What The Far-Left Gets Right

The radical left has a common thread regarding their philosophy - while their observations are generally correct, their solution is always "destroy everything". Meanwhile, the advancement of regular society often accidentally solves those same problems anyway.
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#FarLeft #Intersectionality #IntersectionalTheory

[@MonkeyMan01]

"What does the left have properly pegged" Im pretty sure the answer is each other.

[@knowthingman]

it's like a snake fucking itself at both ends lol

[@hamster7125]

Lmao

[@613harbinger316]

Almost spewed my drink all over my screen. Thanks man!

[@steelingcable6350]

:)

[@IchNachtLiebe]

Reading this figuratively (with adult implications): hilarious Reading this literally (with no adult interpretation): the sad truth is that many of these people have no realistic perception of life, themselves, or others. They can't overcome their inner issues to such a degree that they have no realistic understanding of each other or the solutions for their problems.

[@weldsj8847]

As Jordan Peterson pointed out, when you're done with all of your intersectional stuff, you come down to what really matters: an individual.

[@RobzdaBlade]

"The label man only needs is his name."

[@Zayindjejfj]

As it turns out, the most oppressed entity is the individual. Not a group.

[@cheddar2648]

And thus even the post-modernist theory, when taken to the limit as in a maths proof, holds that The Individual is the tiniest minority, the most oppressed, the most vulnerable.

[@YizzTheEunuch]

Agreed.

[@SpartanTrigger]

I’d say the key problem at least from My point of view is too much individuality at least from Whitestone western civilizations a whole , we lost our ability somewhat to be strong as a group group u like others who are naturally more group orientated and less individual I as an individual will gladly give up some of my individuality for more group based powers , as it’s what we need together we are strong but apart we fall The future is in the past , and collectivism it is as it seems will be that future What the communists and fascists say are true the fingers in the clenched fists are stronger together and the clenched bundle of sticks make a greater bundle That is a truth that is and has been recognized throughout the ages I honestly think to some extent the “age of individuality “ at least to what we have known here in the west is over We are entering a new age where race and tribe are the most important characteristics instead of talent of the sum of a mans character

[@someguy4405]

The Left: “What can we learn from the far-right?” *-AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE*

[@dutchdykefinger]

they seem to take a liking to 90% of what fascism has in store :D

[@devilman2197]

i think they learned pretty well off the actual nazi.

[@someguy4405]

Alexander Rewijk But only while desperately trying to convince themselves that they’re antifascists as they beat people up in black shirts.

[@j.k.4479]

Alexander Rewijk Except fascism is left wing.

[@tastyloaf5487]

@@j.k.4479 I don't see why fascism has to be wing-based. It comes from the _fasces_ in Ancient Rome. Basically, a bunch of sticks that let you cross into the Pomerium. The whole thing was purely symbolic: Symbolising the power of the state. As they say -- it doesn't matter if it's the Left boot or the Right boot when it's standing on your neck.

[@JeffKubel]

"What the far left gets right." Proceeds to tear apart far left ideology.

[@StayFractalesque]

lol, it's necessary to find the meat.. if any

[@mattman1684]

It is more of a deconstruction than a full on Tear 'em a new one type of deal.

[@voxlknight2155]

Exactly. They get NOTHING right. When youre a commie ideolog you dont have that many good ideas bouncing around in there.

[@hunterbullard3271]

It seems that his points are that the far left may have appropriate or adequate observations on society and its systems, but the implications or conclusions made from those observations can be made in a very skewed way.

[@OfficialDJSoru]

It's kinda like explaining communism. Sure, they bring some valid points for the ideology, but putting that shit into practice DOESN'T WORK because of a multitude of factors. At best it only works in a household like roommates sharing expenses and stuff but even THEN many times shit goes down south because of human nature. But the far left won't ever admit it.

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

It's okay to learn from people you disagree with.

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

@Larry Rudedude and if they have good ideas, improve upon them.

[@johnbuscher]

As Jordan Peterson said in the recent interview his daughter did of him: “If you’re waiting to learn something from someone who has done nothing wrong, you’re going to be waiting a very long time.”

[@Helminthis]

It's not okay it's f****** necessary

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

@@Helminthis truth

[@AAArnold]

@James Donnelly That's your problem, you consider your opponents to be inherently inept.

[@Crimsoncheese44]

Sorry dev but you cant just admit someone's right when they're right bro that's too far

[@Slazors]

"hey guys what's up the CHAZ video is coming" Oh hell yeah bring it o- "WHAT THE FAR LEFT GETS RIGHT" Aight man I see how it is

[@littlemisseevee2309]

Slazors its like not getting petscop 2 from pyro

[@jrdn31195]

Just wanted to say that you have a wonderful profile Pic. My favorite album growing up

[@Slazors]

@@jrdn31195 Thanks man! Deep blue is a special album to me too!

[@YizzTheEunuch]

I think the critical failure of intersectionality is that the end result is the individual, and if the end result is only individuals, there is no 'ranking' or 'cluster' to determine the oppression hierarchy. I also would say we can never have Equality, and that the socioeconomic concept of Equity/Equality is an unachievable utopia that is foolish to try to make happen. The best we can do is optimize trade within a protected, functional nation, and do what we can via charity and non-government methods to help others be successful parts of our society.

[@xbigbooshx4643]

Individuality will always be more important than the “group think” laws and morals of oppression. Inequality is a problem as much as with wealth, attractiveness, height, disabilities, and health conditions. A lot in life isn’t equal. This intersectionalism idea of needing to bring down the “oppressors” to appease the “oppressed” is a socialist fallacy.

[@YizzTheEunuch]

@@xbigbooshx4643 Indeed, that's why I made my second comment on here about Equality being unobtainable.

[@SpiritualFox]

The point isn't to produce an individual? Intersecting negative demographics are designed to confer oppression from each group to each individual under the big leftist tent. Intersectionality says _we_ and then launches into it's beggar's tirade.

[@xbigbooshx4643]

Yizz The Eunuch: Absolutely. Equality across the board is unattainable. I agree. The government can give equity to the homeless and disabled. It’s called social benefits. It already exists. It CAN be approved on, but this far leftist rewriting of our culture, rules, and laws is dangerous and power hungry.

[@theGiantworm86]

I think one of the main problems with modern thinking in regards to oppression is that it assigns blame to other people when it's often just the suffering inherent to existence. Let's say someone is born without the use of their legs. No one is to blame. No one was oppressed (by another person anyway). Yet that is factored in to an oppression hierarchy. Many examples would fit this description. Even sexual identity and sexuality. There can be oppression in regards to this and there certainly has been, but often I hear that heteronormativity is inherently oppressive. I would disagree as the vast majority of people are pretty much the standard in their sexuality and sexual identity. So the whole of society would be geared towards that norm. Now society mistreating those who identify differently is oppression, but being geared towards the largest average is not.

[@bigblue2216]

Sorry Dev, can't get behind breaking everyone and everything down to multiple small boxes.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

what is an individual but a box of one?

[@nicholaswatson2725]

You can if all the boxes end up leading to everyone being a unique individual

[@chrrmin1979]

@@ShortFatOtaku Personally, im an oval, so please get your straight lines and extra dimensional bias outa here

[@BuckROCKGROIN]

@@ShortFatOtaku Exactly.

[@qujo123]

@@ShortFatOtaku was Obama oppressed? even as the president of the US? how about Will Smith and his family? are they oppressed by an unknowable force while some white kid starving in west virginia with two drug addicted parents, one of whom is in jail, is privileged? obviously not. Intersectionality is something that seems to make sense on the surface, but the whole idea is incoherent when you actually think about it. everybody has advantages and disadvantages in life, everybody starts from somewhere different and race, sex, sexuality, etc doesnt set these things in stone. immutable characteristics doesnt equal an immutable station in life

[@ponyfucker3427]

SFO: You can't change your race. MJ: Hold my beer.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

talcum x: rachel dolezal:

[@ponyfucker3427]

@@ShortFatOtaku Ye but, they didn't deliver tho.

[@katyushamarikov8819]

The right's idea for inequality isn't "ignore it." That's your left bias. The right's answer is "equal opportunity." When that doesn't work then "charity."

[@remyllebeau77]

A libertarian view is also to get rid of the corporatocacy or the revolving door between gov't and big business and all subsidies.

[@lieutenantlemons2260]

Isn't that a more leftist idea? Sure, it's more moderately leftist, but I'm pretty sure it's still a leftist idea

[@10011110011]

@@lieutenantlemons2260 no, charity is right wing. Not because you help the less fortunate,( thats another leftist bias thinking the right doesnt want ro help) but because its voluntary. You have the right to help and you want to help your fellow countryman/beleiver.

[@mr.whitechristmas280]

@@lieutenantlemons2260 One of the largest failures of the right wing is allowing the public perception to become that humanitarianism is a left wing concept. It isn't. If we're talking religious right, Christianity is basically humanitarianism in religious form (or at least it's supposed to be). If we're talking libertarian right, then charity presents both the economic incentive of getting people back into the workforce as well as the obvious moral incentive, all while being completely voluntary. If we are talking corporate right, well... uh... look those guys suck but so does the corporate left.

[@XkriskrossX]

@@mr.whitechristmas280 The left has also stolen the word LIBERAL and perverted its original meaning.

[@fraukatze3856]

It would never work on its own. Look at the TERF problem. Nerdiness will never be worth any victim points.

[@RobzdaBlade]

Because those same neck-beards bring innovations and improvements to our ways of living, un-ironically. As man before has said. WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.

[@dutchdykefinger]

@[Redacted by KZbin] TERF is some shit they made up on the spot, just like mansplaning and all that other stupid intersectional bullshit lol, the problem never goes away because they keep making up shite.

[@lupusalbus3795]

People need struggle, with out it people make struggle for themselves.

[@frankienbloo1723]

Unironically true. The moment you put someone into a state of utopia, a state of bliss, they will immediately want to change it.

[@lupusalbus3795]

@@frankienbloo1723 Uncle H was not a dump man.

[@knowthingman]

which is why, ironically, the most privileged among us invent metrics, ideologies, and entire philosophies designed to not just assert their own categorical oppression, but which are specifically designed to oppress those whom they categorically deem to be privileged.

[@bacht4799]

The thing about struggles is keep going.. that’s hell .. that it doesn’t stop and you learn nothing from it .. like I dealing with when I running with it’s straps about my butt and it’s so frustrating and doesn’t stop.. that’s hell .. another one is I dealing with anxiety and bad thoughts because I got Asperger so I can have a good day but feeling like crap because of my thoughts or something else so I hates struggle because I don’t always learn from it and even if close to 40’s I still act like 18 years both intelligent and the way I act with immature anger if doesn’t go how I would like it of course it’s shouldn’t be a excuse.. I still should behave myself and keep myself in control but I not always do that or don’t know how to having fun before I earn it because I scared of being a immature entitled brat of a jerk which is one of my biggest fears.. struggles should like learning riding a bike.. you fall “maybe “ you can’t hold balance and you maybe not in shape or ready to ride but when you find the balance.. getting better learn from your mistakes and now you can ride it .. well now it’s fun and awesome and you want to learn more.. keep on falling never learn from it and only getting angrier and hateful.. burn the bike.. struggles is part of life but struggles everyday..? Fuck off ..

[@voxlknight2155]

If you dont struggle in life, you grow up to be a pampered, spoiled baby who cant take care of themselves and feels entitled to other's help... So a third wave feminist.

[@MaxTheCat-eh5ts]

“A broken clock is right twice a day.”

[@knowthingman]

intersectionalists somehow manage to avoid the operation of this maxim by constantly changing time zones and smashing the clock into very small pieces.

[@ZKrinny]

James Donnelly thats because hands, like voice chat, are discriminatory

[@knowthingman]

@James Donnelly hands are ablest bigotry

[@dutchdykefinger]

@James Donnelly i thought they had jazz hands

[@Snakedude4life]

My comment keeps getting deleted. Thanks Susan Wobbajack. 🎩 🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@cheddar2648]

No step on comment!

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

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[@nautdead3197]

I've noticed that whenever I get one comment yeeted several others get yeeted along with it.

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

Sometimes i wonder if some comments get shadowbanned too. Sometimes I have tried giving some comments likes but youtube refuses to let me.

[@OmegaLogos]

Lol Snakedude! We seem to watch a lot of the same channels. “BROTHER!”

[@DrEhrfurchtgebietend]

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual." Ayn Rand

[@noahhyslop5926]

Lmao dude naaaa man, Intersectionality is literally a man-made construct unlike gender.

[@itzybitzyspyder]

Every word is a construct. Every idea, belief, theory, political affiliation, class, currency, role, archetype, etc. All constructs. How does making this distinction help the conversation?

[@SymmetricalDocking]

@@itzybitzyspyder You're confusing words made to describe or quantify real things with words made to describe abstract or imaginary things. If they're all constructs to you, the validity of them as constructs is not equal.

[@noahhyslop5926]

itzybitzyspyder tv I’m mostly being provocative. All and all, I get what he means he’s picking out the kernel of truth in their argument and successfully showing them, how yet, still; the argument is bad. It’s simply ironic to me that something based on biology is a point of contention for the far left, but an idea (That as you point out must always be man made by man.) is infallible holy land. Maybe it’s not ironic, idk I thought so.

[@nova_supreme8390]

@@itzybitzyspyder I think the issue is that they hold certain premises they keep self-evident which would give context which would clarify what they want to point out with it. I think what they are getting at with social construct is not how for exampl the social aspect of gender as concept is socially constructed, but that typical gendered behavior is socially enforced rather than driven by biological urge. In this view gender roles are like memes passed on from generation to generation instead of hard-coded biological imperative. If something exist merely as a cultural practice, it can be reshaped with social reform while biological imperative cannot be overwritten in such a way. Therefore things being social constructs essentially changes how certain kind of behavior is seen and how it can be affected. Constructs can be dissembled and rebuilt how we wish, but nature asserts itself regardless of our wishes. This is my two cents.

[@itzybitzyspyder]

@@nova_supreme8390 well said.

[@terminsane]

if their socialism was voluntary, people might choose to participate in it. The problem is nobody wants to participate in their socialism. So they need to force you.

[@800iq2]

This is something that I had come to agree with and probably a better way to do politics around the world. With all these competing social and political systems it would be better if people could create their own nations and set up their governments and have the ability to choose their political system. These competing political powers is only going to lead to further destruction.

[@seandouglass9824]

I mean thats why free countries are great these people could do there version of socalism, buy some land somewhere, probably Midwest US where it is cheap and farmable and create a commune like the amish do, but they won't cause that takes a lot of hard work

[@knowthingman]

"ideas so good, they're mandatory!" basically the motto of the radical left.

[@Zantetsudex]

"Nothing has inherent value" You still need water to survive, correct?

[@t700e]

I don’t see how his argument could really work. The radical left doesn’t even act like nothing has inherent value, they value concepts like race and sexual orientation and expect others to do the same.

[@Zantetsudex]

@@t700e Dev did admit he's a former SJW, and that kind of indoctrination can be a little difficult to fully unlearn. This is the equivalent of a former white supremacist debating what the alt right gets right.

[@AN474-e1o]

Why does life have objective value?

[@feckoffthePRvillain]

Shortfatotaku: that's it for me, I love you Me listening to this at the gym doing reps: (blushing) aww shucks, love ya too, big guy.

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

*WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY* *BOTTOM TEXT*

[@RobzdaBlade]

*fistbump* SERENITY NOW!

[@littlemisseevee2309]

TOP TEXT BOTTOM TEXT

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

*SAMPLE TEXT*

[@ChachaNuVaughn]

"You can't change your race." Tell that to Talcum X and Rachel Dolezal.

[@hikaruk.981]

Nah, dude. Intersectionality is dead wrong. It ignores that someone with more money and/or talent can get away with worse behavior than someone who doesn't, REGARDLESS of their skin color or sexuality.

[@stayotter]

Cancel him! He's now a SJW!

[@nickerickson7902]

reeeeeeeeee

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

Wrrryyyyy He also forgot to wear his stone mask

[@johnbuscher]

Suite Life of Dio Brando Dang ol’ vampires, not practicing social distancing.

[@littlemisseevee2309]

Suite Life of Dio Brando 🗿

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

Buddy no one is mad about this video. I write agree with it. This is all stuff he has said before. The stuff about intersectionality he has said before. The stuff about hierarchy.

[@notmgtowyet8442]

OR... we could just judge people by the content of their character.

[@borkor458]

underrated

[@johnbeard7252]

Absolutely man...

[@xhesil8848]

Remember: the measure of a success is not the height you reached, but how high you climbed. The Marxists have given up on climbing as sea level.

[@DoctorLazertron]

There’s a reason these ideas catch on. The culty ideology and haphazard application just twists ‘equality’ beyond recognition.

[@cheddar2648]

Well, the Woke World, who sells this notion that you are never responsible for failure is seductive to someone who wants to escape all accountability for the various failures in their life.

[@knowthingman]

self-serving and un-falsifiable ideologies always appeal to the lowest intellectual common denominators. And the left has an absolute monopoly on propagandized and radicalized idiots.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

@@cheddar2648 Which is why the left is a bunch of perpetual children.

[@Doc-Holliday1851]

I fundamentally reject the initial premise that intersectionality is accurate. In a free nation you have the opportunity to succeed or fail on your own merits. If we find that something isn't as free as it should be we remedy that. Intersectionality postulates that regardless of that freedom you're inherently less advantaged than others by your birth. Which is not, or should not be true in a free nation.

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

Everyone is not equal at birth, but that is life.

[@cheddar2648]

"Bars on a cage" is a mental construction that doesn't represent the physical world. "Coddle Culture" has produced two generations of useless adults . . . forever the victims of imagined slights, totally incapable of facing difficulty and overcoming it with American Grit.

[@SpartanTrigger]

Suite Life of Dio Brando that is the sad reality many ignore , instead of building on themselves they focus on what they don’t have instead of the gifts they were blessed with

[@shiravalen]

I mean, being male or female are each 'oppressive' to some extent in their own ways. There are some categories that are still somewhat apt. But is it an actual useful concept in current first world countries? Probably not. And probably not even in any circumstances. Not practically useful, but has a bit of truth to it. I did find the 'cage' metaphor highly skewed and pessimistic.

[@Doc-Holliday1851]

@@shiravalen right. If embodying a particular identity is oppressive but being the physical opposite of that identity is also oppressive, then are they really oppressed? I don't think anyone would say a jail keeper (to use the cage analogy) is oppressed by the prisoners. No, instead the reality is just that everyone has challenges. I feel like we use to know this but we've forgotten it and replaced it with the lie that some people are oppressed and others are oppressors. This is the kind of thinking that destroys nations

[@kdolo1887]

Intersectionality is NOT correct because it ignores the privilege of wealth. To use your professor's analogy, Wealth Oppression makes the cell, the bars and the whole rest of the prison. All other oppression is the fact that you can't get exactly what you want from the cafeteria.

[@falseprophet4927]

finally, someone gets it.

[@deesevrin8570]

SFO makes it pretty clear that he's using the framework of the idea rather than the modern practice of the idea, hence the discussion of who is the arbiter of what does and does not constitute a vector of oppression.

[@pixymisa8087]

Intersectionality is - like Marx's labour theory of value - nothing more than an excuse for believing what you wanted to believe anyway. Marx wanted to believe that factory owners were evil. The intersectional left are racist, sexist bigots.

[@abdiganisugal825]

There is one thing that matters more than wealth and that is good health. However, it's not an on and off switch, which is how the intersectionalists see it, disabilities (and illnesses) aren't all equal, some are more severe than others. But otherwise solid comment.

[@Xplora213]

Wealth is not a privilege. It is an earned right. Whether earnt by toil or violence, it was created and protected by the owner. Jealousy is not the solution, but innovation and creativity. Every analogy of the leftist is a prison of some kind. There are no prisons. Just people in a field, imagining there are bars and walls. You might have shoes, or a hat, but we are all exposed to the elements on that field. You can choose to build a house to protect yourself or you can choose to sit in an imaginary cell. We all have limits. Use your abilities as best you can, leave your legacy... that is your earned rights given to your family to help them prosper.

[@deon6045]

Atheism brought us into this mess, my dude. Take a step back and reconsider this weird worldview you've crafted for yourself.

[@dragonknightleader1]

In the same sense useful idiots brought whatever toxic ideology to society. Atheism got co-opted because Postmodernists out-questioned the Atheists. God doesn't exist? Good doesn't exist. Atheists simply do not have a compelling counter for why there's an objective good since the Postmodernist is using the Atheist's epistemology and uses it better. So, I tend to pity the Atheists for their philosophical ignorance.

[@dutchdykefinger]

@@dragonknightleader1 both religious people or sanctimonious postmodernists are wrong about objective morality. this isn't a zero sum thing, that's the first mistake people make...

[@dragonknightleader1]

@@dutchdykefinger So? I was explaining how the Atheists and most of the Skeptic community got turned into SJWs. Postmodernists were better at being Atheists than the Atheists because they have the same logic and the PoMos executed it more accurately.

[@deon6045]

@@dragonknightleader1 I hear what you're saying. It leaves an empty hole ready to be filled. More than that, though, they actively pushed for all this to happen, even if they didn't understand it. For example, when people were warned about pedophilia being pushed in the mainstream if homosexuality was accepted, many scoffed. Now, that's exactly what we're starting to see. This kind of chaotic meaninglessness is what came of their efforts to tear down societal/religious values for the sake of "liberal freedom" or whatever.

[@Unknown.NotRegistered]

The cage description is perfect. Intersectionality removes your freedom with its use.

[@kingsteve4304]

Day 100: CHAZ Video has become nothing but a burning memory... The holy leaf has betrayed us... he keeps claiming its in the rendering pipe, but so far, all that has come down the pipe has been supplemental... [In all seriousness, I can wait for a bit longer. Have a nice day.]

[@Torvar]

To me, privilege is something that has to be willfully granted.

[@StayFractalesque]

agreed.. does this mean so called "rights" are actually privileges? personally, I don't think human rights are natural, or else, rights would be universal to everyone on the planet, so are human rights actually a set of privileges granted from living in a certain place at a certain time? you would think sjw's would focus on areas of the world where true oppression exists.. instead, all these small social issues are the biggest problems these people know of, and many are flat out fabricated, like the wage gap or the patriarchy.. I know what those folks definitely take for granted, is living in the Nation State where civil rights actually exist..

[@Torvar]

@@StayFractalesque I would say rights have to be boiled to an individual level. You are alone on an island, what rights do you have? I would say, you have the right to try and fulfill your basic needs to survive. What changes when you add another person? You both have a right to try and fulfill basic needs, so long as it doesn't directly interfere with the other person trying to fulfill their basic needs. A person, with bad intentions, entering your yard, has willfully forfeited their rights. No one took the rights from them. They volunteered it.

[@AAArnold]

It's the opposite actually, isn't that the point of privilege? I was under the impression that everybody understood this. Privilege is exclusive by default, it's some kind of advantage that comes about because of someones position in a hierarchy (be it social or monetary or whatever). Agree with it or not, but the concept of privilege is not inherently flawed.

[@MonkeyMan01]

@@StayFractalesque Rights are privileges that society would deem immoral to infringe upon. Some are not natural, but only tyrannical, evil, or amoral powers that be would ignore them.

[@AAArnold]

@@Fetchdafish That's one of the definitions of privilege, but you don't get to discard other definitions simply because they are inconvenient for you.

[@revcrussell]

SFO: "What The Far-Left Gets Right" also SFO: What the far-left gets right actually is wrong. Note that Jordan Peterson said all this more concisely a year ago

[@MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI-1]

19:31 “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” Marcus Aurelius (Stoic Philosopher & Emperor of Rome)

[@FreddyMontana69]

Title of the video: "What the far-left gets right" First minute of the video; "The intersectionals are right...but..." *19 minutes of why intersectionality is insane*

[@Triggs-Music]

The one thing I will disagree with is the “nothing has inherent value” comment. I would love to argue for it. Though my comments never seem to be seen. .. I will never agree that Beethoven‘s music is only subjectively good.

[@CynicalNaivety]

It's only subjectively good because other creatures perceive sound differently, and may in turn think it's an absolute dumpsterfire filled with cats because of it. But I'll agree that to human hearing, it's heretical to call it anything but good. But it's also only good in an abstract sense, so you could still argue that while it's good, it also has no worth. Sorry, I have a hard time not being a devil's advocate.

[@Chronically_ChiII]

Nothing has inherent value, but many things have human-oriented value. E.g. Food, water, family/community. If we were evolved drastically differently, in an alien way, as to not need water or community, they would not automatically share these values.

[@Triggs-Music]

​​@@CynicalNaivety Its true that other animals perceive sounds differently but I would say that that in its self proves what I mean about subjective value. If you play Beethoven to your dog, your dog is still interpreting Beethoven. He might be more of a Mozart type, but the only difference how you would know what to make of Beethoven is how you articulate about it, we don't know if the dog is hearing the same way or not(he could be!). Sometimes people don't know what to make out of Beethoven, one time someone asked me why I was listening to Shakespeare.. haha... its a bit the same way a dog would deal with Beethoven, if there is no cultural reason to listen to what's good about it. What he did in fact do though beyond the dog, was to give a description of the music to a certain degree, he knew it was old and that so is Shakespeare and so his "subjective" view create things that could be considered true, just articulated to express humor. ​I am operating the presupposition that we are vessels for not only understanding value empirically but also value in terms of quality. In what ​G.G. said about water, it is true that with out a need for water, we would not share value about it, but I would argue that the value wouldn't then cease to exist. The same way that the smell of food doesn't stop smelling a certain way because one might not know the food exists. To a bat hearing way beyond our ability to hear, is a valuable tool, and so I would argue then that hearing has a potential value for the subject at hand. I would argue too that human-oriented value is a view on the partial of the whole. It is a limited tool like an analog multimeter that describes a proximity, and not an entirety. For the arts, in this case Beethoven, his value can be proven in the fact that multiple generations of humans, and regardless of culture, can appreciate the music, which would be an indicator of his attractiveness in terms of the archetype of music. This in opposition to the countless post modern composers of today, who know one knows about and anyone could care less about. (not that there aren't good composers today... but just as a side note if you want to see the damage the far left has done.. take a look at music, its a travesty). The far left in academia is trying to push this creep Helmut Lachenmann as the new Beethoven of our day, I would suggest listen to a piece of his music and then Beethovens, and if you think Beethoven's is more valuable, tell me why. thanks for taking the time to bicker with me!

[@Triggs-Music]

@@Chronically_ChiII I tried including you in my one response but it just showed up as gobbledy-guck

[@AN474-e1o]

What value would a deaf person find in Beethoven?

[@Intrafacial86]

Excellent video! Putting timestamps for myself: 0:34 Intersectionality is correct 9:48 Inequality is a real problem 12:50 Structures are oppressive 16:43 Nothing has inherent value

[@TheSteveTheDragon]

You can't have collisions without intersections.

[@xmus4023]

What the Far-Left Gets Right.... zero.

[@cheddar2648]

Well, their God Deity--FDR--did help defeat Hitler and Tojo, but he also listened to Soviet agents, and ceded vast swaths of land to Stalin, thereby condemning millions to live under Communist oppression. So maybe it was a draw?

[@smaurf2499]

@@cheddar2648 Deciding not to fight the soviets in europe wasn't just communist sympathizers talking. There are legitimate reasons not to do so. Besides, winning a war and winning an ideological argument are two vastly different things, otherwise there would be no need for free speech, as who ever is stronger is apparently right.

[@azurecongalala6801]

I’m going in with this with a closed mind and am going to get SFO, GB and Devkit all cancelled because Dev hurt my fee-fees. Jk love you

[@ofthecaribbean]

What was even the point of this video? The moment you tell us something they believe, you tell us why we shouldn't listen to them

[@ShortFatOtaku]

it's more like "their ideas are right but their conclusions are wrong, here's what you should take from it instead"

[@Gevaudan1471]

@@ShortFatOtaku their ideas on subversion and manipulation are certainly valuable and worth learning from.

[@ofthecaribbean]

@@ShortFatOtaku That's essentially what I said! Your title is misleading

[@steffenebener7332]

@@ShortFatOtaku sounds a lot like Marx, his socioeconomic analysis is pretty much correct, his conclusions and " resolutions " are hilariously impractical.

[@smokeythepotfox2849]

@@ofthecaribbean Not really. "What the Far-Left gets right" implies some of their ideas are not entirely wrong, the reasoning behind those ideas is just flawed or nonexistent. Subtle nuance is subtle (= w=)

[@SouthernGothicYT]

Always the devil his due

[@mrglibb]

"Here is a video you might not want to watch" Oh but I do. It's important to know exactly what your opponents get right in order to identify more accurately what they get wrong. Everyone has correct and incorrect opinions, even the most despicable person has some overlap with the most virtuous because we're human and inevitably have some shared experience. If you refuse to recognise the venn diagram of the human condition you lose the part of yourself that's capable of empathy.

[@cheddar2648]

2:48 Now it is "Latinx" Dev. catch up to the jargon, Boomer.

[@MisterDax]

I love the fact that most latinos, I think it was 98%, reject the 'latinx' thing, because: 1) 'latino' is already gender-neutral and 2) don't you white Beckies tell latinos how they should speak their language :)

[@onyxxvenom9198]

MisterDax I’ve seen how latinos are slowly adopting that language because women are being told how oppressive it is therefore needs to be changed, I for one understand the romanticized language and understand its meaning

[@cheddar2648]

9:47 Yes, but Feudalism--the most successful form of extreme inequality--does function after a fashion.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

At least in Feudalism, you know who to hang.

[@jsgdk]

So did stalinism, and so does Communist/State Capitalist China, these can be very stable and successful systems. We drove CCCP into the ground with significant effort expended, it did not implode by itself and probably would not have.

[@Xplora213]

Feudalism was an existential risk to the leadership. They had to defend their people and they had to keep Them happy otherwise they could expect to die. Plus... the stories of bad kings are the only memory of bad feudal leaders. Quite a humiliating threat for bad leadership, an eternal stain on your name. Feudalism was the best of the alternatives at the time. It won’t work now because you don’t need a lord when you can buy an RPG... you didn’t need a guy in armour and a strong arm to protect you.

[@Otharal]

Intersectionality is just the shiny new way to be a determinist. And it suffers from the exact same issue of being theoretically sound, but impossible to apply practically.

[@renkol123]

- First premise is "Intersectionality is correct." - Spends the next few minutes describing how intersectionality is wrong. ..... Okay, Dev.

[@protocj3735]

I don't agree with the description that intersectionalism is correct. As in Geocentric theory, it accurately predicts movement of planets, and was a useful tool when we didn't have anything better, but we know it was wrong and that Heliocentric theory is correct. One of the biggest struggles of switching to Heliocentric was that it was less accurate since it didn't have a body of work attached to it. Same with intersectionality, does it describe a phenomenon that exists? Yes. Does it allow you to act according to the predicted consequences? Yes. Is it the "correct" understanding of human condition? No. Intersectionalism is a kindergarden like theory, a kid would notice some paterns that some people are treated differently because of their characteristics and seek to fix that injustice on a group level. An adult would see that this divides everything up to an individual and seek to build systems that help everybody according to some objective criteria and that oppresion comming from social interactions is just a superposition of each individual opinion and can't be fixed with a law.

[@dutchdykefinger]

good read. besides if you take critical theory all the way, aren't those characteristics social constructs anyway and wouldn't doing away with them kind of make intersectionality pointless? seems like it can be as self-defeating as self-fulfilling :')

[@petercarioscia9189]

00:37 that's an oof from me bruh Intersection is the oppression Olympics. Judge not a man by the color of his skin but the content of his character. It's impossible to ignore statistics and stereotypes, of course. But it's better to strive for the aforementioned ideal than reduce everyone around you to their external attributes

[@GURGLEGUY12345]

"Here's a video you might not want to watch" No, please, by all means, give me a reason not to despise everyone who so much as claims to be left-leaning.

[@completelybelievablevideos4020]

12:03 You mention the often-cited "African proverb", but after doing some digging it seems that the origin of the proverb isn't African at all. Using Google's search function and a few changes to the words of the proverb in question, I could track the saying all the way back to 2001 on a forum. However, it was not attributed as an African proverb, it was just a quote without a source. The earliest I could find the quote attributed as an "African proverb" was in 2008 in a random facebook post. Finagling with the wording and using a good amount of google-fu actually led me to a poem by Michael Meade found in the book _Men and the Water of Life_ released in 1993. Here is the passage from the book: _“If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth."_ I can't find anything reference the proverb before this point. It looks like someone attributed it as an African proverb because they thought it made the sentence more mystical.

[@kongfeet81]

Seeing the title of this I was expecting a much shorter video

[@gravethestampede3454]

Most of this just more of what "The Far-Left Gets Wrong" still.

[@BananaHoardX]

So in conclusion, they make all the right questions but give no good answers.

[@Chronically_ChiII]

Very good. This is exactly why I subbed to you. You remain level headed compared to the extremist on either side.

[@donz6211]

There is an old Mesopotamian myth (at least I think that it is) where the gods come down and offer mankind the gift of civilization. However, before they gave it to mankind, they warned them that they couldn't give it back. But ultimately, they chose civilization because if they didn't take it they never could have progressed. They realized that bettering themselves was more important than safety in ignorance. Keep up the good work Dev.

[@SvendleBerries]

The thing about intersectionality is that those bars are mostly artificial, created by the same people who say intersectionality is real (leftist ideologies are very self serving that way). If youre told youre useless over and over again with no voices to counter it, you will believe it. Thats why Ive always seen intersectionality as brainwashing, because thats what it is. Its not that youre useless. Its that thats the only thing you were taught, so its the only thing you believe. Theres almost always more than one way to go about doing things in life. Intersectionality teaches people that theres only one way to do everything, and that one way is blocked by people who hate you and that youll never be able to get past them on your own merits. The only way to get past them is to gang up on them and force them to just give it to you. Oh, and dont listen to what they have to say, because its a lie and they are evil blah blah blah... Intersectionality is like going to rehab, except you dont get rehabilitated. Instead of helping you become a better person by teaching you to overcome your problems, your therapists instead enable you and make your problems worse by teaching you that your problem is actually a strength. Ive been to rehab before for my alcoholism. It didnt work for very long lol I mean, they tried, it just didnt stick. But I did learn things that have helped me in the long run. I can only imagine how I would have tuned out if instead of trying to help me stop drinking they just gave me a bottle and said,"Nah, this is better for you. Being an alcoholic makes you a stronger person and anybody that says otherwise is just a bigot." Yeah, no thank you.

[@Go0dTimes4fUnPro]

What the hell is that time poster. I can't take my eyes off of it.

[@greensmurf221]

"It's only after we lost everything, we're free to do anything."

[@clecanadalawexplained6330]

Generally, most ideologies or philosophies have elements of truth or useful insights. It's the fact that they then extrapolate way, way too far from that one or two insights.

[@mycoolhandgiveit]

Intersectionality is too broad and generalized to be useful and falls apart the more detail you try to force on to it. Details that are very important to whatever theoretically person you are talking about. It's probably practical for high level "academic" thought, but that is about it. It's too broad to fix practical every day issues, and when implemented incorrectly it ironically oppresses people more. Missing the trees for the forest and all that.

[@RVBMichaelJCaboose]

“All animals are equal (but some animals are more equal than others).”

[@wun1gee]

How can intersectional theory possibly be correct when it can be completely, soundly and totally invalidated simply by the individuals refusal to be defined by arbitrary characteristics? How can anything that is correct be so absolutely obliterated simply by one person's choice to day "no" to it's very premise?

[@P3tray]

Yeah you lost me at intersectionality, at the end of the day everyone has their problems that they went through or are going through and you don't care to hear mine so I don't care to hear about yours either. Not all men are created equal, pick yourself up by the bootstraps and do something about it if you can and if can't then try not to let it bring you down. This is the difference between a non-lefty and a lefty, I focus on my strengths and try not to let my weaknesses hold me back but a lefty will cry and whine about their weaknesses because "why should I try the whole world is against me", the world is against everyone not just you you weakling.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

you just described my position

[@P3tray]

@@ShortFatOtaku no, your intersectionality views skin color, gender and religion as a strength or weakness and is really just an inferiority complex disguised as "oppression olympics".

[@octapodes1132]

@@P3tray did you watch the whole video? Seems you may have just watched 5 minutes and dumped this comment.

[@Chronically_ChiII]

@F yes, because leftist are still human, and will generally stop where they lose attention. That doesn't mean the base idea is wrong, they just don't go through with it to the end.

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

The reperations thing makes me worried. I fear it could bankrupt my family. The taxes required would be huge. As a Romanian who had to flee comunism It is awful to me that I have communist calling me privileged. Also I fear reperations will happen. The American blacks want them to bad and the American blacks are to powerful and to beyond criticism.

[@ZombieNubify]

From the title I was expecting Horseshoe Theory cause I read it too fast

[@saintjimmy2244]

Oh boy and a wow. Turn that on its side. It does hurt the brain.

[@SpartanTrigger]

Dev as a straight white male who is technically “disabled “ as I’m autistic with an Asian wife , I honestly think everyone is oppressed in some way by the state or by their own problems in some way but atm I do not care , I care obly for my own group /family more then any other , that’s where the alt right is correct in some way , nobody will protect /uphold European /western culture but western people If I do not fight for my own nobody will end we will become slaves in the countries we built and I honestly do not care about the outcomes of other races/peoples As I have my own to take care of , no we are not in this together , we never were we never will be No I do not care for others anymore , in today’s age you cannot afford too , you must protect your own every group has problems that only they can solve and the involvement of the state does nothing but harm it Just look at California and then stripping civil rights in hiring It will mostly affect whites and Asians There is no reason to reward mediocrity , im Greek my people were enslaved and killed by the ottomans I understand black peoples anger but it’s misplaced In Some ways , but if i were black I’d probably hate white people too based on history /the media But asking for crumbs isn’t the right way separation is , I honestly think if we want lasting change separation is the key , we cannot live together peacefully and it’s not desirable anyway Every group is just too different of course separation should be voluntary not forced but if they are asking for it why shouldn’t we oblige them ? I’ve had enough so have many others , this multicultural experiment has failed we should all go our separate ways and be better off in the long run

[@DRTisKING]

Dev, there is a God and he loves you. That is all, have a great day and God bless

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

"You can convert away from being a Muslim,"? There is a DEATH PENALTY attached to that

[@ShortFatOtaku]

sure but in terms of intersectionality, if there is a penalty to being a muslim, you can convert and ditch the penalty. it's not a mutable characteristic like race.

[@urusama6039]

The fact is micromanaging “privilege” is insane. We’re better off not acknowledging it and working our way up than complaining about it and dragging others down. Do what’s good for you or your community or your group. We’re all individuals, equality of result is not a guarantee. To make it a guarantee is to take away all of the choices of anyone who ever interacts with you.

[@BLB048]

This video is festooned with instances where you admit something is necessary, but the radical left is correct when they say something needs to be done about it. I had a long-ish comment typed out, but the summary is this: I understand moderation is important, but how do you expect a pragmatist to approach a necessary evil? Exactly, so how can you say the right is asinine for saying leftists are wasting everyone's time by insisting we all address necessary things with which the only problem seems to be how they make people feel? Individual responsibility, self-actualisation and meritocracy seem to be the only solutions to feelings of powerlessness, but such solutions are precluded by a belief that your problems are caused by things beyond your control *even if this is an accurate assessment*. I disagree that radical leftists have a point about something if their point necessarily contains a premise that precludes the only effective solution. There. Saved everyone 5 minutes of reading.

[@serafine666]

What the far-left gets right: Nothing. 0:36 Having heard intersectionality explained thoroughly by a number of its academic advocates, I can safely say that intersectionality theory describes a reality that does not resemble the one we live in. It's attempting to apply mathematics to a socially fluid situation that's in perpetual flux, and thus it can't actually describe any specific point of reality. It describes what people are _led to believe_ by the theory, but not their actual state of being. 9:53 Inequality is not a real problem except where there is an inequality in basic rights. Outside of that, inequality is so intrinsic to being human that it can never be a problem above the individual level. 12:59 This is... a rare infusion of jabberwocky with blatherskite, seasoned with hogwash and stuffed with nonsense. Structures are just frameworks. You're not inside or outside of them; they are part of the world in which you operate. 16:47 And as with the previous points, they're not actually correct but you'll spend a few minutes piling on enough details and errata to make them seem so. 19:44 Well, the right is correct about this because the left are not liberal any longer. They are not the pull towards change that causes change to progress slowly, tentatively, and in a healthy and sustainable manner. They are a wild, directionless change with no real understanding of what they're doing and no capacity to appreciate that some things have to be conserved for real change to take place. 20:10 Not really; engineering is a profession of conservation.

[@nathanporrata9274]

It really strikes me people point to the stars and say something like "isn't life useless? You're small, the universe is big, therefore you have no value" when in reality that huge dead void of nothingness we call space is the thing with no value. Stars are dead. They only have values when assigned value. And it is wr who assigne that value. Our value doesn't depend on unthinking stars noticing us: their value depends on us noticing them

[@mralpha64002]

We learned plenty from German blitzkrieg.

[@thevocatiousunspeakables709]

The immutable traits theory falls apart when you realize that all traits stem from an immutable background. I didn't choose to like videogames, I just do because I was exposed to them as a child and I was prone to liking them from my genetics. You just can't define what makes up an "immutable" trait without ignoring flaws in your argument. It's either A. All traits matter or B. No traits matter

[@wuwei473]

Can you imagine telling an employer "Dont judge me!"

[@SpartanTrigger]

I’ve Sadly seen that , I’m in the tech industry in NYC , lots of young people like that and adults that give into their capitulation

[@wuwei473]

@@SpartanTrigger how pathetic

[@SpartanTrigger]

Wu Wei lots of lazy millennials dude , I had to train some in coding /web design They didn’t wanna even try to learn or put In the effort , they expect to be an expert after reading a few books with no hands on experience The participation trophy generation is doomed to mediocrity

[@saerain]

Intersectionality is to me one the _most_ wrong things about it... Even much of their economics are more defensible than the alcoves of this Critical Theory cult, honestly.

[@dutchdykefinger]

amen to that.

[@Rhygenix]

Voluntary Hierachies do exist. Look at your friend circle

[@goos4711]

When you pile up the oppression status, finding the one person who's black, trans, disabled and poor, it sounds like they're trying to find their version of Jesus. The one perfect being of oppressed that they need to emulate and worship.

[@metanekkoi6606]

Don't acknowledge the inherently flawed core of the intersectional oppression stack. Actual oppression is what we should care about, not theoretical oppression based on characteristics.

[@azmanabdula]

intersectionality sounds like cultural Eugenics to me

[@dutchdykefinger]

yeah sounds like a pretty apt description to me lol

[@luminouslentil8510]

He part about being judged definitely had a Tyler Durden vibe.. 'you are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world'

[@cristiansolano9491]

The message you send at the end of this video. I will hold forever in my heart.

[@ponyfucker3427]

That's the killing blow right here.

[@progste]

There is nothing correct about intersectionality, individualism has already answered that question but they are trying to cancel it and replace it with exponential collectivism.

[@thatonecatwiththetophat]

I never thought of it this way. Good job on the vid, Dev!

[@ty2010]

> gaining competence is oppressive > exercising competence is liberating

[@ritalinSolution]

He who knows only his own side of the argument knows little of that

[@squidworth2570]

Dude I've been listening to you for a while now and you've made some really cogent points. Really glad I found you because you've inspired some interesting conversations for me.

[@treedudemark]

Excellent video! Thank you for the effort you put into making it.

[@cookiecreep9204]

Basically, they have a few bad ideas, but ruin everything in execution of them, while getting out completely wrong results out of their observations, and use solutions that make no sense or will result in a completely opposite situation.

[@AstroTibs]

The interesting thing is that, typically, bars in cages don't intersect.

[@Nikoxin319]

>Might be where my own audience cancels me Dev, try to give us more credit then that!

[@Niyucuatro]

Even if their solutions is crap. If we solve the problems they detected, we disarm them.

[@dejalmer]

Good video with great points as always!

[@SpookyTanukiGaming]

“What the far left gets right” Proceeds to explain everything wrong with intersectionality

[@meteorwalkergg]

Excellent video!

[@BrawlerGamma]

So much of this articulates things I'd already been thinking, either consciously or in the back of my head, for quite a while, while following all the current events and junk going on, and articulates it really well. Thank you, Dev.