An excellent and informative talk with so thoughtful questions from the students. All universities should aspire to what UATX has accomplished. Well done!
Good faith discussions, and not a disengenuous set-up for attack, or ridicule. Not a debate to be won, or lost, but to vear sharply away from polemical manipulation of innate human insecurity, self-doubt.
The age of mandatory religion is back. Only the religion is different enough from earlier ones that we don't recognize it as one, and our legal immune system doesn't kick into gear.
The way things are now is not the way they were in the past. I'm old enough at 68 that when I was growing up all girls were required to take Home Ec and forbidden to take shop. Vice versa for the boys. The rocketry club threatened to dissolve if I was allowed in. I wasn't and they didn't. When I took a short after-school course in electronics, the other girls all thought I did it just to be the only girl in the class. It had never crossed my mind. I was only allowed to get on the AV crew if I agreed to do all the paperwork. I wanted to learn to run the big 35mm carbon arc projector. They seemed to be amazed that it didn't worry me at all to learn to manually adjust the arc light and thread the projector and splice broken film and the like. I've also been on the other side. When I was in my 20s, I was among the second group of women ever hired to work for Western Electric as an installer. It was often hard and quite often dirty work. The ladders had a single wheel and were wobbly. The cable racks were 10' up in the air. Out of 20 women, only one other actually tried to do the job we were hired to do. When upgrading a switching office, there were racks of electromechanical relays grouped together from one to seven that had to be removed and packed for shipping.They could get really heavy, especially the biggest ones. I'd hesitate getting a seven group down from where I needed one of those wobbly ladders. The other women? They had no problem with a single rack or even two. But that was about it. They didn't use the ladders and rather than just grabbing the styrofoam end and lowering them directly into the shipping box, they would sit on the floor and slowly work them in with their feet. Cable runs? Not if there was any way to get out of it and some women never did them at all. They didn't like me. More than once I had a group come over and threaten me because I was making them look bad. Oh well. Sorry, not sorry. Most of the guys, understandably, resented the women because the job still had to be done and they had to do more to make up for what the women weren't doing. It usually took about two weeks on a new site before all the guys saw that I wasn't playing the games the other women were and then we got along fine. If there was something too heavy for me (a seven group up on the ladder) they had no problem with helping me with it because they knew I wasn't shirking. Most of my jobs have been ones that men normally do. When I went back to school I did a double major in electrical and mechanical engineering and there were classes where I was the only woman. I never left a job without the guys knowing that a woman could do the job, but few jobs where I saw that most other women were willing to do the work they were hired for. It seems that it's not as bad as it used to be, but there's still the question in people's minds as to whether a woman got the job because they were actually the most qualified for it or simply to check off the box on how many women they had working for them. Same for every other "minority" group (which women aren't).
I’m 55, and we could take any classes we want to. I took shop & home Econ classes, the home ec was cool, because lots of cute girls, and we got to cook and eat in class! 😂
Maybe communism lives on because it’s more of an organized ideology. It seems it was birthed from the intellectual class. It’s something people believe in. Whereas fascism seems to emerge as a reactionary thing. I’m still trying to understand how communism isn’t also fascist in the sense that it’s also authoritarian and oppressive
I don’t know of one communist country at this point. China calls itself communist but makes no pretense at being communist. I haven’t heard one person left right or center say they are in favor of communism.
@@MD-bu3xc China is communist the way the US is capitalist. And if you go to nearly any major university you can find tenured professors who openly admit to being in favor of communism. Just because modern communists have updated their understanding of communism doesn't mean it's not communism any more than modern Christianity is no longer Christianity. Ideologies evolve.
@@MD-bu3xc Ash Sarkar, Journalist that's regularly featured by the BBC and The Guardian and teaches at the Sandberg Institute, describes herself as "literally a communist"
'What was once neccessity next becomes taboo.' is a quote I read once but can't remember who to attribute it to. A good example today would be hunting for food. Another would be marriage and procreation at a very young age.
Yeah, my fellow atheist brother from a darker mother. 😂 This guy is great. I make a point to listen to any lecture or talk or interview I see his name attached to. We have a few things in common, his name is one of a few prominent names in my family, and he’s half Irish, half black, and I’m half Irish ☘️, half Native American/etc.
Point taken but also one truth is that social life is a minefield and people have feelings which truth fundamentalists have yet to grapple with in a meaningful way.
Much of what you say is correct. But you get a number of things wrong, too. For example, it's really quite clear that Japan desperately wanted to surrender, but they chose to drop the bombs anyway, primarily because they wanted to test them out. Similarly, considering how much evidence there is of police planting guns, or killing people who are carrying guns but not using them, the idea that only 17 black men War murdered by police is laughable. It would be more accurate to point out that 400 or 500 white men are also murdered by the police each year.
@@theunknownatheist3815 No, it is a matter of historic record. There is even official documentation of Japan going to Switzerland and Sweden in 1944, seeking to negotiate with the US. In 1945 they also asked the Soviet Union to act as a mediator for their surrender.
I have enjoyed listening to this, however, you completely lost my support towards enslaving enemy combatants... If they surrender, they become prisoners of war, or if the country loses, you release them after the war and allow them to return to their families, definately don't kill them either. 'young men who don't know each other, go off fighting for old men who do know each other and don't fight'. The people who nodded their heads, and the 65% who voted to turning enemy combatants into slaves in the modern era, need to reconsider their morals and principals around freedom.
The more likely you want to give to others the more likely you are to be a socialist would be better expressed, the more likely you are to take from others 😂😂
Almost, *if* *you* *think* *taking* *from* *group* *A* *to* *give* *to* *group* *B* *is* *a* *good* *thing,* *you're* *likely* *you're* *a* *socialist.* It's a bit of a strawman to characterize socialists as greedy, they often aren't. They are often motivated by good intentions. But good intentions alone don't correlate much with good outcomes. You might think that the recipients of social program benefits would be socialism's biggest proponents, but it's actually well-off middle class university educated people that push for the socialist programs the most.
Will future civilisations dig up evidence of workers engaging in labour and realise that whether called a slave or a worker, we're talking about the same thing, in essence.
@theunknownatheist3815 they are both forms of forced labour, with the illusion of choice paid workers have in our society deceiving them into thinking that their labour is not forced. If they don't participate, they will be eating their dead children or vice versa, depending on who succumbs to starvation first.
Reilly makes some good points, but clearly has an agenda. His Israel bias shows that he does not understand the concept of never being with the oppressor and always with the oppressed. Humans of all ethnic backgrounds are capable of great cruelty and violence, but there are clear power imbalances between opposing sides and the fact that natives got pushed onto reservations and dispossessed of their traditional territory and way of life should make clear that the powerful do what they will and the weak suffer what they must, it was ever thus and there is nothing exceptional about this episode in human history. Reilly's argument that each side was as bad as the other cannot be supported by the evidence. Of course humans have migrated throughout history and will continue to so so and war will follow this migration. There is no way to sugarcoat the violence that attended the westward expansion of the elite project that was the USA. The violence is still there and will be its undoing. Conservatives deserve a voice in a society that claims to uphold the principle of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Reilly should be allowed to speak as should the Palestinian protestors. Reilly's talk is thought provoking, but ultimately as biased as the liberals he skewers.When seen through the lens of class and power it becomes evident that the ordinary person has no say in shaping society - you get what they give you, and the claims about freedom are empty talk to keep the rabble from rebelling against their rulers.
His using air quotes to talk about the very real genocide happening in Palestine was incredibly gross. How dare he just dismiss the death of hundreds of thousands of people like that. Stopped the video at that precise point.
As individuals/groups are sometimes the oppressor and sometimes the oppressed - as the Israel-Palestine situation makes clear - how does your “always with the oppressed” idea work in reality?
The "powerful" and "powerless" have always existed side by side, even in very racially homogeneous cultures. Native American tribes went to war against one another all the time, and visited atrocities upon one another. Humans are tribal creatures, and advances in civilization do nothing to alter this fact.
@@rejektevidence5999there is NO “genocide” there. 🙄 You and the OP clearly just hate Israel and Jews. Just admit it. You types always cloak your true feeling with this BS.
He repeatedly made factual statements without providing the facts. His arguments were without merit. That said, yes, the Left has to take stock and re examine the stories they are telling. What was and what is are important facts to have in the conversations.
Aww, someone got their feelings hurt. He committed micro aggressions toward you! Maybe you need some reparations now. 🙄 We have hot cocoa and cookies and fluffy kittens you can pet in our safe space. Perfect for you.
UATX employ a UT alum as their librarian and assistant professor of theology, Ryan Haecker. He wrote a Daily Texan opinion article on 11/20/2007 entitled Who Wears the Pants which contained as its thesis, “Modesty is essential to feminine virtue, and the lack thereof implies a state of whorification.” WTF!!!
Thanks, UATX, and thank you Wilfred for an illuminating talk.
An excellent and informative talk with so thoughtful questions from the students. All universities should aspire to what UATX has accomplished. Well done!
To say this discussion is valuable in today’s society is an understatement.
Amazing talk, and I agree, really great questions from the students. 😊
Very bright students with good questions. Bravo M. Wilfred Reilly.
Wilfred Reilly is one of my favorite public intellectuals. What a great discussion.
Good faith discussions, and not a disengenuous set-up for attack, or ridicule.
Not a debate to be won, or lost, but to vear sharply away from polemical manipulation of innate human insecurity, self-doubt.
Excellent discussion and questions. Thx for sharing.
Thank you for this. 💜 Brilliant and well done.
OMG! How wonderful that you are spreading this great and necessary information!
Whoa, common sense! It’s been in short supply.
Excellent
The age of mandatory religion is back. Only the religion is different enough from earlier ones that we don't recognize it as one, and our legal immune system doesn't kick into gear.
Good observations.
Wow..great lecture and impressive students! Thank you
I've seen him on X and then on "Am I racist". I like this guy. Straight up rational. Reminds me John Stossel.
Reiles is my man!!
Amazing
The way things are now is not the way they were in the past. I'm old enough at 68 that when I was growing up all girls were required to take Home Ec and forbidden to take shop. Vice versa for the boys. The rocketry club threatened to dissolve if I was allowed in. I wasn't and they didn't. When I took a short after-school course in electronics, the other girls all thought I did it just to be the only girl in the class. It had never crossed my mind. I was only allowed to get on the AV crew if I agreed to do all the paperwork. I wanted to learn to run the big 35mm carbon arc projector. They seemed to be amazed that it didn't worry me at all to learn to manually adjust the arc light and thread the projector and splice broken film and the like.
I've also been on the other side. When I was in my 20s, I was among the second group of women ever hired to work for Western Electric as an installer. It was often hard and quite often dirty work. The ladders had a single wheel and were wobbly. The cable racks were 10' up in the air. Out of 20 women, only one other actually tried to do the job we were hired to do.
When upgrading a switching office, there were racks of electromechanical relays grouped together from one to seven that had to be removed and packed for shipping.They could get really heavy, especially the biggest ones. I'd hesitate getting a seven group down from where I needed one of those wobbly ladders. The other women? They had no problem with a single rack or even two. But that was about it. They didn't use the ladders and rather than just grabbing the styrofoam end and lowering them directly into the shipping box, they would sit on the floor and slowly work them in with their feet. Cable runs? Not if there was any way to get out of it and some women never did them at all. They didn't like me. More than once I had a group come over and threaten me because I was making them look bad. Oh well. Sorry, not sorry.
Most of the guys, understandably, resented the women because the job still had to be done and they had to do more to make up for what the women weren't doing. It usually took about two weeks on a new site before all the guys saw that I wasn't playing the games the other women were and then we got along fine. If there was something too heavy for me (a seven group up on the ladder) they had no problem with helping me with it because they knew I wasn't shirking.
Most of my jobs have been ones that men normally do. When I went back to school I did a double major in electrical and mechanical engineering and there were classes where I was the only woman. I never left a job without the guys knowing that a woman could do the job, but few jobs where I saw that most other women were willing to do the work they were hired for. It seems that it's not as bad as it used to be, but there's still the question in people's minds as to whether a woman got the job because they were actually the most qualified for it or simply to check off the box on how many women they had working for them. Same for every other "minority" group (which women aren't).
Thanks so much for your life story ; as a child I witness this with the NASA moon program 😎
I’m 55, and we could take any classes we want to. I took shop & home Econ classes, the home ec was cool, because lots of cute girls, and we got to cook and eat in class! 😂
I knew I remember him...from Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist".
Maybe communism lives on because it’s more of an organized ideology. It seems it was birthed from the intellectual class. It’s something people believe in. Whereas fascism seems to emerge as a reactionary thing. I’m still trying to understand how communism isn’t also fascist in the sense that it’s also authoritarian and oppressive
I don’t know of one communist country at this point. China calls itself communist but makes no pretense at being communist. I haven’t heard one person left right or center say they are in favor of communism.
They are both versions of socialism.
Fascism , Nazism, socialism, communism are all versions of leftist socialism.
@@MD-bu3xc China is communist the way the US is capitalist. And if you go to nearly any major university you can find tenured professors who openly admit to being in favor of communism. Just because modern communists have updated their understanding of communism doesn't mean it's not communism any more than modern Christianity is no longer Christianity. Ideologies evolve.
@@MD-bu3xc Ash Sarkar, Journalist that's regularly featured by the BBC and The Guardian and teaches at the Sandberg Institute, describes herself as "literally a communist"
37:39 footnotes to Plato, not Aristotle.
'What was once neccessity next becomes taboo.' is a quote I read once but can't remember who to attribute it to.
A good example today would be hunting for food. Another would be marriage and procreation at a very young age.
Crafting a new myth is the opposite of principled empiricism and is basically a postmodernist proposition.
Well, there are only 'The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations', according to French author Georges Polti.
Ha! Rock on, 'Corn-Row' Dude!
Yeah, my fellow atheist brother from a darker mother. 😂 This guy is great. I make a point to listen to any lecture or talk or interview I see his name attached to. We have a few things in common, his name is one of a few prominent names in my family, and he’s half Irish, half black, and I’m half Irish ☘️, half Native American/etc.
Polite society needs to start doing things they may feel uncouth.
My observations since a child ; as a side note the slave revolt of old Louisiana was caused by the workaholic German's 🧐 !
Wilfred crushes it again!!!
2 intros ?
Bonus!
Truman was not at Yalta.
They were not even lost tribes of Israel.
Point taken but also one truth is that social life is a minefield and people have feelings which truth fundamentalists have yet to grapple with in a meaningful way.
It’s easy. True first, but take the edge off.
Footnotes to Plato please (and nobody says this anymore). And please pronounce Myanmar correctly!
This guy sounds nothing like what I imagined he would.
Much of what you say is correct. But you get a number of things wrong, too. For example, it's really quite clear that Japan desperately wanted to surrender, but they chose to drop the bombs anyway, primarily because they wanted to test them out.
Similarly, considering how much evidence there is of police planting guns, or killing people who are carrying guns but not using them, the idea that only 17 black men War murdered by police is laughable. It would be more accurate to point out that 400 or 500 white men are also murdered by the police each year.
Id check out Roland Fryers study in the issue of black folks murdered by police. It's the most comprehensive of its kind to date.
Where do you get the BS that Japan wanted to surrender? Who told you that, Howard Zinn? 🙄
@@theunknownatheist3815 No, it is a matter of historic record.
There is even official documentation of Japan going to Switzerland and Sweden in 1944, seeking to negotiate with the US.
In 1945 they also asked the Soviet Union to act as a mediator for their surrender.
Why are Indians from India and their kids the most successful people in every country they are in? That's not a coincidence.
Not in India !
I have enjoyed listening to this, however, you completely lost my support towards enslaving enemy combatants... If they surrender, they become prisoners of war, or if the country loses, you release them after the war and allow them to return to their families, definately don't kill them either. 'young men who don't know each other, go off fighting for old men who do know each other and don't fight'.
The people who nodded their heads, and the 65% who voted to turning enemy combatants into slaves in the modern era, need to reconsider their morals and principals around freedom.
* *principles*
He’s talking about what was, NOT what should be.
39:30 how you can tell that someone has actually read marx
They talk in meaningless circles like Kamala. Her circular nonsense is actually a Communist method of screwing with the listeners mind.
Write a sentence and capitalize needed words.
Dean was annoying af. Wilfred alright
The more likely you want to give to others the more likely you are to be a socialist would be better expressed, the more likely you are to take from others 😂😂
The more likely you want to give others stuff to buy loyalty from other groups , the more likely you are a socialist/communist.
Almost, *if* *you* *think* *taking* *from* *group* *A* *to* *give* *to* *group* *B* *is* *a* *good* *thing,* *you're* *likely* *you're* *a* *socialist.* It's a bit of a strawman to characterize socialists as greedy, they often aren't. They are often motivated by good intentions. But good intentions alone don't correlate much with good outcomes. You might think that the recipients of social program benefits would be socialism's biggest proponents, but it's actually well-off middle class university educated people that push for the socialist programs the most.
Then you’re saying Christian conservatives are more likely too be socialists, because they give the most to charity. 🙄
@theunknownatheist3815 that was Wilfreds comment, I changed it to take from others 😉 willful giving is obviously different
Will future civilisations dig up evidence of workers engaging in labour and realise that whether called a slave or a worker, we're talking about the same thing, in essence.
If you think that is the same, you have serious problems. 🙄
@theunknownatheist3815 they are both forms of forced labour, with the illusion of choice paid workers have in our society deceiving them into thinking that their labour is not forced. If they don't participate, they will be eating their dead children or vice versa, depending on who succumbs to starvation first.
What tribe is Wifred Reilly? Lumbee ?
Reilly makes some good points, but clearly has an agenda. His Israel bias shows that he does not understand the concept of never being with the oppressor and always with the oppressed. Humans of all ethnic backgrounds are capable of great cruelty and violence, but there are clear power imbalances between opposing sides and the fact that natives got pushed onto reservations and dispossessed of their traditional territory and way of life should make clear that the powerful do what they will and the weak suffer what they must, it was ever thus and there is nothing exceptional about this episode in human history. Reilly's argument that each side was as bad as the other cannot be supported by the evidence. Of course humans have migrated throughout history and will continue to so so and war will follow this migration. There is no way to sugarcoat the violence that attended the westward expansion of the elite project that was the USA. The violence is still there and will be its undoing. Conservatives deserve a voice in a society that claims to uphold the principle of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Reilly should be allowed to speak as should the Palestinian protestors. Reilly's talk is thought provoking, but ultimately as biased as the liberals he skewers.When seen through the lens of class and power it becomes evident that the ordinary person has no say in shaping society - you get what they give you, and the claims about freedom are empty talk to keep the rabble from rebelling against their rulers.
His using air quotes to talk about the very real genocide happening in Palestine was incredibly gross. How dare he just dismiss the death of hundreds of thousands of people like that. Stopped the video at that precise point.
As individuals/groups are sometimes the oppressor and sometimes the oppressed - as the Israel-Palestine situation makes clear - how does your “always with the oppressed” idea work in reality?
The "powerful" and "powerless" have always existed side by side, even in very racially homogeneous cultures. Native American tribes went to war against one another all the time, and visited atrocities upon one another. Humans are tribal creatures, and advances in civilization do nothing to alter this fact.
@@davidmorgan8607 - Exactly. The powerful and the powerless… are the same people… in different contexts.
@@rejektevidence5999there is NO “genocide” there. 🙄 You and the OP clearly just hate Israel and Jews. Just admit it. You types always cloak your true feeling with this BS.
He repeatedly made factual statements without providing the facts. His arguments were without merit. That said, yes, the Left has to take stock and re examine the stories they are telling. What was and what is are important facts to have in the conversations.
The facts are footnoted in his books.
Very well laid out in his books in my opinion
Aww, someone got their feelings hurt. He committed micro aggressions toward you! Maybe you need some reparations now. 🙄 We have hot cocoa and cookies and fluffy kittens you can pet in our safe space. Perfect for you.
This man is incoherent.
Take some English classes then. 🙄
UATX employ a UT alum as their librarian and assistant professor of theology, Ryan Haecker. He wrote a Daily Texan opinion article on 11/20/2007 entitled Who Wears the Pants which contained as its thesis, “Modesty is essential to feminine virtue, and the lack thereof implies a state of whorification.”
WTF!!!