The Intellectual Roots of "Wokeness" - Adapted Marxism - { Reaction } - Ryan Chapman

hey what's up everyone today we're going to talk about some fairly uncontroversial stuff like wokeness and karl marx it's been fashionable for a while now to compare wokeness to a religion or to a

cult in that it has orthodoxy heretics original sin and all that but that's never struck me as a critique that hits the target dead on

in that it doesn't paint that clear of a picture of what makes wokeness distinct and the critique that does do it for me which you've probably guessed is the critique that wokeness

fundamentally comes from the ideas of karl marx i'm far from the first person to make that argument and i think most people that talk about this stuff generally struggle to not sound like conspiracy theorists and those are usually the

grounds that are used to wave away this kind of criticism but there's actually a lot of substance behind it and if you follow the academic trail all roads really do point to karl marx so i'm going to go through it more

slowly and thoroughly than i normally do because i think this is all criminally misunderstood and needs to be understood if we're ever going to disentangle ourselves from this thing so

yeah [Music] stop it there and welcome to speak freely here we celebrate the freedom of speech and today we're going to be reacting to an interesting video where

he talks about what he believes the root of vocalism is and how it comes from karl's marks or marxism and he's right i've heard plenty of intellectuals speak

on wokeness as a religion or a cult and there's many reasons why he just went through a few of them i'm not gonna really run through it because this video is already long enough i'll let him explain and i feel like the reason why

it's hard not to come off like a conspiracy theorist is because [ __ ] is strange these days like reality is becoming stranger than fiction so when talking about reality it's not hard for

it to sound like a fairy tale or a dystopian fictional nightmare but it's true it's it's always coming true it's becoming the reality but anyway i want to get right back into the video but before you do if you like typing videos

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so i'm going to start with going over marxism not because i think you haven't heard explanations of marxism before but because i think explanations of it usually miss a crucial point and that

point's also crucial to understanding wokeness and that crucial point is that marxism is an ideology made fundamentally in opposition to liberalism

if that surprised you then i'm glad you're watching this marxism at its core is a critique of liberalism and presents itself as the alternative to liberalism and by liberalism i don't mean democrats

in america right now i mean what we now think of as the founding principles of western civilization i'm sorry to say we're going to have to go over liberalism too because it's crucial to understanding

everything else i'm going to say so to give a quick refresher on that liberalism is the ideology that essentially champions the freedom of the individual if at all humanly possible so

liberals want to maximize your personal rights while putting as few restrictions on it as possible and the place where they mostly draw the line is if you put someone else in physical harm so you don't have the right to punch

someone in the face and you don't have the right to shout fire in a crowded theater because people could panic and get hurt but besides that they want to maximize your individual freedoms and that includes

the freedom to think for yourself speak for yourself protest have a fair trial uh own property and a bunch of other stuff i agree with him that is classical

liberalism right that is what a classical liberal used to be and that's how i that's what i grew up with when the idea of a liberal is freedom for the individual freedom of freedom of

freedom of speech freedom from censorship basically to be left alone to be your own person to live your life the way you want to live it without it being trampled upon um i don't feel like

that's what liberalism at all is anymore or i don't think that's the idea that liberals that call themselves liberals today is going back that's why you more or less call them progressives

leftists or lefties something like that and i do agree with them that a lot of people kind of as a throwaway will say these communist marxist liberals right because we feel

like they're behaving more like a marxist or a socialist or communist than a classical liberal that we all grew up knowing the definition that he just

described i also want to say really quick that i'm giving him all all of the recognition from him doing all the research and talking about this very precisely and clearly he talks about

stuff like this a lot on his channel he talks about you know communism fascism what capitalism is he breaks it down in a way that's very more understandable instead of again just throw away tropes that a lot of people use including

myself so i'm not trying to take away from his work by reacting to his channel i'm learning just as much as you're learning and we're learning together and that's why i think these uh videos are really interesting plus including my own

commentary and my own ideas upon whatever subject that we are talking about or reacting to but anyway let's continue so quintessential liberal texts is this one the bill of rights

liberalism was made as an attempt to form an ideology that represents the interests of everyone within a society they thought that as long as everyone had a certain amount of rights that were

protected and a freedom to voice their concerns society would over time naturally become better and better and they knew full well this would lead to all kinds of struggles and failures and

dangers and all that they said overall this is the best system and over time society will become more peaceful and more progressive i think whitney means

by it's going to be messy because freedom is messy freedom isn't efficient and quick and clear and clean freedom is messy especially when you have a large

population of individuals what china has is more efficiency because they just trample over people's freedoms to get things done and what america has is more freedoms thus far and so things are less

efficient right and some people don't like that um we saw that a lot in the last two years of the global couf where people were even questioning the love of

freedom from americans like oh it's too much freedom too much you know things aren't efficient people aren't just locking down people aren't following the mandates people aren't wearing the mask people aren't getting the pokes right if

we just take those freedoms away then things can go quicker the way we want them to go or to resume right and so that is the that is the pros and cons of having freedom i

would rather things be a mess and have more freedoms rather than things be efficient and have less freedom but anyway let's continue i think the main problem people have with liberalism is this idea that it's

too passive of a take on progressiveness and that it doesn't actively try to encourage its citizens to improve the conditions of the least well-off and instead it instills this everyone for themselves kind of attitude and

within that some people become wildly successful while others struggle and kind of fall through the cracks so you could say that liberalism is great for laying down a base layer of human rights

but it also tends to create large power imbalances within society and doesn't actively encourage its citizens to do much about it at least in any kind of expedient way

i mean he says in courage i would more say core earth in a toxic manner like uh cancel culture like being yelled down at

like being labeled and smeared the most undesirable thing society has decided is undesirable like labeling your races or folk of something like you know marching to your personal home and demanding you

change your mind he says encourage i say coerce force fear monger scare threaten people to move in a certain direction anyway let's

continue so because of that there's room for other ideologies that address that and that's where marxism comes in marxists basically say that liberalism is a protection mechanism for oppressive

behavior and the alternative that they put forward goes something like them saying freedom ends where oppression begins how do they know where oppression begins

because they're pretty much obsessed with it marxists are basically bloodhounds for oppression the freedom that karl marx was concerned with was the freedom to own private property and the oppression that karl

marx was concerned with was class oppression um yeah they're like bloodhounds for oppression because they are being taught in latin

universities and sometimes through all these online social media apps to veer society to to view the world through the lens of the oppressed and the oppressors

to view the world through the lands of the like powerful or the powerful through the powerless and so it's like they're very black and white in that and they don't necessarily see

the nuances of a lot of things like the example of the little black girl who failed math in school instead of seeing the nuance around that of maybe she has a poor home life maybe

she's not getting enough sleep maybe there's something going on in her life personally that's distracting her or maybe she's just not very good at math they just go like well she's doing poor

so she must be being oppressed by something so let's just focus on her pressure instead of looking at the nuance of the situation but anyway let's continue so i should talk about oppression for a

minute because the way that marxists frame oppression is very distinct we normally think of oppression as something that arises or doesn't circumstantially and something that

everyone should theoretically be capable of so in one moment you could hypothetically be an oppressor or not and in another moment i could be an oppressor or maybe even oppressed

and that should scale up too like the catholic church in one moment you could say that they're an oppressor and in another moment you could say that they're not or maybe they're even oppressed so we normally think of it as something

that no one is inherently guilty of and also no one is inherently exempt from and it's really dictated by a circumstance

marxism on the other hand and this should already be sounding eerily familiar has this particular way of dividing society up into two parts the oppressed and the oppressors

and you're either in one group or the other and what determines which group you fall into is based on your identity and in marx's case it was based in class identity

and he thought that the dynamics of this oppression were baked into the nature of society itself so the only way to overcome this oppression is to change society itself in other words have a

revolution and make a new society free from oppression yes looking at the uh looking at oppressor through marginalized groups that's why a lot of uh university students have a

different definition of racism to them black people can't be racist because black people don't yield power they're not at the top of the hierarchy so no matter how much a black person hates a

white person because i guess white people the one percent of the one percent represents every single white individual in the world that means you i can't be racist to you

because that person that hierarchy that that representation of your whiteness they have power and there's not a black person that has the most power so i i don't

yeah it's very confusing but that's that's basically why they see it that way because black people have no power or we don't yield as much power so we can't be racist you can only be racist

white person because we see you as the oppressor that you yield more power even if it's not on an individual level but because a lot of marxists just group people together they they rip they strip

people of the individuality which in turn strip people of their humanity and they just see people as one big group so you white person use power you're the oppressor therefore i can never be

racist towards you because i have less power than you i am the oppressed and that's kind of how they see a lot of these groups just like that anyway let's continue so then you might

ask how do you know what kind of fundamental change society needs in order to get rid of this oppression and they would say you need to figure out what was being allowed to occur in

order for this oppression to take place and in marx's case the freedom again that he was concerned with was the freedom to own private property so the people who are exercising this

freedom to own private property and this includes the means of production are necessarily the oppressors and the people who are not exercising that freedom so they don't own private property are necessarily the oppressed

and as long as the freedom to own private property exists oppression will inherently be baked into society i've heard this before but i still don't understand that so the people that

create businesses and create jobs so the economy can flow are now the oppressors but if they didn't exist there would be no jobs there would be no companies

there would be no one to hire people to have an economy to have a job market a work market right but you do see this again amongst the youth who practice these ideas where they believe that the

person who owns the business should dismantle the the ownership of that business and disperse it to the workers instead even though they're the one who created the business the private

property thing i just don't understand how you make it up in your head that that means you're an oppressor someone worked really hard someone saved money and they bought a house i don't like how does that make you an

oppressor like i've heard people say like well you shouldn't be able to own land because the land is really originally owned by the natives so you're inherently a colonizer if you have a house or your own property but

again if you try to disperse it to the native wish natives because natives also went to war for pro land ownership and property but anyway let's continue marx thought that in order for this

revolution to happen people first need to awaken and see the nature of the oppression happening around them and if they didn't if they were blind to that oppression

in his terminology they would then have false consciousness if they awakened and they were able to see the true nature of this class oppression happening around them in his terminology they would gain

class consciousness marx thought that a critical number of people needed to awaken to class consciousness and if they did that they would be naturally motivated to band together

in a collective of like-minded class conscious people rise up and overthrow their oppressors and make a new utopian society and by the way the economic implementation of marxism

where the freedom tone private property especially if it relates the means of production is abolished is communism and the economic implementation of liberalism where you have the right to

own private property and you have the freedom to exchange goods and services with others is capitalism so yeah marxism 101

marxism is an inherently unstable ideology that tends to initially sound good but then gets out of control so if a marxist says freedom ends where oppression begins you might say hey i

mean that doesn't sound bad we don't want to be born into a world where people oppress us for things we can't control but then you say wait where is this oppression and they say everywhere and

then you say who gets to say what is and isn't oppression and they say we do and you say can we talk about it and they say no which honestly just builds a hierarchy

like if you're putting yourself up there to say we make the law we define what oppression is no one can disagree with us don't you then turn into the

oppressor because you're creating a hierarchy like makes no sense but anyway let's continue if you disagree with them marxist organizations tend to categorize you as part of the problem

and when marxist organizations come into power they tend to shortly after declare speech and action against the movement as oppression and they abolish political

opposition and things tend to quickly go further downhill from there but that in itself is oppressive and fascist to say we are going to basically demonize or

jail or criticize or get rid of anyone who criticizes our belief system and our way of life's censoring getting rid of freedom of speech that in itself is

oppressive i thought marxism was born uh an attempt to try to get rid of oppression but in in doing that they become the oppressor but anyway let's continue downhill from

there as you probably know every attempt to implement marxism so far upon a whole country has been a disaster for human rights bringing tyranny death censorship

and shortages and never bringing the free utopian society that was promised and we think was responsible for the deaths of something like 100 million people in the 20th century

and the people who suffer the worst are always working-class people the people who marxism was promising to represent who gets yelled at the most who gets criticized the most when it comes to a

lot of this work ideology it's the working class it's the middle american mom and dad suburban families they're the ones who are criticized the most because they don't understand all this

bulk [ __ ] all this bulk language they're the ones who get scuffed at the no at the most from the bourgeoisie from the academics of the world or the working class a lot of the progressive will say

that they're for the working class but they don't even give a [ __ ] about what the working class wants because they think i know better i'm educated i went to harvard i know more than you and so

they try to implement rules that they think will be helpful to working class but it's just hurtful to the working class it's the same thing with like uh global warming shutting down a lot of these plants these oil plants these coal

plants literally destroying entire towns economy turning into complete ghost towns destroying these people's jobs because they didn't implement any backup plan for these workers once they

destroyed their economy right and so it's like they don't care about the working class at all because when the working class again middle america say hello we're here they get told to shut the

[ __ ] up it's the same thing with gun rights a lot of these people who live in very rural areas who need their guns but anyway let's continue but that being said karl marx was a pretty smart guy

and a lot of the critiques he made of liberalism and capitalism were pretty sharp and if you read some of them today you might even agree with them even if he's obviously not capturing the full picture

i think because of that there have since marx's death always been people who were inspired by him and didn't think that the disasters of trying to implement marxism were enough of a deterrent

and decided to try to adapt marks to their own political environment so the practice of doing that of taking marx and adapting him not taking him literally word for word is called neo-marxism

but neo-marxists don't call themselves neo-marxists they tend to just call themselves plain marxists so i'm going to use that word too because it's shorter and there's about zero people trying to adapt marx

literally in the 21st century and i don't know how to talk about neo-marxists without feeling like i'm doing this so i think wokeness is the result of a series of adaptations of marx and i think that there's a clear intellectual

path we can follow to get us there and i'm actually not aware of any alternatives so if you have one let me know because i'm genuinely curious but in the meantime i'm going to lay out the path of adaptations as i understand it

i'm going to break it down into three major steps the first was to expand marx's ideas which were at the time almost entirely about class into the realm of culture the first

major influence for this came from this italian man in the early 1900s who argued that elites control culture and that control they have over culture gives them a kind of dominating

influence over the public and makes the public kind of complacent with whatever the agenda elites have for them so in liberal capitalist society elites within that society can use

culture to essentially brainwash the public into not questioning that society and that's why these revolutions that marx predicted haven't been happening so to fix that marxists need to get

influence in culture and once they gain that cultural influence they can use it to educate the public and once that happens then the public will rise up and revolution will happen whoever controls the media controls the culture controls

the perspective controls the people all right let's continue so the incorporation of marxism into culture is called cultural marxism

and no that's not a right-wing anti-semitic buzzword that's an actual academic word that people have been using for a long time and if you don't believe me go into google scholar and

type in cultural marxism cultural marxism was then expanded upon starting the 20s and 30s by the work of a think tank called the frankfurt school which was a bunch of guys that basically set

out to criticize and re-adapt marx after they saw that marxism had failed to overtake capitalism in western civilization and they expanded upon these ideas of cultural marxism saying

that the elites who control culture in all these different ways are the oppressors and regular people who are subject to the impositions of this culture are the oppressed and the culture they're critiquing is

the liberal culture so they're saying that liberal culture is basically forcing people into these boxes of how it wants them to behave and how to think so it's controlling their thoughts it's controlling their behavior and they say

this all has a dehumanizing effect that makes them not be able to think outside the system and to be less alive i think the main contribution of the frankfurt school was to take these types

of critiques and place them in a modern updated american framework because they're mostly working out of new york at the time and mostly critiquing american culture so that gave people on the left in

america access to these kinds of critiques and on top of that they wove in these radicalizing arguments for the left like this book which tried to redefine

authoritarianism as something that not anyone could be capable of but something that only the right is capable of this was another hugely influential piece which argued that tolerance in the

traditional sense of being tolerant of people you disagree with actually serves to protect depression happening in society and as an alternative he proposes

liberating tolerance and what is that it's to be intolerant of people on the right and extra tolerant of people on the left so he's advocating against free speech for people on the right and he's saying

to enforce this people can go outside the law if they need to and even use violence if they need to since he questions the effectiveness of non-violence speculating that gandhi's success with

it may have been a fluke so this was basically the early intellectual version of the antifa handbook and also just a broad intellectual justification for the censorship of the right by people on the

left while labeling it progressive what oh my god that all makes sense that makes total sense if this pseudo sort of neo-marxism is being taught and fed to

schools universities online whatever that makes sense why we see the fact that progressivism has been being able to run

wild with radical extreme dangerous destructive ideas and a republican can say boo and they get criticized as the worst thing on a [ __ ] planet because

they're literally being taught to sister the right let the left go crazy only only people that can be totalitarian is the right and not the left what the [ __ ]

like that makes total sense oh my god and i agree with him the whole like whoever controls the culture whoever controls the media i agree with that you can kind of control society to where the

way it flows people's perception of things people belief systems and values and all those things morals right i agree with that and you're saying that the people who control this are the oppressors but then you want to take

control of that so you can then control and construct society the way you want it to be so people aren't thinking for themselves and they only think about the world the way you want them to think about the world then you become the

oppressor you're literally trying to demolish the oppressor so you can become the oppressor but because you don't see yourself as an oppressor oppressor because only the right can be oppressors

and only the right can be totalitarian because you're on the left then you're you can't be no matter even if you're doing the exact same thing you're criticizing because your ideas are different that's what make it

non-totalitarian that is insane to me that makes absolute sense oh my god anyway let's continue they're right by

people on the left while labeling it progressive i know it's hard to imagine that these types of academic works can really have that much of an influence on reality but you have to realize this guy was

very popular at the time especially on college campuses he had a kind of superstar intellectual kind of status similar to how we think of like g jack or peterson or maybe bell hooks today

so this wasn't like some kind of obscure work that nobody read but anyway i'm just gonna do one more because i'm trying not to make the section boring and i'm not totally confident that i'm succeeding at it this

paper brought together the ideas of the frankfurt school under the name critical theory critical theory compares itself to traditional theory which is when people try to be objective

in their examination of and interpretation of the world critical theorists on the other hand have their political goals in mind as they work through academia so they don't say what they think is

objectively true they say if they're a critical theorist what they need to say in order to reach their political goals so this is planting the seeds for the

death of objectivity in leftist academia and giving intellectual justification for people to work in academia as political agents so what are the goals they said academics should be aiming for

to adapt marx and transform us into the right kind of society what kind of society is that a society where there is no exploitation or oppression a society where injustice is

abolished so basically they're trying to teach people to go undercover as academics to try to push marxism using certain language so it's not too

obvious or even lying and then justifying it basically like the ends justifying the means kind of thing makes a lot of sense the second major stage started in the

60s when this cultural marxist framework was adapted by identity politics movements at the time there was a huge resurgence of interest in marx especially among

young people and the activism that came out of that is broadly referred to as the new left and the leader of the new left is mostly thought to be marcusa who wrote repressive tolerance who i was just

talking about so he was working at the same time that this stage was starting so the timelines are a little bit blurred together anyway this is the time period where critical race theory was developed which took

critical theory and integrated it into a racial framework critical race theory presumes that unfavorable differences in group outcomes come from racial

oppression and as a solution wants to end racial oppression among a broader goal of wanting to end all forms of oppression which also puts us in a world where the first amendment is attacked on the

grounds of being a protection mechanism for racial oppression around the same time second wave feminism showed up as an alternative to the more liberal first wave that came before it

and the basic marxist contribution to that was to take marx's idea of the proletariat breaking free of their chains and seizing the means of production from bourgeoisie taking that

and replacing it with women breaking free of the shackles that men have put on them and empowering each other to rise up and smash the patriarchy the gay liberation front happened around

the same time i think for a lot of people it was just a opportunity to get respect and visibility for people who weren't straight but if you look at the literature like

the manifestos that came out of it it did have an explicitly marxist wing to it which called out various forms of systemic oppression like straight supremacy and called for various forms

of solidarity and collective action and for ending freedom that allowed these oppressive behaviors to occur which would bring on a new free society

i'm sorry like that's such an oxymoron let's end freedom so we can be more free huh i get what you're saying but still it's a [ __ ] oxymoron and it would never work let's continue at this point

marx has been adapted so many times that he's pretty watered down but the basic dynamic is still there in marx's writing the power dynamics in liberal capitalist society necessarily means the

bourgeoisie are the oppressors and the proletariat are the oppressed in critical race theory the power dynamics in white western society necessarily means white people

are the oppressors and non-white people are the oppressed in feminism it became the power dynamics in patriarchal society necessarily means men are the

oppressors and women are the oppressed and in queer theory it became the power dynamics in heteronormative society necessarily means straight people are the oppressors and

non-straight people are the oppressed at the same time we're seeing this distinct convergence of agreement that the problem is the system itself so the solution calls for solidarity and collective action and spreading

consciousness of the nature of this systemic oppression and then once a critical number of people achieve that consciousness they can rise up and revolutionize the system and achieve liberation

the third major stage was to tie all these movements together with the introduction of intersectionality while dropping mentions of karl marx but leaving the language of liberation and systemic oppression

so they dropped the language of karl marx but he said earlier that academics were to twist language or even lie or be more convert with their with their push for marxism so they're not going to straight

up be like this is actually a marxist idea no they're not going to do that they're just going to deliver the ideas of it by getting but getting rid of that name all together to look less suspicious of what their ideology or

their agenda actually is but um yeah intersectionality sucks but let's continue depression this happened in the late 80s and early 90s with this being the landmark paper

which introduced intersectionality which is basically a rallying call for people to unite and also recognize each other's various forms of oppression i don't know if it was a conscious pr strategy maybe they thought that they

had to drop the name karl marx in order to have a chance of popularizing their movement or maybe marx had been adapted and around for so long

that his ideas were just so ingrained in the radical left that they weren't even consciously referencing them anymore i don't know but either way this is the time period where the name karl marx started disappearing at least in the

published academic vernacular but his ideas of liberation and oppression were still there and his idea of dividing society up into two parts suppressed an oppressor based on identity yada yada

but in case you're not familiar this is this time period and the work that came out of it it's considered the origin for what we think of as wokeness today so woke people's ideology is directly based

on the academic work that was coming out at this time from what i can tell karl marx as the origin for wokeness is something of an open secret that you're not supposed to say

with the occasional slip up that we actually do have an ideological frame we are trained marxists that was patricia who says she's a trade marxist but now

owns property abolishing oppression but becoming the oppressors like i said it makes no sense but let's continue i think the name karl marx carries so much stigma in america and

the blowback from those kind of name drops tends to be so severe that people have learned not to say his name but meanwhile all these writers and activists are talking about systemic oppression and how we need to achieve

liberation from it how do we achieve liberation from it from triggering an awakening of critical consciousness what does it mean to be woke you've awakened to critical consciousness

it's right there in the name okay so what's the point of this the point is that understanding that wokeness is fundamentally rooted in marxism sets you up to better understand the movement it sets you up to understand

why they frame problems in the way they do which we've already talked about it also sets you up to understand why they frame their solutions in the way they do so if you go back to their original

liberal versus marxist distinction if a liberal sees speech or i guess hear speech that they disagree with maybe it's hateful speech even they're probably going to want to

protect that speech because they think the protection of that speech is necessary for a progressive society while a woke person if they hear this speech that they think is

hateful or oppressive in some way they're going to likely want to use the force of their movement to one way or another put a stop to that speech and they believe that the protection of that

speech is contributing to oppression to give another example a liberal business owner would probably want to defend their right to hire whoever they think is best for the job thinking that that leads to the most

progress overall but a woke person might look at that and say you're trying to defend your right to hire who you want is actually contributing to systemic oppression

and their solution is to use the force of their movement to probably impose some sort of hiring quota on you based on identity knowing full well they're restricting your freedom but believing

that they're expediting progress i was literally about to stop it and say just that it's madding how i guess i understand how someone can think that that is the best way to go because they just feel like the

me the ends justifies the means right and who [ __ ] cares if i'm if i'm taking your freedom away you're an oppressor so that's just how they see it it's like trying to eradicate bullying

by becoming the bully that's literally what it is like they're becoming the bullies themselves but because they've set themselves up in such a virtuous manner they don't even

see it they can't even they haven't even looked at their own reflection and saw that they have morphed into what they hate because again the n is justifying the means but anyway let's continue

those are just a couple examples but you could use this framework to understand the woke playbook it's always to abolish something or to use the force of their

movement to bend people or society against their will in some kind of direction to end oppression as they see it by the way nothing i've said today is

supposed to be like a rallying call to go around harassing individual woke people on the basis of them being marxist if there ever was a movement that should

be criticized on the basis of the ideas themselves and not the people this is it i think to make sense of what's going on at least in this day and age we should think of wokeness as a runaway

idea in that it's not really under the control of any individual involved so if you think of media outlets at least the ones that are caught up in this stuff it makes sense to why they seem to care

so little about how unpopular they've become and how much public trust in them has fallen and it makes sense to why these woke films that keep coming out and keep crashing and burning keep getting made

as if nothing happened i think wokeness like every marxist organization positions itself as being the will of the people and not just the will of the people but

the will of the people who need to be listened to the most but it's like they say they want to be the will of the people who are like please stop go away and they're like no but we're here for you we're the ones that are gonna fight

for you and this is why i've said so many times where as a black woman i have felt more harassed by woke white progressive women yelling down at me and telling me how i'm supposed to feel

about my blackness it's like they are the bullies but they're also saying that they're they're they're our heroes it's beyond me but i don't know is the guys

brainwashing indoctrination but anyway let's continue and i think that's a dangerous way to position a movement because if anyone criticizes it

even if you're a high-ranking person from within someone else is likely to point at you and say hey you're against the people so i think that creates this natural

pressure against criticism both internal and external criticism but we've seen that even like let's take something like a dave chappelle thing when it came to netflix right it was like the the people

said we want dave chappelle the wolf said we don't care what you want even though we're there for the people we're gonna this this we want dave chappelle gone because he's bad for kosher right and then a higher up some

netflix says look the people want dave chappelle we're gonna have de chapel so then the wolves attack the higher-ups of like well you're just trying to push that idea because you want to be an oppressive white man or something like

that let's continue to where if you're part of the movement your only really play is to either go with the flow or try to further radicalize the movement

so i don't think there's much point in trying to criticize people to the effect that you're trying to get them to de-radicalize or reform the movement because i don't really think that's possible so i think your best bet is to

try to get people to leave the movement i think the best way to do that is to criticize the movement itself i'm afraid for a lot of people that are watching this i basically just did a 20-plus minute explanation for how water

is wet because this is obvious stuff that they've been aware of for a long time but i think for most people this stuff is not obvious or they haven't they're not aware of it or it's controversial or

there's lots of disagreement and that's more the audience i'm trying to reach here i think even most woke people wouldn't classify themselves as marxist but if everything i just said is true i

think it is then yeah wokeness is a marxist movement and it's crazy how little understood that is because it's a hugely popular movement that has a ton of power so i hope this was helpful to hear

either way thanks for listening till the end i'm gonna close this one out so catch you next time i absolutely love that that was freaking amazing i

i watched like five minutes of it before i reacted to it i didn't think it got better as it went on so i hope you guys watch the entire video um this video is super long i'm gonna have to really make

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