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Oct. 7, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Due Diligence

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	Hello everyone, in this video I will be doing my due diligence and addressing a different collection of points, some good, some bad, and at the end I will be issuing a mere culpa, so stick around for that if you want to see me eating some humble pie.
	I'll be talking about myself quite a lot in this video, and I do apologise in advance for that.
	I don't really relish talking about myself, but since I'm on the subject, I may as well promote my other channel so people who have recently subscribed know what else I do.
	I think my most important secondary channel is my livestream channel where I do This Week in Stupid extra streams with guests, various other discussion streams whenever necessary or whenever I feel like it, and I run a Cyberpank campaign because I am a massive nerd.
	I also run a history focus channel called Ancient Recitations where I read ancient or not-so-ancient texts, and sometimes I'll put up walking tours of places where if I've been somewhere exciting, I'll put a GoPro on my head and explore it and record it.
	So if people who can't go there want to see it, they can see it from a first-person view.
	Lastly, there is my shit posting channel, which is Vevictus, which I don't recommend anyone subscribe to at all.
	It is not worth your time.
	All I do is waste my time on it, but it's often cathartic and childishly amusing to me and at least a few other people.
	So, like I said, I don't recommend it, but it does exist.
	It's basically the YouTube version of my Twitter feed, which again, I do not recommend, but if you are interested, all of these links will be in the description.
	So, people often ask me, what channels do I watch, and I watch a lot of the larger ones that I'm sure you're familiar with, so I won't bother promoting them here.
	I think I'll talk about some of the smaller ones that I watch on a regular basis, just to let you know what I get out of them, and, you know, hopefully promote them a bit as well, because generally these channels are quite good and deserve more coverage than they get.
	Before I start, I just want to say that these are not necessarily endorsements of these people or everything that they do.
	These are just the channels that I watch, and the first one is a prime example of this.
	It's a chap called Styx Hexenhammer666, who does amazingly good political commentary.
	He is direly undersubbed, based on just his political knowledge alone.
	But he is a bit of an odd chap, and he does have this kind of fetish for magic, what he genuinely seems to believe is real.
	And, for example, he seems to think that Hillary's health is being damaged by some kind of magic sent by the alt-right and their memes.
	I'm not making that up.
	I'm not trying to be a dick, because I mean, to me, that sounds a bit absurd.
	But that doesn't detract from the quality of his political commentary, which he does keep generally quite separate from the occult videos he does, and he marks the occult videos as a cult, so if it's not your sort of thing, you can avoid them.
	Of course, if that is your sort of thing, then you can watch those as well, I'm sure.
	But yeah, his channel's really very good, and I really like his style of commentary, and he is always on point.
	He really pays attention.
	He's definitely worth checking out.
	The next is a chap called Hagbard Selene, who I discovered when he had, I think it was, 63 subscribers, and what drew me to him is that he was the first person I heard to point out that people keep comparing feminism to a religion because they use it to explain everything.
	It's an entire all-encompassing worldview.
	And that was, I thought, a great point.
	And I started watching his videos.
	And the more I watched, the more I liked him, as not just his commentary and his insights, which are excellent, but also for the person he seems to be.
	He, I know this is going to sound weird, he seems to be a street philosopher.
	He's well read, very well read.
	And he's also spent time in the sort of more rough areas of life, and I don't want to, I don't know too much about him, so I don't want to go into it too much, but he definitely comes across, and you can tell that he has some direct experience with some fairly low-down and shady characters.
	And that's to his credit, because it's given him a breadth of life experience that I think is valuable, and it's definitely worth listening to.
	Like I said, these are all people whose videos I watch on a regular basis, and I would definitely recommend Hagabard Selene.
	These are in no particular order, and Dr. Randomacam is a channel I think I've promoted three other times before now, and every time I'm always disappointed to see how few people watch his videos, because he is, he is an artist.
	He is an artist and a poet, and has a beautiful, just a magnificent way with words, to the point where I literally don't know what he's going to say next, but every time he speaks, I find myself hanging on his every word.
	His rhetorical style is so relaxed and yet so intense, I really have trouble describing it.
	You've really got to watch it to understand what I mean.
	But he really is an engaging fellow, and I have a great deal of affection for him as a person as well.
	He's truly an introspective character.
	And this shows in the way that he dissects the arguments that are presented to him.
	Thoroughly recommended.
	The next is a chap called Zarathustra's Serpent, who came to my attention after delivering some criticism to me, which was absolutely excellent.
	He really helped me understand where I was going wrong on a few certain points, and his critiques really set me on the right road to understanding my own deficiencies in certain areas.
	He is a very well-learned man, and he can really help you understand the finer points of why social justice is such a problem, and how to really get to the root of it.
	Again, really an excellent channel to follow.
	And as a quick message to Zarathustra's Serpent, I know you've been trying to contact me, but I didn't find the tweet that you sent me to try and get in contact.
	So please comment on the video or DM me or tweet me or something, because I really would like to hang out with you sometime, and I don't know how to contact you.
	I couldn't find you on Twitter, so please let me know what your handle is.
	Gary Edwards is a professor of philosophy, and he's one of the few professors I've seen, like, take an open stance against the activities of social justice warriors in universities.
	He's such a lovely, mild-mannered chap, but he has a very wry wit that comes through in his videos, and he's not afraid to speak his mind plainly, although that might sound like it's a bit of an oxymoron given the advanced nature of his vocabulary.
	But he is very good, and he has set me straight on a number of things, which I greatly appreciate.
	And very much like Zarathustra's Serpent, has helped me understand where I was going wrong in certain places, and has never been shy to answer my questions, which is something I hold in high regard.
	And his channel is just fabulous.
	I'm always excited when he puts a new video up, because even if I don't necessarily agree with him, like I didn't agree with him on Brexit, for example, I know at least I'm going to learn something new.
	My dudes, if you are not subscribed to Dr. Lehman, there is something wrong with you.
	You are probably a Germanophobe.
	If a Deutsche Pobe, maybe?
	But Lehman is an actual social scientist who is actually concerned with social justice and actually does good work.
	He doesn't simply blame the white male capitalist patriarchy for everything in a bunch of pseudo-scientific nonsense.
	He actually works with real data and he can really give you some genuine information.
	He has helped me many a time when dealing with some of the social science studies that I'm no expert on, so I'm not too proud to admit that I definitely need help in some ways.
	And Layman has always been really, really eager to help because I think he genuinely wants to see some good come out of all of this, and I do as well.
	And so I've always been very, very grateful to him.
	He even did a video saying that I should buy him Ark, Survival Evolved, and then he proceeded to debunk his own point philosophically within this video.
	That is how intellectually honest he is.
	And I'm still not going to buy you Ark Lehman.
	The next channel is a classical liberal called Voltaire's Ghost, who is a man very much after my own heart, and I very much appreciate his content.
	If only he would make more videos.
	But he does do absolutely excellent work.
	He always has very well researched videos, and they are always from an almost rigidly classically liberal position.
	Personally, I watch his channel because I get to have a bit of confirmation bias.
	I tend to watch a lot of things that challenge me and I don't necessarily agree with.
	And when I watch his channel, I pretty much know I'm going to agree with it, because I know he's coming from the same position as me.
	And a lot of people might think that I watch a lot of things that confirm my own biases, but I actually don't.
	And it's, I'm not going to lie, it's a guilty pleasure to watch his videos because I know I'm just going to just nod the whole time and go, yes.
	Fucking stick it to him, mate.
	And he has a wonderful accent as well, so I definitely recommend it.
	And last but not least, it's my good friend V, who's been a friend of mine since the early days of GameGate, and we do Rick and Houts with on my live channel and whatnot.
	And I talk to him on Skype a lot.
	He's a good buddy of mine, and I really like the guy.
	He's just finished doing a medical degree, which I'm assuming he passed.
	And he is getting better and better and better.
	His early videos, he doesn't have any production quality.
	And so I sat down one day and helped him improve it somewhat.
	And since then, not just the production quality of his videos, but the thought-provoking content of his videos has just, it's really impressed me.
	And if it hadn't really impressed me, I wouldn't be promoting him now.
	But it has, and so I thoroughly recommend you checking him out.
	He's, again, a liberal, and he's often at odds with the same people I'm at odds with from any realm of the political spectrum.
	But that's not the reason I'm promoting him.
	The reason I'm promoting him is genuinely because his work is good.
	I mean, he, as an academic, will go to Google Scholar a lot more often than I will, and he will find relevant information and various studies to back up that information.
	So it's definitely worth your time.
	And he's really funny.
	I mean, he started saying, you know, I'm a comedian.
	And so when he's going through all of these things, he's making all manner of jokes in his hilarious gypsy accent.
	And it's, you know, a real pleasure to listen to.
	So that was rather fun for me.
	I quite enjoy singing the praises of people who I think genuinely deserve it.
	And this, I suppose, is the part where it's going to get less fun for me, where I deal with detractors, which I do on a regular basis.
	But for some reason, there seems to be this idea going around from various kind of detractors I have that I don't address criticism.
	And I find that very bizarre because I spend an awful lot of my time addressing criticism, whether it be in comment sections on Twitter or by video.
	I'll show you an example of what I mean.
	A fellow called Brother John recorded a video called How to Destroy Sargon of a CAD.
	And, well, this is the video.
	It's not very long.
	Are you guys familiar with that kind of bully who will insult you and then, when you react to the insult, will then say, oh, I'm only joking.
	Having filled your head with rage over what the guy said, him then say, oh, I'm only joking.
	You haven't got a sense of humour.
	In essence, make it your fault you feel the way you feel because he was able to incite and then take it back having had the desired effect of making you rage and want to punch him in the face.
	Well, that's what Sargon of a CAD is.
	That's his game.
	That's what he likes to do.
	He's someone who likes to feel intelligent.
	When he does things like that, and he's been doing a lot of that lately, it inflates his ego.
	It makes him feel good about himself.
	Now, real intellectuals, real smart people, don't have to punch down in such a way, don't have to abuse in such a way to feel good about themselves.
	This is something that a breed of person called a cerebral narcissist does.
	That is someone who gains attention by having people believe that they are intelligent and shower them with attention and compliments based on, oh, aren't you so clever?
	No, you just weigh what that man does in his videos.
	He punches down and attacks morons because there's plenty of morons in the world.
	He never punches his own weight.
	And when he's in a position where he's talking to people who are intelligent, he comes across as being an absolute buffoon.
	Things like not really understanding economics other than it be an expression of his own resentment based on the way that he feels that he's been cheated in the past because people haven't been bowing down to Sargon's superior intelligence.
	So he's not an intelligent guy, he's someone who feels like he's an intelligent guy.
	And this is the thing.
	He's pissed off a few people and he's upset a few friends of mine in the past.
	So I normally wouldn't tell tales on someone like this, but in this case, I'm going to make an exception.
	The secret to destroying Sargon is to when he's in an indefensible position based on the stupid things he's done and said, you attack him and you see, just notice that his defense mechanism is an ego inflation to omniscience where he feels more intelligent.
	And from that position, he becomes more arrogant and pours scorn from mounting high on his detractors.
	You just push him to that limit and then listen to what the man has to say because he ain't no smart guy.
	He hasn't got the intelligence that he likes to push out into the world.
	He ain't that smart.
	He's not an intellectual.
	He's someone who's in life only been able to get attention from people by proving to them that he's got some intelligence.
	So it's in essence an act.
	It's a game.
	It's a facade.
	He ain't really that smart.
	Because people who are like that, who can't take criticism, do not really have the ability to learn.
	He can't learn from his mistakes and he can't learn from people who are smarter than he is.
	Because every time he gets his opinions criticized, his ego inflates, he becomes arrogant, he becomes scornful.
	Just push him up that mountain to the top where he feels omniscient and he starts pouring scorn down.
	And you'll see the real Sargon.
	He'll show himself to be the absolute buffoon that he really is.
	And he'll demonstrate to you fully how he's a complete failure in the world of the real and only exists as someone on the internet who picks on little girls.
	Well, I certainly disagree with Brother John that I don't exist in real life.
	I have to confirm I do in fact exist in real life.
	But I don't think I'm like that.
	Or at least not always.
	I mean, maybe I have my moments, but surely everyone does from time to time.
	I doubt I would ever deny that I'm a buffoon and I've certainly never described myself as an intellectual.
	And I don't think of myself, aren't we, to be honest?
	It is rather frustrating when people call me that because what does that even mean?
	You know, what definition are you using?
	I probably am proud, but I don't think I'm too proud to admit when I'm wrong.
	And I don't think I'm too proud to publicly admit when I'm wrong.
	And I find it very amusing how Brother John accuses other people of having mind-reading abilities in a follow-up video after he basically demonstrated his failure of his own mind-reading abilities against me.
	Well, I've had a few comments, as I expected on that video I made about Sargon being hearty and scornful when he's faced with valid criticism.
	I don't tend to run my fucking mouth about things I don't know about.
	And when I do, and somebody else comes along and says, you know, you're wrong about that, I can probably point you in the right direction or could we have a word and I'll explain this to you a little bit better.
	I'm generally delighted to have been educated a little bit more because that's what I'm about.
	I'm about endless constant self-improvement and I never stop learning.
	So I've had a few comments on that video and none of them about me feelings.
	They're just all what I completely expected to get.
	Which was I put it out as to say you've got somebody there in the form of Sargon who cannot handle criticism and his reaction is to be prideful, hearty and fucking scornful when he receives genuine criticism.
	And that stands in the way of him learning.
	So I'm trying to do the guy a favor.
	Honestly, I have a real hard time believing that.
	When your video is titled How to Destroy Sargon of Akad, hashtag alt-right, because I was currently having a bit of a set to with, and in fact, you know, I owe the alt-right an apology.
	I mischaracterized the alt-right as being the ones attacking me.
	It wasn't.
	It was very clearly the white supremacists who were attacking me on Twitter.
	And, you know, I do genuinely owe other people in the alt-right an apology.
	Because there are a lot of people in the alt-right who aren't like that and who are genuinely just part of a political movement because they want to fight back and not because they are some sort of nutty 1488ers.
	So I left him this comment.
	I listened to you and I cannot reconcile what you're saying with how I actually feel or what I've actually done.
	I don't disagree with you at all about listening to valid criticism, but you seem to be simply ignoring the times where I've done exactly what you are accusing me of not doing.
	And let's be honest, your video was called How to Destroy Sargon McCad.
	You weren't trying to do me a favour, and calling me a nigger or a quadroon is not valid criticism, so the crocodile tears just seem absurd.
	It seems to me that you got caught not listening to others in the comments on your video saying Sargon isn't actually as bad as you think, after being a cool psychic, which is a phrase he uses in the video, about how I think and feel, and now you're doubling down on it.
	Anyway, I'm sure this is just me being haughty, so feel free to ignore this.
	Yes, okay, I probably could have left off the sarcastic comment there, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable with what I'm saying there.
	He responds with basically more of the same, complaining that I decided to fight back against the white supremacists in the alt-right.
	And apparently I haven't addressed valid criticism from Dave Cullen, which I believe I have, and I think we've buried the hatchet.
	And he says, I'm trying to do you a favour.
	You can believe this or you could ignore it.
	If you ever checked your inbox, you would find that over the last two years I've been in contact with you about three times.
	Well, I don't check my YouTube messages.
	The YouTube messaging system is terrible.
	There's simply no notifications for it.
	And I get an awful lot of messages, so I just don't.
	There are much better ways, either by email or by Twitter, are the best ways.
	Or leaving a comment in my comment section, which I do read on a regular basis.
	He continued by saying that, pride is standing in the way of smashing your ideological enemies.
	If you stop making mistakes with your platform, you can start winning instead of feeding a shitstorm of drama which will eventually see this platform censored.
	Well, I'm happy to start listening, as long as you're happy to be honest about what's happened to me and how I've responded to it.
	But I left this answer.
	A lot of what you said here are half-informed statements, to be honest, but I won't argue the toss.
	Thanks for the advice.
	And I'm genuinely not trying to be a dick about this, but I will show Brother John exactly why I say a lot of what he said, and not just in this video but in the previous one, are just half-informed statements.
	Instead of thinking that maybe there's something he wasn't aware of, he just says, half-informed.
	It must be wonderful to believe you are omniscient and I have no doubt it's exhausting.
	Well I'll tell you what Brother John, what is exhausting is when people suggest that I don't know what's happened in my own life.
	But as Billed, arrogant, haughty, hard-headed, dismissive, and full of pride.
	I don't think I've responded to you like that, but you're the same creature you claim to oppose.
	You're just too blind to see it.
	Done, you're not worth my time.
	Okay, well, let's have a look at why I think you're half-informed on what you're saying.
	I'm happy to admit that it has been a few months since I've had to post an update on a video of mine, but I would like to put that down to more diligence being done on my part, because of late I have been caught out and I didn't like it.
	I didn't like that I was wrong and it was through my own laziness and lack of attention to detail that this had happened to me.
	The latest thing I can think of that was me explaining exactly how I'm responding to criticism was my thoughts on the debate with Christy Winters, which didn't go well, and I've made a video discussing how it didn't go well and chastising myself for my poor performance.
	That was back in April, and I've probably made updates on videos since then, where I'll put in the description and leave a link to whatever the correction is, but they're very minor, so I can understand why people wouldn't pay attention to those.
	But I do think this is something I've been consistent on.
	I mean, from 15th of June 2014, I uploaded a video called I'm Not Always Right, in which I simply concede an argument in the comments I was having with Optium88, I think the account was called.
	And yeah, I had misinterpreted something.
	I didn't know something that I thought I knew, and I was wrong.
	And this was shown to me, and so I made a video admitting that I was wrong.
	I like to think that this has been a consistent feature of what I've done on my channel.
	You just have to prove that I'm wrong.
	This was a video by Zarathustra Serpent, who, as I've said, I've already promoted in this video.
	This was from back in March, where he critiqued a few of the things I'd said about the migrant crisis.
	Not that he thought I was necessarily wrong about what I was saying, but he thought I wasn't being specific enough in what I was saying, and I could elucidate my points more clearly.
	And he was absolutely right on every point.
	And so I only discovered this two weeks ago, and I left a comment saying, why didn't anyone bring this to my attention?
	This is a very good criticism, and I wish I'd had it six months ago.
	Thanks for this.
	And I have even featured myself in an episode of this week in Stupid, back when I had less than 20,000 subscribers, apparently, after I had had an impromptu debate with Jenny Goodchild, and it was really my trial by fire learning about critical theory and how it works in a debate setting.
	And I learned a lot from that.
	And on reflection, I do appreciate that it happened.
	I'm glad that it happened then rather than happening now.
	And it certainly set the stage for my understanding of great many things afterwards.
	But what I'm trying to say is, I don't think I am the sort of person who acts as if they're above criticism.
	And I think I do respond to it.
	And I'm not joking, this...
	It's not easy going through thousands of comments, many of which are just openly hostile to me, and picking out the legitimate criticism.
	Seriously, Brother John, when people are calling me nigger and quadroon, what about that do you think is legitimate criticism?
	Seriously, this is one of the most recent photos of me, and look at the grey in my beard.
	It's not even grey.
	It's white.
	And honestly, I think that's down to the stress of constantly reading this sort of stuff, and reminding myself that these are people who hate me, rather than people who are actually trying to help me.
	But I'm not going to lie, it's not easy, and it's certainly not for everyone, and I think it does take a great deal of fortitude to be able to go through this and not develop some kind of depression.
	And I'm not surprised that I'm seeing some sort of physical toll on my face because of it.
	And don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for any kind of sympathy, or this isn't any kind of special pleading.
	Carry on as you wish.
	I will deal with everything that comes my way, as I have always dealt with things that have come my way.
	But I've always read the comments on my videos.
	Again, this is from a video from 2014, shortly after I'd started my YouTube channel, and I was gaining a bit of a following.
	But not only that, I really appreciate everyone watching and commenting.
	I seem to get a lot of commenters, and I really, really like that, because I'm well up for debate.
	You know, I don't think that I know everything.
	I might sound like I do, and, you know, maybe, maybe there's a part of me that does think that.
	But I am always happy to change my mind when I'm presented with a well-formed argument that I can't refute.
	That means my position's incorrect, and I have to change it.
	The next issue I have to deal with on a regular basis is the one of my motivations, primarily because of the financial success of my channel.
	This is from a hangout by a guy called The Thinking Ape, otherwise known as Stardusk, and a conversation he had with a critic of mine called The Distributist.
	And his criticisms were not bad at all, and I've been trying to get in contact with him, but he doesn't seem to respond to me on Twitter.
	I mean, it's all about economics to some degree.
	And I'm trying to be generous here by saying to some degree.
	And so I think they were just, they thought, of course, the SJW stuff was stupid.
	And they thought, you know, feminism is was stupid or modern feminism, I don't know how you want to put that.
	And then you realize, holy shit, you know, I can get an audience here, and I can get lots of subs and then I can, you know, get lots of ad cents and I can get a Patreon where I'm getting paid, at least for the initial video, a thousand bucks per video.
	So, you know, why shouldn't I do this?
	This really irks me, because while there might be people who do that now, when I started, there was absolutely nothing like this.
	This was, I was a lone voice in the wilderness saying, look, I think that feminism is fucking loopy, and I think I can demonstrate why.
	And I mean, I didn't even start with feminism.
	It was just one of those things that I came across that was really bothering me, because I kept seeing it in the media, any Sarkeesian, and it was something that I just couldn't understand why people were giving any credence to.
	There was no proven industry for this or anything like that.
	And I had no idea that anyone would ever subscribe to me over any of this.
	I just did what I thought was right.
	My channel was almost a year old before I started my Patreon account because I didn't know anything about Patreon and people had suggested it to me.
	And before I opened one, I inquired with my audience if they thought this was a good idea.
	This was from a video I did criticizing Rebecca Watson.
	You've probably just convinced me that I need to talk about that even more.
	Which is weird because you seem so set on it.
	You promised to do an extra video every week specifically about feminism if you got a bit of extra money.
	So, you know, it seems you're kind of died in the wool at this point.
	I tell you what, though, if idiots like her can get money out of Patreon, which I don't really know anything about, I'm thinking about doing it myself.
	I lost my job before Christmas.
	I am piss fucking poor.
	I actually don't know anything about this.
	I mean, what do you guys think?
	Is this something I should look into?
	Would anyone be interested in helping me out in exchange for me doing these videos?
	And this was the response I got from my subscribers at the time, who I really hope are still with me.
	So more people than not recommended that I started a Patreon.
	I still feel really funny about it, but I'm going to do it because I've got to be realistic.
	I'm unemployed.
	I'm having trouble finding a job.
	I'm currently doing a Kickstarter campaign that I don't think is going to work.
	I don't have anything else I can do.
	If anyone's familiar with my videos, and I hope some of you are by now, I'm not going to change anything.
	I'm just going to carry on as I am.
	I'm going to carry on taking the piss of anyone who's a fucking idiot.
	I'm going to keep railing against things that are just insane and stupid.
	You know, any social justice warrior bullshit, any feminist bullshit, any stupid political bullshit, anything that's bullshit, I'm going to oppose.
	And if you think that I'm wrong, tell me.
	I had been mistreated at my last job because I think my boss was jealous of how hard I worked.
	And I think I was upstaging him.
	And I think it was a deliberate attempt to get rid of me after two good solid years of really hard work that I was really upset about at the time.
	I mean, I was genuinely quite cuffed up about it because I love that job.
	I love the people I worked with.
	And this new boss came in and he apparently didn't like me.
	But, you know, I thought that, okay, fine, you know, I was unemployed and I just carried on working because that's what I do.
	And this is my motivation for it.
	And this has always been my motivation for it.
	Again, this is one of my earlier videos.
	That doesn't make him evil.
	I mean the irony of this, that it's they are racist because they were born white and male.
	Like that wasn't beyond their control.
	Like that isn't exactly what these fucking idiots are complaining about.
	It's bonkers.
	It's just batshit insane.
	I don't even know where to go with this.
	How can you take the piss out of something like this?
	What are we going to do about it?
	I'm not going to live in a world where these sort of people are given credence.
	You know, these absolutely phenomenally ignorant and bigoted people.
	And the social justice warriors are, to a man, or ladyboy, or whatever their personal pronoun is, I'm not going to take this.
	I'm not going to stand for it.
	You know, I'm going to take the piss out of whatever the fuck I want to take the piss out of.
	I'm going to have the opinions I want to have.
	It's nothing to do with race or gender.
	It's entirely to do with people saying ridiculous and stupid things.
	I mean, what can be done?
	What can be done about this?
	I want to know, because I can't really think of anything, because I thought that it would get to a point where it was self-evident that these things were retarded, and the people saying them would be like, okay, we may be going too far.
	We may be looking like absolute fools, but they're not.
	They're absolutely entrenched in the idea that white men are the problem.
	No matter where they come from, no matter what their upbringing, no matter what their opinions, because they're white and male, they are wrong.
	So when I get people saying, oh, you're only in this for the money, I always find that bizarre.
	I mean, there was no money when I started doing this.
	This wasn't something that anyone had any idea would make any money.
	And I really appreciated my audience supporting me.
	I made a video called In Thanks to My Viewers.
	And thanks for listening and watching and for all the moral support, you know.
	I never thought that this was going anywhere.
	And so I was just doing it to vent.
	But no, I'm genuinely, genuinely thrilled with how much people seem to be enjoying my videos.
	And yeah, so thanks again.
	Thanks very much.
	And I've always been very clear that I don't make sponsored content.
	I don't take money from corporations to promote products.
	I never have and I never will.
	It's something I'm not comfortable with.
	But if I was just in this for the money, why the hell wouldn't I do this?
	Why would I not take as much money as people could throw at me?
	And I get invitations for networks and for various promotional things.
	I get them constantly and I just ignore them.
	Now, I like to think that the reason I have been successful is because of how hard I have worked.
	I've put a lot of effort into researching my videos.
	I've put a lot of effort into reading material because I'm aware that I'm not as educated as I could be.
	But I'm getting better every day because I read constantly.
	I've got a list of books that I've gone through and I've got a bigger list that I still have to go through.
	These things take time.
	I know this.
	And this is what I'm doing.
	And so I suppose this is where I come to the neoculpa.
	There is a mistake I made on a video a few months ago and it has been brought to my attention.
	I just haven't got around to doing it.
	And don't get me wrong, a lot of it is because of the embarrassment of it.
	I really did mess up.
	I had basically made a video about the one in five sexual assault myth at colleges.
	Now, I'm not saying that there is an extraordinarily high rate of rape on college campuses.
	I still don't think there is.
	But the video I did about it was exceedingly lazy.
	I had presupposed my own conclusion and half-assed the work.
	I didn't do a good job.
	Hands up.
	I did not do a good job.
	And H. Bomberguy was absolutely right to call me up and frankly make a video demolishing the work I'd done because it was terrible and mocking the shit out of me.
	I earned it.
	I totally deserved it.
	Here's a link from the video.
	And obviously all of the links for all of this will be in the description.
	Please take the time to check them out.
	Especially the recommendations.
	The people I've recommended really deserve to be viewed.
	They are very, very good.
	And I'll leave you with me looking like an idiot.
	And of course, I have left an update on that video with a big text thing on the screen to let people know that this video is not worth their time.
	And what they should do is watch H Bomberguy's video, which I have also linked in the description, to let them know I messed up.
	This was entirely my fault.
	Anyway, enjoy.
	Wait, that isn't the study.
	That's not the one in five study.
	The one he does cite even specifically references the one in five study in shots he uses in the video.
	He didn't even get the study right!
	The description of this video literally says explaining where the claim originated, while cited the study that didn't originate the claim.
	Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
	Heck, let's see how he debunks this one.
	A report on the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct.
	It's a survey.
	Survey.
	That makes it bad.
	You know it's bad because he says it like that.
	He seems to have a problem with the fact that the only real way to find out about this stuff is to ask people.
	Regardless, the idea that surveys are inherently unscientific is interesting though.
	Keep that in mind for later.
	Took that away in your brain pockets.
	He then goes on to claim that this survey stretched the definition of sexual assault.
	The first two tactics generally meet legal definitions of rape and sexual battery.
	The other two tactics are violation of student codes of conduct.
	And it is unsurprisingly this massive inflation of what is and is not sexual assault that accounts for the one in five figure.
	Like they said, half of their categories don't even fall under the legal definition of sexual assault or rape.
	Therefore including that in any result is going to be inherently misleading.
	Well obviously if you redefine sexual assault to be anything mean you don't like, of course it happens a lot.
	Pack your bags feminists.
	Except if you actually read the study it measures all of these things separately.

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