I was willing to get fired because I refused “mandatory” CRT training at work after the Floyd fiasco. I didn’t budge an inch. I even refused to talk to HR about it. I said it’s unreasonable to be required to talk about that subject at work. A few days later, they sent a company wide email saying the training was suspended. Unfortunately most employees were already forced into it, but at least it’s not a recurring training, and I stood my ground 💪
the COO of my company asked to meet with me (during black history month) to get my take on DEI with respect to black employees (im black and he probably thought i would parrot the talking points of the also black VP of diversity inclusion & belonging). i spent 30 minutes insisting that the number one thing they could do is to stop focusing on race and keep the organization as meritocratic as possible and that the worst thing they could do is start creating race based resource groups and shit like that
Did they follow your advice? Good on you for standing up. My favorite part about defending my beliefs is when I get called racist because I get to ask them, “How many children of a different race did your family adopt?” Keep fighting the good fight.
@@brainchildguru thanks for the support. They haven't done anything yet so either it was just for show and there's no real operational will there (most likely), or they actually looked at the situation and decided the inherent risks far outweighed some intangible ideological benefit.
or worse, get brainwashed into CRT and help bring about a revolution, which will lead to mass murder, famine, war, and poverty, since they have no plan and they're very purgey and there's precedent of marxist thinkers doing that every time they get power. Literally every time communist party takes over they ban every other party, then become totalitarian, corrupt, and poor.
As much as I hate it, the anti woke must become part of the system and subvert it from with in. Small government conservatism is no longer possible and we have to take control of the system. The only other recourse is force
Racism has always been part America history, whether it was racism against Blacks, Brown, Irish, Italian, Catholics, etc. - we can't ignore it. We certainly still see it today still in American society.
I was a whistleblower and survived months of harassment, struggle sessions and abuse. Not only should you resist, better yet: stay solid in your ground. Even if they try to push you around, and it will affect you in some way, you have your anchor that brings you back to your solid ground. This is Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha. Resistance is a bad word for it because it encourages people to actually GIVE UP their ground, by shifting their focus to fighting the people/forces coming at you. But you can put ALL of your focus into your roots in the ground, like a tree in a storm. As part of this, when they try to pathologize your reactions, you let it pass by you. It's gaslighting. It's exactly what Robin DiAngelo does when she says "weaponizing white women's tears". There are real situations where pathological and abusive people cry to manipulate others. But when they make such accusations against innocent people, the accusers are the abusers. When someone tells you there is something WRONG with your emotions and your experience, and your pain for being abused, you remember: the accusers are the abusers here. This is why is it NOT about getting caught in a fight, but putting everything into your roots in the ground.
Never apologise, if they make accusations, smile, shrug and say "okay" and ignore them. File lawsuits alledging hostile work environment, wrongful termination, harassment, name all parties, drag them through the mud. All communication must be in writing or recorded. Never apologize. Sue their asses. Demand a leave of absence with pay while it gets hashed out in the courts. Wait for your payday. They got nothing.
@@leslielandberg5620 Congratulations your comment is now the ur-example of white fragility. Afraid this will only last a week or two before one of you posts something even more unthinkingly privileged but enjoy it while it lasts.
@@piershartley8676 I was a whistleblower for two different organizations that had quite different processes. The one I'm referencing in this comment is summarized here: 1) summary - public letter ruclips.net/video/pdeRImi_8HI/видео.html 2) evidence ruclips.net/video/E37_xZAF7a4/видео.html My friends in the network were heavily targeted until they went silent and hid. I'm now mostly ostracized from the network. But it was a toxic and cult-level environment, not at all worth saving. If they were that disrespectful to basic human boundaries, they have no business working with at-risk youth or being in the youth EMPOWERMENT industry at all. They are COMPLETELY the OPPOSITE of what they should be and it is disgusting.
@@piershartley8676 Can you elaborate more? If you're trying to make a judgment on whether or not I was a whistleblower, this is a report I made against the other organization, which I presented to a govt board for abuse against vulnerable adults after gathering months of evidence: ruclips.net/video/xur_tzssOUA/видео.html The situations have some similarities but also differences in how they manifested. Otherwise I don't know what you mean or why you think I'm not a whistleblower. You also seem to disagree with my actions, so I'm curious about what your perspective is.
This has been the clearest and thus the most shareable of your series. I am very grateful. I'm entering into lions den by going to law school this coming fall. Thankfully I'm very well rooted and I've had the time to prepare by studying this religiously. You have been a vital component of that.
I am a therapist in a psychiatric clinic. And I really want to emphasize how much this advice, how to deal with this issue on a political scale, has similarities to the topics I dealt with patients today. Know what you are talking about. Take a stand. Dont be afraid to speak the truth. Be the one who creates change in a system. It may be difficult to do the right thing, but damn, its a relief. And you wont be isolated. You will get allies! Good luck and endurance.
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worse? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
@@wademitchell3817 And that might be a shame from your point of view. And if I see clear racism in front of me, I will stand by you should by shoulder to fight it. I will totally take/give a punch for another person. I have enough trust in the society I live in, to recognize these situations, and in my life experience, my societey/peers NEVER let me or someone else down, when it came to plain old racism/sexism/...ism. I am from germany. I am scared of the subtle toxins, that make a few good men to monsters.
The road to Rome was littler with men crucified .. Not to mention Christ.. First World War second world war .. Their world war..?... Socialist so called free worlds.. My point, how far is a man or woman willing to go, for the greater good of man kind..? .. When thought out history it's repetitive and yes, real loneliness of oppressive behaviour exist..
@@tbaumitski Sir, I respect a lot of your sentiment. However, if you take racism as serious as you eloquently stated, the way these CRT laws have been pushed and misrepresented cannot sit well with you. Any movement based on deception can’t have pure motives. For instance this Marxism tie is a complete fabrication. The presenter with the math degree keeps harping this yet he conveniently leave out the influence of the civil right movement, Christianity, the constitution and school desegregation on the Brilliant Black scholars who championed CRT to fight system racism while preserving the system.
White privilege has been taught here in Scotland for years no one believed me till you started shinning light on the subject. Thank you for your hard work.
@@claridjent4316 he went over any reputable source on CRT in the previous lectures. it's like you people don't even watch these you just come here to lie and leave.
@@claridjent4316 ah, the expected attempt to drain opponents of epistemological and moral authority. So then, where has he strayed from the texts? Because I've checked out many quotes in many videos, they've always turned out correct. Give one quote from James that is incorrect.
James sold himself short throughout these segments on how helpful this last segment would be. These perspectives and concepts for resisting the woke ideaology in society were simple, but they needed to be said and I find myself invigorated. Thanks sir Lindsay.
Yeh I wish someone could take these talks. And make a 40-60 min summary or introduction that parents can easily watch. This is just too complex for the public. We gotta simplify the truth of what is going on. Or it will just end up as anyone who disagrees with CRT looking like the bad guy..or some sort of extreme conservative
@@claudeyaz definitely, not sure how you would go about explaining something like this simply. I've been explaining the Hegelian dialectic by saying its basically 8 year olds making up their own secret language and mocking those that don't understand
@@jadentinkcom2964 Perhaps using more summary ahnd less details? For example, mentioning mainly the philosophers names ahnd what concepts ahnd principles they developed, ahnd how they chronologically led up to today. I'm imagining that bit could be summarized in 2 minutes or so, in which a 5-10 minute video could be made by summarizing the rest of the information asvwell.
My woke breaking point was a New Media course at university where we were studying, you guessed it, Critical Theory. I remember it very clearly because it was such a shock to my system. The professor put up an ad from a magazine in the 1950s. The advertisement was for tampons. The professor asked us to analyze the wording of the tampon ad and explain all the different ways that the ad was sexist. My mind could not get past this one, single thought: "How is that ad supposed to be sexist if only women buy tampons?" After that, I couldn't take any of the readings or lessons in the class seriously.
Wait you couldn't do this sub A-level bit of textual analysis at university and you think it's an evil conspiracy rather then you being a bit of a prat?
@@piershartley8676 Can’t you see it for what it is? They begin with the conclusion and force students to agree in order to participate. You likely haven't recognised this as a problem because you share the tutor’s philosophy. To make it easier for you to understand, imagine you’re a student in 1930s Germany, and your tutor hands you an advert for a Jewish owned business. You're told to write about all the ways it demonstrates that Jews are greedy. Of course, you don’t believe Jews are greedy. But the tutor does and so do your classmates. Naziism is widely supported in universities, and your student union has been burning books with Jewish authors and themes. Will you be brave enough to stand alone against your peers, tutors and administration? Will you have the guts to make it known, by your refusal to participate, that you’re not fully on board? Or wouldn't it just be easier to answer the question? After all, it’s only “sub A-level textual analysis”. Perhaps you now appreciate the issue faced by students today-those who don’t believe whiteness is a terrible problem, or that racism manifests in every interaction, or that women should have to share changing rooms with biological men who self-id. Schools and universities are forcing students to submit to an ideology instead of allowing them to analyse the facts, freely and honestly, in order to reach their own conclusions.
Sadly, it's the last one. For this particular workshop. But yeah... these were fucking amazing! I could listen to 5 more, expanding on these ideas. Thankfully, we still have the New Discourses Podcast.
What can individuals do to avoid being grouped by class or race or gender? 1. Understand critical theory. 2. Don't participate in it. 3. Resist it. 4. Make it cringe worthy. 5. Agree with people who resist it, and support them so we can all be individuals. Only individuals have a conscience. Conscience is a higher authority than dogma. 6. Have objective standards of merit, competence, responsibility and accountability, regardless of group identity, class, race, gender, intersectionality or positionality. Don't make it about class or race or gender; that especially is what individuals need to resist. 7. Encourage people who are fearful. Encourage common sensibility. Sensibility is the ability to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences. Appreciate and respond. Don't be silent. They say "silence is violence." Don't be violent. Don't be silent. Appreciate and respond.
@@RJL612 No sir I'm self-deprecatingly misinterpretatin' rule #4 as a justification for my own lulz-generating content, although to be fair there is a grain of truth to it. I see that (rule #4, specifically) and think to myself "Well hey now that's exactly what I do!" But is it though? No, not exactly. Similar though. I'm not a damn commie dammit is all I'm sayin.
Even as I watch this, YT has placed the following advertisement at the top, right-hand side of the page: “Prioritizing Equity: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” from the American Medical Association. A “discussion on critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity.” Guess I better get involved…huh? By-the-way, our healthcare institution has sneakily begun a meeting of the woke minds with our new Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion directors.
47:02 "I don't like that I live in this, that I have to do this." James's Frodo moment. “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Mr. Lindsay does a good job of explaining what the root problems are, which is refreshing. I particularly liked how he framed the response to the CRT issue as a strategic plan to adopt a narrower interpretation of "discrimination" legally and culturally, and to make sure "discrimination" applies to everyone in an equal and colorblind fashion.
The department of DEI at work is very sneaky and has some terrible resources for employees listed. I don't think anyone looks into it at all and the two people in charge seem a little nuts by their selections or required reading.
You know what's sad is that I had a couple friends who used to be completely normal, but they were going through a teaching credential program at university. When they came out the other side they became full-on socialists, and it was just a jarring transformation. I have no doubt that these teaching programs are what is contributing to the indoctrination of people who want to go into teaching
I left a job because they tried to enforce compelled speech relative to race. The company cared about their ESG scores and clearly stated that they only hire people based on their race and diversity, not their skills. I refused to work for such a company. I have been fighting this at school board meetings for the last two years. The EWSD school board intimidated, and humiliated all voices that stood up against this ideology.
Amazing... I knew this, i just didn't know i knew it! Now the fog has cleared. I know WHO is behind this cancer. I now have the tools to debate anyone. Thank you very much.
You go "They act different" And the woke go "because of your culture oppressing them and making them that way. It's internalized white supremacy" And then you have no answers.
Like, you can't explain why they act different, without admitting that wokeness is right to try and change everything about society, because your explanation for why they act differently, is society. So all you can do is whine "But but but, I don't wanna be discriminated against" and they'll just go "of course you wanna keep your white male privilege. Nobody cares what you want. Shut up with your white tears." You will lose this argument 100% of the time, because you don't have an explanation, except their explanation.
I was in college in the late 60s. I was from a family that valued learning, history, current events, Biblical knowledge, ideological knowledge etc. I've seen this coming since my children's' school years and my children are 51, 52 and 54. I've been speaking up, all along. I've been laughed at, ignored, called paranoid and a conspiracy theorist. Now my son discovered your videos and he is saying, "Mom, this is what you've been saying for so long!" He isn't laughing anymore; neither are my daughters. I have shared with them. You articulate it so much better than I have. I have stuck to my guns no matter what. It has cost me three of my grandchildren, totally; oneoff whom verbally ripped me to shreds, nd three more still love me and show me respect but they don't agree with me. And I can tell they are humoring me (and my son, their father). Their mother has done a 180° and enthusiastically threw away all her previous beliefs and endorses all these trends, which influences my two granddaughters. This daughter-in-law has left her family behind and moved out of state, though she and my son are still legally married. She decided she "wasted her time", her life, being a stay at home mon, raising her girls; she should have been doing something important: making money, working, climbing the ladder. Now my son is, basically, a single parent and acing it; he's lovingly taking on all the subjects you are speaking on and I warned about for decades. Yes, standing against these dangerous ideological traps and pitfalls can cost dearly, but knuckling under is selling your soul Thank you for all your efforts to enlighten!
This remind me so much of leaving a narcissistic relationship. The false, shapeshifting and predatory non-self of the narc mimicing empathy and engendering trust when the motives are dark and exploitive, ultimately to the destruction of the victims self. Its always in the shadows, the abuser has a facade of morality and respectability. I believe the whole unveiling of these shadow creatures and operations is across all human realms. Witness Amber Heard trial. Ultimately I believe we need to go "grey rock" and GOTO. But they won't let us go. Parasites need a host.
I quit my job over this. When my managers, who decide raises and promotions, are telling me I am privileged for being whyte and allowing divisive issues into a work place then it becomes an issue working for them.
This is awesome stuff. One thing that struck me during the lecture was Lindsay's statement. "There's a difference between a pluralistic "e Pluribus Unum" society and a "multicultural" fragmented society." This is so very true. Pluralism says, "We're basically the same because we're people, but we have differences." On the other hand, multiculturalism or intersectionality says, "We're basically very different, though we might have similarities because we're people." We need to realize that the culture of pluralism will elevate people because it focuses on real unity, while the culture of intersectionality denigrates people because it focuses on differences, perceived or real.
Multicultural is considered Right Wing because it doesn't contain enough blaming, resentment, and hostility. Intersectionality is the Social Theory of layered oppression and privilege, being reversed by force.
That's cause pluralism wasn't true. And the people positioned to realize pluralism isn't true, are the people with grievances that can't be explained by pluralism. "We're all basically the same because we're people" "Than how come my race lives in slums? How come I don't know anybody with a dad? How come all my cousins have been to prison?" "Than how come my sex doesn't have as many CEOs? Why doesn't my sex make an equal amount of money? Why aren't half the lawmakers from my sex?" And you can't answer, because you can't go "Well, it's how they act" because then you wouldn't believe "We're all basically the same because we're all people." So your only explanation can be "Well, it's cultural. It's how they act because it's how society has trained them to act." But if we're all fundamentally the same, that means that the cultural factors are just a deeper level of discrimination. So, you're just broadening the wokeness. You're just telling them "Yeah, you're right that this institution is racist and sexist, but that's only because our entire society is racist and sexist."
And unless you can accept that pluralism isn't true. That the sexes aren't the same. (Equal) That the races aren't the same. (Equal) Your only argument against woke is "But I don't wanna get discriminated against" and that's just "white tears".
And Lindsey would call me a "reactionary" as if I'm just going "if you're gonna be sexist and racist against me, I'm gonna be sexist and racist back against you." But that's ridiculous. Sexism and racism were just observations obvious to everyone. "obviously men are different than women and my tribe is different than our neighboring tribe". They're not reactionary. They're literally as old as humanity. There's literally no social institution they could be a reaction to, because when we were literal fuckin pre-human apes, men and women had different roles, and your troop of chimp-things, would fight and eat neighboring troops of chimp-things. Xenophobia (racism) and sexism, are literally older than humanity. They're not a reaction to anything except basic reality.
Watched/Listened to all 5 talks in this series. I can say without question that I am miles down the road in understanding than when I clicked play on session 1! Thanks James for being THE Leading Voice in opposition to Marxism in our culture and CRT as a subsidiary of Critical Theory/Marxism.
James, re your comment at 15:00 in about Univ level CRT dismissal. Please KNOW BOTH FIRE & ADF [Alliance Defending Freedom] ACTIVELY litigate professors ' cases.... FYI! As GAD SAAD says, your call here is for everyone in your audience to ACTIVATE YOUR INNER HONEY BADGER.....
15:18 That's literally what I've been telling people for fucking _years_ , that civil rights case law has turned the Civil Rights Act into a weapon against anyone who is straight, white, or male. I have _told people_ that _the Civil Rights Act does not apply to you, it does not protect you_ , and they've looked me square in the fucking face and said 'yes it does.' Lindsay I'm going to say something bold here that you're probably not going to agree with, but the problem isn't the jurisprudence, the problem is the fucking law. Alexander Hamilton, at the founding of this country, was extraordinarily critical of documents that proclaimed protecting and honor of specific rights of the people for one real reason; anything _not_ covered in that document would implicitly be seen as not protected, and that exact lack of vision was what motivated the arguments for the necessity of such an act. At the time he was talking about the bill of rights, but it applies just as much to the civil rights act as it does to the bill of rights, and his same argument for why we should _only_ be using the US Constitution, and seeing it as a statement by the people "that they retain all rights for themselves" (Hamilton 84), is the exact argument for why we _shouldn't_ have a civil rights act. It's enough to argue from the US Constitution, and if we _don't_ argue from the US Constitution, we ourselves vitiate its power to do what it was supposed to do, restrain the state. That's another reason _why_ they said they needed it, because acknowledging the need for such a law is tantamount to admitting that the US Constitution _doesn't do_ what Hamilton explicitly said it does, and that's what they _want_ . They want to throw out the US Constitution altogether, which is why they invoke the stain of slavery whenever someone brings up the vision of the founding fathers. Unironically, _repeal the Civil Rights Act_ , and while we're at it, repeal both the draft and the 19th amendment.
I got up and walked out of my company's DEI training yesterday. The instant the three magic words were uttered. I find out what the consequences are in a couple of hours.
racial based quotas which leave every white and asian as second class citizens and leave them with very little or no jobns forcing them to turn to crime and that will reuslt in whoever discriminates whites and asians being persecuted and killed
I'm planning to go undercover at my kids' school board as a wokist, after watching James Lindsay's videos for two day i have an idea of how to approach it and the language i need to use. I'll need to prepare more though.
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worst? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
The Russian federal law "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values," also referred to in English-language media as the gay propaganda law[1] and the anti-gay law,[2][3][4][5] is a bill that was unanimously approved by the State Duma on 11 June 2013 (with just one MP abstaining-Ilya Ponomarev),[4] and was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on 30 June 2013.[3] The Russian government's stated purpose for the law is to protect children from being exposed to homosexuality-content presenting homosexuality as being a norm in society-under the argument that it contradicts traditional family values. The statute amended the country's child protection law and the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses, to prohibit the distribution of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships" among minors. This definition includes materials that "raises interest in" such relationships, cause minors to "form non-traditional sexual predispositions", or "[present] distorted ideas about the equal social value of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships." Businesses and organizations can also be forced to temporarily cease operations if convicted under the law, and foreigners may be arrested and detained for up to 15 days then deported, or fined up to 5,000 rubles and deported. i'l take that over unicorn degenerates with a freedom of speech any day
Bring back liberal humanism and what CRT call “colorblindness”. Bring back catch phrases from the original civil rights movements and the old school ideas of MLK and even later post Mecca Malcolm X. Make them see their contradictions
I think what we can do about CRT is to call it antiwhite and implement the lexicon and dialectic tools of the Go Free method to dispel the antiwhite lies around us.
@@__loafy__ It's not 'snake oil' you liar. The Go Free method is a proven tactic of language and it's both ethical and logical. I've been winning with it for 2 years now, it works like no other approach out there.
itll treat whites and asians as seocnd class citizens leaving them very few or no jobs forcing whites and asians to turn to crime and that will reuslt in anyone who discirminates whites and asians being persecuted and killed and lite the fuse for a anti woke, anti left, anti marxist, anti communist, anti socialist revolution
It's a blessing I found your teachings! I keep finding more proof that CRT is still being taught in NH even though a law was passed banning the teaching of that idea. Teacher unions, labor unions, contractors, school districts and more seem to have found loopholes, or change names around to have all these entities on the same page to spread this virus or cancer to students, teachers and all who do business with them.
And vote for candidates who are going to protect your rights, parents, to see everything in your kids' schools - all books from the classrooms and the library, all video media, everything. That would mean supporting the likes of Ron DeSantis because HE WANTS YOU PARENTS TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE SCHOOLS.
_in response to the question posed, I say: read _*_A Course In Miracles_*_ -- become a student of such. I say this not as some kind of a zealot, but because this text, on its own terms and out of its own presuppositions, is literally the diametrical opposite of critical race theory, philosophically speaking. You can come to this conclusion yourself. It has a famous Author._ _great work as always James. We treasure the wisdom you share. Thanks for your hard work!_
James, I have some thoughts, in case you read comments: first, can we build this movement by recruiting blacks and other minorities? Will they speak out or are they afraid of having their "black cards" pulled? Also, teachers and college students: can they be rallied into a movement of public resistance, or are they also too weak to resist? We've seen how the women's swim team members say nothing while allowing a man to take all their trophies. We've seen how most nurses, doctors and researchers said nothing when mass murder was being committed in the name of science during COVID. Are people just too morally weak to band together or to speak out? Second: can we bring lawsuits against teachers unions, school boards, USD's, individual teachers? Would these suits fall under compelled speech and claim various harms? I think you suggested that and it is a great idea. One of these cases could make it up to the Supreme Court, so they are important cases to bring. I particularly enjoy the thought of many separate actions. The term "death by a thousand paper cuts" comes to mind. Plus, have you ever tried to fight against a swarm of insects or fought off a school of hungry pirhana fish? Just taking the actions in this manner could send these cretins heading for the hills, or folding like a house of cards. Nice thought. LMK if you agree with this tactic. Third point: can we prove that China is behind most of this too and has been pushing it here for over 15 years? There's a ton of leaky dark money flooding our institutions of higher learning, our politicians' war chests, our scientific communities. Clearly, CRT is a special project of Beijing, to weaken and potentially bring down the US from within. Can we prove this and will it help if we do? Finally, since our media has been overtaken by globalists who push CRT for their own, profit driven, reasons (unstable economies are ripe for grifting) who can we turn to in our efforts to promote our cause? The disinfo regarding CRT from the MSM is everywhere. The gaslighting is blinding and most people don't seem to have the moral fortitude or critical thinking skills to think for themselves.
Another thing to do is Make Fun of them. They invite abuse, be polite and offer it. When you see an article, video, someone saying we need to separate children into affinity groups, point out the KKK has been saying this for 160+ years. Be Snarky, Sarcastic. "I'm wondering, are you normally this ignorant, or are you making a special effort today?"
FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam. SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam? SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
Ech... some days like today I'm just over it. Have a community info meeting tonight because the school district refused to have a follow up to their DIE instruction declaration. "Peaceful protests" on placards are planned by PFLAG(🏳️🌈).. protesting speaker Duke Pesta. James.. thank you for all you do!. (come back to Wisconsin soon)
Recently discovered your channel. Maybe via J Peterson. Watched this 5 part series. Very well done. Clearly explained. Think the history of CRT was very important. Your statement: it is what it does; was very helpful in fully understanding what is afoot on the far Left. Was reminded of some of the crazy interviews during What Is A Woman film. That weird 'thinking' was shocking at the time. Apparently sane ppl, divorced from reality. This series will help many ppl understand what is going on across our country. Many thanks.
Isolate and expose the people who teach the teachers - the University types - so this is you James and other academics - STAND UP > DEBATE > WRITE and argue the content of their journals and destroy their arguments.
Just watched this final lecture last night. I thought it was apt that the first scripture reading this morning was the story of Abraham going to Sodom to look for righteous people and negotiating with God. "If I can find 50 righteous people, will you destroy it? "No" "How about 45?" "No" 40? 30? 20? 10? "No". Unfortunately, we know how that turned out. But the fact that we're still here means that as long as there’s a tiny remnant of people like James and some of us, there's still hope. Think about what a small handful of leftists, communists and bad, non-Thomistic philosophers brought us to this point and what a tiny, handful of Enlightenment, liberal thinkers like James it will take to salvage things and turn things around.
I've never worn a mask (I'm exempt and have a pass to show to people) and I've never been injected for the coof. I'm fine. I left an important appointment the other day when they tried to force me to wear a mask during it. I said no and I left. Don't compromise. Have courage. Have faith. Thank you James.
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worst? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
*“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson* Was Emerson Woke?
I knew it went too far when even other gay people started telling me it had gone too far. I had thought so for quite a while, but I was afraid to say anything because I thought people might think I was crazy and I was imagining things. But as it turns out I wasn't.
Answered In a few lines: Organize those of like-minds in your communities. Arm each member. Show yourselves loudly and often. Don't be afraid to 'occupy' your own streets. The police don't want a war.
James, I'm very curious as to how you think you can defend liberalism, or even liberty, at this point. Anywhere there is liberty, the people will eventually _choose_ authoritarianism. Only a minority of people will choose liberty, because frankly, only a minority of people are cut out for liberty, and that minority must always eventually shed the blood of the majority in order to secure that liberty, and that is only just another form of authoritarianism, specifically, the minority exercising force against the majority because they can't overwhelm them with domestic politics. There is absolutely no escaping the use of force, and I'm not talking about all forms of loose or soft force in the _Starship Troopers_ sense of voting, I mean there is no getting away from the fact that we are going to have to do grievous bodily harm to our ideological opponents if we want to continue to be left alone. I won't go into detail, but in the state I live in, certain people have already done very, very extreme things to L&I agents in order to retain the basic freedom to own and operate a diner, the kinds of things that would probably disgust you and make you think the reactionaries are getting too involved, but people had the opportunity to find their own meaning, thanks to liberalism, and instead of doing that, people embraced nihilism because they weren't cut out to find their own meaning. They weren't capable of it. They _needed_ someone to tell them how and what to feel. Liberalism leads to tyranny of the majority, every time, and the only way out of that is a drastically authoritarian use of force and tyranny of the minority against the majority. You people finally realized there was a fucking fight going on for the soul of this nation, 40 years after it had been lost. I started off as a liberal, of the classical variety, and by 2014 I had become a staunch constitutional conservative and a civic nationalist. Now, I've come to the place where I hate this vile country and the majority of the people in it, because it little resembles what Thomas Jefferson envisioned, and most of its 'citizens' act like stupid, mooing subjects. Ironically, the thing that was meant to ensure our freedom the most, democracy and voting, has been the single biggest source of laws that constrain the freedom of the people since we were under monarchy. In fact, people under monarchy had _fewer_ restrictions on how they were allowed to live their lives than we do in America now. Democracy was supposed to be a mechanism to defend liberty, but it has instead been the mechanism by which liberty was murdered. This is _exactly_ what the founding fathers were afraid of, and why they framed the US Constitution as a means of controlling government, not freeing the people, because the people were already free by nature. After all you've said, all you've witnessed, and you still have the balls to talk about 'reactionaries' like they're the fucking problem. Ha. If only; not even going full reactionary is enough to save our society now. It's over. It's done. They 'fortified' the 2020 general election, people stayed inside and wore face diapers because they were told, they put an experimental medical concoction into their bodies because they were told to, despite the companies who made those concoctions being immune from lawsuits related to said concoction, despite said companies being unwilling to release the data, despite said companies lying and using the EUA versions of the concoctions which are _not_ chemically similar to what went through their abridged trials. We're about to confirm a judge who is known for protecting ch*ld p*rn producers and distributors. Even if the election wasn't 'fortified,' an overwhelming number of Americans legitimately voted for a senile old man at the head of an insane party because the other guy was a meanie-head. Tell me, what does _any of that_ have to do with critical race theory, or identity-based grievances? I know from _experience_ , that courage is _not_ contagious. Sorry to doom so fucking hard on all of you, but I have stood up, _multiple times_ , in university class rooms, at my old job, and vociferously resisted this bullshit in ways and degrees that most of you would be shocked by and likely unwilling to follow even if someone lead the way. I called teachers insane, to their faces, when my degree depended on their good mood. I told the CEO of the company that I worked for, to his face, in front of God and everybody, that he was wrong and that the concoction was actually dangerous, and I brought the medical studies from mainstream medical science journals that proved it. In _every_ case, guess how many of my peers followed me? _Zero_ . Even good, close friends, people whom I had backed in the past, bitched out at the eleventh hour despite their tough talk. These are just two examples; I have many, many more experiences like this to draw from. And you know what? Most of you who find this comment and read it, _you_ will bitch out too, because you're not cut out for liberty. You are not the exception, you are the rule. You're too afraid to stare down an armed cop, and let them know that if they try anything you will end them and their friends where they stand. 'Oh, look at the internet tough-guy keyboard warrior!' I'm well aware of what I sound like, I don't care because I'm telling the truth. Your cynicism, your apathy, and your weakness only convince me you're part of the fucking problem, just people who won't stand up and do their civic duty that was continually required of all of us so that we wouldn't end up in this fucking mess we're in. Women had the responsibility of informing themselves and voting to protect liberty when they go the vote, but the first thing they did was enact ridiculous authoritarian policies, under the banner of being 'caring.' Men traded their humanity and self-respect away in exchange for a tiny piece of political power so diluted that it didn't mean anything anymore, and then they stopped caring about even that. And then you fuckers have the nerve to say of Biden, 'not my president!' like they did with Trump. Well, I don't see any of you throwing the illegitimate puppet-dictator out, and I sure as shit am not going to do it for you, because I'm done sacrificing when no one else will, unless you all pledge to stand at my back, armed, and target whatever I target. Then I will go. Any takers? Yeah I thought not.
@@cosettapessa6417 I'm just going to quote myself in response to this; "James, I'm very curious as to how you think you can defend liberalism, or even liberty, at this point." Everything I've said applies to libertarianism as it does to liberalism. So many people were totally incapable of functioning as free people, and in fact, proved that they are an active threat to people who _do_ exercise their own freedom, who do just want to be left alone. Most people are not happy or even really capable of being free; they're only functional when they're hurting or tyrannizing others.
Liberalism (even classical liberalism) does not have effective countermeasures to "woke" because, we WERE classically liberal and well, here we are... Meritocracy is not an effective countermeasure, because we WERE meritocratic, and here we are. A neutral and impartially applied law is not an effective countermeasure because we HAD a neutral and impartially applied law and here we are. The root of the problem is that liberal universalism compels liberal universalists to extend rights and privileges to "wokesters" (like free speech, equal opportunity, etc) that wokesters will use to organize and advance whenever they are able but will NEVER reciprocate back to liberals or anyone else when they inevitably achieve positions of power (because equal opportunity, or because some of them DO have some merit, narrowly defined, outside of being a race hustler or whatever.) This is an asymmetry that they can continuously and incrementally exploit to widen their bailey, fortify their motte (to use an analogy from this series) and continue driving the speer deeper and deeper into the heart of western civilization. The ONLY way to stop woke, at the end of the day, is to ruthlessly and vigorously suppress it as aggressively, (more aggressively) than it suppresses "unwoke" whenever it has the chance. But that's a rubicon the liberal will never be willing to cross. It will take a fundamentally illiberal counterrevolution to finally oppose the woke, leftist, cultural revolution we are currently undergoing, or it will just expend itself, after expending everything else of value, and then collapse because the parasites have consumed all the hosts. I think liberalism is probably too deeply ingrained in the fabric of America to meaningfully end. So I think we're probably going to have to give the vast majority space to be liberal, but we're also going to have to give them constraints. "You can be liberal, but only within THESE limits." And then we vigorously step in to uproot and tear out wokish weeds by the roots whenever they start establishing themselves in the liberal, American, garden... Liberal America is the Garden. Woke are the weeds. But America still needs gardeners, or it'll just get overrun and choked out by the weeds. That's the task ahead of us, to install ourselves as the gardeners, so that all the naive, clueless, nice little liberals, can continue to enjoy a nice, liberal, America for as long as it takes them to grow up, if they ever do. I don't think there is any prospect, really, in the near to medium term, of ever getting them to be anything else, or want anything else. But maybe over a long enough time, there could be...
@@eliharman "Liberalism (even classical liberalism) does not have effective countermeasures to "woke" because, we WERE classically liberal and well, here we are... Meritocracy is not an effective countermeasure, because we WERE meritocratic, and here we are. A neutral and impartially applied law is not an effective countermeasure because we HAD a neutral and impartially applied law and here we are. The root of the problem is that liberal universalism compels liberal universalists to extend rights and privileges to "wokesters" (like free speech, equal opportunity, etc) that wokesters will use to organize and advance whenever they are able but will NEVER reciprocate back to liberals or anyone else when they inevitably achieve positions of power (because equal opportunity, or because some of them DO have some merit, narrowly defined, outside of being a race hustler or whatever.)" Everything here is accurate except for one thing, arguably the most critical thing; 'wokester' is a euphemism, likely an unintentional one but a euphemism nonetheless. Call these people what they are. Name them. Call them communists. "That's the task ahead of us, to install ourselves as the gardeners, so that all the naive, clueless, nice little liberals, can continue to enjoy a nice, liberal, America for as long as it takes them to grow up, if they ever do. I don't think there is any prospect, really, in the near to medium term, of ever getting them to be anything else, or want anything else. But maybe over a long enough time, there could be..." At this point, I think the best thing we can do is arm ourselves and disappear into the mountains, and wait. Eventually all of this will collapse, and when it does, we will need to restore order, and quickly.
I'm a felon facing 400 years in prison for keeping my guns in Illinois after the first of the year. 90% of gun owners in my state are with me. The police bitched out first. So I live under the sword of Damocles. My life is forfeit whenever they get the balls to trade a couple officers for me. I'm already a dead man walking. I have nothing to lose. So lead away. I'm at your back.
Big problem! Where's the site compiling documented grade school abuses via CRT? Every dull lefty I encounter repeats the talking point "It doesn't exist" They love a distinction without a difference.
Blasphemy. Heresy is being from a different denomination. But, I guess that actually makes more sense for liberals, since liberalism and wokeness are just different stages of the same anti-reality disease.
All those poor women who didn't know they should be miserable and hate their husband and sons. All those clean safe neighborhoods full of law abiding hard working whites. What a tragedy.
"Take those steps, encourage a common sensibility, have the courage to talk to other people, have the courage to speak up, show up and _fight back_ ." *"You must resist. That's how you stop Critical Race Theory."*
What I'm missing is a cohesive conter narrative to present the normies with. I think that would catch on better than talking about how bad CRT and wokeness etc. is and fighting against it. Is there a philosophical counterpart to Marx and the Frankfurt School? I favor the Austrian School with Hayek and Mises, but they are more economists than philosophers...
There is, but you're not gonna like it. Who killed 27 million communists in the 20th century, while the liberals fought beside the communists? Yeah. Them.
"Eugenics used to be considered a progressive idea, because the idea was to literally accelerate human evolutionary progress. But eventually we realized it was not a good idea (WWII), and we started coming up with other ideas that we thought would help mankind progress. Just as people should have been skeptical of progressive ideas 100 years ago, I am skeptical of progressive ideas now." This is approximately what I say to people in progressive environments where I am worried about the consequences of having alternative ideas. Best idea is to avoid specifics, and instead just let them marinate on it. If they start pressing, like "Even racial equality?!" I personally would go with "Especially 'racial equality'" with quote fingers. They ask what could possibly be wrong with that, I'd probably say something like, "considering that 'racial equality' is impossible, there is no single person alive that I'd ever trust with the tools needed to make the impossible a reality. There is no comprehensible boundary to how bad a person could fuck up with power like that."
Like, the first 3 streams were brilliant. Then this... It's like you haven't listened to your own work. "This is how wokeness takes over liberal institutions. Now, if we just put those liberal institutions back in place, then wokeness won't be able to subvert them." What? Why? You're just going "it'll work this time."
Here is a FUN way to fight it for ALL PARENTS, I have done this with my elementary school age boy... I gave him MY EXPRESSED PERMISSION TO LOUDLY EXCLAIM "I'm a woman with a penis!" at school WHENEVER gender nonsense is introduced. I explained the nonsense dogma to him. I also explained it is NOT O.K. to bully or tease someone for thinking or saying they are another gender, etc. I also showed him an email from his school looking for volunteers for a 'diversity committee' where, as part of the response, they asked my 'preferred pronouns', including the made up ones Ze/Zir, etc. and I MOCKED THAT, then started bouncing around his room rapping "I'm a woman with a PEE-NIS..." I look forward to any calls from his school where I can shame his principle for 'being exclusionary toward' (my son) who identifies as A WOMAN WITH A PEE NIS... He also was encouraged by me to embrace his identity as a meta-human with super powers at school with permission to be outspoken about it, including his own way he prefers to be referred to (I suggested 'boss of the principal', he indicated superman). Make them choke on this nonsense!
- Understand the enemy (why we're at N.D.). - Cultivate the virtue of courage. - Know yourself and be proud of your values - Spend time with like minded people so you know they have your back. Make alliances and your own conspiracy against these people - Now speak up, push back, say NO - Engage where you are now, fine if it's locally at your school, association, club, fine if it's higher up politically. Fine if it's just one on one
A group of my co-workers was discussing their fitness and weight loss regimens. I was considering complaining about fatphobia, telling them I feel unsafe and disempowered and invalidated as a a fat person, asking them to check their thin privilege. Just to try to peak somebody...
I was willing to get fired because I refused “mandatory” CRT training at work after the Floyd fiasco. I didn’t budge an inch. I even refused to talk to HR about it. I said it’s unreasonable to be required to talk about that subject at work. A few days later, they sent a company wide email saying the training was suspended. Unfortunately most employees were already forced into it, but at least it’s not a recurring training, and I stood my ground 💪
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Lets go brandon
Let's Go Brandon!
And that's how it's done. Nice work.
Good for you, it's absurd to be forced into such BS indoctrination.
the COO of my company asked to meet with me (during black history month) to get my take on DEI with respect to black employees (im black and he probably thought i would parrot the talking points of the also black VP of diversity inclusion & belonging). i spent 30 minutes insisting that the number one thing they could do is to stop focusing on race and keep the organization as meritocratic as possible and that the worst thing they could do is start creating race based resource groups and shit like that
Did they follow your advice? Good on you for standing up. My favorite part about defending my beliefs is when I get called racist because I get to ask them, “How many children of a different race did your family adopt?”
Keep fighting the good fight.
@@brainchildguru thanks for the support. They haven't done anything yet so either it was just for show and there's no real operational will there (most likely), or they actually looked at the situation and decided the inherent risks far outweighed some intangible ideological benefit.
right on. thank you.
If people pulled this shit on me, I would get a bunch of my black coworkers together and tear shit up in the meeting room. Just say No!
The only way forward is to call these businesses and people out on their race obsession. Good on you for standing your ground
"If I stand up, my children may suffer." They may, yes. But if you don't stand up, the certainly WILL suffer.
or worse, get brainwashed into CRT and help bring about a revolution, which will lead to mass murder, famine, war, and poverty, since they have no plan and they're very purgey and there's precedent of marxist thinkers doing that every time they get power.
Literally every time communist party takes over they ban every other party, then become totalitarian, corrupt, and poor.
Resist, sit strongly, tell the truth.
It's not much, but it's honest work.
As much as I hate it, the anti woke must become part of the system and subvert it from with in. Small government conservatism is no longer possible and we have to take control of the system. The only other recourse is force
Get guns and ammo because this commie garbage ain't ending well.
- Bosnian
Racism has always been part America history, whether it was racism against Blacks, Brown, Irish, Italian, Catholics, etc. - we can't ignore it. We certainly still see it today still in American society.
I was a whistleblower and survived months of harassment, struggle sessions and abuse. Not only should you resist, better yet: stay solid in your ground. Even if they try to push you around, and it will affect you in some way, you have your anchor that brings you back to your solid ground. This is Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha. Resistance is a bad word for it because it encourages people to actually GIVE UP their ground, by shifting their focus to fighting the people/forces coming at you. But you can put ALL of your focus into your roots in the ground, like a tree in a storm. As part of this, when they try to pathologize your reactions, you let it pass by you. It's gaslighting.
It's exactly what Robin DiAngelo does when she says "weaponizing white women's tears". There are real situations where pathological and abusive people cry to manipulate others. But when they make such accusations against innocent people, the accusers are the abusers. When someone tells you there is something WRONG with your emotions and your experience, and your pain for being abused, you remember: the accusers are the abusers here. This is why is it NOT about getting caught in a fight, but putting everything into your roots in the ground.
Who did you report your problems to? Which agency took an interest?
Never apologise, if they make accusations, smile, shrug and say "okay" and ignore them. File lawsuits alledging hostile work environment, wrongful termination, harassment, name all parties, drag them through the mud. All communication must be in writing or recorded. Never apologize. Sue their asses. Demand a leave of absence with pay while it gets hashed out in the courts. Wait for your payday. They got nothing.
@@leslielandberg5620 Congratulations your comment is now the ur-example of white fragility. Afraid this will only last a week or two before one of you posts something even more unthinkingly privileged but enjoy it while it lasts.
@@piershartley8676 I was a whistleblower for two different organizations that had quite different processes. The one I'm referencing in this comment is summarized here:
1) summary - public letter
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2) evidence
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My friends in the network were heavily targeted until they went silent and hid. I'm now mostly ostracized from the network. But it was a toxic and cult-level environment, not at all worth saving. If they were that disrespectful to basic human boundaries, they have no business working with at-risk youth or being in the youth EMPOWERMENT industry at all. They are COMPLETELY the OPPOSITE of what they should be and it is disgusting.
@@piershartley8676 Can you elaborate more? If you're trying to make a judgment on whether or not I was a whistleblower, this is a report I made against the other organization, which I presented to a govt board for abuse against vulnerable adults after gathering months of evidence:
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The situations have some similarities but also differences in how they manifested. Otherwise I don't know what you mean or why you think I'm not a whistleblower. You also seem to disagree with my actions, so I'm curious about what your perspective is.
This has been the clearest and thus the most shareable of your series. I am very grateful. I'm entering into lions den by going to law school this coming fall. Thankfully I'm very well rooted and I've had the time to prepare by studying this religiously. You have been a vital component of that.
I keep hearing this shit is in law schools. How the Fuck can that be true? The law rests on evidence, first and foremost.
@@leslielandberg5620 because of all the *evidence* lindsay...
we need more lawyers fighting against woke deceit
I am a therapist in a psychiatric clinic. And I really want to emphasize how much this advice, how to deal with this issue on a political scale, has similarities to the topics I dealt with patients today. Know what you are talking about. Take a stand. Dont be afraid to speak the truth. Be the one who creates change in a system. It may be difficult to do the right thing, but damn, its a relief. And you wont be isolated. You will get allies! Good luck and endurance.
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worse? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
@@wademitchell3817 And that might be a shame from your point of view. And if I see clear racism in front of me, I will stand by you should by shoulder to fight it. I will totally take/give a punch for another person. I have enough trust in the society I live in, to recognize these situations, and in my life experience, my societey/peers NEVER let me or someone else down, when it came to plain old racism/sexism/...ism. I am from germany. I am scared of the subtle toxins, that make a few good men to monsters.
The road to Rome was littler with men crucified .. Not to mention Christ.. First World War second world war .. Their world war..?... Socialist so called free worlds.. My point, how far is a man or woman willing to go, for the greater good of man kind..? .. When thought out history it's repetitive and yes, real loneliness of oppressive behaviour exist..
@@tbaumitski Sir, I respect a lot of your sentiment. However, if you take racism as serious as you eloquently stated, the way these CRT laws have been pushed and misrepresented cannot sit well with you. Any movement based on deception can’t have pure motives.
For instance this Marxism tie is a complete fabrication. The presenter with the math degree keeps harping this yet he conveniently leave out the influence of the civil right movement, Christianity, the constitution and school desegregation on the Brilliant Black scholars who championed CRT to fight system racism while preserving the system.
White privilege has been taught here in Scotland for years no one believed me till you started shinning light on the subject.
Thank you for your hard work.
These videos are literally changing my life I don't know what I'd be doing without them, you are saving the world man
Holy shit dude he's a numpty. Go consult literally any reputable source on CRT and you'll see his position on it is compete bunk
@@claridjent4316 he went over any reputable source on CRT in the previous lectures. it's like you people don't even watch these you just come here to lie and leave.
@@claridjent4316 ah, the expected attempt to drain opponents of epistemological and moral authority. So then, where has he strayed from the texts? Because I've checked out many quotes in many videos, they've always turned out correct.
Give one quote from James that is incorrect.
Please provide a reputable source on CRT. It would have been easier to just call us racists. Try that next time. I'm sure it will work...
@Hellig Usvart We'll wait, right?
James sold himself short throughout these segments on how helpful this last segment would be. These perspectives and concepts for resisting the woke ideaology in society were simple, but they needed to be said and I find myself invigorated. Thanks sir Lindsay.
Yeh I wish someone could take these talks. And make a 40-60 min summary or introduction that parents can easily watch.
This is just too complex for the public.
We gotta simplify the truth of what is going on. Or it will just end up as anyone who disagrees with CRT looking like the bad guy..or some sort of extreme conservative
@@claudeyaz definitely, not sure how you would go about explaining something like this simply. I've been explaining the Hegelian dialectic by saying its basically 8 year olds making up their own secret language and mocking those that don't understand
@@jadentinkcom2964 Perhaps using more summary ahnd less details? For example, mentioning mainly the philosophers names ahnd what concepts ahnd principles they developed, ahnd how they chronologically led up to today. I'm imagining that bit could be summarized in 2 minutes or so, in which a 5-10 minute video could be made by summarizing the rest of the information asvwell.
@@claudeyaz omg yes, who would ever want to be known as one of those evil muh rightwingers!!
lol!!
@@claudeyaz yeah I mean….protecting our society from the nonsense is not worth sitting down for an hour at a time and listening to these talks…
My woke breaking point was a New Media course at university where we were studying, you guessed it, Critical Theory. I remember it very clearly because it was such a shock to my system.
The professor put up an ad from a magazine in the 1950s. The advertisement was for tampons. The professor asked us to analyze the wording of the tampon ad and explain all the different ways that the ad was sexist.
My mind could not get past this one, single thought: "How is that ad supposed to be sexist if only women buy tampons?"
After that, I couldn't take any of the readings or lessons in the class seriously.
the ad isnt sexist only women buy tampons and trans women are not women
Good point both of you !!! + there were no trans women at the time .... LOL
Wait you couldn't do this sub A-level bit of textual analysis at university and you think it's an evil conspiracy rather then you being a bit of a prat?
@@piershartley8676 Can’t you see it for what it is? They begin with the conclusion and force students to agree in order to participate. You likely haven't recognised this as a problem because you share the tutor’s philosophy.
To make it easier for you to understand, imagine you’re a student in 1930s Germany, and your tutor hands you an advert for a Jewish owned business. You're told to write about all the ways it demonstrates that Jews are greedy.
Of course, you don’t believe Jews are greedy. But the tutor does and so do your classmates. Naziism is widely supported in universities, and your student union has been burning books with Jewish authors and themes. Will you be brave enough to stand alone against your peers, tutors and administration? Will you have the guts to make it known, by your refusal to participate, that you’re not fully on board?
Or wouldn't it just be easier to answer the question? After all, it’s only “sub A-level textual analysis”.
Perhaps you now appreciate the issue faced by students today-those who don’t believe whiteness is a terrible problem, or that racism manifests in every interaction, or that women should have to share changing rooms with biological men who self-id. Schools and universities are forcing students to submit to an ideology instead of allowing them to analyse the facts, freely and honestly, in order to reach their own conclusions.
@@nforneWell that's a disgusting analogy, I bet you finished it and expected a pat on the head for peeing all over the rug didn't you?
I'm loving these, thanks James!
Sadly, it's the last one. For this particular workshop.
But yeah... these were fucking amazing! I could listen to 5 more, expanding on these ideas. Thankfully, we still have the New Discourses Podcast.
What can individuals do to avoid being grouped by class or race or gender?
1. Understand critical theory.
2. Don't participate in it.
3. Resist it.
4. Make it cringe worthy.
5. Agree with people who resist it, and support them so we can all be individuals. Only individuals have a conscience. Conscience is a higher authority than dogma.
6. Have objective standards of merit, competence, responsibility and accountability, regardless of group identity, class, race, gender, intersectionality or positionality. Don't make it about class or race or gender; that especially is what individuals need to resist.
7. Encourage people who are fearful. Encourage common sensibility. Sensibility is the ability to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences. Appreciate and respond. Don't be silent. They say "silence is violence." Don't be violent. Don't be silent. Appreciate and respond.
number 4 is key, make it laughable not contemptable
#4 eh, so be as racist as possible until they just drop it already? On it.
@Moon Man Nice sophistry. Well done comrade.
@@RJL612 No sir I'm self-deprecatingly misinterpretatin' rule #4 as a justification for my own lulz-generating content, although to be fair there is a grain of truth to it. I see that (rule #4, specifically) and think to myself "Well hey now that's exactly what I do!" But is it though? No, not exactly. Similar though. I'm not a damn commie dammit is all I'm sayin.
@@Dan-iz7fy Thank you. Added point.
C S Lewis's "Space Trilogy" provides an excellent explanation of the spiritual side of this attempt at one world autocratic government.
Even as I watch this, YT has placed the following advertisement at the top, right-hand side of the page: “Prioritizing Equity: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” from the American Medical Association. A “discussion on critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity.” Guess I better get involved…huh? By-the-way, our healthcare institution has sneakily begun a meeting of the woke minds with our new Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion directors.
47:02 "I don't like that I live in this, that I have to do this." James's Frodo moment.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
The story's that really mattered..
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Mr. Lindsay does a good job of explaining what the root problems are, which is refreshing. I particularly liked how he framed the response to the CRT issue as a strategic plan to adopt a narrower interpretation of "discrimination" legally and culturally, and to make sure "discrimination" applies to everyone in an equal and colorblind fashion.
The department of DEI at work is very sneaky and has some terrible resources for employees listed. I don't think anyone looks into it at all and the two people in charge seem a little nuts by their selections or required reading.
Be the change. Print out some flyers or something so people will understand. Direct people to these talks.
You know what's sad is that I had a couple friends who used to be completely normal, but they were going through a teaching credential program at university. When they came out the other side they became full-on socialists, and it was just a jarring transformation. I have no doubt that these teaching programs are what is contributing to the indoctrination of people who want to go into teaching
I left a job because they tried to enforce compelled speech relative to race. The company cared about their ESG scores and clearly stated that they only hire people based on their race and diversity, not their skills. I refused to work for such a company. I have been fighting this at school board meetings for the last two years. The EWSD school board intimidated, and humiliated all voices that stood up against this ideology.
Amazing... I knew this, i just didn't know i knew it! Now the fog has cleared. I know WHO is behind this cancer. I now have the tools to debate anyone. Thank you very much.
That is literally exactly how finding James and his work made me feel. Awesome comment and welcome to the fight my friend!
@@Politicallyhomeless957 I felt this way after reading Atlas Shrugged also...
No you don't. Lol.
90s liberalism literally can't argue against this, because it can't explain disparate impacts.
You go "They act different"
And the woke go "because of your culture oppressing them and making them that way. It's internalized white supremacy"
And then you have no answers.
Like, you can't explain why they act different, without admitting that wokeness is right to try and change everything about society, because your explanation for why they act differently, is society.
So all you can do is whine "But but but, I don't wanna be discriminated against" and they'll just go "of course you wanna keep your white male privilege. Nobody cares what you want. Shut up with your white tears."
You will lose this argument 100% of the time, because you don't have an explanation, except their explanation.
I was in college in the late 60s. I was from a family that valued learning, history, current events, Biblical knowledge, ideological knowledge etc. I've seen this coming since my children's' school years and my children are 51, 52 and 54. I've been speaking up, all along. I've been laughed at, ignored, called paranoid and a conspiracy theorist. Now my son discovered your videos and he is saying, "Mom, this is what you've been saying for so long!" He isn't laughing anymore; neither are my daughters. I have shared with them. You articulate it so much better than I have. I have stuck to my guns no matter what. It has cost me three of my grandchildren, totally; oneoff whom verbally ripped me to shreds, nd three more still love me and show me respect but they don't agree with me. And I can tell they are humoring me (and my son, their father). Their mother has done a 180° and enthusiastically threw away all her previous beliefs and endorses all these trends, which influences my two granddaughters. This daughter-in-law has left her family behind and moved out of state, though she and my son are still legally married. She decided she "wasted her time", her life, being a stay at home mon, raising her girls; she should have been doing something important: making money, working, climbing the ladder. Now my son is, basically, a single parent and acing it; he's lovingly taking on all the subjects you are speaking on and I warned about for decades. Yes, standing against these dangerous ideological traps and pitfalls can cost dearly, but knuckling under is selling your soul
Thank you for all your efforts to enlighten!
James, I cannot thank you enough for your work.
This remind me so much of leaving a narcissistic relationship. The false, shapeshifting and predatory non-self of the narc mimicing empathy and engendering trust when the motives are dark and exploitive, ultimately to the destruction of the victims self. Its always in the shadows, the abuser has a facade of morality and respectability. I believe the whole unveiling of these shadow creatures and operations is across all human realms. Witness Amber Heard trial. Ultimately I believe we need to go "grey rock" and GOTO. But they won't let us go. Parasites need a host.
I can’t put in words how inspired I am.
cultural marxism got us talking about common sense standards like meritocracy, freedom, checks and balances again.
Great series James. You should do more videos. Maybe it's just me, but I connect better with the material when I can see the presenter.
I quit my job over this. When my managers, who decide raises and promotions, are telling me I am privileged for being whyte and allowing divisive issues into a work place then it becomes an issue working for them.
This is awesome stuff. One thing that struck me during the lecture was Lindsay's statement. "There's a difference between a pluralistic "e Pluribus Unum" society and a "multicultural" fragmented society." This is so very true. Pluralism says, "We're basically the same because we're people, but we have differences." On the other hand, multiculturalism or intersectionality says, "We're basically very different, though we might have similarities because we're people." We need to realize that the culture of pluralism will elevate people because it focuses on real unity, while the culture of intersectionality denigrates people because it focuses on differences, perceived or real.
Multicultural is considered Right Wing because it doesn't contain enough blaming, resentment, and hostility. Intersectionality is the Social Theory of layered oppression and privilege, being reversed by force.
nice wording
That's cause pluralism wasn't true.
And the people positioned to realize pluralism isn't true, are the people with grievances that can't be explained by pluralism.
"We're all basically the same because we're people"
"Than how come my race lives in slums? How come I don't know anybody with a dad? How come all my cousins have been to prison?"
"Than how come my sex doesn't have as many CEOs? Why doesn't my sex make an equal amount of money? Why aren't half the lawmakers from my sex?"
And you can't answer, because you can't go "Well, it's how they act" because then you wouldn't believe "We're all basically the same because we're all people." So your only explanation can be "Well, it's cultural. It's how they act because it's how society has trained them to act."
But if we're all fundamentally the same, that means that the cultural factors are just a deeper level of discrimination.
So, you're just broadening the wokeness. You're just telling them "Yeah, you're right that this institution is racist and sexist, but that's only because our entire society is racist and sexist."
And unless you can accept that pluralism isn't true.
That the sexes aren't the same. (Equal)
That the races aren't the same. (Equal)
Your only argument against woke is "But I don't wanna get discriminated against" and that's just "white tears".
And Lindsey would call me a "reactionary" as if I'm just going "if you're gonna be sexist and racist against me, I'm gonna be sexist and racist back against you." But that's ridiculous. Sexism and racism were just observations obvious to everyone. "obviously men are different than women and my tribe is different than our neighboring tribe". They're not reactionary. They're literally as old as humanity. There's literally no social institution they could be a reaction to, because when we were literal fuckin pre-human apes, men and women had different roles, and your troop of chimp-things, would fight and eat neighboring troops of chimp-things. Xenophobia (racism) and sexism, are literally older than humanity. They're not a reaction to anything except basic reality.
Watched/Listened to all 5 talks in this series. I can say without question that I am miles down the road in understanding than when I clicked play on session 1!
Thanks James for being THE Leading Voice in opposition to Marxism in our culture and CRT as a subsidiary of Critical Theory/Marxism.
James, re your comment at 15:00 in about Univ level CRT dismissal. Please KNOW BOTH FIRE & ADF [Alliance Defending Freedom] ACTIVELY litigate professors ' cases.... FYI!
As GAD SAAD says, your call here is for everyone in your audience to ACTIVATE YOUR INNER HONEY BADGER.....
Thank you James. I really appreciate what you are doing.
15:18 That's literally what I've been telling people for fucking _years_ , that civil rights case law has turned the Civil Rights Act into a weapon against anyone who is straight, white, or male. I have _told people_ that _the Civil Rights Act does not apply to you, it does not protect you_ , and they've looked me square in the fucking face and said 'yes it does.' Lindsay I'm going to say something bold here that you're probably not going to agree with, but the problem isn't the jurisprudence, the problem is the fucking law. Alexander Hamilton, at the founding of this country, was extraordinarily critical of documents that proclaimed protecting and honor of specific rights of the people for one real reason; anything _not_ covered in that document would implicitly be seen as not protected, and that exact lack of vision was what motivated the arguments for the necessity of such an act. At the time he was talking about the bill of rights, but it applies just as much to the civil rights act as it does to the bill of rights, and his same argument for why we should _only_ be using the US Constitution, and seeing it as a statement by the people "that they retain all rights for themselves" (Hamilton 84), is the exact argument for why we _shouldn't_ have a civil rights act.
It's enough to argue from the US Constitution, and if we _don't_ argue from the US Constitution, we ourselves vitiate its power to do what it was supposed to do, restrain the state. That's another reason _why_ they said they needed it, because acknowledging the need for such a law is tantamount to admitting that the US Constitution _doesn't do_ what Hamilton explicitly said it does, and that's what they _want_ . They want to throw out the US Constitution altogether, which is why they invoke the stain of slavery whenever someone brings up the vision of the founding fathers.
Unironically, _repeal the Civil Rights Act_ , and while we're at it, repeal both the draft and the 19th amendment.
I got up and walked out of my company's DEI training yesterday. The instant the three magic words were uttered.
I find out what the consequences are in a couple of hours.
racial based quotas which leave every white and asian as second class citizens and leave them with very little or no jobns forcing them to turn to crime and that will reuslt in whoever discriminates whites and asians being persecuted and killed
@@bludeuce3855 Asian and white unemployment is the lowest in America
@@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108 dont belives the lies of CNN, ABC and NBC news those medias are untrostworthy same for NPR
@@bludeuce3855 Those are government official figures
How did it go?
I'm planning to go undercover at my kids' school board as a wokist, after watching James Lindsay's videos for two day i have an idea of how to approach it and the language i need to use. I'll need to prepare more though.
call out the grift!
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worst? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
The Russian federal law "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values," also referred to in English-language media as the gay propaganda law[1] and the anti-gay law,[2][3][4][5] is a bill that was unanimously approved by the State Duma on 11 June 2013 (with just one MP abstaining-Ilya Ponomarev),[4] and was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on 30 June 2013.[3]
The Russian government's stated purpose for the law is to protect children from being exposed to homosexuality-content presenting homosexuality as being a norm in society-under the argument that it contradicts traditional family values. The statute amended the country's child protection law and the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses, to prohibit the distribution of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships" among minors. This definition includes materials that "raises interest in" such relationships, cause minors to "form non-traditional sexual predispositions", or "[present] distorted ideas about the equal social value of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships." Businesses and organizations can also be forced to temporarily cease operations if convicted under the law, and foreigners may be arrested and detained for up to 15 days then deported, or fined up to 5,000 rubles and deported.
i'l take that over unicorn degenerates with a freedom of speech
any day
Bring back liberal humanism and what CRT call “colorblindness”. Bring back catch phrases from the original civil rights movements and the old school ideas of MLK and even later post Mecca Malcolm X. Make them see their contradictions
Excellent series James thank you for arming us with information to fight back!
I think what we can do about CRT is to call it antiwhite and implement the lexicon and dialectic tools of the Go Free method to dispel the antiwhite lies around us.
What is the Go Free method?
Nobody wants your snake oil
Agree 💯 ☝🏻😲
@@__loafy__ It's not 'snake oil' you liar. The Go Free method is a proven tactic of language and it's both ethical and logical. I've been winning with it for 2 years now, it works like no other approach out there.
itll treat whites and asians as seocnd class citizens leaving them very few or no jobs forcing whites and asians to turn to crime and that will reuslt in anyone who discirminates whites and asians being persecuted and killed and lite the fuse for a anti woke, anti left, anti marxist, anti communist, anti socialist revolution
Im Pro-White and Pro-Male and Pro Christian.
Knowing someone and earning trust is valuable to an org and I would say a component of meritocracy. Not a shortcoming at all.
It's a blessing I found your teachings! I keep finding more proof that CRT is still being taught in NH even though a law was passed banning the teaching of that idea. Teacher unions, labor unions, contractors, school districts and more seem to have found loopholes, or change names around to have all these entities on the same page to spread this virus or cancer to students, teachers and all who do business with them.
That's because they've only banned CRT, and not Marxism nor Masonic Thought.
Leroy Jenkins PR esquire!! that had me laughing.
Thanks for your work, and the encouragement at the end.
THIS! THIS IS THE ONE I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.
Disney didn't back off, they doubled down.
Stellar content. Thank you, James.
And vote for candidates who are going to protect your rights, parents, to see everything in your kids' schools - all books from the classrooms and the library, all video media, everything. That would mean supporting the likes of Ron DeSantis because HE WANTS YOU PARENTS TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE SCHOOLS.
_in response to the question posed, I say: read _*_A Course In Miracles_*_ -- become a student of such. I say this not as some kind of a zealot, but because this text, on its own terms and out of its own presuppositions, is literally the diametrical opposite of critical race theory, philosophically speaking. You can come to this conclusion yourself. It has a famous Author._
_great work as always James. We treasure the wisdom you share. Thanks for your hard work!_
That book makes my head spin. In a good way. But there’s only so much spinning I can take 😵💫
It's no longer "divide and conquer", but "isolate and assimilate".
This man is an intellectual 4 star general.
Yay another one! *Agressively puts on head set and presses play with a dorky smirk* 💕💯😎
James, I have some thoughts, in case you read comments:
first, can we build this movement by recruiting blacks and other minorities? Will they speak out or are they afraid of having their "black cards" pulled?
Also, teachers and college students: can they be rallied into a movement of public resistance, or are they also too weak to resist? We've seen how the women's swim team members say nothing while allowing a man to take all their trophies.
We've seen how most nurses, doctors and researchers said nothing when mass murder was being committed in the name of science during COVID.
Are people just too morally weak to band together or to speak out?
Second: can we bring lawsuits against teachers unions, school boards, USD's, individual teachers? Would these suits fall under compelled speech and claim various harms? I think you suggested that and it is a great idea. One of these cases could make it up to the Supreme Court, so they are important cases to bring.
I particularly enjoy the thought of many separate actions. The term "death by a thousand paper cuts" comes to mind. Plus, have you ever tried to fight against a swarm of insects or fought off a school of hungry pirhana fish? Just taking the actions in this manner could send these cretins heading for the hills, or folding like a house of cards.
Nice thought. LMK if you agree with this tactic.
Third point:
can we prove that China is behind most of this too and has been pushing it here for over 15 years? There's a ton of leaky dark money flooding our institutions of higher learning, our politicians' war chests, our scientific communities. Clearly, CRT is a special project of Beijing, to weaken and potentially bring down the US from within. Can we prove this and will it help if we do?
Finally, since our media has been overtaken by globalists who push CRT for their own, profit driven, reasons (unstable economies are ripe for grifting) who can we turn to in our efforts to promote our cause? The disinfo regarding CRT from the MSM is everywhere. The gaslighting is blinding and most people don't seem to have the moral fortitude or critical thinking skills to think for themselves.
Brandon proud of you. This was true brave putting your job on the line
"Why don't people just make their own meaning."
Lindsay. You've gotta learn that the average person doesn't have an IQ of 130.
Another thing to do is Make Fun of them. They invite abuse, be polite and offer it.
When you see an article, video, someone saying we need to separate children into affinity groups, point out the KKK has been saying this for 160+ years.
Be Snarky, Sarcastic. "I'm wondering, are you normally this ignorant, or are you making a special effort today?"
He's very good at pointing all this out, but I don't think he's got very good plans on how to fight them.
FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.
SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?
SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
Ech... some days like today I'm just over it. Have a community info meeting tonight because the school district refused to have a follow up to their DIE instruction declaration.
"Peaceful protests" on placards are planned by PFLAG(🏳️🌈).. protesting speaker Duke Pesta.
James.. thank you for all you do!. (come back to Wisconsin soon)
Recently discovered your channel. Maybe via J Peterson. Watched this 5 part series. Very well done. Clearly explained. Think the history of CRT was very important. Your statement: it is what it does; was very helpful in fully understanding what is afoot on the far Left.
Was reminded of some of the crazy interviews during What Is A Woman film. That weird 'thinking' was shocking at the time. Apparently sane ppl, divorced from reality.
This series will help many ppl understand what is going on across our country. Many thanks.
Objectively we are right. They are wrong, and their methods are morally repugnant, highly abusive and manipulative, and just plain dishonest.
Isolate and expose the people who teach the teachers - the University types - so this is you James and other academics - STAND UP > DEBATE > WRITE and argue the content of their journals and destroy their arguments.
Just watched this final lecture last night. I thought it was apt that the first scripture reading this morning was the story of Abraham going to Sodom to look for righteous people and negotiating with God.
"If I can find 50 righteous people, will you destroy it?
"No"
"How about 45?"
"No"
40?
30?
20?
10?
"No".
Unfortunately, we know how that turned out. But the fact that we're still here means that as long as there’s a tiny remnant of people like James and some of us, there's still hope. Think about what a small handful of leftists, communists and bad, non-Thomistic philosophers brought us to this point and what a tiny, handful of Enlightenment, liberal thinkers like James it will take to salvage things and turn things around.
Conquest's 2nd Law: Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
Call it out when you see it! Your silence is their victory.
I've never worn a mask (I'm exempt and have a pass to show to people) and I've never been injected for the coof. I'm fine. I left an important appointment the other day when they tried to force me to wear a mask during it. I said no and I left. Don't compromise. Have courage. Have faith. Thank you James.
James, you were really flying in this session - you get better and better.
Do a joint session with Chris Ruffo - it would be great!
Its amazing how you seem to think CRT is worst than just plain old racism. Where do you rate CRT on a *scale of 1 to 10,* with 10 being the worst? Also, how would you rate anti-black racism during Jim Crow era on the same scale?
@@wademitchell3817 Racism is racism, Wade.. Making a scale of it is just rationalising it for your particular kind of it, Wade.. (comedy is the only exception)
*“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson* Was Emerson Woke?
... Fentynal Floyd ...
I knew it went too far when even other gay people started telling me it had gone too far. I had thought so for quite a while, but I was afraid to say anything because I thought people might think I was crazy and I was imagining things. But as it turns out I wasn't.
Answered In a few lines:
Organize those of like-minds in your communities. Arm each member. Show yourselves loudly and often. Don't be afraid to 'occupy' your own streets. The police don't want a war.
Anyone else having issues with video loading being throttled back? The pre video ad ran smoothly. But Jame’s lecture continuously times out to spool.
The winners didn't write the history. They re-wrote it. 1619 project demonstrates that.
James, I'm very curious as to how you think you can defend liberalism, or even liberty, at this point. Anywhere there is liberty, the people will eventually _choose_ authoritarianism. Only a minority of people will choose liberty, because frankly, only a minority of people are cut out for liberty, and that minority must always eventually shed the blood of the majority in order to secure that liberty, and that is only just another form of authoritarianism, specifically, the minority exercising force against the majority because they can't overwhelm them with domestic politics. There is absolutely no escaping the use of force, and I'm not talking about all forms of loose or soft force in the _Starship Troopers_ sense of voting, I mean there is no getting away from the fact that we are going to have to do grievous bodily harm to our ideological opponents if we want to continue to be left alone. I won't go into detail, but in the state I live in, certain people have already done very, very extreme things to L&I agents in order to retain the basic freedom to own and operate a diner, the kinds of things that would probably disgust you and make you think the reactionaries are getting too involved, but people had the opportunity to find their own meaning, thanks to liberalism, and instead of doing that, people embraced nihilism because they weren't cut out to find their own meaning. They weren't capable of it. They _needed_ someone to tell them how and what to feel.
Liberalism leads to tyranny of the majority, every time, and the only way out of that is a drastically authoritarian use of force and tyranny of the minority against the majority. You people finally realized there was a fucking fight going on for the soul of this nation, 40 years after it had been lost. I started off as a liberal, of the classical variety, and by 2014 I had become a staunch constitutional conservative and a civic nationalist. Now, I've come to the place where I hate this vile country and the majority of the people in it, because it little resembles what Thomas Jefferson envisioned, and most of its 'citizens' act like stupid, mooing subjects. Ironically, the thing that was meant to ensure our freedom the most, democracy and voting, has been the single biggest source of laws that constrain the freedom of the people since we were under monarchy. In fact, people under monarchy had _fewer_ restrictions on how they were allowed to live their lives than we do in America now. Democracy was supposed to be a mechanism to defend liberty, but it has instead been the mechanism by which liberty was murdered. This is _exactly_ what the founding fathers were afraid of, and why they framed the US Constitution as a means of controlling government, not freeing the people, because the people were already free by nature.
After all you've said, all you've witnessed, and you still have the balls to talk about 'reactionaries' like they're the fucking problem. Ha. If only; not even going full reactionary is enough to save our society now. It's over. It's done. They 'fortified' the 2020 general election, people stayed inside and wore face diapers because they were told, they put an experimental medical concoction into their bodies because they were told to, despite the companies who made those concoctions being immune from lawsuits related to said concoction, despite said companies being unwilling to release the data, despite said companies lying and using the EUA versions of the concoctions which are _not_ chemically similar to what went through their abridged trials. We're about to confirm a judge who is known for protecting ch*ld p*rn producers and distributors. Even if the election wasn't 'fortified,' an overwhelming number of Americans legitimately voted for a senile old man at the head of an insane party because the other guy was a meanie-head. Tell me, what does _any of that_ have to do with critical race theory, or identity-based grievances? I know from _experience_ , that courage is _not_ contagious. Sorry to doom so fucking hard on all of you, but I have stood up, _multiple times_ , in university class rooms, at my old job, and vociferously resisted this bullshit in ways and degrees that most of you would be shocked by and likely unwilling to follow even if someone lead the way. I called teachers insane, to their faces, when my degree depended on their good mood. I told the CEO of the company that I worked for, to his face, in front of God and everybody, that he was wrong and that the concoction was actually dangerous, and I brought the medical studies from mainstream medical science journals that proved it. In _every_ case, guess how many of my peers followed me? _Zero_ . Even good, close friends, people whom I had backed in the past, bitched out at the eleventh hour despite their tough talk. These are just two examples; I have many, many more experiences like this to draw from.
And you know what? Most of you who find this comment and read it, _you_ will bitch out too, because you're not cut out for liberty. You are not the exception, you are the rule. You're too afraid to stare down an armed cop, and let them know that if they try anything you will end them and their friends where they stand. 'Oh, look at the internet tough-guy keyboard warrior!' I'm well aware of what I sound like, I don't care because I'm telling the truth. Your cynicism, your apathy, and your weakness only convince me you're part of the fucking problem, just people who won't stand up and do their civic duty that was continually required of all of us so that we wouldn't end up in this fucking mess we're in. Women had the responsibility of informing themselves and voting to protect liberty when they go the vote, but the first thing they did was enact ridiculous authoritarian policies, under the banner of being 'caring.' Men traded their humanity and self-respect away in exchange for a tiny piece of political power so diluted that it didn't mean anything anymore, and then they stopped caring about even that. And then you fuckers have the nerve to say of Biden, 'not my president!' like they did with Trump. Well, I don't see any of you throwing the illegitimate puppet-dictator out, and I sure as shit am not going to do it for you, because I'm done sacrificing when no one else will, unless you all pledge to stand at my back, armed, and target whatever I target. Then I will go. Any takers? Yeah I thought not.
He's talking about liberalism of hundreds of years ago. It looked like libertarianism.
@@cosettapessa6417 I'm just going to quote myself in response to this; "James, I'm very curious as to how you think you can defend liberalism, or even liberty, at this point."
Everything I've said applies to libertarianism as it does to liberalism. So many people were totally incapable of functioning as free people, and in fact, proved that they are an active threat to people who _do_ exercise their own freedom, who do just want to be left alone. Most people are not happy or even really capable of being free; they're only functional when they're hurting or tyrannizing others.
Liberalism (even classical liberalism) does not have effective countermeasures to "woke" because, we WERE classically liberal and well, here we are... Meritocracy is not an effective countermeasure, because we WERE meritocratic, and here we are. A neutral and impartially applied law is not an effective countermeasure because we HAD a neutral and impartially applied law and here we are. The root of the problem is that liberal universalism compels liberal universalists to extend rights and privileges to "wokesters" (like free speech, equal opportunity, etc) that wokesters will use to organize and advance whenever they are able but will NEVER reciprocate back to liberals or anyone else when they inevitably achieve positions of power (because equal opportunity, or because some of them DO have some merit, narrowly defined, outside of being a race hustler or whatever.) This is an asymmetry that they can continuously and incrementally exploit to widen their bailey, fortify their motte (to use an analogy from this series) and continue driving the speer deeper and deeper into the heart of western civilization. The ONLY way to stop woke, at the end of the day, is to ruthlessly and vigorously suppress it as aggressively, (more aggressively) than it suppresses "unwoke" whenever it has the chance.
But that's a rubicon the liberal will never be willing to cross. It will take a fundamentally illiberal counterrevolution to finally oppose the woke, leftist, cultural revolution we are currently undergoing, or it will just expend itself, after expending everything else of value, and then collapse because the parasites have consumed all the hosts.
I think liberalism is probably too deeply ingrained in the fabric of America to meaningfully end. So I think we're probably going to have to give the vast majority space to be liberal, but we're also going to have to give them constraints. "You can be liberal, but only within THESE limits." And then we vigorously step in to uproot and tear out wokish weeds by the roots whenever they start establishing themselves in the liberal, American, garden...
Liberal America is the Garden. Woke are the weeds. But America still needs gardeners, or it'll just get overrun and choked out by the weeds.
That's the task ahead of us, to install ourselves as the gardeners, so that all the naive, clueless, nice little liberals, can continue to enjoy a nice, liberal, America for as long as it takes them to grow up, if they ever do.
I don't think there is any prospect, really, in the near to medium term, of ever getting them to be anything else, or want anything else. But maybe over a long enough time, there could be...
@@eliharman "Liberalism (even classical liberalism) does not have effective countermeasures to "woke" because, we WERE classically liberal and well, here we are... Meritocracy is not an effective countermeasure, because we WERE meritocratic, and here we are. A neutral and impartially applied law is not an effective countermeasure because we HAD a neutral and impartially applied law and here we are. The root of the problem is that liberal universalism compels liberal universalists to extend rights and privileges to "wokesters" (like free speech, equal opportunity, etc) that wokesters will use to organize and advance whenever they are able but will NEVER reciprocate back to liberals or anyone else when they inevitably achieve positions of power (because equal opportunity, or because some of them DO have some merit, narrowly defined, outside of being a race hustler or whatever.)"
Everything here is accurate except for one thing, arguably the most critical thing; 'wokester' is a euphemism, likely an unintentional one but a euphemism nonetheless. Call these people what they are. Name them. Call them communists.
"That's the task ahead of us, to install ourselves as the gardeners, so that all the naive, clueless, nice little liberals, can continue to enjoy a nice, liberal, America for as long as it takes them to grow up, if they ever do.
I don't think there is any prospect, really, in the near to medium term, of ever getting them to be anything else, or want anything else. But maybe over a long enough time, there could be..."
At this point, I think the best thing we can do is arm ourselves and disappear into the mountains, and wait. Eventually all of this will collapse, and when it does, we will need to restore order, and quickly.
I'm a felon facing 400 years in prison for keeping my guns in Illinois after the first of the year. 90% of gun owners in my state are with me. The police bitched out first.
So I live under the sword of Damocles. My life is forfeit whenever they get the balls to trade a couple officers for me.
I'm already a dead man walking. I have nothing to lose. So lead away. I'm at your back.
I'm so Proud of the United States Constitution 🇺🇸
It Works
Hey, James Nation. I really appreciate this rare, sincere Jamesway motivation.
Thank you for everything you've taught us and are still teaching us James.
Big problem! Where's the site compiling documented grade school abuses via CRT? Every dull lefty I encounter repeats the talking point "It doesn't exist" They love a distinction without a difference.
Nice idea! Now it's your responsibility.
@@k_tess Thanks....not.
You're not worried that the evidence should come before the opinion?
@@piershartley8676 The terabytes of existing documentation needs to be centrally located. Your weak attempt at mocking is duly noted.
@@stp479 What documentation? Of what?
"Your heresy is my religion" would encapsulate negative thinking + the religiosity of CRT and other critical theories pretty well.
Blasphemy. Heresy is being from a different denomination. But, I guess that actually makes more sense for liberals, since liberalism and wokeness are just different stages of the same anti-reality disease.
The top priority is to prevent militant racial chauvinists from having access to the use of government force to implement their agenda.
Right. Who'd wanna live in the 50s? Ew. All those happy prosperous white families. Disgusting.
All those poor women who didn't know they should be miserable and hate their husband and sons. All those clean safe neighborhoods full of law abiding hard working whites. What a tragedy.
You have to remove these subverters By Force. This is the only way
A quote from the Chinese “ I live you die “ mull that over for a minute
19:18
"Critical race theory is cringe"
41:50
"Get based"
"Take those steps, encourage a common sensibility, have the courage to talk to other people, have the courage to speak up, show up and _fight back_ ."
*"You must resist. That's how you stop Critical Race Theory."*
Not cringe.
sadge (sad/pathetic + cringe)
Great talk, James! Feeling inspired to take down the BS
You again...they delete you from the narrative
What I'm missing is a cohesive conter narrative to present the normies with.
I think that would catch on better than talking about how bad CRT and wokeness etc. is and fighting against it.
Is there a philosophical counterpart to Marx and the Frankfurt School?
I favor the Austrian School with Hayek and Mises, but they are more economists than philosophers...
There is, but you're not gonna like it.
Who killed 27 million communists in the 20th century, while the liberals fought beside the communists?
Yeah. Them.
Damn shout-out Leeeeeroooy Jeeennnnkiiiiins !!!!!
Listen to this episode as you need, whenever, for re-orientation and inspiration.
Call it out for what it is "race communism" .
"Eugenics used to be considered a progressive idea, because the idea was to literally accelerate human evolutionary progress. But eventually we realized it was not a good idea (WWII), and we started coming up with other ideas that we thought would help mankind progress. Just as people should have been skeptical of progressive ideas 100 years ago, I am skeptical of progressive ideas now." This is approximately what I say to people in progressive environments where I am worried about the consequences of having alternative ideas. Best idea is to avoid specifics, and instead just let them marinate on it.
If they start pressing, like "Even racial equality?!" I personally would go with "Especially 'racial equality'" with quote fingers. They ask what could possibly be wrong with that, I'd probably say something like, "considering that 'racial equality' is impossible, there is no single person alive that I'd ever trust with the tools needed to make the impossible a reality. There is no comprehensible boundary to how bad a person could fuck up with power like that."
Why is racial equality impossible?
Thank you sir! Amazing
Is it possible to actually stop this, or is it too late?
You know so much, and learned so little from it.
Like, the first 3 streams were brilliant.
Then this...
It's like you haven't listened to your own work.
"This is how wokeness takes over liberal institutions. Now, if we just put those liberal institutions back in place, then wokeness won't be able to subvert them." What? Why?
You're just going "it'll work this time."
Thanks, James! This IS improving my life! Your lectures are tools & a map that give me hope!
Here is a FUN way to fight it for ALL PARENTS, I have done this with my elementary school age boy... I gave him MY EXPRESSED PERMISSION TO LOUDLY EXCLAIM "I'm a woman with a penis!" at school WHENEVER gender nonsense is introduced.
I explained the nonsense dogma to him. I also explained it is NOT O.K. to bully or tease someone for thinking or saying they are another gender, etc. I also showed him an email from his school looking for volunteers for a 'diversity committee' where, as part of the response, they asked my 'preferred pronouns', including the made up ones Ze/Zir, etc. and I MOCKED THAT, then started bouncing around his room rapping "I'm a woman with a PEE-NIS..."
I look forward to any calls from his school where I can shame his principle for 'being exclusionary toward' (my son) who identifies as A WOMAN WITH A PEE NIS...
He also was encouraged by me to embrace his identity as a meta-human with super powers at school with permission to be outspoken about it, including his own way he prefers to be referred to (I suggested 'boss of the principal', he indicated superman).
Make them choke on this nonsense!
Can you put these lectures into a playlist?
- Understand the enemy (why we're at N.D.).
- Cultivate the virtue of courage.
- Know yourself and be proud of your values
- Spend time with like minded people so you know they have your back. Make alliances and your own conspiracy against these people
- Now speak up, push back, say NO
- Engage where you are now, fine if it's locally at your school, association, club, fine if it's higher up politically. Fine if it's just one on one
A group of my co-workers was discussing their fitness and weight loss regimens. I was considering complaining about fatphobia, telling them I feel unsafe and disempowered and invalidated as a a fat person, asking them to check their thin privilege. Just to try to peak somebody...