What happens in a world where everything is “racist”? | Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O’Neill spoke to an audience of over 200 people on political correctness and cancel culture. It’s hard to take ideas seriously in a world where everything is considered racist.
O’Neill has become a leading voice in the battle for free speech - from the assault on free expression to the erosion of civil liberties, he confronts the forces that seek to regulate thought. Brendan warns us about the stripping away the values and virtues that once defined us as a culture and a society.
He examines the two radical movements that have become popular among young people: the push for “decolonisation” and climate change catastrophising. These movements leave young people in a permanent limbo of dread, stuck between hatred of the past and fear of the future.
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[@elforeigner3260]

If everything is racist, then NOTHING is racist.

[@True_Heretic]

Bollocks! Racists are still racists. They are just calling other people racists these days. The Far Left might be clueless, but at least they aren't the worst kind of people on the planet. Selfish, greedy, Far Right Conservatives.

[@DazedConfused-ch6gi]

My daughter and I live in an apartment and the tenancy agreement states no pets allowed. However, my daughter identifies as a cat! I'm afraid one of my neighbours might report me.

[@ryanjohnston3229]

You failed as a parent if your story is true....

[@robyn7287]

😂😂❤

[@Orson2u]

Brendan at 40m - DO NOT BEND THE KNEE! Right on. Right on.

[@aldunlop4622]

Well, I'm a scientist, and by that, I mean real, measurable science like Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and there is a concept called Equilibrium. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced". This concept is a general rule for how reality works throughout the universe. It also applies to things like economics, supply and demand etc. A good example is in Biology where biological organisms will eat all of the available food until a balance is reached between the population size and need and available food. So, assuming no external artificial influence is applied to the system, any system, balance will naturally occur. When apex predators are killed off by an external, artificial mechanism (by humans usually) for instance, the entire food chain can break down. Predator 2 overpopulates, eats all of Predator 3, which causes Predator 4 to overpopulate and so on, and the entire system breaks down. So what you ask, that's science, what's it got to do with "Woke"? Well, I think most people in the modern advanced world have a decent sense of right and wrong, and fair play. Over many years our systems have artificial systems in place to actively discriminate against certain groups, but in the past 30-40 years those practices have been removed to avoid discrimination and allow the market to determine who gets a job based on merit. Systems are in place to call out and stop discrimination. One of the fundamental differences between Left and Right politics is that the Left believes in artificial systems, like taxes to control how markets work, whilst the Right believes in a free market that will find it's own balance, based on supply and demand, similar to the biological example. I think "Wokeism" (man I'm tired of the Woke word) is fundamentally dangerous on 2 levels. Firstly, it's perpetuated by people who see inequity everywhere based on personal bias rather than facts and logic, and secondly, based on their incorrect assumptions they want to artificially control the market to make it the way they want. So, what's wrong with that you ask? Well, the problem is, systems DON'T WORK that way, systems will always try to achieve equilibrium, and these artificial mechanisms are stopping it, so the system will ALWAYS be under pressure, causing chaos.

[@Orson2u]

True.

[@bikechiatry8367]

Lots of words for a scientist and mathematitian not aware of indigenous maths which thankfully my children here in australia will be learning about at university of sydney or as its better known gurungalanga people place of knowledge. As for Predator 1 vs Predator 2 3 and 4 they are all stupid COMPARED TO aliens. If you still reading google sarcasm. 😂

[@poldoting]

Most people in the modern world have been pretty much indoctrinated by the satanic elites who own and controlled everything particularly the manipulated midia and therefore the "sense" of right and wrong is 100% subjective..

[@Juulmand1]

The Khmer Rouge did not die in Cambodia. It is alive and well in the United Kingdom, the greatest country in the world.

[@agriffin5308]

If it wasn't for the Americans in World War II, you guys would all be speaking German.

[@gordonsmith9369]

I need to watch in doses...I'm completely distraught at the 11 min mark...and I'm Canadian!

[@thomasjefferson9310]

and who educates these young people ??? LET ME GUESS

[@Randomest_Stories]

Yes. They have made the whole world depressed.

[@andmargbosanquet3181]

Great content. Thank you.

[@thomasjefferson9310]

if we don't want to fight for our rights it's our own fault

[@drwhatson]

I recently read a comment from a Nigerian who stated that Orwell's '1984' is the only book taught "by a non-African author" in Nigeria. So Nigeria excludes (presumably white) European and American authors, let alone Russian, apart from him.

[@piranhaofserengheti4878]

They need read Thomas Sowell then. But I bet it's verboten too

[@CirTap]

I'm sure none of those (incidentally) primarily white woksters can name three authors from each and every "non white culture" that are tought in schools of these cultures or countries that are as relevant there as someone like Billy Shakespeare would be for English speaking countries. And that's where his relevance also basically ends cos him or Milton are pretty irrelevant in France, Italy, Greek where other authors are tought and where the majority of the population is pretty darn white too. Pretty sure no European or American auther is relevant in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Russia.... how racist of these many non western nations... and I don't give a crap 🙄 Gosh.

[@brianmallon1810]

It is planned. And you are naive. We did not invite this in. It looks amorphous to you because you don't understand it.

[@RichardSmith-cl8qh]

"prison of the present" that tells in all in3 words❤

[@kennethvalbjoern]

As a mathematician I can say that wokeness has not engulfed the trade in idiocy yet, and probably will not, since mathematicians are very intelligent and do not care about the race or color of their finest. If some of the important ones were to be labeled racist, and their works were to be banned, math will simply stop working. A search of the internet do show reports of Indigenous/black female mathematicians who feel treated differently or mocked because of their origin, but that must surely be a consequence of personality disorders or similar mental conditions, that lures them to wrongly conclude that they are pursued. I can asure everyone, that mathematicians do NOT care about race/origin/gender since it would be downright stupid. Disrupting ones self of taking advantage of new gained territory. And mathematicians are NOT stupid.

[@UNDERDOG18UNDERDOG18]

Math is racist. Remember? Indigenous ways of knowing are equally valid in Woke World.

[@jimbruvara6836]

I thought this same kind of thing watching James Lindsay

[@kennethvalbjoern]

@@jimbruvara6836 Thanks for pointing him out to me. I'm definitely going to read some of his stuff.

[@Businedu]

FIRE🖤

[@thomasjefferson9310]

sorry have to make his remark, but alex jones is starting to get more and more correct if you watched his "endgame :blueprint for global slavement" and some other of his videos

[@luizdevil6855]

that's how you know its a religion 8:25

[@iain5615]

Much worse than a religion; except perhaps Islam which has a legal, political and cultural system as well.

[@spiritbaby5151]

I just wish I’d be here to see everything in 20 years time! Oh how I would laugh 😂😂

[@user-3282]

Yes, doesn't allow criticism and cancels people who oppose.

[@turquoiseowl]

de-nationalization of nations - that's the underlying project

[@Orson2u]

And yet 50-60 years ago, when real decolonisation was in high swing, nationalism (cf, Vietnam) was at high tide - an unstoppable force among people!

[@valriis9745]

Theres a very good indiscriminatory pronoun for all of them.i used it for the first 12 years of my life and can pick it up again where i left off. That pronoun is "comrade".

[@emsee90210]

The punishment is coming

[@thomasjefferson9310]

australia looks extreme woke

[@lunae10]

Thunberg should show up in fig leaves and loin cloths

[@ghostofdayinperson]

I agree with everything said here except for your take on Christianity. All monotheistic religions are authoritarian and harmful to humanity. The idea of eternal punishment is probably the worst idea in the world. We should never attribute our good moral ideas religion, as we have and could always have come up with them irrespective of it.

[@mattygino]

What happens in a world where everything is “antisemetic”?

[@jamminfreedom2413]

people need to get a since of humor! holy Fk... not everything is racist

[@spicole2937]

Only people talking on here is never normal people

[@lizlambson6618]

I think you are correct sir

[@spicole2937]

Americans are tired of funding everyone accept americans

[@True_Heretic]

Yet you are happy to take the big bucks of your economic empire abroad. Cretin!

[@user-iq7th6rd7s]

Omg 😲

[@caseyspaos448]

Does he have a source for his claim that the security forces were advising against using the words strong and grip? Or is it just more made up conservative panic? 😂

[@jimbruvara6836]

I think you should be more worried about critical race theroy in schools

[@akichler]

It is pretty obvious that questioner is very uncomfortable talking about woke he is visably scared of them.

[@MartinFernandes-gr7cb]

Same guy is quick to call people 'anti semitic'.

[@Dennis-xj8nh]

Just another form of woke identity politics and shutting down debate

[@jimbruvara6836]

Most people don't even know they are these days

[@davebarbadillo]

How can a religious country (Israel) be democratic?

[@CirTap]

I asked myself the same about the USA 😂

[@scolexuk]

It is not. It does not extend civil rights to its non-Jewish "citizens" as a result of the so-called "law of return". Read Israel Shahak's "Jewish History, Jewish Religion".

[@michaelbloomer451]

​@@scolexukonly Jewish citizens get a vote?

[@jimbruvara6836]

😂 you clearly do not know what democracy is

[@caseyspaos448]

Why the fuck is he defending referring to God as male??

[@drwhatson]

Tradition.

[@defendliberty1289]

Because in the Cristian tradition, as well as those of most other religions, He is.

[@arcticmentor7452]

Father Culture, Mother Nature. Common symbolism in many cultures. God is the father that judges, the symbolism is male. Jordan B Peterson's Maps of Meaning lectures from University of Toronto, 2017, (and some of the first part of the Personality and its transformations lectures, same university, same year) discusses this at length if you're interested in diving into the topic. Cheers.

[@user-3282]

Try reading a book

[@mountainviews46]

Yeah, how dare he? When everybody knows that God identifies as nonbinary holy deity that comes in all forms and shapes. On the other hand, though, are you sure he talked about your God or any of the other 2999 on offer? My suggestion is, you pull your head out of the part of anatomy most people use for sitting, go out into the real world, and get a life.

[@bikechiatry8367]

As someone from croatia that wasnt born using english language to communicate and learned cirilic and latin alphabet and german before i started learning english its ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS to me that all these discussions about ENGLISH COLONIALISM are taking place using exclusively ENGLISH language... 😂😂😂😂