The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business
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British "not a lot of pots" voiced by Grace Lee
RUclips: / whatssogreataboutthat
Twitter: @whatssograce
American "not a lot of pots" voiced by Maggie Mae Fish
RUclips: / maggiemaefish
Twitter: @MaggieMaeFish
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Allyship resources:
John Raible's checklist for white allies:
johnraible.wordpress.com/chec...
Accomplices, not Allies:
www.indigenousaction.org/acco...
List of resources from Dismantle Collective:
www.dismantlecollective.org/r...
Interview with Ijeoma Oluo on how to be a better ally:
slate.com/news-and-politics/2...
The difference between decency and equity:
www.forbes.com/sites/danabrow...
Better allyship in the workplace:
hbr.org/2020/11/be-a-better-ally
Don't just join a book club plz:
www.washingtonpost.com/outloo...
White people often see themselves as better allies than they are:
www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/over-...
If you have wealth, put it where your mouth is:
resourcegeneration.org/
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Five books:
Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi: www.ibramxkendi.com/stamped
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander: newjimcrow.com/
James Baldwin: Collected Essays: www.loa.org/books/505-complet...
Killing Rage, by bell hooks: us.macmillan.com/books/978080...
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Resources & citations:
Trump supporters were wealthier than Clinton supporters: fivethirtyeight.com/features/...
Harvard history of racism, part 1: assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjod...
Harvard history of racism, part 2: www.washingtonpost.com/educat...
Harvard history of racism, part 3: www.thecrimson.com/article/20...
Harvard history of racism, part 4: www.insidehighered.com/admiss...
Racism & jury selection, part 1: www.vox.com/videos/2018/10/12...
Racism & jury selection, part 2: stories.avvo.com/crime/how-to...
Low-income policing: newyorkcityrevolution.wordpre...
Gutting the Voting Rights Act, part 1: www.brennancenter.org/our-wor...
Gutting the Voting Rights Act, part 2: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
Audio of Biden telling NAACP he won’t defund the police: theintercept.com/2020/12/10/b...
Biden responds to requests to defund police by doubling budget for police hiring program: stephensemler.substack.com/p/...
Manchin and Sinema block fair voting efforts: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
Wealth disparity by race in the US: www.federalreserve.gov/econre...
Overwhelming whiteness of the tech industry: www.vox.com/2018/4/25/1727501...
1688 polling places shut down after Shelby County v Holder: RepAdamSmith...
Delany quote: jacket2.org/interviews/delany...
Op Ed on courting racist conservatives: www.thenation.com/article/pol...
Asshole white guy says Left should ditch wokeness: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
58% of low-income families are non-white: www.urban.org/sites/default/f... 
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS:
- there are a few points where I switch between the terms "Black," "POC," and "immigrant" as though the terms are interchangeable; they are not
- the image representing "pre-transition photos" is not an actual pre-transition photo, in case anyone was worried. this should've been clarified in the video itself.
- I wish I'd changed the phrasing on "tokens on a white person's game board" to make it clear that this is an unambiguously false opinion
Is this the last video in this series?
You forgot to pin this comment.
Was your video peer-reviewed by any scholarly sources before you posted it?
I'm not talking about you citing sources here. I'm asking if you showed this to any academia before you posted it?
I've got one tiny little thing. First of all, thank you SO MUCH for using "latine" instead of "latinex." My pointer is that it's pronounced the same way as "latino" but with Spanish "E" which sounds like "eh" rather than "ey." It's something like "La-TEEN-eh" rather than "LA-tiney." Amazing video, as always! Just thought I'd let you know as someone whose first language is Spanish.
And since we're at it, latino is not a race, and neither is hispanic. A lily-white Argentinian and a black Colombian are both latino, and I bet their experience as it pertains to racial treatment is gonna be VASTLY different. Not to mention the idiocy of lumping Spaniards, who for all intents an purposes invented whiteness in the American continent, with Amerindians or Japanese-Peruvians, just by virtue of the language they all speak. The term you're looking for when refering to what you categorize as latinos is MESTIZO.
There's a German saying I'm fond of: If nine people sit at a table with a Nazi and no one objects then you have ten Nazis.
There's a Native American saying I'm fond of: I can weave an Indian blanket from all the hair on my ass.
If 9 people sit at a table with a Nazi and repeatedly politely and respectfully disagree for years sometimes you end up with 0 nazis. The cult wants us to stop talking to them, because we are the only reason they'd ever leave the cult or feel able to
Yeah keep taking actual action as well, don't do this *instead*, but we have plenty evidence that cutting off cult members from non-members is exactly what the cult wants and what makes the cult stronger.
@@Cokehead_Drug_Addict_ZelenskyWhat does it even mean?
@@Raiju2 It's kinda like that saying from the American South: "I can bite bullets and shit ice cream".
@@Cokehead_Drug_Addict_Zelensky Ah, a "Cold ass mothafucka"
Jesus the phrase "no one ever went broke appealing to the ignorance of white people" is something I will never forget.
It's a take off of the H.L Mencken quote 'No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.'
It's like an everlasting gold rush
Reminds me of a quote from journalist Harold Hecuba, regarding a new wave of hardcore domination porn in the 90s, which feature women being slapped and spit on, “It's the new Barnum. Nobody ever goes broke overestimating the rage and misogyny of the average American male.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” I think this also references your quote too.
@@fashbasher2120 Harold Hecuba is a pseudonym invented by D.F. Wallace for Evan Wright. The guy who wrote Generation Kill, Hella Nation, American Desperado, How to Get Away with Murder in America...
As for both their essays on the subject (a lot of it revolving around an adult industry convection in Las Vegas, with Wright's being a bit wider as he also talks about his work for Hustler) - they get kinda... puritan and a tad misogynistic about it themselves.
It starts feeling like they have the same issues with misogynistic pornographers as with female performers, pornography in general and even sex.
At one point Wright talks about being repulsed and walking out on his date talking dirty to him, trying to have sex - which he blames on porn.
And while he and Wallace both see that "misogyny bad" - they can't escape the view of it as a freakshow (note the Barnum comparison) and the performers, on both sides of misogyny, as freaks. And rather dumb.
Oh boy do all those people come off as complete morons. Which begs the question - is that ultimately what you see when you interact with these people? If so - why?
Many years ago when I was in College, we had a Republican politician visit the college. When he came, one of the first things he tried to do was bring up race and immigrants. This was early 2016, so racism was a heated topic. Being the young moderate I was, I assumed he was actually going to talk about policies, and I assumed it might be best to attend since I was majoring in History & Political Science. The politician decided he would give the audience a chance to ask questions. To my surprise absolutely nobody had any, so I decided to ask one myself. The politician was against immigration, so I was curious on his opinion of the working visa. I asked him the question and he responded with "immigrants are dangerous criminals trying to enter our country, and people here through a working visa aren't monitored constantly by the government and police forces, so they shouldn't be allowed here."
So I'm going to be honest, and say that I have never been afraid to speak my mind when it comes to politics, even today. My grandparents were Roma who had left Germany after WWII searching for better lives for themselves. My dad's been through the entire process his parents and siblings all had to go through (he was born here, so he didn't have to do so himself, however). I responded to him and told him that what he said was both factually wrong and offensive. I gave him an explanation and breakdown of how the system worked in front of the audience. My friend sitting next to me couldn't stop laughing the entire time, because as I spoke, the politician became more red faced and irritated. He asked me for my full name, and my grandparents' names. I gave him my nickname, and told him my grandparents passed away a few years prior (grandfather died of an illness, and grandmother was murdered). I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I'm glad I didn't give any actual information to the guy. The politician stuttered as he spoke the rest of the presentation. I had to leave halfway through, because I had to be somewhere else. According to my friend quite a few people walked out behind me.
The video reminded me of this interaction in a weird way, and I thought I'd bring it up. It's also one of the reasons I'm not longer just a moderate. If anything, it makes me dislike moderates even more for supporting people like him.
The politician's name was Kyle McCarter. He was an Illinois State Senator, but ran for the U.S. House in 2016. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, but left office in 2021. Thankfully he declined running for Senate recently.
I appreciate this comment so much; thanks for taking the time to post it
Funny, In the hearing on the Ambassador position, he got hard pressed on the question why he tweeted that hillary should go to jail. He couldn't answer. I wonder if these people even know, that they have no moral reasoning for the things they do and say and just strive for power.
Yeah, I also studied politics (I was an international relations major). This whole idea that “moderatism is the most level-headed” is pervasive in the US and it’s horrifying. A number of people actively told me I was being “too far left” and “intolerant” and I was like okay what the actual fuck is going on, how do you people actually allow this shit to happen and buy into this “free speech” line these literal white nationalists are spouting off?
I find it fascinating how that politician was a former ambassador to Kenya.
@@yousuck785why Trump admin probably didnt take the job of ambassador to kenya seriously so handed it out to a random republican yahoo. Pretty much the standard republican strategy to any agency or position it doesnt take seriously is to hand it to someone who will actvely undermine the effectiveness of said positiion.
I grew up in a well educated, liberal, white community, and I was raised with a “color blind” approach. This resulted in me genuinely believing racism was over, it had been “fixed.” Then, I voiced this opinion in front of a black person. He was genuinely way kinder to me than I deserved, but he firmly explained how wrong I was. It honestly never occurred to me that I had been given an incorrect world view until that moment. He probably doesn’t even remember this interaction… it happened fifteen years ago and was probably a common occurrence considering where he was living, but to me? To me it was a pivotal moment. Once I got past the embarrassment of being called out, I started to see racism, real racism, in my community. I owe a lot to that guy.
spiritual cuckold energy, yikes
My wake-up call was when a friend was recounting the story of when he bought what turned out to be a stolen laptop on craigslist, and was approached by a police officer who had tracked the device down when he connected it to the internet. The ghost of fear in his eyes when he described how nervous he was when the officer approached him remains vivid in my memory.
He's a big guy, pretty muscular. He specifically mentioned that this was part of the reason he was afraid. He was worried that he might be seen as a threat and killed.
Meanwhile I have talked my way out of every speeding ticket I have ever been stopped for without a shred of fear.
That conversation was a real eye-opener.
@@leyrua he was afraid of getting buck broken
@@dankmemes7423 I'm sure he was more afraid of getting shot than getting sexually assaulted but sure
@@kj_H65f good point, he wouldn't be afraid of the buck breakening
I feel like this one also overlaps with "you go high, we go low" a lot of the time. Doing anything to get in the way of a bigot's events or speeches is seen as both giving the bigot what they want, and as "going low" by letting the bigot "trigger" you. Ignoring someone and doing nothing to call them out is how you deal with someone who insults your mother, not someone who is possibly inciting violence against people.
On an even more basic level, it's the fundamental thrill of bloodlust as well, being seen as unbecoming. We've all been victims of bullying, cruelty, even sadism, so therefore participating in those actions consciously (even toward a good end) is somehow a betrayal while just letting them happen is "nobody's perfect."
@@chavesa5 but it also mistake's how you stop bullying. it always go's back to the tolerance paradox. you can tolerate everything but intolerance, yet if you don't tolerate intolerance, the liberal will call you "intolerant", yet do nothing to stop the Nazi themselves. this is why fascism's greatest ally is always liberalism. and I mean that historically, liberalism always ferociously opposed anti-capitalism at every turn, EXCEPT when fascism hurt capitalists. but by then, it was far too late.
@@ethanstump I will never understand how people don’t understand that Nazis and the nature of fascism is literally to stamp out everyone and every thought that does not promote their disgusting hate campaign. You. Cannot. Reason with those bigots. They can’t reason.
@@Sarah-re7cg as you said, you do understand it, you just reject it, as do i. they don't understand, because they don't have to in order to perpetuate their ideology. and if they did understand, they would stop being such, which is why there are literal fuck ton's of internal barrier's to ever grasping the bigger picture. some people make it out like me, but a lot don't.
The irony of Hillary Clinton saying that will make me cringe without fail for the next hundred years.
Congratulations : You’re Binary. 😘
“The Alt-right is the gentrification of white nationalism”: one of the most incredible sentences uttered this year.
The Alt-right is the boiling lobster-screams of the American nightmare.
Doubleplusgood duckspeak!
@@trumpetpunk42 If you like Innuendos Style and/or want more about certain Group's Mindsets or just general Political-Situations, then try 'Some More News' and 'Second Thought'.
you are not a color
you can see it but you can’t be it
@@trumpetpunk42 Are you incapable of any sort of rational thought?
"Meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.
You take a step forward, he takes a step back.
"Meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.
Ladies and gentlemen, the DNC strategy in a nutshells.
AKA: The Fallacy of the False Middle.
And after that, you turn it around and give him a taste of his own medicine until he's standing where you want to be, and only then do you say "Deal!".
@@Roxor128then he cries Hypocrit, and everyone who doesn’t know any better joins him, ignorance is never in short enough supply, and all of us will get caught by it sometime
You do know this is the liberal playbook right?
@@benjaminr8961 Incorrect. It's in the asshole's playbook.
Ah, yes. The "white blue-collar worker fairy tale". My father used to read this one to me late at night after landscaping rich people's houses for 10 hours.
Yes we all know that liberals and leftists hate the poor. No need to tell us, we can see it a mile away.
Prove it's a fairy tale that was never real, I dare you
Maybe just maybe it's not a fairy tail and is actually true. I am a blue collar worker who is very conservative, and so is everyone I know (who are also blue collar workers). The left knows nothing about the right.
@@NatCo-Supremacist That's not how proof works.
@@NatCo-Supremacist Easy. American History. Done.
"Racism is efficient"
It is scary how well this simple sentence captures modern parliamentary politics..
What are all the ads and programs about
Racism
Or race ism
Leftist are high on their own supply
I don’t think he got his point across all that well.
Racism is just as efficient as anti-racism. Or is the point that racism is efficient just like everything else is?
@@KJ-od8wq In an economic system based on exploitation, it's efficient to have groups of people who are powerless. Especially when it's impossible for those people to ever leave the outgroup
@@guy-sl3kr Xenophobia is always present, in everyone, everywhere. It is a vestigial emotion left behind from our tribal days. Xenophobia is suppressed as long as people can justifiably rationalize the person we are interacting with as a part of 'us' rather than 'them'. When reactionary forces come into play, it is always efficient for them to find the largest group they can safely cut out of 'us' to create a new 'them', who can now be scapegoated
@@mvalthegamer2450 I guess but that's pretty vague and honestly I think viewing the world that way obscures the underlying problem.
Our economy is based on a class of people doing all the work and a separate class of people owning the fruits of their labor. That every industry is set up this way is the reason why these prejudices were created and also the reason they persist. Racial divides aren't a natural thing and neither is the concept of race itself, they were created as justifications for colonialism, slavery, etc.
This series was the spark that inspired my journey to leave the Alt-Right. It is possible and it's never too late.
This kind of story is a little ironic given the message of this particular video (that you can't rely on messaging and debate to convert conservatives), but your rare transition is always appreciated!
@@monsieurdorgat6864 I think the author would address it as beating the odds, much like the example earlier about business staying true to their values making it thru economic hard times
@@monsieurdorgat6864 It really does depend on the person. While I self identified as alt-right in high school until settling at libertarian, until I got to where I am now as a leftist. I grew up in a fairly progressive household and mostly just fell down the RUclips pipeline and the peer pressure of my small conservative town. I wouldn't say I was won over by a debate or any one video. I made friends in college who were progressive (but I was also a unofficial TPUSA member) I was never so far gone as to close my mind off to new ideas and I had friends who took time to answer my honest questions. Then the pandemic happened and I knew what the talking heads I looked up to were wrong about this one and started to question what else they were wrong about. I also worked at a state reemployment office and saw systemic injustice firsthand. All this is to say that I was turned through a genuine desire to understand and people who took the time to help me, even without realizing it. I also was won over by appeals to my humanity and empathy, which I always had even at my worst.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 Well, in a sense that's still true. Nobody specifically debated OP and made them change their mind, OP simply found counter-information to what they had been taught, and adjusted their worldview with the new information. It's the less direct method of addressing the questions and assertions that I think allows it to be effective. Because IS isn't arguing with the person, simply making observations about trends within a movement, there isn't a combative mindset at play and the viewer is more likely to accept the arguments.
@@Dylan-re3ru You rock!!
"Whether or not [a person] fits the definition of Racist is not up to [that person]"
Sentences I've been trying to communicate to other white people (and to myself) my entire fucking life, but could not find the words for.
While true, it’s also not really up to someone else either, since the line of what is truly racist or not is quite literally different for everyone, some people give some leeway if the intent of a comment is clear, others are a bit extreme and don’t like any comments on race even if complimentary, the truth is, there is no “Just” answer for something like this and there never will be, but I suppose there’s nothing really wrong with having different lines, it’s just preference after all.
I dont feel its true though. Intent matters more.
The entire point of Racism is that its people who believe one race is superior to others. If the person you're arguing with GENUINELY does not believe that to be true, then they aren't racist.
You may take offense to something they said or did, or their ACTIONS may be racist, but the person themselves is not.
Also, whether or not someone takes offense to an action also doesn't automatically make it racist either. an ACTION is racist when it actively discriminates against others on the basis of race.
But calling other people racist just because they offended you doenst make it true. Intention means a lot.
@@eragon78that's literally the argument of the Collaborator at 17:30
Did you actually watch the video or are you just here to troll?
@@jacobs7764 Im not here to troll, I just disagree with the video.
Also, I think the position of a politician and the position of a random citizen are different.
A politician's inaction is NOT the same as a citizen's inaction. A politician's job is to better society through legislation by any means necessary. Their job specifically is to take action to represent their constituents.
A random civilian has no such obligation. Indifference isnt racism. Indifference isnt a POSITIVE of a negative.
Otherwise you could use that same argument for ANYTHING. Are you an activist against global warming? Do you actively go out and protest? If not, it means you SUPPORT climate denial.
Do you actively protest against religion? If not, you implicitly AGREE with everything religion teaches by not ACTIVELY going after it. All the horrible shit you agree with because you arent a hardcore anti-theist.
Do you actively protest in favor of Universal healthcare? If not, you implicitly agree the current system is better because you arent actively fighting against it.
If you are a bystander to a crime, and you do nothing to stop the crime in front of you, are you ACTIVELY guilty of that crime? Do you AGREE with that crime happening because you did nothing to stop it?
This argument is just nonsense. It argues apathy is the support of the negative, when its just not. Its putting the blame on bystanders rather than the actual perpetrators.
I can agree that apathy isnt the solution to fixing the problem. But apathy IS NOT THE SAME THING as agreeing with the negative or supporting the negative.
Most people if they could magically stop racism would do it in a heartbeat. But stopping racism is a lot of difficult work and its hard. People have other priorities that they may value more that effect their own lives that they want to deal with first. Is that a bad thing? Maybe prioritizing stopping racism is better and you can argue they're being selfish by focusing on themselves first, but Its not the same as ACTUALLY being racist.
So in conclusion, I think only a politician can be a "collaborator", because they're the only one who's job it is to actively fix stuff, and by always trying to "compromise" it prevents real change. They should always push for the correct policies regardless of if the other side agrees or not. Thats their job, to represent the people. But for the average citizen, the same obligation does NOT exist, and not prioritizing raicsm over other issues in their lives isnt racist. It just means people only have so much energy and effort to fix problems in the world, and they pick and choose what they prioritize. Maybe they should prioritize racism, but they arent actively contributing to the problem. Theyre just a bystander to the problem.
Its like the difference between a civilian bystander to a crime (a citizen), and a police officer (a politician). The civilian is not obligated to stop a crime. It would be nice if they helped out when they saw a crime happening, but they have no such obligation to stop it, and they are NOT guilty of that crime by not stopping it. A police officer though DOES have an obligation to stop crime when they see it, and by them NOT stopping it, THEY are the ones to blame because they DO have that obligation. And by ignoring their duties, that crime can continue to perpetuate.
Thats how I view civilians vs politicians. A politician's inaction is not the same as a civilians.
Lack of activism is not the same thing as support for the negative for a civilian. At worst its a bystander to a wrong occurring in front of them. So unless you feel bystanders are guilty of a crime they witnessed, then I dont see how you can agree with this messaging.
Racist is believing races exists.
"They wouldn't pick transpeople as targets if transpeople could choose not to be trans" hit me hard, damn. together with the rest, that just... dismantles so many transphobic arguments... I.. thank you. I need to show this to a friend.
Also, favourited video, this was an amazing watch and a bit of a wake up call
"They wouldn't pick transpeople as targets if transpeople could choose not to be trans"That's *the* reason they are targets. The belief is that it's all made up and that they CAN choose, they're just perverted.
Men in dressed can choose to stop their silly woman LARP at any time. Women and girls in places like Afghanistan will be married off to Jihadis no matter how hard they “identify” as male. Identify as the ruling caste.
I went through a similar thought experiment once. If trans people could change their sex to better reflect their gender then it would be much harder to cast them as “different”. It’s why they fixate on the dyed hair, tattoos and piercings. They need to be labeled.
Sorry to be annoyingly nitpicky on a 7mo old comment, but putting trans people all into one word can be a transphobic dogwhistle. You see it a lot more with transwomen or transmen but it's just something to watch out for
@@Somefox5 Transwomen are sexist men
The "racism works" segment around 14:00 is something that cops can even consciously verbalize. And will. My ex-girlfriend's stepbrother was a cop in a larger city, and once while at a family event, he was frustrated, venting about how the dept. he worked for wasn't racist. When I asked him why poc were disproportionately affected by policing, he claimed "well, we look most at poor-looking cars, and those are usually black." They dress it up, but they *know* racism works.
I mean yes black people are sort of stuck in that culture but yes its real
@@jackhhun2698 That's the point of that segment, yes
@@brianstephens8337 and this is well known but this honestly gives me plenty of reasons to well Be Racist. Also why should I help black people when I did nothing to them? Its the culture they were given and I'm happy to help those who come to me but why should I exert my energy to help people who actively say nothing I do is good enough or who denigrate me is the question many will ask
@@jackhhun2698 It doesn't sound like you needed a reason at all to be racist.
@@jackhhun2698 bro really just said black culture gave them reasons to be racist
The part about the Alt-Right making themselves outwardly presentable reminds me of a news programme/documentary from Germany about right-wing extremism I happened to see back in the nineties. This quote stuck with me: "The most dangerous are the ones who don't shave their heads, wear suits and have a regular job."
except that a white man who live in the USA won't risk his life and his family's life if he refuse to intentionnally hurt a black man or tell something that'll lead to the said black man to be hurt, if it's either you're targetted or someone you don't know, you would have protected your family like those "most dangerous ones", or fled the country if you're young enough and not yet in the army to be able to feed your old mom in this crisis time
@@gabrielbattais4185 I don't mean to be rude. Could you clarify your comment?
@@confederatetearsaredelicious i see my mistake here, i saw "Germany" and "Extremism" and I jumped on the idea he was talking about 1940, i don't remember the video but it's possible my coment don't make sense and make me look like an horrible person, anyway i can't delete a coment, it's a part of my moral code to take responsability for what i said
@@confederatetearsaredelicious but basically it was : the USA don't force you to be racist like the 3rd Reich did
@@gabrielbattais4185 No one forced the Germans to be racist. They simply latched on to a man and ideology that promised them safety and security.
We have a penchant for simplifying things. And Nazism in Germany is exceptionally complicated.
The whole, Germans were forced to be Nazis, argument has roots in East German Communist propaganda. As a way to justify why some Nazi leaders became the Communist leaders of East Germany. There is also American propaganda as to why Nazi scientists were working on Apollo.
I used to think conservatives and the right were all bumbling idiots who had no idea what they were doing. This series has changed my mind, and made me realize that the right (at least the most prominent figures) are actually extremely aware of what they are doing, and that's terrifying.
The Alt-Right is an Alternative Right, we don’t claim them.
Awww.... You poor thing.....
The politicians on the right and left both know what they're doing. They put groups of people against each other and not the people most people have problems with, the government as a whole, or the ultra wealthy and powerful who push policies through government that suit them and them only, often at the detriment of many other people.
They get to stay in power, ensure that the people do not unify against them, and get to receive more money. They won't decline lobbying money because if they don't, someone else will.
Well, its half and half. Some are aware (usually those in positions of power), some are not aware, (usually things like voters who are convinced to vote against their own self interest because they believe the propaganda that hard).
Not always the case, there are exceptions to both, but its a decent rule of thumb. The rightwing politicians and media often know theyre full of shit but have an incentive to not care, the voters dont know theyre full of shit and just genuinely believe the nonsense theyre fed.
The conservative voters often are ignorant, fearful ppl, but the folks running the show, from elected politicians like Josh Howley and Ted Cruz, to the right wing pundits like Ben Shapiro are all highly educated and know EXACTLY what they are doing, and it's disgusting.
I'm a 23 year old, black gamer/nerd.
Less than a year ago, I would have called myself a conservative.
Also less than a year ago, I was introduced to The Alt Right Playbook.
I am now some mixture of Liberal and Socialist.
Thanks for helping to de-radicalize me! I was definitely one of the useful idiots that the right likes to parade around to declare their non-racism. This series, and this video especially, helped a lot.
Yay
Glad to hear 👍
Asking out of curiosity, by a mixture of liberal and socialist, do you mean a social democrat like AOC and Bernie? Cuz liberal and socialist are contradictory
@strawberry우유 you are referring to libitarians
Liberals are the love giving the government power.
@@strawberrymilk607 human beliefs and identities are often contradictory.
"Racism is worse than evil, it's... _common_ " got a full on belly laugh out of me.
That’s a… strange response to that sentence.
@@alexk3352 its the most appropriate response to that statement.
It's so common that it's universally reviled.
White supremacists aren’t committing 60% of the homicides in America.
Common, in this context, references something like 'low class'. - and the tone was sarcastic, so laughing seems fairly reasonable.
It's one thing to oppose the oppressors, it's another thing to support the oppressed.
It's like what Orwell said about "book-trained socialists": "Though seldom giving much evidence of affection for the exploited, he is perfectly capable of displaying hatred-a sort of queer, theoretical, in vacuo hatred-against the exploiters."
@Porky Or you could be a socialist not for idealist reasons or for self-serving reasons but because it is the best way for humanity to move forward, and because given a material dialectic analysis of human history it is nigh inevitable that it will happen.
@Porky Orwell giving up Stalinists to MI5 is pretty based ngl.
@@fromthefire4176 tbf he also did the same with anti-racist and gay people so not quite
@@fromthefire4176 Narrator: They were in fact not Stalinist.
As an autistic person, I've found that even among socialist circles, there's quite a bit of discourse that sounds quite similar to "The cost of doing business". When some lefty streamer goes around dropping some casual ableism or even casual racism, I hear a lot more conversations about how my dignity as a human being must be sacrificed to maintain the in-group cohesion of the left, than I do conversations about how it's really not that hard to not use the r-word as an insult.
About ableism: In the end, the left is still veeeery dominated by the "we're ok with them as long as they work hard" BS. I think it's debris from the whole marxist's focus on the worker as the one and only revolutionary subject. So the disabled and the old are simply forgotten, eternal second class citizens without agency, a medical issue.
I think you're slightly misunderstanding the point in this video.
The "cost of doing business" as it's presented here is about how various disenfranchised groups of people are used as political tokens at their expense: by the right as political targets, and the centre-left as signifiers of their morality. There's no such dynamic in the situation you're describing above. How you're trying to draw the connection is that the r-word users are the moderate right and the people who make a stink about unity are the moderate left, but the comparison falls apart with this key distinction: leftists who are ableist are not doing so to cater to ableist institutions; they can't because fundamentally, anti-ableism IS anti-racism IS class solidarity. Instead, they're just being ableist because they're being ableist. This is the same as the anti-racist being racist sometimes: it happens because people, no matter what, have biases that they live with and environments that they grew up in. Even though we're all fighting for equity, we all have our blindspots. These blindspots are unacceptable, (TO BE CLEAR: I don't think defending people using the r-word to protect leftist unity is correct) but they're also inevitable. We're all just slowly improving.
Anyway, point is, these sorts of blindspots aren't really a part of "the cost of doing business" so much as they are residual prejudices. And I'll also say, I think the ones you point out are pretty much exclusive to online spaces. I think a lot of online discussions about leftism and ableism fall apart when you look at actual, in-the-field organizing. But gaming culture has, of all the prejudices, loved ableism the best, which is why it's the hardest to shake for a lot of online leftist communities.
@@awepi I think we've both seen enough to know that words and unaddressed prejudices are usually just a prelude to actions in politics.
A person can call themselves whatever they like, but if being asked to put neurodivergent people's well-being before the r-word is "asking too much", "going too far", what makes you think they'll be there for disabled people when it actually counts? When it actually costs them something?
There are plenty of so-called "progressives" out there who fight for the rights of one group but outright denounce others. Many such people went on to become TERFs. And it's not the first time such things have happened, either; you should see how some of the early women's suffragists treated black women.
So yeah, there are real-world consequences to letting these attitudes run free on the left just because these people call themselves progressive.
What you've said doesn't really respond to what I said at all, so I don't have anything to say in response. Nothing I said had to do with whether or not this sort of behavior has negative consequences, which it obviously does.
@@awepi If this has consequences in the real world, this is the cost of doing business. It is neurodivergent people standing up and saying "Whoa, this so-called leftist is dropping slurs about us on stream, and we're just gonna let him?".
How the people involved label themselves on the political spectrum is irrelevant; what matters is what they do, not what they call themselves. Bigotry doesn't stop being bigotry when it's coming from someone who is nominally left-wing. Regardless of creed, if you think it's okay to denigrate marginalized people, you are helping to uphold the power structures that keep those people marginalized.
As someone who's jewish and has seen a lot of WW2 content in school, the thing that changed a lot of my perspective on how these crazy extremists ever get on such important positions in the first place is "You don't need to make people like you, you need to make them compromise on you". Most people who voted hitler voted him because they thought that was "the better option". Most of these people were normal people like you and I with average jobs and an average life, yet they still voted hitler because he sounded good "enough".
Isn’t it the fault of the voting system in a multi-party democracy though? You might have a favorite party but if it’s a minority one you are better off voting someone who doesn’t totally align with your views but that has more chances to win in order to not have another option which would be way worse and not “waste” your vote, at least that’s what happens in Italy I think.
@@cormoranoimperatore8413 I think once you have a fascist running for office with good chances of winning, that's kind of already too late. We gotta cut it by its roots.
@@cormoranoimperatore8413 which is probably exactly why elections are so often party-based. It maintains the ability to opress by limiting options as much as possible. The US makes it super obvious when there are only 2 parties, but the same can be seen in Canada where there are multiple parties, but the only winners are liberals and conservatives. Smaller scale elections can be more open, but on a big scale, they are always coming out on top.
Oy vey!
That's a heavy oversimplification. Germans were educated for decades on racial supremacy, inspired by USA's genocidal conquest of the west. By the time Hitler made his first moves, being a regular german meant being very racist. From local administrations to farmland owners, the Third Reich prisioners were used extensively as slave labour, to the point that Germany was the only big actor in WWII that didn't need to put housewives in industries. Lots of regular germans got their hands on the businesses and assets from people siezed by the nazis. The whole "we regular nice majority didn't know" is BS.
Europe's WWII history is filled with exaggerations of how much we resisted fascism and also filled with thorough erasings about how much we colaborated with it, a convenient lie that made genocidal colonial democracies look like the good guys. We weren't good, not by far. We're still a bunch of a**holes who would rather let the other 3/4 of the world (barbarians!) rot rather than live without Funkopops.
"There's no special sequence of words that will defeat them" was a really important lesson for me to learn. Many people are not open to good faith discussion, and getting sucked into bad faith discussion just wastes time that should be spent making a real difference, and as you've said can feed their strategy
It still is hard to let go of trying to convince my childhood friends to be good people though
Why are you still in contact with these "friends" at all? Remember, if there are 9 Nazis at a table and you sit down, you're either one of them or you're ok with what they believe. You have a moral obligation to (forcibly, if necessary) excise these people from your life.
You've said yourself they have no interest in change, so they're fundamentally irredeemable. What does continuing to associate with them say about you?
How do you know when to cut someone off? My threshold at the moment is when person X has a view that is a direct threat to me or to people I care about, but I know I need to adjust to a stronger limit. Also, how do you adjust for that person having unique skills you (might one day) need access to?
@@Steamtostay obviously boundaries are important, but I try to focus less on who makes the cut and more on doing the work. If they see you regularly aligning yourself against whiteness, they usually part ways on their on terms.
@@Steamtostay I think it depends highly on the person and what you can tolerate. For me, so long as I KNOW without any doubt that the person will not act violently on any of their opinions then I can just nod and pretend to agree/listen. That is often far faster than trying to change their mind when you know they won't even consider your side.
How much of that you can tolerate from someone in your personal life is up to you. Personally, both my parents fall into the group of way too far right and I will eventually be going no contact with them once I'm able to, but they're also abusive so having those beliefs is more of just another nail in the coffin.
It is worth noting that my ability to just sit there and let people talk BS with no reaction from me, even if they end up saying stuff that directly affects me without knowing it (like saying the disabled should die or that we are lazy), stems from said parents. Had they been decent parents then I might have ended up with minimal/ infrequent contact with them instead of no contact.
@@Steamtostay I’d just give them two… maybe three warnings of “hey, I understand your point of view that (insert your understanding of their pov)! I may be wrong, but I actually have this pov (insert your pov) and it seems like the trouble I have subscribing to your pov is (conflict ideology). What do you think?” If the other person doesn’t make any attempt to consider they’re wrong after those few attempts, I consider them a waste of my energy and make it clear that I feel that way in the nicest way possible (unless they’re violent). That’s the best I’ve come up with. I might mix the Socratic method in with 1-2 of the three encounters.
The bit about "You can't just go and redefine racism" reminds me a lot of Terry Pratchett's concept of "lies-to-children" - of intentionally introducing complex topics to children via incorrect explanations, but are also a simpler, easier to grasp explanation than the truth, and act as a foundation to build a more complex, more accurate explanation on later in life.
and while that idea has its uses, there's also the fact that sometimes it backfires, and you get people who cling so hard to what they were already taught that they put their fingers in their ears, scream "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA LA" and double down
See also the "chromosomes = gender" argument
I’ve always found this to be a big mistake for the left. The word racism actually did have a definition change (decades ago) and instead of arguing about the definition accept this fact and be more descriptive. Don’t say racism when you mean institutional racism.
This would solve the entire controversy…
(This isn’t an argument for or against a specific definition, it’s a simple observation)
@@tainicon4639 lol if you say "institutional racism," they say, "that ended with the civil rights act." Anytime you use a specified type or racism, the response isn't, "OH. Got it. Yeah, i understand now." It's the same refusal. They use the same tactics, refusing to admit that racism still exists. It doesn't matter what words you use, they know what you are saying and they are doing whatever they can to evade that conversation.
@@Skag_Sisyphus that’s not an argument against my point. My point is getting argumentative when someone describes something as racism that doesn’t fit into a very specific definition used only by certain academics is stupid and counter productive. The standard definition of the word racism does not encode any information about power, privilege, etc.. and arguing about how someone used the term racist to describe a hate filled comment made by a black person about a white person will only cause the person you are arguing with to think you are an idiot and dismiss your argument.
@@tainicon4639 they're going to do that anyway. People on the right view racists as a person flailing wildly in the street, foaming in the mouth, hatefully shrieking racial epithets incessantly over and over and rage murdering minorities while twitching, foaming, and shrieking those same slurs. There's a reason Kanye wasn't antisemitic until he said "i love things about hitleeeeer! I reeeeeeeeeeaaally love hitlerrrrrrrrrr!" Oh. Well NOW he's an antisemite. Maybe. It's still arguable.
I regularly engage with people on the right. Even when they concede a point about institutional racism, by the next sentence, they are back to the definition of racist i provided at the top
As an autistic person, thank you so much for laying this out so clearly. It helps with a lot of things I hadn't completely understood, or connects things I hadn't consciously realised were connected.
Kashii real question as a fellow autist, do you believe in God?
@@baltofarlander2618 ... what?
@@baltofarlander2618 Stop listening to religious fundamentalist rhetorical styles
That makes sense
@@baltofarlander2618 Well, I am.a modern atheist, in the style of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, etc.
My entire adult life, I've upheld my oath to defend the Constitution while working 12 hours a day for less than minimum wage. I didn't find the time or energy to vote. I've never found politicians to be worthy of the right to make decisions for so many lives.
When Trump was elected in 2016, I wasn't upset. I was just confused that people allowed themselves to be conned by an 80's cartoon villain. I saw it as an opportunity for the country to reflect and promote better politicians.
I can admit I was naive. So, I voted for the first time to stop that clown from using the Constitution as TP and vowed to never stop voting until most of the inhabitants of this great country can be prosperous.
When I was deployed in 2022, Texas representatives stole my right to vote. They have made an adversary for life. I may be a lower class schlub, but I will soon have the time to make some people miserable and maybe make the world a better place.
I learned some stuff from this video and plan on sharing.
How did TX stop u from voting? I believe it but am unaware. As a texan myself I know how much they do to stymie and repress voting
@stephaniemccabe2219 purged voter rolls, was deployed and couldn't respond
How did they steal your voting right? Where were you deployed?
Bs. Y’all lie like rugs.
@@benjaminr8961Elaborate
The past couple of years I've been investigating everything that goes into American reactionary politics. Their forums, their sub-reddits, their RUclips videos. You are the first person in the mainstream circle of RUclips I've seen correctly identify the factions at play in the US, and what racist strategies actually are. I'm really happy that this video exists.
What country are you from?
to be honest i use lbry/odysee but i will never go the the my tags page it is a alt right hellscape the is why i only use the following page it is good to have a youtube alternative
@@djgroopz4952
Maybe finish the Video 'Republicans War on Voting' plus the GOP-Videos of "Some More News"
@@slevinchannel7589 What does that have to do with the question I asked above?
@@djgroopz4952 I'm from the US, but my education is in international politics and economics, so I have a habit of being specific about what country I'm talking about. Political theater changes a lot country to country.
The bit at about the "everyman" reminded me of this quote:
"While those in situations of power and privilege often feel it as a terrible burden of responsibility, in most ways, most of the time, power is all about what you don't have to worry about, don't have to know about, and don't have to do." - David Graeber
Great video as always!
That is a harrowing quote. Thank you for sharing it.
Hierarchy for whatever else it is, is a scaffold for narcissistic abuse to diffuse accountability onto subordinates. Or in other words, "shit rolls downhill."
That's a fascinating point of view, re: those from power and privilege feeling such a burden of responsibility. To the rich on the right, specifically, I tend to only ever seem to see a rather "carefree" worldview (leaving out the marathon fretting over how much of the taxes they pay far too much of are possibly going towards a....gulp....SOCIAL PROGRAM!) Because when you're from rightyville, you don't worry about people who are hungry, in pain, marginalized, fleeing homeland ransom cartels attempting their latest onesix, etc.,etc., while this same shit is what I (and my prog/lefty ilk)seem to worry about pretty much constantly - pardon my virtue! But seriously, I'm poor as hell and disabled and I continue to worry about these subjects even though I can literally do almost nothing to solve even a little of any of them. Does anyone else detect a lack of compassion for anyone they don't personally know coming from those on the right? And while I'm at it, sprinkle in a little lack of intellectual curiosity, too. Fuck it. This is a YT comment section and I'm trying not to offend people? OK, so WHY are so many people on the right idiot ass-hats that don't care about anyone or anything except for the Dr. Seuss/CRT/Little Mermaid non-issue-of-the-day that does double duty as both clickbait and as something, dear god, ANYTHING, to keep from having to talk about the important stuff? Especially when you may have to do some...holy shit....research! Instead of just spouting whatever cowshit might come from that freedom-and-patriots-and-Americuh-addled "brain," and calling it alternative facts or some shit. Speaking of research, lately I've been looking up all the info I could get my hands on regarding state-by-state education statistics. Here's a fun little experiment, kids, that you can do at home! Take ALL the statistics you can find on the subject, then print out a state-by-state results map of the 2016 election. Then....compare! Oh, shit. I'm gonna get labeled a groomer for teaching political science or something. This is what they're trying to make us talk about, or worry about, while they go flitting through a mindless life worrying about Maga football-kneeling Qanon sjw corona pelosi horseshit that ultimately means absolutely less than nothing. When they should be worrying about the fact that their party is on the wrong side of any and every issue that means anything of significance in this great country, and like a sinking boat, it is not long for this world. Thank our white, christian, american, jesus for that great replacement scheme of ours! Great video, have a day!
@@heydannypark "Does anyone else detect a lack of compassion for anyone they don't personally know coming from those on the right? And while I'm at it, sprinkle in a little lack of intellectual curiosity, too."
Yup.
hey i had an idea for an alt right tactic to cover, i know this is a "non artist trying to grab the paintbrush" moment here, but i really think something that could work as a technique from the alt right to dissect is "scapegoating the adjacent".
theres a great video sarah z made about "sacrificial trash". its about how new shows or movies associated with queerness and minorities which are mediocre turn into spacegoats, and the way that making fun of that thing draws in an even bigger audience that is there to just "laugh at something bad".
and while that is definitely useful as a starting point of thinking about this, what im referring to is moreso the technique where a vast amount of the alt right depends on knowing their rhetoric is batshit insane to just present around, and maybe theyre aware its banworthy on some forums or sites, so they wait for someone to "say something a bit absurd on twitter" to scapegoat.
maybe they post a video on youtube about a feminist totally overreacting, or maybe its a ridiculous tumblr story that is totally made up (bonus points if you made up the post making up the story to make the queer people sound totally insane).
sometimes they pick like a buzzfeed 2016 thing that is kinda ridiculous and was specifically created to profit off gullible liberals, but a lot of the times that thing is specifically picked to scapegoat because its a response to something that represents the dangers of fascism / bigotry / weirdos, and to mock and put down the person that talked about something that should be discussed more and critically.
the best thing about this technique is that they dont have to say what they believe in and try to draw people in through that, they just say "look at this ridiculous SJW with this article in polygon about racist undertones in this game we all love" about 400 times and then with that, they paint the borders of the negative space which contains the ideology they actually believe in, the alt right.
In recent months I’ve been the “we gotta have conversations and empathy for the enemy, because when they see us having empathy for them they’ll be disarmed. If we hear them out and dismantle their views in front of their face, they’ll see what it’s made of and change their ways!” God I wish I’d seen this video before I said some of those things out loud. Thank you for making this. I’ve learned how anything but uncivil, unsympathetic opposition is just complicity. And those who are complicit need to be ignored and left behind, because they’re not committed in the fight against fascism.
If your opinion was swayed that easily by a single RUclips video you may be so clinically autistic that you're actually unfit to care for yourself. That is an actual fact. Tell your parents to put you into a care facility immediately.
@@Elfenlied8675309 he's a single mother issue, Wuigi
I've for a while now always felt hesitant to outright say "I'm not racist", not because I want to or think I should be racist, but mainly because I feel like I'd risk opening up the opportunity for a lot of blind spots (which I'm sure I have) to fester, and actually develop bad ideas.
And I think this video illustrates kind of exactly that what I've always been worried about.
It's not that I think I am racist, and I certainly dont want to be, but I also really wouldnt like the idea that I'm ignoring the biases I do have, and I am sure there are some.
In fact there are probably many.
The concepts of imperfection and continuous growth feel really important when trying to be socially conscious.
The problem is that Americans specifically have a really shitty way of thinking about racism. It's all about whether someone is personally racist in their mind, whether they had racist intentions. Instead we should be focusing on the outcomes of our actions and whether or not they further racialize the world.
Racism is more of a system than an individual attribute. The proper thing to say, in my estimation, is "I'm not a bigot."
The thing is, all of us are racist. We grew up in a system that exists to protect and perpetuate white supremacy, and part of that is how racism is everywhere even when we're not looking for it. The difference is that an anti-racist acknowledges this, tries to be better than it, and tries to do what they can to break down the system of white supremacy (which all too often is 'very little' thanks to all those moderates.)
The problem isn't being racist, not really. It's refusing to acknowledge it's there. It's like addiction, the first step in fixing something is accepting that there's something that needs fixing.
@@marciamakesmusic The world is further racialized by continuing to perpetuate the myth of race.
I don't mean to derail, but god, I just finally blocked my abusive father and hearing someone voice the problems with "ignorance and apathy can be reasoned with" was really helpful.
There is a value to "giving up" on people and moving to spend energy on more fertile ground. That works interpersonally and on a large scale.
I've been in the same boat and I just want to say I'm proud of you for getting away from him
Some people you have to give up on. Other people are worth your time. Just know when it’s time to give up, and never give up too early. All the extra time you put into your father was not a waste.
@@KJ-od8wq I'm honestly not sure about that. "Never give up too early" is how I justified years of abuse at the hands of a narcissistic brother fundamentally incapable of change and who does not respect me as a person nor my opinion whatsoever.
You are living in hell
I don't know you but I'm proud of you! I have friends who continue to seek confirmation/approval from abusive parents and it's terrible to see them break everytime they talk and don't get it. It's not easy, but you made the right choice
As a latin american myself, can i just say, i’m impressed that you know the term “latine”, which I consider to be way better than latinx since it has all of the upsides of gender inclusivity but without any of the grammatical and phonetic downsides that latinx presents to spanish-speakers. I’m not used to progressive gringos being aware that there’s a better alternative to latinx
The term "latinx" has a major phonetic downside even for English-speakers. It's supposed to be pronounced "latineks" but it's spelled like it should be pronounced "latinks".
You'll always be latinX whether you like it or not. The left felt your entire language was "problematic"
Iirc there was a movement way back in the day in Chile that introduced the idea of Latinx. It's not solely a white-passing and white person thing. That being said I just use Hispanic or Latin
It also doesn't help that a lot of the pushback I've seen against that term is predominantly from conservative Hispanics not because it's insensitive but because they're self-loathing and want white approval and are fine with racist conservative policies in regards to immigration because they're the "legal" ones. Also a lot of Hispanics are sadly super religious so that affects their politics too, they're not gonna want gender inclusive language in any society. This isn't helped by the fact that in America Latin people are divided by either identifying as black or white in a way, and the ones that identify as white are usually the conservative types, see Nick Fuentes or Ted Cruz. Also in majorly Hispanic countries you're more likely to be conservative as well because you're the dominant ethnic group. Also due to aforementioned religion.
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 what's your source on the claim they want or seek "white approval"? You're also anti Christianity, which is prejudice. Way to take the high road buddy...
"it always comes back to the shape of the human skull" this is my favorite quote now
As indicated by the image shown during that line, it's a reference to ContraPoints' "Incels" video (Ian's favorite video of hers as of his Solidarity Lowell talk), and I personally prefer the full line from that video:
"Foppington's Law: Once bigotry or self-loathing permeate a given community, it is only a matter of time before deep metaphysical significance is assigned to the shape of human skulls"
I see Alt-Right Playbook, I watch Alt-Right Playbook
It's that easy!
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THANK YOU for including Maher in the right-wing media machine. I'm tired of him getting a pass from Liberals who accept right-wing chuddery from him they'd never take from anyone else.
Nah, lately he's been heavily attacked by progressives because of his major flip on basically all left wing policies.
While he was never the best, he USED to be far more progressive in his policy positions. That changed about 3 ish years ago and he started taking a huge turn towards more centrist and right wing beliefs.
But most progressives have gone after him for that shift in rhetoric.
Maher the 'could've been king' - People appreciate him because, like Trump, he summarizes with wit, and doesn't urge moderation.
Problem is, through some combination of that contempt for moderation, and _sloth_ - he's made a real-time pivot from a liberal-realist to a xenophobe!
@@JoshSweetvale If you watched his stuff, it was always there. He was always a smug, self-righteous ass who would wield privilege against conservatives not because he was morally opposed to them, but because he always felt he was smarter than them, and everyone else. That's just now manifesting against progressives because they're finally starting to call him out on his bullshit and that bruises his fragile ego.
He lost me years ago when he tried to justify his use of the n-word to Ice Cube by saying "I'm a comedian, we just say stuff". Between that and his childish views on religion, I checked out.
@@WoobooRidesAgain Seriously. I quit watching Maher as a child, before his original show was cancelled after 9-11. He was always ultra smug, hyper opinionated, and hilariously under informed. Him maybe having a rare take every now and again that wasn't all the way terrible sure as hell wasn't enough to keep me watching, even then. Though I did give up watching TV and most of its substitutes not long after that, so I guess I owe him a little something for that in a way.
I stopped watching him after one too many of his videos apparently mocking young people for being young rubbed me the wrong way
15:51 "Ethics are a luxury"
Ooof, we're definitely seeing that now with companies and businesses "tightening their belts" which really means "lemme backtrack on all the social reform we said we were going to do"
Hardly.
The rainbow is a bigger market than rednecks.
Thank you for putting bill Maher in the conservative media sphere.
Anybody who's to the right of Karl Marx, Stalin, and Bernie Sanders is considered "Alt right" nowadays.
My “liberal” dad watches him. One day he had an episode on with a segment called “along for the pride” where bill is literally just spouting transphobic bullshit.
My SISTER, his DAUGHTER, is a trans girl??? Like he even gave consent for her HRT??? I still don’t know if he’s like secretly transphobic or just ignorant or what. But anyways I got mad and told him to please stop watching it in front of me at least. He got angry with me because I “shouldn’t be so rude to other people’s opinions”. Brought it up with my mom (who is also “liberal”) and she said the same thing! And my parents are divorced so usually they jump at the opportunity to disagree! I guess the only thing more important than their hatred of each other is supporting the “free speech” of someone who thinks their daughter’s identity is invalid...
@@lays5277 i caught myself agreeing with someone in something simply because that person said it but independently not agreeing with that opinion. Maybe that applies to him too. I've since tried not to treat people i like as general authorities
It took me awhile, but I eventually realized that ol' Bill is part of the problem. Not part of the solution.
He's a liberal though.....not a conservative. You just think he is because you're a leftist, not a liberal.
"You can't just redefine racism" reminds me of other definitions people get touchy about. If you ever compare the power dynamics that allowed slavery and serfdom to modern systems of exploitation, people come out of the woodwork to say things like "imagine comparing x to slavery". They will use the most favourable interpretation of the modern situation, claim it's about freedom of choice, and the least favourable interpretation of slavery, like the worst parts of industrial slave trade in the Southern US.
Yea, the angry jack video he made, aprt 2, still holds true. People are soooooo afraid to even consider being "the bad guy" that they'd rather make a billion excuses and defend bigotry, before being humble and admitting to their bias or worldview being incorrect
Except the left redefines racism all the time.
It used to mean the belief in the superiority of one race over another. Then when whites stopped subscribing to that idea, the definition then changed to the discrimination of someone based on the color of their skin.
But now they redefined it again into some pseudo-scientific, all-powerful, Omnipresent force that is based on power + privilege. The individual doesn’t matter, if he has white skin, then said person is automatically racist. They do this to justify their rather blatantly anti-white propaganda and their blatant favoritism towards blacks and other POCs.
Yeah, it's kind of annoying when you compare the logic of two things being similar, and for the sake of simplicity you stick to some kind of a hyperbolic example, but the only thing they see are the different magnitudes of "intensity" that those two things hold. "Omg, did you just compare [insert a populist way of thinking or something] to the rise of Nazi Germany/Hitler?"
Yes, but not because I think they are both equal, but because the logical system that both respective parties are using is way too similar and illustrates my point perfectly. That being said, I too am guilty of it.
Not only that, people will do this *specifically* with things that are *literally* those things they're being compared to, like the direct continuation of those institutions. Like, people will get mad if you compare the American prison system to American chattel slavery, despite the American prison system literally being created as a continuation of chattel slavery per the 13th amendment. Or comparing the genocidal American fascism to Nazi Germany, when Nazi Germany literally was ideologically and methodologically inspired by American genocidal settler colonialism. Everything bad that historically ever happened is in some secret long ago and far away isolated chamber called "history" and nothing that exists today could possibly be that same thing, according to the average American.
the whole "it is about power" really comes back in the concept of critical race theory in grade schools. Actual CRT is a university course, but they have just labeled anything regarding race relations to be CRT and an 18+ subject, same as LGBTQ subjects. Though they are also very explicit in their reasons, which lies in their accusation that these subjects are the left indoctrinating children.
school isn't a field of fairness to them, it is a win or lose battleground.
It is such because the less people know of different ideas that challenge theirs, the more difficult it becomes for people to challenge them and therefore question their right to power.
Critical Race Theory is simply a framework, a perspective from which to see the world. It absolutely should be the norm to more adequately teach not just history, but politics, economics, social relations and international relations. American colonialism was justified on basis of race, so teaching this nation's founding without CRT is literally lying to students.
@@DreamersOfReality The left and right view the very purpose of schooling differently. To the left, being informed and having the skills to become informed are the main points of schooling. To the conservative, the point of schooling is to place each new worker into their allotted slot in the status quo with minimal downtime, like replacing a lightbulb or battery. From that conservative perspective, it's actively counterproductive to teach your workers that the way things are might not be the way they should be.
It's hilarious that all the recent, flaccid white supremacist comments rolling in on this video are using tactics from other episodes.
Leeja Miller just posted a video called "To Avoid Civil War, We Need to Talk to The Other Side"
and it made me think of this video.
"we need to have more conversations with racist uncle"
like, she shares good communication tactics, which I appreciate, but she also sort of blamed anti-racists for not wanting to engage with racists.
I think you should check it out.
Out of curiosity, why does your profile pic only have two of the three arrows of the Drei Pfeile?
Racism is so weird because as a Guatemalan who passes as white I get treated as a white guy I’ve been pulled over 3 times in my life I’m 32 2 of those times were warnings and a pleasant conversation but my brother looks more Latino and he’s been pulled over 23 times we have the same driving habits
Oh my god, someone else who understands. It really is weird being a white Hispanic in the US. On an every day level, we are treated as white and have all the privilege associated. But in environments where people get to actually know us, we can have that privilege stripped away at any moment for being Hispanic and thus not "really white." You can even be closeted Hispanic. I feel like it's given me a unique perspective and I've actually used that to help de-radicalize someone before.
@@GuyNamedSean just throwing this in here -- but as a (very lol) white person I realized my half-trashed hooptie wagon with NO LICENSE PLATES and no side mirror didn't get pulled over for 3 straight years.. and that I had a very easy way to tell other white people claiming white privilege doesn't exist just how wrong they are
I have multiple very well-off Black friends who have been pulled over at least twice a year in this city :/ nobody can tell me it doesn't exist, the fact I am not drowning in tickets proves it
I watched cops following me every time I was spotted and let off. it USED to confuse me. now I get it.
You actually have more privilege. You can jot that stuff down on school/financial aid/job applications and frequently receive preferential treatment. Money and positions meant for actual brown people. Ha!
@@PutkisenSeta What is a position "meant for actual brown people" exactly???
@@GuyNamedSean I relate to this a lot as an Ashkenazi Jewish person. I'm white only until anyone learns about my heritage and culture and *me*.
White-passing privilege? Conditional whiteness? It's hard to find a term. White with an asterisk.
“Transphobia has joined islamophobia on the outer rim of acceptable bigotries”
I’d argue it’s actually *replaced* islamophobia, seeing as how Conservative Muslims are starting to fall more into favor with Conservative Christians.
There's a great video by the same creator on this - endnote 2 white fascism (shorter than this one). He talks about how gay people have also been accepted for now to beat back trans people, but if/when trans people are beaten, they'll turn on the gay people, then the black people, then the women... reversing the order that they gained their rights in.
@@vis7139 I've come to understand why Ian and plenty of other gOoD lEfTiSts delude themselves into thinking that "gay people have been accepted" by the Right, but it is *absolutely ludicrous* and is more just an illustration of the preposterous bubble that Very Academic and Very Online Leftists choose to isolate themselves in. It's also incredibly insulting to the lived experiences of most cis gay people, who continue to fear the Right and don't enjoy being gaslit about "acceptance".
The notion of "gay acceptance by the Right" is also a reason that no small number of leftists use to drive a wedge between cis gay people and trans people, which is *exactly* what the Right is after. "Want to eradicate trans people? Why not pit the rest of the queer community against them? Why not, the Left always falls for it!"
@@vis7139What’s their plan for if everyone gets accepted, then?
@@lyokianhitchhiker I'm not sure they have one.
I've gone from feeling like we're totally screwed, to actually feeling that we're going win out against division and hatred.
Most people most of the time couldn't care less about you or me. And that is honestly a good thing
@@vis7139 why wouldn’t they have a plan for if they lose to the trans people?
another thought, particularly about the part discussing how for a lot of white moderates, "victory over racism is winning over the racists"
i find it especially interesting and telling how, when viewed through that perspective, their particular flavor of anti-racism, or in this case non-racism, still focuses more on other white people and winning over the outspoken or subtle racists by compromising with them or getting them to see reason, rather than focusing on the minorities and the people of color that racism actually effects and bolstering them instead. their "anti-racism" is still more about white people and is still centralized around whiteness than it is about people who are actually bipoc
you dont stand there and try to extend an olive branch to someone who is actively stabbing your friend. you do your damn fucking best to get the blade out of their hand and make sure your friend doesnt bleed out, regardless of how mad it makes the person who stabbed them or the potential risk it may pose to you
"The boundaries are not policed from the inside" what a great quote!!!
I rather liked that one, too.
it almost seems like a critique of individualistic forms of trans identity or other forms of identity where one is attempting to control how they are perceived and categorized by others
@@LeetMath no... you dont get to choose what the other person identifies as, whearas you can determine wether or not someone has a bias or not!
This video came at a good time for me because my college campus just had an incident where white students wrote slurs on doors and assaulted a black student and claimed they were going "N" hunting. It's been a lot of hushed whispers about how it's a bad thing, but there's very little actual action being taken. The school barely even made an announcement of it, at least not to the degree they do a burglary near campus.
All while my school started a campaign saying "you belong".
And they charged them a lifetime of debt to for this "privilege".
Maybe someone should tell the media about this?
You find the perpetrators and redatcted
@@jordanetherington1922 the media already poisoned itself
By which I mean people at the campus should definitely send this to concerned organizations
I've tried to make the statement that "white" (as a social and legal construct as all races are) is not a race but rather the absence of a race and the absence of being raced...and let me tell you, it's not AT ALL a popular opinion, even among liberals.
People really do not like being reminded of their privilege in a white supremacist society. I think they also feel like if they acknowledge it, then they think that will mean racism against whites would be socially acceptable, that they wouldn't be able to call something racist or a hate crime if someone does something racist towards them. They don't want to give up their opportunity to play the "race card" if they're ever discriminated against or victimized on the basis of their race, which almost never happens. Even the generally non-racist white people still suffer under a perceived sense of persecution and victimhood. It's like white privilege squared.
One of the hardest things to do is to get people to look inward and make them question their possible contributions to problems, especially without those people lashing back because they feel attacked.
We see it in race, climate, the economy, education, acceptance of LGBT and so on.
In my experience being a black person is having lots of internalized anger in your soul. Every day I'm on edge, and I'm aware of my blackness, it's even worse because I was raised in a majority white neighborhood. White conservatives hate us, this I know is true but I am angered by the patronizing tone I am met with by white liberals and even leftists. They know I an different from them but if they acknowledge it they'll be seen as the bad people and for their conscience (not my own) they try to ignore it. The activism is performative, so is the care in many cases. It fills me with a deep anger and restlessness because I feel like no matter how hard I try I'll always be black before I'm a person. It is not like this back home in Nigeria, in Africa I am calm in some fundamental way. There is a pervasive peace because I am with people who will always see me as a person first. My conclusion is that white people feel lots of guilt, which must be eased and that constant easing fosters into racist sentiments.
Edit.... I feel like there is lots of anger on both sides because as much as we black people are told to be quiet about this and be the bigger men we are angry at white people. At least most I know are, and I kind of am too. Not in an individual sense but white people as an institution.
My group of friends are pretty diverse and the way we handle it is fully embracing our differences. The serbian gets made fun off for dancing weird, the Indian for his hindu traditions & bollywood, the Russian for her excessive vodka drinking & techno, the Chinese for his lack of social skills and me (the dane) for going on "raids" and speaking like a caveman.
I think we will all be happier if we embrace the differences we have, because it will make us all rise above them faster
white liberals also enjoy driving home the point of their moral superiority by acting nice towards pocs:
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Maybe think about returning to Nigeria oh is that your country who banned non black people into their commercial lmao, how ironic
@@claudiiusmaximus652 ? Did you just google nigeria and find the first headline? Cause that's the first one that pops up.
@@nicklaskirkeby3921 yeah my friends are also multicultural, it's really fun. I make fun of my mexican friend by saying hes a drug dealer. And I make fun of my polish friend for being polish. In turn they also make fun of me for liking watermelon and fried chicken. I get it, it's nice cause it's with people you trust and care about, joking around should always be common with friends
"getting a republican to identify an actual example of systemic racism is like trying to point at your shadow with a flashlight"
what an incredibly powerful analogy
@Lugosi Maybe you should review the part of the video where white, cis, straight male is assumed to be the default. To be considered the "everyman" is Privilege.
You don't see it just like a fish can't see the water they swim in.
@Lugosi I'm confused why you think any of the examples you gave are bad, or affect your life negatively in any way. CRT, BLM, pride flags, Asian lives matter? Teaching kids about white privilege or gender? They are pretty basic stances on acceptance, and education. It seems like you are whining about minor social changes, that don't actually harm you in any real way. Which is hard to sympathize with, considering these changes are in response to actual systemic violence. If you are walking on eggshells because of these basic subjects, it is probably because you have some toxic opinions, that people don't respond well to. And that is more of a you problem.
If I were a believing man, the existence of sub-Saharan Africa would shake my faith in the idea of a benevolent, loving God.
@@user-ej3iw8lw3w You mean the "Cradle of Humanity"? Origin of all of your ancestors. A place you've never been, full of tens of millions of people you've never met. What an idiotic thing to say.
@@skeeverskeeyo7331 Yes, I consider all those you listed to be bad. The exception being Asian Lives Matter, which is something I have never heard of until now and so can't comment on it. You are gr00ming kids into your dogma. In schools where they have Antifa summer camps, BLM colouring books, Drag Queen story time and feminist curricula.
Where Laura Bates talks to underaged boys about her perverse s3xual experiences. It is indoctrination.
I'm often told that the Alt Right Pipeline is a real threat. That some 15 Yr/old is going to mindlessly sit and consume Ben Sharpiro or whatever, who no resistance. What do you say to all the 5 Yr/olds who are forced into classes with authourity figures who are forced to sit accept the dogma you jam down their throats?
I always got pissy with people who told me I was privileged as a white person when I was a teen. For various non-race related reasons, mostly involving handicaps, I have grown up severely disenfranchised by pretty much the entire society around me and I always felt like saying I have any privilege at all was erasing that. I wonder how much of the flat refusal to see racism comes from people who are suffering similarly and feel that if they admit they have any advantage at all, it'd just be the world gaslighting them into not admitting to their own hardship?
I admit a lot of people on the left could do more to make it clear that there are many different ways people can become disenfranchised, though. I've been called an oppressor by people that have more rights than I ever will and who fit in in ways I can only imagine, who don't have to spend every second catering to a crowd that sees themselves as the default and will never, ever cater to or try to understand me. But, I've also come to see the shared experience in other groups that are marginalised, and I try to nurture that sympathy more than the bitterness.
I think maybe we need to stop talking about privilege like it makes the lives of those who has it easy guaranteed, because everyone has their own shit - and while it's important to recognise who needs help, that can easily turn into Blizzard unironically dropping the line "Race: Arab - 7 points" and then we're way off the mark. More helping hands, less finger pointing.
You misunderstood the meaning of white privilege…White privilege is when you get pulled over by a cop and not get beaten to death as compared to a black guy being pulled over…White privilege is not “I’m white so i must have no problems in life”…
I won’t be surprised if you never googled what these terms meant in the first place…
Conclusion : White privilege is the result of systemic issues that white people don’t have to face as compared to other minorities…
So you're saying your reaction to being made aware of your privilege was to get mad, defensive and bring up ways in which your life is worse than a minority's, yet somehow this is the left's fault.
"I'm gonna out all of your queer students I saw on Grindr" "Wait, what were you doing on Grindr?" "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
its hilarious the amount of republican senators that have grindr accounts for gay hookups
The unnamed provocateur in the 'hypothetical' was an openly gay fascist. Yes, I know that sounds like a contradiction.
This hits hard in regards to white liberal Canada's relationship to Aboriginal peoples. We now have a document called the "Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action" that was created after a years-long examination of how racist laws and policies affected Aboriginal people. It outlines ways that politicians and leaders (who are still majority white) can help fix many interconnected issues. The white liberals in power haven't started on most of the items. The document came out in 2014.
That’s because they are painfully vague. It’s more like a wishlist than a true call to action. It’s the product of people not smart enough to do anything of value in the world so they take part in these vanity projects and nothing in the world gets better.
My family are Canadian, but I grew up in segregated Louisiana. I remember one of my Canadian aunts telling me when I was a kid, that every culture seems to have to have a n****** to look down on and scapegoat. And that for Canada it was the aboriginal peoples :'(
@@suzbone sad but accurate statement 😔
Oh you poor thing.
@@soulfuzz368
They are not vague, and there are MANY calls to action that have layered gameplans and budgets drafted, ready to go. Reintroduction of language is a big one, but the biggest hurdle to jump is the fact that the Crown only allocates a small amount of the budget towards Indigenous needs.
As a white dude born and raised in Hawaii....seeing the online discourse of racism has always been baffling to me. This video really hits it on the nose-- you're either default or you're not. Being non-default means being constantly reminded that you are "not default", even if no one intended to be racist and even if they consider themselves as a non-racist.
It's a thing I've noticed as a Queer man in generaly leftist circles. There's this idea that is unsaid but still patently present that I am a category, they are just "normal". And when I point out that no, they're a category too, one which sometimes acts shittily towards folks like me, they get *super* defensive, as though I'd done something more offensive by insinuating they'd engaged in somewhat homophobic actions than they had by doing/saying something with homophobic undertones.
I cannot speak to the experience of being non-White, but I'm guessing it's pretty much the same idea and concept.
@@pachidermo Yeah I think that's the theme of the video. It's framed as "white" (and iirc theres a queer section too) because of the author's cultural circumstances, but it really happens anywhere a certain group of people is not in a majority due to traits they cannot change.
I like being an outsider. It makes life more interesting. I've lived in Mexico and Japan now. Rarely, you get prejudiced. But the big plus is ur an anomaly and if ur extroverted, you tend to get approached and invited to stuff because ur interesting by default. If ur remotely cool, then it's a great adventure
@@pachidermo for sure. And even in places where people pat themselves on the back for interrogating their racism or homophobia, they still get defensive in exactly that way if you bring up ableism. Sometimes even worse than people who don’t big themselves up in that way, because they’ve attached self-worth to their “enlightenment” and suffer emotional injury if you present evidence to the contrary.
@@globaladdict While I agree and I have lived in Japan as well, it hits different when you were born and raised somewhere and people still treat you like an outsider. I felt more comfortable in Japan because I could at least own the gaijin identity there. It was the first time I ever fit into a neat category and didn't have to explain or convince people I was one of them.
This video is so good. I’ve replayed it like 4 times. I’ll also be sending it to some friends and family. It clearly underlines how fascism, racism, misogyny , patriarchy, and white supremacy props up capitalism. This is why, in a capitalist world, none of these things can fully be abolished. When business is boiled down to “nothing personal, just business,” it allows the right wing to flourish.
capitalism is a jewish concept, just as communism is, this video and the creator is simply dishonest and a charlatan
the rifht wing isnt nessesarily bad bruh, these policies they employ is bad, but calling them all bad makes you ignorant
It makes you a useful idiot to propagate their lies.
@@zachstarattack7320 "I don’t feel the need to pretend that, just because most democracies have a left wing and a right wing, that both are equally valid and moral. There is no rule that proves this. There is only the liberal sentiment that saying otherwise is poor sportsmanship (a standard the Right does not hold itself to)."
-Ian Danskin, "Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism"
The policies they employ are bad, and the reasons they employ them (an inherently hierarchical worldview which believes "that humans are innately unequal and society flourishes when power is doled out to the 'deserving'") are worse. To claim otherwise is anywhere from simple naivety to active malice.
My comment will be long. I’m European, my first visit to the USA was not scheduled. I was in Colombia and in short I took the opportunity to visit the USA (30 years ago) with a Colombian friend who has the phenotypes of an Inca. It was in Florida that I discovered the specificity of American racism. I speak and write in Spanish. As soon as I arrived at customs I saw the difference, in fact as soon as I presented my passport I left and had to wait half an hour for my friend… During my stay I was entitled to 2 police checks for the same reason, four young people in a car. But these were two different checks. Very different. The first, the worst was with Latinae friends. Previously I found the American notion of “Latino” as a race ridiculous… But during the control I understood without being able to name it what racism is as a social construction. The control was harsh and even more threatening than the controls of the Colombian police (remember these are the 80s). Ah yes we were speaking loudly and in Spanish just before the control. The second check was with other white American friends, I repeat white American friends. It went very well despite the fact that I was scared and that my friends didn’t understand why… There I understood without being able to name it what systemic racism is…. Just a true story, just my own little experience, just my thoughts...
For the first... twelve years of my life I was blissfully unaware of race relations. I knew my pappou and my dad were brown (because it's hard to not know that) but I was told they were white so I just... thought they were white. Then on a trip to Greece where we made stops at airports 7 times, my dad and I were singled out from my mum and sister by airport security five separate times because my dad is brown and I just didn't happen to be white enough. After an experience like that you kind of learn to see race in everything and how it affects you.
Maybe you look like gypsies they tend to get bad reputation there due to their involvement with theft and violence
Also you have no proof of your accusation besides what you think happened
@@claudiiusmaximus652 "gypse"😐
Why would romani people steal at an airport of all places?
@@claudiiusmaximus652 wat
@@claudiiusmaximus652 Nobody looks suspicious enough to be singled out from their family and inspected separately 5 f*cking times in a row you idiotte.
"No one ever went broke appealing to the ignorance of white people."
Oof. That one hits.
Fuck, how do you think Al Sharpton and the BLM grift got big?
The Grift Economy
It's certainly helped get more than a few people into public office, that's for sure.
brief shoutout to the “pokemon names” at 15:47
“Bluelyne and Billyklub” the cops, “Skroo and Turnkee” the prison wardens, and “Jerimand and Malarque” the politicians
this video concluded pretty much what i want from people and how i think of this debate as an Asian transgender person. good job!
> "the boundaries are not policed from the inside"
thank you for this. thinking about racism is not about policing our minds and thinking we can make up the perfect rules to be good alone in our heads, it's about interacting with others, listening, and being considerate.
i am a greek citizen and following this series throught the years has made me realise that greece is like america without the left leaning parties driving conversasion and change many people love tradition and their country leading them in more extreme idieas. recently i was thrown out of a social group after having an argument about how gender is a spectrum it was me against five people in a discord call and i provided evidence and studies for my arguments but they just said this is how society is it is weird and wrong to change it. there is racism here and fear of refuges but nobody talks about it nobody wants to have a conversation to change society it is sad
Hey, at least your fascist party has faded away (last I checked, could be wrong). Ours here in America is probably gonna take over in the next couple years.
i'm greek too (cypriot) and got into a full argument a few years ago with my cousin who thought homosexuality and transgenderism was the same thing.
Where do you live???
I understand what you say but my general social group is pretty much working the opposite way.
The problem I notice is that sometimes is look like we are cut of from the general Greek society
And thing are normal we see them like extreme cases...
Very similar thing going on for me, I'm Italian and while things aren't super bad where I live things aren't really talked about and there are a fair number of openly fascist people not afraid of openly stating their ideas.
It's really scary.
I'm scandinavian & have had similar experiences up here. Whenever something big happens in the USA, like the BLM protests, it seems many europeans just scoff & say "well, racism isn't in MY country" which is blatantly false, racism & xenophobia are SO prevelant in europe. It was very apparent with how willing europeans were to accept ukrainian refugees, while still denying asylum for refugees from the middle east. All war refugees should be granted asylum, but europeans prioritize white christian refugees. I think the younger generations are becoming more aware of these issues, but there are also many young people who end up in the alt-right, & there is a huge lack of racial diversity in most european governments. Europe is no less racist than the USA.
America is such a dystopia to me, your debates include wether people should be recognized as people and if they should be allowed to live on a single income and so fourth. And people who can barely scrape by while working 2 jobs demand more of the same system that would kick them while they're down as well as make fun of them for being down.
forth
Yeah, it’s not perfect. Who’d have imagined!
lemme guess, europe?
you do the same to gypsies as what americans do to black people
Have to thank you so much for the work you're doing in research, journalism, shining a flashlight on the ideals that thrive in the darkness of ignorance. Been trying to promote your videos, but I frankly don't have enough reach. Been trying to find where other than twitter to see what you're working on, but it's a hellscape right now, more than usual.
If you have written a book I would love to buy it! Been a long while since I read more than fanfiction.
I think the best way for me to describe my journey regarding racism is this. "Anti-Racism isn't an event. It's a process." It's not something one day some of us will "achieve". We all have our days, and times when biases get the best of us. Learning how to be better because of those times and days makes us anti-racist. Being aware of our status and privilege is just the first step.
Anti-racist isn't a thing white people are, rather anti-racism is a thing white people can do.
This is a good way of thinking about flaws and biases in general. We are human, and there will always be room for improvement, but finding the path to improve is tricky at times. In fact, it's fun... self-edification can become a neverending game. Reading lots of perspectives, extending empathy, learning new ways of thinking. This is the way.
Most real comment ever. Bias are always there, the difference is to not act upon them on those days you mentioned
@@Eudaletism Exactly brother, basing things on empathy, no matter how “hard” it is to do it sometimes in the USA
100% agree, I'd say the same could be said for racism. There is no event or end goal for this kind of thing, hell there isn't for most things. I personally think most people make the mistake of searching endlessly to find that; end goal, peak, place they should be, final measure of success, etc. It's all a long process, with those ups and downs. Some days we're better, some days we are worse. But that's pretty off topic, I'll end this comment before I go into too much of a ramble.
I kinda love the audible frustration in this one. As not only a person of color but also gay and trans, this frustration is so validating to hear.
Half of my family is white, and they hate it when I call myself Chinese or Black unless its to make a comment about how it makes me more attractive or (i shit you not) "gives me good genes." I can have racial nicknames like Chinita (little chinese girl) or Negra (black), but if I feel frightened by police brutality or asian racist sentiment, "I shouldn't think like that" or "it doesnt affect me" because I'm not chinese or black enough, I'm "mixed." I dont think a racist cares if I'm mixed, theyre just gonna see im not white.
Same thing with being gay and trans, they accept me transitioning and support me as an individual, but when it comes to me saying im not comfortable with a guy coming to a party because he called me a woman to my face and tried to guess my deadname, I should just accept that he has "different opinions" and he was "just trying to debate me on trans topics to learn."
Literal attacks on my identity and how I view myself aren't seens even when they are public and blatant displays, while any time i defend myself I'm annoying and talk about it too much.
Finally. A video that verbalises the frustration. I also thank you so much for acknowledging that you're white, because if anything, it shows how frustrating it is even as an outsider.
I've read your comment multiple times and I'm still lost. You are biracial, right? Asian + White ? Or Black + White?
@@standowner6979 In case you’re in good faith:
They are mixed black/white with chinese family members. However they have issues referring to themselves as black near their family
@@lxdixd Oh right. Now I get it. Thanks!
I'm more white than Asian (like...even my Asian grandparents were partially white), but for some reason, I'm not considered white (unless it's to shit on non-whites). It's like whiteness is completely arbitrary, if racists could understand your identity they wouldn't be racists, or something else I'm missing....yet a lot of white people don't seem to get this. 🤔🤔
Thank you for sharing this.
Christ, that must be so hard to endure, from your own family, no less. 😟
For them to effectively be telling you "don't worry about race issues, because you're white enough to pass" is the very evidence of their own racism.
And for them to defend the arsehole who was dead-naming and misgendering you, when they should have been looking out for you. . . !
I'm just. . . arrrgh!!!
Stay strong. ❤️💪
The quality of your work is astounding. Usually, I prefer books over videos when I want to tackle complex problems. RUclips is more efficient as a mere introduction. But your playbook is as complete as a whole book.
A big thing for me has been to *continue to grow*. I’m a white person, and my learning about race and institutionalized racism will never be over. If something I learn makes me feel defensive or uncomfortable, I’ve found it’s best to sit with that feeling until I understand why I feel that way. That said- I am a trans person so I have a more personal experience with systemic discrimination. More and more I’ve been viewing my trans-ness as a resilience instead of a liability.
If you're not actively -constantly - fighting racism - within you means but not within your *comfort* - you are the oppressor. Not a very efficient oppressor. But unless you punch a neoNazi, you wouldn't be someone who'd tear down concentration camp fences either.
The thing with power is that a lot of people in general don't understand it. Because it's a very mechanical kind of thing, mindless almost. It's something that clashes with the idea of motivated agents that we see other people as, because it's hard to acknowledge that a lot of things we as well as other people do aren't motivated by intentional reasoning, but by passive reaction to the feedback we get from the environment around us. But power is very much like that.
The Funny thing about “Power”, especially in terms of Money and Influence. Is the “Value” of a Person’s position at large! I mean, there are a lot of people that forget that even with money, it can be illusionary, especially if they have nothing to offer when playing the same damn games Most of these Celebrities do.
It’s true, Power is mindless. But that’s why it’s useful. Because if you give a person the power to shape life to their own desire. It can be used to TAME the Person with it! They can be used, fooled into believing that they have the Influence!
Sure, they can lord their power over another, but in ANY system where that power is given by a Person more influential than The person at large…well…. Then does it even exist at all?!
Great Comment! 👏👏👏
now i want this to be an Innuendo Studios video xD
I’ve often used the term “leverage” instead of “power” though I’m not sure which is more appropriate. To me, thinking in terms of leverage, shows how it’s about relative power and opportunities to gain advantage and/or decrease disadvantages, (which how most will see it as anyway.)
Both sides have power, but it’s often how one leverages that power that gives them the edge.
@@calebmarmon1310 That's a great point actually.
You sound like Nietzsche. And you call us the fascists.
This video is the definition of the phrase, "Say it louder for the people in the back." Where other videos in this series focus hard on identifying who the alt-right are, how they operate, how they grow, and how they manipulate the discourse; this video focuses on how the discourse on the left is inherently manipulateable by those tactics. As well as revealing how the eponymous "Moderate Left", a fun and popular position for people who didn't vote for Trump but won't vote for someone willing to combat the right by alienating their base directly, prevent anti-racist policies from succeeding. By basically fellating the collaborators who might threaten their power, this video essay showed the forest for the trees. This video certainly changed how I thought about discourse on the left. I hope it reaches as many people as it can, and has an impact.
Well, the "We go high, they go low" video also veers into this subject of why liberals/moderate leftists are bad at preventing the far right from gaining power and using it to hurt marginalized groups. It also hints that the reason is that they're more concerned with maintaining moral superiority than protecting said groups, this video just makes that more explicit and goes into the politics of whiteness more.
Then share it. I sure as heck will
@@Sjors_ My reply to "When they go low" will always be "shove their head in the dirt and stomp on their neck"
This clearly points to how we need to stop showing the Democrats as being a left-wing party. Democrats are inherently conservative.
@@Sjors_ 100% agree.
Watching this video after helping with a LGBTQ+ counterprotest at my university. We always have these homophobic evangelicals come by in one of our most populated areas to scream slurs and "preach love." They've sort of been the case study for us counter-protestors to find out what we as the community need. We could try to fight them on their terms, debate them over the legitimacy of LGBTQ+ identity regarding the bible (sidenote: nothing in the bible is antigay, all of their chosen phrases can be easily debunked). We could scream and shout all we want but they will never stop believing what they believe. Why would I and others like me try to compromise with people who wholeheartedly believe I'm destined to go to hell? Why are we expected to? Now we try our best to divert attention from them. Stand in their way holding pride flags, playing music, and joking around. Systemically we dont have the power to fight back, so we try to protect our people from the hate. What we need, and what all marginalized communities need, is real change. We can't reach across the aisle and have "cordial debates" over human rights. All we at the bottom can do is try to endure while those in power pretend to care about us while actually accomplishing nothing.
Pointing out the tactical diaper bag was excellent.
The line about "the gentrification of white nationalism" is golden.
_Re_ gentrification.
As late as Lovecraft, rich people were bigots.
Only European social trends, Northern farmer labour concerns, and Lincoln (and glorious madman John Brown), broke Northern White gentry's investment in racialism.
Never went away in the South.
"You're underestimating how long white people can equivocate."
This line left me in stitches thinking about my white family.
Seems racist to me
@abortion is murder (((blackpill daily))) why is abortion murder?
Because the DNC was and is the source of much of the racism, but they switched from founding the KKK to exploitation and bribery/servitude via handouts for votes with the "Great society program".
You know, the program that gave us 70% of all black children being born out of wedlock, and the collapsing inner cities that are as dangerous as war zones.
I mean... I'd argue that ignorance and apathy can _definitely_ be cruel. It's not necessarily a _deliberate_ cruelty, but it is a cruelty nonetheless. It is an innocent cruelty, in the same way a child who doesn't know that what they're doing _is_ cruel is _still being cruel_.
I think you’re mistaking cruelty for callousness. Cruelty is the active and purposeful cause of harm. Whilst callousness is simply not caring about whatever harm you may cause. For example, mass shootings are cruel, but drunk driving manslaughter is callous.
The note in the beginning about picking racism as the grounds to talk about this issue helped me fully internalize something that I really needed to. If this video was about marginalization that I experience, I would not have had the same reaction that I did as a white person. As a queer person, I wouldn’t want cishet people to feel personally attacked by pointing out institutional anti-queer issues so why should I be offended as a white person when it’s racism being deconstructed? I like to think of myself as an anti-racist ally but there’s still a knee-jerk reaction to be defensive when whiteness is scrutinized.
If anyone reading this is a queer white person who feels that defensiveness, try thinking about how you want queer issues and queer activism to be seen by cishet people. I’m guessing you too would like your concerns for your community to be heard and taken seriously instead of dismissed immediately because of criticism towards the majority
You have an immense talent for breaking down complex sociological phenomenon into accessible entertaining media. I'm eternally glad that this channel both exists and thrives.
not sure if he deserves 4.5k a month on patreon to make one video a year though. donators getting fleeced.
Mike Enoch is way better than this and has a way more succesful political show that destroys all points ever made in this guys cuck-series against the "alt-right"
@@paklaselt2198 You should change your name to pakla salt, lol.
@@paklaselt2198 You do know it is voluntary, right? You can cancel anytime you want. This isn't parliamentary elections - if you don't show up, there will be no end result. I don't give Ian my money, mainly bc I cannot afford it. But I give him my free time and attention and if you feel cheated, I suggest you do the same. But people have the right to support whoever they want on RUclips, no matter if they post 2 a day or once a decade. So please stop being the fun-sucker and let other people enjoy things and pay the bills of those who make such things, assuming the paying ones have the will and luxury to do so.
Then they can cancel if they think he is not worth their money? lol
This video is truly amazing. So many crucial points that are delivered succinctly and directly. This is such a great resource for understanding not only the mindset of the right, but what to do about.
Some of my favorite moments were: "racism exists, and its efficient", "they dont want to start thinking of themselves as white", "[racism is] a tool for acheiving political ends", "it always comes back to identity politics", "if trans people could just stop being trans, they never would habe picked them for am enemy"
Being a former racist pre transition and now anti fascist post transition has been a hell of a transition for me, but god everything you're saying is correct. I remember them using every tactic on me and all of them working, as someone who used to be part of the white moderate class. The most valuable thing I learned in transitioning is how to call people out on their bullshit for this stuff.
ha you're gay
What do you mean by “transition”?
@@dylanpoynor2318He took hormone pills beforehand to make himself mentally left instead of right. As a final step he went under surgery where doctors amputated his hands and sew them back on on opposite sides so he can be left handed.
@dylanpoynor2318 Transgender people typically transition out of their old identity (whether that be man or woman) into a new identity that they prefer (man, woman, or non-binary). Usually this is done though changing one's pronouns and/or name, changing the clothes they wear to communicate they're a different gender, and possibly undergoing hormone therapy to develop secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite sex. Some also get surgeries and whatnot, but it's less common than you think.
I wish you went more in depth on the "White Anti-racist" as much as you did the other 3 categories.
As a black person, as great as it is to know how our enemies operate, it's even more important to know what type of people our allies are and what they do in order to achieve their goal of Anti-racism. Great video as always
How do you want to fight racism?
@@phantom_10792 as key as changing the cultural tide against all forms of racism is important, particularly on non-overt racism, I think trying to dismantle systemic racism and the structures that enables it is the bigger fight as that will lead to a more top down change. We can do both of course, but this video points out the white "moderate" trying to make legislative changes to tackle systemic racism, yet doesn't mention what exactly is the alternative method to combat racism other than the white "Anti-racist" just... existing, I guess.
He states that white people should "be like this person (the Anti-racist)", yet never actually went into detail about what exactly does it mean to be Anti-racist. Because I'm sure 100% of those white moderates would also consider themselves "anti-racist white people".
@@jamesburgess2k He did list a bunch of articles and advice by POC in the description on how to be a good ally.
@@MeNowDealWIthIt that's great, but I wanted to hear his opinion on it. Also, as wise as it as to point your audience towards people with more experience on a topic than yourself, let's be honest, less than 1% of the people who watched this video will actually take the time to look at those books he recommended. It would've been better to at least summarize or at least mention a few parts directly in the video so more people would see it, as well as explaining why he agrees with those books/passages/quotes/etc. in particular.
I doubt he would've done it in this video so I'm not faulting him for it here, but I'd love if he would something more in depth in a future video
For me, personally, I stopped lapsing into uncomfortable silence any time someone says something stupid/racist; I instead try to tell the person why what they said is stupid (though I usually use more diplomatic language unless they become belligerent.) I go to any protests that I learn about, and I only donate to, volunteer with, and vote for socialists or communists. I also run a retail store and have gone out of my way to make sure that black people know that they are welcome and respected; initially I tried to do this by treating them like anyone else, but learned that I cannot come from behind the counter to approach them until they have been in a few times and know that I am being friendly rather than suspicious.
In my experience, most white people are racist; they don't see themselves as racist, though, since they aren't part of a lynch mob or burning crosses on someone's lawn. There are some older anti-racists, but most of them are younger people who grew up with the internet, which exposed them to ideas and people that earlier generations were able to hide from in segregated communities.
These videos were foundational in helping me recognize systemic injustice and the way certain people try to manipulate folks like me into parroting bigotry. Great new installment.
This video is a classic example of bigotry. You should probably be a little more critical
Care to elaborate
@@redrkstone "it hurt my feels therefore bigotry"
@@skootties no actual bigotry, the conspiracy theory he outlines prejudices and is intolerant against others on the basis of their membership in a particular group, he even attempts to slur all opposing opinions by calling them racist. It’s classic bigotry
@@redrkstone He’s intolerant to them based on their ideas and behaviors, like adults should expect.
Its all about gaining popularity and power, like you said. And them using BIPOC to get brownie points is very accurate. I've been on the far left for a while now and I've known rudimentary facts about this, but you came in and enlightened me. I'm also going to read all of those books.
The nicknames for the police officers, prison wardens, and politicians in your Pokemon battle graphic are hilarious. "Blulyne" & "Billyklub", "Turnkee" & "Skroo", "Jerimand" & "Malarque", top notch.
I've long seen racism as a spectrum, not a binary, but this four-pronged approach is extremely enlightening. It'll make it a lot easier to explain to others. Thank you again!
Racism is largely a binary, but what is singularly a binary is the myth of race.
Everything is a spectrum in some ways we humans are smart enough to realise it soon enough due to centuries of colonisation
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” -. Angela Y. Davis
I don't think. I know it.
oh man, I wish youtube would implement laugh react
🤣
People will say such things with a tunnel vision like perspective of reality. Meanwhile, people are currently living their normal life in a society that's not as racist as you see it.
Racism came back in the form of anti racism. The difference being that now racism works to favor a group that can show victimhood.
Sometimes, when engaging in media meant to change my opinion on things, I remember I don't have to ignore it or try to defend my opinion to myself; no one's gonna judge me for changing. That's why this kind of media exists; to give a broader scope about the world. If I didn't understand something fully before, or even if I did, I can change my opinion on it if it would leave me with more supported beliefs than I had before.
This got SUBSTANTIALLY easier after reading Origami Yoda.
YuR BeinG BrAiNwAsHeD!!!
/s
"The boundaries are not policed from the inside" definitely gonna use that idea. thanks!
Here's my white moderate experience: when I was in my college had an event about institutional racism. I went with my roommate and a friend, both of which identify as white liberals.
Afterward, they were pissed because they didn't like basically being called racist, even getting my opinion (sure, let's ask the ambiguously ethnic mixed race guy about whether he was offended).
The real irony was the next year, when one of our mutual friends wanted to see it when it went on again because he was curious and some of what he heard sounded interesting. He was a white conservative. It's a rare day when a white conservative seems more open to the idea of institutional racism then the self-identified liberal, but there you go. And he did hear the above complaints, he just thought it was worth still exploring.
I think that's understandable to a degree. Your white liberal friends both are invested heavily in being racially neutral, of being one of the "good ones". So when someone tells them that maybe they're not as good as they would like to believe, it hurts their worldview. The conservative probably wasn't as heavily invested in the question of "where do I sit on the racism axis," so he was able to approach the concept more neutrally. Accepting the idea of institutional racism would require changing his worldview, but his prior worldview likely wasn't built on the idea that "I know what racism is and I really hate it".
It's difficult to convince people who are on the wrong side that their side is wrong. But it's very difficult to convince someone who deeply believes that they have been on the right side their whole life that, no, you're still kinda on the wrong side.
I've always thought the best response to an accusation of racism is, why? Then you are able to talk it through and hopefully both sides can learn. If you immediately go on the defensive it isn't going to go anywhere
Current day wokeism is the worst form of elitist racism/sexism. It provides no solution to a problem it makes by definition white as racist and blacks ect as never racist and men as sexist ect by existence. Worse it provides a level of scapegoating and victimization that allows the worst elements of those cultures and groups to avoid All accountability which is literally anti-meritocracy and a prime aspect of developing a superiority complex known as Real sexism and racism. I've been around more educated conservative and liberal black men and women all agree that these ideas are poison not only to the left but to their cultures
This is what frustrates me so much about the use of the word “racism” in race discourse because i feel that not many people on the left are very interested in actively defining the incredibly vast differences between systemic racism (which, no matter how much of a good non-prejudiced liberal white person you might be, you probably benefit from just because you’re white) and, idk the exact term for it, but the interpersonal, prejudicial racism where you have someone using slurs/violence/hate crimes/etc. so white conservatives/liberals will hear themselves being called racists without any explanation of the term, and then (correctly) say, “hey, I’m not a member of the KKK, I don’t hate black people, I look up to Barack Obama/Clarence Thomas/etc etc, I’d never use slurs, my favorite book is to kill a mockingbird, I’m not racist!” while it’s never explained to them that their generational wealth wouldn’t exist without redlining or Jim Crow or the racial/class based prison industrial complex or what have you. We need to start clarifying between “you benefit from systemic racism and there’s not much you can do about it except do what you can to make the system more equitable” and “you believe in the great replacement and race IQ bullshit” because they’re fucking not the same thing. And sure, while it sucks to think that you have to coddle people, I don’t think that providing a basic working definition of what you’re saying is “coddling” and in fact explaining what you mean when you say something potentially inflammatory/accusatory prevents pushing people on the fence towards the right wing.
Wikipedia: Finland: Sexual violence: Perpetrators: wow.
BBC Sweden 58% foreigner.
Ukrainian 18 year old Germany.
Taharrush gamea.
Marocchinate.
New years eve Colonge Germany.
Rotherham scandal.
Manchester scandal.
Rochdale scandal.
West Yorkshire scandal.
Newcastle scandal.
Oxford scandal.
Bradford scandal.
Telford scandal.
Aylesbury scandal.
Huddersfield scandal.
Zabihullah Mohmand Montana.
Fort McCoy Afghans.
Somali sweden 9 years old.
Skaf gang australia.
Simon Mol.
Oulu scandal.
Tapanila somali.
Glasgow grooming gang.
Ross Parker.
Kriss Donald.
Lara Logan Egypt.
Temar Bishop.
Morocco beheading.
Greece Ahmed Waqas.
France:
Ndiaga Dieye police attack
Rambouillet police attack
Orthodox priest wounded Lyon
2020 Nice stabbing
Samuel Paty attack
2020 Paris stabbing attack
Colombes police attack
2020 Romans-sur-isère knife attack
Metz police stabbing
2020 Villejuif stabbing
Paris police headquartes stabbing
2019 Lyon bombing
2018 Strasburg attack
Asadollah Asadi
2018 Paris knife attack
Carcassonne and Trèbes attack
2017 Marseille stabbing
2017 Levallois-Perret attack
2017 Notre Dame attack
2017 Orly airport attack
2017 Paris machete attack
2016 Normandy church attack
Nice truck attack
2016 Magnanville stabbing
2016 Paris police station attack
Valence car attack
November 2015 Paris attacks
2015 Thalys train attack
Charlie Hebdo attack
Makes me think of people who claim rape culture doesn't exist, because everyone agrees rape is bad, shun people who say it's good and imprison men who are found guilty. Trying to convince them that rape culture doesn't require the open celebration of sexual violence is like talking to a brick wall. You can give example after example after example, and it doesn't matter.
Brick Wall=Steven Crowder
Rape culture? You mean the culture of always taking the womans side
So that mean would we live in a murder culture and a theft culture and a corruption culture and on and on. You want an actual example of rape culture
The Islamic countries.
Im 7 months late, but can you give me a definition of rape culture? Ive always tought of it as the idea of how we view rape as more of a force of nature than anything (most anti rape ads are targetted towards women, victim blaming, etc)
Theres probably more to it than that so please tell me if there is
So what, I wonder, is the metaphorical sledgehammer that would break it down?
This should be mandatory teaching from first grade up untill things have changed
Plays every school kid have to act in twice a year plz
I've watched this video a few times now and it always brings me to tears. As a teacher who is BIPOC and researching ways to promote an ANTI racist institution, I see every day how my people are used as a token pawn rather than a source of institutional power. The relatively liberal institutions in my community pretend to be blind to race, claiming progressivism under the banner of non-racism and inclusion. However, they continue to use my BIPOC community as pawns and never actually ascribe power to our scholars or our leaders.
This video is the most poignant and clear demonstration of how this works as a process. I come back to it a lot as I see new margins being drawn against LGBTQ communities as easy targets. Institutional reform towards the far right is happening under our very eyes, even though the institutions claim to be inclusive.
Marginalization usually has no meaning because nobody is willing to contextualize that BIPOC people being "marginalized" is a racist construct. Thank you for this video. It's fucking tragic and hurtful to watch every time, but fucking tragedy is the truth of being a Black or Brown (or LGBTQ) person in America.
While it is outside the scope of this video's subject, a part of the "Whiteness as default" mentality prevalent in the USA that I find particularly interesting as an outsider is the insistence of a lot of white americans (all categories except the anti-racist) that "whiteness" is and _should be_ the same everywhere, that race relations are the same everywhere, and that all "white" culture is the same.
A lot of "white" americans I've talked to get _really_ uneasy, defensive, and at times even combative whenever I point out any difference in society between the USA and the nordics or things about our culture that works differently, because in their view we "shouldn't" be different like that because we are also "white" and therefore "should" have the same history, cultural stances, social systems, language, and political package as "white" americans. From the outside looking in, especially as someone who's lived in three different countries with quite noticeably different culture, language, and societies, the american-brand racism seems a very peculiar kind of brain-rot that has grown tragically pervasive.
None of this is to imply that racism doesn't exist in northern europe, it very much does; it's just that while some of it is American-Brand racism imported during the cold war, most of it isn't - we have our own problems with our own flavors of xenophobia, racism, and prejudice, and while they are being addressed we still have a long way to go.
Where the fuck do you people live? I have never seen anyone with these ideas or beliefs.
And it's funny that that "the same" really means "like us". Culture for them is so tied to the color of the skin that when they see what every single other factor does to culture, they short-circuit.
@@monchete9934 Yup. It seems to many "white" people the very idea of differing perspectives is an alien concept that must be opposed or overcome rather than just how reality works.
"they fixatate on the kinds of gestures that FEEL like moving in the right direction, but run very little risk of ARIVING".
omg yes, this exactly.
fighting 1000 years of bloodshed and domination with a sticker!
I’ll be honest.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere NH.
I lived in a forest where neighbors we’re separated by a thicket of woods rather than fences.
I know jack-shit about greater America and politics. Because of that, I never thought hard on politics because I was too isolated to care or understand.
Now that I’m voting age I’ve been feeling it more and more to engage with politics. Not get into debates, I am never able to formulate or justify my opinions on the spot. But to have a deeper understanding of the issues I never saw, nor cared for.
It’s a series like this that helps broaden my knowledge and understanding of my place in the political world.
Great video.
The thing about having privilege is the default assumption that all have it (the "not seeing 'disadvantage'" fallacy), thus attempting to level the playing field (Affirmative Action*) gets twisted into disadvantaging the privileged. Simultaneously, people with privilege don't want others to have the same privileges. When competing for a job or college entry slot, who wants 100 competitors when the system reduces that number to 10? The "system is at fault", thus relieving them of the burden of guilt or ability to fix it.
The book Invisible Women is filled with volumes of problems about operating under "default male" assumptions: crash test dummies are male, "boy" dummies are used in place of women, drugs for pregnant women aren't tested on pregnant women, and sometimes not even on women at all. This concept of "default" is very applicable to race, disability and sexuality as well.
I think the current tactic wraps multiple groups into a massive "culture war" is an endgame tactic to multiply the fear, whereas previous moral panics have targeted single groups, while also working to divide them (ever notice people who are "for" LBG, but against TQIA?). This makes the fabricated problems appear insurmountable and overwhelming.
* If you're a white guy in the bottom 5%, then up your game.
The reason I love this video is because I can apply pretty much the same thing to the caste system here in India - the power dynamic between the "upper caste" oppressors, collaborators, moderates and anti-caste activists have made their foray even into this space , who'd have thought?
Racism & casteism are inevitable
Truly. And also, by extension several "tactics" mentioned in the entire playlist can be very much applied to how the hindu nationalism crowd is operating.
That's funny because the "upper caste" types haven't been in power in India for several decades now. Guess who has been?
The "upper caste" of today, those 'oh so privileged evil brahmins' whom you deny opportunities to because they used to be in power in the pre British Era (at least that we know of) are today's punching bags. Isn't that funny? You're from Kerala where the religion-less CPM has ruled for more than 9 years in a row now and have had several governments in the last 80 years. Both left wing and right wing in Kerala are anti brahmin and yet, you still blame the "upper caste oppressors".
@@playtowin1796 Mhmm true, because Hindu nationalists enslaved religious minorities in India for several centuries just like white people in America enslaved the black people....
Right?
Last I checked you cannot change race but you can change religion and beliefs.
I must say, hearing a white person discuss so much of my frustrations with lots of white people, from conservative to progressive, has really been a soul cleanser for me.
Everytime I talk about racism, racial bias and my experience of race as a mixed person who looks """vaguely foreign""" (i.e. I don't look white) but with a pretty white name, I tend to get 3 types of reactions from white people who've never really critically thought about their own racism:
A) Outright denial any of the things I experience or claim, are real if they're extremely ignorant.
B) Acknowledging these problems but then trying to solve these things like they're personal issues. Like, "oh he prolly didn't mean it that way" or "you should just be proud of your unique background", which ignores the actual underlying issue
C) just feeling bad about my situation but not really thinking to do anything about it or thinking they can't do anything about it. Basically a "feelsbadman". This is the best reaction but still insufficient.
This is what I'd recommend for white people new to this topic. When someone tells you about racial bias, face the fucking fact you have biases of many kinds, including race. Yes, POCs also do, but that's not as relevant and we don't have most of the power here. The mere self awareness truly helps in personal cases. I would also recommend to check your impulses when a non-white person talks about stuff [about race]. We're not attacking you
Breaking people down to there immutable characteristics then saying they need to change will always feel like an attack. Don't give them an identity then say it is problematic. Give an alternative identity then describe a problematic identity, then they will avoid it naturally. Whiteness was of course manufactured during european colonial Era, but it's kept alive by alt right and left discourse that tells random indifferent white people that they have a magic bond with like people from Romania or any other random white person, rather than their literal neighbors.
I appreciate your comment, as it reflects a good bit on my own experience. Growing up in as a mixed-race member of an otherwise white family, there's a good deal of those three reactions and a weird sort of conditional insulation.
Also, on a related note, when the video spoke on how misogyny is the prototype for other forms of bigotry, it was a bit of a gut-punch, as it made me realize ways I've been oblivious to being born with male privilege in spite of my "otherness" and how I've had my own biases to recognize within that, among other things I need to be more sensitive to.
This was easily one of the best videos in the series
@@buckmoonmedia5113 that's exactly my situation! It's tough
“We’re not attacking you.” Honestly I think this is the crux of the matter. I think a lot of white people get defensive when the possibility of their own racial bias gets brought up, even if they are aware that they aren’t perfect and it’s something they need to work on, because they don’t want to think of themselves as a bad person. Nobody wants to think like that. Before somebody mentions the possibility of their racial bias, it’s a personal issue they work on day by day. But when it’s brought up to them, they perceive it as essentially being called a racist even if that isn’t the intention by the other party. I think having the idea of racism being tied to Klansman makes people less willing to acknowledge their own racial bias because they don’t like they idea of being as bad as them. It’s a pretty messed up situation all around.
@@Pikaman20008 Yeah, my favourite fact in talks about racism, is when anti-racists coined the terms white fragility and white defensiveness white people got fragile and defensive as soon as they interacted with it
I think you're pronouncing "Latino" wrong??
1:48 Just want to point out there provocateurs are not above directly paying protesters to show up to "protest them" to end up to the same place they wanted to get to in the first place. Both consent and disconsent can be easily manufactured. And once it all said and done, nobody will care about the allegations and proof that he simply engineered a protest against him to build clout, he's already won by being on tucker.
This was largely a depressing video, but arguably the most important one in the series.
It used to be, but now it's terrifying. We were approaching fascist rhetoric with the previous videos years ago. We are now almost guaranteed to become a fascist state unless Biden grows a fucking spine or a few big blue states start pulling federal funding and balkanize.