Putting The Woke Away

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5foFivHmj0

الملخص

TLDRThe video discusses the decline of woke culture, sparked by a viral tweet asking for unwoke opinions. It contrasts unwoke and woke opinions, highlighting the backlash against wokeness in workplaces and universities. The speaker argues that while some believe wokeness is being rebranded, the reality is that it is losing popularity due to public disinterest. The video explores three views on this phenomenon: that elites are ideologically committed to wokeness, that wokeness is being contained, and that it is simply unpopular. The speaker ultimately supports the idea that wokeness is receding because it no longer resonates with the public.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 🗣️ A viral tweet sparked a discussion on unwoke opinions.
  • 📉 Woke culture is losing popularity in workplaces and universities.
  • 🔄 Some believe wokeness is being rebranded, but evidence suggests it's declining.
  • 📊 The backlash against wokeness indicates public disinterest.
  • 💼 Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are becoming unpopular.
  • 🏫 Universities are seeing a rollback of woke ideologies.
  • 🔍 Three views on wokeness: ideological commitment, containment, and unpopularity.
  • 💡 The speaker believes wokeness is receding due to lack of public support.
  • 📉 Elites may respond to popular will, limiting their power.
  • 🔮 The culture is moving away from wokeness.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    A viral tweet sparked a discussion on unwoke opinions, revealing a mix of controversial views that challenge progressive norms. The popularity of woke culture appears to be declining, as many people express dissatisfaction with its influence in society, particularly in workplaces and universities.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The conversation around woke opinions has led to a backlash against extreme views, with some individuals expressing radical opinions that are equally problematic. This indicates a growing sentiment that the dominance of woke ideology is waning, as people seek to voice their frustrations with its prevalence.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The decline of woke culture is evident in workplace initiatives like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which many find tedious and unproductive. Employees express annoyance at mandatory training sessions that do not resonate with their experiences, suggesting a disconnect between corporate policies and employee sentiments.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Universities, once bastions of progressive thought, are also witnessing a rollback of woke ideology. Events that once sparked protests against right-wing speakers highlight a shift in campus culture, where free speech is increasingly valued over ideological conformity, leading to a more open discourse.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The rise of anti-woke sentiment is linked to a broader societal backlash against perceived authoritarianism in progressive movements. Individuals like Brett Weinstein, who faced backlash for opposing certain campus policies, illustrate how dissenting voices are often silenced, pushing some to adopt more extreme views.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:32:50

    The current trend suggests that wokeness is not merely being rebranded but is genuinely receding due to a lack of popular support. The idea that elites are ideologically committed to wokeness is challenged by the reality that many institutions are prioritizing their economic interests over ideological adherence, indicating a shift in societal values.

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فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة

  • What sparked the discussion about unwoke opinions?

    A viral tweet asking for people's most unwoke opinions.

  • What are some examples of unwoke opinions mentioned?

    People shouldn't be canceled for old posts, neopronouns mock trans people, and individuals shouldn't be obligated to express political views.

  • What is the current status of woke culture in workplaces?

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are becoming unpopular.

  • How has wokeness affected universities?

    There has been a backlash against wokeness, with protests against right-wing speakers and a decline in support for woke ideologies.

  • What are the three views on the decline of wokeness?

    1. Elites are ideologically committed to wokeness. 2. Wokeness is being contained. 3. Wokeness is unpopular and receding.

  • What does the speaker believe about the future of wokeness?

    The speaker believes wokeness is receding because it is no longer popular.

  • What is the significance of the term 'Bridge'?

    Bridge is a rebranding of DEI initiatives, but the speaker argues it is not a serious attempt to continue wokeness.

  • What does the speaker think about the backlash against wokeness?

    The backlash indicates that wokeness is losing its grip on society.

  • How does the speaker view the role of elites in society?

    The speaker believes that while elites have power, they also respond to the popular will of the people.

  • What is the overall message of the video?

    The video argues that wokeness is declining due to public disinterest and that the culture is moving away from it.

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التمرير التلقائي:
  • 00:00:01
    [Music]
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    A viral tweet by the slop Twitter
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    account Drop Pop asked this question.
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    What's your most unwoke opinion? The
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    replies are a smattering of opinions
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    that are not progressive or anti-left or
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    are in some other way unwoke like people
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    shouldn't be canceled for old posts or
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    neoponouns mock trans people or people
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    shouldn't be obligated to express their
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    political views all the time. Of course,
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    as soon as this post blew up, you also
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    had people from way outside the intended
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    target audience pop in with opinions
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    that are not only not woke, but also too
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    far on the other side of the
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    conversation, saying things like,
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    "Segregation is good," or, "Gays
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    shouldn't kiss or hold hands in public,"
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    or, "Trump won 2020." Nah, these guys
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    are just as incorrect as the woke
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    garbage. I find this conversation
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    interesting because regardless of how
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    you feel about wokeness or social
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    justice or whatever, it's pretty clear
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    that woke as a social force held a lot
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    of sway in Western culture from the
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    mid2010s up until basically right now.
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    This question positions unwoke opinions
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    as just an additional class of thing
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    that normal people believe rather than
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    the ultimate evil, which shows that
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    whether you like it or not, the
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    popularity of woke stuff is on the
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    decline. The people who still adhere to
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    woke morality understand this very well.
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    That's why you can also find them
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    underneath the tweet complaining about
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    its decline. Now, because it's Twitter,
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    of course, the opposite question was
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    also asked. And like the first, gained a
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    bunch of traction, too. Nah, I'm [ __ ]
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    tired. What's your most woke DEI radical
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    leftist opinion? And of course, the
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    replies are pretty much exactly what you
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    think. Abort babies, get sex changes,
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    immigrate illegally, do drugs, abolish
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    monogamy, mandatory vaccines, [ __ ] your
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    freedom, abolish religion, abolish all
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    hierarchies. Now, this video isn't about
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    discussing what woke is. I've covered
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    that several times. Click on the icon in
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    the corner if you want to see those
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    videos. But assuming you have that
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    knowledge already, a lot of these
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    answers should be ringing some bells in
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    your head. If you pause and read this,
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    you'll notice that the OP herself seems
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    to be every single one of my critiques
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    of social anarchism rolled up into one
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    tidy package of mental illness. In any
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    case, it does really seem like woke
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    stuff is on the decline. For example,
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    diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives
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    in the workplace are extremely
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    unpopular. And fair enough, who wants to
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    spend half their workday watching
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    slideshows about pronouns that nobody at
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    the business even uses or being lectured
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    about cringe nonsense by some activist
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    the company brought in in exchange for a
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    big fat paycheck? At any real job that
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    I've held, I always found that stuff to
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    be annoying as [ __ ] even if it
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    occasionally talks about things that I
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    actually agree with. For example, who in
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    their right mind wants to waste the
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    afternoon listening to slop like this?
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    It is important for us to also
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    acknowledge that not everyone is going
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    to believe or be bought into our
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    strategies and our priorities on this
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    topic. They just aren't. And so um when
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    we talk about leader accountability and
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    the importance of representation and
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    these strategies and these goals being
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    integrated into someone's responsibility
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    um like just to be really pragmatic and
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    practical then it becomes okay you don't
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    nec like we may not be able to change
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    your mind shift on appreciating why this
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    is important but you do understand that
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    as a part of your job responsib
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    abilities. You will lead inclusively.
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    You will have representation on your
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    team. You will be responsible for these
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    behaviors, values, and expectations. And
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    it also quite frankly puts a light on
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    the folks that don't believe in this,
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    but emphasizes that you still have to do
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    it to do this job, to be a part of this
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    company. And eventually um you'll see a
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    change in their mindset or they may
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    leave. And you know that's a part of
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    this process too. This isn't for
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    everyone. But what has to be for
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    everyone is accountability. And
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    accountability comes with transparency.
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    It's really important. At universities,
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    woke is going away too. Since at least
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    the start of Trump's first term and
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    probably older, the academy has just
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    been a campuswide safe space. Do you
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    recall when back in early 2017 the
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    right-wing provocator turned skitso
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    Milianopoulos was scheduled to give a
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    speech at Berkeley and in response
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    left-wing riers took over the campus,
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    burned a trailer down and threatened
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    violence to anyone who wasn't
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    politically aligned with them? I
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    remember this very well. I recall saying
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    to myself, "Hang on a minute. Isn't free
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    and open expression a left-wing value?
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    If you're factually correct, shouldn't
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    you be able to out debate a [ __ ] like
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    Milo?" Trump's first election kicked off
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    waves of anti-intellectual leftism on
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    university campuses where right-wing
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    speakers were more than protested
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    against. They were rioted against.
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    Entrances to their events were blocked
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    by belligerent activists. The events had
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    bomb threats called to them or fire
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    alarms pulled in order to disrupt them.
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    Sometimes the school itself caved to
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    pressure and disinvited speakers. Now,
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    just so we're clear, I'm not making any
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    moral claims about these people's
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    political views. Indeed, I personally
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    disagree with a lot of what they have to
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    say. However, I also understand that a
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    university campus is the appropriate
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    venue for free and open discussion on
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    controversial topics. It was between
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    2014's Gamergate and these events
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    getting cancelled starting in early 2017
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    that the progressives lost their free
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    speech rationalistic cred in favor of
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    censorship and authoritarianism. The
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    late 2010s was an era aware on
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    university campuses a militant minority
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    of leftists simply did not allow the
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    right to speak, slandering them all as
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    fascists. While some of these
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    individuals that were targeted like Milo
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    or Ben Shapiro were actually some flavor
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    of right-wing, others weren't, at least
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    not initially. For example, Sargon began
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    his career as a libertarian centrist, he
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    is a reactionary now. But part of what
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    pushed him fully away from more moderate
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    positions was his treatment by onampus
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    social anarchists. Probably the most
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    notable of these people who talk about
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    how the left left them behind is Brett
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    Weinstein. Back in 2017, Weinstein was a
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    relatively normal guy teaching at
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    Evergreen College. There's this school
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    tradition there called the day of
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    absence where the black student union
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    calls for black students to stay home
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    during that day in order to highlight
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    black contributions to campus. But in
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    2017, the school asked that white
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    students and white staff stay home
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    instead. Weinstein objected, saying that
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    previous days of absence were voluntary
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    and he did not consent. I know I'm
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    skipping over a lot of the story cuz
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    it's not the focus of the video, but
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    ultimately a riot broke out at Evergreen
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    College. Would you like to hear the
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    answer or not? No.
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    This is the video viewed by millions
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    that put Evergreen State and Weinstein
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    in the national spotlight. This is not a
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    discussion. You have lost that one. This
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    is not a discussion. You've lost that
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    one. Yeah, you've lost that one. So,
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    what are they doing here if they don't
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    want to talk to you? Well, this is uh
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    part and parcel of their their central
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    mode. They're just simply shutting down
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    somebody that they don't want to hear
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    from. I am not interested in debate. I
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    am interested only in dialectic, which
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    does mean I listen to you and you listen
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    to me.
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    Weinstein has taught at Evergreen State
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    for 14 years. He describes himself as
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    deeply progressive, but has been
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    denounced as a racist tool of the
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    alt-right by some students and faculty.
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    We are here to
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    support antilackness.
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    We just wanted to be like, until you're
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    accountable for these actions, you don't
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    get to teach students at Evergreen, you
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    don't get to spread this problematic
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    rhetoric and instill it in students.
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    Yes, you're disrupting my class. So, at
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    this point, we would like Brett to be
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    fired, but that isn't happening. The
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    administration is refusing to take
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    action. They're choosing to protect this
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    white cis male professor over its
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    students. The campus library and the
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    administration building were occupied by
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    students who barricaded the entrances
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    with furniture. The university's
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    administration was held hostage in a
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    conference room by the riers. And once
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    they confirmed through a phone call that
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    the cops weren't actually coming to
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    rescue them for some [ __ ] reason, the
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    riers told them they would remain in
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    place until their demands were met. Is
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    that clear? That word, please. Um, I'll
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    go check that room as people.
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    Oh, yeah. That's to a conference room
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    that does lead into his office. So, it
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    does. I'm going to check in the office
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    and see if there's anyone. Is the White
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    House's room locked? This hasn't been
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    made clear to everyone. is so that they
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    do not leave that room until this until
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    this happens. And so y'all need to be
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    making sure that people don't leave.
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    That rumor that the cops are coming was
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    a tactic to do the thing that happened.
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    There aren't enough people in this
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    hallway. So without leaving this space
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    to go find people, y'all need to find
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    ways to get those people back into this
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    space. What we need is for there to be a
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    physical presence on this floor so that
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    they aren't leaving. Second point, there
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    is a room being set up that has food and
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    water and places for you all to rest. So
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    I'm going to make sure you're also
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    taking care of yourselves in these
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    moments. So when that information
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    becomes clear, please get that
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    information without leaving the space
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    and please make sure that information is
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    being spreaded to everyone. Okay. The
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    other things is armed safety is really
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    really important. Is there any needs for
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    in that room right now? Is there any
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    close the is there anything that needs
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    to happen in that room? So what he's
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    talking about right now is that he
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    talked to the chief of police and he
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    said police will not show up. Um but he
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    said that they aren't willing to
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    continue to have conversations or rather
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    the deal is the basis of the
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    conversation is people have to stop
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    blocking personnel coming in and out of
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    the building. People have to let people
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    I'm here for documentary purposes for
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    me. Y'all should know because it's
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    important for your safety and for the
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    concerns of this building. As far as I'm
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    concerned and as far as I'm telling
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    everyone, everyone is allowed to come in
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    and out of this building. And I don't
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    know who gave the order to do some weird
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    blockade [ __ ] that some anarchist
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    something something. Um, that's not on
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    us. And and I've gotten them to reassess
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    that situation. The only priority is
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    that y'all stay in the space until those
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    demands can happen. So that's the only
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    thing that we're concerned about. We're
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    my my concerns as a person. I can't
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    speak for everyone is that this the work
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    that needs to be done is happening today
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    and that everyone's safety and health is
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    concerned. So, I'm working on making
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    sure food and water is being brought to
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    everyone and that this is happening on a
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    timely manner. Um, so I don't need to
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    hear anything else, but I want you all
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    to know an update about things. Do y'all
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    need anything at all? The people who are
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    in this room watching this happen, are
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    you all clear? Cool. Okay. Thank you.
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    Um, both of
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    them. I'm sorry. I'm just a little
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    straight. I swear to God, this is the
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    most soy hostage taking I've ever seen
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    in my life. In the aftermath of
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    everything, Weinstein ultimately
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    resigned, and since then, he's
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    radicalized into a right-wing talking
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    head. His 2025 media appearances show
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    him to be thoroughly brained. The point
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    I'm making is that universities, once
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    hotbeds of what we might call woke
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    ideology, are also rolling this
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    progressive stuff back. And many people
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    who attended or taught at schools in the
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    late 2010s, are understandably relieved
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    because this [ __ ] is legitimately
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    insane. And we are better off that it's
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    finally going out of style. After all,
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    who the [ __ ] wants to go to class and
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    come face to face with this? All white
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    people are racist. So, I put this up
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    because I really want any white person
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    in the room to know upfront that this is
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    what we're dealing with. That it's not
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    going to be this coddling of white tears
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    and what that looks like. We're not
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    going to discuss, oh, maybe some of us
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    have worked it out. No, you're always
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    going to be racist, actually. So, even
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    when you're on your path to trying to
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    figure out how to be a better human
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    being, um, because I believe that white
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    people are born into not being human,
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    like that actually instead of people of
  • 00:11:18
    color and black folks being dehumanized,
  • 00:11:20
    that actually everyone is dehumanized
  • 00:11:22
    off rip within white supremacy, that
  • 00:11:24
    y'all are born into a life to not be
  • 00:11:26
    human. And that's what y'all are taught
  • 00:11:27
    to do, to be demons. So, in this
  • 00:11:30
    particular way, white people are all
  • 00:11:32
    racist. So, I just want y'all to know
  • 00:11:34
    that upfront. It's the same across a lot
  • 00:11:36
    of domains right now. Research, woke's
  • 00:11:38
    going away. Government, woke's going
  • 00:11:40
    away. Entertainment, woke's definitely
  • 00:11:42
    going away, especially after the
  • 00:11:44
    unending deluge of Hollywood flops. The
  • 00:11:46
    zeitgeist has changed and society's
  • 00:11:48
    institutions are following suit. Except,
  • 00:11:50
    is that actually what's really happening
  • 00:11:51
    here? As far as I can tell, there's
  • 00:11:53
    three dominant views describing the
  • 00:11:55
    current phenomenon of woke nonsense
  • 00:11:57
    being rolled back. The first is that
  • 00:11:59
    those people who run society's
  • 00:12:00
    institutions are ideologically devoted
  • 00:12:02
    to woke morality. They view diversity,
  • 00:12:04
    equity, and inclusion as morally good.
  • 00:12:06
    So much so that they're willing to
  • 00:12:08
    strictly adhere to those principles,
  • 00:12:09
    even if it costs them economically. From
  • 00:12:11
    this point of view, the deans of
  • 00:12:12
    universities, the CEOs of companies, and
  • 00:12:14
    the leaders of countries are all strict,
  • 00:12:16
    woke moralists. Their primary interest
  • 00:12:18
    is the spread of wokeness. The ideology
  • 00:12:21
    guides their actions more than any sort
  • 00:12:22
    of practical calculation about costs or
  • 00:12:24
    power. And so, they will keep shoving
  • 00:12:26
    this [ __ ] down everyone's throats, even
  • 00:12:27
    as people tell them they don't want it,
  • 00:12:29
    because their goal is to convert them,
  • 00:12:30
    not make a profit or hold on to power.
  • 00:12:32
    Now, right away on the face of it, this
  • 00:12:34
    interpretation seems wrong simply by the
  • 00:12:36
    fact that woke is actually going away.
  • 00:12:38
    Pure ideologues would drive this thing
  • 00:12:40
    off a cliff. And clearly, most
  • 00:12:41
    individuals with some level of influence
  • 00:12:43
    are in fact choosing to sacrifice
  • 00:12:45
    wokeness rather than sacrificing their
  • 00:12:46
    own careers. Not all. There are a few
  • 00:12:48
    dieards out there to be sure, but most
  • 00:12:50
    of them. However, the true believers in
  • 00:12:52
    this first view that the powers that be
  • 00:12:54
    are ideologically committed to woke
  • 00:12:55
    morality, it is their position that
  • 00:12:57
    wokeness is not actually going away.
  • 00:12:59
    It's simply being rebranded. Multiple
  • 00:13:01
    creators, most notably the VTuber Kirch,
  • 00:13:03
    have gone over an organization called
  • 00:13:05
    Bridge, which stands for belonging,
  • 00:13:07
    representation, inclusion, diversity,
  • 00:13:09
    growth, and equity. Though sometimes
  • 00:13:10
    they say that the G stands for the gap
  • 00:13:12
    between where we are and where we need
  • 00:13:13
    to be by their estimation. Anyway, that
  • 00:13:15
    bridge is an acronym for belonging,
  • 00:13:18
    representation, inclusion, diversity.
  • 00:13:20
    The G is the gap in all of those things.
  • 00:13:22
    And then the E is equity. And our
  • 00:13:24
    mission is really about moving the
  • 00:13:26
    narrative of de andi away from
  • 00:13:28
    philosophy to operationalizing inclusion
  • 00:13:31
    as a business practice. So our northstar
  • 00:13:34
    is that um our northstar is not
  • 00:13:36
    necessarily marketing per se because we
  • 00:13:39
    believe that inclusion needs to cross
  • 00:13:41
    the entire organization, marketing
  • 00:13:43
    included, but you know everywhere from
  • 00:13:46
    organizational practices all the way to
  • 00:13:48
    advocacy. Uh and so the way that we come
  • 00:13:52
    at it, um is that we look at the
  • 00:13:55
    business practices ac you know our goal
  • 00:13:58
    is really about operationalizing
  • 00:13:59
    inclusion as I said as a business
  • 00:14:01
    practice not a philosophy anymore. And
  • 00:14:04
    you know to your point Sasha what that
  • 00:14:06
    does is it removes the dependency of de
  • 00:14:09
    andi from an individual personal
  • 00:14:11
    function and it places it squarely on
  • 00:14:14
    everyone in the organization. Right?
  • 00:14:17
    Here's the theory. The DEI as a term now
  • 00:14:19
    has a bad rap. And so in these corporate
  • 00:14:21
    or academic or governmental
  • 00:14:22
    environments, DEI will soon be switched
  • 00:14:24
    out for bridge. The values are the same.
  • 00:14:27
    The woke isn't actually going away.
  • 00:14:28
    You're just being led to believe that
  • 00:14:29
    you've totally won the culture war
  • 00:14:31
    because there's no longer a DEI
  • 00:14:32
    department at work or school. Instead,
  • 00:14:34
    there's going to be a bridge department
  • 00:14:35
    or whatever. This is the first view that
  • 00:14:37
    woke isn't actually receding. Instead,
  • 00:14:39
    its peddlers are changing its name. And
  • 00:14:40
    they're doing so because the people at
  • 00:14:42
    the top of society are true believers in
  • 00:14:44
    the woke cause. And to be honest, you've
  • 00:14:45
    got to be an ideologue yourself to
  • 00:14:47
    actually believe this. I've looked into
  • 00:14:48
    Bridge and yeah, it's the same diversity
  • 00:14:50
    slop you see everywhere, but it's not a
  • 00:14:52
    serious attempt to rebrand DEI. In fact,
  • 00:14:54
    what Bridge really is is simply the
  • 00:14:56
    latest in a long line of what are
  • 00:14:57
    actually obviously just left-wing
  • 00:14:59
    patronage networks. Think back to my
  • 00:15:01
    video on systemic racism. I spoke at
  • 00:15:04
    length about the anti-racist activist
  • 00:15:05
    Tema Okun, who in 1999 ran an
  • 00:15:08
    anti-racist activist and educational
  • 00:15:10
    organization named Dismantling Racism
  • 00:15:13
    Works and who now runs another
  • 00:15:14
    anti-racist activist and educational
  • 00:15:17
    organization named White Supremacy
  • 00:15:18
    Culture. She's pretty influential in
  • 00:15:20
    this sphere, having created the 15
  • 00:15:22
    characteristics of whiteness used all
  • 00:15:23
    over academia. And yet, her and her
  • 00:15:25
    colleagues and networks didn't replace
  • 00:15:27
    what previous activists did. They simply
  • 00:15:29
    added on to it. and of course took a lot
  • 00:15:30
    of money from both corporations and
  • 00:15:32
    governments to teach workshops on their
  • 00:15:33
    ideas. Now, I'm not making the claim
  • 00:15:35
    that you should like or dislike what
  • 00:15:37
    Okun or any other similar activist does.
  • 00:15:39
    I'm simply pointing out that what these
  • 00:15:41
    organizations are are methods by which
  • 00:15:43
    activists get paid for their activism by
  • 00:15:45
    convincing those people with actual
  • 00:15:46
    influence that their ideas have value.
  • 00:15:48
    They are not in and of themselves the
  • 00:15:50
    centers of power. This is why, for
  • 00:15:52
    example, during the Gamergate 2 Sweet
  • 00:15:54
    Baby Inc. thing when people unearthed
  • 00:15:55
    those clips of Kim Bolair at GDC 2019.
  • 00:15:58
    She was saying stuff like this. Hey, is
  • 00:16:00
    this very racist thing we did very
  • 00:16:02
    racist? Or is this deeply offensive
  • 00:16:04
    thing we did deeply offensive? Are you
  • 00:16:06
    hurt by it? Ask them what they want to
  • 00:16:08
    see. Like ask them what would thrill
  • 00:16:09
    them, what would bring them joy. And if
  • 00:16:11
    you have a team lead, put that request
  • 00:16:12
    to them very, very early. Um, if you're
  • 00:16:15
    a creative working in AAA, which I did
  • 00:16:16
    for many, many years, um, put this stuff
  • 00:16:19
    up to your higher-ups. And if they don't
  • 00:16:22
    see the value in what you're asking for
  • 00:16:23
    when you ask for consultants, when you
  • 00:16:24
    ask for research, go have a coffee with
  • 00:16:27
    your marketing team and just terrify
  • 00:16:29
    them with the possibility of what's
  • 00:16:32
    going to happen if they don't give you
  • 00:16:33
    what you want. because they have to
  • 00:16:35
    consider like I I say that all out as a
  • 00:16:36
    joke but it's actually very very true
  • 00:16:38
    because if you start to consider the
  • 00:16:40
    people who are player and audience
  • 00:16:41
    facing and who have to deal with
  • 00:16:43
    mitigating harm and with keeping the
  • 00:16:45
    sentiment around their game and their
  • 00:16:46
    project positive there's like a genuine
  • 00:16:48
    value that you can impress upon them
  • 00:16:50
    with um both ethically and financially
  • 00:16:53
    you can say this is important. This is a
  • 00:16:54
    direct admission that activists don't
  • 00:16:56
    actually wield direct power themselves.
  • 00:16:58
    They can only try to convince people who
  • 00:17:00
    do that there will be a social backlash
  • 00:17:02
    if their ideas aren't adopted. If what
  • 00:17:04
    Kim Bolair says here is true, then the
  • 00:17:06
    CEOs and the deans and the presidents
  • 00:17:07
    are not themselves actually
  • 00:17:09
    ideologically devoted to the woke cause.
  • 00:17:11
    Because if they were, they wouldn't need
  • 00:17:12
    to be convinced by people like Kim
  • 00:17:14
    Bolair to hire these consultants and
  • 00:17:16
    listen to them. That is what bridge
  • 00:17:18
    actually is. It's a consulting company
  • 00:17:20
    looking to advance woke morality and
  • 00:17:21
    taking money doing it. If you think
  • 00:17:23
    that's bad, fine. If you think it's
  • 00:17:24
    good, whatever. But this idea that
  • 00:17:26
    Bridge is the next phase and the culture
  • 00:17:28
    war continues eternally is just wrong. I
  • 00:17:30
    don't necessarily blame people for
  • 00:17:32
    thinking this, though. For example,
  • 00:17:33
    those folks at Bridge are very adamant
  • 00:17:35
    that their goal is to get you thinking
  • 00:17:36
    about DEI nonsense 24/7, not just at
  • 00:17:39
    work, which is [ __ ] cringe. I find it
  • 00:17:42
    to be much more beneficial if somebody's
  • 00:17:45
    living that in their, you know, whether
  • 00:17:48
    they're at home or not at home, but when
  • 00:17:50
    they are in their world, because
  • 00:17:52
    actually work would benefit, right? So,
  • 00:17:53
    what we do during the day, I hope is
  • 00:17:55
    beneficial and I certainly believe uh in
  • 00:17:58
    the value of that work. I also think
  • 00:18:00
    like if people go either turn off their
  • 00:18:03
    computer or return home or air in their
  • 00:18:05
    communities and nothing's really
  • 00:18:06
    changed, then that's where it's this,
  • 00:18:09
    you know, well, it's great that we do it
  • 00:18:10
    between these windows or within this
  • 00:18:12
    context, but have we really created the
  • 00:18:16
    social or cultural or community shifts
  • 00:18:19
    that ultimately I believe will benefit
  • 00:18:21
    the broader society and world and
  • 00:18:24
    community. And that's where I think like
  • 00:18:26
    there's sort of
  • 00:18:27
    this, you know, almost like this we we
  • 00:18:30
    rub close to it, but we just can't get
  • 00:18:32
    there. However, just because these
  • 00:18:34
    activists have wide-reaching goals
  • 00:18:36
    doesn't mean that they actually wield
  • 00:18:37
    power. In fact, they admit outright that
  • 00:18:39
    their power is currently waning despite
  • 00:18:41
    their best efforts. One of the things
  • 00:18:43
    that we're noticing right now is so many
  • 00:18:45
    organizations are letting go or cutting
  • 00:18:48
    back the resources or funds to their
  • 00:18:50
    diversity and inclusion offices, their
  • 00:18:53
    chief diversity officers, etc. And
  • 00:18:57
    people are just like, "Okay, so if
  • 00:18:58
    that's gone, what else do we do?" And
  • 00:19:00
    it's like, it is it should be part of
  • 00:19:02
    your DNA. It should be part of your your
  • 00:19:04
    everyday operations regardless of um
  • 00:19:07
    which department you're a part of. And
  • 00:19:10
    it goes beyond your employees. I
  • 00:19:12
    understand what's going on here though.
  • 00:19:13
    I recall back during Gamergate doing my
  • 00:19:15
    first big deep dive too, digging up
  • 00:19:17
    weird advocacy networks that had these
  • 00:19:19
    conspiratorialike connections to other
  • 00:19:21
    advocacy networks and thinking that I
  • 00:19:23
    found the true centers of social justice
  • 00:19:24
    power in society plastered all over
  • 00:19:26
    their staff pages for everyone to see.
  • 00:19:28
    The urge to yell from the rooftops, I
  • 00:19:30
    found them is pretty strong. I felt it
  • 00:19:31
    before, too. But once you've discovered
  • 00:19:33
    dozens of these bridge type
  • 00:19:34
    organizations, you realize that these
  • 00:19:36
    aren't actually the backroom power
  • 00:19:38
    brokers that you thought. They just take
  • 00:19:39
    money to teach diversity courses. If
  • 00:19:41
    companies see value in that, they'll buy
  • 00:19:43
    their product. If companies don't see
  • 00:19:44
    value in it, then they won't. The
  • 00:19:45
    activist organizations exist at the
  • 00:19:47
    pleasure of the companies that pay them,
  • 00:19:48
    and the companies have stopped paying
  • 00:19:50
    them because woke garbage is no longer
  • 00:19:52
    viewed as valuable. It's as simple as
  • 00:19:53
    that. What this all means is that the
  • 00:19:55
    first hypothesis that people in power
  • 00:19:57
    are ideologically committed to wokeness
  • 00:19:58
    and they're rebranding it to keep it
  • 00:20:00
    going is largely false. There will be
  • 00:20:02
    some holdouts, I'm sure, but this theory
  • 00:20:03
    has little predictive power. It really
  • 00:20:05
    only serves to get people riled up on
  • 00:20:07
    the internet and feel like they're
  • 00:20:08
    fighting the good fight in the culture
  • 00:20:09
    war. So what is the second explanation
  • 00:20:11
    for the current trend of wokeness
  • 00:20:13
    receding? That would be the woke is
  • 00:20:15
    being put away position predominantly
  • 00:20:17
    espoused by the dissident right YouTuber
  • 00:20:19
    academic agent. He wrote an article
  • 00:20:20
    describing his view in 2023 and he's
  • 00:20:22
    been predicting a woke roll back for
  • 00:20:24
    several years previously. He calls it a
  • 00:20:25
    method of containment. Containment is
  • 00:20:27
    the actions that a ruling class can take
  • 00:20:29
    to dissipate energies against their rule
  • 00:20:31
    without actually threatening their rule,
  • 00:20:32
    while also making the people who object
  • 00:20:33
    to their rule feel as if they've
  • 00:20:35
    actually done something. The example AA
  • 00:20:37
    gives is of the Iraq war protest in
  • 00:20:39
    2003. Millions of people marched in
  • 00:20:41
    protest against George Bush and Tony
  • 00:20:43
    Blair, the war's two biggest public
  • 00:20:44
    faces. The war didn't stop and the two
  • 00:20:47
    men were reelected in the next
  • 00:20:48
    elections. But the fact that the world's
  • 00:20:49
    biggest protest at the time was
  • 00:20:51
    coordinated on the relatively simple
  • 00:20:52
    internet of 2003 and was allowed to
  • 00:20:54
    happen by liberal democratic governments
  • 00:20:56
    made the protesters feel as if they had
  • 00:20:57
    accomplished something. They had been
  • 00:20:59
    allowed to exercise their freedom of
  • 00:21:00
    speech. They had been heard and nothing
  • 00:21:02
    changed. An authoritarian regime would
  • 00:21:04
    have cracked down hard on these
  • 00:21:05
    protesters because their legitimacy
  • 00:21:06
    comes from overt strength. They have to
  • 00:21:08
    crack down to remain stable. Even though
  • 00:21:10
    crackdowns lead to resentment and
  • 00:21:11
    long-term instability, this is why
  • 00:21:13
    authoritarian regimes tend to fail. Not
  • 00:21:15
    so much because they're immoral, though
  • 00:21:16
    they certainly are, but because their
  • 00:21:18
    authority to rule rests upon a
  • 00:21:19
    self-defeating foundation. This is not
  • 00:21:21
    so with liberal democracies, which can
  • 00:21:22
    withstand all sorts of critique of the
  • 00:21:24
    system and not actually change all that
  • 00:21:26
    much. Though, we are now also seeing the
  • 00:21:27
    limits of that ball work as well, with
  • 00:21:29
    the American new right made up of people
  • 00:21:31
    who were once anti-war, anti- Bush,
  • 00:21:33
    anti-neocon activists, or sometimes old
  • 00:21:36
    style Democrats who have radicalized. AA
  • 00:21:38
    believes that pretty much everything
  • 00:21:39
    that most of the online right says about
  • 00:21:40
    the left is false. Marxism is a civil
  • 00:21:43
    religion, false. collectivization as an
  • 00:21:45
    a priority good. False. Ideological
  • 00:21:47
    devotion to diversity, equity, and
  • 00:21:48
    inclusion. False. In his view, the left
  • 00:21:51
    has no sincerely held beliefs. It's all
  • 00:21:53
    just networks of people who use their
  • 00:21:55
    power to enrich themselves and their
  • 00:21:56
    allies. There is no devotion to
  • 00:21:58
    socialism. There is no devotion to
  • 00:21:59
    wokeism. It's money and power. It's
  • 00:22:01
    important to note at this point that
  • 00:22:02
    academic agent is a university professor
  • 00:22:04
    who does publish dissident political
  • 00:22:06
    theory. And in my view, he's cut from
  • 00:22:08
    the same cloth as a Burnham or a latch.
  • 00:22:10
    somebody who is educated in
  • 00:22:11
    anarosocialist tactics on how to fight
  • 00:22:13
    against the capitalist state. However,
  • 00:22:15
    he fights against it from a far-right
  • 00:22:17
    anti-globalist anti- capitalist
  • 00:22:19
    perspective. So, in this second view,
  • 00:22:21
    Woke is being put away as a form of
  • 00:22:22
    containment to dissipate anti-regime
  • 00:22:24
    energy to allow dissident to feel as if
  • 00:22:26
    they've won the culture war even though
  • 00:22:28
    the deep state is still ultimately in
  • 00:22:30
    charge. When examining these first two
  • 00:22:31
    hypotheses side by side, it's pretty
  • 00:22:33
    clear that the second one is
  • 00:22:34
    significantly more in line with reality
  • 00:22:35
    than the first one. I'm sure there will
  • 00:22:37
    be some woke diversity holdouts still
  • 00:22:39
    doing the tired DEI thing going forward,
  • 00:22:41
    but that [ __ ] is largely going away.
  • 00:22:43
    It's not actually being rebranded or
  • 00:22:45
    snuck in or whatever. This might be
  • 00:22:47
    really bad for those YouTubers or
  • 00:22:48
    streamers whose channels rely on this
  • 00:22:50
    performative perpetual outrage at how
  • 00:22:52
    everything is woke and you got to click
  • 00:22:53
    on my videos so I can tell you just how
  • 00:22:55
    angry you should be about it. Do you
  • 00:22:57
    recall when the anti-woke slop tubers
  • 00:22:59
    tried to push this idea that Expedition
  • 00:23:01
    33 was going to be a woke failure? They
  • 00:23:02
    dropped that [ __ ] real quick, didn't
  • 00:23:04
    they? There's no evidence that DEI is
  • 00:23:06
    being rebranded and then continuing on
  • 00:23:08
    quietly. But there is evidence that
  • 00:23:09
    those in power are abandoning it and
  • 00:23:11
    that it's a tactic meant to plate the
  • 00:23:13
    dissident right. Last fall, the writers
  • 00:23:15
    were screaming about civil war, how the
  • 00:23:16
    police were corrupt, the government was
  • 00:23:18
    corrupt, the DOJ was corrupt, the corpos
  • 00:23:19
    were corrupt, and now that Trump is in
  • 00:23:21
    office, all that is gone. Everything's
  • 00:23:22
    good again. You can now trust the Trump
  • 00:23:24
    institutions, guys. The right-wing is
  • 00:23:26
    winning, guys. The patriots are in
  • 00:23:27
    control. We're so back. And AA posits
  • 00:23:30
    that basically you're being played. He
  • 00:23:32
    gave three reasons for this. The first
  • 00:23:33
    was that the military needs recruitment
  • 00:23:35
    numbers to go up and lowerass white men
  • 00:23:36
    are their main source of soldiers. If
  • 00:23:38
    society is demonizing white men, you're
  • 00:23:40
    not getting asses into boot camp. And
  • 00:23:41
    this seems to have played out just as he
  • 00:23:43
    predicted. Woke went away, recruitment
  • 00:23:45
    numbers went up. The second is UK
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    specific, but it still applies to
  • 00:23:48
    America. Current immigration policy has
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    radicalized the working class against
  • 00:23:51
    governments all over the Western world.
  • 00:23:53
    In the UK, the left-wing Labor Party has
  • 00:23:55
    actually pivoted to be more right-wing
  • 00:23:57
    than the Conservatives on immigration.
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    It's kind of funny that Labour's
  • 00:24:00
    actually deporting people while the cons
  • 00:24:02
    under Boris, who was called a Nazi by
  • 00:24:04
    the left, remember, allowed tons of
  • 00:24:06
    immigrants in. In America, the Democrats
  • 00:24:08
    didn't shift to an anti-immigration
  • 00:24:09
    stance quick enough. Plus, Trump's
  • 00:24:10
    domination of the narrative allowed him
  • 00:24:12
    to downplay or outright erase any of
  • 00:24:14
    their attempts to do so. Again, I'm not
  • 00:24:15
    making a value judgment here. I'm just
  • 00:24:17
    saying what's going on. AA's third
  • 00:24:18
    reason is that the regime prefers soft
  • 00:24:20
    power to hard power because they know
  • 00:24:22
    that hard power destabilizes systems and
  • 00:24:24
    they've used a lot of hard power
  • 00:24:26
    recently from COVID lockdowns to BLM
  • 00:24:28
    riots to stealing the 2020 election from
  • 00:24:30
    Trump and the regime feels as if it
  • 00:24:31
    can't continue to use hard power if it
  • 00:24:33
    wants to remain standing. Something has
  • 00:24:35
    to give and that something is wokeness.
  • 00:24:37
    Now, I want to point out that I
  • 00:24:38
    ultimately disagree with a lot of what
  • 00:24:39
    Akamic Agent is saying here, obviously.
  • 00:24:42
    But I do have to admit that it is far
  • 00:24:44
    more in line with reality than Kirsha's
  • 00:24:46
    bridge rebranding idea. Wokeness is not
  • 00:24:48
    being snuck in again because the regime
  • 00:24:50
    is ideologically woke. It is being put
  • 00:24:52
    away because the regime values its own
  • 00:24:54
    power and wealth over woke ideology. It
  • 00:24:56
    is not about socialism. It is not about
  • 00:24:58
    LGBTQ stuff. It is not about Marxism. It
  • 00:25:01
    is not about ideology. It is about money
  • 00:25:04
    and power. However, I do find it really
  • 00:25:06
    funny that AA has now owed a cigar from
  • 00:25:08
    Aaron McIntyre, who did indeed believe
  • 00:25:10
    that government and corporate wokeness
  • 00:25:11
    was ideological and bet him several
  • 00:25:13
    years ago that by May 2025 it wasn't
  • 00:25:16
    going away. Well, here we are. Now, toot
  • 00:25:18
    my own horn a little bit, this is
  • 00:25:20
    something that I called as well in a
  • 00:25:22
    much smaller way. Think back to my
  • 00:25:23
    interview with the guy who worked on the
  • 00:25:24
    Saints Row reboot. He straight up
  • 00:25:26
    admitted that while some middle managers
  • 00:25:28
    and consultants were ideologically
  • 00:25:30
    devoted to progressive politics, the
  • 00:25:31
    people at the top of the company were
  • 00:25:33
    not. They simply wanted to make money
  • 00:25:35
    and they were convinced falsely that
  • 00:25:37
    woke slop would make them money. Now
  • 00:25:39
    that we know there's no money, the woke
  • 00:25:40
    slop is disappearing. It's just that
  • 00:25:42
    simple. In the same way, in my
  • 00:25:43
    examination of the Solar Blade
  • 00:25:45
    controversy, I put forward the idea that
  • 00:25:47
    some of Eve's outfits were changed not
  • 00:25:48
    because of some moral belief imposed on
  • 00:25:50
    Shift Up by Sony that the game was just
  • 00:25:52
    too sexy and women were being
  • 00:25:54
    objectified, but instead because Shift
  • 00:25:56
    Up had violated international patent law
  • 00:25:57
    by including real world outfits that
  • 00:25:59
    were owned by actual fashion companies.
  • 00:26:01
    In both of these cases, tons of
  • 00:26:03
    right-wingers were angry at me for
  • 00:26:04
    pointing out that it wasn't progressive
  • 00:26:06
    ideology that motivated companies. It
  • 00:26:07
    was money and power. And yet, I ended up
  • 00:26:10
    being correct. Basically, of the two
  • 00:26:12
    views we've discussed so far, the idea
  • 00:26:13
    that the regime is putting away wokeness
  • 00:26:15
    has way more predictive power than
  • 00:26:17
    wokeness is being rebranded. And yet, it
  • 00:26:20
    has some problems of its own. In AA's
  • 00:26:22
    video on the topic, he asked an
  • 00:26:23
    interesting question. Her elite theory,
  • 00:26:25
    since he puts a lot of stock in it,
  • 00:26:26
    these type of events always flow top
  • 00:26:28
    down. There is no such thing as a
  • 00:26:30
    grassroots bottom-up movement. Power
  • 00:26:32
    comes first, ideology comes second. Woke
  • 00:26:34
    was put away because the people in power
  • 00:26:36
    wanted it put away in order to get the
  • 00:26:38
    people at the bottom reinvested back
  • 00:26:39
    into the institutions of society. But
  • 00:26:41
    then he asks a question he admits he has
  • 00:26:43
    no satisfactory answer for. What is it
  • 00:26:45
    that the society needs to do and the
  • 00:26:48
    ideology will basically follow from what
  • 00:26:50
    power wants to do? Okay. Um, and I could
  • 00:26:55
    see that power needed to get people
  • 00:26:59
    invested back into the institution and
  • 00:27:01
    that this woke thing wasn't working. It
  • 00:27:04
    does beg the question as to why they
  • 00:27:06
    allowed or why they pushed woke in the
  • 00:27:08
    first place and they did push it because
  • 00:27:11
    US aid has shown that they pushed it in
  • 00:27:13
    the first place. And um, that is a
  • 00:27:16
    question that I would love to know the
  • 00:27:19
    answer to. I mean there's a guy I know
  • 00:27:21
    called Eric Calfman who is more on the
  • 00:27:24
    woke mind virus uh side of things but he
  • 00:27:28
    you know he works on this uh he he works
  • 00:27:31
    kind of trying to understand uh you know
  • 00:27:33
    woke ideology why it came about and
  • 00:27:36
    there's you know there's contrasting
  • 00:27:37
    theories um but I would suggest that
  • 00:27:41
    they were actually trying to transition
  • 00:27:44
    um the America Britain and Europe uh
  • 00:27:48
    into uh a mode where whites, the white
  • 00:27:53
    majority got used to the idea that there
  • 00:27:56
    were competing interests, there were
  • 00:27:58
    competing minority groups and that they
  • 00:28:02
    couldn't kind of take for granted their
  • 00:28:06
    uh quote unquote privileged position
  • 00:28:08
    anymore. Um, now I think that the
  • 00:28:11
    backlash of provoke was probably bigger
  • 00:28:13
    than they were expecting or maybe they
  • 00:28:16
    maybe it got out of control for whatever
  • 00:28:18
    reason, but uh you could argue that from
  • 00:28:21
    a certain point of view it did actually
  • 00:28:23
    succeed in making everybody much more
  • 00:28:27
    aware of um you know the racial
  • 00:28:30
    diversity that we all uh live with now.
  • 00:28:33
    Yeah, this is the point where I always
  • 00:28:34
    split away from academic agent. He's
  • 00:28:36
    into that weird Jew posting [ __ ] about
  • 00:28:38
    who really controls the world from
  • 00:28:40
    shadowy back rooms that you just have to
  • 00:28:41
    be a skitso to believe. But there is an
  • 00:28:43
    answer to his question that does make a
  • 00:28:45
    lot of sense. It's just not an answer
  • 00:28:47
    he'll accept because it's not really in
  • 00:28:49
    line with Pareto and Michaels and the
  • 00:28:50
    other elite theorists, even though he
  • 00:28:52
    also half says it himself in his video
  • 00:28:53
    and doesn't really see it. And this is
  • 00:28:55
    the third view. Woke went away because
  • 00:28:57
    people on the ground wanted it to. It
  • 00:28:59
    just isn't popular. And popularity
  • 00:29:01
    actually matters quite a bit. AA even
  • 00:29:03
    knows this on some level because he
  • 00:29:05
    references the backlash against woke
  • 00:29:06
    from the normies in his own video. Elite
  • 00:29:08
    theory is one of those things where it's
  • 00:29:10
    interesting and it has some predictive
  • 00:29:12
    power, way more than any democracy cuck
  • 00:29:14
    wants to believe, but it's still not
  • 00:29:15
    ironclad. Yes, the elite class of any
  • 00:29:18
    society wields power disproportionate to
  • 00:29:20
    their size. Yes, power flows top down by
  • 00:29:22
    elites onto non- elites, but there is
  • 00:29:24
    nonetheless some very strict limits on
  • 00:29:26
    what elites can do, how far they can
  • 00:29:28
    bend people for they break, and there's
  • 00:29:30
    always a snapback. This third idea, my
  • 00:29:32
    idea, the liberal democratic capitalist
  • 00:29:34
    idea, the idea that the elites actually
  • 00:29:36
    do respond somewhat to the popular will
  • 00:29:39
    of those they rule. Even if only out of
  • 00:29:41
    a sense of self-preservation, it seems
  • 00:29:43
    to be just true. It might take some
  • 00:29:45
    time. It might be heavy-handed. It might
  • 00:29:47
    not be quite what you wanted. But I
  • 00:29:49
    don't buy this Grahamian view that
  • 00:29:51
    everything we believe is simply
  • 00:29:53
    propagandized by those in power. No,
  • 00:29:55
    some things are the way they are because
  • 00:29:57
    they're good or they're true or they're
  • 00:29:58
    at least popular regardless of what
  • 00:30:00
    power thinks of them. And I think there
  • 00:30:02
    are some very obvious examples of this
  • 00:30:03
    being the case recently even that have
  • 00:30:05
    far more explanatory power than
  • 00:30:07
    conspiracies and shadow men pulling
  • 00:30:08
    strings. For example, why did Trump lose
  • 00:30:11
    the 2020 election? Was it because the
  • 00:30:13
    deep state orchestrated all these
  • 00:30:14
    various scops to steal it from him and
  • 00:30:16
    plant Biden in power? Or was it because
  • 00:30:18
    CO and lockdowns happened under Trump's
  • 00:30:19
    watch making him unpopular? The more
  • 00:30:21
    complicated first answer is possible,
  • 00:30:23
    but it has a lot of variables and moving
  • 00:30:25
    parts and holes in it, while the simple
  • 00:30:27
    second answer is more likely to be true
  • 00:30:28
    based on both evidence and ease. It
  • 00:30:31
    turns out that a lot of things really do
  • 00:30:32
    boil down to just popular will, as
  • 00:30:34
    unsatisfying as that is to our pattern
  • 00:30:36
    matching brains. Why was Biden on track
  • 00:30:38
    to lose 2024 before being subbed out for
  • 00:30:40
    Camala? Well, it's cuz of Biden
  • 00:30:42
    inflation. That's it really. The debate
  • 00:30:44
    performance may have lessened confidence
  • 00:30:45
    in him among the hardcores who actually
  • 00:30:46
    watch debates, but most people vote on
  • 00:30:48
    vibes. Why did most COVID lockdowns
  • 00:30:50
    begin? Because people wanted something
  • 00:30:52
    done. Why did they end? Because they had
  • 00:30:54
    grown unpopular. Sometimes the elites do
  • 00:30:56
    expend their political capital to force
  • 00:30:58
    a new state of affairs on people and
  • 00:30:59
    hope it just sticks. But often times
  • 00:31:01
    they really actually just do what people
  • 00:31:03
    want them to do, at least enough so the
  • 00:31:05
    commoners don't topple the system. This
  • 00:31:07
    is why I'm ultimately a liberal, guys.
  • 00:31:08
    I'm not a part of the dissident right or
  • 00:31:10
    the revolutionary left. Because the more
  • 00:31:11
    that I've read, the more that I've
  • 00:31:12
    learned, it really does just seem like a
  • 00:31:14
    lot of the time systems and institutions
  • 00:31:16
    do actually just function properly. So
  • 00:31:18
    woke is being put away and thank God for
  • 00:31:20
    that because it was annoying as [ __ ]
  • 00:31:22
    However, in response, some contingent of
  • 00:31:24
    the anti-woke crowd, the John Delar Rose
  • 00:31:26
    types, are now running around saying
  • 00:31:27
    dumb [ __ ] like media with gay characters
  • 00:31:29
    or black characters is now woke. When
  • 00:31:32
    no, that was never what people objected
  • 00:31:34
    to when they complained about undue
  • 00:31:35
    progressive political influence in their
  • 00:31:37
    video games. Nobody thinks Barrett from
  • 00:31:38
    Final Fantasy 7 is woke just because
  • 00:31:40
    he's black, you [ __ ] muppet. However,
  • 00:31:42
    like I said, these slot mongers need
  • 00:31:44
    that villain to continue on because it's
  • 00:31:46
    how they make their money. Here's what I
  • 00:31:48
    predict. Those people who believe in the
  • 00:31:50
    bridge renaming hypothesis, it doesn't
  • 00:31:51
    have to be bridge specifically, just the
  • 00:31:53
    general idea that woke is still going
  • 00:31:55
    strong, it's just going undercover,
  • 00:31:56
    those people will keep radicalizing
  • 00:31:58
    themselves, desperately trying to fit
  • 00:32:00
    the next culture war event into a woke
  • 00:32:02
    anti-woke paradigm because they've built
  • 00:32:03
    their channels on outrage, and they
  • 00:32:05
    don't want to give out the paycheck.
  • 00:32:06
    They'll be assisted in these endeavors
  • 00:32:08
    by the actual woke holdovers, who,
  • 00:32:10
    though, will still truly believe in the
  • 00:32:13
    cause, and they'll keep trying to push
  • 00:32:14
    it. But overwhelmingly, our culture is
  • 00:32:16
    moving out of its woke era. And a lot of
  • 00:32:18
    these anti-woke YouTubers or streamers
  • 00:32:20
    are going to keep stretching themselves
  • 00:32:21
    more and more in an attempt to keep the
  • 00:32:23
    gravy train rolling. I do know some of
  • 00:32:25
    these guys. They're mostly good people,
  • 00:32:26
    so I hope that they know to be honest
  • 00:32:28
    and not sell out. And if you watch any
  • 00:32:30
    of them, you should probably do your
  • 00:32:31
    part in keeping them honest like I know
  • 00:32:32
    I will be. All right, my friends. That
  • 00:32:35
    about does it for me. Hope you enjoyed
  • 00:32:36
    the video. Speaking of Expedition 33, I
  • 00:32:38
    think Naomi and I are going to go stream
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    it after this. So, if you're watching
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    this video on release, make sure to stop
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    by and say hi, or else just click on the
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    link on screen. I'll see you over there,
  • 00:32:47
    guys. Have a good one. I love you.
الوسوم
  • woke culture
  • unwoke opinions
  • social justice
  • diversity
  • equity
  • inclusion
  • backlash
  • universities
  • public opinion
  • cultural shift