Why your kids don't think good

[@CallMeChato]

Sorry for my weak Roman numeral joke. I thought it was funny not getting it right. Yes 12, not 7.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

Doesn't matter if it was funny, the important thing is to think about the Roman empire every day.

[@KAZVorpal]

I feel skepticism, about whether it was intentional...

[@steprockmedia]

I have a joke about a theater troupe for you. But I'm still workshopping it.

[@KAZVorpal]

​@@steprockmedia 👍👍recursive gag👍👍

[@2099EK]

I guess Roman numerals (Ⅻ) are letters and numbers, so they are trans-characters. 😀But aren't they using colonizer language when they use ROMAN numerals? They were a huge colonizing empire!

[@paulcrawford9007]

A private Singapore high school could make a fortune by opening extension campuses in the U.S. and Canada. Topics could include math, chemistry, physics, and English.

[@drgordo112]

I taught at an Ontario school in Malaysia. Whereas the local students were great at rote learning, they had not been introduced to critical thinking. Once they got a handle on critical thinking, they were a force to reckon with! Too bad Ontario no longer teaches critical thinking or rote learning! Now it's just kids hanging out on their phones all class...

[@jfb.8746]

THIS.

[@rsr789]

@@drgordo112 I'm glad for my 7 years spent in TO as an elementary school and then middle school (then we moved to 'Murica) student, we were taught a wide range of skills and topics, including critical thinking and sex ed. And I'm also super happy smart phones did not exist then.

[@drgordo112]

@@rsr789 Smartphones put an end to smart people! They turned us into jerks!

[@yootoobsuks4210]

What are those?

[@drgordo112]

I am an Ontario High School teacher with four degrees, including my PhD. I no longer encourage students to pursue university because "education" has become ridiculous. I am much prouder of the fact I have visited over 70 countries than anything I learned in school...

[@PonyFoot123]

Thank you

[@MrTickleTrunk]

A possible silver lining - Not all people need college or university and it's time we stop telling EVERYONE they need a deploma.

[@drgordo112]

@@MrTickleTrunk In Ontario, we used to have Grade 13. I find most people who did it remembered it as their best year of High School. We do a lot of maturing from ages 18-19 and we left for post-secondary much more prepared than students now. Therefore, on the rare occasion I'm asked my opinion, I promote travel, a regular job, or trade school as a much better path than university.

[@MrTickleTrunk]

@@drgordo112 It made me HAPPY to read that. TY :)

[@Thandar324]

It's no longer education, it's indoctrination

[@MrBenfranz]

I am a college librarian. While I have presented film conferences over the years, I would NEVER consider presenting at a conference that got lost in its jargon or was bespoke towards colonialism. No wonder the kids aren't all right. Oy...

[@philospeakNOW]

Hard to be a librarian these days (ESPECIALLY at a college I imagine) unless you are part of the GroupThink or massively self-censor. Of course, I'm not speaking from personal experience (lol).

[@MrBenfranz]

@@philospeakNOW This is why I have striven to work 'behind the scenes'. I have become a Cataloging Librarian and spend exactly O% of my time with college students. I simply process all the books and materials, either in or out of the catalog and leave the rest alone. I spend many hours hiding in my office. It seems to work.

[@dee-taylor]

"Logics of Dehumanization" That's rich, because DEI/intersectionality is some of the more aggressive dehumanizion propaganda out there.

[@mantrid777]

exactly that was one of my first thoughts: dehumanization in favor of collectivist self-actualization

[@custos3249]

Pfff. You must be a white straight male. Now watch as I use that to dehumanize you while claiming I don't dehumanize people. Because logics.

[@custos3249]

@@mantrid777 "collectivist self-actualization" now there's one hell of an oxymoron

[@thatotherguy8138]

My mother is Ambidextrous. She was not born ambidextrous. When my mother was a child, she was smacked with a ruler every time she used her Left hand for something that the relevant Authorities (teachers, pastor, coaches, etc.) believed should be done with her Right hand. To this day, she has trouble using her Left hand for some tasks because she remembers the smack of rulers on her left hand. They weren't Evil, or Cruel, or particularly mean - they honestly believed that what they were doing was in my mothers best interest. That she had a problem they were helping her overcome. She was a teacher for 50+ years, and in that time she taught herself how to use her Left hand for many tasks so she could be an example to her left-handed students that being left-handed was perfectly normal. And it took her 20ish years until she was anything other than an exception to that. Even in the 80's, there were teachers forcing kids to use their Right hands instead of Left hands because there was still an opinion that Left-handedness was bad. On a functional level... I'm not seeing a significant difference between what happened to my mother, and what these "educators" are trying to do to our entire society. Here are "new words" - use them. Don't use "old words" - here's a (metaphorical) smack for using an "old word". Some of the "old words" are used in new ways, so they're essentially "new words" - use them properly now or get a metaphorical smack. MOST of them aren't particularly Evil, or Cruel, and most of them honestly believe what they're doing is for the betterment of Humanity. Unfortunately, I'm not certain there are enough people like my mother, who would rebel against this obvious indoctrination.

[@drgordo112]

I'm sorry your mother had to go through that.

[@GenuineLhachwen]

It is evil when the underlying premise for the implementation or change is evil. Left-handedness was considered 'of the devil'. To any left-handed child in that time displaying the 'devil's hand' was more about what a teacher 'thought was best' (and the teacher's mindset) than what was actually best. The premise was evil so the teachers affecting it were furthering a cruelty despite them thinking they were doing a 'good thing'. Same thing goes for all the current gobbledygook... the underlying basis is pure, unadulterated, evil and any teacher pushing its agenda is furthering this evil so despite that teacher thinking they are 'doing good' it is still very nefarious what they do. Teachers don't get a 'cruelty pass' as 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions', is it not?

[@drgordo112]

@@GenuineLhachwen I point out to colleagues that for a century or so, it was going against the grain to not support the (Indigenous) Residential School system. How can people see evidence of how wrong people can be -- and continue to be wrong in new and creative ways?!

[@Augustus087]

Thank you, Paul. This is why as an educator of 29 years, I never pursued advanced degrees.

[@JB-ti7bl]

You hit the nail on the head. I'm an ESL teacher with 15 years in the classroom, but when I have to go to quarterly trainings, the mumbo-jumbo terms and theorizing repel me.

[@bathyalgames]

So you pursue to advanced degrees in engineering or mathematics related studies?

[@gradybeachum1804]

"Mycelium and musical interconnectedness" - taking Magic Mushrooms while listening to music. One thing you can say for certain is that none of the presenters have had to do anything relating to the world outside their bubble of academia. This is the (not so) subtle sign pointing to bedlam.

[@bobbugwithoneeyeskingiskin8974]

Three Words… “It Is Bollocks”!

[@KuulSHep]

As a black man, if this is supposed to be aimed towards folks like me, I am greatly offended. I worked very hard for my education, and I refuse to be told to go learn some pigeon talk. This isn't the Caribbean nor Haiti.

[@moderatecanuck]

Even Haitians over there wouldn't want this nonsense. Also, this is some second gen nonsense and mostly Anglos

[@rsr789]

@@moderatecanuck Correct, I have a Haitian friend (also a university graduate) and he thinks this is garbage.

[@drgordo112]

@@rsr789 I had the opportunity to travel to Haiti. While I was there I met a former slave. It is a long story that I can't write here, but I did tell him about Woke stuff and he thought it was nuts! lol

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@moderatecanuckWhat's an Anglo? You in Quebec?

[@moderatecanuck]

@@badlaamaurukehu Canadians would understand

[@TurtleTrackin]

Citizenship is what has gone down the drain. Good citizens know they have certain rights, but also certain responsibilities. A man has certain responsibilities to his wife and children. A wife has certain responsibilities to her husband and children. Children have certain responsibilities to their parents and to one another. We've lost this, so young men and women don't realize it, but they've lost their sense of personal MISSION. So they fall into these ridiculous hoaxes to try to feel significant.

[@brushstroke3733]

No one is responsible for anyone but themselves. We can choose to value and help others, but there is no holy decree handed down from the universe declaring that we are responsible for others (which are ultimately never ours to control.)

[@TheSuperappelflap]

The worst part isnt that people are paying money to go to these conferences. Whatever, its their money. Problem is theyre teaching it in primary schools.

[@clogs4956]

Can you imagine being SENT to attend one of these conferences?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@clogs4956 i would probably quit my job and get a new one if an employer tried to force me attend any event outside work. but i know thats not a luxury everyone can afford. hypothetically if i was forced by circumstance to go there and had to be a good boy in fear of losing my job, id pretend to be really serious about it and ask the most annoying questions possible without getting kicked out.

[@wherami]

They have created some amazing propaganda. It’s meant to make everyone stupid and broken.

[@swanvictor887]

It's working!

[@redshirtacademymortuary4848]

Especially themselves, though they lack the self-awareness to realize it.

[@clogs4956]

“…it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Out of context, sorry, but I felt it suited the situation.

[@AussieAmigan]

@@clogs4956 It sounds like you are describing Disney Starwars. Again, out of context.

[@AffyisAffy]

Counterpoint to this, I have a CS degree and while I PERSONALLY feel it's worthless, the HR employee that filters the 500 resumes in front of them, including mine, does not. Others in my field have been gatekept out of a higher salary bracket by a company as well. Sucks, but that paper still means something to others

[@ProfessorHeyTeeEn]

If they paid ME to go to those presentations and workshops, I would be making inappropriate jokes throughout, challenge them on every single point that is not making sense and asking for definitions all the time. If my job forced me to do one of those, I would have as much enjoyment as I could out of it, and if I got kicked out, get my company to sue them for all they are worth. Beause I'm not paying for anything like this out of my pocket.

[@JB-ti7bl]

A family member of mine is quite far-Left. His company posted the BLM logo on their homepage for months in 2020. He told me they were hosting an anti-racism training, and he sent me an 11-page essay that was part of training (can't recall the author's name). Anyway, the essay was trash; full of unverifiable anecdotes like, "I overheard some white students talking after my class and they said that black women are not beautiful". Another ridiculous point was when the author cited a study that found when white kindergartners are asked to draw Native Americans, they use "stereotypical" symbols like feathers and animals. Well, guess what, I googled Native American artists, and found that literally every painting FROM THEMSELVES contains feathers and animals! CONCLUSION: ALWAYS CHALLENGE THESE DUMB IDEAS.

[@ConceptJunkie]

If my job forced me to do one of those, I would quit on the spot.

[@SlashTheWeasel]

My department where I work has mandatory classes. I've not taken the latest two . . . yet. On the others I was able to google answers so I don't waste any more of my time or brain space on this garbage. I can't afford to quite my job. I have 27 years in with my pension and retirement in it. I keep hoping that this will all end.

[@philipg.haynes8373]

When the words are bigger than the ideas they are trying express is always a concern. I hate hate the use of codified ambiguous language, being used to separate people, or justify a position, it so often is rhetoric hidden behind verbosity. PS Paul that table read you where going to do for a Diversity equity inclusivity comedy I would pass on that🤣

[@silverjohn6037]

In 1960 only about 10-11% of the American population had a 4 year university degree. People with degrees were valued because, even the most useless English Major degree had to meet academic standards and you could actually be failed out of university. Nowadays over 30% of the American population has a 4 year degree and nobody who's met the average college graduate is impressed anymore. The academic standards are so appallingly low that you can't be kicked out so long as you pay your tuition and, with student loans, anyone can pay the tuition. In this environment the only place these graduates can find employment "fitting to their station" is in universities but the traditional fields of study already have tenured professors so they have to create whole new fields of study and the departments that go with them so that they can have a job. They invent new theories and the obscure gobbledygook that goes with them that only they can understand so that they can never be questioned.

[@altal2993]

What you say is very troubling.... the Soviets back in the day always said Western decadence would be our undoing... Perhaps they were right (just 40 years late) 😢

[@emceedoctorb3022]

This. It is the same in the UK and not even as far back as the 60s. When I left school in the mid 80s only 10% of school leavers went to university because they were the only ones bright enough and/or needed to go to enter the professions such as engineering, law or doctors. Now it is over 50%. Thee is no way that in the 40ish years since then that people have got smarter because they haven’t, they have got dumber but standards have been dropped. Let me tell you a little story. After I left school I joined the army and was trained as an electronic engineer. I gained a civilian qualification called a BTEC ONC which I could have go if I had gone to a normal civilian technical college. BTEC is the name of the awarding organisation and ONC stands for Ordinary National Certificate. To get the ONC you needed 21 units from a possible 27 available. I obtained 26. If I had got 27 I would have been awarded the higher Diploma (the army wouldn’t let us do this for some reason). Now a few years later I received a letter from BTEC telling me that I had been awarded a diploma because they had dropped the requirements to get one from 27 units to 22 and to get the certificate from 21 to 16. This dropping of standards has gone on for years. A few years ago my brother started a degree in electronic engineering and he was being taught stuff on it that I had learned when I was 15 at school.

[@silverjohn6037]

@@emceedoctorb3022 It's a bit like the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. You aren't "smart" until you get the piece of paper and the people who decide what it takes to get the piece of paper can be pretty... let's call it random sometimes;).

[@domm6812]

I work at a university and can corroborate all of this. It's very difficult to fail a student now, even if they are absolutely terrible. The value of a degree is dropping like a rock because the standards required to get one are almost nonexistent.

[@altal2993]

Question: each generation bemoans the new generation. So it's my/our turn.... So my honest quest for an opinion is... are we justified this time? Is what we are seeing new? Or just what every older generation sees? We can say that this generation is the first "internet"/smart phone generation which was and is a revolution. Not other generation has seen such changes (except perhaps the WW1&2 generations). I'd love to hear what people think?

[@MrEnKaye]

For the people that say "well this only affects students who take these courses", i want you to know that those same students are the ones who control the student unions, the clubs, the orientation committees that craft introductory content for incoming freshmen (freshfolx?). It's deeper and worse than you think. Been there.

[@drgordo112]

In Ontario, this material is part of the compulsory High School English courses. As a result, there is a potential for ALL students to hear this material in a mainstream classroom.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Those students are the ones who harass and cause trouble for everyone else while endlessly crying about being oppressed.

[@clogs4956]

@@drgordo112hear it, yes - comprehend it, no. It’s linguistic garbage.

[@drgordo112]

@@clogs4956 And there's the tragedy: even if students only remember 10%, if the material is mostly garbage - I fear they only remember the garbage!

[@emceedoctorb3022]

@@clogs4956 All left wing philosophy is linguistic garbage. It is all designed to sound incredibly intellectual and it works on people who are not wise to it. Scratch beneath the surface of it all though and you realise that there is absolutely nothing there.

[@steprockmedia]

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." -1984

[@TimeOut210]

Spot-on, Chato. The only "lingual" that applies to such ideologically driven manipulation, is anilingual. And they've probably all got their tongues well up there already.

[@wavion2]

I asked my girlfriend the other day if she'd be interested in some anilingus, but really it was just tongue-in-cheek.

[@TimeOut210]

@@wavion2 Hahahaha. LMAO! Good one!

[@DarthPlato]

Coloniality is a technical-sounding, polished-looking word that's really just a trick word. It's the view and practice of undermining and replacing Modernity, classical Liberal concepts with different language and values in order to facilitate change. But to change to what is a question that even these people don't know or don't agree about. You're right, Chato, at this point, is mostly a form of living.

[@robo5013]

I remember when the social engineering you received in school was things like how to show up on time, how to complete and hand in projects on time, how to stand in line correctly, how to patiently wait your turn, how not to talk over others, etc.

[@arioch2112]

When your presentation sounds like a William Burroughs rearrangement of syllables instead of words... These are words in search of a sentence. I've worked with writing for print and writing for TV/radio and trying to explain to some about that crucial difference, I can't even imagine trying to slog through this inarticulate mess. Thank you for taking those slings and arrows, Paul. Heavens to Murgatroyd, even!

[@msd5808]

3:32 I'm impressed that they capitalized "White" too along with "Black" and "Brown." Used to just be the latter two that got capitalized in these sort of things.

[@CheeseOfMasters]

Seeing this stuff in University made me so spiteful towards academics that I broke off studying altogether.

[@MrMessageWriter]

Wow. As a teacher's kid from the 1970's and 1980's, I always wondered as a kid if I could learn enough to "make it" in the real world. This was an issue with my peer group as well. Everyone obsessed over it, now, I see my friend's kids and they wonder why they aren't "making it", into their 20's and some into their 30's. Why isn't the world just giving them money, (although it was for the Pandemic), why can't it just give them money, and leave them alone to play games... No motivation. Except to play video games, and watch KZbin. One of my friend's kids cannot even count change, or figure out how much money he has in his pocket. Then when these kids, meet people that buy into the crap above, they feel as if that is real, because they've never learned anything real before, and this stuff gives them a way to feel in their place, whether or not they are white. It also gives them a vocabulary which they also feel gives them power. As well as turns them into activists, often for things they don't even know what they are. It's a machine for getting weak willed, uneducated young people, into your political group, and it' damned effective.

[@JB-ti7bl]

One thing I've noticed recently reading comments (not yours) is that many ppl can't write sentences that make sense. Many ppl are unable to navigate grammar well enough to make themselves understood.

[@RustCole01]

@@JB-ti7bl Both of your comments have struck a chord with me. @MrMessageWriter I am almost 40, and grew up with 2 brothers. All of us had to mow the lawn, use the weed-whacker, shovel snow etc. And that was the baseline. My dad ran a small residential construction business, which meant that all of us worked when we weren't in school or sports. We got paid most of the time, but sometimes we had to donate our time and other times, we worked in exchange for something... like a new baseball bat or a discman with 3 second skip protection or a sweet new pair of rollerblades lol. I wouldn't say this was super common for most kids of my generation, but it definitely wasn't rare either. By the time I was 12 or 13 years old, I understood and could apply the Pythagorean Theorem, because that is a common math formula in construction. Fast forward 20 years when I moved back to my city, and my dad has trade school graduates working for him that struggle with a tape measure. Giving them 1/8 inch increments was dicey but giving them 1/16 inch was a waste of time. My dad also started buying Dunkin Donut gift cards, because these guys struggled so badly with how much change to give people when they got back. And @JB-ti7bl English and grammar were never my strongest subjects, but it is wild to see people post walls of incomprehensible text in the comments. No commas, periods or paragraph breaks. Just one or two, very long run-on sentences. It's funny because I used to listen to Bill Burr's podcast quite a bit and he would read emails sent in by listeners. And his audience loved to joke about Bill being such a sh1tty reader. Which, it's fine to break his balls, but it's not really true. I have seen the emails that get displayed as he reads them, and it is embarrassing how poorly written they are. It was like reading the flow of consciousness that someone jotted down in their dream journal while tripping on shrooms. These technological leaps in progress have had some wild side effects.

[@singerap]

I think the social engineering has been all too effective. That is what worries me.

[@BoojayDeeth]

This problem is surely yet to hit it's zenith. All the kids who are currently going through the social engineering you describe aren't in the adult world yet. What will happen to them (and society) when they do, when they're expected to take part in the task of making that society work, you know keeping the lights on and maintaining a clean water supply. I'm not a doom and gloomer by nature but one can't help but wonder...

[@sentryogmixmaster]

the adult world has been cancelled.

[@rasalasblack]

A breakdown of basic modern services. When the utilities companies hire for diversity instead of based on merit and experience? Some insufferable whiner is gonna fck up something crucial while signalling their virtues online. Back to stone age we will be.

[@rasalasblack]

Can you imagine NASA diversity hiring their astronauts? Or, diversity promoting generals in an increasingly unstable world politics now?

[@tatersquad2000]

I've equitized the coloniality of my fugitive space and deconstructivized my praxis of plurality five times already this morning.

[@swanvictor887]

I tried to, but it made my eyes water...!

[@josie_the_valkyrie]

Stunning and brave! 👏

[@justsomeguywithoutamustang6436]

that's great, but have you tried translanguaging the plurilinguality of your identithetical femislamic hermeneutics?

[@swanvictor887]

@@justsomeguywithoutamustang6436 I did indeed and was immediately arrested and fined by the courts....

[@yvonnesolomon3357]

I had to learn some new vocabulary recently-apparently the word “disabled” is now offensive and a lot of schools are changing the names of their offices from “Disabled Students Program” to “Center for Accesible Education” or “Student Accesible Services”. Took me forever to find where the disabled students center was at my new college because I thought “Accesible” was some financial aid thing 😆 Academia never fails at finding ways to make the most mundane thing sound so needlessly complicated.

[@jeffappleton926]

It's how most fake gurus operate. They take a relatively simple concept, complicate the heck out of it - often using pseudo-scientific jargon - and then offer a simple solution in the form of a mantra or simple unassailable "truth". An old friend of mine was the leader of an "Alternative Lifestyle Community" and walked me through the process. Probably should be taught in How to Avoid Brainwashing 101.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

It gives the administrators something to do with all their spare time. In many of these colleges there are now more administrators than teaching staff!

[@richland1980]

Orwell's 1984 is now a how to guide.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

Trying to understand these people is like trying to understand Darmok and Jalad.

[@jeffmorin1469]

I recently re-watched Monty Python's "Life of Brian". The parts about the Roman's, seem really relevant now.

[@AGS363]

The sad thing: they are not even wrong about their supersession creates suppressors stick. They just fail to understand what they themselves are....

[@kalmac6255]

It's no longer about teaching how to think, but rather, what to think.

[@ZeopoZero]

So glad I finished my schooling back in the late 2000's. And it boggles the mind to think that nerd people out there. Who believes that they are better and superior than the people from the past. And did things in history that are no-no today. And nothing is good. Going to come out of teaching people that you're a bad person because your ancestors did stuff.

[@chrissullivan6574]

"Communist share your vocabulary but not your dictionary." James Lindsay

[@SeerCoyle]

Awesome & informative work Paul! Thank you!

[@itchimo82]

I'm glad I've been following you long enough to gather some of the nuance behind your positions. One of the most powerful things you mentioned is that the intelligentsia aren't actually interested in changing society. I grew up in a poorer part of Detroit, but was able to earn scholarships to get out. I majored in geography, and had access to quite a few liberal academics at the University of Minnesota. Although I believe most of them concerns themselves with issues of social justice in earnest, their jobs, like journalists, often depend on not solving the social problems they research. Similar to Wall Street; can two symbiotic organizations properly check and regulate each other? Collusion, voluntary or otherwise, is the result.

[@AussieAmigan]

No, the intelligentsia are more interested in keeping society divided as a divide and conquer strategy.

[@JB-ti7bl]

Thomas Sowell speaks about going to work for the govt as a young man. He did some work on an issue that he thought might help solve a problem, and so he presented it to his bosses. But, they were not interested at all. He realized that they weren't interested in solving the problem b/c it was the basis of their job! Same goes for race hustlers: no racism, no job. Therefore, they see racism EVERYWHERE!!!

[@lovemyhoney1352]

God bless you for sharing this TRIPE!

[@doberski6855]

Funny as this was Mr. Chato. What I am worried about is how many tickets were bought with taxpayer's money for government employees, and politicians to attend this stupidity.

[@keithagn]

Good point.

[@clogs4956]

And I wonder how many of those tickets were received with horror or an eye to the alcohol facilities of the venue.

[@doberski6855]

@@clogs4956 Or how many attending arrived with hip flasks or travel coffee mugs that were filled with booze!🤣🥃

[@thentheric6361]

This reminds me too much of the court scene from Idiocracy.

[@alphamike87]

Great video Paul, it's so stupid schools are even allowing this stuff, no one pushing this stuff is actually educated in the real world, they are delusional

[@tyramasters-heinrichs921]

Wow, you hit the nail on the head with the 'You need to know the vocabulary' to be part of this group and for it's problems to exist. Completely true, and they divide people, dehumanize people, and teach hate and entitlement. They literally tell people if you can feel upset then you are a victim...seriously. Thank you for covering this. Hi from Manitoba

[@davidvines3883]

As a public school teacher, I'm glad this stuff hasn't hit my school... yet. There has been some talk about rethinking "grades". Must stay vigilant.

[@purdunetae2995]

Since the late 80's, I saw a decline in real world teaching in USA universities. I put a lot of the blame on "free money". From super cheap student loans to government subsidies. When you work for something, you tend to put more thought into it. How you are spending your hard earned money. It's why my children are paying for 1/3 of their college. I want them to have skin in the game. So far, it's working.

[@tinymetaltrees]

It's right there in the title of the conference. 'Speaking Out & Speaking Up' Doublespeak Words in a row, tied in knots, with the intention of them staying pointlessly tangled.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

It’s the pointless entangling, the macaronism, that gives this sort of waffle its self-important value. They don’t want to be understood, only to be respected.

[@wsippel]

The nomenclature is basically the only thing that differentiates modern social sciences from flat earth or intelligent design crackpots. It's just as stupid, but the nonsensical phrasing gives it an air of importance and legitimacy. But it's ultimately still the exact same garbage. The stupid man's idea of a smart man. It's old novel cuisine jokes taken to the extreme: At the end of the day, a "bouquet of leafs" is still just a salad. And if that salad is rotten, you have to come up with an even more flowery description to fool idiots.

[@nickdirienzo2849]

As a long time amateur Mycologist and Shamanic practitioner, if these idiot kids ever had a true hallucinogenic experience and the intelligence to contemplate and extract the knowledge that was in front of them we would be living in a completely different world!

[@wastelandsniper789]

I think that attributing good intentions to the types of people who attend and host these things - essentially saying that their hearts are in the right place - is what has put us in the cultural mess we're in. I'm at the point now where I think all of these people are horrible at the core, and none of them deserve respect. They've given me zero reason to think they are not just terrible people. Social justice has never had anything to do with justice; it's only ever been about seeking revenge against people who had nothing to do with extremely cherry-picked historical wrongs and perceived wrongs.

[@jswets5007]

Much like professional athletes, actors, and politicians, the vast majority of the individuals involved in this ridiculous level of DEI would be absolutely unemployable in any field but the one which has been created for them.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

That’s completely unfair. Most actors I’ve met get by very well on tips they earn in their day job at the local restaurant.

[@jswets5007]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 Indeed, I should have been more specific and said A list actors. 😂

[@erikwaag6438]

Be a mechanic or electrician. You will have money and time for intellectual hobbies. I know people like this and they can change a lightbulb and talk about their field of interest to much greater depth than a U student.

[@spellsocks2540]

In my opinion, those were all perfectly cromulent words...

[@ThieflyChap]

You spoke of social change since the 60s, and you're right, things have changed for the better. These people however choose to ignore it, so they have something to whinge about.

[@zerobyte802]

Activist leaders don’t want to actually fix anything because that would mean they’re out of a job.

[@Fauxkerykes]

This was one of my favorite videos you've ever done. This is exactly what it's happening in the US. It's a cancer to society. I'm so glad you spoke about this.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

It was worse than 7 of them. This was the 12th one.

[@scottmcfadyen293]

As someone who studies theology on his own for the depths of it , i find this term hermeneuetics completely unnessary - interpreting is what you do when you study theology ! I find all of this nomenclature jungle survival testing to be a childlike prospect - like the kids trying to find their own way in seeing differently by making up their own words when they don't want daddy's words ! And now they are trying to make a business out of it ! this is the bording realm of talking to yourself without the power of context to Know Thyself !!! To be as you said Paul "told what to think rather than how to think." is to make sure you have no discernment. if you had any , it would make you look at this word salad manifesto conference as the stupid cash grab it is !

[@Phase52012]

There was a video some years ago. (It's probably still on YT). It was a student meeting at a Uni in South Africa. (I think). A young woman was arguing that that science should be rejected as it was part of "colonisation". I forget her exact argument, but it was rejected by other students. I really didn't understand what she wanted; and what she expected would replace science.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Long story short: it's all a language based grift. The problem is the vast majority of normal people use language 'habitually' and have no real knowledge of, or interest in, any of the finer technical points of semantics and are thus ill equipped to counter any sort of directed linguistic attack, to the point that an emotionally laden/fraught concerted directed linguistic assault is effectively 'magic' to the ill guarded or naive mind.

[@--------RR007----------]

Fugitive spaces is a great band name!

[@cameltanker1286]

Another example of what George Bernard Shaw meant when he wrote, "Those who can, do; Those who can’t, teach." Unfortunately, it looks like they can't even do that.

[@thunderleg6605]

I could see Screwtape having a ball with this conference...

[@redshirtacademymortuary4848]

And how many of these woke wankers would even catch the reference?

[@AegisKHAOS]

There was a time when getting a degree from a university was considered an accomplishment. Now I would rather high school students just go out and find a job right away.

[@52moviesayear]

These studies don’t exist without their vocabulary. that says it all

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

This "conference" reminded me those woke Tolkien seminars with the same nonsense vocabulary

[@Funkylogic]

This is all because they haven't received enough Robocop into their hearts. I'd love to watch you do a play through and your comments.

[@jimsteinmanfan80]

It's real bad the resources of the society goes into this education. It's even worse though that the students manage to get all kinds of jobs where they try to spread this as best they can.

[@markmunroe-hz8rf]

1984 by George Orwell is coming to pass.

[@1Gr8Editrix]

What cracked me up was the "Drum Circle" offered at the end.

[@edgarplummer6750]

You have to be the biggest coward ever to sit and let some one talk down to you like this and not defend yourself.

[@dougybrownie481]

That’s my problem, I’m not going to let anyone talk to me like dog.I will verbally and physically use self respect to tell you to fk off .

[@brianbagnall3029]

Nailed it. There is no true artistry there

[@Professor-Fear]

"Fugitive Space" sounds like it could be a cool sci-fi movie.

[@CallMeChato]

Love it.

[@free_at_last8141]

Using tolerance to exclude and expressing love to promote hate is brilliant. Hats off to the twisted souls that originated this plague.

[@kloassie]

The Mycelial Network!!! #orangeriver 😂

[@NorthernXY]

You're the best thing out of Canada since the Red Green Show.

[@ruben3305]

I stopped watching South Park around the 10th season. I recently started watching it again and man! They really hit the nail on the head with the PC, political climate and major events. What you are showing us Chato is exactly what South Park was making fun of when it started making it easier for me laugh at it because it all make sense now.

[@wavegun]

I saw 'speaking out' and I laughed. Like they let people like me say anything. Thanks Chato, for calling it like it is.

[@Saghorse1978]

You got a COLON joke in there!! LOL!!!

[@ttrev007]

cults are very fond of redefining words and making it hard communicates with it members since the same word means different things to the inside.

[@CoryTheRaven]

Wow... these people even found a way to make getting high on shrooms and listening to music into some kind of racist torture.

[@garyworthington840]

Thanks!

[@CallMeChato]

Thank you back.

[@digbystrawbridge6161]

Thanks

[@CallMeChato]

Thanks. You've made my day.

[@firebearva]

And it once was, three days of love and music. Who would of thunk?

[@matweb8195]

Thank you for putting out this important video (not that your other videos aren't important, but this ones important.)

[@crankysmurf]

Apparently, at least here in BC, high school students will no longer be graded by numbers/alphabet (A to F) nor be forced to turn in homework on time. How the hell will these kids survive in the real world with a real job that have proficiency, efficiency, and time requirements? I worry for the future if kids are so coddled they can't be allowed to fail and learn from their mistakes.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Reminds me of the time that Nobel physics laureate Richard Feynman went to a sociology class where they were discussing ‘essential objects’. He was baffled by their circular discussions and asked “Is an orange an essential object?” When the answers that came back were all contradictory, he decided sociology was not for him, and left.

[@russingersoll5761]

A false sense of moral superiority is a helluva drug.

[@jeffreysommer3292]

"The Turkish ambassador spoke nine languages, but not this one. " --Aleister Crowley, Moonchild [Referring to similar pseudo-intellectual claptrap by Arthwaite].

[@andreycr6637]

The word salad on that document is impressive, ngl

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Wow. You are correct. I am wondering how I can keep from feeling despair. I love our country and this damaging trend seems to be getting more and more support. It is taking over so much, influencing our children, affecting the militarty, and disrupting our country. It all can lead to horrific consequences for us (like it did in Rome). Please help me!

[@retiefgregorovich810]

If you have kids, home school them.

[@PrincessFionaYT]

This was so painful to watch. But thank you Paul for the information.

[@Shuxy]

“What the fuck IS this?!” 😂

[@CallMeChato]

My thoughts exactly.

[@timothysullivan2997]

It's worse than you think. It wasn't the seventh(VII) such conference it was actually the TWELTH (XII). At the reading of the conference material, is living proof that academia has fully embraced the precept: IF YOU DAZXZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE, BAFFLE THEM WITH BULL SHIT. And you are spot on right about our colleges and universities.

[@nigelbagguley7606]

All the way from England, the problem isn't just the hyperfocus on intersectionality,they have fully bought into the postmodernist belief that words define reality as opposed to merely describing it.

[@darthlaurel]

At this point, making fun of the people is a requirement. Bring back shame.

[@mikecanul]

Wow - agreed 👍🏾 great perspective

[@bmaclin999]

I really like funny Chato, but serious Chato is fire.

[@Xiy114]

Thank you Chato.

[@bingbruce4865]

If you ever need a good justification of your own stupidity, getting a college degree will work perfect. When someone calls you stupid, just tell them you have a college degree and they will just say "Oh, okay, now you make sense".

[@pilouuuu]

"Do you have a college degree? Ok, Dr. Stupid."

[@bingbruce4865]

@@pilouuuu Thanks for proving my point.

[@SenzoHD]

Let's do more of these types of videos. Loved it.

[@jimivey6462]

Student response to this event studied in College classroom of 2200: Possibility 1: “What the Hell were they thinking?” Possibility 2: “Stunning & Brave!”