"Woke Moralists". There's no one who's more of a moralist than an counterwoke conservative. No one's more of a virtue signaler than a counter woke conservative. And no one is woker but for a completely alogical, silly reason than the subscribers to New Wave Straight White/ Christian/ Male Persecution theory. I love that being woke is common sense. The right has nothing but "Look at those annoying oversensitives over there. Woke, politically correct, tree hugger." Also great that the alt white wing took something that came out of the black community and cried about it. Super great and standard operating procedure. Like casting movements that advocate for black people as anti-Christian. Clown world. The *point* is to make you scared of something good. MLK would be considered woke by these people mockbombing it.
I am 45. I was using the term woke in the late 90’s when referring to racial injustice with other African Americans, or multi ethnic people. It was our way of reminding each other to stay aware of certain situations. We learned it from our elders, so they were probably using it way earlier. This new iteration isn’t going to stop me from my original usage.
@@societalrevival1218 artist lead belly in the song "scottsboro boys" advises listeners to stay woke when traveling down south in 1931. upon further research i couldnt find another song but i did find an anti-slavery group called the "wide awakes" from 1860 during the us civil war
My guess is that this path you've chosen will prove to be fine. The Cons who parrot the term are tiring of it now, it's only still hot among the octogenarians, they'll find a new term soon. Remember they used to deride the PC (politically correct) then the SJW (social justice warriors) then one of them found Woke and they love repeating talking points so ran with it.
I actually like watching Mr. Beat because although I may disagree with some of his opinions, he always backs up his arguments with evidence that helps me understand his viewpoints.
I'm confident that if more people actually understood the reasoning and logic behind a given viewpoint, and actually understood the topics/data/information they were so politically charged about - many peoples' opinions would change. Many people are on a given side because that's what's familiar, and now it's become so ingrained in them and the other side has been so demonized by those around them, that it seems pointless to try to consider alternate perspectives or to better understand their own. A lot of people I disagree with, actually agree with me on a lot of fundamental and basic principles, but somewhere along the way they got led a different direction and there is a disconnect between the views they espouse and their actual core principles.
1. You argued to ”disagree”, yet you answered ”neutral”. Why? 2. Ok 3. You argued to ”agree” yet you answered ”neutral”. Why? 4. - 6. Ok 7. Same as 1. 8.-11. Ok 12. What should they explain?? 13. - 16. Ok 17. Same as 1. 18. - 19. Ok 20. Please, a more profound explanation as to ”why” you chose ”neutral”. Not just ”because of loaded terms”. Why are they loaded? Why do you feel ”neutral” is better than ”not answering” (maybe?)? 22. Ok 21. Why does having kids automatically make you disagree? Or maybe because you have exactly 2 kids? Please elaborate. (Though I understand the emotional side of it). 22. - 23. 24. Same as 1. 25. Ok. Part 2 in my next comment
You remind me of a really good history teacher i had in highschool. I didnt pay attention, had a bad drug problem, etc but i loved to show up to his class and i always learned something new. Love the videos mr beat
"Free" from what? Coercion? One will always be coerced because citizen have to pay taxes minimum. From responsibility of having to work, take care of your family, acceptability from your own actions? From nature itself, from being ugly, beautiful tall or short, young or old? From the fragility of your own body? From the free preferences of other people?
I understand "woke" to be a term co-opted by right wing politicians from AAVE, and now people use it as a derogatory term to dehumanize people. I like how you took the test and answered each question by breaking it down and explaining what it meant. You remind me a lot of my high school history teacher, who always encouraged us to think critically and look at all the information and the causes and effects of history.
Well, yeah. It doesn't work if it doesn't go in both directions. And in that sentiment you referenced, you left out the part about "without being charged with a crime".
@xviper2k It's only hypocritical if you conveniently leave out the exact thing I addressed. You're not gonna get hauled away to jail for your comment, and neither am I. That's the whole point.
@@Bombadil-ez9ns That's not the point at all. Having no fear of legal repercussions doesn't excuse the way in which some people chronically abuse free speech and insist they should be able to do so, but then turn around and throw a temper tantrum when someone else says something they don't like. It's poor, hypocritial behavior, legal or not. People can dish it out but they can't take it.
@xviper2k There are those who can dish it out but can't take it. If that's you're definition of hypocrisy, okay. If it's also your definition of free speech, we're probably never gonna be on the same page to have a constructive conversation. Again, it does go in both directions, and (if you're in the US) nobody is going to come and arrest either of us.
The big issue with the word "woke" is that none of the people who use the word ever define it. There are some well-known politicians who have become synonymous with using the word "woke" (e.g., Governor Ron DeSantis), but without defining the word.
I have never heard anybody argue that someone can be productive by being fun to "hang out" with. And I think you're totally right. They're the people that make life worth living.
Floridian here! In regards to the parental rights in education (or don’t say gay) bill, it came in two different bills. I think more Floridians than not supported the first bill, keeping that discussion out of k-3 education. However the second expansion bill made it illegal to bring up the discussion or watch movies that feature lgbtq+ characters all the until 12th grade. In case you can’t tell, if you are a teacher and a member of the LGBTQ community you cannot discuss your sexuality at all, in essence, you can’t be OPENLY gay. My main issue is that acts like these operate under the assumption that some parent’s rights matter more than others. Parents who want those issues discussed in schools? Too bad
The fact that the writers of the test believe that being daring and tough, And being caring and compassionate, Are mutually exclusive and someone cannot be all four at once Is what makes the question stupid.
Generous and incorrect. His videos aren't trying to make people laugh, but snear at people they don't like. At least John Wayne Gacy tried to get some kids to laugh with his clown act.
Being a comedian simply means being someone who tries to make people laugh, when what’s funny is subjective you can’t really say he isn’t… because people really do find him funny.
Glad you made this, the word woke gets misused so often. I’m also glad universal healthcare got mentioned too. It baffles me that some people think universal healthcare means no insurance because it doesn’t mean that, it simply provides healthcare to the people who can’t or don’t want to pay for insurance.
Which leads to a healthcare system like Canada or the UK, where you wait months or years for adequate treatment while paying for fat people giving themselves diabetes and killing their hearts. When you make the State responsible for your health and safety, you get neither.
Hey@@franklyanogre00000 , in the United States we wait for months or years for adequate treatment, too, except here, we have to PAY FOR IT. We don't want the State to run healthcare, we want it to pay for it. I hope you understand that distinction.
@@randomdudeoti You will pay for it, be it yourself for yourself, or yourself with taxes for someone else that is not you or your family most of the time.
You know what I'd want in a political quiz? The political ideal, followed by, 'okay, what policies do you support?' Or if you don't support it, range of factors as to why you don't. Feel that would give a good enough indication of a political postion, and at the very least, be an interesting way of finding out about policy ideas from various parties, countries, cultures etc. So the big idea goes: do you think the state should help people with healthcare costs? If yes, list of policies. Pick one or more. If no, list of reasons as to why not. Or policies you would do instead.
Conservatives use “woke” in exactly the same context as “liberal,” “Marxist”, “leftist”, “socialist”, “communist,” “radical” and other completely meaningless monikers.
@@HappyChap8from what I can tell, “liberals” usually just call racists Nazis, conflating the two terms. And there are a surprising amount of overt racists these days.
Haven’t watched the livestream yet, but if you’re woke it’s in a good way, and if you’re not it’s also in a good way. I’ve watched enough of your videos to know that you are humble, self-critical but also at the same time a critical thinker who makes decisions off of logic, available evidence, and your moral values. Whether or not that makes you “woke” is something I find interesting but refuse to judge anyone by.
About Question #28: "Anybody who is not a white male is, in some sense, oppressed in our society." I think I kinda of agree with the person who suggested you might have "misread" this question. Or perhaps misinterpreted its intent? I will grant you it is probably (like most other questions on this test) not a great question, not worded with the most clarity. But here is the way I interpreted what this question (I think) was trying to ask. If you are not a white male in this society, you are likely to be oppressed in some sense. That is not the same as saying or implying that white males are NEVER oppressed. Those are not mutually exclusive. You can have a situation where anyone who is not a white male is much more likely to be oppressed and still have a portion of white males ALSO be oppressed. Bottom line, this question should probably have said something like: "If you are not a white male, you are more likely to be oppressed." Or maybe the better way to explain it is that the question IMO is not stating that white males are never oppressed but rather that non-white males are just about always oppressed in "some sense."
I just don’t agree with the word ‘oppressed’ in this context. In my mind, to be oppressed requires one to have concrete systemic barriers against them. What barriers does someone like Barack Obama, Beyonce, or Taylor Swift have on them? They certainly face surface-level bigotry, but in comparison to their wealth, influence, and legacy, what could that actually hinder them from doing in practice? Every class of people faces bigotry on some level and some have it worse than others, but that doesn’t mean every individual within every worse-of class is oppressed.
@@Adsper2000Barack Obama isn't a whole race, Taylor Swift isn't all women. There were black senators in Mississippi during reconstruction, but that doesn't negate the fact that black people were extremely oppressed. Oprah no longer having to deal with everything that other blk women face doesn't make the statement untrue. Even she was racially profiled at Hermes (I think) because they didn't recognize her
@@KingLeno That’s why I didn’t include all black people or all women, I included those specific individuals. As a group, women and black people face barriers of some kind, but not all individuals within those groups do, which was my point.
I agree with that as well. I would not use oppressed either but I was simply using the language from the question. I don't know who made up this questionnaire but I am guessing that given the language, the nature of the questions and how they were worded, the creator(s) might have been someone whose perspective is that being "woke" is not entirely a positive thing? Maybe some of the specific language used was intended to paint the "woke" as particularly extreme and/or ridiculous? But, of course, that is just an off the cuff assumption on my part. I am thinking that someone who feels wokeness is not entirely a positive perspective believes that anyone who does will go around saying things like "oppressed" all the time about everyone who is not in that top rung of the social pile. Ultimately, when you strip all the other variables away, in most cases, wealth will almost always "buy" you power and influence and when you have both of those, the surface stuff people use to assign people to this or that pile (skin color, gender, etc), will be secondary. Money and power will trump surface exclusionary factors just about every time.
It's a good sign when the test makes it painfully obvious what the politics of the test writers are. Writing neutrally worded questions are difficult to be sure, but one might make an effort at least.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in it's essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." ----- Franklin D Roosevelt
Always loved your Channel, really appreciate the focus on being balanced and not taking extreme positions. It’s so rare these days to find people that don’t react to extremism with more extremism
The first time I heard the term "woke" it was in the positive connotation Mr. Beat mentioned, and I thought that sort of describes me to some extent though I was aware I was not that knowledgeable on certain subjects you might expect a "woke" person in that context to know about but I didn't really like the word. It seemed elitist, like it was meant to elevate the "woke" person above people who were more naive but shared the same morals. That being said, it was a convenient single syllable word one could use to refer to the subjects related to the term by that definition... which I think is why the right wing nutbags became so determined to highjack the word, strawman it's definition and use it as an insult for everyone they disagreed with. Making it easier to discuss what is wrong with the world goes against everything a white christian nationalist and/or a trump supporter endorses. Making it easier to deride people who want to actually see progress for the working class and especially people who are actively and openly discriminated against is perfectly in line with the right wing nutbags.
I mean tbh every side does this. The right calls everyone they disagree with “woke” and “communists,” and the left calls everyone they disagree with “fascists” and “bigots.” The meaning of words get lost when politicians start saying them.
@@L333gok not even politicians, but people in general. Politicians rarely use these words. In reality right wing people use woke and communist as insults without much understanding of the words. The left uses fascism and bigot as a way to define someones politics or moral values with a better understanding and grasp of their positions. It still might be construed as an insult. But there will always be people using words they dont understand and follow the pack. Leftwinger will say yeah Im commie so what, and rightwingers will pretend they just arent bigots or fascists.
@@zwicker5585 The average left winger has no idea what fascism or bigot means. Most of them think fascism just means far right or ultra conservative and bigot means closed minded. They will use the word bigot to describe anyone with a “problematic opinion” (aka an opinion that they disagree with), which is very ironic considering the actual definition of bigot is someone who can’t accept opposing viewpoints and opinions. The right isn’t anymore fascist or bigoted than the left is woke and communist. These words are used by people with no real arguments who resort to accusations to win debates.
these questions are absolutely horrendous, but as an editor, i think the best way to answer them is not to read them literally, but to read them in a way that points to what they’re actually saying, especially since they’re obviously pointed in one direction.
I was thinking about that too. But I think they are phrased like that to leave them open for ideological interpretation. It seems they want to appeal to both emotions and logic at the same time.
As an anthropologist who has worked with forensic anthropologists, I find that race has two definitions and that the more accurate one is very limited. 1. Yes, race is a social construct to categorize the "other" primarily by skin color. 2. There are physical features and physical ailments where race is a factor. Knowing these help forensic anthropologists identify a body, for instance. Which is especially useful when reconstructing an image. However, this is only because our bodies adapted to the environment that we lived in over 1000s of years. For the same reason, physicians know from your ancestry what ailments to watch for that you are more susceptible to. For instance, sickle cell anemia is only found in descendants of African ancestry. Granted, they no longer call these race based. They are now called ancestry based... which is where I think this definition of race is slowly being changed to in order to avoid the problematic first definition I listed.
I use to say I wasn’t woke. That I agreed with many of the issues woke people would bring up but cringe at their actions. Since then, I’ve became honest with myself and admit that I am woke. I don’t see that as some grand achievement though, I still think many of the things other woke people do are in poor judgment and only hurts the cause. There are days I hate being woke, but they are few, especially on a day the political right does something infuriating which is has become all too frequent
I know a lot of people who were not conservative but confessed themselves uncomfortable with “the left” back around 2016. Almost all of them have since moved leftward and become more confident in calling themselves a “feminist” (or similarly fraught label).
I may not agree with everything Mr. Beat does, but i enjoy his content and been watching for years. Also as a Kansas native its good to see local channels grow.
I look forward to watching this video. Mr. Beat is in my top 5 RUclips presenters. "Woke" is a term co-opted by a certain segment of the American public from black slang, and twisted into an epithet. And, yes. To those people, anyone who has any Liberal tendencies whatsoever is "Woke", including Mr. Beat.
The way I understood question #28 was not "If you are a white male, then you are not oppressed". I read it as "Is everyone who is not a white male in some way oppressed? "If you are not a white male (literally anything besides being a white male), then you are oppressed." many shit questions on that test, many worded awfully
The question was obviously related to white privilege aka white people not suffering from systemic racism and other problems that only minorities face on a daily basis…The only reason you would answer “No” to that question is if you are a white trans person or a poor white person…What do you think ?
My suggestions,in spite of not being related to this video -Honolulu and Miami (2 most exotic destinations in the USA) -Boston and San Francisco (Harvard and Berkeley) -Austria and Switzerland -Cuba and Jamaica -Greece and Turkey -Dallas and Falcon Crest Greetings from Tenerife,Canary Islands
Part of the problem with immigration is that we don't have the infrastructure to handle the actual immigration part. Each immigration judge has roughly 4,500 cases to deal with. It often takes months or years for a court date. Meanwhile, work visas expire. Currently, these cases constitute the majority of "illegals" in this country. So they actually came here legally, and through no fault of their own, their status changed. Meanwhile, they were working, paying taxes, and doing everything the courts told them to do. It is incredibly hard to immigrate to this country. Only 3% of people who apply for a Green Card actually get one. And some countries are barred... so that adds to the desperation of people coming from there... which gets exploited by individuals and groups, etc, etc. From a historical perspective, we really started trying to restrict immigration over the past 100-130 years. I think fear has let us forget the benefits. But I'm sure that is another history lesson for another day.
When Mussolini opened his jails and sent the mafia over, we didn’t have immigration policies. And now their grandkids are the ones bleating the most against immigration. Discuss.
6:51 ah, JP. This bit is the closest to generally funny as I’ve ever seen him. He’s hysterical if you think all new ideas or observations are stupid. I would have loved it 30 years ago
The question about trickle down economics made me laugh. I do not know of any legit economist that believe in the trickle down effect. That just seems like a way that the Wall Street types and super rich say to the poor to keep them complacent.
After taking the quiz, I agree that these questions are poorly worded and leading to an answer, either you are woke or not. I appreciate you publicly taking this quiz. And yes, I’m woke for what it’s worth. BTW, the mechanism of natural selection is not random, whereas other mechanisms of evolution (like mutations) are random. However, the mechanisms that are considered random can be acted on by natural selection.
He isn’t wrong, but he’s not right for the correct reasons Either way, that video is the greatest thing Jordan Peterson has ever and likely will ever contribute to society
I'm just of the opinion that "woke" is just a thought-terminating cliche centered around an ambiguous list of "stuff I don't like." For those that despise it, the "woke agenda" is whatever the dishonest interlocutor needs it to be, and said interlocutor gets real mad whenever I point it out to them. Generally, I agree with your rationale with such loaded questions, but I would lean a little harder into the climate change issue, but not strictly to help the environment. The option to put a solar or wind power plant in the backyard is an incredible way to have people provide for themselves as we all cannot be fossil fuel barons. Not to mention, since we are providing for ourselves, that necessarily means that we aren't reliant for the government to provide for us. Is that not every Conservative's dream?
Listen, regardless of what the results are, we love you for who you are, regardless of whether it fits into any specific framework besides, "genuinely trying to communicate and helping others understand and communicate their thoughts on history in an accurate and meaningful way, including a critical, evidence based, approach to discovering what can be known about anything.
I was, born/raised/"politically seasoned," in San Francisco. I live in Nancy Pelosi's Congressional district. I thought that would land me in the WIDE AWAKE, category. As it turned out, I was rated just over 54 % woke. I like that, because it tells me that I can see so much from two sides. I do, however, want to go on record as being WHOLLY supportive of the Green M&M's decision to wear whatever shoes she wants to! 😀
A problem with these low-hanging fruit woke jokes is it helps reinforce the loud, toxic section of the right’s playbook where they trivialize and attempt to make ridiculous these legitimate concepts they don’t have a good enough answer for. Woke was a very real and useful term the Black Panthers used because their leaders were getting murdered by the state left and right, and to them you either didn’t notice it because you were asleep or you were awake and so were obligated to resist. And as a historian I’m thinking you understand that what the government did to the Black Panther’s was awful, so I hope that this could be something you keep in mind since you self-describe as a centrist. It’s a joke that people claim anything left of American perfection is woke, so let’s try to not legitimize the slander and instead just dismiss these accusations when they’re inherently ridiculous
Co-opted? Like it was originally supposed mean something else? Seems like it used to be a liberal phrase to describe liberal ideas (which conservatives would naturally disagree with) and then conservatives used it too? I think the way you worded this comment is evidence of the culture war that he was talking about in the video. Not trying to be a dick, just think we should all try to talk more genuinely and use less combative language when discussing this stuff :)
@@NocebonoboThat's where you're wrong. It's been co-opted at least twice. Originally it was an AAVE term that meant awareness of racism and discrimination. It had nothing to do with liberalism in general. Then liberals co-opted it to mean awareness of a number of different types of oppression/ inequity and support of a number of social causes. And nowadays when a right winger uses it it could literally mean anything. I've seen fox news use it to describe a black person tap dancing. It's nonsense now.
@@nathanjasper512 hm interesting, I also looked up co-opted and it has a less harsh actual definition than I thought, it’s just used almost exclusively in a way to demonize the co-opting party. So maybe I’m wrong then. is AAVE a common term btw? I haven’t heard it before.
@@nathanjasper512 I agree with you about it's origins. But I'm not sure liberals co-opted it before the right wing did though. I think that happened at about the same time. Of course it's just my subjective perception but it seemed to me that both sides started using it a lot right about the time that football players started protesting.
“We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness.” - Hermann Hesse (1919) Aloha 😉🤙🏼
I haven't watched the video yet but im guessing Mr beat is probably considered "moderate". He is sensitive to peoples feelings while also not denying science. He is aware of actual history rather than revisionist history that liberals/conservatives subscribe to. Not woke enough to be a hypocrite and not anti-woke enough to be an idiot. Very central is my prediction. Either way, he seems like a good man and i very much enjoy his content. Hes the social studies teacer i wish i had as a youngster. Thank you for your videos and i hope you and your family have a very happy holiday season. P.s. it is my new year resolution to find one of those Oregon trail rocks. Ill let you all know how that goes.🤞🏻
@@drugsdelaney2907revisionism is a term that folks use to describe others and is almost never self-applied. If you cannot think of--or research such an example-yourself, then it clearly tips your hand.
@drugsdelaney2907 on race alone: liberals deny that black Americans owned slaves or that whites were indentured as well. Liberals deny that america was built by impoverished whites as well as every other minority not just slaves. Liberals deny that slaves were not captured by whites but captured by blacks and SOLD to whites as they were prisoners of wars in Africa. Liberals deny that blacks could (and did) buy their own freedom which doesnt make sense to Liberals because they deny that blacks were compensated at all for work. I can go on and on about the denials of Liberals about race and slavery in America alone. To get into any other subject would require an hours long lecture and i dont think im gonna waste that time on you. Sorry. And yes, conservatives do it too.
Preach, Mr Beat. Also, Australia isn't perfect, but their government sure is working hard to improve things. Also, as an American, I'm sure I'm not getting the whole picture, but respect nonetheless!! 🙏
Lol what? Australia is the most expensive place to live in in the world right now do to terrible govt policies. people are waiting in lines to qualify for crappy studio apartments that cost 2000 ASD per month.
Most of this quiz is silly and poorly written, but there's one question (and response) that I found interesting: Question 28, "Anybody who is not a white male is, in some sense, oppressed in our society." Mr. Beat goes on to disagree, saying that "it implies you are woke if white men don't have any problems." I don't think he understood this question correctly. He is confusing "white men don't have any problems" with "people who are not white men don't get the same treatment in society as white men."
78.91% I was mostly weak on climate because I disageed with 'I have considered not having children because of climate concerns," and I don't believe absolutely irreparable hatm will be done in 5 years... 10 years maybe
I guess the test is good for establishing a baseline for how bad these glorified Myers-Briggs charts can get, but man... that's some wonky methodology to say the least
My understanding, going back to about 8 years ago is that it meant that you're self righteous, sanctimonious or 'virtue-signalling' especially when it comes to cultural and political issues.
Anyone using "Woke" as a verb to describe political correctness sickens me. They took a term that had nothing to do with them and bastardized it into a catch-all talking point 😞
I disagree with you on abandoning over-used poorly-defined terms like socialism and fascism. I mean, you're absolutely right that people throw them around wildly. But they are somewhat clearly defined in political science, and I think they can definitely be used usefully. Similarly with woke. Sure, it's messy and people abuse it. But broadly speaking, "woke" are people who believe that structural oppression against marginalized groups exists and is a problem and should be fixed. And that's a useful thing to have a term for. And don't we just quickly run out of language that way. Like democracy and capitalism and freedom and conservative and libertarianism are all similarly terms that get used as political pawns and have a wide range of definitions depending on who is using them and why. But we should let that stop us talking about those things.
I'm a professional communicator. If half of my audience is disillusioned by one of my lessons because they disagree with a basic definition of a word, I believe that word no longer is useful.
@@iammrbeat Fair dues. I suspect that problem is more caused by the terms being so politically fraught than it is them being poorly-defined. And teaching it in the classroom has typically less of that than the internets, I'm sure.
I think high bracket tax should ping-pong randomly between Income/Wealth/Assets each year, so we can watch the 1% flip out trying to predict where to hide it.
I took the quiz with you expecting to have the questions in order to have a better explanation. Well they weren't and ended up getting a neutral answer on the "wokeness" issue Edited: omg you're 53% I was like 54😂 this channel was made for me👊
I consider myself fairly WOKE and I ended up with only a 57%. My highest Ratings were for Global Citizenship, Challenging Norms, and Fighting Power. Assuming "fighting power" means I'm in favor of limiting concentrations of power, think that seems right. 1) Challenging Norms is how we get better. Challenging Norms is how we've learned literally everything we assume we know. 2) Global Citizenship just seems like being anti-war and anti Bigotry. 3) Concetrated power has often turned out badly for everyone.
Woke is the new liberal. I'll accept both labels happily. But I'd prefer to talk about issues rather than be called names. I'm confident that civil rights activists of the 1960's would have been called "woke" by white Southerners if that term had been in circulation.
Just took it. Those questions were not great. They often included two very different things in the same question and wanted you to agree/disagree with the comparison. Also, we had the same percent.
To "woke" you can add "the left" and "post-modernism". The latter of those two can put a name to the problem with that questionnaire by simply looking into who created it. In this case it's obviously ideologically motivated, but also mind-numblingly nonsensical. You allude to it enough in this video, but the weaponisation of the terms comes from the anti-woke proselytizers, i.e. those who claim to be leading the crusade against "woke-ism" and "the left", many of whom are just grifters. YooToob is a great place to get that grift going, as can be scene by the comedian you cite toward the beginning. Like so many content creators, that dude probably just saw what got the most attention and leaned into it. When you add the the modern algorithm to the mix, it increases the likelihood of someone being irretrievably isolated in a bubble of paranoia over an issue that barely exists in the real world. By the way, the dude that said you misread the question probably means you answered it wrong. The question was about whether everyone who is not a white male is oppressed (or maybe economically disadvantaged), and your only response was that, no, some white men are disadvantaged in that way, which sort of reverses the question.
I think that, at baseline, this quiz is extremely off putting in the language it uses, and it really doesn’t serve a layman any value. As a “woke leftist”, I can understand what all of these words and ideas mean, but someone who is politically disinterested or disenfranchised, or someone who is a moderate with little ties to either ideological extreme (as Mr Beat appears to be) are going to be so confused or put off by the wording. Also it really seems politically charged, something that in general you should avoid- don’t immediately bias your questions in one direction (even if it’s a political questionnaire).
I agree that words like Woke, Fascist, Socialist, (and to a lesser extent) nazist, and communist are words without solid meaning, rather they just have light veil meanings, which people abuse.
Using the word woke in a derogatory way is about not believing in social injustice / believing that it is not something we should care about. Most of this test is not about being woke
No. It’s about not subscribing to a specific philosophy concerning the idea of social injustice. Almost everyone is oppressed in some way, but the criticism of the “woke” type comes from their lack of care for certain types of injustice, not from their care for other types of injustice. “Wokeists” don’t care about all social injustice, only the types they see as important. For example, do you see feminists groups advocating against the injustice men face in family courts and the workplace? No. In fact, you often see them actively fighting against them, calling men’s right’s activists misogynistic. There are so many disadvantages the majority face nowadays in this culture, yet they’re dismissed and labelled as “oppressors.” I’m bi (and quite flamboyant too, so it’s kind of obvious I am) and my last employer told me to my face he wouldn’t have hired me if I was straight. That’s not social justice, that’s discrimination, and it’s what a lot of the left advocate for. You can’t just label everyone you disagree with an not caring just because they place more emphasis on different aspects of justice than you.
It's time to wake up.
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Me with my horrible sleep schedule:
"Woke Moralists". There's no one who's more of a moralist than an counterwoke conservative. No one's more of a virtue signaler than a counter woke conservative. And no one is woker but for a completely alogical, silly reason than the subscribers to New Wave Straight White/ Christian/ Male Persecution theory.
I love that being woke is common sense. The right has nothing but "Look at those annoying oversensitives over there. Woke, politically correct, tree hugger."
Also great that the alt white wing took something that came out of the black community and cried about it. Super great and standard operating procedure. Like casting movements that advocate for black people as anti-Christian. Clown world.
The *point* is to make you scared of something good. MLK would be considered woke by these people mockbombing it.
dring dring
But when I “wake up” a bunch of right wingers try to put me back to sleep!!
As a black person, it’s so odd watching our slang get taken so far out of context that it’s lost all of its meaning
This also happened with the word ‘cancel’ and I’m so tired…
That’s the historic African American experience
I'm pretty sure it's just words being used... I don't think using a generic term is destroying a culture.
Id stay away from ideas of "our slang"
I remember in 2012 saying “stay woke” in the black community was a positive thing. The words been twisted so weirdly the last couple years.
It's official. I'm more woke than Mr. Beat. I got 60%. But I agree... the questions were worded very poorly.
It's a horrible quiz with a heavy right wing bias. The conception of woke in the quiz is filled with right wing strawmen
@@LukeMcGuireoides It's a right wing bias, but it's not like a useful one even. It's just like it was written by someone in a right wing huff.
82.81% 😂
You are slightly non-woke (34.38%). Thats what i got.
I got 50 percent radical centrist 😂
WOKE Mr Breast gets DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC
What is this 2015? lol
facts and logic, something you have neither of lol
If you guys can't tell, this comment is sarcastic
Gone Wrong Gone Sexal?
@@fitnessfoodchronic6618 they are being sarcastic. It’s a common joke to make fun of alt-right debate lords
I think Mr. Beat just wants people to turn in their assignments on time
You mean their GENDER REASSIGNMENTS?!?!
Sounds like Stalin to me!
And I thought Mao was bad!
Radical Centrist Mr. Beat
I honestly thought I'd be more "woke."
Is that a m*therfucking jreg reference?
The Saul PFP saying that cracked me up
@@CaptainAllianceA political commentator reference under a video about politics? Unthinkable!
@@iammrbeatmr breast give me money plexr
I am 45. I was using the term woke in the late 90’s when referring to racial injustice with other African Americans, or multi ethnic people. It was our way of reminding each other to stay aware of certain situations. We learned it from our elders, so they were probably using it way earlier.
This new iteration isn’t going to stop me from my original usage.
there are songs from the 1930s where the word woke is used in that exact same way.
@@cheerio2298could you give a few examples? I’d love to hear them!
@@societalrevival1218 artist lead belly in the song "scottsboro boys" advises listeners to stay woke when traveling down south in 1931. upon further research i couldnt find another song but i did find an anti-slavery group called the "wide awakes" from 1860 during the us civil war
I fear it's going to constantly stop people from understanding you. Right on though.
My guess is that this path you've chosen will prove to be fine. The Cons who parrot the term are tiring of it now, it's only still hot among the octogenarians, they'll find a new term soon. Remember they used to deride the PC (politically correct) then the SJW (social justice warriors) then one of them found Woke and they love repeating talking points so ran with it.
I actually like watching Mr. Beat because although I may disagree with some of his opinions, he always backs up his arguments with evidence that helps me understand his viewpoints.
Sounds like you're going woke!
@@JoshBurcham104of course he's woke, how else you expect him to type?!1?11!?!!
I wish everyone who was opposed to his views was like you. The world would be a much better place.
I'm confident that if more people actually understood the reasoning and logic behind a given viewpoint, and actually understood the topics/data/information they were so politically charged about - many peoples' opinions would change. Many people are on a given side because that's what's familiar, and now it's become so ingrained in them and the other side has been so demonized by those around them, that it seems pointless to try to consider alternate perspectives or to better understand their own. A lot of people I disagree with, actually agree with me on a lot of fundamental and basic principles, but somewhere along the way they got led a different direction and there is a disconnect between the views they espouse and their actual core principles.
1. You argued to ”disagree”, yet you answered ”neutral”. Why?
2. Ok
3. You argued to ”agree” yet you answered ”neutral”. Why?
4. - 6. Ok
7. Same as 1.
8.-11. Ok
12. What should they explain??
13. - 16. Ok
17. Same as 1.
18. - 19. Ok
20. Please, a more profound explanation as to ”why” you chose ”neutral”. Not just ”because of loaded terms”. Why are they loaded? Why do you feel ”neutral” is better than ”not answering” (maybe?)?
22. Ok
21. Why does having kids automatically make you disagree? Or maybe because you have exactly 2 kids? Please elaborate. (Though I understand the emotional side of it).
22. - 23.
24. Same as 1.
25. Ok.
Part 2 in my next comment
I got about a 77%, also holy cow these questions are so poorly written it’s like the political compass all over again
Loaded question after loaded question
I got 77% too and these suck.
77.34%
Me too!
You remind me of a really good history teacher i had in highschool. I didnt pay attention, had a bad drug problem, etc but i loved to show up to his class and i always learned something new. Love the videos mr beat
Thank you Nick. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Not the good history teacher, but the drug problem.
I had the exact experience too man. Hope you overcame it🙏🏿
@@ruthlessjones8220 2 years sober thank god♥️ thanks homie
I’m still a drug addict lol.
@@highonheroin5352 I hope you're able to get sober friend 🫂
"No human being can be free until every human being is free." Damn Eugene V. Debs is woke.
More like Eugene W. Debs!
@@imightbebiased9311 😂
@@imightbebiased9311 nice
"Free" from what? Coercion? One will always be coerced because citizen have to pay taxes minimum. From responsibility of having to work, take care of your family, acceptability from your own actions? From nature itself, from being ugly, beautiful tall or short, young or old? From the fragility of your own body? From the free preferences of other people?
"A real man should be caring and compassionate, not daring and tough"
Well the real men I know are all 4?? How are those mutually exclusive?
Honestly; there's definitely a middle ground between John Wayne and Richard Simmons.
Yea I was confused by this as well, I think the only thing that makes a man a man is what he is biologically born with yknow
Real men should be who and what they want. Just like real women.
Is this a PragerU admission exam?
I understand "woke" to be a term co-opted by right wing politicians from AAVE, and now people use it as a derogatory term to dehumanize people. I like how you took the test and answered each question by breaking it down and explaining what it meant. You remind me a lot of my high school history teacher, who always encouraged us to think critically and look at all the information and the causes and effects of history.
“People should be free to express themselves however they see fit.”
Also, “how dare Mr. Beat express himself this way!”
Well, yeah. It doesn't work if it doesn't go in both directions. And in that sentiment you referenced, you left out the part about "without being charged with a crime".
@@Bombadil-ez9ns Yeah, hypocrisy doesn't work unless it goes in both directions. That's what makes it hypocritical.
@xviper2k It's only hypocritical if you conveniently leave out the exact thing I addressed. You're not gonna get hauled away to jail for your comment, and neither am I. That's the whole point.
@@Bombadil-ez9ns That's not the point at all. Having no fear of legal repercussions doesn't excuse the way in which some people chronically abuse free speech and insist they should be able to do so, but then turn around and throw a temper tantrum when someone else says something they don't like. It's poor, hypocritial behavior, legal or not. People can dish it out but they can't take it.
@xviper2k There are those who can dish it out but can't take it. If that's you're definition of hypocrisy, okay. If it's also your definition of free speech, we're probably never gonna be on the same page to have a constructive conversation. Again, it does go in both directions, and (if you're in the US) nobody is going to come and arrest either of us.
The big issue with the word "woke" is that none of the people who use the word ever define it. There are some well-known politicians who have become synonymous with using the word "woke" (e.g., Governor Ron DeSantis), but without defining the word.
Which is why I don't take clowns like DeSantis seriously
woke seems to mean "thing i dont like"
I don't think any politician left or right knows what any word they're saying means anymore, they just want votes and quick fame
I mean, they just mean anything vaguely to the left of them, is how they are defining it.
I can define it for you from a conservative perspective.
Woke means excessive social activism. I can elaborate if you desire.
I have never heard anybody argue that someone can be productive by being fun to "hang out" with. And I think you're totally right. They're the people that make life worth living.
Woke means only one thing: It is what you do NOT want to be at 4 in the morning.
Floridian here! In regards to the parental rights in education (or don’t say gay) bill, it came in two different bills. I think more Floridians than not supported the first bill, keeping that discussion out of k-3 education. However the second expansion bill made it illegal to bring up the discussion or watch movies that feature lgbtq+ characters all the until 12th grade. In case you can’t tell, if you are a teacher and a member of the LGBTQ community you cannot discuss your sexuality at all, in essence, you can’t be OPENLY gay.
My main issue is that acts like these operate under the assumption that some parent’s rights matter more than others. Parents who want those issues discussed in schools? Too bad
The fact that the writers of the test believe that being daring and tough, And being caring and compassionate, Are mutually exclusive and someone cannot be all four at once Is what makes the question stupid.
Calling JP Sears a comedian is EXTREMELY generous.
Generous and incorrect. His videos aren't trying to make people laugh, but snear at people they don't like. At least John Wayne Gacy tried to get some kids to laugh with his clown act.
Being a comedian simply means being someone who tries to make people laugh, when what’s funny is subjective you can’t really say he isn’t… because people really do find him funny.
Yeah he definitely seems to punch down. I personally don't find him that funny. He mostly just seems to make fun of a straw man.
So are you woke or not?
Conservatives are incapable of punching up.
If ur against vaccines ur racists.
Not my words.... words of thd mainstream media
Never heard Bill Maher's last name pronounced like Bill Myer
Glad you made this, the word woke gets misused so often. I’m also glad universal healthcare got mentioned too. It baffles me that some people think universal healthcare means no insurance because it doesn’t mean that, it simply provides healthcare to the people who can’t or don’t want to pay for insurance.
Which leads to a healthcare system like Canada or the UK, where you wait months or years for adequate treatment while paying for fat people giving themselves diabetes and killing their hearts. When you make the State responsible for your health and safety, you get neither.
Hey@@franklyanogre00000 , in the United States we wait for months or years for adequate treatment, too, except here, we have to PAY FOR IT. We don't want the State to run healthcare, we want it to pay for it. I hope you understand that distinction.
Well put
Yeah, but the issue with universal healthcare is that the state (as in the US Government) can’t pay for it either.
@@randomdudeoti You will pay for it, be it yourself for yourself, or yourself with taxes for someone else that is not you or your family most of the time.
You know what I'd want in a political quiz? The political ideal, followed by, 'okay, what policies do you support?' Or if you don't support it, range of factors as to why you don't. Feel that would give a good enough indication of a political postion, and at the very least, be an interesting way of finding out about policy ideas from various parties, countries, cultures etc.
So the big idea goes: do you think the state should help people with healthcare costs?
If yes, list of policies. Pick one or more.
If no, list of reasons as to why not. Or policies you would do instead.
That’s too complicated I want to answer a few yes or no questions to assign myself a completely useless label that is not accurate
Any man, who does long format discussion in front of Beavis and Butthead... is in fact... woke.
@@zenleeparadiseone of the whole things about the show was their hippy teacher who was completely out of touch with his class...
This may be the best comment in Mr. Beat history. Congratulations. :)
Most (all?) of Mike Judge's work is "woke" :)
Office Space
King of the hill
Idiocracy
Daria
Conservatives use “woke” in exactly the same context as “liberal,” “Marxist”, “leftist”, “socialist”, “communist,” “radical” and other completely meaningless monikers.
It uneducated people trying to label things negatively when they don't understand
Kind of like how democrats use "insurrectionist", "fascist", "white supremicist" and my all time favorite, "transphobe".
whatever you dirty socialist
Just like liberals call anyone right leaning a Nazi. It's all so dumb.
@@HappyChap8from what I can tell, “liberals” usually just call racists Nazis, conflating the two terms. And there are a surprising amount of overt racists these days.
imma just quote someone I heard this morning “how big of a crisis will it take for us to come together” just that thought alone is a scary feeling.
Well it didn't happen during a global pandemic... so ... aliens?
When the ozone layer is at risk is when people decide to actually unite against a crisis
@@jamie_louAliens won’t unite us. The usual anti-woke suspects will go into two camps: those who claim they aren’t real and those who worship them.
We sort of United during the pandemic, and also 9/11. Can’t think of many other somewhat recent events
Haven’t watched the livestream yet, but if you’re woke it’s in a good way, and if you’re not it’s also in a good way. I’ve watched enough of your videos to know that you are humble, self-critical but also at the same time a critical thinker who makes decisions off of logic, available evidence, and your moral values. Whether or not that makes you “woke” is something I find interesting but refuse to judge anyone by.
I fully agree. Woke is clearly a synonym for conscientious, even in the right wing conception, which is so sad.
He's a pretty cool guy
About Question #28: "Anybody who is not a white male is, in some sense, oppressed in our society." I think I kinda of agree with the person who suggested you might have "misread" this question. Or perhaps misinterpreted its intent? I will grant you it is probably (like most other questions on this test) not a great question, not worded with the most clarity. But here is the way I interpreted what this question (I think) was trying to ask. If you are not a white male in this society, you are likely to be oppressed in some sense. That is not the same as saying or implying that white males are NEVER oppressed. Those are not mutually exclusive. You can have a situation where anyone who is not a white male is much more likely to be oppressed and still have a portion of white males ALSO be oppressed. Bottom line, this question should probably have said something like: "If you are not a white male, you are more likely to be oppressed."
Or maybe the better way to explain it is that the question IMO is not stating that white males are never oppressed but rather that non-white males are just about always oppressed in "some sense."
I just don’t agree with the word ‘oppressed’ in this context. In my mind, to be oppressed requires one to have concrete systemic barriers against them. What barriers does someone like Barack Obama, Beyonce, or Taylor Swift have on them? They certainly face surface-level bigotry, but in comparison to their wealth, influence, and legacy, what could that actually hinder them from doing in practice?
Every class of people faces bigotry on some level and some have it worse than others, but that doesn’t mean every individual within every worse-of class is oppressed.
@@Adsper2000Barack Obama isn't a whole race, Taylor Swift isn't all women.
There were black senators in Mississippi during reconstruction, but that doesn't negate the fact that black people were extremely oppressed. Oprah no longer having to deal with everything that other blk women face doesn't make the statement untrue. Even she was racially profiled at Hermes (I think) because they didn't recognize her
@@KingLeno That’s why I didn’t include all black people or all women, I included those specific individuals. As a group, women and black people face barriers of some kind, but not all individuals within those groups do, which was my point.
I agree with that as well. I would not use oppressed either but I was simply using the language from the question. I don't know who made up this questionnaire but I am guessing that given the language, the nature of the questions and how they were worded, the creator(s) might have been someone whose perspective is that being "woke" is not entirely a positive thing? Maybe some of the specific language used was intended to paint the "woke" as particularly extreme and/or ridiculous? But, of course, that is just an off the cuff assumption on my part. I am thinking that someone who feels wokeness is not entirely a positive perspective believes that anyone who does will go around saying things like "oppressed" all the time about everyone who is not in that top rung of the social pile.
Ultimately, when you strip all the other variables away, in most cases, wealth will almost always "buy" you power and influence and when you have both of those, the surface stuff people use to assign people to this or that pile (skin color, gender, etc), will be secondary. Money and power will trump surface exclusionary factors just about every time.
It's a good sign when the test makes it painfully obvious what the politics of the test writers are. Writing neutrally worded questions are difficult to be sure, but one might make an effort at least.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself.
That in it's essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
----- Franklin D Roosevelt
As a Woke, I woke up and was no longer asleep and that is when I knew I wasn't dreaming. Woke.
If people think Mr. Beat isnt WOKE, explain why he WOKE up today from bed?
Checkmate, atheists.
As an atheist, I have been checkmated
Checkmate, liberals
Always loved your Channel, really appreciate the focus on being balanced and not taking extreme positions. It’s so rare these days to find people that don’t react to extremism with more extremism
The first time I heard the term "woke" it was in the positive connotation Mr. Beat mentioned, and I thought that sort of describes me to some extent though I was aware I was not that knowledgeable on certain subjects you might expect a "woke" person in that context to know about but I didn't really like the word. It seemed elitist, like it was meant to elevate the "woke" person above people who were more naive but shared the same morals. That being said, it was a convenient single syllable word one could use to refer to the subjects related to the term by that definition... which I think is why the right wing nutbags became so determined to highjack the word, strawman it's definition and use it as an insult for everyone they disagreed with. Making it easier to discuss what is wrong with the world goes against everything a white christian nationalist and/or a trump supporter endorses. Making it easier to deride people who want to actually see progress for the working class and especially people who are actively and openly discriminated against is perfectly in line with the right wing nutbags.
This questionnaire reminds, and the concept of “woke,” reminds me of George Orwell’s essay on political language.
Orwell was such a treasure
@@iammrbeat orwell was duuuuuuumb as heck
I mean tbh every side does this. The right calls everyone they disagree with “woke” and “communists,” and the left calls everyone they disagree with “fascists” and “bigots.” The meaning of words get lost when politicians start saying them.
@@L333gok not even politicians, but people in general. Politicians rarely use these words. In reality right wing people use woke and communist as insults without much understanding of the words. The left uses fascism and bigot as a way to define someones politics or moral values with a better understanding and grasp of their positions. It still might be construed as an insult. But there will always be people using words they dont understand and follow the pack. Leftwinger will say yeah Im commie so what, and rightwingers will pretend they just arent bigots or fascists.
@@zwicker5585 The average left winger has no idea what fascism or bigot means. Most of them think fascism just means far right or ultra conservative and bigot means closed minded. They will use the word bigot to describe anyone with a “problematic opinion” (aka an opinion that they disagree with), which is very ironic considering the actual definition of bigot is someone who can’t accept opposing viewpoints and opinions. The right isn’t anymore fascist or bigoted than the left is woke and communist. These words are used by people with no real arguments who resort to accusations to win debates.
these questions are absolutely horrendous, but as an editor, i think the best way to answer them is not to read them literally, but to read them in a way that points to what they’re actually saying, especially since they’re obviously pointed in one direction.
I was thinking about that too. But I think they are phrased like that to leave them open for ideological interpretation. It seems they want to appeal to both emotions and logic at the same time.
As an anthropologist who has worked with forensic anthropologists, I find that race has two definitions and that the more accurate one is very limited.
1. Yes, race is a social construct to categorize the "other" primarily by skin color.
2. There are physical features and physical ailments where race is a factor. Knowing these help forensic anthropologists identify a body, for instance. Which is especially useful when reconstructing an image. However, this is only because our bodies adapted to the environment that we lived in over 1000s of years. For the same reason, physicians know from your ancestry what ailments to watch for that you are more susceptible to. For instance, sickle cell anemia is only found in descendants of African ancestry. Granted, they no longer call these race based. They are now called ancestry based... which is where I think this definition of race is slowly being changed to in order to avoid the problematic first definition I listed.
I use to say I wasn’t woke. That I agreed with many of the issues woke people would bring up but cringe at their actions.
Since then, I’ve became honest with myself and admit that I am woke.
I don’t see that as some grand achievement though, I still think many of the things other woke people do are in poor judgment and only hurts the cause.
There are days I hate being woke, but they are few, especially on a day the political right does something infuriating which is has become all too frequent
I know a lot of people who were not conservative but confessed themselves uncomfortable with “the left” back around 2016. Almost all of them have since moved leftward and become more confident in calling themselves a “feminist” (or similarly fraught label).
Of course hes woke. Everything is woke now. The word has just been driven into the ground. It means everything and nothing.
Those woke liberals being all woke and liberal
Woke = Left wing libertarian.
Libertarian = Right wing woke.
UP YOURS WOKE MORALISTS
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I may not agree with everything Mr. Beat does, but i enjoy his content and been watching for years. Also as a Kansas native its good to see local channels grow.
I look forward to watching this video. Mr. Beat is in my top 5 RUclips presenters.
"Woke" is a term co-opted by a certain segment of the American public from black slang, and twisted into an epithet. And, yes. To those people, anyone who has any Liberal tendencies whatsoever is "Woke", including Mr. Beat.
We got the exact same percentage xD - great video as always
My woke-ish brother!
@@iammrbeatHow dare you be leftist! How offensive to right handed people and ambidextrous people!
The way I understood question #28 was not "If you are a white male, then you are not oppressed". I read it as "Is everyone who is not a white male in some way oppressed? "If you are not a white male (literally anything besides being a white male), then you are oppressed."
many shit questions on that test, many worded awfully
The question was obviously related to white privilege aka white people not suffering from systemic racism and other problems that only minorities face on a daily basis…The only reason you would answer “No” to that question is if you are a white trans person or a poor white person…What do you think ?
My suggestions,in spite of not being related to this video
-Honolulu and Miami (2 most exotic destinations in the USA)
-Boston and San Francisco (Harvard and Berkeley)
-Austria and Switzerland
-Cuba and Jamaica
-Greece and Turkey
-Dallas and Falcon Crest
Greetings from Tenerife,Canary Islands
Part of the problem with immigration is that we don't have the infrastructure to handle the actual immigration part. Each immigration judge has roughly 4,500 cases to deal with. It often takes months or years for a court date. Meanwhile, work visas expire. Currently, these cases constitute the majority of "illegals" in this country. So they actually came here legally, and through no fault of their own, their status changed. Meanwhile, they were working, paying taxes, and doing everything the courts told them to do. It is incredibly hard to immigrate to this country. Only 3% of people who apply for a Green Card actually get one. And some countries are barred... so that adds to the desperation of people coming from there... which gets exploited by individuals and groups, etc, etc.
From a historical perspective, we really started trying to restrict immigration over the past 100-130 years. I think fear has let us forget the benefits. But I'm sure that is another history lesson for another day.
When Mussolini opened his jails and sent the mafia over, we didn’t have immigration policies. And now their grandkids are the ones bleating the most against immigration.
Discuss.
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6:51 ah, JP. This bit is the closest to generally funny as I’ve ever seen him. He’s hysterical if you think all new ideas or observations are stupid. I would have loved it 30 years ago
The question about trickle down economics made me laugh. I do not know of any legit economist that believe in the trickle down effect. That just seems like a way that the Wall Street types and super rich say to the poor to keep them complacent.
After taking the quiz, I agree that these questions are poorly worded and leading to an answer, either you are woke or not. I appreciate you publicly taking this quiz. And yes, I’m woke for what it’s worth.
BTW, the mechanism of natural selection is not random, whereas other mechanisms of evolution (like mutations) are random. However, the mechanisms that are considered random can be acted on by natural selection.
“Twitter is a rathole in the final analysis” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve ever heard it just cracks me up every time
He isn’t wrong, but he’s not right for the correct reasons
Either way, that video is the greatest thing Jordan Peterson has ever and likely will ever contribute to society
I got 69(nice) percent “woke,” with the strongest indicators being “challenging norms” and “global citizenship.”
Yes, you're definitely woke!!
global citizen? lol
I'm just of the opinion that "woke" is just a thought-terminating cliche centered around an ambiguous list of "stuff I don't like." For those that despise it, the "woke agenda" is whatever the dishonest interlocutor needs it to be, and said interlocutor gets real mad whenever I point it out to them.
Generally, I agree with your rationale with such loaded questions, but I would lean a little harder into the climate change issue, but not strictly to help the environment. The option to put a solar or wind power plant in the backyard is an incredible way to have people provide for themselves as we all cannot be fossil fuel barons. Not to mention, since we are providing for ourselves, that necessarily means that we aren't reliant for the government to provide for us. Is that not every Conservative's dream?
Listen, regardless of what the results are, we love you for who you are, regardless of whether it fits into any specific framework besides, "genuinely trying to communicate and helping others understand and communicate their thoughts on history in an accurate and meaningful way, including a critical, evidence based, approach to discovering what can be known about anything.
I was, born/raised/"politically seasoned," in San Francisco. I live in Nancy Pelosi's Congressional district. I thought that would land me in the WIDE AWAKE, category. As it turned out, I was rated just over 54 % woke. I like that, because it tells me that I can see so much from two sides. I do, however, want to go on record as being WHOLLY supportive of the Green M&M's decision to wear whatever shoes she wants to! 😀
"I live in Nancy Pelosi's Congressional district." I'm so sorry.
@@streetguru9350, they live in America. That is reason enough to pity them.
I would say I’m pretty woke. Some nights I don’t go to bed till 6 AM 🥶
A problem with these low-hanging fruit woke jokes is it helps reinforce the loud, toxic section of the right’s playbook where they trivialize and attempt to make ridiculous these legitimate concepts they don’t have a good enough answer for. Woke was a very real and useful term the Black Panthers used because their leaders were getting murdered by the state left and right, and to them you either didn’t notice it because you were asleep or you were awake and so were obligated to resist. And as a historian I’m thinking you understand that what the government did to the Black Panther’s was awful, so I hope that this could be something you keep in mind since you self-describe as a centrist. It’s a joke that people claim anything left of American perfection is woke, so let’s try to not legitimize the slander and instead just dismiss these accusations when they’re inherently ridiculous
The term 'woke' has been co-opted to describe liberal ideas or actions that conservatives disagree with.
Co-opted? Like it was originally supposed mean something else?
Seems like it used to be a liberal phrase to describe liberal ideas (which conservatives would naturally disagree with) and then conservatives used it too?
I think the way you worded this comment is evidence of the culture war that he was talking about in the video. Not trying to be a dick, just think we should all try to talk more genuinely and use less combative language when discussing this stuff :)
@@NocebonoboThat's where you're wrong. It's been co-opted at least twice. Originally it was an AAVE term that meant awareness of racism and discrimination. It had nothing to do with liberalism in general. Then liberals co-opted it to mean awareness of a number of different types of oppression/ inequity and support of a number of social causes. And nowadays when a right winger uses it it could literally mean anything. I've seen fox news use it to describe a black person tap dancing. It's nonsense now.
@@nathanjasper512 hm interesting, I also looked up co-opted and it has a less harsh actual definition than I thought, it’s just used almost exclusively in a way to demonize the co-opting party. So maybe I’m wrong then. is AAVE a common term btw? I haven’t heard it before.
@@nathanjasper512 I agree with you about it's origins. But I'm not sure liberals co-opted it before the right wing did though. I think that happened at about the same time. Of course it's just my subjective perception but it seemed to me that both sides started using it a lot right about the time that football players started protesting.
I’m so jealous of Mr. Beats actual students
Pretty sure he taught one of my nephews, who loves history.
“We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness.”
- Hermann Hesse (1919)
Aloha 😉🤙🏼
I haven't watched the video yet but im guessing Mr beat is probably considered "moderate". He is sensitive to peoples feelings while also not denying science. He is aware of actual history rather than revisionist history that liberals/conservatives subscribe to. Not woke enough to be a hypocrite and not anti-woke enough to be an idiot. Very central is my prediction.
Either way, he seems like a good man and i very much enjoy his content. Hes the social studies teacer i wish i had as a youngster.
Thank you for your videos and i hope you and your family have a very happy holiday season.
P.s. it is my new year resolution to find one of those Oregon trail rocks. Ill let you all know how that goes.🤞🏻
Can you give me an example of liberal revisionism?
@@drugsdelaney2907revisionism is a term that folks use to describe others and is almost never self-applied. If you cannot think of--or research such an example-yourself, then it clearly tips your hand.
Revisionism isn’t inherently bad. Just look at the way the Lost Cause has been deconstructed over the last ten years or so.
@@mrp4242 this person made a claim and I’m asking them to back it up. Are you also a liar?
@drugsdelaney2907 on race alone: liberals deny that black Americans owned slaves or that whites were indentured as well. Liberals deny that america was built by impoverished whites as well as every other minority not just slaves. Liberals deny that slaves were not captured by whites but captured by blacks and SOLD to whites as they were prisoners of wars in Africa. Liberals deny that blacks could (and did) buy their own freedom which doesnt make sense to Liberals because they deny that blacks were compensated at all for work.
I can go on and on about the denials of Liberals about race and slavery in America alone. To get into any other subject would require an hours long lecture and i dont think im gonna waste that time on you. Sorry.
And yes, conservatives do it too.
I would like to see you do a video about every Kansas Governor, similar to JJ McCullough's one on Canadian PMs.
Preach, Mr Beat. Also, Australia isn't perfect, but their government sure is working hard to improve things. Also, as an American, I'm sure I'm not getting the whole picture, but respect nonetheless!! 🙏
Lol what? Australia is the most expensive place to live in in the world right now do to terrible govt policies. people are waiting in lines to qualify for crappy studio apartments that cost 2000 ASD per month.
Beevis is woke, Butthead is not. Change my mind.
Most of this quiz is silly and poorly written, but there's one question (and response) that I found interesting: Question 28, "Anybody who is not a white male is, in some sense, oppressed in our society." Mr. Beat goes on to disagree, saying that "it implies you are woke if white men don't have any problems."
I don't think he understood this question correctly. He is confusing "white men don't have any problems" with "people who are not white men don't get the same treatment in society as white men."
Mr.Beat, I suspect you are a good man.
apparently having adblock is too woke for mr. beat
Woke: 1. Something I don’t like that challenges my Reactionary worldview. 2. Open Gayness
Please don't strawman
78.91% I was mostly weak on climate because I disageed with 'I have considered not having children because of climate concerns," and I don't believe absolutely irreparable hatm will be done in 5 years... 10 years maybe
I guess the test is good for establishing a baseline for how bad these glorified Myers-Briggs charts can get, but man... that's some wonky methodology to say the least
My understanding, going back to about 8 years ago is that it meant that you're self righteous, sanctimonious or 'virtue-signalling' especially when it comes to cultural and political issues.
A woke person would know how many logical fallacies are in these questions and they don’t make any sense!
can confirm
The problem with attempting to stay neutral politically in the US today, is that you’ll constantly be moving further right.
Anyone using "Woke" as a verb to describe political correctness sickens me. They took a term that had nothing to do with them and bastardized it into a catch-all talking point 😞
I guess I'm not as woke as I thought, lol. I got 59% woke, but to be fair, like you, I couldn't decifer what a lot of these questions are even asking.
I disagree with you on abandoning over-used poorly-defined terms like socialism and fascism. I mean, you're absolutely right that people throw them around wildly. But they are somewhat clearly defined in political science, and I think they can definitely be used usefully. Similarly with woke. Sure, it's messy and people abuse it. But broadly speaking, "woke" are people who believe that structural oppression against marginalized groups exists and is a problem and should be fixed. And that's a useful thing to have a term for. And don't we just quickly run out of language that way. Like democracy and capitalism and freedom and conservative and libertarianism are all similarly terms that get used as political pawns and have a wide range of definitions depending on who is using them and why. But we should let that stop us talking about those things.
I'm a professional communicator. If half of my audience is disillusioned by one of my lessons because they disagree with a basic definition of a word, I believe that word no longer is useful.
@@iammrbeat Fair dues. I suspect that problem is more caused by the terms being so politically fraught than it is them being poorly-defined. And teaching it in the classroom has typically less of that than the internets, I'm sure.
I think high bracket tax should ping-pong randomly between Income/Wealth/Assets each year, so we can watch the 1% flip out trying to predict where to hide it.
I took the quiz with you expecting to have the questions in order to have a better explanation. Well they weren't and ended up getting a neutral answer on the "wokeness" issue
Edited: omg you're 53% I was like 54😂 this channel was made for me👊
54% here. This seems to be more of a political affiliation test and I am moderate.... Too many questions about extreme right or extreme left views.
Yeah I had to stop and really think about some questions.
"I'm gonna keep this neutral"
-Matthew Beat probably
I consider myself fairly WOKE and I ended up with only a 57%. My highest Ratings were for Global Citizenship, Challenging Norms, and Fighting Power. Assuming "fighting power" means I'm in favor of limiting concentrations of power, think that seems right.
1) Challenging Norms is how we get better. Challenging Norms is how we've learned literally everything we assume we know.
2) Global Citizenship just seems like being anti-war and anti Bigotry.
3) Concetrated power has often turned out badly for everyone.
Every time someone says woke the way it’s used now I just can’t help but correct them.
Woke is the new liberal. I'll accept both labels happily. But I'd prefer to talk about issues rather than be called names. I'm confident that civil rights activists of the 1960's would have been called "woke" by white Southerners if that term had been in circulation.
“Woke” synonyms: liberal, SJW, cultural Marxist, Jewish, socialist, communist, anti-American…
97,66% woke. That must be some kind of record.
I smoke meth so I stay woke.
Caffeine helps me stay awake
My man 😂😎✊🏽🔥
32 is about groups, not individuals !!
He has books so probably.
Just took it. Those questions were not great. They often included two very different things in the same question and wanted you to agree/disagree with the comparison. Also, we had the same percent.
To "woke" you can add "the left" and "post-modernism". The latter of those two can put a name to the problem with that questionnaire by simply looking into who created it. In this case it's obviously ideologically motivated, but also mind-numblingly nonsensical. You allude to it enough in this video, but the weaponisation of the terms comes from the anti-woke proselytizers, i.e. those who claim to be leading the crusade against "woke-ism" and "the left", many of whom are just grifters. YooToob is a great place to get that grift going, as can be scene by the comedian you cite toward the beginning. Like so many content creators, that dude probably just saw what got the most attention and leaned into it. When you add the the modern algorithm to the mix, it increases the likelihood of someone being irretrievably isolated in a bubble of paranoia over an issue that barely exists in the real world.
By the way, the dude that said you misread the question probably means you answered it wrong. The question was about whether everyone who is not a white male is oppressed (or maybe economically disadvantaged), and your only response was that, no, some white men are disadvantaged in that way, which sort of reverses the question.
Holy shit, i didnt realize he actually said woke moralists
I think that, at baseline, this quiz is extremely off putting in the language it uses, and it really doesn’t serve a layman any value. As a “woke leftist”, I can understand what all of these words and ideas mean, but someone who is politically disinterested or disenfranchised, or someone who is a moderate with little ties to either ideological extreme (as Mr Beat appears to be) are going to be so confused or put off by the wording. Also it really seems politically charged, something that in general you should avoid- don’t immediately bias your questions in one direction (even if it’s a political questionnaire).
Woke. Being aware of the world around you. Those questions were definitely worded poorly. A lot of maybe answers.
Make a video on how to wrap Christmas presents
While rapping the whole time? I could call it, "The Christmas Wrap Rap."
@@iammrbeat do it
I agree that words like Woke, Fascist, Socialist, (and to a lesser extent) nazist, and communist are words without solid meaning, rather they just have light veil meanings, which people abuse.
Any man who makes videos on his other channel about Rage Against The Machine is 100% woke
Cool! I need to find that!
@@undercoverreseller205 his other channel is *The Beat Goes On* if you haven't found it yet
Being "Woke" has nothing to do with "not offending anybody", it's all about offending anyone who doesn't agree with you....
Using the word woke in a derogatory way is about not believing in social injustice / believing that it is not something we should care about. Most of this test is not about being woke
No. It’s about not subscribing to a specific philosophy concerning the idea of social injustice. Almost everyone is oppressed in some way, but the criticism of the “woke” type comes from their lack of care for certain types of injustice, not from their care for other types of injustice. “Wokeists” don’t care about all social injustice, only the types they see as important. For example, do you see feminists groups advocating against the injustice men face in family courts and the workplace? No. In fact, you often see them actively fighting against them, calling men’s right’s activists misogynistic. There are so many disadvantages the majority face nowadays in this culture, yet they’re dismissed and labelled as “oppressors.” I’m bi (and quite flamboyant too, so it’s kind of obvious I am) and my last employer told me to my face he wouldn’t have hired me if I was straight. That’s not social justice, that’s discrimination, and it’s what a lot of the left advocate for.
You can’t just label everyone you disagree with an not caring just because they place more emphasis on different aspects of justice than you.
@iammrbeat With question 28, you answered a different question than was asked. The question didn't make an assertion about all white males.
You're definitely woke but don't worry it's a good thing.
I wish Mr. Beat would run for President. Would probably vote for him.