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Sept. 9, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
29:08
Rich Kids Love Social Justice
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I can't relate.
I certainly wish that I could afford that all people of color could have the luxury of living in this magical fairy tale land that white people such as yourselves have the luxury of living in.
So, let's talk about privilege.
Let's talk about the privilege that social justice warriors so self-evidently display and yet so fervently deny.
So let's start by talking about a very successful YouTuber called Trey Melvin.
He's a young chap who has 3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel and he puts out videos like this.
What's up, y'all?
So I woke up today feeling like clocking some bitches.
So as y'all know, it is Black History Month and throughout the month I have been and will continue to drag quite a few individuals.
If I sound nasally right now, I apologize.
I'm low-key sick as fuck.
I just want to start off by giving a huge shout out to white people who understand white privilege.
I can't even begin to express how much I admire white people who don't sit there and act like white privilege isn't a thing, who understand their privilege and how they benefit from their privilege and are vocal about it because that can't be easy.
Yeah, I can't stand those autistic jump cuts either, but doesn't he have a hell of a nice watch?
Y'all white privilege doesn't exist, motherfuckers.
Y'all all lives matter, motherfucker.
Yo, solid gold watch, motherfuckers are accessories to the black struggle.
You motherfuckers think black lives matter insinuates that other lives don't.
No!
Black Lives Matter insinuates that black lives matter too.
It isn't an anti-white movement, it is a pro-black movement.
You see, the new face of racism is not in your face racism, but structural racism.
He white!
Finish it!
Gotta get beat up!
Every white person!
Oh, Trey, the Nagaskar shouldn't be family or something.
Army tanks coming down his motherfucker.
Oh, God!
That was Chris Rock reporting from the Milwaukee riots.
But Trey, I feel your pain, man.
It must be really hard being the only race that can suffer from racism.
And it's pretty obvious that Trey Melvin has no privileges whatsoever, which is precisely what fellow YouTuber Jeff Holiday was pointing out when he decided to tweet at him.
Jeff's done a great couple of videos on this, I'll leave in the description.
But I just wanted to address one thing, and that was Trey's reply, which took the form of a video that he tweeted back at Jeff.
Hey, Jeff, Trey here.
You're so fucking ignorant that I figured I would address the subject matter with you via video.
I figured that you hearing my voice, you know, that that would help.
It would help resonate.
It would help you comprehend the subject at hand a little better.
God damn, he is so fucking pretty, isn't he?
God, I have dated women less pretty than this guy.
I want him as part of my harem.
However, I need a little help comprehending whatever the fuck it is going on in there, whatever the fuck it is going on in that little minuscule white brain of yours.
Trey, my dude, am I gonna have to red-pill you about your minuscule black brain?
So according to you, my blackness, the oppression of my blackness, magically disappears due to the zeros in my bank account.
Is that right?
Listen, Dollface, it's more about a sense of perspective.
Your blackness really does pale into insignificance when the people you're dealing with learn about the zeros in your bank account.
And your nice fucking watch is a really good way of showing them that you have plenty of zeros in your bank account.
That because of the money that I make, I can't experience oppression.
If you live in a society that's oppressing black people, why would it allow those black people to get rich?
I mean, for fuck's sake, Trey, historically, oppression begins with wealth and land confiscation.
Do you think the white man's going to burst in and steal your nice fucking watch?
As a black man in America.
That's hilarious.
Truly, honestly.
That is hilarious.
I certainly wish that that were the case two years ago when I was purchasing a home for my mother in a white neighborhood and found myself not only imprisoned, but with seven guns in front of my face.
You were buying a fucking house for your mother, not even for you.
That's an impressive level of wealth you have, Trey.
But don't tell me, you're there standing in the street, mind your own business, fluttering your eyelashes at the estate agents, and then the paddy wagon rolls by.
You know, the one that's painted white and has the logo emblazoned on the sign, Nigger Patrol.
And they just screech your whole ERR!
And that was it.
Not only did you not get to buy your mum her own house, but you spent the rest of your life in a cotton field, never to make a YouTube video again.
Right?
Prior to.
That would have really come in handy then.
It would have saved me a lot of heartache, a lot of money, a lot of time.
Honestly, it sounds like you have all the money you need, you have all the time you need, and it seems like heartache is actually how you make your money.
So, you know, you're welcome.
You know, had I not had to undergo that situation, would save me a lot of heartache in my everyday life.
You know, being a little too dark behind the wheel of a car, a little too nice, you know what I mean?
Wouldn't have to, uh, wouldn't have to hold my breath every time I pass a police officer.
Can't tell you how many times I've been pulled over, um, and the officer didn't have an explanation for pulling me over.
I'd love to take all of these stories at Face Valley, Trey, but I think at best I would regard you as an unreliable narrator.
That'd be nice.
It would be nice if I could fill up the gas tank of my car and didn't have to worry about, you know, being in the wrong area.
You know what I mean?
No, not really.
I mean, before I started making videos on YouTube, when I was worrying about filling up the tank of my car, I was worried I couldn't afford to pay for the petrol.
But, you know, not the quality of the area I was in, Jesus.
I mean, that wasn't really a problem because I knew that if someone wanted to come around and steal something from me, they were shit out of luck.
The wrong city, the wrong part of southern Mississippi, southern Louisiana, southern Georgia.
Southern Milwaukee.
Anywhere, really, and have to worry about being kicked out of a gas station, rushed out of a gas station, nigger this, nigger that.
Get the fuck out, we'll lynch you type shit.
You know what I mean?
Well, that's terrible, and it sounds like it happens on a daily basis.
So here's my guarantee to you, Trey.
I wouldn't even lynch you.
I know that you can't really relate.
Here's something that I can try and help you relate to, though.
This is me.
This is the color of my skin.
You see this blackness.
I know you can't relate to this good melon and this is something that will always be with me.
Money has absolutely nothing to do with this.
Money will never change this.
And the color of your skin will never change the power of money.
Because have you noticed, the people being shot by the police in disproportionate numbers are poor.
I can stand in front of a police officer.
I can commit the same crime as you.
And I can stand in front of a police officer.
You can stand right next to me.
I guarantee you, you won't be the one to come up dead.
Okay, so you're going to guarantee this by shooting yourself in the head.
I guarantee you that, Jeffrey.
The thing is, Trelin, you don't actually have any means of guaranteeing this unless you were going to commit suicide on the spot.
Because you have no idea what the cop's going to do.
And you have no idea what the situation will be.
And you will have no idea what on earth Jeff will do.
I mean, you're assuming that every fucking cop is white.
There are plenty of black cops who shoot black people because the black people are doing something the cop deems worthy of pulling out his gun and shooting that person, whether rightly or wrongly.
You're talking about a race issue when what you should be talking about is a class issue.
But I wonder why that's a privilege you don't want to discuss.
Is it because, and just hear me out here, you'd have to fucking check it, wouldn't you?
You would have to check your motherfucking class privilege.
Nice fucking watch, Trey.
I bet Jeff wishes he could afford one just like it.
Money does not equal privilege.
And this is what you, a 23-year-old rich kid, thinks, isn't it?
I mean, this is what you actually believe.
In fact, say it against me, Trey.
I just, I have to hear it again.
Money does not equal privilege.
Honestly, Trey, before watching your video, I had never even conceived that a human being might even know what wealth was without knowing that an overabundance of it was obviously going to come with privilege.
I mean, just the idea that there are rich people out there going, you know what, I'm not privileged just because I'm rich.
I didn't really think it was possible.
I honestly didn't think it was possible.
I assumed that even the wealthiest of people would see the poor people who work for them and think, I do have it better than they do.
You know, and I have it better than they do because I can afford to pay them.
So my money must be some kind of privilege.
And it could be a rightly earned privilege.
This isn't to say that privilege in itself is necessarily a negative thing.
If you've earned something, you deserve that privilege.
A homeless, poor white male still has more privilege than I will ever have, regardless of the money that I make.
Trey, my dude, get a fucking grip on what you're saying.
Do you not remember what they taught you at the SJW indoctrination camp?
Privilege is invisible to those who have it.
You have a privilege, it is invisible to you, and now you, a smarmy rich twat, are so entitled to this privilege that you're turning around and saying, no, no, no, it's the homeless white man who's the privileged one.
Just, just the idea, I just...
Oh, man, this guy can't even fucking feed himself.
He can't clothe himself.
He doesn't have a home.
Who knows where his family is, if he even has one.
I mean, literally, this homeless white guy is just on the street on his own.
Nobody gives a shit about him.
He has nothing in all the world.
And he spends his nights shivering and freezing on the fucking sidewalk.
And then you're there in your fucking lovely plush house with your gold watch weighing down your right arm, your skinny right arm, saying, I'll tell you, it's hard to be this oppressed.
It's fucking hard.
Go get me another joint.
I'm going to fucking light up.
We're going to order out.
We'll watch some Netflix and then we'll just think about just how hard it is to be as oppressed as we are.
I need you to understand that.
That's because you're an entitled little bitch.
You, a wealthy person, is taking giant steaming shits on poor people And then telling them they should be fucking grateful.
And you're like, I need you to understand this.
Of course, you do.
Because if they don't understand this, and you sit there and actually objectively think about what you're saying, you'll realize you're a horrible person, Trey.
You are just a horrible human being.
And you need this because you need Jeff to play into your delusion.
Because otherwise, you can't emotionally justify telling poor people that they fucking owe you something just because they're white and you're black.
And when you finally humble yourself enough to realize the great disparity in fortune between you and a homeless person, when you finally realize how awful a person you actually are and how tipped in your favour the scales are, you're going to really want to redress the balance and it's going to eat you up inside.
And that day is coming.
I desperately need you to understand that.
There's going to be no guilt on Jeff's shoulders if he doesn't understand that.
There will be guilt on your shoulders and you're the person who will have to carry that around.
Just think about it.
And in closing.
Is anyone else buying into this act at all?
This stem moodily at the camera to show you just how serious I am for an extended and really uncomfortable periods of time, just so you know, I'm the one with the moral high ground here.
What does that say about every...
What does your argument say about every other black American who does not make the same amount of money as I do?
Where does...
Where's their privilege?
Where do they stand?
What does their oppression stand?
That skin colour is not some sort of universal litmus test to determine if someone is privileged or not, you fucking idiots.
Look, I'm going to play you side by side with the Milwaukee rioters.
How much do you think you actually have in common with these people?
I mean, on a day-to-day basis, what you get up and you do in your life, how much do you think it looks like what these people do?
I bet it's really different, isn't it?
I mean, you get up in a nice house, what, four, five-bedroom?
Maybe you've stayed over at your mum's house, the one that you bought for her.
And you get up probably whenever you want.
You know, maybe you've got an appointment with Keep or something like that, but, you know, you're in charge of your own time.
You're in charge of your money.
You're in charge of your life.
You're getting on.
You've got opportunities in front of you.
Do you think these rioters have opportunities?
Do you think that they're well-spoken?
Do you think they're eloquent?
Do you think they're lyricists like you are?
So much so that people at, I don't know, MTV and YouTube and wherever are interested in hiring them.
Are interested in using them as a mouthpiece for their regressive ideas?
Of course not.
These people are so under-educated, they can barely speak English.
This must be a result of the American philosophy of a classless society.
As if such a thing could even exist.
Maybe it's because I'm British, or maybe it's a European thing.
I would be interested to know how other Europeans perceive this.
Because the class privilege of SJWs just roars at me.
And I can't not see it.
And I'm always amazed that Americans.
I mean, literally, Trey is literally saying, wealth is not privilege.
It's amazing as well because wealth is the one thing that can buy privilege.
Even in a racist society, vast amounts of wealth would be able to buy you privilege.
I mean, it's like Trey doesn't understand that there's a reason why the conquerors appropriate the wealth of the conquered.
And recently there's been a spate of these viral videos going around of upper class SJWs berating working class men.
And it infuriates me.
I mean, look at this.
You got that was adorable.
You didn't think about like the pillaging of the like continent of Hawaii.
It's painful, isn't it?
It's painful just how obviously spoiled this person is, and how obviously not spoiled the taxi driver is, if I recall correctly, he was an Asian man.
And she's found a way to have a go at this working class guy for something that it's likely her ancestors actually might have done.
But now somehow, because he is a man, and I presume she thinks he's white, she thinks that he is somehow connected to the people who pillaged the continent of Hawaii.
I didn't even know there was a pillar taking.
Oh, you didn't?
Okay, so you won't get rid of the doll then?
Because that was like really cute thing when you found that goodwill.
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with him having a Hawaiian hula doll on his dashboard.
But she knows that.
And yet, she's pushing the issue because she wants him to do what she says.
Uh, I'll get rid of it because of that.
I just don't realize it was offensively.
But, so, obviously, like, you as, like, a white male...
I called it.
Anything she says from here on out based on the you're a white male is because I'm going to generalize about your race and your gender and assume these generalizations apply to you.
Which in this guy's case they obviously don't.
You are like the least like but now you're judging me you're assuming wrong.
No, I'm not.
Yes you literally are.
I'm not judging you.
I'm just saying like that perhaps like you might be the person who is least hurt in this situation.
Notice how she's trying to fabricate a victim where none exists.
No one is a victim of oppression or is in any way hurt by this guy having a hula dancer on his dashboard.
But she wants to be able to put herself in the frame of the victim.
Say, look, I am representing the poor, oppressed people of Hawaii, so you need to do as I say and take down the hula girl.
I'm a passenger in your car.
Like that doll is offensive to me.
But you don't want to take it down because you like found it at Goodwill and it was a good find.
I don't know, I'm just going to take it down so I just put this...
Yeah, no, I do want you to because it's actually deeply offensive.
Now I do want you to take it down.
For literally no good reason.
There is nothing that compels this man to take this down.
So why would she think she has anything that would compel him to take it down?
This is just the most entitled thing I've ever seen in my life and it gets worse.
Alright, well I mean obviously you're gonna give me a one star but I'm not taking it down so I'm sorry about that.
She has somehow got him apologizing to her for him refusing to allow her to dominate him arbitrarily to boss him around in his own fucking taxi.
I'm gonna do worse than give you a one star.
You don't want to drop me off over here or at the next exit I can't do that but no I would like you to take me to my destination.
I'm warmed up but I'm not sure my beautiful lady Lola is offending you.
That's okay.
You're gonna be on Gawker.
And that's all the class privilege you will ever need to see to know that this person is also a fucking horrible person.
Not only is she confident in her own position and connections, she's the one employing him and she's the one being punitive when he refuses to comply with something he doesn't have to comply with.
She's getting vindictive.
Now she's going to try and ruin his life.
She's going to try and make a big deal out of this.
Well, she kind of has.
I think that taxi driver's turned into a bit of a fucking hero.
Humorous, but I mean that's a threat.
I mean what kind of piece of shit would threaten over something as trivial as this?
No, and you will be published on Gawker.
And you'll be like the next internet meme.
It's going to be super funny.
If I wasn't really lazy, I probably would go find a snug Pepe and just put that on the screen.
Just, you know.
I am lazy though, so I didn't.
Yeah.
I mean, like, God forbid, like, anyone take your special Hawaiian doll away from you.
And now comes the shaming.
The doll is obviously not something he can't live without, but he is obviously resisting your attempts to control him.
Because there's no reason why he should let you control him.
And now you're shaming him for not letting you control him.
That's how unbelievably entitled this woman is.
Just, God, I feel sorry for her future husband.
Because it's a thing that actually affects my life and the thing that doesn't affect your life.
At this point, I would have assumed I'm dealing with a dangerous lunatic, and I would have taken her to the authorities to get her sectioned.
I'm Asian as well.
Okay, so what is your Asian heritage?
See, there's a game the SJWs play called The Progressive Stack, and he's just put down his chips.
And now he's saying, look, I'm Asian, and so she has to test his racial purity to see exactly how oppressed he is.
That is literally a prerequisite of intersectional social justice.
To be racially one way or another.
And I don't know whether they have a one-drop rule or not.
I'll ask.
No, it's not irrelevant.
It's actually super relevant.
Well, I guess if his race is super relevant, then maybe you do have a one-drop rule.
Really?
Yeah, so which part of it is not irrelevant?
Yeah, you're irrelevant.
The fact that you care that much about something that is on his dashboard?
Yes, I do.
Actually, care a lot.
Not sad.
It's not sad.
It's important.
Apply cold water to burned area.
Did you say it was pathetic?
Can I have your name, please?
Weird how she'd want her name, isn't it?
It's almost like this is a competition now, and there's an undertone of, I'm going to enact punitive measures against you from after this.
Gorka is going to hear about this.
Just you wait.
I'm a very respectable person, and the fact that you're taking offense to that, like, I'll take a picture of you.
That's a disrespectful object that you have in your car.
And whether you're Asian or not, you should be considerate to the fact that you might have passengers that don't find that thing to be.
No, it just said, like, you can set it down for a second.
And this is how you know this was about control.
It's not acceptable for him to just set it down for a second.
This thing is offensive and has to be removed.
But now she's down to bargaining with him.
Go on, just do what I'm asking for a second.
And then you can put it back up.
It means it doesn't matter whether it's up or down.
It just matters whether he does what she wants.
It might be not amusing to all passengers.
You're going to experience this again, by the way.
And so I hope that from this lesson, like today.
You're being rude, actually.
It's just a beautiful thing to watch now.
Just the way that she's just lost this so badly.
She's been so rubbish at what she's done.
She's overplayed her hands so severely and embarrassed herself so thoroughly that I just it's kind of a pleasure to watch her go.
No, I'm not being rude.
There's one way to tell somebody something and there's another way in which how you're doing it and you're not being pleasant to me.
Oh, because I wasn't nice enough to you.
If an SJW saw this, they'd be thinking, rich white valley girl oppresses poor Asian person of colour.
But you know, I love this.
You're the one being rude, mate.
How dare you?
How very dare you?
I wasn't nice enough to you for this thing.
That's fine.
I have been video recording the entire time.
I'm excited.
That's cool, and I'm being respectful to you.
No, you're not.
You have been actually very rude and extremely entitled.
I wonder if she really believes that.
I wonder if she actually thinks that, or if this is just another tactic to try and bring him to heal.
I'm sorry that my Hawaiian lady isn't friendly, Joe.
Yeah, I'm sorry that you have no consideration for actual Hawaiian people who don't want to be a bobblehead item in your car while you're driving for a lift.
You fucking selfish, dumbass idiot.
I'm being rude.
You are being rude.
You have no connection to this culture.
You know what that is?
That's a cute little bubble item that you had in your car that you don't know anything about and you're an idiot.
Thank you very much for your opinion.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Maybe you will think about it tomorrow when you wake up in the morning.
I very much will.
It's gonna be awesome.
Thank you so much.
I'm ending this ride right now, so if you'd like to call another lib, you can go ahead and get it.
Here, you can take me all the way to my house.
No, yes, you do.
I'm gonna drop off.
Here's the sidewalk.
Have a wonderful night.
Thank you.
Yep.
I'm so excited.
Can I have your name again?
Nope.
Have a great day.
Yes, I can.
Can I have a nice thing?
And this is how we know that this is a threat of action in the future.
Obviously, a complaint or a letter writing thing or being on Gawker and being shamed on social media and all that sort of thing.
This is how we know that she's threatening him because the app she's using to alert the taxi gives her the driver's name.
She already has his name, but she just wants him to do what she says.
And he knows this.
That's why I said, no.
No, I don't have to do any of this.
Get out.
On the subject of names...
Can I get you?
Mm-hmm, yeah.
You want my name?
Yeah, sure.
It's humongous.
Okay.
Humongous what?
Humongous.
Humongous what?
Humongous.
Humongous what?
Humongous.
Humongous what?
That's what it is.
Humongous what?
Is that sexual harassment?
No, it's humongous.
Then why did you say that to me?
What?
Humongous what?
Is that sexual harassment?
Is that what you just did when you said that to me?
What, humongous?
Why would you say that to me?
Yes, but my name.
Why would you say that to me?
Why would I say it to you?
Why would you say that to me?
Why would you ask me my name?
What?
Humongous what?
Humongous what?
This person just sexually just spoke to me in a sexually harassing way.
Yeah, he did.
He said, do you know what my name is?
And I said, what?
And he said, humongous.
I'm not so sure if this is class privilege or female privilege, but there is definitely some entitlement going here, isn't there?
My God, if I just ramp this up and ramp this up and ramp this up suddenly, I'm the victim of rape because he said his name to me.
And it wasn't even his real name.
It was an innuendo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, honestly.
It was amazing.
I know.
What the fuck?
This person just sexually harassed me.
Yes, yeah, that's right.
That's right!
Humongous!
Oh, oh, oh, so now you're actually pointing to yourself.
You're actually pointing to your body parts.
Body parts, just random.
Could be anything.
Could be his ear.
Could be his cock and balls.
Could be either one.
They're just as likely.
You know, he's pointing to a body part.
It was probably sexual.
And you're actually pointing to your body parts and saying that you're humongous.
You're actually doing that.
I can see the headline on Jezebel.com tomorrow.
Man rapes woman by pointing at the erect penis and yelling, I'm humongous.
Oh wait, no, Jezebel's gone down.
That will have to go on the Huffington Post.
And this is the person who just got interviewed as a pro-bunker person of colour, as if you- as if you represent us.
There we are with the old racial purity tests again, Mr. Mungus.
You are not ethnic enough.
I don't even know what ethnicity you are.
She's probably gonna say that you're a white person or something in a minute.
They're using you as a token, and then you speak to me in a sexually harassing manner.
How dare you?
How dare you?
They're using you as a token is half of that.
How dare you?
Which I assume accounts for the increased amplitude.
How very dare you, sir!
But isn't the media using him as a token something she should get angry at the media for?
Disgusting!
Disgusting!
Shame, shame, shame!
Maybe if I chant it enough, people will join in.
Disgusting!
You just abused a woman!
You just abused a woman, and you have the audacity!
You have the audacity to say that girls matter!
How dare you!
How dare you, you disgusting person!
She literally knows nothing about this guy who sounds like a pretty fucking working class schlub to me and is now calling him a disgusting person.
Just amazing, because he got interviewed and she didn't.
That's what it is.
Envy.
Disgusting!
Don't touch me!
Don't touch me!
Are you gonna do anything about how you sexually harass me?
And there we go.
I want you to do my bidding for me.
Are you gonna do something about this man?
This man I want to humble and put into his place because he had something I want and I didn't get it.
I think we'll end there.
You guys will know how Humongus ends up saving the princess and destroying the evil witch and then riding back as a conquering hero to fanfare and applause.
Just like all the people who've got the stones to turn around and tell the SJWs to just fuck off.
Are you gonna do anything about her, sexy harass?
You're asking me to leave us!
Did you ask him to leave?
Did you ask him to leave?
Did you ask him to- Are you following him?
Did you ask him to start sexually harassing you?
What is your name?
You work for the city.
We are here in a public place.
You need to tell me what your name is.
My name is Tennell.
Yeah.
Now what?
Tenell.
You are asked if you don't work for us.
And that means I don't have to do any why.
You don't work for us.
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