Taking on Woke Inc. | 5 Minute Video
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Congratulations, graduates! Your days of leftist indoctrination are behind you. Just kidding! The glass tower of the corporate world is fast becoming as woke as the ivory tower of the college world. In PragerU’s 2021 commencement address, Ben Shapiro offers some sage advice for how to stick to your values... no matter where you go.
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Script:
Congratulations, graduates!
Your days of indoctrination in wokeism are behind you. Your worries about being graded down because you wouldn’t say America is systemically racist? Over. Your fears that you’d be socially shunned because of your failure to decry the evils of capitalism? Done. Yes, you’ve been liberated!
Next stop: the real world, where merit is rewarded, diversity of opinion is welcomed, and the free and open exchange of ideas is celebrated.
Just kidding.
The truth is, many of you are about to move from the ivory tower of the authoritarian left to…well, probably, the glass and steel tower of the authoritarian left.
Today’s business behemoths have also become bastions of woke thought. Terrified of discrimination lawsuits and all the time, money, and bad PR, they bend to every woke diktat that blows through their HR departments.
Corporations spend millions on useless “diversity compliance officers” whose sole purpose is to insulate them from an ever-expanding list of discrimination claims, but most especially, racism. That’s why, within the first few days on the job, you will likely be subjected to an orientation taught by a devotee of Ibram X. Kendi or Robin DiAngelo. During a day-long struggle session, this “anti-racist” consultant will inform you that, if you’re white, you must become “less white.” And if you’re a person of color (a P.O.C), you are a victim.
Corporations cater to their squeakiest customers-and the authoritarian left is nothing if not squeaky; it threatens boycotts and company-destroying publicity if businesses refuse to comply with its demands.
According to a study by James Bailey and Hilary Phillips as reported in the Harvard Business Review, a generic corporation identified as apolitical or liberal saw no blowback from a panel of prospective consumers; but a generic corporation identified as conservative saw a 33% drop in opinion, “entirely driven by participants who identified as Democrats.” That’s why your boss will likely send out regular company-wide emails assuring you that he or she or xe is on the Right Side of History and pledging millions of dollars in support of whatever the leftist cause du jour happens to be. And you’ll be forced to echo these messages or seek employment elsewhere.
Corporations, above all, are risk averse and controversy averse. This means that they are petrified of their own woke workers and cater to them in order to avoid media-manufactured blowback. While apolitical staffers and conservatives may constitute the majority of employees at any company, the corporate heads are driven by fear of a vocal ideological minority. Which is why if you offend one of your fellow employees on a message board by suggesting that there are non-sexist reasons why men outnumber women in STEM jobs, you’ll be summarily fired. Just ask James Damore of Google.
Conservatives used to believe that what happened in college stayed in college. This was a colossal mistake. Slowly but surely, college radicals have renormalized America’s institutions. Let’s talk about how.
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses the process of re-normalization in his book, Skin in the Game. Let’s say you have a family of four, including one daughter who only eats vegan. Mom now has a choice: she can cook two meals-one for the non-vegan family members, and one for her daughter; or she can cook one meal with only vegan ingredients. She decides to cook only one meal. This is renormalization of the family unit, which has converted from majority non-vegan to vegan.
Now, says Taleb, have the family attend a barbecue with three other families. The host has to make the same choice mom did-make one meal or make two. This process of renormalization-the “new normal”-continues until broader and broader numbers have been moved by one inflexible person.
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Guys, I think we found it. This is the slowest speed at which Ben Shapiro has ever spoken. 😱😏
Probably a bad move on his part, now it's even easier to pick apart the shit he says so that even the right can point it out.
and its even easier to call it shit and to say its easy to pick it apart then to actually pick it apart.
@@harrisonw6065 go ahead and pick it apart.
@@jesikats712 He literally thinks that diversity day in the office is to make you less white
thats not what it is, unless being white includes insulting people of other races/sexualities/genders.
Ben forgot to mention: get a lawyer.
"Oh, you're vegan at a barbeque? You're in luck. Nobody really eats the salad at these events."
Salad isn’t food. Salad comes with food.
@@Mike__G There are different kinds of salad. Some can be eaten alone, not as a side dish.
@@krdiaz8026 Thanks for that. Given the thousands of times I’ve eaten in restaurants, I never noticed the separate salad section in the menus.
@@Mike__G go to Europe
@@PhilipCripe Why? I like it here in Canada, except for our politicians.
god it is almost as if corporations will bend to make sure they make the most money. Isn't there a name for a system like this?
Then it looks like conservatives aren’t far-right.
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hx maybe not economically, but maybe social
@@noobkiller1229, social views aren’t about right VS left, that’s just about economics. Social views are about liberal VS bigoted.
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hx in my country we use left right for social too, but okay 🤷♂️
@@noobkiller1229, it’s a common misconception people use everywhere.
Mom always gave us two choices for dinner.
Take it, or leave it.
That was the message in my military family as well. Eat what is made and eat what you take. Nothing else!
Eat what you are served or go hungry.
Brilliant!
My father,made me eat whatever mom made...
Spent a loooooooooong time watching the broccoli,heck, even our dogs would not touch it!! :P
Peace
@@chaunceystewart9960 Or revolt lol
Ben Shapiro is literally advocating for unionization in this video
@A G Yes we are de Marxeests habibi
What happens in college DOES NOT stay in college. Abraham Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln literally traded letters with Karl Marx and praised him. Maybe not the idol you're looking for.
@@bloomper I didn't say he was my idol, I was simply quoting him. Come to think of it, that quote sounds like something Marx might have said.
And the Communist know this fact!
@@stankygeorge That would probably be one of their slogans.
That’s frightening, isn’t it?
If daughter is vegan, she can go ahead and cook her own food.
Yes if you're going to make a choice that differs, you should own it and work at it
Yes, that's right! An maybe a few pointed questions to get her thinking about the absurdity of veganism. Concern for animal welfare is reasonable; "animal rights" advocacy and veganism is not.
@@mayharmon6948 There's nothing absurd about being vegan. "I don't want to eat meat because I want hurt animals as less as possible"
Exactly, as soon as the daughter brings that up the parent or parents need to say well this family doesn't eat that way so if you dont want to eat what we make then you can make your own food. Its basically what most of that grew up before all this BS heard all the time. If I complained about what was cooked I was told eat it or be hungry and if you get hungry enough you'll eat it. And I'm a better person for it. Even though I'm a picky eater still, there are so many foods I would have never tried if was allowed to always not eat what we had. Now ofcourse once I tried something if I really didn't like it I wasn't made to eat it but it still got me try things and most of was just another one of those life lessons about listening to your parents that kids far too often dont get today and that's part of the problem.
@@mayharmon6948 both of my parents are vegan, but it’s solely for health reasons. they don’t really care about animal rights (at least not more than usual, they’re not heartless) and will even cheat occasionally.
If you are silent, you aid those that are actively working to destroy this country and the world.
how is the country being destroyed i expect a 5000 word essay on this
Agreed!
@@chaserseven2886 If you need an essay to explain what your own eyes and ears can't interpret, an essay will be of no use.
@@GarrettSzilard agreed, except I think he was being sarcastic. If not, then he is an un-serious person for certain.
@@GarrettSzilard so that guy is bullshitting then?
Me watching this as a Class of 2021 graduate...
And?
Take in as much information as you can. It won't be our parents world much longer.. This planet needs stewards to keep it moving in the right direction soon it will be our job and our children deserve to inherit something worth inheriting
The USA is screwed
@@blueyedevil1531 And all the information shouldnt be from prageru because it's misleading, which a child cant understand yet
@@Tino262d awesome freeman, this is correct. If youre new to adulthood and haven't done so already look at all sources and try to find the truth inbetween. Anyone speaking, writing or debating has an agenda and therefore the information is always slightly tainted with bias and opinion. Thats every single source on the planet, your teachers, your parents, and the people in here saying Prageru is shit, everyone has an agenda.
Start looking at the opposing arguments first, are you pro 2nd amendment? Look up anti 2nd amendment sources. You should constantly question your own biases if you're to learn amy real truth
Alternate title: Libertarian realises that corporations having too much power is bad only after they start supporting progressive ideas
Alternatively: "little internet men advocates unions to own the left"
I am a VEGAN Republican Conservative who loves Trump, and at the same time I have COMPASSION and LOVE for ANIMALS. And that is ok!!!!!
Ummm no, this is like saying I'm against free speech if I object to what someone has to say and think we should fight words with words.
I was a libertarian for a long time, but gave up on it when I realized that libertarianism does not work under woke capitalism, because woke capitalism is not capitalism - it operates not under supply and demand, but punishment and reward.
@@RedBladeVideos woke capitalism is capitalism in it's purest form - corporations will do whatever it takes to make money, and right now majority of americans are amicable to progressive ideas, so corporations appeal to them. Just like 70 years ago corporations were racist, to appeal to racist consumers. Corporations aren't moral agents, their sole purpose and responsibility is to deliver profit to their shareholders, and they act accordingly.
If I was the father in that hypothetical family, this is what I'd tell my daughter. "You want to only eat vegan? Fine. Start growing and maintaining your own fruit & vegetable garden in the backyard!" She gets to eat what she wants and also learns & develops the characteristic of RESPONSIBILITY !
lmao you people are so inane it's beyond parody
Hypothetically, wouldn’t that be like a vegan family telling their child who wants to eat meat, “If you want to eat meat, raise some cows! Butcher them.” Which would be a bit ridiculous, in my opinion. It’s fair to ask the child to prepare the food themselves, in either situation; however, explain how it is justified to ask the child to grow their own food. Our way of life is predicated on others growing food for us. Because it literally takes acres to grow enough food for one person, not to mentioned specialization of labor and equipment. The responsibility is on us to prepare it, not to grow it.
My wife and I have young children. Whatever MY WIFE AND I decide is for dinner ends up on the dinner table. The kids want to eat, great. They don't, they'll be hungry. That simple. Yes, it was hard the first few times, but now it's been the norm after 4 years. Every so often we treat them to whatever they like, but not regularly.
@@garym2879 I think there's a bit of a difference between a kid being picky, and a kid thinking for themself and trying to make a change in their life that they think is important. Shouldn't we encourage our children to try to make the world a better place and think and act for themselves?
@@Cheesewiz247 Sure. When they're no longer children.
Back in the 90's our daughter wanted to go vegan (vegetarian at the time) in her teens. I made our normal food and she was told she was welcome to eat the fruit and veggies only. I made no allowances for her veganism, but she was welcome to do so if she wished. It lasted about two weeks and she was saved from a lifetime of limitation in her diet and more importantly from feeling that the world revolved her.
You are an excellent mother. I grew up in the 90's and appreciate now, more than ever, the discipline, responsibility, and work ethic instilled by my parents.
You saved her from a lifetime of anemia too.
@@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp you sound like the vegan daughter.
@jtro bruh, she didn’t stop her from going vegan
@@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp tell that to Steve Jobs! How'd that work out for him?
Whatever happened to live and let live? Now it’s you’d better live and believe like me or I won’t let you live. So much for freedom of speech.
RIP First Amendment.
They want the new normal to be, there is no truth, only power. And they all want to be masters in power.
Conservatives call for boycotts all the time.
@@willhiggins9563
The “Grinch Act”
The first amendment protects you from the government, not from a crowd of people who don’t like that you’re racist
The part where sections of government are establishing a bigoted and intolerant Wokeish religion is quite disturbing.
Ha, there’s no way I’m going to give up steak because my kid is in a phase.
you just offer her the same salads you are already eating with the steak. it's not that you have to give up yours, she does not just eat your steaks anymore.
This is why your wife divorced you
Though in all seriousness, just be a decent parent and prepare something else for them? Not that hard, you don't have to give up your diet but you don't have any right to force one upon them.
@@yugonostalgia Problem is, many vegans are not going to just eat their own vegan food, they are going to whine and bitch about others eating non-vegan food until no one can eat in peace, and they won't quit until everyone bends to their will.
@@freethebirds3578 This is actually sort of true, and I'm vegan. Think about veganism through the lens of being pro-life. Just like pro-life people don't want to allow anyone to have an abortion in peace, and want to convince them to make other decisions instead, vegans don't want anyone to eat animals. Just as many view abortion in America as mass murder, vegans view the mass slaughter of animals in a similar light.
I don't want to annoy you into changing though, I want to show you the reality of what happens in the animal agriculture industry and change your mind. You probably already know it's some pretty horrible stuff.
@@Cheesewiz247 many of those same spouting vegans are pro abortion. How does that track, no to killing animals but yes to killing babies. Genuine question how can people square that with themselves. It really is sheer madness!
This is why I like the construction industry. You just have to show up for work and do your job.
But its also back breaking labour and most ppl end up being broken in their 40s and tend to be really bitter, cynical and grumpy. From my experience a lot tend to be complainers and whiners.
@@maximustrolleus9860 - Those are some sweeping generalizations. I worked construction in my teens and early twenties while I went through my university studies. It was tough work, but by no means "back breaking". If that is what you have done then I imagine that you were doing it wrong.
@@maximustrolleus9860 there’s always other jobs
Become a pornstar if construction is back breaking, I don’t doubt it is. But there’s a lot of better or easier jobs
@@maximustrolleus9860 it’s not back breaking
@@sleuth5073 thats why i didnt go into trades and went into college instead.
To sum this up in one sentence: BEING RESPECTFUL OF OTHERS IS A DISEASE
Literally none of this happens in the work place. This video further shows how the speaker is detached from reality.
Is Ben Shapiro arguing FOR unionizing???
Ben is okay with unions as long as they don't try to negotiate for higher wages and better social safety nets.
More like against monopolies, but yeah I guess.
@@brianm.johnson4438 The whole point of capitalism is to have a monopoly. Jesus Christ pick up a book.
@@pjk7138 "eDuCaTe yOuRsElF." Thanks but no thanks. Your opinions aren't objective fact.
@@pjk7138 higher wages=higher consumer prices= less revenue= company layoffs. People are paid what they are worth. Plenty of highly paid people out there. You just got your wish- woke companies like Chipotle will wrap your burrito in a rainbow flag and raised wages but will charge you more for it. If this repeats enough times it is called inflation.
Prager U advocating creating Unions but instead of actually doing something good, like demanding better wages and working conditions, they just demand to not hear words they don't like.
Becoming less white? Good! I'll take sun tans as much as possible with lots of cocoa butter.😂😅😂
what
Emily Wilder is the best example of someone being fired just because of their opinions. Her employer just ended their concract by vaguely refering to bias and "past tweets" - there was no room for a diversity of opinions.
America shouldn't be lost. If America is lost, then there's REALLY absolutely nowhere to escape.
Her former employers were just being sexist (I’m using liberal logic).
Wasn't she fired for having positive opinions on Palestine?? Why are Republicans(why else would you be here if you're not) defending her when every single R senator openly supports Israel?
@@Jared_Is_Near, I never heard of her before this comment, but I don’t care if she was fired for supporting Palestine.
Just to be clear, I'm not a conservative in any stretch of the imagination. I just wanted to point out, that some of the best examples of people being fired or refused a position are the result of right wing campaigns.
team up with your coworkers to demand an end to woke optics strategies, but *definitely* don't unionise. Remember, Daddy Dennis says NO to unionisation.
But what if the woke optics returns or another problem that requires coworkers to team up appears?
It's clear from this video that workers unionizing is the only way to prevent those lefties from winning ;p
@@pablodonner5213 i'm really tired you are joking right
@@hugoeriksson6524 indeed, sorry if that didn't come across, it's kind of hard to be funny only by text :/
@@pablodonner5213 nah you're good i got a good chuckle from the idea of forming unions to resist the left
There should be no politics (as in left or right) in the workplace
God, I made it here even faster than Ben speaks.
Ha. I don't think that's humanly possible.
THAT is Not Possible! Ben talks faster than the speed of light. The words come out of his mouth Before he speaks them.
Ben lapped you twice
Ben 'Machine Gun' Shapiro
Did it make you more stupid, simplisic and basic as him though?
Workers banding together to stand up for their rights against their ceos, wait isnt there a name for this system of thought
I never thought I'll see the day Ben Shapiro of all people would advocate unionizing, guess those sneaky socialists really are everywhere
It's only socialism when they cry to daddy government. Christ alive why is it liberals can understand the difference between voluntary organ donation and the government stealing your kidneys, but can't understand the difference between workers and consumers standing up for themselves through free market avenues verses enlisting the state to enact their will by threatening CEOs with jail time?
The core virtue of capitalism is that it allows people to "stand up for themselves" by controlling where their labor and dollar goes. When the state controls the means of production, you don't get to chose who to work for or where you spend your money.
@@Dennis-nc3vw communism is literally working class people standing up for their rights, also communism != government. thats such a bad take. What in communism is government stealing? when communism is anti tax kek
@@rexxDigital If that's your definition of Communism, then you might as well argue with a wall because that's not anything any rightwinger opposes and there is no way on God's Green Earth that's the definition of Communism embraced by anyone who identifies as anti-Communist. That's like me saying I'm anti-socialism because I oppose kicking puppies socialism means kicking puppies. Stop with these infernal liberal mind games.
@@Dennis-nc3vw are you schizophrenic? I didnt define communism at all as a definition of communism doesnt really exist. Communish does not equal huge government
Happy pride month
Political Correctness is a curse from below.
We can speak our minds and be honest with other people without being rude assholes. I think the vast majority of people who want political correctness just want open dialogue and no rudeness or judgement.
Imported from the Soviet Union in the 70s as a way of putting equality before free speech, ... What,...Giovanni Gentile's tutor was Karl Marx, shut the door!!?
Remember to watch or rewatch Jocko Willink's video from last year's Memorial Day
Can you link it...?
No
my man really said unionize the conservatives.
He's saying to do exactly what the left is doing. Was it workers unions that made these corporations woke?
Not ONCE did he say UNIONIZE!! I did NOT hear the word union or unionize in this video... I don't even know what you were listening to. Your inserting words into his mouth. He said normalize and that's what the left does, they try to normalize everything. Therefore to counter act their normalization we should hold our ground and make them do what the MAJORITY wants, NOT the minority.
It's just free market, beaten in your own game, cope more
We're not playing their game, that's the point Ben is making. They're scoring every goal because there are no conservatives on the field. We've kept our political views and economic decisions separate and that needs to end.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Well, that's the free market, and the liberals outcompeted you, in what the is supposed to be the conservative homeground; the freemarket.
@@ItsReactive77 Alright, and? The game's not over. If I'm displeased we lose an election, does that mean I'm anti-democracy?
@@Dennis-nc3vw capitalists are not conservative
That’s social media organizations are helping this wild culture along and if you’ve ever spent time in CA, not all, but many of them are clueless as to the real world, it’s history, and other cultures.
Of course, I’ve spoken to liberals and their stupidity on many topics both astonishes me and confirms my beliefs. They don’t even know where Portugal is or even where Nevada is (a state in their own country).
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hxhonestly they would think the city archipelago is the nation.
You mean the social media companies that sell large amounts of ad space to right-wing propaganda? The social media companies that literally let conservatives set rules for what was allowed on their sites?
@@willhiggins9563 Right, and which ones are those?
True. My daughter lives there. Not in the real world in terms of society.
Wow it’s almost as if corporations are a result of the free market
Im having more and more new customers (and some existing) that want me to sign a bunch of forms saying I won't discriminate, etc.. etc.. etc... I tell them "nope". They say "everyone signs them." I said "no they don't, because I won't sign something that should be common knowledge." Eventually they back down.
Check the fine print, the forms probably even say it's okay and even encouraged to discriminate against the "privileged."
Customers? Thought we had laws against discrimination. Guess they were absent that day in civics class.
“And then I turned around and told the mob to back off” -totally true story
Someone give this man or woman an award
@@thediamondarcher2880 I am gender and phobia fluid.
This video feels like a fever dream
because it makes you feel sick?
@@sabotabby3372 exactly, and because the logic is weird
What’s wrong with the logic
@@Dennis-up8uf well there's not enough for one
Sabotabby STFU, even you don’t know what you mean by that.
Most people just want peace and quiet so we literally lose the battles. It's insane. I'm not sure if it will ever end.
Yes peace and quiet is the default and welcomed position ...but....the reason we hear the hero's journey in most stories is to remind us not to be afraid. Be strong, fight the dragon and save the world
@@dartharpy9404 what
@@dartharpy9404 is this just a joke to all of you?
I'm afraid that it won't end without quite-literal DIVINE INTERVENTION... as in: the Second Coming of Christ!
When I younger I was told, "If you don't like it, don't eat it."
Is macaroni and cheese vegan
no??
My Mom tried that. I just learned to use the Microwave, and how to boil pasta.
According to the woke that's now child abuse
I was told the same, so I learned to cook my own shit.
Gotta love this comment section filled with people unironically going: "If my kid wants to be vegan they can starve to death -garbage guitar riff-"
Well duh, people who don't know true respect defer to age
And now that your prediction turned out to be wrong, are you ready to admit you were wrong?
@@TheCamps10 respect is earned and if getting older has taught me one thing its that merely aging teaches you nothing. Ive watched people in my life get dumber as they age and that goes doubly for the boomers in my life that got taken in by garbage media like prager u, daily wire, oan/newsmax, etc.
Tell me more about how I should respect age while my dad literally thinks Trump won the election and continues to vote republican while he has a son (my older brother) who is literally gay married.
@@praevasc4299 what prediction did I get wrong? Theres literally comments about mocking kids that want to be vegan or whatever from people who are supposedly parents. Meanwhile if your kid was say doing football or another sport you wouldnt throw a hissy fit about them wanting a more specialized diet.
Yall believe in nothing, its just about causing suffering and misery.
@@douglaslangley9251 I... was making fun of that idea... people who don't actually respect people use age as a substitute for hierarchical purposes. Like the comments here showing no respect for their kids dietary preferences, probably because "they're just young stupid kids".
1:45-Here is already the solution:Just keep the business apolitical!
Ben: Plz don't be racist online. Just dial it down.
Thinking about Memorial Day, it's very unlikely anyone would've put their life on the line for America if they knew what it's becoming now.
Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.
Never.
Hmmmm. This comment is deep.
Or Canada
I had the same thought today.
@Censorship's For Pussies Pretty much
It's hard to take this seriously
Ben Shapiro: Mom now has to make two meals or the whole family has to eat vegan.
Me: BS! My minor aged children can either eat what I fix or go hungry.
just offer her the same salads you are already eating. you arent just eating meat, right?
oh no, the horror of saving money or teaching my children basic life skills
So which is it, free businesses are free to do anything they want, or do we start limiting the freedoms that businesses have to hire and fire who they want?
Accidentally admitted union protections would make for a better workplace
I know this is supposed to be a critique of “woke capitalism” but PragerU would be 100% fine if their videos where on loop in JC Penny and there’s no way you can convince they wouldn’t be happy with that lmao
Hahahahaha. Yeah they should just be honest about bias. The age of honestly should just unfold.
Of course they would... What's wrong with that? If Prager U was being played at JC Penny then I don't think you could call JC Penny "woke."
As a c0ns3rv4t1ve, even I don't agree with everything Prager U has to say. The point is to have multiple types of vews and many options to chose from. That's why they are important, so that we don't become anti-freedom.
Yeah, we should laugh at the biased conservative media (1 out the hundreds of left biased media)
Maybe majority of people are left leaning because they haven't heard of the right leaning one's except for strawmen?
(I was leftist before, pro wealth redistribution. Then it all change when they showed facts abut natural incentives of bureaucracy, and how wealth creation is a far more efficient tool in lifting lives than wealth redistribution)
Guess where I started to hear those facts/statistics?
Name 1 public venue where conservative views are broadcast. Go ahead...I’ll wait.
Respect the free market Benny
This isn't free market, it's a monopoly.
Where did he say we shouldn’t respect the free market? If someone says something I don’t like and I say something back, am I not respecting free speech?
@@brianm.johnson4438 monopoly is caused by free market
@@shinybaldboy4384 Monopoly is caused by cronyism, which needs big government to exist. Once the media is monopolized by Marxists like you, then the corporations are severely threatened.
How's your economic calculation, Socialist? Have you solved price calculation without private property and trade?
And no, Sweden is NOT Socialist. It ranks higher in economic freedom than the USA.
@@YouLoveMrFriendly perfect strawman arguments
dear shen bapiro, i am proud to announce i survived university without becoming a liberal
i became an anarcho communist
based
Welcome to the club, happy you made it
i'm glad i made it too
What a gamer move
Based except I became an ML (Marxist-Leninist)
I'm trying to get into winemaking, why do I need to learn about political science?
well, only the people who agree with Prager U and Ben Shapiro will be motivated to work against the enemies he mentioned.
and assuming you are indeed in agreement with most of what they say, you should be motivated to help this country before it gets out of hand.
so, you don't necessarily need to learn anything complicated about political science, but you should fight against the force that's trying to ruin the country that you live in.
@@Metal_Master_YT no, I mean its required for my degree in some part
@@hernybextar9525 oh, well school is messed up. idk why they have you learn some of the things they teach you.
Can I get a link to your degree requirements?
@@silentsam4501 ok, I understand where you're coming from, but no. A link to that would be a link a bunch of personal info about me, kinda creepy
The Wokeish feel their "anti-racism" is like a concept of "anti-rioting", where the only remedy to rioters is anti-rioters. And the only remedy to past rioters is present rioters. And the only remedy to present rioters is future rioters.
This Kendi logic could also apply to looters, arsonists, murders, etc.
Alt Right/White Nationalists instigated most (if not all) riots. I know you right wingers hate doing research because your views get debunked 99% of the time, but it is true. Police investigations have suggested this. I'm sorry but facts don't care about your feelings. What about you guys and your riot over a democratic election; an election of which we have a Constitutional right to? You don't get to use riots and rioters as some cheap insult or spooky strawman.
No one uses the logic you just described.
@Josephs_Mantle I Actually, what they said lines up with FBI statistics.
@@TheSilael
"Alt Right/White Nationalists instigated most (if not all) riots. I know you right wingers hate doing research because your views get debunked 99% of the time, but it is true. Police investigations have suggested this."
Wrong. Police investigations suggested none of that. Nope, studies and investigations that take place in reality have actually found that every city where a blm/antifa riot occurred the homicide and violent crime rates skyrocketed, especially after the Police were defunded. The only reason "Alt Right/White Nationalist terrorism" are rated so high is because Left Wing terrorism is purposefully left out.
"What about you guys and your riot over a democratic election; an election of which we have a Constitutional right to?"
Interesting, because you guys were absolutely fine with rioting over a democratic election that you similarly claimed was stolen, only with literally zero evidence, for four years.
@Josephs_Mantle I I don't really understand how having access to higher education, interacting with a diverse range of people, and learning about history, politics and economics is cause for ridicule, but hey ho.
bruh megacorps are left-wing now, that's crazy
Bruh mega corps care about profit, being inclusive and not racist brings profit. Man capitalism good when we oppress blacks and the gays once we can't it's tyranny.
@@101BlackRaven thats not left wing.
Riiiight! Cause corporations usually support unionizing, bargaining for higher wages and paternity leave.
@@sacbeme r/whoosh. I was being sarcastic
@@leftistadvocate9718 gawd then use a tag silly pants
If I were a business owner, THIS is the video all of my employees would be required to watch.
spread the word
Sounds like a high turnover rate. No company is telling you on the first day to stop being white. No is making an orientation out of it but you.
How could you
LOL i dont think you will have employess after showing them this shit
The blackballing of employees (which is often overtly illegal) is getting out of control too. I'd like to see some targeted boycotting of some of the worst offenders. You can't get everyone to boycott all the rotten companies, but you can get almost everyone to boycott a few to make an example.
Like most comic and entertainment unions.
Hey I'm a vegan Conservative prolife anti death penalty where my peeps at?
This, 100%. Don't know why Ben chose to make an example out of vegans, framing accommodating their dietary choices with this foreboding sense that something must be wrong. Cognitive dissonance?
You're seriously following the wrong channel if your beliefs aren't hard-right.
Woketardism needs to be smashed if we are going to preserve and hold on to this country.
What are you waiting for?
@@JensHove Yeah.. this seems akin to advocating for violence-- probably not the best way to solve cultural rifts.
@@codyladd319 well their movements are connected to pushes forbviolence and letting the violent go free and those that disagree with them being silenced/removed.
Whereas I don't condone violence either this isn't something of a mere cultural rift, it's a system of malicious movements including some that are violent in nature.
There is a reason the alleged 'equality' movement in this free and past mass racism country had so much violence happen this past year.
@@williamturner6192 Yeah I think its important that you mention that violence has broken out from folks joining in social movements championed by the left. It's not cool when violence between different groups of people occurs, regardless of who starts it. I am desperately trying to fight not for a particular cause on the left or right, but for Americans to take a step back from the ledge of irreparable differences.
LMAO yeah dude, because *actual* existential problems like nuclear proliferation, climate change, disease pandemics, and water wars should all be subordinated to people who are mean to you on Twitter
_Great analogies...The one statement that jumped out at me was, “less than motivated majority”. I believe this is how much of this ‘social nonsense’ has been allowed to grow the necessary roots to continue to flourish. People afraid of hurting Feelings. People afraid of telling the Truth - in and out of season. As I’m enjoying my “Baby Backs” and smoked wings, “Greta” better BYO, ‘meditate’ over her food or go hungry. America’s Sunday Dinner table somehow lost its savor. Children telling the parent what to cook and how to cook it - there’s always a beginning of the Slippery Slope and those that find it easier to just give in. Harry Nilsson made it clear, “One Is the Loneliest Number” and “No is the saddest experience...”. These words can transcends over Love as well as Tuesday🌮Taco night - “Wokeism”...crock of nonsense_
You’re comment hurt me to read
Are you afraid to say "crock of shit"?
@@violinhunter2 Not everyone groks guttermouthery.
Christian servers have anti-Newspeak policies for a reason.
Here are some context-inspired examples:
_"What the flark? These flarkers have flarked it all up!"_
_"Flark it, who gives a flying flark? We're motherflarking flarked, so flark off!"_
_"Those flarks need to quit flarking around or get the flark out!"_
_"It's a flarking clusterflark!"_
If you know how many words can be replaced by a particular colorful metaphor, it shouldn't be hard to see why some people make such a fuss about it.
"What the fudge? These bozos have messed it all up!"
"Forget it, who gives a flying crud? We're super freaking doomed, so back off!"
"Those clowns need to quit goofing around or get the heck out!"
"It's a flipping clusterfig!"
In casual chatter, there's no need to purposefully pick the spiciest synonyms unless you're muttering in the military.
I can’t tell what side you’re on because your text is written in Facebook font but I’m gonna say you’re wrong
I typically use italics for quoting arguments I'm responding to or when I'm not serious about something, so in my eyes the italics makes the comment sorta look like a joke.
Its hard to believe anyone buys into prageru nonsense
@@manicboy76 Daddy Prager doesn't love you
@@manicboy76 You know I wish capitalist big business was controlled by the left.. What a fairytale...
@@manicboy76 Well, in the video Ben Shapiro happens to refer big corporations as "authoritarian left". The truth is that these big corporations thrive on capitalism and right-wing policies. Learn more about this paradigm here: ruclips.net/video/4xqouhMCJBI/видео.html
I wish we lived in the world that the right thinks we live in lol
same haha
seriously
A slowly worsening dumpster fire, thats what everyone thinks so not sure what your point is.
The right live in this alternate reality where anarchism is a right-wing ideology and fascism is a left-wing ideology
As Ferris Bueller would say, “Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself.”
Everyone practices some kind of ism. These days, many practice criticism religiously.
Agreed in theory, whether it be religious -isms, political, or social. Though in practice not following any of these would be impossible.
Graduated in 2021 from a NY state college. Never had a single “authoritarian leftist” idea shoved in my face. Not once. I took sociology classes, liberal arts, film... not once.
Yeah I spent 6 years in post secondary education and never had any leftist politics pushed on me as well. Indoctrination in the classroom is actually exceedingly rare contrary to what fox news would like you to think.
2013 SUNY New Paltz - wokest place I've ever seen
And yet if I bet if you shared this opinion on air with them they'd accuse you of being an actor.
The only bias I got in the classroom was in psych class, my teacher refused to teach us the evolutionary psychology chapter because he was a creationist, and when talking about the scientific method, he asked if anyone believed in "that climate change crap", to illustrate a point.
Strong men bring good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men bring hard times.
Hard times make strong men.
Now-a-days week men seek porn during hard times. This keeps them weak.
How are the times when women are strong?
Good times should still make strong men
@@justinnamuco9096 I suppose you have a definition for strong versus weak men? And I'm betting that you're in the former rather than latter category?
@@codyladd319 The ones that are strong either join the strong men or they do nothing useful, so it still pretty much depends on the men.
I never understand what point Ben is trying to make
His points are beyond our understanding
Christ alive, the point of this video is crystal clear. The left pulled corporations one way, we simply use the same tactics to pull them the other way. If you don't realize that's the message of the video you didn't even attempt to understand it.
@@ranbeerchowdhary-74zy3 Okay, and? When did Ben say businesses shouldn't be allowed to chose their own customers? He's saying customers are allowed to chose their business too and we conservatives should *finally* start exercising this power for political gain, as the left has been doing for decades.
Jesus McGod I am exercising so much patience explaining these things again and again and again to you of the Vaush horde rather than just accusing you of being disingenuous and willfully blind.
@@Dennis-nc3vw You should replace "left" with liberals. That way your point would make more sense.
Ur dur, my ebil gommulists run corpormuhrations. RUclips is literally 9814.
@Press F To Pay Respects, did you even watch the video?
@Censorship's For Pussies Calm your “communist corporation” conspiracy theories.
@Censorship's For Pussies Meanwhile, your side still believes capitalism is the best economic system bar-none, you repeat nazi propaganda on "communist corporations" which you do realize is a self-contradictory statement, right? Your side is the actual joke. Cope
@@jetmemesam5712 As if you conservatives aren't predictable.
@Censorship's For Pussies I'm not a liberal, you're one. Also, "muh Godwin is law." You guys are in fact repeating what nazis say.
Nazis called Jews "communist bankers," it's a self-contradictory statement, you realize that, right?
You guys now call modern corporations "run by communists." Same coin, different side.
Also, how old are you? You're the same guys that call everyone left of Rand "marxists." You're the one using "phobes" and "its."
Whatever happened to "vote with your dollars", conservatives?
@@Solizeus You know what that sounds like?
"No ethical consumption under capitalism". lol
It's amazing how communist right wingers get when a corporation won't let them say the n-word.
That is literally what he's advocating in the video.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Sounds more like they're trying to organize a general strike among workers.
@@ometta7 They are fighting against a monopoly. That's one of the most free market things they could do.
@@ometta7 If he is, so what? When have conservatives ever said workers shouldn't be able to walk off their jobs?
Wouldn't this carry more weight coming from someone less afraid of being cancelled?
And someone who doesn’t mind canceling those critical of HIS collectivist demographic?
Ben “if people don’t choose to hang out with me for my words my rights are being limited” Shapiro. Back at it again with another classic
ben Shapiro just said "workers unite" lmao
Lmao yeah he’s literally advocating for people to unionize
Because the non-workers have already united.
Ben Shapiro's new tactic is to try and make leftist ideas seem like right-wing ones
They just proved that there is no authoritarian left in America other than the one they pretend exists, good job PragerU, you played yourselves
@@gnas1897 Such as Biden wanting to ban people opposing him, and politicians attempting to judge Trump after he left presidency. But yeah, no authoritarian left.
GET WOKE BECOME A JOKE
Mom: ok kids today's dinner in pork chops.
Daughter: but mom I'm vegan.
Mom: I sorry, you think you have a choice?
That was my household. You ate what you were given. When you move out, then you can eat what you want.
Just because your parents forced their beliefs on you doesn't mean you have to do the same to your children.
Imagine that your kid is thinking for themself enough to decide to make a change like that in their life, and you shut them down? It's moments like that in which kids need the most support from their parents. They should be encouraged to develop and think for themselves, so long as they are safe and mature. If your aren't sure if it's safe to be vegan, do some research first.
I've got some advice: tell your child to show some responsibility with this change and help cook meals each night. It could be a great opportunity to spend some time together and for them to learn and grow.
if you cant make basic allowances for your child's eating habits you should not be a parent
Why would you cook the meal before asking what your child's preferences are lmfao
I'm confused am i supposed to vote with my wallet, if boycotting companies to ensure they behave isn't allowed, should we make the government do it then?
You do not make The Corporations Government do anything! Their Government makes you do everything they want!
@@stankygeorge Okay George, calm down.
Corporations are the biggest problems in America, not the government
@Li Shin yeah but most problems are due to corporations
Imagine being libertarian and being angry about business practices smh.
Right? It's peak irony
lmao i love that ben gets so upset that democrats dont support conservative businesses while hes right here doing exactly the same thing to liberal organizations
Libertarianism isn't anarchy for the millionth time
@@BlakeGillman american libertarianism is believing there should be essentially no regulation on business. violently taking down any corporation that doesnt agree with using the n word isnt libertarian at all.
That moment when capitalists don't understand their own system XD
3:05 My only complaint with the normalization argument is I don't know a single family who would change everyone's eating habits to accommodate the one. Serving a couple of side dishes that the vegan would turn into a meal (salad, fruit, veggies), sure. But they wouldn't change the entire menu. And they **certainly** wouldn't expect everyone at the neighborhood BBQ to all eat vegan. Maybe it's because I live in an area of the country that hasn't gone full-on woke yet, LOL, but the idea is quite ludicrous to me.
In a corporation 100s of employees work so instead of one there are 10 vegan feminists crying about how cold AC is. I mean aren't they wearing extra short dresses and we men are dressed from top to bottom so AC should work according to us but NO it doesn't.
Hi Susan! I also live in a non-woke area, and I can't imagine that happening here. I think the eating habits was just an example that could easily illustrate "normalization". Just substitute "vegan" for any number of woke ideals, and that is how leftist ideology has been able to advance in America so far.
It's called a small scale analogy so you can understand the overall concept 🤦
@@MelRae71 Exactly. I'm a vegan from a family of Meat eating Nigerians. No one is changing to suit my choices. Nor do I expect them to.
I bring my own food and eat the Fruits and Veggies. The idea of renormalization is correct. Albeit, the example of vegans renormalizing everyone isn't.
That said, I know a lot of non-vegan boyfriends/girlfriends suffering at the hands of authoritarian eating partners.
It should not be that way.
@@diranshouse7061 a vegan who is conservative? Never seen that before.
There is one piece of advice missing here, which is to be one of the best employees in the company.
Jeremy, you are correct. That is exactly how our world should work. You reap what you sow….
Unfortunately, our world is changing into a “leftist view, or cancelled” place. Heed Ben’s warning.
3:07 ah, that explains why the whole world has gone vegan - because of one determined individual. Wait...
shhh you're ruining the propaganda!!!
Wdym
@@thechair7262 *gasp* Pr-Propaganda? But... Propaganda is something only the left does? At least, that's what all these right leaning media outlets keep telling m- Oh my god...
@@thechair7262 look at my lips you are ruinining it
Uh, I thought that was just meant to be an analogy
If you don't like the way a business runs don't support it Benny
i wanna know which world ben shapiro lives on
lmao ben complaining about indoctrination while prager u just made a video designed for kids a few days ago
that video was so comedic i gave it a like lol
You know, there was a group of people talking about this in the early 20th century. They didn't call it "Woke Inc." though. They called it "Cultural Bolshevism". Look it up, Ben and Dennis. I'm sure you'll have a lot in common with them.
Yknow, I didn’t wanna say anything but....you ain’t lying.
Wow, Hitler Ate Sugar Fallacy. When are you going to grow a brain/
@@Dennis-nc3vw Explain how this is at all different from the Cultural Bolshevism/Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
Unlike you, I actually know where my side's rhetoric comes from.
@@ometta7 Why does it need to be different? Capitalists and Nazis both hate Communism? So what? Nazis and Communists both hate Capitalism.
@@Dennis-nc3vw You were the one claiming that I engaged in a logical fallacy. If this is no different than the Cultural Bolshevism conspiracy theory, then comparing the ideologies of Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager (or, rather, the people who write their checks) to that of the Nazis isn't inaccurate.
Also, the Nazis weren't anti-capitalist. At least, they weren't after the Night of the Long Knives occurred. Once Hitler obtained power, any "socialist" elements in the National Socialist party were quickly and ruthlessly purged.
At best, you can say they engaged in a very warped variation of social democracy (one tailored to fit the interests of the state rather than the workers, as evidenced by their treatment of trade unionists), but even that system is fundamentally capitalist in nature and based on Keynesian demand-side economics.
3:33 excuse me, that's a black barbeque.
Vegan black barbeque is an oxymoron 😆
....I’ll admit, that was really funny, but hopefully nobody gets too triggered XD
That along with just about everything else is why this video is for silly gooses
Never thought I would see Ben Shapiro go pro union. Neat.
Well, he's not necessarily talking about a union, more of looking for like-minded people in general.
Ben Shapiro is secretly a leftist but hes disguised himself as a conservative
I’ll take corporate America over communism, love corporations, they make life better for us all the time.
Ah yes my corporate friends who are only meant to deliver a profit to its shareholders are every day making life better for all 365 million Americans. Its totally not the actual people who work in those factories that are creating our products no way its the corporations
@@shinybaldboy4384 The corporation includes everyone you pinko commie. Corporations brought us iPhones, air conditioners, better housing, TVs, and all the wealth you commies act like is fixed. Sure workers make the company but rich billionaires start out with an idea, then risk everything. The workers and the corporation work together to eventually make everyone richer from the poor to the rich.
@@shinybaldboy4384 The average Fortune 500 business runs profit margin of under 3%. Most of the money DOES go back to the workers.
@@tstbad59 the ideas come from education which is funded by the people too you know? This covid vaccine has been funded by the people's tax money, however now that it is privatized it has made the people who own it, richer. The people who funded it got nothing except the vaccine that they have to pay for
@@Dennis-nc3vw proof? Also, even if they do that still doesnt back up the tax they evade as well as the bailouts they get
Nobody "is vegan". They choose veganism.
Yes, and children in my household either eat the non-vegan meals I make or they don't eat. Vegan meals can be paid for and prepared by them, if they are passionate about it.
Nobody is "christian", they choose Christianity.
@@claires8735 Sounds like you have too much meat in your diet to begin with if they can't get by on the side dishes.
Vegans choose to be vegan because they agree with the philosophy of veganism. These are all ways we can talk about vegans. You can say someone "is vegan", "is a vegan", or "believes in veganism".
Why are you grouping apolitical and conservatives together
To make conservative capitalists look like the good, flexible and open minded guys
If my daughter is vegan, I would probably have a hybrid thing- she would definitely have to take more responsibility in her own cooking, BUT I would probably add more vegan dishes into our family diet so it wouldn't be all her responsibility all the time. I think there's a small yet sufficient Middle ground where you can support someone in a decent way and still have the person be not completely offended when someone doesn't support their decision in exactly the way that they want.
The left is definitely guilty of this with their "if you don't abide by x to the letter then you're cancelled", but the right is definitely guilty too- many of their things just don't provide the support for people who do abnormal things and tend to view things in black and white
Why isn't the most reasonable comment here getting more likes?
Saw this happen to a former employer. After this major telecommunications company bought a major media company which also operates a Leftist news outlet, the whole culture of the company shifted Left.
Oh yeah I hate it sooo much when I have to not be racist. "My FrEeDoM Of SpEeCh To SaY tHe RaCiAl SlUr, " - ( notice how I didn't have to use hate speech for you to know what I'm talking about ) ( also this is sarcasm, in case you thought this is a valid argument )
Why is it so difficult for you liberals to exercise a bit of intellectual honesty? People have never been allowed to be racist to their coworkers for as long as you've been alive. That's not what this new wave of wokeism is about and you know it.
Isn't anarchism believe that there should be no government
At its extreme, yes.
Yay
Isn't that impossible to destroy all hierarchy
@@presidentandroid1129 it’s not about all hierarchy is unjust ones
Thanks for explaining to me it's just it's kind of weird that Prageru is using that symbol in a video why big government is bad
4:05 why is Ben demanding corporations do what he wants? I thought everything companies do is fine because you signed the contract
He is calling for stopping the corporation doing what the left wants. Which is evil. Pure evil. Ben doesn't want to DO anything. He wants to stop SHIT being DONE.
The left are the ones making demands on companies, the right is just neutralizing their demands.
@@user-jv3mm6vt6e But if that is what gets the company more money and better reputation then that isn't a problem to conservatives that preaches about the free market and business freedom to choose then right? What if they listened to what the right wants? What would that look like? Isn't there propaganda for the right as well?
@@tokenetta8070 wait, the freedom to choose has nothing to do against the freedom of speech. Measures taken to limit the freedom of peoples speech should be coped with. Thats it.
He’s not asking corporations, he’s asking the employees. That’s the loophole.
How come the video was uploaded an hour ago, but there's comments from 4 days ago? 🤔
Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Didi Chuxing, Huawei, DJI and Meituan Dianping are not thinking about how many of their employees are Shanghainese, Cantonese, Hakka, Uyghur, Mongol, Tibetan, Manchurian etc. They are thinking about how they can be the most successful companies possible.
Get the popcorn ready
Sorry ben I really don’t care about NTY employees getting fired.
PragerU built on values, honesty, courage, intelligence, wisdom, common sense, love and most importantly God!
Unless that has to do with:
Thou Shalt Not Kill (PragerU supports the Death Penalty)
Honesty (PragerU supports Nixon and believes he did NOTHING illegal at all)
Courage (PragerU has mocked and demeaned John Brown and called him a "Radical" in the Robert E Lee Video)
and Values (PragerU then took down that video down themselves, after they put it up, because they realized exactly how insane that Robert E Lee Video was and how foolish it made them appear)
It’s built on lies and propaganda coming from corrupt right wing fracking billionaires. They conveniently don’t like to mention that to its gullible audience.
Amen
@Simple learning PragerU also has a "rightist" agenda, he is just saying some facts . And the bible luckily also say that you should forgive people, and if you just straightout kill people you aren't really following that rule.
@Simple learning Death Penalties in general are barbaric, and need to go.
And at least I don't pretend that Nixon was a "victim" of the media in a video that insults the intelligence of it's entire audiance.
Woke? Or just stupid?
I'm going with the latter.
Ok benji, its your bedtime now. Time to go to sleep.
2:29
Ah yes let's just slide the apoliticals in with the conservatives to make it seem like conservatives are a majority.
It only looks that way if you miss the point AND don't read the label; it literally says "apolitical and conservative". If it wasn't labeled, you might have a point but it is and in really big, bold letters. The point of this card is clearly to show that liberals are not the majority and that's all.
@@bastardowl ben is trying to make it seem like majority holds conservative views by lumping them together, else why wouldn't they just make 3 separate categories?
It specifies though -_-.
@@remi1545 you've misunderstood the purpose of the chart. It's not designed to show a demographic breakdown - it's supposed to show two categories: "liberal" and "not liberal". Ironically, I say this as a liberal!
@Chris well the numbers being in dispute is a separate issue to the breakdown of the segments. I have no opinion on that.
"She is attractive and is the size of an average human mother"-Ben Shapiro
Relevance how?
@@thediamondarcher2880 “JUST LOOK AT THAT LONG PONYTAIL NOW WE’RE TALKING”-Ben Shapiro
If you don't like the company... Just go start your own..
If you are already struggling it hard lol
@@shinybaldboy4384 wow its almost like there are class barriers to social mobility
@@sabotabby3372 yes. This comment is like: if you dont like being exploited, just exploit someone else
Or don't buy their sh*t, which is exactly what he's suggesting.
@@Dennis-nc3vw the fact corporations are doing this at all means they see more profit in appealing to progressives even if they lose your money.
Or in cases like Gillette and Keurig, they see your anger as an easy way to boost profits and their public image
The Auth Left is "squeaky"? Ben Shapiro is Auth left confirmed.
It does not matter how well educated on bettering their tool boxes either side is. It only matters that a bridge needs to be built instead of a better tool box.
See, parts of this video perfectly summarize why, even though I don't love my job, I definitely don't hate it and have a more positive opinion of it. There is the team captain, who I've become really good friends with, and me, the assistant team captain. He's 35, and I'm 29, and were both conservatives. Our area supervisor, who we very rarely see cause we never mess up, is a black woman in her early 40's. She know's were conservatives, but because the 3 of us have a great relationship with eachother and mutual respect, it doesn't matter. She's literally told us that we're her best team, the only one she doesn't have to worry about. Thank God I don't have to suffer through what they're talking about in this video.