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April 24, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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A Social Justice Wickerman
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So why not make an off-the-cuff response to something at 2 in the morning?
what could possibly go wrong.
So Kami Can I call you Cami Cami Yabams?
Man, I remember when you used to be cool.
You know, before you became a crypto-leftist, anarchist, fascist, commie, or whatever label you've chosen to adopt this week, man.
You will have to forgive me if I am not surprised that someone who buys in social justice, hook line, and recently discarded chains is opposed to petitioning to stop social justice courses in universities.
You'll have to forgive me for not being surprised by this, because it's not like you've taken a look at the evolution of your wonderful set of ideological ideals, evidently.
So let me be the first to inform you that they're not really creating healthy, intelligent and well-balanced individuals.
These courses are producing intellectual and social basket cases who cannot bear to hear an opinion that didn't come from the little red social justice book.
They treat all dissent with the same intolerance.
Look, it's easy to define what is and is not a social justice course.
They are literally called social justice courses.
It's easy to define what is and isn't a social justice course because social justice is generally written in the name.
And I mean literally called like a master's in human rights, culture and social justice, or a minor in social justice, or a social justice and education master's degree.
I mean, do you even know what they're teaching?
I mean, you must know you read this stuff, right?
You don't just read Marx.
I mean, look, right?
I have here a book called Towards a Political Philosophy of Race.
Now, you might think that this was written by Adolf Hitler and that is actually describing Nazism.
But no, this is written by Falguni Sheff, a professor at, oh sorry, let me just get the tab up to remind myself.
Professor at Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies.
That sounds healthy.
But let me just read you two very brief passages from the beginning.
And this, do you want this person indoctrinating students?
Listen to this.
I did not encounter the topic of race.
Indeed, in seminars and discussions, even in the hallway, the question of race was usually roundly ignored.
When it was infrequently raised, it was only to be laughed off as a contingent, superficial, and ineligible for the status of deep theory.
And indeed, it was laughable to think how Heindeger would handle race or why race should be a necessary consideration in the framework of the Frankfurt School.
After all, Max Horkheimer, Theodore O'Dorno, and Walter Benjamin had already undergone severe tribulations as the result of racial attitudes under the policy of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
That's page one of the introduction.
Page three of the introduction.
I was still frustrated with philosophy, American political theory, and the academic discipline of philosophy at large.
Why did the concept of race have to be dealt with as a standalone concept or an add-on feature to another core field?
Why wasn't race considered an intrinsic feature of law, of political institutions, of political frameworks?
How could you have racially discriminatory laws and think you are not a giant goddamn regressive?
Honestly, that is just, that blows my mind.
Anyone who considers themselves in any way liberal or left-leaning is asking for racially discriminating laws.
I mean, you are nuts if you think that's...
that actually hurts my head.
You must be insane to think that that is in any way something that we should be having taught as a legitimate...
I mean, it refutes itself in two pages.
One after another.
The entire thing just gets refuted.
Why don't we do that?
Well, you know why.
You know why we're not going to have racially discriminatory laws, even though they are now advocating for them.
Why do you think Black Lives Matter were like, no, we need black-only segregated safe spaces, man?
Seriously, these people are teaching poison.
The issue with these social justice courses can be summarized as this.
A sociology course should teach you about Marxism.
A sociology course should not only teach you Marxism.
Nobody is suggesting that these subjects should not be taught.
We are saying that the method by which they are being taught has become corrupted.
I didn't say throw it all out.
said suspend it now I'm sure that some of it is still good but temporarily hold them so they can be assessed as something because something has clearly gone wrong That social justice courses are creating totalitarians who want to dominate all spheres of life, from the nursery to the nursing home, terrifies me more than anything.
The tyranny of someone whose conscience permits their tyranny is a future so bleak it might as well be taught in a social justice course because it fits neatly beside all the other dystopian worldviews that are taught there.
Nothing I said in the position I have not substantiated many times over on my channel.
So you can sit there and go, well, what about this?
You have to prove all this.
I've proven all of this.
I have said nothing I have not proven a dozen goddamn times.
This is why I left a link to my channel if people want to know more.
Or you can read the comments because people are putting their reasoning in there as well.
In fact, I am sick of demonstrating how obviously wrong social justice is.
And the thing is, you say that, you know, let's not fetishise hard science.
What, empiricism?
Are you insane?
Are you suggesting there's something more important than reality?
I don't think that is something that can be fetishized.
I can't believe you would think, well, I mean, that's a good start for a worldview, but maybe I'll choose not empiricism as the basis of my worldview.
And then you're like, okay, and it's okay to teach this to impressionable teenagers who are coming for an education that isn't based on reality.
And now I'm starting to understand how you think anarcho-communism is not an oxymoron.
The root of these absurd ideas is based in pseudoscience.
Even if you think the way students are turning out is a good thing, and I doubt you do, isn't suspending the courses and correcting the misinformation in them just a common sense thing that needs to be done.
I mean, they do claim to be social science.
Do you not agree they should have some scientific standard to live up to?
And the thing is, there are, it's not just right-wing people like me, right-wing liberals.
This has gone beyond political labels.
Do you understand?
This isn't a partisan thing.
There are conservatives supporting this.
There are progressives supporting this.
And then there are liberals supporting this.
And we are all in agreement that there is something gone terribly wrong with social justice.
The way it's being taught in universities, you can't deny it.
It's too obvious.
We've video evidence of this shit going down.
Honestly, everyone can see that having a ravenous generation of easily triggered millennial Twitchers rushing around to prevent other people from saying nasty words by shouting them down with endless slurs that are just character assassination is going to be a bad idea.
No matter what good they might be thinking they think they're doing, no matter what political ideology you're talking about.
Right-wing, left-wing, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Merely the act of doing these things is in and of itself bad.
And these people all think they're morally justified in doing it.
Okay, this is the problem we're having.
This is the fucking problem.
Now, I know you're going to claim this as an argument from popularity.
But instead of being the Wikipedia intellectual you think I am, ask yourself, do I really believe 30,000 racists and sexist assholes have signed a petition to end social justice in universities or to suspend it?
Do I really think 30,000 absolute disgusting bigots would go out of their day to go out of the way to sign a petition?
Why would they be signing a petition?
Wouldn't they just be sending horrible messages to various SJWs or various women or black people or whatever it is you think the bigots are doing?
I mean, would they even couch this in the way I've couched it?
Wouldn't they be like, you know, black people are a danger to society or something?
Would they really be talking about individual rights?
Would they really be talking about freedom of expression?
I don't think they would.
And the thing is, is there not like even a niggling doubt in your mind that maybe you're wrong.
Maybe this isn't 30,000 racists and sexists.
Maybe this is 30,000 people who can see something wrong and are so motivated to try and convince you that something is wrong, but you simply won't listen, that they have gone to the extent of signing a petition that is literally just, look, this has to just halt.
We need to just put the brakes on and figure out where, you know, what fucking turning we should have gone down, because we're going down the wrong one.
Is there any chance they know something you don't know?
Just ask yourself.
I'm just, you know, I wouldn't even have that kind of confidence in my own ideas.
If there was literally a petition like this to end and liberal teaching, I'd be like, oh shit, okay, maybe something is wrong.
And you would probably say, well, why do you do that with regards to social justice?
And I've spent the last three years doing that.
And this is the conclusion I have come to.
That this is a bizarre odyssey that I am going through.
Into the eye of madness.
People who are advocating for things that, I mean, like this, they know people who suffered under the Nazis because of racial discrimination by the state.
Then they're like, why don't we discriminate based on race?
So look, you gave questions and not rebuttals for a reason.
I am not proposing anything other than halting a cancer that we have watched metastasize in real time.
There is a problem.
I think we can identify the problem.
We should halt what is going on and cut out the bad and replace it with good.
This isn't that difficult.
We just need to just look at what they're doing and identify the stuff that's bollocks.
I mean, it doesn't even have to be asking me independent commissions or something.
I don't know.
And for libertarians, I have not invoked any kind of governmental body in this.
I am petitioning the universities themselves under the presumption they care about their own academic integrity.
Obviously, I'm charitable.
But the thing is, these courses are really, really dangerous.
and they are going to cause much worse problems further down the line.
I mean, I mean, if it wouldn't, one of the problems is that they are being taught by ideological fanatics who simply indoctrinate their students into a cult of guilt and then actively encourage and participate in the protests that happen because of this guilt that has been internalized.
It's the guilt of other people as well.
It's not even something they've done.
None of these dorky ass students have oppressed anyone, and yet they're running around screaming, oh my god, I'm oppressing.
Black people say, dude, you're a fucking 120 pound loser.
You're not oppressing anyone.
If anything, you're probably being oppressed by something, even if it's literally just the presence of other people, and yet they're screaming at these dudes going.
You're oppressing people, I'm oppressing people.
Everyone's a racist.
Come on, come on, don't tell me.
This shit doesn't have to stop.
Just think of Melissa Click at the University OF Missouri indoctrinating students into this bullshit, encouraging them to go and protest and then using them as muscle to suppress the press at the event.
These people should not be teaching courses.
Come on, for fuck's sake.
These courses need to be stopped.
They need to be blanket assessed, all of them.
I'm i'm petitioning each and every university.
I know that sounds like a good deal.
I'm not ordering them.
I don't have to create an infrastructure to make this happen.
I'm asking each single one, please just think about at least just think about the idea that there are 30 000 people who are literally in opposition to the existence of these courses in their current state, and they want you to know it.
This isn't like my petition, it's their petition.
Now it's all of our petition, we 30 000 individuals who are like, no, this is a real issue, this is really fucking serious.
Okay, so the point is not that I have authority from on high because again, you guys are all authoritarians, you don't understand.
This is a grassroots movement of people petitioning an institution because we are dealing with the effects of the bullshit that's coming out of this institution.
If it didn't Have any effect on me, if it was totally benign, I would ignore it.
I'm sure there is-I mean, like the flat earthers, I don't care what they say.
I don't, I could mock them all day, it would be hilarious.
But they are not a problem.
Let them believe the earth is fucking flat.
Let them.
But saying that everyone is racist is completely different.
Now, this has moral implications.
Now, this can be used as a weapon against others.
It no, no, it's nonsense.
You know it's nonsense.
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