid of "whiteness", yet is a self confessed professor of so-called black studies? Hypocrisy at its finest.

[@drewgomez01]

yep that’s exactly where he is coming from, good job listening to him!!

[@reih6256]

How do you people even find content like this? Did this video get recommended to you in between machine gun tests and bad country music videos?

[@LeoulB]

i got it! it's like an irish republican politician telling you monarchy is a bad idea.

[@j.o.e2683]

Lenin School of Economics

[@reih6256]

Let me guess. You’re American? 😂 Easiest way to scare an old white boomer in the US is by wearing red 👻

[@JudgeHill]

This is MADNESS

[@jonhandy4639]

I know from experience that nothing is worse than hope betrayed. . . Concerning academic writing, so much of it is not really to communicate ideas to others so much as to employ keywords and jargon as a kind of status signalling. . . although sometimes specialized vocabulary can be useful to convey specific notions/ideas compactly, in academia it is oftened used as other means of gatekeeping. Paulo Freire's _Pedagogy of the Oppressed_ comes to mind here in that some of the words are somewhat specialized in nature, yet the text reads so easily. The comment by the translator about how her young son read it and not only understood it easily but commented about how this man he'd never met was writing about him was quite striking. . . .

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Is Planned Obsolescence White Supremacy? Where does LSE talk about the depreciation of durable consumer goods? Where is Demand Side Depreciation in the Net Domestic Product equation? If Black people do not know enough about technology to figure out if planned obsolescence is happening then what sense does talking about White Supremacy make? White people just aren't smart enough to figure out that planned obsolescence is just a high technology form of slavery. Constantly going into debt for junk designed to become obsolete.

[@eds-egg]

Universities have become the Woke Madrasas of our age.

[@reih6256]

triggered

[@jimthompson9370]

@@reih6256seditious.

[@JamesFlaherty-q1i]

No matter the opinions that Kehinde has which I massively disagree, I was incredibly sad to hear his wife has died he has I think 3 young children so fair play to him for keeping able to write books and do this strong man stronger than me

[@jimthompson9370]

Are they from three different women? Are they all white???

[@ronisy7063]

Are you a 'racist'? ​@@jimthompson9370

[@jamesflaherty59]

@@jimthompson9370 Does it matter?

[@inevski]

Afua Hirsch review in the graun (17/9/23)

[@philipdawes2661]

Personally, I think that all aspects of racism should be denied authority. Aim for the stars, not wallow in the gutter.

[@inevski]

#All Lives

[@lepidoptera9337]

It doesn't start with the Enlightenment, though. The roots are in Greek philosophy. All major Greek philosophers were in support of slavery.

[@SvenErik_Lindstrom3]

So what?

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@SvenErik_Lindstrom3 So philosophy is bullshit since 500BC. ;-)

[@tekkencentre]

The Greeks did not invent slavery, slavery was around for the entirety of human civilisation. Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt practised slavery long before Ancient Greece even came to be. Slavery was never tied to one particular race. nor did the concept of race as we know it today exist in the ancient times. The term 'slavery' actually hails from the Arab enslavement of Slavs. And of course Greek philosophers supported slavery because literally everyone did at the time. All religions did too. It was not until the 19th century that mankind came to realise that owning people was immoral.

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@tekkencentre I didn't say that they invented it. My point is that Greek philosophers did not have the humanity nor the intelligence to realize how destructive the concept is to human society. Why would I trust people who were mentally so limited in both ways?

[@tekkencentre]

@@lepidoptera9337 Did you not read the rest of my comment? You would be hard-pressed to find anyone opposed to slavery before the age of enlightenment. Slavery was a basic fact of life back then. If you judge historical figures by present-day standards of morality, then nobody would be good enough for you to listen to. There is more to their ideas than slavery, just like there is more to Christianity than its condonation of slavery. That is why you can be a Christian today and not support slavery.

[@happyclappy1805]

Eduardo Mondlano

[@SaulV2]

He is the racist.

[@benstevens1575]

You made such great points to dispute his 1.5hr lecture. Really showed him! Jokes aside, from one white person to another, grow a fcking pear and learn when to stop claiming victimhood. You’re living on stolen land using stolen resources. Facts over feelings.

[@mdaddy775]

Had no idea his wife died! He's raising 4 kids by himself in conjunction with all the other stuff he does. Respect. I don't quite agree with his views though.

[@fpvDRE]

wow what all dads do everyday lol

[@mdaddy775]

@@fpvDRE Single dads, yeah. They deserve respect too!

[@pauldalnoky6055]

This is sick.

[@benstevens1575]

I agree! Excellent work

[@jimthompson9370]

@@benstevens1575try not to use darkie language. It just makes you appear imbecilic.

[@blackniall8509]

​@@benstevens1575 In what way edge lord ?

[@blackniall8509]

​@@benstevens1575 The white version of Samuel L Jackson I django 😂

[@stevenschuster]

What a lost man. Creating division and hatred while thinking he is doing the opposite.

[@ronisy7063]

Have you met any white male narcissists.on your travels yet?

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Racist

[@psikeyhackr6914]

How does planned obsolescence relate to White Supremacy? Where does LSE talk about the depreciation of durable consumer goods in relation to planned obsolescence? Going into debt for junk designed to become obsolete is a high technology form of slavery. There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1994. Where did the depreciation go? Where is the data? Aren't economists into data?

[@reih6256]

Perhaps these are questions you could look into answering yourself. It’s only an hour and a half long lecture. But using common sense I can tell you that planned obsolescence forces people to rely on shitty consumer goods that could not be produced that cheaply without relying on modern slavery. It’s almost as simple as 2+2

[@peanutnutter1]

This guy is no scholar, just a spinner of biased stories.

[@lilithdalphinis958]

He is a professor. He has the qualifications to prove it.

[@peanutnutter1]

@@lilithdalphinis958 Thank you! Appeal to authority is the reason why he's in front of people, not the validity of what he's saying.

[@reih6256]

Very bold claims to be making with absolutely 0 points to back them up. You couldn’t even speculate as to why you disliked him so much 😂 On top of that, claiming someone is using a fallacy (appeal to authority) when you are presented with actual facts. How does all that sand taste? Does the pressure hurt your head?

[@NeilMartin98]

@@lilithdalphinis958 He works at a sub-par university in Birmingham.

[@wolfgangvonuce9803]

​@peanutnutter1 why don't you disprove the validity of what he saying then? I'll wait.

[@mayormccheese6171]

Nothing new here, just textbook postmodernism. This kind of identity scholarship is getting stale by 2023.

[@lepidoptera9337]

If you don't have a counterargument, just call it postmodernism and feel like a mental hero. ;-)

[@mayormccheese6171]

@@lepidoptera9337 what's to argue with? It's performance art, not scholarship.

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@mayormccheese6171 So is your rebuttal. Well, actually, it's not even a good performance. ;-)

[@mayormccheese6171]

@@lepidoptera9337 boring

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@mayormccheese6171 It wasn't even boring. It was predictable. ;-)

[@katehillier1027]

Professor Woke. Black studies is an easy activist choice.

[@arnoldl8705]

the pity laughs he's getting at his terrible attempts at comedy 😂😂😂

[@ericrobinson7184]

Amazing how much humor he brings to bear on the pathology...he's so at ease.

[@qedamawiessene5827]

laughing just like crying is a coping mechanism to handle anxiety stress

[@benstevens1575]

@@qedamawiessene5827and so is choosing only to engage with white people whose opinions align with yours in the comments section of a random Black guy’s youtube lecture

[@qedamawiessene5827]

@@benstevens1575 please explain to me how would I know which commenters are white ? just based on what they are typing ? I think it's safe to assume you are quite young by the comment you've typed showing your lack of real life experience