@@absolutechadd8895 Yes, willfully ignorant people are afraid of things they don’t know. Whereas intelligent people seek out information on things they don’t know.
When it comes down to it you can almost hear those rusted and dusty gears finally start turning since 4th grade, as they realize that to voice “their views” would put them in bed with the objectively dumbest and worst of the entire world’s population. A position with zero academic support and makes them sound exactly like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. Its like for just a moment they actually have a little shame.
"HELP, I'm being silenced for my views!" He said with a microphone purposely given to him by the opposition literally begging him to explain his views.
He’s not the smartest and doesn’t express himself well at all but I see where he’s coming from. Of course he could say but he doesn’t know what the consequences of saying it are. I don’t know what he was wanting to say so it’s hard to argue whether correct or not but that part does sort of prove his ‘point.’ If he was more intelligent and articulate he could have made it a more even argument, instead he got demolished.
@@aljones75 The argument can never be even. Wokeness is simply being well-informed of social problems such as racism and social inequality. You can't be against that unless you happen to be an overall bigot. This person is not as inarticulate as he came across to be. He simply couldn't come up with anything that would not make him look bad. That's what he really meant by, "We're being silenced!": We can't insult anyone we don't like because you will make us look like the jerks we are.
Which is irony that woke is literally being against social injustices. So those against that are in favor of hatred and bigotry, having lived a life of pure privilege and upset that the way things were is factually wrong.
It sounded like an actual sketch comedy bit "What were the courses about" "Oh- you know the ones" "No I really don't. Why don't you inform us" "It's don't want to quote examples, really" "But you brought this up" "I think you know what I mean" "I have no idea. Please tell me" "I have been cowed into silence by you lot"
@@antediluvianatheist5262 I used to think that was just pop psychobabble, but the last few years have convinced me otherwise. They always accuse the other side of the thing they did, are doing, or will do. They seem to be unable to help themselves.
They’re angry about whatever they’re told to be angry about even if what they’re being told to be angry about isn’t even defined! They’re being moved about like mindless cattle by whatever their masters tell them.
They wait to be told what to be angry about. One day it's Bud LIght, then Target, Disney, and now North Face. It's drag queens and whatever else they're told to be upset about.
He knows what he's angry about, and he knows that he's in the wrong. He just doesn''t like to be called out on it. Putin's propaganda machine, through social media, and people like Trump, Boris Johnson, and right wing media have convinced these bigots that they need to fight back against our western social values, like equality and general human decency.
That's the key right here. When people scream "I'm anti-woke!" or "it's all the woke agenda!", don't scream back or get offended. Stay calm, ask them to actually define what they think it means, give them time, and watch it all fall apart in slow-motion.
And then they say: 'Oh, you know what I mean. No, come on, you know what I mean! That thing we both dislike because we're the same. We're the same, you and me!' Then you can shake your head sadly as they collapse into the vortex of their own intellectual cowardice. I grew up in Essex, so I know an annoyingly large number of people like this. 😞
For me , i Unterstand woke as performative progressivism, People who do not really care about the betterment of society as a whole or groups of people in society. People who grift of movements use heavy words to appear as allies of movements and hinder real discussions and change. I would also add people who just involve in progressive politics for their Own Social stamding.
"You lot have cowed me into silence," he said after the "woke" host put him in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands and gave him multiple opportunities to explain himself.
A few things about your statement to consider: When you say someone has lived their "entire life in privilege" I'm assuming that you mean a white person living in a western society. My feeling about this notion is this: if you are white and of middle or upper class, then you have privilege. If you are black or brown and you're upper class, you have privilege. "Privilege" has much more to do with class than with race. If you are white and of lower class and your parents were ignorant, poor, perhaps suffering with substance abuse and/or mental health problems, then you don't have "privilege" in society. When compared to a person of minority status in the same situation, your edge or advantage in competing in society is negligable. And there are waaaay more poor white people than rich white people. So the notion that absolutely all the white people are walking around with "privilege" is a fiction. Lower class whites know this. They rightly reject to notion that they're in any way privileged. So when they see educated and successful black or brown people pointing fingers, criticizing the society that they've thrived in, and going on and on about being "oppressed" by whites, lower class whites sit there and say to themselves, "What the heck are you talking about? I'm privileged and you're oppressed? Really? Look at you!" I think this is much of where the resentment around "wokeness" comes from. Of course, there is flat out racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia associated with this resentment...those are all real things. But to me it's more about poor whites being told they have something that they really don't have: a signifcant edge to competing in society.
@@jaydubya3698white folks flat out have privilege beyond imagination. The problem is alot white folks are scared and reluctant to admit it, because they know what they inherited is from a life of privilege, so the privilge continues, note, inherited, not what they worked for. Look up the FHA ACT of 1934 and learn how 34 years of privilge helped multiple generations of white folks get a head while others did not.
I completely lost it when James openly dissed the Caller and the guy straight up didn't notice. James: "So they were teaching you how to stop progressing in your career?" Caller: "Not me personally." James: "I suspect you didn't need any lessons." Caller: "No, I didn't."
CelynBrum Hear Hear 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The caller has got an over inflated opinion of himself and should have been stuck to the old saying " A bit of quiet on your part would be highly appreciated "
What a wondrous web we weave when we practice to deceive.....this quote applies so much to this guy..literally dug such a huge hole for himself...it was amazing to hear!!!
Just yesterday talked to some guy who said "you cant say anything anymore" and when pressed for what he was trying to say he responded with absolute silence. Classic.
"I've been cowed into silence by you lot" - he said literally on a broadcast, where he could say exactly what he wanted to, to a whole bunch of people...
This guy allegedly went to these classes every week and he could barely explain anything they talked about, but he was really mad about the classes. What a genius.
Yep he was lying. He's anti council or public sector for some reason snd thinks that his bin men and the blokes who fix our river banks are on these courses. I'm sure they're not. When he says self employed I think he .means as a government artist, he draws the dole.
I'm from the US, and it sounds like he was talking about diversity training, which isn't much different from what kids are taught on Sesame Street about getting along with people who are different. I don't know why that angers people so much.
almost.. i know i have white male privilege and as a german i live in a stable society. So I don't think my privilege is no problem. Guess i am just woke :D
@@Gary_oldmans_left_nut when the censorship is about ppl claiming something is "wOkE" I am perfectly fine. When it comes to human dignity we should never under no circumstances argue against.
That moment when people realize when explaining why they hate something out loud to a crowd it makes them sound really awful and unfair...so they freeze up, and dont want to say it anymore.
His “ anti woke “, is not wanting to hear about black, brown and other people that he feel is beneath him and therefore his interest in learning about them or their customs is zilch , nil , none. That’s why he was “frightened” to go down the rabbit hole. There I put words in his mouth , coming from an “ aware “, black woman. Who don’t hate people , just despise unkindness ,
What I don’t understand is why “woke” people need a white straight male’s approval so badly. Like if he said what he wanted to say… why would they care? Why are they so weak and insecure where their happiness hinges on what other random people think of them?
Caller: “I JUST SAID IT! Am I in an echo chamber?!”. James: “Clearly not, do you know what that is?” Caller: “no”. This says everything about the caller. He hates because he’s ignorant AF.
Hes picked up certain buzz words in right wing media and that have cemented his head into thinking that its wokey liberals and immigrants that are making things worse, especially for him as a white man.
@@Tenebrous227 Its a culture war thing because the right wing political parties around the globe have absolutely nothing left to offer. The neoliberal project of the last 45 has succeeded in shifting the vast majority of the global wealth into the hands of an ever decreasing cabal of elites so they have shifted to blaming anyone and anything for their failure to deliver what they promised.
or in their personal lives. How many of these "anti-wokesters" had loved ones grow tired of their bigotry and stop associating with them? how many of them are estranged from their children because of their bigotry? they obviously lack the introspection to understand that they're the problem, so they go on to blame "wokeness" for the fact that their family refuses to see them anymore.
That's exactly what it is. There is also some overcorrecting that has happened as a result but for the most part, just act like u got some sense at work and u will be fine. It's work, it's not a sports bar. There will always be some overcorrecting when money and livelihoods are at risk. It's like when I worked at Kroger. We had to ID everyone for alcohol. That's bc we don't want to leave the discretion up to each individual, potentially idiotic employee. Everyone's line is different. That's why we have to have a common line that covers most instances
I’ve been called ‘woke’ because I said I like watching women’s football. If women’s football is offensive to some people, why should I take them seriously?
Hilariously enough, woman's football is legitimately more enjoyable than men's football, because it's not as overpaid and dramatized. No rowdy fans constantly chucking stuff at the field, no double backflips because somebody stepped on your toe, no teams that dominate the league because the sponsor could afford throwing more millions at the player market. Just teams of eleven players doing their best to get a ball into a goal.
@@Alblakaagreed. Womens rugby too, you see the passion in the players a lot more. Also it’s really cool watching local games of tag rugby when the women wipe the floor with the men!
i just like looking at a woman for 90min instead of a man. same reason I always choose the woman character in video games, its just easier to look at for long periods of time.
Hardest thing for anyone to do, is admitting they have an issue. This gentlemen, when saying the quiet part out loud is realizing just how hateful his point of views really are.
Caller had nothing except showing what a tool he is. Every person who is anti-woke, I have asked them to explain what Woke is, and they fail at every time. They have no idea at all.
The way I see woke, based on the way people use it as an insult, is it's people accepting of other people regardless of how zany their beliefs may be to them. With that definition, anti woke is people who don't like those who are accepting of other's beliefs.... Basically anti woke is crying about people that are okay with stuff 😂
@@simplekid4328 to be fair it is the same argument people use against religion, you can be as accepting as you want but you don't get to decide for everyone what is or isn't acceptable for everyone else. ("You can play with your toys all you want, you can't come over to my house and make me play with your toys"). No one seems able to articulate that argument though, what springs to mind when I see it is South Park's "rabblerabblerabble" during mob scenes 😂
I can explain exactly what “woke” is: “Woke” is a catch-all vilification term for anything conservatives don’t like. Most liberals don’t even actually use the word.
I was talking to a friend of mine and his wife about movies. I mentioned watching Barbie and they were like we not watching that WOKE trash. This was the first time I've heard someone IRL use the phrase. I didn't even bother debating with them.
@@addison1024 Not really. The Democrats haven’t abandoned policy yet. The issues they focus on are clearly understood, namely environmental protection and sustainability, worker’s rights, affordable healthcare, battling widespread misinformation campaigns, etc. The culture war is largely being fought by republicans with very little in the way of actual policy.
Over the years I remember watching the majestic herds of gammons spluttering across breakfast T.V. and news, each morning over "P.C. gone mad!" being the end of civilisation as we know it. This "war on woke" is more of the same nonsense for the gullible to be righteously outraged over.
@@4DSCdude i just discovered this channel. have you ever heard of Beau of the Fifth Column? he's done videos describing exactly this line of using questions to deconstruct right wing "opinions of opinions (of people paid to lie to you)".
Probably a bit a both. He asked if was in an echo chamber without even knowing what it ment. So he's not above using words or phrases he has no clue what they mean. He knows the people he's told he's against is woke so that's all he needs to know
That's was it was when I was "anti-woke." As much as I believed I was right, I also knew, in a deep part of my unconscious, tbat I was wrong. Fortunately, it was tapping i to that unconscious side of myself that got me out of conservatism.
Woke does not mean we ought to marginalize people who aren't nice to anyone. It means we need to be aware of historic injustice and how they are still playing out. We need to be aware of those current injustices, become aware of prejudices we may have learned, and correct the real life effects of those injustices. No one gets marginalized when you are woke. Woke means creating a world of full equality for everyone.
@@carl8290 Care to explain. Ashley was quoting the caller in the video, who thinks that the people he describes as "woke" are passionate about inconsequential things.
@@carl8290 Ngl, i just have to say it… this fanbase here does not seem to know what wokeness is and seems to have massive misunderstands about it. APparently some of you learnt what anti-woke and woke means from strawmanning-for-beginners or strawman-for-experts or strawmen-revolution-the-revenge-of-the-Strawman and it’s just a bit weird to see. I dont veen know where to start cleaning-up with your misunderstandings? How about i mention the little fun-fac that millions over millions of LGBTQ People hate Wokeness? So if that fun-fact confuses you, i WAGER the POSSIBILITY that you have some misunderstandings going on.
Dear lord that was painful. But here's the key quote: "Of course I'm envious!" That's all you need to know about this guy. He's failed at life and is angry that anybody else is succeeding. He needs something to blame, something to point to and say that's it's not his fault. Absolutely pathetic, but completely understandable.
I think it's equally important to note here that it's not necessarily his fault he failed. Capitalism is designed to make people fail. It's why your electronics are designed to become obsolete within a year of coming out, your car is designed to break down sometime shortly after it's warranty is up, your rent continues to increase while your wage continues to decrease, and you have no reliable way to feed and house yourself without selling your labor to someone else. Now granted this particular individual likely had a pretty solid gig driving busses which he likely squandered by his own actions judging by how he described the classes he took, and that is certainly his fault. But we aren't telling the whole story if we don't also admit that he's living in a system designed to keep him subservient to the ruling class and actively prevent from achieving the sort of financial success that he's envious of that would free him from that societal prison that's causing him so much grief to begin with. This individual, and many others just like him, are only taking out their frustrations on the wrong people. They place the blame on others partially because they don't want to own up to their own actions, yes. But also partially because they've been thoroughly brainwashed into believing the actual root of their problems *aren't* actually the problem. They're misled into projecting their anger at others in the same boat as them so they don't, rightfully, turn their attention towards the yacht full of the people who are actually causing his problems
What got me was: “We’re in an echo chamber” (or something like that, I couldn’t understand what he was saying there and the CC conveniently decided not to work at that bit, only word I understand was “echo chamber”) “Do you know what that means?” “No I don’t but you’re gonna tell me” Like bro you use a word you don’t even know the meaning of!
@@justarandomhorrorfan7899 I think he said "echo chamber" which is a phrase for when talking about a subject everyone is saying the same thing and agreeing, so like an environment wherein all people hold the same beliefs and no one disagrees with those beliefs- he doesn't actually know what the phrase he used means.
It's very ironic that someone uses a term like "echo chamber" and doesnt understand what it means, he literally did the "echo chamber" thing right there xD
@@sirenuk5887 Not sure why you think so. I'm Caucasian and got livid listening to this self proclaimed anti-woke geez. He is probably white but this sort of mindset is all over the races, no longer reserved as Caucasian 'privilege'
This guy did everything to skirt answering the question. It's really quite simple. Being woke just means that you are aware of social injustice and racism in the world. To me, it's very telling of a persons character who deride the concept.
It's quite fascinating. Why would being fair and just to people who are historically oppressed make someone angry? I think part of it is that a lot of people who are anti-woke are working class whites. They feel disenfranchised and the idea of other groups being recognized but not them feels unfair to them, even though it's not. It's not rational. These are typically people who feel their way through life and hand over rationalizations to authorities they identify with (priests, pastors, politicians, pundits). Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. This is my humble observation.
I thought it meant just being aware of politics, legislation, and so on and how they effect you in general, not specifically social injustice and racism but I guess still encompassing such.
Important to point out that empathic ≠ correct. Sometimes the hardest correct decisions need to be made without empathy, with the empathetic choice being the complete wrong choice.
Caller: “These courses are designed to stifle discussion” Host: “What happens in these courses?” Caller: “Well you’d go into these courses and there would be a discussion…”
@Rob Numbers really. Whichever group holds the highest population generally dictates on a local social scale what is right or wrong. Avoiding death and suffering are generally the motivation for the masses. Some believe we can avoid that by causing it to others (or at least its thought to be the easiest to implement at the time), while others believe we should strive to end death and suffering with kindness and discipline.
It is just sad that most conservative paranoia in his show is thwarted by just asking specific examples and definitions these people bring out themselves. When did we lose the bare minimum integrity to at least know what our assumptions are, regardless of the validity?
Best explanation I ever heard on woke: just replace the word "woke" with "respectful". So you're not "anti-woke", you're "anti-respectful". It's really not difficult.
Caller: "well, just stop them progressing in their career..." Host: "so they were teaching you how to stop progressing in your career..." Caller: "not me personally..." Host: "I suspect you don't need any lessons..." ... I'm dying x))
@@JamieBykovBrett it wasn't sincere. He was using it rhetorically to try and make a point about having to repeat himself. He only later admitted that he didn't know what it meant making the rhetorical question pointless. If he had just said "What is an echo chamber?" or "Is this example of an echo chamber?" then you'd have a point but that's not how the question was framed
@@BuIIetBiII you’re clearly very confused. The caller asked if he was in an echo-chamber because the host kept asking him to clarify, but the caller refused to clarify and just repeating the same dumb point and thought he’d be cheeky by asking that dumb question. The host was sincere in his question because the caller obviously had no clue what an echo chamber is since it’s a metaphor for the state of being surrounded by only people who agree with everything you say. He’s right. You’re confused.
Like people in Geermany prostesting against the oppressing dictatorship ... that allows them to protest - yes, they get disbanded but wouldn't, if they would just wear masks (which they are against ...) and compare themselves with Sophie Scholl and Anne Frank.
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Ich will dir nicht zu nahe treten - kannst du das noch mal auf Deutsch? Ich glaub den Sinn verstanden zu haben, will nur sichergehen.
@@bladerunner3314 Ne, ist schon in Ordnung. War auch eine kryptische Botschaft, um hier nicht gegen die Regeln zu verstoßen. Ich bin einfach nur genervt von dieser bedingungslosen anti-Regierung Bewegung in Deutschland, die klar aus dem rechten Lager kommt und den exakt selben MAGA Unsinn redet. Trumpism mitsamt seinem Projektionismus ist verdammt gefährlich (z.B. Minderheiten unterdrückende Gesetze einführen und gleichzeitig die Demokraten als Gestapo bezeichnen). Auch hat dieser Kult geschlossen seine Haltung bzgl Covid mehrfach widersprüchlich vertreten. Es ist ein riesiger Kult, der mit Covid zockt und Deutschland muss auf beide Viren aufpassen. Grüße und Gesundheit aus Mannheim🙋🏿♂️
Sounds like this guy has been sent on a diversity course, an anger management course or a course that teaches people not to use offensive language, and he's still smarting at being labelled the bad guy in the room.
Maybe, kind of hard to tell because there's not much information to go on. Maybe he's just making stuff up but he's really bad at it. Or something completely different. We'll never know.
It's the same about people who say "snowflake" as an insult. They end up complaining about their rights, because they are special, and say whatever they want. So who is the snowflake?
@Paul Conway He simply asks clarifying questions to vague comments. It’s not bullying, it’s a debate tactic that you troll farm workers know nothing about.
Lolololololololololol “I used to work for the local authority, but, now I’m self employed” Everything you need to know about this person is in that single sentence.
Well cause "wokeism" is just the right projecting their own behaviour onto people they personally don't like. They've done this forever, they just make up some new thing to get horribly offended about and use that as justification for oppressing others. And the funniest part is they get horribly offended and triggered at the exact same thing over again. Always some variation of "think of the children!" and "But meh master genes!"
The scary thing is, this caller is actually one of the more articulate examples of the 'anti-woke' brigade. He can just about string a couple of sentences together, which is far more than most of them can do.
@@CronoXpono I assume he's worried about the consequences of saying certain things. He's not free to express certain things without risking losing his job, and you shouldn't lose your job over political views.
@@shaunhunterit342 Oh, you're absolutely right. It's also right to understand that it's been that way since forever. I'm in the USA, care to speak against Bush during the 2000's? Wanna admit you're an atheist in the south? There's how it should be and how it is, unfortunately. But you're right, it shouldn't be all encompassing, ESPECIALLY since it's not applicable to those who are already super well off.
About ten years ago I worked with a number of people who would take up the banner of being anti-woke today. One of my favorite interactions was when one guy, who was complaining about a big politician, "I don't like how every law he talks about just seems to do one thing. He just seems to want to..." He leaned in closer and whispered, "..help.. you know... brown people..." It was something he was very offended by.
@Lincoln D the right has dedicated echo chambers like Parlour. Studies have also shown a disproportionate right bias in reposting of articles on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and RUclips. So what's your point here? By all means, be the dissenting voice of reason, please feel free to explain the issue with woke values utilising a sound rationale.
In my head I'm imagining that this guy's being paid to zone out during some DEI training every single week instead of working, and instead of accepting this blessing with gratitude, he's dumb enough to complain about it.
@@jurgencuypers8350 And the spelling police strikes again!! Have you nothing better to do with your time, mate? But I see you must have shamed @Betsy019 into fixing her error, as it was obviously edited after your comment. Lol, you must be so proud!! What a great accomplishment for the entire human race that you just contributed with your quick eye and biting admonishment!! 😂😂
The inability to define what causes his privileged rage because he would be telling on himself that really he just wants to be free to treat other people as less than...
I think he's been hearing "woke is bad" in fox news for years and now he's just repeating it like a bird without knowing what it means. Heck. Like the rest of them.
Let’s just savor for a moment the obvious. He is no longer in that job (stop people from advancing in their careers) and is now self-employed. I want to know what he said or did that stopped his progression.
Oh, he knows why. He was just too cowardly to proclaim his bigotry. Why he even called instead of having a word with himself is the stunning thing. The absolute inability to have a word with himself.
I'll explain how. They have a system, a structure, a routine in their life. It's partly caused by their work structure but also by social climates. They were likely raised among average people doing average things, not as a diminishing comment but as an unfortunate set of circumstances. When something new and different happens, they get curious. However, due to not experiencing much of this change, they get scared, rather than intrigued and fascinated. It has thrown out their routinely thinking lifestyle. It scares them. This fear turns into anger, anger that is echoed by certain people in high society, which only validates their feelings so they think it's okay, especially as this person is in high society and therefore "made it", like they want to be. Like they've grafted for decades to try and be. In summary, it's often people who followed a route which they were led to believe to be correct, however when something new (and often generational) arrives & is successful, or on the brink of success, it annoys them because it should be them. And personally I think it probably should be them, however they've been held back by various things, whether people higher than themselves creating an ego-trip by keeping them on a certain level or by them internalising everything incorrectly and turning it into a psychological Yellowstone, only holding back their own evolution.
"They gave you lessons on.. w.. what? How to stop advancing your career?" "Well not me personally but yeah" "Of course, I suspect you didn't need any lessons on that mate" Loved that jab
There's nothing I hate more than people who find offense where there is nothing to be offended about. Also, I cannot give a single example of such a thing.
@@adamsmith4813 But here it sounds as though you're the "easily offended" one. It would seem more rational to try to understand why they're offended. Unless you feel as though you have something to hide.
@@princeandrey i think you misunderstand my comment. Maybe i should have put it in quotation marks. ''I'm offended by people who are easily offended'' - is basically what the bloke was saying, which is an ironic statement. The anti-woke are the ones that take offence from things.
@@karlnadin1554 No. The caller thinks "wokeness" means being easily offended. That's not what wokeness is, so he's wrong. However, the caller himself is also easily offended, so he's self-unaware and/or hypocritical in addition to not knowing what he's talking about.
He keeps refusing to give just a single example. Thing is, any example he could probably name would be so prolific that everyone would have an understanding of what he is talking about but unable to pin down specifically a location he is referring to.
@@brucegilbert625 I’m sure thats what he was thinking of in the back of his head but bringing that up would pretty much derail his original argument about what being woke is
And the catchphrase is that the behavior of this caller can only be thought by echo chambers. 😂 "Well, you know what those wokist tried to train into me, right? Stuff thought up by """them"""."-says absolutely nothing but would have landed him a round of applause by other members of his echo chamber.
James O'brien is like Tai-Chi. With the least resistence, and heroic tolerance he allows these fools to "load" from their diapers to their socks, On National Radio.
You gotta respect the strength of the conviction of a guy who's so convinced that something he can't define and of which he cannot recall a single example is taking over the world and ruining everything. You also gotta mock it mercilessly, but still.
@@mmi16 I mean there's parallels to be made in a certain sense, and I imagine many look to Donald Trump and would say he's a Great Leader. That he's very admirable. ALSO: Conservatives are conservatives. An a guy like this would be DEEP into Conservatism
They'll come for you next You'll use the 'wrong' pronoun You'll tell the 'wrong' joke You'll make the 'wrong' hand gesture You'll say the 'wrong' word You'll wear the 'wrong' clothes You'll sing the 'wrong' songs Nobody can keep up with so many 'rules' Not even you Eventually you will slip up And you will be labelled as 'far right', 'bigoted', 'homophobic', 'transphobic', 'Islamophobic', 'patriarchial', etc. All of your previous virtue signalling will count for nothing For these are crimes you can not atone for These crimes can never be forgiven For those who could forgive you can be tarred with the same brush You'll be persona non grata Unemployable Unwanted Shunned Just like those you currently torment This is the Brave New World you have created Welcome to your purity spiral It's a long way down
@@davidpaz9389 Dude it's not that serious, it's a self fulfilling prophecy and a world that you create yourself just by being involved with it. Not that there isn't some truth to what you're saying, but there's no use in pretending that both sides aren't participating in the same cancel culture bs. The ones making the biggest deal about it are usually the worst offenders themselves and actually do want to cancel everything they perceive as being "woke". It's really not as big a deal as you make it out to be, it's not even a big deal for the left, but the right won't shut up about it, therefore making it an even bigger issue than it actually is.
O'Brien does an excellent job of not letting the caller get away with meaningless, gross generalizations, proving the caller has no idea what the caller is talking about.
But isn’t the term “woke” just satirical/sarcasm because the people that think that they are enlightened or morally superior, generally are neither and are just walking, talking virtue signalling hypocrits?
it is the people who promote woke culture i have a problem with. Indeed i can't take a middle class(aren't they all) blue checkmark BLM supporter who hasn't so much as had a black neighbour seriously.
To be fair, he was trying to say it's not worth spending tax payers money sending him on a course to be nice to people when he's already decided he doesn't need to be - the guy is trying to save the country money; he is austerity made flesh!
@Lincoln D to be "woke" is to be informed or alerted to injustice in society, especially racism. whats wrong with being made aware of social injustice, especially racism if youve lived your life unaware of what others are experiencing in their lives ?.... or would you prefer to remain ignorant about them, simply because it doesn't affect your selfish attitude and life ?
Being asked to attend a workshop that helps others be more aware of other people's experiences is not "Oppression". So many of these Conservatives are so fragile.
I have my issues with the wokosos. not because it's bad to be nice to people or give them equal rights, but because they are insincere in what they do.
@@antediluvianatheist5262 Really mate? Because I kinda feel like you are being insincere about being against being nice to people or giving them equal rights.
When someone says, "People know what I'm talking about" and won't give any specific examples, you know that HE knows what he wants to say is something awful.
This is the UK so he's got a fairly short list of items we can guess from - I say this as someone from the USA. He is talking about any non-white and/or non-english citizen or inhabitant of the UK. Same thing in the USA except we have a whole crew that's really proud about their ignorance.
I love how he repeated his definition of woke being "people that actively seek offence where it doesn't exist" without even seeming close to aware that he was literally describing himself. XD
"This Wokeness is causing so much trouble for me!" "Like What?" "Uhh...Bus lanes and uh I have to do training in a job but I refuse to tell you what the training is."
Just be aware that not all the hosts are like James O’Brien. His politics are pretty much Progressive, but another one of the hosts is the polar opposite - N!gel Farage (ugh), former UKIP leader/politician whose politics are far right, and whose party helped take the UK out of the EU, (much to our economic detriment). The rest of the hosts are somewhere in between.
@@MercurialRed9 I encountered one of the right- wing hosts in my recommendations yesterday. He was about as bright as the guy as the caller on this clip😳
It's either he doesn't understand and he's scared by the "other", or he does understand, but knows saying that he hates the courses because they make him feel bad for using racial slurs as a joke, or calling LGBT people all paedophiles.
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There are plenty of fine journalists and interviewers here in the state, J. But it is amusing that in the comments of every single one of these RUclipsrs' videos there's at least one guy saying the exact same thing.
That is the left's definition. When normal people use the term woke its to describe hypocritical, virtue signalling, liberals who think they are the 'enlightened' despite the fact that they are extremely close-minded and are unable to accept other people's criticism or different perspective. One of the best descriptions of woke I've seen is, "wokeness is Maoism with American characteristics". Unfortunately understanding this definition requires historical knowledge which you might not have.
It's amazing how the "anti-woke" crowd complaines about everyone else being too "sensitive" while simultaneously being sensitive about being called out about their own BS.
@Ion Dunno that I'd identify as "woke," given the general incoherency of how people use the term, but in the general sense of progressive politics, personally no I don't get offended by you bringing up, apropos of nothing, your view that there are only two genders - it just tips me off that you're probably an obsessive transphobe. The likely irony being that you actually do get very personally offended by discussions around gender which don't involve some kind of "adult human female, penises penises fner fner" tedium. Which is why you thump your chest about it at every opportunity.
@Ion so we should tell people how they feel inside if someone want to be women and is a male or want to be a man and is a women it’s their right to do so
@@Grim_Beard The true meaning of woke does not apply to you Sir. In order to be woke, one has to have been asleep. There is only 1 people that has been asleep and is now awakening. That's the true meaning of woke. Not some supposed left agenda.
It was more he knew that if he started complaining about the courses which likely had stuff to do with sexism, racism and prejudice that would reveal himself.
It’s up there with the guy who couldn’t explain what Marxism was despite the fact he was sure it was responsible for all the evils in the world The Socratic method proves itself once again.
Less than 20% of LBC presenters are female Less than 5% of LBC presenters are BAME REDRESS THIS … get rid of James and replace with a female BAME DO YOU THINK JAMES WILL AGREE As that is what’s happening everywhere else
@@jimcourt9164 JOB gets paid £600k per year direct from a tax haven. His cash then goes through a shell company to avoid paying income tax. What do you think?
This guy is absolutely furious at something he can’t even explain.
That’s what poorly educated people do.
People tend to afraid of what they don't understand. This is perfect example.
@@absolutechadd8895
Yes, willfully ignorant people are afraid of things they don’t know. Whereas intelligent people seek out information on things they don’t know.
He can. He just won't because he knows he'll paint himself as a bigot.
hes been told to be
"HELP, I'm being silenced for my views!"
"Which views?"
"...you know the ones😅"
Absolute cowards
When it comes down to it you can almost hear those rusted and dusty gears finally start turning since 4th grade, as they realize that to voice “their views” would put them in bed with the objectively dumbest and worst of the entire world’s population. A position with zero academic support and makes them sound exactly like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. Its like for just a moment they actually have a little shame.
"HELP, I'm being silenced for my views!"
He said with a microphone purposely given to him by the opposition literally begging him to explain his views.
The conservative victimhood complex has no sense of irony or shame. @@YouWinAFREEiPOD
Laugh until I cry!
Although idiots might be the better word. If only they had an actual thought.
“We’re being silenced” as the host tries desperately to get him to explain his position.
He’s not the smartest and doesn’t express himself well at all but I see where he’s coming from. Of course he could say but he doesn’t know what the consequences of saying it are.
I don’t know what he was wanting to say so it’s hard to argue whether correct or not but that part does sort of prove his ‘point.’ If he was more intelligent and articulate he could have made it a more even argument, instead he got demolished.
I noticed that. You can't make this stuff up.
@@aljones75 The argument can never be even. Wokeness is simply being well-informed of social problems such as racism and social inequality. You can't be against that unless you happen to be an overall bigot. This person is not as inarticulate as he came across to be. He simply couldn't come up with anything that would not make him look bad. That's what he really meant by, "We're being silenced!": We can't insult anyone we don't like because you will make us look like the jerks we are.
@@Arcadia61 Excellent! Couldn’t have said it better myself!👍🏾👏🏾
@@aljones75 You are obviously trying to give this guy a pass-Mary Ann Borg told you everything you needed to know. Sigh..
They hijacked the word "woke" years ago and still can't define what they mean.
Which is irony that woke is literally being against social injustices. So those against that are in favor of hatred and bigotry, having lived a life of pure privilege and upset that the way things were is factually wrong.
it means pure fascism
@@RiptornRoryno, woke is being entirely deluded about social injustices
@@hoylsaintjebusAre you the guy who called in lol?
@@hoylsaintjebusOh so for example the people in Charlottesville who yelled "Jews will not replace us" were woke?
I like the part where he claims he is being silenced, while being patiently provided a platform for his opinions on live TV
EXACTLY.
Hahahahaha, spot on man, spot on!
It sounded like an actual sketch comedy bit
"What were the courses about"
"Oh- you know the ones"
"No I really don't. Why don't you inform us"
"It's don't want to quote examples, really"
"But you brought this up"
"I think you know what I mean"
"I have no idea. Please tell me"
"I have been cowed into silence by you lot"
patiently being the key word, this guy is being **charitably** patient.
@@valueriewhat’s that supposed to mean? 😂
“People who seek offense where it doesn’t exist.” If he could only see the irony of his call.
It's always psychological projection.
Always.
@@antediluvianatheist5262 You mean like that one MAGA dude who called all liberals p*dos only to turn out to be one himself?
that is exactually what todays woke idiots do.
Always...@@antediluvianatheist5262
@@antediluvianatheist5262 I used to think that was just pop psychobabble, but the last few years have convinced me otherwise. They always accuse the other side of the thing they did, are doing, or will do. They seem to be unable to help themselves.
This is actually how they are. They don’t know what they are angry about. They are just angry about something they don’t understand.
They’re angry about whatever they’re told to be angry about even if what they’re being told to be angry about isn’t even defined! They’re being moved about like mindless cattle by whatever their masters tell them.
You just described American and British conservatism.
@@StevenEveral they are really just about he same aren't they. My cousin living in Australia said the same thing about conservatives in Australia.
They wait to be told what to be angry about. One day it's Bud LIght, then Target, Disney, and now North Face. It's drag queens and whatever else they're told to be upset about.
He knows what he's angry about, and he knows that he's in the wrong. He just doesn''t like to be called out on it. Putin's propaganda machine, through social media, and people like Trump, Boris Johnson, and right wing media have convinced these bigots that they need to fight back against our western social values, like equality and general human decency.
That's the key right here. When people scream "I'm anti-woke!" or "it's all the woke agenda!", don't scream back or get offended. Stay calm, ask them to actually define what they think it means, give them time, and watch it all fall apart in slow-motion.
Exactly, it's lovely
Doesn't always work but it's always amusing to see them fumble after you ask for an explanation
And then they say: 'Oh, you know what I mean. No, come on, you know what I mean! That thing we both dislike because we're the same. We're the same, you and me!' Then you can shake your head sadly as they collapse into the vortex of their own intellectual cowardice. I grew up in Essex, so I know an annoyingly large number of people like this. 😞
Ask them what the official, concensus definition of Woke is.
For me , i Unterstand woke as performative progressivism, People who do not really care about the betterment of society as a whole or groups of people in society. People who grift of movements use heavy words to appear as allies of movements and hinder real discussions and change. I would also add people who just involve in progressive politics for their Own Social stamding.
"You lot have cowed me into silence," he said after the "woke" host put him in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands and gave him multiple opportunities to explain himself.
Maybe don't call in if you don't know what you're talking about?
I mean... Net positive outcome.
I think what he means to say is that he feels as though he can not express how he truly feels for fear of being harshly judged, and rightly so.
@@birdtarmac Yeah, sounds about right. Unfortunately he could not express that in an elocuent way.
@birdtarmac that's really at the heart of being "woke" and it's why bigots hate it so much.
When you've lived your entire life in privilege, equal rights may seem like oppression
A few things about your statement to consider:
When you say someone has lived their "entire life in privilege" I'm assuming that you mean a white person living in a western society. My feeling about this notion is this: if you are white and of middle or upper class, then you have privilege. If you are black or brown and you're upper class, you have privilege. "Privilege" has much more to do with class than with race. If you are white and of lower class and your parents were ignorant, poor, perhaps suffering with substance abuse and/or mental health problems, then you don't have "privilege" in society. When compared to a person of minority status in the same situation, your edge or advantage in competing in society is negligable. And there are waaaay more poor white people than rich white people. So the notion that absolutely all the white people are walking around with "privilege" is a fiction.
Lower class whites know this. They rightly reject to notion that they're in any way privileged. So when they see educated and successful black or brown people pointing fingers, criticizing the society that they've thrived in, and going on and on about being "oppressed" by whites, lower class whites sit there and say to themselves, "What the heck are you talking about? I'm privileged and you're oppressed? Really? Look at you!"
I think this is much of where the resentment around "wokeness" comes from. Of course, there is flat out racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia associated with this resentment...those are all real things. But to me it's more about poor whites being told they have something that they really don't have: a signifcant edge to competing in society.
@@jaydubya3698 you ignore so many things to come up with this flat wrong statement.
Boom
@@jaydubya3698white folks flat out have privilege beyond imagination. The problem is alot white folks are scared and reluctant to admit it, because they know what they inherited is from a life of privilege, so the privilge continues, note, inherited, not what they worked for. Look up the FHA ACT of 1934 and learn how 34 years of privilge helped multiple generations of white folks get a head while others did not.
I came across that phrase several times this week and it is so true!
I completely lost it when James openly dissed the Caller and the guy straight up didn't notice.
James: "So they were teaching you how to stop progressing in your career?"
Caller: "Not me personally."
James: "I suspect you didn't need any lessons."
Caller: "No, I didn't."
CelynBrum Hear Hear 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The caller has got an over inflated opinion of himself and should have been stuck to the old saying " A bit of quiet on your part would be highly appreciated "
It’s like something straight out of Flying Circus.
I m dying
That was brilliant.
What a wondrous web we weave when we practice to deceive.....this quote applies so much to this guy..literally dug such a huge hole for himself...it was amazing to hear!!!
Just yesterday talked to some guy who said "you cant say anything anymore" and when pressed for what he was trying to say he responded with absolute silence. Classic.
😂
But my rights...
because, if he even had anything on his mind, he knows those things are hurtful and bigoted and people aren't crazy for being offended
I think I have an idea of what he "can't say anymore" and it's slurs.
Maybe he meant it literally
Well he can’t say what he can’t say anymore, and that might be the problem he means.
I like the part where the caller demands to hear an example of the thing he's upset about
😂
😂😂😂 He is an embarrassment 😂
"I've been cowed into silence by you lot" - he said literally on a broadcast, where he could say exactly what he wanted to, to a whole bunch of people...
...being asked to express himself and actively refusing to.
What they call “wokeness” is everywhere , it’s very real and it’s harmful. And then idiots like this guy pretend like it doesn’t exist.
And was literally asked to.
Now you understand the hilarity of right winger 🤡s constantly whining on various platforms to millions of people about being silenced and censored 🤣
Lol
This guy allegedly went to these classes every week and he could barely explain anything they talked about, but he was really mad about the classes. What a genius.
It's because he was probably being blatantly dishonest and didn't want to talk about them because he knew how it would come off
Yep he was lying. He's anti council or public sector for some reason snd thinks that his bin men and the blokes who fix our river banks are on these courses. I'm sure they're not. When he says self employed I think he .means as a government artist, he draws the dole.
I'm from the US, and it sounds like he was talking about diversity training, which isn't much different from what kids are taught on Sesame Street about getting along with people who are different. I don't know why that angers people so much.
@@daeviant well people tend to seek offense where it doesn’t exist as the caller explained
"I'm just really offended by these people who get really offended over nothing".
So what was the couses about?
"I can't really say."
Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it’s not a problem for you.
almost.. i know i have white male privilege and as a german i live in a stable society. So I don't think my privilege is no problem. Guess i am just woke :D
Spot on. Those are the people that don't understand BLM because they never had an officer pull them over for "driving while white".
No, that is called selfishness.
Eg a woke activist who thinks that censorship on the university campus isn't a thing to be concerned about.
@@Gary_oldmans_left_nut when the censorship is about ppl claiming something is "wOkE" I am perfectly fine. When it comes to human dignity we should never under no circumstances argue against.
That moment when people realize when explaining why they hate something out loud to a crowd it makes them sound really awful and unfair...so they freeze up, and dont want to say it anymore.
His “ anti woke “, is not wanting to hear about black, brown and other people that he feel is beneath him and therefore his interest in learning about them or their customs is zilch , nil , none. That’s why he was “frightened” to go down the rabbit hole. There I put words in his mouth , coming from an “ aware “, black woman. Who don’t hate people , just despise unkindness ,
What I don’t understand is why “woke” people need a white straight male’s approval so badly. Like if he said what he wanted to say… why would they care? Why are they so weak and insecure where their happiness hinges on what other random people think of them?
Belated self-awareness and shame.
Exactly, "woke" is a convenient pejorative to demonise having empathy.
@@andybeans5790 if someone needs my empathy or if they need me to be “inclusive” of them… then they are weak.
Caller: “I JUST SAID IT! Am I in an echo chamber?!”.
James: “Clearly not, do you know what that is?”
Caller: “no”.
This says everything about the caller. He hates because he’s ignorant AF.
More like he was using every SINGLE ounce of mental power not to start saying racial slurs.
This feels so American is this really a world thing?
No it is an Xbox call of duty lobby thing @@Tenebrous227
Hes picked up certain buzz words in right wing media and that have cemented his head into thinking that its wokey liberals and immigrants that are making things worse, especially for him as a white man.
@@Tenebrous227 Its a culture war thing because the right wing political parties around the globe have absolutely nothing left to offer. The neoliberal project of the last 45 has succeeded in shifting the vast majority of the global wealth into the hands of an ever decreasing cabal of elites so they have shifted to blaming anyone and anything for their failure to deliver what they promised.
I think people like this caller are angry their prejudices are no longer tolerated at work.
or in their personal lives. How many of these "anti-wokesters" had loved ones grow tired of their bigotry and stop associating with them? how many of them are estranged from their children because of their bigotry?
they obviously lack the introspection to understand that they're the problem, so they go on to blame "wokeness" for the fact that their family refuses to see them anymore.
Yup.
It begs the question: why is it such an excruciating, intolerable loss to not say bad things to/about other people anymore?
@@DurgenheimI agree, but you mean “raises the question” not “begs the question”
That's exactly what it is. There is also some overcorrecting that has happened as a result but for the most part, just act like u got some sense at work and u will be fine. It's work, it's not a sports bar. There will always be some overcorrecting when money and livelihoods are at risk. It's like when I worked at Kroger. We had to ID everyone for alcohol. That's bc we don't want to leave the discretion up to each individual, potentially idiotic employee. Everyone's line is different. That's why we have to have a common line that covers most instances
I’ve been called ‘woke’ because I said I like watching women’s football. If women’s football is offensive to some people, why should I take them seriously?
Hilariously enough, woman's football is legitimately more enjoyable than men's football, because it's not as overpaid and dramatized. No rowdy fans constantly chucking stuff at the field, no double backflips because somebody stepped on your toe, no teams that dominate the league because the sponsor could afford throwing more millions at the player market.
Just teams of eleven players doing their best to get a ball into a goal.
@@AlblakaChelsea have won the Women’s Premier League 7 times out of the last 8 seasons. It’s further from a level playing field than the men’s game.
@@michaelberry5955 thats exactly what man city are doing lol
@@Alblakaagreed. Womens rugby too, you see the passion in the players a lot more.
Also it’s really cool watching local games of tag rugby when the women wipe the floor with the men!
i just like looking at a woman for 90min instead of a man. same reason I always choose the woman character in video games, its just easier to look at for long periods of time.
Imagine being terrified of your own dark truths that you may accidentally have gaslighted yourself into realizing you're wrong
I'm not sure these people have enough brainpower to make that realisation.....
this is a profound statement that would give the average trump supporter a brain aneurysm trying to understand it.
Oh, I love this comment. I will be repeating it.
They know that their side is right and the other side is wrong, they just can't put their finger on why exactly.
Hardest thing for anyone to do, is admitting they have an issue. This gentlemen, when saying the quiet part out loud is realizing just how hateful his point of views really are.
Caller had nothing except showing what a tool he is. Every person who is anti-woke, I have asked them to explain what Woke is, and they fail at every time. They have no idea at all.
This is so true
Explain what it is to them and see how they react. Probably with their stock of deflections, false equivalencies, and armies of straw men.
Anti-woke is what my 11 year old is when it’s time to get out of bed and go to school.
The way I see woke, based on the way people use it as an insult, is it's people accepting of other people regardless of how zany their beliefs may be to them. With that definition, anti woke is people who don't like those who are accepting of other's beliefs.... Basically anti woke is crying about people that are okay with stuff 😂
@@simplekid4328 to be fair it is the same argument people use against religion, you can be as accepting as you want but you don't get to decide for everyone what is or isn't acceptable for everyone else. ("You can play with your toys all you want, you can't come over to my house and make me play with your toys").
No one seems able to articulate that argument though, what springs to mind when I see it is South Park's "rabblerabblerabble" during mob scenes 😂
'You're not allowed to say anything nowadays'.
*is begged by the host to say something and is too scared to*
Because he knows the consequences of saying out loud what he REALLY means. He's tired of being asked to care about anyone else.
@@twistysnacksit’s because he’s got no idea what he’s on about really
@@twistysnackswe should as a society care about each other
It's political correctness gone mad Stu
Can you imagine having an instagram account dedicated to being “anti woke” sounds strange to me
I can explain exactly what “woke” is:
“Woke” is a catch-all vilification term for anything conservatives don’t like. Most liberals don’t even actually use the word.
Accurate
Exactly. I've been called woke, never actually used the word myself
Indeed.
I was talking to a friend of mine and his wife about movies. I mentioned watching Barbie and they were like we not watching that WOKE trash.
This was the first time I've heard someone IRL use the phrase.
I didn't even bother debating with them.
Imagine taking a strong stance on an issue but not knowing what the issue is.
Welcome to todays republican party
I think Father Ted got it so correct with the sign at the protest 'Down with this sort of thing'.
😂
@@JustinJones-mg4evlet’s be real here, welcome to any political party
@@addison1024 Not really. The Democrats haven’t abandoned policy yet. The issues they focus on are clearly understood, namely environmental protection and sustainability, worker’s rights, affordable healthcare, battling widespread misinformation campaigns, etc. The culture war is largely being fought by republicans with very little in the way of actual policy.
Imagine "anti woke" being the core aspect of your personality, while not even being able to articulate what that means.
this describes about 40% of the population here in the US
He's perfectly able to articulate what he means by "anti-woke", he just knows that it'll expose him as a terrible person.
Because such a person is -anti discussion.
Over the years I remember watching the majestic herds of gammons spluttering across breakfast T.V. and news, each morning over "P.C. gone mad!" being the end of civilisation as we know it.
This "war on woke" is more of the same nonsense for the gullible to be righteously outraged over.
@@4DSCdude i just discovered this channel. have you ever heard of Beau of the Fifth Column? he's done videos describing exactly this line of using questions to deconstruct right wing "opinions of opinions (of people paid to lie to you)".
Either he has no idea what he means by "woke" or he knows what he means and he knows that its a shameful thing for him to believe.
"Everyone knows what I mean"
"okay so tell us"
"no"
DINGDINGDING you are correct, it's the last one
Probably a bit a both. He asked if was in an echo chamber without even knowing what it ment. So he's not above using words or phrases he has no clue what they mean. He knows the people he's told he's against is woke so that's all he needs to know
I’m going with option 2
That's was it was when I was "anti-woke." As much as I believed I was right, I also knew, in a deep part of my unconscious, tbat I was wrong. Fortunately, it was tapping i to that unconscious side of myself that got me out of conservatism.
Woke does not mean we ought to marginalize people who aren't nice to anyone. It means we need to be aware of historic injustice and how they are still playing out. We need to be aware of those current injustices, become aware of prejudices we may have learned, and correct the real life effects of those injustices. No one gets marginalized when you are woke. Woke means creating a world of full equality for everyone.
Which is impossible, but nice sentiment
@@keeferealNot so much impossible but people don't like change and are afraid of being equal.
We all have to do our part to make a kinder and fairer world.
@@keefereal As long as people believe they're entitled to something, yeah.
@@keefereal Not impossible, it just takes a generational shift for the sentiment to take widespread effect in society.
"Wokeness is being offended by stuff that doesn't matter."
Caller is offended by the content of meetings that he doesn't even remember.
It's quite true that the woke deliberately seek out things to be offended by.
Nah he remembers them, he just KNOWS that stating what they actually were, would oust him as a bigot of some flavour.
if you think it doesn't matter you have a rude awakening coming.
@@carl8290 Care to explain. Ashley was quoting the caller in the video, who thinks that the people he describes as "woke" are passionate about inconsequential things.
@@carl8290 Ngl, i just have to say it… this fanbase here does not seem to know what wokeness is and seems to have massive misunderstands about it. APparently some of you learnt what anti-woke and woke means from strawmanning-for-beginners or strawman-for-experts or strawmen-revolution-the-revenge-of-the-Strawman and it’s just a bit weird to see. I dont veen know where to start cleaning-up with your misunderstandings? How about i mention the little fun-fac that millions over millions of LGBTQ People hate Wokeness? So if that fun-fact confuses you, i WAGER the POSSIBILITY that you have some misunderstandings going on.
I enjoy listening to people slowly explain that they don't know what they are talking about.
Liz Truss is a shining example
😂
I was thinking this when I read the comment.
Reminds me of High School when I didn't read the book and still tried to give the oral presentation.
That's a very concise way of describing why I like these calls. Cheers
Dear lord that was painful.
But here's the key quote: "Of course I'm envious!"
That's all you need to know about this guy. He's failed at life and is angry that anybody else is succeeding. He needs something to blame, something to point to and say that's it's not his fault.
Absolutely pathetic, but completely understandable.
I think it's equally important to note here that it's not necessarily his fault he failed. Capitalism is designed to make people fail. It's why your electronics are designed to become obsolete within a year of coming out, your car is designed to break down sometime shortly after it's warranty is up, your rent continues to increase while your wage continues to decrease, and you have no reliable way to feed and house yourself without selling your labor to someone else. Now granted this particular individual likely had a pretty solid gig driving busses which he likely squandered by his own actions judging by how he described the classes he took, and that is certainly his fault. But we aren't telling the whole story if we don't also admit that he's living in a system designed to keep him subservient to the ruling class and actively prevent from achieving the sort of financial success that he's envious of that would free him from that societal prison that's causing him so much grief to begin with. This individual, and many others just like him, are only taking out their frustrations on the wrong people. They place the blame on others partially because they don't want to own up to their own actions, yes. But also partially because they've been thoroughly brainwashed into believing the actual root of their problems *aren't* actually the problem. They're misled into projecting their anger at others in the same boat as them so they don't, rightfully, turn their attention towards the yacht full of the people who are actually causing his problems
What got me was: “We’re in an echo chamber” (or something like that, I couldn’t understand what he was saying there and the CC conveniently decided not to work at that bit, only word I understand was “echo chamber”)
“Do you know what that means?”
“No I don’t but you’re gonna tell me”
Like bro you use a word you don’t even know the meaning of!
@@justarandomhorrorfan7899 I think he said "echo chamber" which is a phrase for when talking about a subject everyone is saying the same thing and agreeing, so like an environment wherein all people hold the same beliefs and no one disagrees with those beliefs- he doesn't actually know what the phrase he used means.
Gotta blame SOMEBODY ammiright?
It's very ironic that someone uses a term like "echo chamber" and doesnt understand what it means, he literally did the "echo chamber" thing right there xD
I believe the first to be anti woke was Freddy Kruger
i think he was woke
I get it
lollll
You're right, Freddy wasn't 'woke'. He was 'slept'.
Nice!
He’s trying really hard to find an example where he doesn’t sound like a terrible person
And even then it would still probably be an example of someone else, either from hearsay or totally made up.
IMHO typical Caucasian behavior
@@sirenuk5887 Not sure why you think so. I'm Caucasian and got livid listening to this self proclaimed anti-woke geez. He is probably white but this sort of mindset is all over the races, no longer reserved as Caucasian 'privilege'
@@just_bea like I said my humble opinion 🙂
@renideo I suppose it is 🙂
James: “Please talk to me, and tell me what you mean by anti-woke.”
Caller: “I’m being silenced!”
🤣🤣
^ Yeah, pretty much this.
It's apparently people who have their bins emptied who are 'woke'...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The right wingers always to do that. It is their last line of defense.
This guy did everything to skirt answering the question. It's really quite simple. Being woke just means that you are aware of social injustice and racism in the world. To me, it's very telling of a persons character who deride the concept.
The factory put so much energy into avoided what it's about tells you they know what it really is
It's quite fascinating. Why would being fair and just to people who are historically oppressed make someone angry? I think part of it is that a lot of people who are anti-woke are working class whites. They feel disenfranchised and the idea of other groups being recognized but not them feels unfair to them, even though it's not. It's not rational. These are typically people who feel their way through life and hand over rationalizations to authorities they identify with (priests, pastors, politicians, pundits).
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. This is my humble observation.
❤❤❤
@@hettfield spot on
I thought it meant just being aware of politics, legislation, and so on and how they effect you in general, not specifically social injustice and racism but I guess still encompassing such.
Wokeness = empathy
Anti-wokeness = narcissism
🙏🙏🙏
Important to point out that empathic ≠ correct. Sometimes the hardest correct decisions need to be made without empathy, with the empathetic choice being the complete wrong choice.
woke...awake. "anti-woke" asleep or blind
@@Ben-gd4db in this aspect empathy wins
Caring about people is very unfashionable apparently.
Caller: “These courses are designed to stifle discussion”
Host: “What happens in these courses?”
Caller: “Well you’d go into these courses and there would be a discussion…”
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@Rob based on logic.
@Rob Numbers really. Whichever group holds the highest population generally dictates on a local social scale what is right or wrong. Avoiding death and suffering are generally the motivation for the masses. Some believe we can avoid that by causing it to others (or at least its thought to be the easiest to implement at the time), while others believe we should strive to end death and suffering with kindness and discipline.
@Rob Get ratio'ed.
@Rob If you're not going to be more specific about the context, this question is unanswerable
I'd rather be 'woke' than willfully ignorant
That is the perfect definition of being ‘woke’ 👏👏👏👏👏
as kathy burke said '' i'd rather be woke than a selfish fxkin twxt..''
You should stay in and don't breed.
I love how this guy gets people to completely deconstruct their own idiocy live on the air. He’s fantastic.
And it's spectacularly awesome that he's doing it basically just by asking questions in a very polite way... I love it
Huge cuts in mental health services and thsnkyou so much for your truth x
This particular example was masterful.
These clowns are so used to dropping buzzwords and inflammatory language and never have a logical argument.
It is just sad that most conservative paranoia in his show is thwarted by just asking specific examples and definitions these people bring out themselves. When did we lose the bare minimum integrity to at least know what our assumptions are, regardless of the validity?
"Can you answer this question?" "I am being cowed into silence."
Lol.
i howled out loud at that part!
I want to tell you for several minutes, while you are listening to me, that you are silencing me!
The absolute beauty of the moment he says "am I in an echo chamber?" - I've never heard anything so ironically hilarious in my life.
Then when asked couldn't define what that is 🤣
I suspect he rolls that one out in every pontification he performs down the pub.
The moment when you start using words you heard without learning the meaning
He's heard that progressives only exist in echo chambers. I think he didn't realize until then the political leanings of the host.
I swear the people that call in must have some kind of humiliation kink
They are screened by the producers pre show of course - it's entertainment - he isn't going to talk to someone who could actually make an argument.
@@pietropes1322 So you've called in, have you?
That made me laugh. 😂
@@pietropes1322well then you obviously haven't listened to a full show of his.
Well, you only need one hand to hold the phone.
"Just to be clear you didn't ring in by accident" made me chuckle. There are so many of these people
😂🤣 it was hilarious
Best explanation I ever heard on woke: just replace the word "woke" with "respectful". So you're not "anti-woke", you're "anti-respectful". It's really not difficult.
That is the most practical definition for woke! The more abstract definition is to be aware of culture and history :)
Do you mind if I use that going forward? That's a fantastic explanation!
Replace woke with a racial slur and you get what these guys mean man
@@yapp2yapp2 I'm against racism, but wokeness can be accepting certain books in my sons primary school library... I'm not for that
@@asuri8751 what
"Am I in an echo chamber?"
"Do you know what that means?"
"No."
Brilliant work Carl.
It was a sincere question. He really didn't know if he was in an echo chamber.
Caller:
"well, just stop them progressing in their career..."
Host:
"so they were teaching you how to stop progressing in your career..."
Caller:
"not me personally..."
Host:
"I suspect you don't need any lessons..."
... I'm dying x))
@@JamieBykovBrett it wasn't sincere. He was using it rhetorically to try and make a point about having to repeat himself. He only later admitted that he didn't know what it meant making the rhetorical question pointless. If he had just said "What is an echo chamber?" or "Is this example of an echo chamber?" then you'd have a point but that's not how the question was framed
@@BuIIetBiII you’re clearly very confused. The caller asked if he was in an echo-chamber because the host kept asking him to clarify, but the caller refused to clarify and just repeating the same dumb point and thought he’d be cheeky by asking that dumb question.
The host was sincere in his question because the caller obviously had no clue what an echo chamber is since it’s a metaphor for the state of being surrounded by only people who agree with everything you say.
He’s right. You’re confused.
"I've been cowed into silence by you lot." Yet he called into a national chat show and blathered on for 7 1/2 minutes.
Like people in Geermany prostesting against the oppressing dictatorship ... that allows them to protest - yes, they get disbanded but wouldn't, if they would just wear masks (which they are against ...) and compare themselves with Sophie Scholl and Anne Frank.
'You lot' = apparently people who have had their bins emptied... 🤷♂️
@@bladerunner3314 I know what you're talking about. From Germany.
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Ich will dir nicht zu nahe treten - kannst du das noch mal auf Deutsch? Ich glaub den Sinn verstanden zu haben, will nur sichergehen.
@@bladerunner3314 Ne, ist schon in Ordnung. War auch eine kryptische Botschaft, um hier nicht gegen die Regeln zu verstoßen. Ich bin einfach nur genervt von dieser bedingungslosen anti-Regierung Bewegung in Deutschland, die klar aus dem rechten Lager kommt und den exakt selben MAGA Unsinn redet. Trumpism mitsamt seinem Projektionismus ist verdammt gefährlich (z.B. Minderheiten unterdrückende Gesetze einführen und gleichzeitig die Demokraten als Gestapo bezeichnen). Auch hat dieser Kult geschlossen seine Haltung bzgl Covid mehrfach widersprüchlich vertreten. Es ist ein riesiger Kult, der mit Covid zockt und Deutschland muss auf beide Viren aufpassen. Grüße und Gesundheit aus Mannheim🙋🏿♂️
His misuse of the phrase ‘echo chamber’ was the icing on the cake 👏🏻
Sounds like this guy has been sent on a diversity course, an anger management course or a course that teaches people not to use offensive language, and he's still smarting at being labelled the bad guy in the room.
So much so that he left and created his own room ... of one person, so he'll never have to face reality again.
Maybe, kind of hard to tell because there's not much information to go on. Maybe he's just making stuff up but he's really bad at it. Or something completely different. We'll never know.
@@InfectedByEli which is ironic considering he doesn't even know what an echo chamber is
Astounding. He was given ample time to put into words the answer to the question being put to him, starting before he decided to ring up.
"sent on a diversity course". Exactly. Thing is this has been something corporations have been doing this for decades. This IS NOTHING NEW.
"People who actively seek offense were it doesn't exist." Didn't he just describe himself
this kind of people are always projecting
That is totally lost on him.
It's the same about people who say "snowflake" as an insult. They end up complaining about their rights, because they are special, and say whatever they want. So who is the snowflake?
@@Danielson1818 Exactly right. Well said.
@@Danielson1818
So does your complaint about people who use snowflake as an insult make you a snowflake?
James O'Brien has a mastery in making idiots look like idiots without them realising it. How he maintains his cool is amazing.
I think they realize; that’s why they hang up on James
That's because he only has idiots on
He chooses the idiots to help make his own bias point.
@Paul Conway He simply asks clarifying questions to vague comments. It’s not bullying, it’s a debate tactic that you troll farm workers know nothing about.
baldy O'Brien along with Maitliss lost BBC Newsnight over 1 million viewers with this type of nonsense
Lolololololololololol
“I used to work for the local authority, but, now I’m self employed”
Everything you need to know about this person is in that single sentence.
Yep. Sorry you got fired for using the N word, mate. 😂
It’s amazing how he doesn’t realize he is making up an offense where there is none, after defining woke as exactly that.
It's total gold. 100% absolute concentrated and pure.
I know. The irony is lost on this one. And his projection.
Well cause "wokeism" is just the right projecting their own behaviour onto people they personally don't like. They've done this forever, they just make up some new thing to get horribly offended about and use that as justification for oppressing others.
And the funniest part is they get horribly offended and triggered at the exact same thing over again. Always some variation of "think of the children!" and "But meh master genes!"
"I'm offended by learning that people get offended by me trying to offend them, but no offense!"
@@jammcguire1276 that’s terribly offensive. You should be canceled.
The scary thing is, this caller is actually one of the more articulate examples of the 'anti-woke' brigade.
He can just about string a couple of sentences together, which is far more than most of them can do.
this dude couldnt string two shoelaces together
Imagine if he was an American. Serious fragility
LOL Articulate?
Hardly able to string any discourse together!
White Van Man articulation 🤣
"You have cowed me into silence" said the man freely expressing himself on a nationally broadcasted radio show.
LOL It's amazing, isn't it?
@@CronoXpono I assume he's worried about the consequences of saying certain things. He's not free to express certain things without risking losing his job, and you shouldn't lose your job over political views.
@@shaunhunterit342 Oh, you're absolutely right. It's also right to understand that it's been that way since forever. I'm in the USA, care to speak against Bush during the 2000's? Wanna admit you're an atheist in the south? There's how it should be and how it is, unfortunately. But you're right, it shouldn't be all encompassing, ESPECIALLY since it's not applicable to those who are already super well off.
@@shaunhunterit342 He doesn't seem too worried though, since it is in his insta-bio.
Clearly has thought-derangement from sitting too long on his sofa overdoing the skunk.
About ten years ago I worked with a number of people who would take up the banner of being anti-woke today. One of my favorite interactions was when one guy, who was complaining about a big politician, "I don't like how every law he talks about just seems to do one thing. He just seems to want to..." He leaned in closer and whispered, "..help.. you know... brown people..."
It was something he was very offended by.
Anti-W: "Am I an echo chamber?"
JO: "Do you know what that means"
Anti-W: "No"
Absolutely clueless! 🤦♂️
Absolutely hilarious too!
So much second-hand embarrassment at this!
Plus, he thinks "curtain-twitchers" are woke. I'm telling you, before ambulances and warning labels, there were fewer people like him.
@Lincoln D the right has dedicated echo chambers like Parlour.
Studies have also shown a disproportionate right bias in reposting of articles on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and RUclips.
So what's your point here?
By all means, be the dissenting voice of reason, please feel free to explain the issue with woke values utilising a sound rationale.
@Lincoln D avoiding questions better than Boris 🤣🤣
"Three or four hours a week" - every week. Yet he can't remember a single one. Not saying he's lying. OK, I am.
Or, if you were speaking in the parliament you would have to say, "He's inadvertently lying." 😂🤣
Either he is lying or the fact he tunes out what he is supposed to learn thereby making him still part of the problem.
Nah that's his m8 down the pub. This guy is an idiot whisperer.
In my head I'm imagining that this guy's being paid to zone out during some DEI training every single week instead of working, and instead of accepting this blessing with gratitude, he's dumb enough to complain about it.
pretty simple, really. if he gives a single example he knows he's going to be called out for his own bigotry.
"I don't want to quote examples" "well you kind of have to" made me laugh so much
to, not too
I know, the quickness and ease of "you kind of have to" was precious comedic tone and timing.
@@jurgencuypers8350
And the spelling police strikes again!! Have you nothing better to do with your time, mate?
But I see you must have shamed @Betsy019 into fixing her error, as it was obviously edited after your comment.
Lol, you must be so proud!! What a great accomplishment for the entire human race that you just contributed with your quick eye and biting admonishment!! 😂😂
The inability to define what causes his privileged rage because he would be telling on himself that really he just wants to be free to treat other people as less than...
😂😂😂
I think he's been hearing "woke is bad" in fox news for years and now he's just repeating it like a bird without knowing what it means.
Heck. Like the rest of them.
And embarrassing himself in the process. Love it
He's the kind of guy who's only happy when he's in a room full of people who think like himself.
In other words, an 'echo chamber'.
Like most people on Twitter tbh
"....... a room full of people who think like himself." Think, hmmm?
“they’re teaching people how to stop progressing in their career??”
“not me personally”
“i suspect you didn’t need any lessons” 🤣😭
Oh wow! I had to pause the video at that moment because I couldn’t stop laughing
He even replied, "no I didn't need any lessons!" 🤪
Let’s just savor for a moment the obvious. He is no longer in that job (stop people from advancing in their careers) and is now self-employed. I want to know what he said or did that stopped his progression.
@@pats8219 I want him to get his own spot on GBnews, that would make that show just perfect. One more nutjob & they will be shown on comedy Central!
That one flew right over him. Ha
How do these people function on a daily basis? He basically rang a public broadcaster to say he's angry but hasn't got a clue why.
💯 He's angry because right-wing media tells him to be angry.
@@redlightmax - yup, this man has been played by the system.
@@redlightmax Brainwashed
Oh, he knows why. He was just too cowardly to proclaim his bigotry. Why he even called instead of having a word with himself is the stunning thing. The absolute inability to have a word with himself.
I'll explain how.
They have a system, a structure, a routine in their life. It's partly caused by their work structure but also by social climates. They were likely raised among average people doing average things, not as a diminishing comment but as an unfortunate set of circumstances.
When something new and different happens, they get curious. However, due to not experiencing much of this change, they get scared, rather than intrigued and fascinated. It has thrown out their routinely thinking lifestyle. It scares them. This fear turns into anger, anger that is echoed by certain people in high society, which only validates their feelings so they think it's okay, especially as this person is in high society and therefore "made it", like they want to be. Like they've grafted for decades to try and be.
In summary, it's often people who followed a route which they were led to believe to be correct, however when something new (and often generational) arrives & is successful, or on the brink of success, it annoys them because it should be them. And personally I think it probably should be them, however they've been held back by various things, whether people higher than themselves creating an ego-trip by keeping them on a certain level or by them internalising everything incorrectly and turning it into a psychological Yellowstone, only holding back their own evolution.
"They gave you lessons on.. w.. what? How to stop advancing your career?"
"Well not me personally but yeah"
"Of course, I suspect you didn't need any lessons on that mate"
Loved that jab
And he didnt even realize it either lol
James O'Brian is my new hero. His critical thinking skills are truly inspirational
Why do woke people need the approval of a straight white male so badly?
And he's quick with it. Love people who can quickly think on their feet!
There's nothing I hate more than people who find offense where there is nothing to be offended about. Also, I cannot give a single example of such a thing.
He lacks self awareness therefore he doesn't realise that he is describing himself accurately.
I'm offended by people who are easily offended! Sometimes people should look at themselves
@@adamsmith4813 But here it sounds as though you're the "easily offended" one. It would seem more rational to try to understand why they're offended. Unless you feel as though you have something to hide.
@@princeandrey i think you misunderstand my comment. Maybe i should have put it in quotation marks. ''I'm offended by people who are easily offended'' - is basically what the bloke was saying, which is an ironic statement. The anti-woke are the ones that take offence from things.
@@karlnadin1554 No. The caller thinks "wokeness" means being easily offended. That's not what wokeness is, so he's wrong. However, the caller himself is also easily offended, so he's self-unaware and/or hypocritical in addition to not knowing what he's talking about.
I feel like a lot of these people's main grievance is that other people exist.
exactly. and they cant make fun of them for existing without being shamed. they dont like being shamed.
Always has been.
I think its that other people want equality that they have a problem with
@@tramdr yup. That's exactly what it is. Period.
Nothing scares conservatives more than words they cant define.
Imagine, someone asking you over and over to say what you mean, but you steadfastly refuse...and then tell them they've cowed you into silence.
He keeps refusing to give just a single example.
Thing is, any example he could probably name would be so prolific that everyone would have an understanding of what he is talking about but unable to pin down specifically a location he is referring to.
He was scared because the woke mafia will come after him
@@ShadowFoxSF he should’ve just brought up George Floyd.
@@brucegilbert625 I’m sure thats what he was thinking of in the back of his head but bringing that up would pretty much derail his original argument about what being woke is
@@quarkonium3795 how would it derail it?
Caller: “You’re in an echo chamber.”
James: “Do you know what that means?”
Caller: “No, but I think you’re going to tell me.”😂
And the catchphrase is that the behavior of this caller can only be thought by echo chambers. 😂
"Well, you know what those wokist tried to train into me, right? Stuff thought up by """them"""."-says absolutely nothing but would have landed him a round of applause by other members of his echo chamber.
“Let me think of one….”
“Take your time.”
The most passive aggressive response, I loved it.
There's no better way to let someone dig their own grave than by giving them the time to do so.
@@TheDSasterX and handing them a shovel.
@@halweiss8671 given enough time, they can get it done with their hands 😂
I was just listening to that part of video and parallely read this comment. What a coincidence!
@Cy Synth
Not surprising, Lamebaugh wasn't very smart.
Tbf I’ve been called woke for telling someone to stop shouting abuse at some trans women on a night out calling them all sorts of slurs.
His definition of "Woke" is "Taking offence at things that don't exist."
EXACTLY what he was doing himself.
@Lincoln D I'm still waiting for my membership card to come through the post.
As of now, you have 69 likes.
Let's keep it that way.
Lol
Irony is often lost unless is woke to the idea.
@Lincoln D what do you think woke means .
This is just outstanding.
The guy rang in to have a rant and was made look like the absolute simpleton he is.
Just give them enough rope to hang themselves with
O'Brien's specialty.
James O'brien is like Tai-Chi. With the least resistence, and heroic tolerance he allows these fools to "load" from their diapers to their socks,
On National Radio.
And keep in mind that the caller rang in firmly convinced he had an argument. "I know, I'll call JOB. He will tremble before my astounding intellect."
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Exactly!!! Great post!
Listened to this live, was laughing at first but then realised this guy has the power to vote
yeah and he's probably of average intelligence, 50% of people are even stupider.
Yes, but only 1 vote!
I agree. But he also has prime time slot on LBC!
He also worked for a local authority..with that loss of brain power,how did they ever cope!
EXACTLY
"You didn't ring in by accident, did you?"
Lol....this is hilarious. Love this James O'Brien guy....
You gotta respect the strength of the conviction of a guy who's so convinced that something he can't define and of which he cannot recall a single example is taking over the world and ruining everything. You also gotta mock it mercilessly, but still.
the living avatar of dunning kreuger.
If this wasn't from the UK it would sound like the typical MAGA in the USA.
@@mmi16 I mean there's parallels to be made in a certain sense, and I imagine many look to Donald Trump and would say he's a Great Leader. That he's very admirable.
ALSO: Conservatives are conservatives. An a guy like this would be DEEP into Conservatism
They'll come for you next
You'll use the 'wrong' pronoun
You'll tell the 'wrong' joke
You'll make the 'wrong' hand gesture
You'll say the 'wrong' word
You'll wear the 'wrong' clothes
You'll sing the 'wrong' songs
Nobody can keep up with so many 'rules'
Not even you
Eventually you will slip up
And you will be labelled as 'far right', 'bigoted', 'homophobic', 'transphobic', 'Islamophobic', 'patriarchial', etc.
All of your previous virtue signalling will count for nothing
For these are crimes you can not atone for
These crimes can never be forgiven
For those who could forgive you can be tarred with the same brush
You'll be persona non grata
Unemployable
Unwanted
Shunned
Just like those you currently torment
This is the Brave New World you have created
Welcome to your purity spiral
It's a long way down
@@davidpaz9389 Dude it's not that serious, it's a self fulfilling prophecy and a world that you create yourself just by being involved with it. Not that there isn't some truth to what you're saying, but there's no use in pretending that both sides aren't participating in the same cancel culture bs. The ones making the biggest deal about it are usually the worst offenders themselves and actually do want to cancel everything they perceive as being "woke". It's really not as big a deal as you make it out to be, it's not even a big deal for the left, but the right won't shut up about it, therefore making it an even bigger issue than it actually is.
O'Brien does an excellent job of not letting the caller get away with meaningless, gross generalizations, proving the caller has no idea what the caller is talking about.
"I don't want to quote examples really"
The caller is the one who brought it up! That's the point of a discussion! He's just lost his argument.
" I called in to speak about something that I can't speak about. " Lol.
Thr chump is too used to talking to himself. And he obviously agrees with himself on everything.
Looks like he was the only one stifling rational discussion and debate
@@sirius1696 I think it was because he was in a one to one debate.
I think he's more at home mass debating.
"Am I in an echo chamber"
"No I don't know what that means"
Doesn't 'anti-woke' in the absolute, literal sense mean "I''m fighting for my right to stay asleep?" I think this guy just proved it.
But isn’t the term “woke” just satirical/sarcasm because the people that think that they are enlightened or morally superior, generally are neither and are just walking, talking virtue signalling hypocrits?
@@Technicallyimright Hypocritical about what?
Spoken like a enabler 💀
@@Technicallyimright bang on the button
it is the people who promote woke culture i have a problem with. Indeed i can't take a middle class(aren't they all) blue checkmark BLM supporter who hasn't so much as had a black neighbour seriously.
The caller is in the suddenly mortifying position of realizing he has to say the quiet bits out loud.
Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxactly right. THAT’S why he refused to give examples, because he knows he’s wrong.
He tried so hard for so long to not say he’s in favour of bigotry
To be fair, he was trying to say it's not worth spending tax payers money sending him on a course to be nice to people when he's already decided he doesn't need to be - the guy is trying to save the country money; he is austerity made flesh!
@Lincoln D
thats an absolute lie...
@Lincoln D
name a few....
@Lincoln D
to be "woke" is to be informed or alerted to injustice in society, especially racism.
whats wrong with being made aware of social injustice, especially racism if youve lived your life unaware of what others are experiencing in their lives ?.... or would you prefer to remain ignorant about them, simply because it doesn't affect your selfish attitude and life ?
@Lincoln D
1. WHO are "they" ?
2. Name a couple of "their horrific acts"...
Being asked to attend a workshop that helps others be more aware of other people's experiences is not "Oppression". So many of these Conservatives are so fragile.
Critical thinking is not one of this guys strong points is it
Just thinking in general by the sounds of it.
It's not many peoples strong points
He probably prefers strong pints in a notorious pub chain where he can air jab unchallenged
Drop the critical
That goes for the vast majority of the west.
First time hearing O’Brien. Love the way he handles the anti-woke caller. We’ve got these same anti-wokers here in America. O’Brien is a gem.
I have my issues with the wokosos.
not because it's bad to be nice to people or give them equal rights, but because they are insincere in what they do.
@@antediluvianatheist5262you’re the problem.
@@antediluvianatheist5262Who's they and how do you know they're insincere?
@@kimanirobinson790He went on these courses, see...
@@antediluvianatheist5262 Really mate? Because I kinda feel like you are being insincere about being against being nice to people or giving them equal rights.
When someone says, "People know what I'm talking about" and won't give any specific examples, you know that HE knows what he wants to say is something awful.
"You know what I'm talking about."
"I might, but I'm not sure you do."
I'm guessing it was a post-George Floyd/BLM related course of some description.
Tbh whenever someone says something like that I really get JQ vibes
This is the UK so he's got a fairly short list of items we can guess from - I say this as someone from the USA.
He is talking about any non-white and/or non-english citizen or inhabitant of the UK. Same thing in the USA except we have a whole crew that's really proud about their ignorance.
Definitely BLM
"Can you tell us what is woke?"
"I HAVE BEEN SILENCED BY THE WOKE MOB!"
I love how he repeated his definition of woke being "people that actively seek offence where it doesn't exist" without even seeming close to aware that he was literally describing himself. XD
Those that were offended by statues of Churchill etc being toppled are the ones complaining at other people being easily offended.
Conservatives are ALWAYS projecting.
The irony...
All hateful people are actually just hating themselves.
Caller had it bang on. Lefty wokeists are professional at being offended
He seems to be the best example for his own definition of "woke" - he's inexplicably offended by something completely innocuous and boring.
😂 its everywhere
And based on a vague feeling he has instead of at least an actual clear example or fact.
@@jmhaces the whole world is run on vague feelings
So are you saying "woke" agenda doesn't exist?
@@xjinit Irony is dead.
“My prejudice isn’t tolerated anymore, IM A VICTIM.”
I am in tears with laughter. How is this a real conversation and not a skit?
I can visualise it as a flying circus episode
"This Wokeness is causing so much trouble for me!"
"Like What?"
"Uhh...Bus lanes and uh I have to do training in a job but I refuse to tell you what the training is."
American here: I just discovered this channel. I love it. It's dead serious reality and hilarious comedy all wrapped into one.
I'm so glad! Tell more Americans!
American here. Love this channel!
Just be aware that not all the hosts are like James O’Brien. His politics are pretty much Progressive, but another one of the hosts is the polar opposite - N!gel Farage (ugh), former UKIP leader/politician whose politics are far right, and whose party helped take the UK out of the EU, (much to our economic detriment). The rest of the hosts are somewhere in between.
@@MercurialRed9 I don't think Farage is on LBC anymore. Pretty sure they got shot of him a while ago.
@@MercurialRed9 I encountered one of the right- wing hosts in my recommendations yesterday. He was about as bright as the guy as the caller on this clip😳
'I'm a bit scared to go down the rabbit hole' is exactly his problem. He doesn't understand the issues and feels threatened by it. Pretty sad really.
@@Ver5587 Why can you not ask a coherent question?
@@mimcduffee86 why so woke/LGBTQ people need his approval.
It's either he doesn't understand and he's scared by the "other", or he does understand, but knows saying that he hates the courses because they make him feel bad for using racial slurs as a joke, or calling LGBT people all paedophiles.
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It’s more he didn’t want to expose himself for being a garbage human.
I would to have James in the US because we need him and his voice.
There are plenty of fine journalists and interviewers here in the state, J. But it is amusing that in the comments of every single one of these RUclipsrs' videos there's at least one guy saying the exact same thing.
As an American, I can say that we don’t have enough people speaking out.
Check out the Majority Report with Sam Seder. It's basically this, but American.
@AntiWoke are you the one who couldn't answer the question in this video?
Just thinking that!
Woke: To be awake to facts, to be honest with yourself and the society you live.
I AM WOKE AND PROUD OF IT.
That is the left's definition. When normal people use the term woke its to describe hypocritical, virtue signalling, liberals who think they are the 'enlightened' despite the fact that they are extremely close-minded and are unable to accept other people's criticism or different perspective. One of the best descriptions of woke I've seen is, "wokeness is Maoism with American characteristics". Unfortunately understanding this definition requires historical knowledge which you might not have.
It's amazing how the "anti-woke" crowd complaines about everyone else being too "sensitive" while simultaneously being sensitive about being called out about their own BS.
@Ion Dunno that I'd identify as "woke," given the general incoherency of how people use the term, but in the general sense of progressive politics, personally no I don't get offended by you bringing up, apropos of nothing, your view that there are only two genders - it just tips me off that you're probably an obsessive transphobe. The likely irony being that you actually do get very personally offended by discussions around gender which don't involve some kind of "adult human female, penises penises fner fner" tedium. Which is why you thump your chest about it at every opportunity.
@Ion so we should tell people how they feel inside if someone want to be women and is a male or want to be a man and is a women it’s their right to do so
@@shama6394 Nailed it. :-)
@@Grim_Beard The true meaning of woke does not apply to you Sir. In order to be woke, one has to have been asleep.
There is only 1 people that has been asleep and is now awakening.
That's the true meaning of woke. Not some supposed left agenda.
It was more he knew that if he started complaining about the courses which likely had stuff to do with sexism, racism and prejudice that would reveal himself.
A prime of example of:
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
An example of how that quote is wrong maybe.
This is one of the worst calls there's ever been. Second-hand embarrassment. Amazing.
It’s up there with the guy who couldn’t explain what Marxism was despite the fact he was sure it was responsible for all the evils in the world
The Socratic method proves itself once again.
Hahaha James @ 7:27
Less than 20% of LBC presenters are female
Less than 5% of LBC presenters are BAME
REDRESS THIS … get rid of James and replace with a female BAME
DO YOU THINK JAMES WILL AGREE
As that is what’s happening everywhere else
@@jimcourt9164 JOB gets paid £600k per year direct from a tax haven. His cash then goes through a shell company to avoid paying income tax. What do you think?
Ha ha.
Woke is just a catchphrase that people hide behind for all the prejudices they're unwilling to say out loud.