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May 16, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Red Pill Protests

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	So there was a screening of a documentary film called The Red Pill that has been promoted widely by men's rights activists, and I can understand why, because it was made by a feminist and she found that the men's rights activists actually had some valid points, which they do.
	And so this documentary was created to showcase her journey into this alternate line of thought for a feminist.
	And it's not been well received by feminists.
	This is a video about the protests at the University of Sydney that took place on May the 11th this year about a screening of the film and it is just wonderful.
	I found this from a video that was done by a YouTuber called Dr. Random McCamm.
	He is really, really funny and really clever.
	And I'll put a link to his video in the description.
	You should really check it out.
	I've heard stories about NDMRO protests.
	And this one's looking at 2 out of 10.
	I know!
	Like, the people...
	She loves the sound of her own voice.
	The people who want to watch this film are just walking past and into the place where the film is.
	So from the outset, we've established that it was not really a very efficient protest.
	And as we go on, you'll see how it becomes increasingly more incoherent and mildly seditious.
	No, your ears did not deceive you.
	They were unironically chanting shame in response to something they didn't like.
	Oh, what's happening here?
	I don't know, but it's a flag.
	Yeah, that's relevant.
	I assume that that's an Israeli flag and they're chanting Free Palestine in response.
	Not really very much to do with men's rights activism, but okay, carry on.
	I don't know whether you could catch that, but it does happen an awful lot.
	They're chanting not MRAs and not the state.
	Women will decide our fate.
	As I said, it was getting mildly seditious.
	They seem to be female separatists who don't want to live under the jurisdiction of the Australian government.
	And there they are chanting, goodnight alt-right.
	I know the MRAs involved in this and they're not alt-right, and they're also not trash cans.
	So I'm really not sure what the relevance of this mindless chant is.
	This is a mindless chant that they're very fond of, which ironically displays a vast amount of bigotry.
	But look out for the guy in the white shirt coming in just on the right.
	This guy's a legend.
	In the face of the Beta Uprising, he is unrepentant and engages in some good old fashioned IRL trolling.
	Ha ha ha, but not happy.
	They are not happy at all.
	So they chant not MRAs and not the state, women will decide our fate for an excessively long time.
	And here's where it starts getting really interesting.
	Why are they applauding?
	Well...
	Well, I know why.
	They are applauding because this is a piece of performance art, whether they admit that it is or not.
	They can claim to be oppressed all day and justify this with all kinds of ideological backflips, but the reality of the matter is that these people are not oppressed at all.
	They are in fact very privileged.
	And so to keep up this charade, they have to mimic protests.
	And after doing it, they have to give themselves a big round of applause.
	But wait a minute, maybe I speak too soon because the Rossers have arrived.
	presumably to pull out their truncheons and beat the living hell out of these students.
	Actually, no, the police are just going to stand there and watch to make sure they don't break anything.
	Oh, how oppressive.
	What's interesting about this screening is some people try to say things that it's like a feminist thing, or that it's done from a feminist perspective.
	Now, what I think about feminism is feminism is an identity.
	It's an action.
	Why are so many feminists confused over what feminism is?
	Feminism is an ideology.
	And if your actions target women's bathrooms with your very expensive stickers, mind you, they spent a lot of money on the promotion of this film.
	They also had to spend a lot of money to hire out the rooms for those big, very nice posters, very big stickers that's plastered over the women's bathrooms.
	I've got to say, I'm honestly not sure what's shameful about putting up stickers promoting a film at the university.
	Especially a film made by a feminist.
	I guess it's all the wrong thing contained within.
	Am I right?
	And also, they had to pay for the film rights.
	Now I see that they wanted to put profits towards prostate cancer research.
	That's a very noble pursuit.
	I asked them, why did you spend so much on promotion if you wanted to put money towards prostate cancer research?
	Because the more you promote a film, the more people will know about it and the more likely they are to want to go and see it, which means they will pay you money.
	And that's how you raise money for prostate research.
	I guess you're not doing an economics degree or any kind of business degree at all.
	You are in fact a gender studies major who's going to have no life skills and have nothing to do with her bourgeois fucking time than piss on other people's chips.
	I talked to a couple of the people around the place who have new to support the film and they note some interesting statistics such as that men are more likely to die in battlefronts and men are more likely to die at workplaces.
	And you know I ask, is feminism the one that's eliminating men?
	No!
	Patriarchy!
	No, feminism isn't the one killing these men, but goddamn is it going to stand in the way of people knowing about these men dying, isn't it?
	It's a perhaps a military capitalist industrial complex.
	Why are we defending men from wars that they shouldn't be fighting in the first place?
	John knows something really interesting.
	Non-capitalist systems go to war as well.
	Non-industrial systems go to war as well.
	In fact, people had wars before they had money.
	So, I don't really see the relevance.
	That's the fact that predominantly white bourgeois women White bourgeois women like the woman with the megaphone, which is presumably why white bourgeois women were first on her list despite, as she will tell us, not being the people with the real problems.
	Go ahead, my dear.
	Unable to attain the right of work.
	Now I say white and black women.
	Because women of colour and working-class women have had to fight for their survival through paid and unpaid work for millennia.
	There's stuff going on at that, too.
	Yes, that's right.
	Poor people of both genders were forced to work because they couldn't afford not to, whereas white bourgeois women had the luxury of not working.
	And you think they needed to win the right to work.
	It makes total fucking sense if you are desperate for white bourgeois women to be a poor, oppressed class, which they are self-evidently not.
	Shame!
	Shame!
	I ask if the people inside this room, from the Libertarian Society, from Brosau, from the Conservatives, from the Liberals!
	Fuck the mates!
	Fuck the liberals!
	Yeah, fuck the liberals!
	Because it's nice that you're finally coming out of the closet.
	You're not liberals, you hate liberals, and you're finally brave enough to say it.
	If they were so interested in combating gender inequality, why have they never reached out to the women's collective?
	Well, let me see.
	It was a film made by a feminist who found herself sympathetic to men's rights activists, funded almost exclusively by men's rights activists.
	And one of your fellow protesters turned up with a poster saying, here to bathe in MRA's tears.
	Do you think that that might have something to do with that?
	Maybe?
	Just, no?
	I mean, it just seems to be needlessly divisive.
	I'm just saying that for human rights activists, you seem to really hate your fellow human rights activists.
	If this is such a feminist film, if this film was such a great film, why didn't you ask the Women's Collective to co-host?
	Because you're a bunch of insufferable, self-centered, narcissistic cunts, and nobody wants anything to do with you.
	In fact, nobody wants you where you are on that campus right now at all.
	People want you to, in fact, be quiet and go away, but you won't be quiet and go away.
	You will in fact dominate any space with mindless repetitive chance and constantly slur people with insults.
	Nobody wants you around because you are, in a word, awful.
	I would like to ask if perhaps you're aware of the work the Women's Collective has been doing for the past decade on campus.
	Look, I'm just speculating here, but I'm going to guess that it's because not much of the women's collective's work on campus revolves around the issues men face.
	I mean, you turned up with a fucking MRA tier sign.
	I'm guessing you're not that much help to their cause.
	In fact, you seem like an active hindrance to any cause that you're a part of.
	It's currently in a battle against the university to see sexual violence combated on campus.
	These survivors need supported so they can complete their degrees in safety.
	These people are too ridiculous.
	Yeah, I'm sure that Australian university campuses would be a real bloodbath if it wasn't for your activism.
	I can't finish this video.
	I swear to God.
	Right.
	They don't want you fucking protesting their event, you dappy bitch.
	Piss off.
	Nobody wants to have anything to do with you.
	Go away.
	If you're so interested in us protesting your event, why don't you come and help with us?
	What do you want them to do?
	Protest your event?
	Do you think that the only way you can help people is by protesting against them?
	Because I don't know whether you've noticed, but that's actually a hindrance.
	You would do more good if you just stayed at home.
	A statistic they bring up is that men experience sexual assault.
	And this is true.
	And this is a terrible, terrible thing that happens.
	But a lot of men can't speak up when they're sexually assaulted.
	A lot of women constantly talk when they're sexually assaulted.
	But...
	Oh my God!
	domestic violence is perhaps in our country I see They're not suffering enough for you to give a shit, even though you know it's happening from your own words.
	Jesus Christ.
	Oh, God.
	I think they're trying to kill me.
	Bitch, you know they're suffering.
	You know that men suffer from domestic violence.
	It's not a fucking competition.
	These people were putting on a film to talk about these issues.
	They wanted you to piss off and leave them alone.
	And now you are there demanding that it's your issue instead, even though you accept they have issues.
	YOU ARE FUCKING AWFUL!
	When you're elected by the Women's Collective to be women's officer, I'll let you ask some questions.
	Well, I think we just worked out why nobody wants the bossy girl in charge of things.
	They're just asking a question.
	Instead of pulling rank on them, maybe you should just answer it.
	Now we're not talking about something that is from a pro-feminist site.
	We're talking about the New South Wales police website.
	We know they're not feminists!
	States that one in five women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime.
	Shay!
	Well done for invalidating feminist statistics and making it all about women, even though this is a documentary about men.
	Do you see why people don't want you there yet?
	That's 20% of women.
	All of these people fucking Catholic or something.
	So I asked, when it comes to issues such as the red pill, where are we putting our time?
	Where are we putting our energy?
	You are putting your time and your energy into ruining someone else's project, into which they put their time and their energy and undoubtedly their money, and you are, for some reason, absolutely unrepentant about this.
	There is no we.
	There is just you and them.
	And they don't want to have anything to do with you.
	And they're certainly not going to obey your commands.
	Where are we putting our money?
	What we need to do is prioritise the issues that affect the most people.
	Do as you please.
	Prioritise whatever you want.
	But these people have prioritised this issue because it doesn't affect very many people.
	And people like you, feminists, are trying to prevent other people from becoming aware of it.
	Believe it or not, there is no central authority directing all of this.
	This is people acting on their own initiative.
	In order to combat this.
	Now sexual violence can affect anyone.
	So why are you trying to stop the people who say it affects men as well and they'd like to talk about it?
	Why are you against them if you also agree that they also have a problem with it?
	Irrespective of gender, class, race and ability.
	Then why are you trying to discriminate on any of those factors?
	Why do you even bring them up?
	Woo!
	Class, race and ability, I guess.
	It is a particularly affected experience by Aboriginal women, by disabled women, and it is adversely affects women from working class backgrounds who cannot access support.
	So not you then.
	So I say today, let's prioritise those who are most affected by gender inequality and put our time, energy and resources, such as expensive A3 stickers into stopping sexual violence for all.
	You just said you don't want to help the people who are least affected.
	You only want to help the people who are most affected.
	So you cannot, by definition, be trying to stop this for everybody.
	Jesus fucking Christ.
	How about we don't look at the statistics so much as we look at making sure that there are facilities available for everyone who needs them?
	Because the percentage of the population who actually need them are relatively small and we don't really need to know where they come from.
	We just need to know that they have been the victim of abuse and that they need help.
	That's all the relevant information we need.
	Unless you're a man and you want to speak about men's issues, in which case we're going to shout you down and insist that you speak about women's issues instead.
	Because that's equality and not female supremacy, apparently.
	The most powerful in this society are the ones that are the most racist, most sexist, and the most bigoted.
	You just have to look at the recent election of the president of the United States to get an idea of that.
	Yeah, about Donald Trump.
	You know, this guy who said that he wants to grab pussy and that he thinks there's obviously a woman's own fault that she gets abused or she gets raped.
	A guy that thinks like that and speaks like that, but he is now the president of the United States.
	What has Donald Trump got to do with this?
	What does America have to do with this?
	In our society, women are systematically oppressed everywhere you look.
	Jesus.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	I mean there are only numerous women's advocacy groups, women's help, women-only funding, women-only courses, women-only this, women-only that.
	Nothing that's men-only, apart from bathrooms, and even then they're coming for them as well.
	But yeah, women.
	Systematically oppressed.
	The gender pay gap in this country is at 19% for full-time workers, full-time women.
	First, full-time men.
	If you take all women of working age and all men of working age, it's more like 35% or a 40% pay gap.
	Ladies, do not let this streak of piss shame you out of the career that you love.
	You do not have to compete with the men.
	It is not a competition at all.
	You create the life you want.
	If you want to be a nurse or you want to be a school teacher or whatever it is you want, you do that.
	You do not have to become a builder, a sewer cleaner, a carpenter, a CEO.
	You don't have to do anything you don't want.
	Follow your own natural inclinations and do what makes you happy.
	Just because at the end of the day, if you add up the grand total of earnings of men and women, it turns out that men work more and in more dangerous and difficult jobs than women, that does not mean you have to do the same thing.
	There's no shame in it.
	It matters not a whit.
	Just enjoy your life.
	Don't let these authoritarian, meddling, busybodies tell you how to live.
	Outrageous.
	And don't let the neo-Puritans shame you into thinking that that's wrong.
	It's not.
	You live the life you want to live.
	You be a good person, and everyone else can get along on their own.
	It takes women 10 years on average longer to pay back their headsets because of the gender pay gap.
	Honestly, ladies, do not let this little shit shame you.
	Yeah, you're going to pay back your debts slower if you earn less money.
	That's okay.
	It's not a race.
	And now it's time for some good old-fashioned male feminist projection.
	And these people don't care about anyone.
	This film is not about raising awareness about anything.
	It's about the fact that Donald Trump's in the White House, La Per was in the second round, Pauline Hanson's on our knees, and they want to capitalise on that.
	Oh, oh, I get it.
	They want to capitalize on it.
	I mean, you're only the ones who turned up at this protest and brought it up in an attempt to shut down what they're doing, but it's them who are trying to capitalize on this.
	Gotcha, comrade.
	That's true!
	I don't care the contents of this film.
	They're not, uh, you know, they can't be persuaded.
	They can't be rationalized by these people.
	The whole point of screening this film is to try and create more organized alt-right forces on this campus.
	Kind of looks like they just want to show a film about men's issues to me.
	I don't know if that is an organized attempt to create some kind of political movement.
	Perhaps they're just trying to raise awareness.
	Perhaps they think that the general public at large will be sympathetic to their cause.
	And it'll be something that politicians in general will think, well, yeah, that's maybe something that we could include into our manifestos.
	And now it's time for a totally unhinged rant.
	Good luck following this train of thought.
	As the left, we have to show them that the people on this campus do not support our right ideas.
	We will not allow them to go unchallenged when they air this film here.
	I tell you what, they go on about freedom of speech.
	We haven't actually prevented them from screening that film to begin with.
	But they want to go on about freedom of speech.
	Everything on the airwaves, everything in the media, everything on QA, everything in the newspapers encourages these people to be the people they are.
	They're going about freedom of speech.
	Oh, but Donald Trump doesn't have freedom of speech.
	Donald Trump is spouting everything these fuckers are saying.
	And they want to say it's a problem of freedom of speech.
	Everything they believe gets aired all the time.
	It's all over the newspapers, all over the television, all over the internet.
	What bullshit do they think that their freedom of speech is under attack?
	It's the left whose freedom of speech is always under attack.
	Well, that's about refugees.
	But why can't people working on detention centers report what's going on in the detention centers?
	Where's the freedom of speech for them?
	Okay.
	But what I really like about this is that he literally doesn't care about anything other than women.
	Because it's not enough that he just says, well, this is an attack on the poor or this is an attack on whoever.
	No, everything has to be an attack on women.
	Because if it's not an attack on women, he just doesn't give a shit.
	Every attack on the poor is an attack on women.
	Every attack on workers is an attack on women.
	Make education free again.
	We will take your disgusting slogan and turn it into something valuable.
	Make education free again.
	Next Wednesday, 12pm, at Fisher Library.
	Right, I get it.
	So he's segued nicely from everything's about women to, you know, I want free education.
	Yes, why I do happen to be a student at Sydney University.
	But that's beside the point.
	I'm arguing it for the women, the workers, the whoever.
	Just shut up, dude.
	Fuck off.
	But I honestly think that this is my favourite part of the entire protest.
	And I've had many laughs out of this protest.
	Why does you talk about men's right every single time that you spot women's rights?
	Why do you say that you only bring up men's right every single time you spot women's rights?
	Do you want to care about men's rights?
	Or do you want to make me shut up about women's rights?
	You know what, love?
	They were trying to talk about men's rights.
	Then you guys turned up, started chanting, and you for literally like half an hour straight and wouldn't shut the fuck up about women's rights.
	They are actually trying to have the conversation you are accusing them of not trying to have and you are trying to shut it down by bringing up women's rights.
	You are doing the exact thing that you are accusing them of doing, and you seem to have no idea at all.
	I'm super excited to be here, and I just want to say that all of you guys are doing awesome things.
	And this fight is universal across the globe.
	In every single continent, people are fighting with you.
	This isn't just in Australia, this isn't just in Canada, this isn't everywhere, this isn't a global movement, and you all are fantastic human beings.
	And I'm so proud of you.
	Unfortunately, the Canadian lady is right.
	She is absolutely correct when she says it is a worldwide movement of insufferable bourgeois narcissists.
	This is actually going to be the future of annoying activism.
	Groups of people who have too much time, too much money, and too much inculcation in their universities, getting in the business of other people all around the world, even when it's not relevant.

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