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April 5, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Why is Everyone Leaving the Left？
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So before I start this video, I just want to answer a question that a lot of people keep asking me, even though I thought I had answered it in a previous video.
The Bristol event that was going to be about acid Corbynism was cancelled because the venue were afraid of anti-fast showing up like they did at King's College London.
I have rescheduled, but unfortunately the event won't be in Bristol now.
It'll be in Southampton.
But that's also a very strong Corbyn area.
So same effect.
And I think the tickets for that will be live on Sunday.
Thankfully, my Scarborough Spa June 16th event is still going ahead talking about British identity and Britishness.
And that's one that I'm really personally looking forward to because I've got a lot of good stuff lined up for it.
And I know I keep saying that, but I don't want to spoil anything.
But links will be in the description, of course.
And just to let you know, this is going to be a response video to Kevin Logan because I'm still working on the Me Too video that's taken about two weeks now because there just doesn't seem to be a bottom to this movement.
There's actually loads to go through and it's actually a lot more, dare I say the word nuanced than I was expecting.
I was expecting it to be a feminist shit show, but it's actually a lot more interesting than that.
So stay tuned.
And it's a video from a young woman called Lindsay Shepard.
Now, this is a name I sort of rang bells, but I didn't really.
I couldn't really connect where I'd known this person from.
Maybe you remember her from a video that I did called John Peterson Was Right that was about how she was the victim of a social justice tribunal that was bullying her for wrongthink.
The audio that she took really did shine a light on the way that social justice warriors are using institutional power on anyone that they feel is stepping out of line in a monumentally unjust way Kev.
And it's one of these videos as the title of this video would suggest who is now left the left.
Don't you find it worrying how many people are abandoning ship from the left, Kev?
I mean I notice that you guys aren't winning elections.
You don't appear to be achieving new converts.
You seem to be alienating everyone and driving them off.
And when they say, look, I have effectively been bullied out of my own political positions, you make a video like this telling them that they're an evil right-winger.
And here's a newsflash.
If I do a political compass test, I still don't come up as a right-winger.
I still come up as a centre-left liberal, Kev.
But I know you're going to just tell me that I'm an evil right-winger.
Maybe that's something to do with your relative position on the political compass.
As in, you are so far to the left.
Literally everyone appears to be to your right.
I have my deep suspicions as to whether she was ever actually on the left.
It's too late for a purity test now, Inquisitor, because you can't apply the thumb screws after someone's already absconded.
She organised this event at Wilfrid Laurier University, which is in Canadia.
Canadia?
Canada.
The United States of Canada land that place with the moose people.
Well, that's incredibly racist.
Anyway.
Dude, you are laughing at your own political philosophy right there.
You know that, right?
You are laughing at the ridiculousness of left-wing politics at the moment.
It's not racist to call Canadians moose people.
You can say that, oh, it's unflattering.
Maybe it's even denigrating them.
But it's not racist.
And in common parlance, they're called Leafs anyway.
Yeah, she organised this event at her university, which I believe, I think she's no left.
I think she's like a post-graduate or whatever.
She's now got a job or a lucrative job pandering to the far right, which is fun.
But during her time at university, she organised an event with Faith Goldie, her of the All of a sudden, being very, very far-right, as opposed to just being mostly sort of boringly conservative or whatever.
Yeah, okay.
I think you could actually call Faith Goldie far right.
Well done.
This is the first time I have ever heard you accurately identify someone else's political position.
Do you know those things about race realism and the JQ and so forth?
Here's the thought, Kev.
You don't have an explanation for why Jewish people are wildly overrepresented at the tops of certain industries.
And without that explanation, all you can do is shame someone for wanting to have an explanation for it.
Because there is an explanation, and it's actually not a conspiracy.
Anyway, and so Lindsay put out this event.
And it got, I don't know if it got, did it get fully shut down by like fire alarms or something.
Wow, why would the fire alarms want to shut down Lindsay Shepard's event, Kev?
Weird that they decided, after their entire existence of being inanimate objects, to develop a political conscience and start activating themselves without any intervention at all.
This must be the same problem we're having with gun crime.
It's not that there's a person behind the action, it's that the inanimate object chose to do this on its own.
The rabid and censorious left-wing activists that just happened to be loitering next to the fire alarm had nothing to do with this, Kev.
Anyway, and she's now been on with the works in the I used to be left, but not being left.
You guys must be getting worried about just the sheer size of the I used to be left-wing, but then I got bullied out of the left community.
And now I'm in the center, even though you're on the far right thing.
Oh, Kev, look at the disdain.
No, they're really not on the far right.
It's just the left is going further and further and further left, and then declaring anyone who doesn't follow them is morally impure.
But you know what's really interesting?
No matter how far left you get, you don't find moral purity.
In fact, you find people who use left-wing philosophy in order to justify their heinous actions towards other people under the rubric of the ends justifying the means.
With the likes of Dave Rubin, Nazi, and Jordan Peterson, another Nazi, and Brittany Pettibone.
Ooh, an actual identitarian.
Completely different from Peterson and Rubin, just so you know.
And I believe she's been a lot of the likes of Roman millennial.
All these Nazi.
Fucking pricks.
Okay, Kev, look, they're not pricks.
Okay, I've met a bunch of these people in real life.
I've sat down, I've had conversations with them.
I've been out drinking with a few of them, and I can tell you honestly, they're not pricks.
Many of them are actually really decent people.
They're just fighting against a massive industrialized political machine that you are supporting.
And it's way easier for you to justify your support of the political power being used against them if you can just call them neo-Nazis and that they are terrible, terrible people and that they deserve being punished in this way.
So, I mean, I have my very, very deep suspicions that she never was on the left.
You have done absolutely nothing to prove that she wasn't on the left.
But apparently she was, and now she is, and she made this video, and it's gone viral or viral-ish by the standards of the political YouTube scene.
So, yeah, I think I've rambled for quite long enough.
So let's just play the video.
Hopefully, the audio comes through clear enough.
If not, who cares?
Fucking hell.
The audience?
Hi, everyone.
So, I just wanted to make a quick video statement.
Back in November when all the controversy was happening around myself and Wilfred Lori Gay University, I made it very clear that I saw myself as a leftist.
So I was actually very genuinely confused when people were instantly accusing me of having a right-wing agenda or whatnot.
Why were you confused by that?
You're putting on an event with Faith Golding.
That would suggest that you have something of a far-right agenda.
I mean, it might not necessarily be the case, but the idea that that would be surprising to you is a little bit ridiculous.
The video is only six and a half minutes, so we'll get through it, even if I do ramble.
No, what that means is that whatever the topic being discussed, there was more than one side to it, unbelievably, and they wanted someone to represent the other side.
This is what usually happens in political discourse in democracies.
It requires arguments because we have forbidden the use of force.
So you actually have to have the argument.
This is one of the reasons that people fucking hate the left now, Kev.
You're not even prepared to have the arguments.
Then we can't decide anything.
It really is the assumption of infallibility on the part of the left to be able to say, you know what, our opposition has literally nothing worth hearing.
And instead of letting you hear that for yourself and come to that conclusion, we've made this executive decision for you.
And so we're just going to violate their right to free speech in order to prevent you from making that judgment yourself.
Because trust us, you're going to come to the same judgment we did because we're fucking perfect.
I just kind of naturally saw myself as being a leftist.
I was pro-environment.
I believed in climate change.
I was pro-gay marriage.
I took the bus everywhere.
I didn't have a car.
She took the bus.
Naturally, she's a leftist.
That's the thing.
All that list that she mentions there, none of those things are strictly really left-wing.
Well, apart from the bus issue, which I'm sure a lot of poor people also use, her obviously not being one of them, and she's taking the bus out of a moral injunction against the idea of contributing to global warming, which is very much a partisan left-wing issue these days.
Yes, they were.
Except that the left won the arguments on those points.
And now everyone agrees.
There is no good reason, for example, to suppress gay marriage.
I mean, I suppose being pro-environment and believing in climate change are generally accepted on the left, although not necessarily.
And then what's the other one?
Being pro-gay marriage.
Again, you get more of that on the left than you would on the right.
And taking the bus, possibly, but none of those things are actually like make you left-wing, really.
Well, it really depends, doesn't it?
Because usually people map out the political compass using policy positions.
And the policy positions that you particularly have affinity for tend to make up your position on the compass.
But you're thinking of it in terms of principle.
For example, I bet you're thinking that to be left-wing, you must demand equality of outcome.
You can make perfectly reasonable right-wing arguments for all of those things.
I think the right-wing at this point should be thanking you for admitting that there are reasonable right-wing arguments.
Being pro-environment because right-wing people still have to live on the planet.
That's a pragmatic argument.
There's neither left nor right.
Climate change, ditto.
Ditto.
Being pro-gay marriage, just on the basic libertarian model of it doesn't affect you, so why the fuck are you interfering with someone else's shit?
Yeah, but you'll notice that that is in direct conflict with the evangelical being gay is immoral because God forbade it.
And taking the bus, I mean, it's just it's taking the bus.
Why would you think taking the bus and not being a car would make you left-wing?
It's a cultural signifier.
It's a way of virtue signaling, displaying to people: look, I can afford a car, but I take the bus anyway because I'm concerned about the environment and I want to keep my own footprint to a minimum.
I mean, that's what makes me think that she never really was left-wing at all.
Because that's sort of the straw man of blood, the hippie leftist.
He takes the bus, he doesn't own a car.
Like, fuck it.
You might as well say, oh, yeah, lots of sort of therefore I was definitely a leftist.
It is another cultural signifier of the left, isn't it?
Fuck off.
So, I guess just naturally, kind of without really thinking about it, I placed myself on the left of the political spectrum.
So, without really thinking about it, so you haven't got any introspective, and as soon as you did, you realized you were actually right-wing.
Doesn't that speak to the hegemonic power of left-wing ideals over young people?
The way that they've been pushed through schools and universities to indoctrinate these people without them even thinking about what they really believe.
This is another miscarriage of the left.
And don't get me wrong, I'm sure the right-wing does this too.
It's just that we have the data to show that, say, in my country, two-thirds of teachers in our schools are labor voters.
Given Lindsay Shepherd's victimization by people on the far left at the university in which she was studying, is it time for us to have that conversation on institutional bias yet?
Or are we saving that for another time?
So, why, again, the people weren't wrong in assuming you had at least subconsciously a right-wing agenda because you were right-wing.
It's too late to tack fear her from the left.
But you'll notice that even if she had a right-wing agenda, that still puts her in alignment with almost all of the left-wing positions that you hold.
Then, you know, I kind of stuck to that and still believed that throughout the whole controversy at Wolford Laurie University.
But it's more recently, actually, specifically the fallout from the Faith Goldie event that I helped organize as part of my club, the Laurie Society for Open Inquiry, that I realized I am not a leftist.
So, I realized finally, and, you know, I'm tuning in now, but people have been well aware of this before I've announced it now.
But what is the left now?
Basically, Marxists.
Anyone who isn't some form of Marxist, a socialist, a communist, an intersectional feminist, if you're not one of these, if you are, say, a centre-left liberal, you're a right-winger now.
They're pro-censorship.
There we go.
You have argued twice already in this video for the censorship of Faith Goldie because you don't like her political opinions, Kev.
So, when she says you're pro-censorship, she's not wrong, is she?
You can tell instantly, she's got the Dave Rubin fucking Jordan Peterson sagon of a cad seal of approval.
You're damn fucking right, she does.
She's a very brave young lady.
She's actually stood up to tyranny, Kev.
And you're here in support of this tyranny and instead just denouncing her as being a right-winger because that just means she's not in your tribe.
Well, she's telling you that.
She knows.
She doesn't need you to reinforce that.
They're pro-censorship.
Yay!
The left broadly is pro-censorship because they control many important institutions who have the capacity to censor others.
And it doesn't violate their principles to be pro-censorship because their highest value is equality.
Whereas the liberal value of freedom absolutely does oppose censorship.
And whenever anyone's making an argument against censorship, ironically, they are arguing the liberal position whether they think about it or not.
This is the thing.
There are censorious people on both left and right, but to say the left.
And again, it's the painting of the monolith.
Everyone on the left is now censorship.
The people on the right who are pro-censorship are not liberals.
The people on the left who are pro-censorship are not liberals.
The people who are for freedom of speech, even for people they despise, are liberals, at least in that regard.
It was liberal philosophers who made the arguments that established that free speech is beneficial to all.
It is a liberal principle that you are arguing, even though you have decided that liberalism isn't left-wing.
They are victimhood culture.
I don't hear anyone on the left speaking out about victimhood culture, and as soon as they do, someone like you comes along and tells them that they're actually a right-winger.
Yes, the left is all about victimhood culture, whether you like it or not.
Let alone the fact that there's this whole thing with Jordan Peterson and the, I'm a victim.
I'm being oppressed by this law that's going to imprison me for saying things that I don't even know it hasn't.
It hasn't because he hasn't let it.
Kev, you know, we recently convicted a comedian in this country of telling a joke.
And I know that you oppose that because deep down, you're not a socialist either.
You're a liberal as well.
But what was the justification for that?
Oh, victimhood.
Under policies put in by Labour, the left in this country, we've decided it's not okay for people to be the victims of hurt feelings.
That's how obsessed the left is with victimhood.
And I love the way you're just dismissing state power being used against people who have done nothing more than offend people.
But that's fine.
Let's just ignore that.
Let's ignore that victim playing and just focus on, again, the monolith of everyone on the left playing the victim.
It's such a pervasive problem on the left.
It may as well be your entire platform.
I mean, just think of Hillary Clinton running around claiming that she's the victim of sexism because she didn't get elected.
Multi-millionaire, ultra-corrupt ex-secretary of state going, I'm the victim.
Her actions, her decisions will have had people killed and she's playing the victim.
Come on, Kev.
I mean, she's got this fucking pandering to the right-wing cunts absolutely nailed down.
Maybe it's a persistent problem that you should stop denying.
Maybe it's something that so many people have experienced firsthand that it's actually something worth addressing.
I mean, how many more people can the left-wing afford to lose to the right?
How many more elections do you intend on losing?
How much smaller do you want your movements to get?
Nice and in place there.
She's going to do well, I think.
Yeah, she seems like a smart, courageous, and ethical lady.
She probably does have a bright future ahead of her, and good for her.
They're all about moral righteousness.
They're taught that claiming to be offended results in I'd love moral righteousness.
I mean literally she's like chummy chums with Jordan Peterson now who literally goes on about how you know you can only be righteous if you're Christian and you can only um what was the phrase he used?
Oh, but it was something along the line.
I can't remember the exact phrase now, which is annoying, but yeah.
But basically, he was saying you can only know things because of Christ.
He's essentially Christian, presuppositionist, funy twat.
Well, I haven't actually heard him say that you can only be a good and righteous person if you're a Christian.
I mean, if someone wants to link it to me, I'm happy to watch it.
But Jordan Peterson seems like a man of good character himself.
And I've met him personally.
He seems to be a decent chap.
But apparently it's the entirety of the left that are doing moral righteousness.
Okay.
Only the parts that matter, Kev.
They absolutely are a bunch of science-denying, purity spiraling moral inquisitors who don't actually live up to their own standards, making them not only insufferable, but abject hypocrites.
Moral victory and Jonathan Rauch wrote this over 20 years ago in his book, Kindly Inquisitors They there's so there's this victimhood mentality They don't believe in personal responsibility.
None of them.
Not a single leftist believes in personal responsibility whatsoever.
Yes.
Not fucking one of you.
Personal responsibility is a right-wing position.
And it's because personal responsibility is an individualistic position, Kev.
And you're a bunch of goddamn socialists.
You are not individualists.
You guys think that literally every bad thing that's ever happened to a black person is the fault of institutional racism.
Regardless of if that black person, I don't know, tried to grab a cop's gun and then got shot in the process?
Well, that's because of racism.
It's because of someone else's fault.
It's not because of his fault.
It's not because he made the bad decision.
We can definitely believe her when she says that she used to be a leftist.
One day you're going to ask yourself, why am I being tribally defensive over a bunch of morally repugnant people?
Completely intolerant of diversity of thought, intolerant.
Yeah, again, the entirety of the left, which apparently has absolutely no diversity of thought, even though it stretches from, you know, being like sort of tankies and extreme communist people all the way through to like just centre-left liberal type people.
Nope, wrong again.
You have, as we've already discussed, gotten all of these centre-left liberal type people out of the left.
Because liberalism is a right-wing idea to you, because as I explained earlier, the left is basically now just Marxists, which is why you chose tankies at one side, and then you've realized that you had a really weak point by saying, well, Center left liberals?
Are we?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And everything in between.
Yeah, any flavor of Marxism that you like can be considered to be left-wing.
But if you're not a Marxist, then you're a right-winger, and you know it, Kev.
Apparently, there's no diversity of thought.
There's no place for diversity of thought in this incredibly diverse range of people.
When they're all saying basically the same thing, she's right.
There is no place for diversity of thought.
There is a large, and they call it an intellectual dark web full of people who all have different opinions and come from different political philosophies, and you call them all Nazis.
Yeah, this is not the strawman of the left that right-wing people have at all.
Earth to Kevin.
Earth to Kevin.
Everyone is seeing the same thing in the left right now.
This is what you're complaining about.
The long list of people who say, well, I used to be left-wing, and then I met people from the left-wing, and they tech feared me because I didn't have their opinion.
Yes, it seems that she may have a point here, Kev.
They are humorless people.
Please.
They want to make society boring, and...
No.
No, I think I thought that's the Christian conservative types.
You're absolutely both like that.
Have you not seen the attempts to get certain video games shut down or changed because they're problematic?
Do you want us to talk about the remarkable phenomenon of cultural appropriation and the inappropriate use of otherwise fun and humorous costumes on, say, Halloween?
But don't worry, Kev.
No, no, it's just the Christians.
It's just the fundamentalists.
There's no one on the left who turns into a moral busybody and wants to shut down other people's fun.
Oh, God forbid, Kev.
The Jordan Peterson types.
They basically say that women need to be wearing sackcloth and ashes, it would appear.
Oh yeah, that's not a straw man at all.
When has Jordan Peterson ever said anything even approximating this?
I really don't think he's against fun.
He had a hand puppet of Kermit with a Hitler moustache in one of his videos because you guys call him Hitler all the time and he sounds kind of like Kermit the Frog.
Oh yeah, a man with no sense of humor whatsoever.
And barefoot and in the kitchen.
Those kinds of people want to make society boring.
You can go to any kind of online entertainment community.
Comic books, movies, video games, anything you can think of.
And there are censorious SJWs who have sat there screaming, change it, change it.
I don't like the way you're having fun.
You have to stop having fun because the way you're having fun fucking offends me.
The entire reason that Gamergate happened was because of the fun police trying to take over video games.
Do you realize that there's a comic gate going on at the moment?
There's definitely one brewing in the magic community where Jeremy's absolutely ragging them for being a bunch of SJWs who are ignoring the manifest paedophile problem in Magic the Gathering at the moment.
But they are very diverse.
You should see their card sets.
They're so progressive at the moment.
I don't.
I love having lots of different stuff to do.
I love having different types of people around.
The fucking white nationalists, the cunts like fucking Faith Goldie that you invite and give platforms to, they want to make society boring.
They want to take away drink and drugs and people of different colours.
Try making any kind of media with excessively sexualized women in it and you will find the far left censors beating down your door.
You know just as well as I do that the far left is just as capable and eager to strip the fun from the world as much as the far right.
The difference is the far right is fucking powerless, but the far left controls massive multi-million dollar institutions.
Yeah, they want to make society boring, but no apparently it's every single person on the left.
Because I mean, notice, there's no nuance here with what you're saying.
There's no fucking nuance in any of the philosophy of the left at the moment.
You are systematic in every way, shape or form.
Whether you're talking about privilege, whether you're talking about the wage gap, whether you're talking about literally any left-wing position, the entire point, like, and describing other people's political positions, the entire point is to strip out nuance and lump together people like Dave Rubin and Andrew Anglin.
You absolute lunatic.
I can't believe you put this video up not thinking that it was just going to get torn apart.
I've said, I've mentioned specific instances of Jordan Peterson or of Faith Goldie or whoever.
I've not said everyone on the right.
You just constantly characterize it as the right wing.
There's nothing different to her characterizing you as the left wing.
It doesn't necessarily mean every single person.
What it means is the dominant forces in those political wings, of which you are not one.
She's just saying the left.
Men, straight people, white people, able-bodied people, thin people.
Honestly, Kev, you haven't even thought about anything you're saying here.
This is a completely reactionary position from you.
Everything you're saying is just 100% knee-jerk, reactionary nonsense.
Poorly thought through.
You haven't even considered your own positions while trying to automatically ascribe all of the bad things to the other side.
And you're doing it in defense of a left-wing hegemony over the institutions that have been victimizing the young woman that you are currently attacking.
Good job, male feminist.
And do they want to make it so that no one can do so much as make a joke?
Yeah, everyone on the left.
Everyone on the left.
Including all those left-wing comedians.
You mean the left-wing comedians who are either silent out of fear or in support of Cam Dankula being convicted for telling an offensive joke?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, the left-wing comedians are deeply unfunny these days, Kev.
Yeah, they want to make it illegal for anyone to make a joke.
Even the myriad of left-wing comedians.
They definitely think that some jokes are off-limits.
And they definitely think that if you tell these jokes, it's not worth their time to come out in force and protect one of their own.
They want to imprison themselves in the gulags.
No.
They labor under the delusion that none of their jokes will ever be offensive enough.
But they will.
They absolutely will.
Just you wait.
The Overton window of acceptable topics for comedy is shrinking day by day by day.
If you are not on their side 100%, they will slander you mercilessly.
Whereas, I mean, the right never do that.
I mean, I've never been called a cuck, a soyboy, a beta, a mangina, a communist thug.
I've never been called any of those things at all.
The right have never, ever slandered my name whatsoever.
They've never slandered anyone on the left.
It's never happened.
I mean, just look at, say, you know, Jeremy Corbyn.
He never gets slandered every single day in the press unfairly for things he hasn't actually fucking done or said.
That never happens.
But everyone on the left, every single person on the left does it.
Okay.
Jeremy Corbyn is guilty of everything of which he is accused.
Do you think he doesn't support socialist dictators?
Do you think he doesn't support terrorists?
Do you think he doesn't support stealing people's homes?
Do you think he doesn't associate with momentum a group of organized thugs?
The brown shirts of the Labour Party?
Do you think that he's been hard on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, despite being members of Facebook groups, to the point where he shut down his Facebook account because of all the anti-Semitism he knew about?
But that was just me ragging on Jeremy Corbyn for the things he's actually done.
To address your point, it's just what a boundary, Kev.
Let's assume that the right is guilty of all of that.
It doesn't mean the left isn't guilty of it.
And it'd be funny if it worked such a dirty trick.
So, for example, they've released this photo of me standing beside the TV.
Yeah, I probably should have shot.
Yeah, there's a...
Can you see that at all?
You see my terrible fucking shitty old phone.
This isn't my regular phone.
This is just like one I use in the house.
Free advertising for some song there.
can you see the picture anyway it's not photoshopped but they stood at like a Highway intersection-y thing, anyway.
We call them crossings here, whatever.
Anyway, and she stood next to some wanker and Faith Goldie, who's also some wanker, I suppose.
Yeah, and it's apparently this is meant to say that they're together.
But the thing is, as much as that might be very unfair, because obviously just because you stood next to someone at a crosswalk or whatever, doesn't mean you're connected to them.
You did invite her to the university.
So I don't think it's like a completely unfair thing to do from that perspective, because you invited them there.
So?
I invited you onto a live stream on my channel years ago now.
Does that mean that I agree with feminism?
Doesn't mean you take on their entire political baggage or whatever.
So what you're saying is Lindsay Shepard is right.
It's unfair for her to be accused of being a supporter of Faith Goldie just because she stood near her once.
The idea, like Gilboy association is when you don't have an association with them.
If you do have an association with them that's on some political level, which obviously in this case it is because you've invited them to speak about politics, it seems to me that you do that that you've associated yourself with them.
Well, I guess I'm going to have to pack up my channel and go home.
I mean, it turns out that I'm a male feminist because I am tangentially associated with you.
Not completely, not 100%, but to a degree.
So I think it's a little bit ridiculous to get that upset about it.
It's not like as slanders go, this is really relatively fucking tame.
Come on, you mean as slanders from the left go?
Because you guys are the masters of slander.
And this is entry-level stuff.
It just gets worse from here on out.
And you know it.
Remember when Antifar were calling Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro with Yarmaka a Nazi?
Anyway.
Two individuals at a crosswalk.
And apparently.
Let's actually try and get through it.
So that.
I should really put.
Let's try and get through this because we're going to be here forever.
Even for a six and a half minute video if I ramble this much.
Don't worry, mate.
My video is probably going to be like an hour long.
Because I stood beside these two individuals.
I have absorbed the ideology of these two individuals and I stand for what these individuals stand for.
In this case, it's white nationalism, which I'm not.
I don't.
I'm not interested in white nationalism.
So an image like this, it would be very damaging for someone who wants to get a job in government or social services or who wants to work with children, right?
If this image is out there of you, but again, the image is vaguely irrelevant, really, because if an employer wanted to make that connection, they still could because you invited them to the university.
You invited Faith Golder.
You arranged that event.
Or part of the arrangement.
I mean, I presume it wasn't like a one-person show behind the scenes.
But you're involved in that.
Really, quite publicly, right?
So you already associated with them, and you've already, you know, the backlash that can come from that.
You know the implications of that.
Kev, that's a damning indictment of the left.
The backlash is coming from you guys.
The problem is coming from you guys.
The negative association comes from you guys.
Because a regular, normal thinking person doesn't think that just because you invite someone to talk about something, presumably to debate ideas on a stage, that you endorse their position.
All you're saying when you invite someone to have a conversation with you is that you want to hear what they have to say.
You might not agree with it.
In fact, you might be in direct opposition to it.
But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have the argument.
Because it's the argument that actually changes people's minds.
And leaving these things to go unchallenged means you're not even refuting them.
That people might think, well, actually, she's associated with this Nazi fucking idiot.
Go and watch Sam Harris's latest podcast, where it's 45 minutes of him explaining how he and Charles Murray are not Nazis.
But because they discussed the wrong kind of science, it turns out that they might be.
At least according to the left.
Do we really want to employ her?
Well, that's already there, regardless of this fucking image.
Whether the image was ever existed or not.
Horseshit apologia after horseshit apologia for the left ruining people's lives because of a photo or a debate.
Kev, come on.
This is not a defensible position and you know it.
You'd still be associated with Faith Goldie, potentially.
And you can say that that's unfair, but that's the way it fucking is.
Because of the left.
Because of the unfair character assassination that has become the left-wing platform.
That's all you guys do.
You de-platform people by attacking their character because you can't win an argument against them.
You know it.
I know it.
Everyone else knows it.
And that's why people are leaving the left.
Because you won't even discuss the issues without going for the throat.
regardless of the image so to get hung up on the images I mean I can understand you being annoyed or whatever but it just seems a bit of an overreaction Because it's not you.
Because you're not the one who's going to be suffering from this.
You're not the one who's going to find themselves branded on the fucking forehead because of an incidental photo or a debate that they hosted one time.
It's all just because it's not going to be you.
But I guarantee that one day it will be you.
And then you'll be thinking, wow, I wish I hadn't wasted my time with special pleading saying it's okay when we do it.
Because suddenly, now we are doing it to me.
I don't think that it's okay.
And when I was empathizing with Lindsay Shepard, going, yeah, I can see why you'd be annoyed about that.
I really wish I'd actually done something and spoke out.
Maybe I could have helped change the way things were going.
Maybe I could have been one more voice, another straw on the camel's back.
It's going to be damaging for your career.
And so this is how the left tries to slander.
Oh, yeah, and she then shows herself a Black Lives Matter, rather.
It's playing around.
We're trying to make it not okay to talk about issues like being white.
Okay, I want to talk about those ideas neutrally.
Yeah, you can't talk about being white.
It's not possible.
Not neutrally, Kevin.
You can condemn being white if you want.
There's a whole movement, a whole wing of politics that's interested in condemning being white, but you can't have a neutral, objective, and rational conversation about it without a bunch of people calling you a racist.
All of the left want to make it impossible for you to talk about being white.
Neutrally, you strawmanning potato.
Even though I've done a video on my channel about the disenfranchised working class.
And you know what?
I haven't been castigated for that.
I haven't been thrown out of the left.
I haven't been thrown into the fires of left as hell.
Because you know what?
This is the thing.
If you believed in left-wing ideas, and this doesn't necessarily apply to her, I will make an exception for her, as she's a younger person who's clearly undergone like an experience or whatever.
But like with Dave Rubin, Dave Rubin was like a middle-aged man when he made that choice.
The thing is, you don't stop believing in left-wing ideas.
You can say, I don't really want to associate with that group or whatever, but you don't.
Someone doesn't make you right-wing.
I'm honestly speechless.
You're sat here trying to make her right-wing right now.
You are the one who is trying to make her the enemy so you don't have to accept or deal with anything that she's saying.
And you can just deny everything that she's coming out with.
And say, well, no, no, no, that's the problem with the right.
That's the problem with the right.
That's the problem with the right.
I mean, look, if I make pro-left-wing propaganda talking about white people, I'm okay.
I just don't know what your problem is.
You've chosen to make you, or you've undergone those experiences and gone there.
You haven't been pushed there by anyone else.
Okay, I'm just going to stop here.
You may say other things that are ridiculous, Kev, but this is where I've got to stop, man, because you are trying to push her further away.
You are desperately doing that in this video.
And I just can't take any more of your denial.
I just, it's got to stop, Kev.
Just accept the bad things about the left.
And maybe one day the left can reform and see the right as their fellow citizens rather than their mortal enemies.
Because that is going to prevent any kind of dialogue from happening.
And honestly, it's going to make sure that the left continues to lose.
But what's worse is it's going to mean that the institutions that they run, and these are important institutions for our civilization, are going to get worse and worse and worse.
They're going to become more decrepit.
They're going to become more, honestly, offensive to the average person, to the point where they're not going to want to engage with them, to the point where they're going to see these things as bad things in and of themselves because they're controlled by the left.
This can't go on forever and it won't go on forever.
Let's actually start being honest about why people are leaving the left.
It's because the left is fucking cancer at the moment.
And you did this to yourselves.
Before I end the video, can I just ask people don't go and bombard Kevin with insults or even arguments or anything like that.
Please don't feel the need to go and talk to him about these things because it can get overwhelming when thousands of people suddenly start messaging you out of the blue about something you weren't expecting to have a big public discussion about.
Kev isn't actually a bad guy.
He's just kind of trapped in an ideology he doesn't fully understand.
And while I'm here as well, thanks to everyone who supports me on Patreon and Maker Support.
I know I don't thank you guys enough and I don't do enough Q ⁇ A's on Patreon and stuff and I really should because I just want to stress how much you guys have helped me out.
Because obviously with the lawsuit with Aquila going on and various other that like the live appearances and stuff, they cost the absolute earth to arrange.
And I'm obviously finding myself spending a lot of money just maintaining my YouTube channel and what I'm doing here.
And without your support, I literally wouldn't be able to do it.
And you guys are the ones keeping me and my family fed and clothed and homed.
So honestly, from the absolute bottom of my heart, thank you.
And I'm really sorry that the Me Too video has been delayed.
I promise it's going to be worth your time.
I've got a lot of information that I really want to present in strikingly accurate and informative ways.
And I don't want to skip on it.
I've also got the Starship Troopers video coming as well.
I've just finished, I've read the book and I've finished all of the movies, which were terrible, apart from the first one, obviously.
But now I'm going to start looking into any other works that Heinlein had done to try and extract more of his political philosophy.
Because there's a lot there and it's really, really interesting.
But it's taking me a long time.
And I've decided to start reading towards a political philosophy of race as well in my spare time.
If I ever have any spare time.
And it's really interesting.
So just work.
Work, work, work.
That's all I do.
But I'll be doing other live appearances and I'll keep you guys updated.
And again, just thanks for everything.
Just I'll definitely have a lot more soon.
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