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If one rejects laissez-faire on 
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moral weakness, one must for the
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kind of government action. 
Welcome to Keith's night. 

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Don't tread on anyone in the 
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We have dr. 
James Lindsay of cynical 

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theories. 
How activist scholarship made 

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everything about race gender, 
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everybody. 
Dr. Lindsay. 

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Thank you so much for your time.
Where's the best place to find 

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your archive of work? 
I keep the majority of my work 

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at the Website that I've 
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discourses is located at your 
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Follow me on social media, which
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my work lately, which is a its 
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Got it. 
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Grigori's there? 
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it. 
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itself as a movement, which is 
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describe itself as good as a 
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Assess, the relationship between
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society. 
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to put it. 
It's a view that takes the 

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position that race racism is 
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It's not a matter of necessarily
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individual action. 
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can act or be racist or act in 
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racism, ultimately, as a system 
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Every level whether that's 
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whether through social norms of 
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talk and think about things, 
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knowledge, whether it's our 
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criminal justice, or whether 
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institution that you might 
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every level, every single thing 
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that's the first underlying 
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Theory. 
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in the ordinary state of Affairs
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from them. 
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In other words, guilty until 
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any circumstance. 
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about it, but it's a very 
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about because it's pretty 
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completely in the first of all, 
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racial collectives. 
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But it also this is a statement 
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to from memory from from the 
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introduction, which was written 
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have some significance, Richard 
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the describe a critical race 
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traditional approaches to civil 
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incremental progress and 
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Critical race Theory questions, 
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liberal order and by liberal 
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thing, the other countries call 
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libertarian, very similar 
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equality. 
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the 1960s and going into the 
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the assumption that racism is 
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knowledge is a cultural 
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Kind of the most core thing or a
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post-modernism naturally, resist
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single idea could be defined as 
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considered true. 
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they treated as knowledge. 
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challenged, it wasn't. 
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powers that be will lean in to 
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knowledge, and then we'll 
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crazy. 
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they decide to Psychopathology 
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institutionalize. 
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coercion something like this. 
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relationship between knowledge 
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whether or not they're true or 
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less relevant than the systems 
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power. 
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the political processes that 
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something counts as knowledge. 
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have to admit that it's a very 
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technocratic World. 
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ourselves with. 
What is theory with a capital T?

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Okay. 
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idea. 
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all of these different ways of 
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associate now with the woke 
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critical theory and it was taken
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and power that wants to to kind 
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theories. 
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as we call it. 
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past excluded, marginalized, 
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whatever, then you're the 
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cultural artifacts of your 
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elevated, whereas if your 
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what they would say is white 
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fall, but, you know all the 
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all these words that indicate 
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within this view, that those 
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Western masculine perspectives 
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sense, the effort to make things
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cooking the books tilting, it 
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power and influence before and 
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the assumption that we must be 
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blurring it. 
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is the blurring of boundaries, 
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and storytelling, we should blur
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These kinds of things are there 
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categorization process is 
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dynamics and needs to be 
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unclear. 
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undue influence. 
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that language constructs 
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they, that they operate on. 
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parameters of dialogue, the 
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All construct how, and people 
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relativism, which I kind of 
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culture can't judge another. 
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own then that's going to get 
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egalitarianism to tilt the 
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cultural groups. 
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one of the biggest. 
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conflict with this kind of 
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especially the denial that we 
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derive facts about the world and
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rational fashion, but here we 
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denial that there's Universal 
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Thus that natural law, might 
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there is The individual is 
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In fact, the theory would regard
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conditioned by Society, 
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That they're not actually being 
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intersection of identity groups.
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How universities made everything
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and why it harms everybody. 
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how you guys don't have any 
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the reader. 
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something, the fact that I can't
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Alright, I was kidding. 
I with myself, I actually don't 

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know what you guys do. 
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it's important citing the 
primary sources. 

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Not like this is a big deal and 
you all know it. 

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Well, how do I know? 
It's not some, you know, so 

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Panic panic. 
Where we all think something? 

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Just cause we're in the same 
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I really love this book and I 
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What are meta-narratives. 
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So the post-modernism describes 
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As skepticism as this is a quote
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lyotard, one of the one of the 
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Coastline phosphorus, and he has
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the postmodern condition and in 
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I And postmodern as incredulity 
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culturally relativistic the 
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the way that we think about and 
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the heart of all of. 
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Destiny that came along that we 
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you know Frontier spirit in 
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Like Destiny is playing itself 
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American continents and then 
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advises, the civilizing mission 
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spreading civilization. 
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European colonists. 
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around, spreading civilization 
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Barbarian parts of the world. 
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American exceptionalism is a 
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further than all of this. 
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side of history is a 
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digress, they went further than 
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that entire systems of thought 
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meta-narrative. 
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speaking. 
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Protestants and the Catholics 
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much of its kind of underlying, 
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architecture, but they said that
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Marxism had a meta-narrative. 
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progress from capitalism into 
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they were calling into question.
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the scientific method constitute
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world. 
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cynical and pessimistic in this 
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the idea that history is going 
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That's a meta-narrative. 
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post-modernism said that they 
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descriptions of reality are just
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they're largely false at their 
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about what was called 
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believed that. 
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actually including in science, 
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is socially constructed in 
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thinking about things and they 
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the social structure tends to 
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Things are true that supposed to
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this is how things are true. 
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questions in the world and all 
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Consensus. 
It is horology. 

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It is not logic. 
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beside logic. 
Para logic Harold. 

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Horology means, I've talked to a
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until he took a philosophy 
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And Professor asked, you know, 
let's talk about why it hurts 

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legitimation by virology. 
What is / ology and they argued 

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about what it might be and Bubba
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professor said, here's an easier
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It's lies. 
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Okay, so intersectionality is a 
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That's operating right now, even
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Kimberly Crenshaw, said that 
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I don't I don't believe it. 
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totalizing theory of identity. 
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identity. 
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the observation that things are 
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if we take, I should say, let me
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If we take for granted, the idea
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something, you know, within say 
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behavior or attitudes toward 
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that, for example, there are 
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or stereotypes toward women 
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whatever happens to be that when
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identity categories at one time.
I'm it's not as clear. 

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It's not as simple as saying. 
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apply to say black people in the
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You take those together. 
That's what you get for black 

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women. 
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both but you don't necessarily 
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discriminated against. 
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that black women have their own 
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own, axes of discrimination. 
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and law Kimberly. 
Shah was actually a lawyer. 

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brought the concept of, although
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feminism from about 12 years 
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1989, and she analyzed 
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discrimination lawsuits, but 
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Motors, and she pointed out that
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discrimination against black 
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they gave said, we're not 
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people or not discriminatory 
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no discrimination, but indeed 
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of black men working on the 
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women working in the office, but
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women. 
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to figure out what to do with 
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that that is a thorny in 
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discrimination law. 
That does need some attention, 

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and would need some attention, 
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totalizing, theory of identity 
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Going to these various belonging
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know, that belonging to various 
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might have. 
So dramatically not just 

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informative but determinant of 
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think of yourself in terms of 
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way that those identity groups 
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So if you're a black man, you 
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they say, engaging your 
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You have to come out and 
intentionally say, you know as a

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black man you swear you get 
these as a identity. 

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Blah blah blah statement so 
much. 

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I understand, you know, the 
black experience, which is this 

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centralized. 
Experience under Theory, but I 

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also understand that I occupy 
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comes with being a man. 
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be able to defer to that under a
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I need to defer to that female 
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When a woman challenges a 
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comes to race, I've become an 
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Because I'm in the marginalized 
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And so it's a way of dragging 
your varying, various identity 

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categories up into relevance. 
On basically everything. 

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Now. 
This is again, me being very 

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nice to these things. 
Intersectionality was created. 

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Kimberle, Crenshaw is credited 
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The idea was already floating 
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queer theorist. 
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talking about that sex. 
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complicated. 
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they very intrinsically 
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example, between being a gay man
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both are homosexual and there's 
some fundamental differences 

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there. 
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complicated. 
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you also had this group is 
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Collective. 
And this is a mouthful, the 

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short answer is that these were 
black feminists, but the reality

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is that they were lesbians who 
were queer black feminist 

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socialists who had formed a 
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coined the term identity 
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What we saw in the Civil Rights 
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politics because this was a 
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Collective. 
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In 1974, they coined the term 
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they were talking about. 
The idea of the intersections 

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between queer politics, Black 
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over a decade before kimberle. 
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And so what you actually see 
here is in practice and this is 

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kind of controversial to say, 
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That is that intersectionality 
is basically an extortion, 

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racket. 
That's built so that Queer black

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feminist socialists can create a
network of solidarity? 

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Very much. 
Like, the mafia would create a 

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network of families that are all
going to kick up Advantage 

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resources, money influence, 
opportunity, power, Etc, toward 

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queer, black feminist socialist 
women. 

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So what It ultimately boil and 
this is this was revealed, by 

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the way, I don't want to sound 
like, you know, you don't read 

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them saying this but you see it 
throughout You know, these ideas

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like always will matter when 
black lives matter. 

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So this means that we're now 
going to do a extortion, racket 

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toward black lives, mattering. 
And all other lives are just 

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going to have to deal with it. 
And the assumption is that black

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lives being the least valued. 
Once they matter, it must imply 

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that all lives matter which is, 
of course, a fallacy because you

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could easily make it so that 
black lives matter. 

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Nobody else is matter. 
That's actually a possibility. 

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So it's based on a fallacy, but 
you saw In particular last 

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summer when all the riots and so
on broke out, you see it right 

460
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now when what happened was, 
people started talking about not

461
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,400
just about white fragility and 
white complicity. 

462
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,500
And in white supremacy, this 
sort of talking about Brown 

463
00:24:55,500 --> 00:25:00,100
fragility and brown complicity 
in white supremacy and brown 

464
00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:03,300
anti-blackness. 
You see it right now with the 

465
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,200
issues are in the Asian American
community that have come up. 

466
00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,300
And I hate to say Asian American
Community because first of all, 

467
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,700
there's no community. 
Second of all Asian-American is 

468
00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:15,000
insufficiently, granular. 
Chinese-americans Korean 

469
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,200
Americans, Japanese Americans, 
Vietnamese, Americans, 

470
00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:20,700
Indonesia, numeric. 
I mean, these, these people do 

471
00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:22,600
not have the same cultural 
background. 

472
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,400
Anyway, so Asian-American is 
already. 

473
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,600
This kind of odd conglomerate 
that doesn't really recognize 

474
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,200
itself, and then there's no 
singular or unitary Community, 

475
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,400
among any of those groups, much 
less the whole thing. 

476
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,000
And then, of course, that's not 
even good enough. 

477
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,800
They've replaced Asian-American 
now with a API to make an even, 

478
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,100
you know, an acronym based. 
Bigger one, but what do they say

479
00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,200
as well, although they're 
intrinsically antsy, vantablack.

480
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,900
So even the right now in our 
cities are getting beat up and 

481
00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:49,500
they're getting robbed and 
they're getting assaulted in the

482
00:25:49,508 --> 00:25:52,600
getting raped and all these 
horrific things are happening 

483
00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:57,200
and they're being discriminated 
against her schools, Etc, under 

484
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,200
the rubric of critical race 
Theory and race analysis, even 

485
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,400
though all this stuff is 
happening. 

486
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,700
It would be especially the 
beating up in the crime. 

487
00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:10,100
It would be anti-black to call 
for more police and this Taps 

488
00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:13,100
into a History of anti Blackness
among Asians who are a model 

489
00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:14,400
minority. 
Bubba, Bubba blah. 

490
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,000
And so what you can see is what 
they've done with 

491
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,100
intersectionality is said. 
Oh, okay. 

492
00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,500
API people Asian American 
people. 

493
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,200
You guys, you guys are all an 
oppressed minority and we have 

494
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,900
the solidarity Network called 
intersectionality where you can 

495
00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:29,100
understand your impressionable 
block carry water for this 

496
00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,300
movement, and then the second 
something either, you know, the 

497
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:36,800
second the, the grift is 
available whether its power or 

498
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,300
money. 
The extortion racket is 

499
00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:39,600
available. 
It's like, whoops, your auntie 

500
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,900
black, too. 
The whole Auntie kicks up in One

501
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:46,700
Direction and that direction is 
we even saw that last summer to,

502
00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,800
by the way, with black lives 
matter wasn't enough, you had 

503
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,900
trans black lives matter came 
out, you know, and it's like you

504
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:55,200
can see the direction that it 
all everything points in a 

505
00:26:55,208 --> 00:26:57,800
particular direction and it is 
intersectionalities of 

506
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,100
totalizing, 3, of identity, even
though kimberle Crenshaw said in

507
00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:05,600
1991 that she didn't intend it 
to be and I don't believe her. 

508
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,400
It is a totalizing theory of 
identity that causes people to 

509
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,900
focus on their factors. 
Of identity and divide 

510
00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:15,000
themselves and sort themselves 
by factors of identity and other

511
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,900
factors I heard today. 
In fact, that children in 

512
00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:20,700
schools are sorting themselves 
by how tall they are and all 

513
00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:23,300
kinds of other things, you know,
where this, you know, you can't 

514
00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:25,400
be in our group because you're 
too short or Too Tall or 

515
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,800
whatever. 
They're just sorting themselves 

516
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,900
and sorting themselves into more
and more, you know, into little 

517
00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:33,800
collectives. 
Not into each person's 

518
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,500
individual and let's learn 
across four different. 

519
00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,500
No, no little collectors, but at
the same time as it being a 

520
00:27:38,508 --> 00:27:40,600
totalizing theory of identity, 
it was correct Construction. 

521
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,500
Fit as a solidarity based 
racketeering effort to kick 

522
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:49,900
advantage in money and power and
grift toward queer, black 

523
00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:54,800
feminist socialists, which is 
way more accuracy than they like

524
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,000
having told about them. 
I want to get into the mindset 

525
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,500
of one of the post modern 
thinkers and Michel Foucault in.

526
00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:06,200
What is Enlightenment. 
He says what must be grasped is 

527
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,500
the extent to which what we know
of it in reference to historical

528
00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:13,100
generalities. 
The forms of power that are 

529
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,000
exercised in it and the 
experience that we have in it 

530
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,600
ourselves constitute nothing but
determined historical figures 

531
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,800
through a certain form of 
problem. 

532
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Metas problematization, that 
defines objects. 

533
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,100
The actions modes of relations 
to oneself. 

534
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,500
What does that mean? 
I will ask you to read it again.

535
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,200
So this is first of all, let me 
just say, this is typical of how

536
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,400
the French postmodernist through
there was a lot of people don't 

537
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,000
understand this. 
There was actually a kind of 

538
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000
academic social Norm within the 
French blue in the mid-twentieth

539
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,800
century that maybe still 
persists, but less that the 

540
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,400
belief was basically. 
Lee genuinely that if people 

541
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,000
could understand more than about
70 percent of what you had to 

542
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
say, you were probably not that 
smart. 

543
00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:05,400
And so there was this kind of 
showing off with these 

544
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,500
complicated statements and 
complicated sentences and 

545
00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:14,500
complicated words and very 
complicated ideas and it's not 

546
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,600
entirely clear all the time that
they even knew what they meant 

547
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,100
themselves, but it probably is 
the case. 

548
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,400
So if we co is actually talking,
they're primarily in again to 

549
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,900
get all of it. 
I probably have to hear it again

550
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:30,200
because it was a lot but he's 
Talking primarily about the idea

551
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,300
that we are, in fact, caught up 
in historically contingent those

552
00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:39,300
culturally continuing processes.
There's no external perspective 

553
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,400
from which somebody like 
yourself, or I could step aside 

554
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,200
and say, we're looking at the 
world objectively. 

555
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,100
This is what's true. 
In fact, we have to say, no, 

556
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,300
we're actually denizens of the 
21st century who live in the 

557
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:59,800
United States and that cultural.
Lou Shades how we think Shades, 

558
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,100
how we know we are not separate 
from the processes of History. 

559
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,200
We are not separate from the 
contingencies of History. 

560
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,000
We're not separate from the 
culture in which we find 

561
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,200
ourselves embedded, therefore, 
that colors. 

562
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,700
The way that we think, even 
though we tend to think that 

563
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,300
that's not what's going on. 
We tend to think of ourselves as

564
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:17,600
independent of that. 
Whereas, in fact, we are not 

565
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:22,700
independent of that. 
And the most generous thing to 

566
00:30:22,708 --> 00:30:25,100
do would say, oh, well, we need 
a proper recognition 

567
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:26,700
acknowledgement and accounting 
for that. 

568
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Try to figure things out. 
Am I just leaning into a 

569
00:30:29,008 --> 00:30:32,700
particular bias? 
But Foucault was more hopeless 

570
00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:34,300
than that. 
Kind of believed that there was 

571
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:38,800
no such no Avenue by, which such
a thing could be resolved, 

572
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,400
everything comes back to that 
same problem. 

573
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:47,400
So the sort of indicative, you 
know, of the postmodern thought 

574
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,800
about knowledge and about the 
contingency of History to the 

575
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,600
way. 
Contingencies of History would 

576
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,400
mean that whatever cultural 
context you find yourself in 

577
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,800
ultimately frames out everything
that you say, everything that 

578
00:30:59,808 --> 00:31:02,600
you think every every way that 
you You're able to live your 

579
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,800
life or be even, what if you 
were to talk about Liberty, what

580
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,200
your what Liberty means is all 
conditioned by the society. 

581
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,000
You know, what, an American in 
the 21st century thinks of his 

582
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,300
Liberty, might not match what 
Thomas Jefferson thought of his 

583
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,800
Liberty and might not match what
somebody who lives in China in 

584
00:31:20,808 --> 00:31:22,800
the 21st century thinks of his 
Liberty. 

585
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,700
And, you know, I've honestly had
conversations with people in 

586
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:30,300
China who explained that Liberty
is not having to think for 

587
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:32,800
yourself. 
Being told what to do which is 

588
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:37,400
inimical to the idea of Liberty 
here, you know, but they think 

589
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,800
know you're free to live your 
life the way that you want to if

590
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,600
you're just told what to do all 
the time because you don't have 

591
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,800
to think about the about all of 
that. 

592
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:46,400
You don't have to figure out for
yourself. 

593
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,700
How you're going to order your 
Affairs. 

594
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:49,100
You don't have to figure out for
yourself. 

595
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:50,600
What you're going to do with 
your life. 

596
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,200
You're just told, you know, go 
be a doctor, go be a go, be a 

597
00:31:54,208 --> 00:31:58,100
janitor, go be the guy who has a
this is real and China a broom 

598
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:00,100
tied to the back of his bike 
that rides up and down the 

599
00:32:00,108 --> 00:32:04,100
highway. 
Pennies a day to treat sleep. 

600
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:06,700
So they have zero unemployment. 
You're just told what to do, and

601
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,300
you don't have to think about it
and it's free. 

602
00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:10,900
It's freeing in the this line of
thinking. 

603
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,500
And so Foucault would say 
there's no way for us to 

604
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,400
evaluate because we're trapped 
in our own cultural context here

605
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,400
in America. 
And say, that's actually 

606
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,200
totalitarianism. 
That's not freedom, and there 

607
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,900
would be no way for the Chinese 
and they're called context. 

608
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:28,000
So look at what we're doing and 
say, well, Americans think 

609
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,400
they're free, but they're 
chained to all of the things 

610
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,200
they have to do to manage. 
Has their own lives, there's no 

611
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,700
way for either of those two 
cultures to communicate and to 

612
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:38,400
resolve that difference or the 
result of that distinction. 

613
00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:40,200
That's kind of what he's talking
about. 

614
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,100
Being trapped within those 
particular contingencies of 

615
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:50,900
history and thus culture. 
There was a research book on the

616
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,300
Frankfurt School where it 
summarizes horkheimer, the 

617
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:58,200
Frankfurt schools, credited 
founder saying the dichotomy of 

618
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,200
absolutism and relativism was in
fact a false. 

619
00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:05,400
This one each period of time has
its own truth or timer argued. 

620
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,200
Although there is none above 
time. 

621
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:11,900
What is true is whatever 
Foster's social change in the 

622
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:16,200
direction of a rational Society.
Why is there such an attack on 

623
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,500
objective truth and morality? 
Because, that's where if you 

624
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,900
objective things, remove power 
from people who want to have 

625
00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,400
power. 
Hmm, objective. 

626
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:30,800
That which is objective is 
something to which every person 

627
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,800
has to Defer, its external to 
every individual. 

628
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:38,400
And so, nobody has any authority
to Proclaim over the objective. 

629
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,600
If we were Christian, you would 
say nobody has the authority to 

630
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,500
Proclaim over God. 
If we're strictly scientist 

631
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,800
would say, nobody has the 
authority to say that the world 

632
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,500
is other than it is. 
But if we get rid of this idea 

633
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,000
that there's objective truth, 
then all of a sudden there have 

634
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,100
to be people who are considered 
the authenticators of Truth and 

635
00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,500
those people become empowered. 
Those people become the experts.

636
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,700
Those people become the 
technocrats who can order In run

637
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:05,200
Society through their dicta. 
And so that's why there's an 

638
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,800
assault on objective truth. 
That's why there's the attempt 

639
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,500
to tear this down is because it 
empowers the people. 

640
00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:14,800
So when you have horkheimer, 
there were marking that, you 

641
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,100
know, we have to be heading 
toward a rational Society should

642
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,900
also be remarked. 
That horkheimer was a 

643
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:24,699
neo-marxist. 
The swear Kaymer imbibed in 

644
00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,400
believe a lot of marxian 
thought. 

645
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,100
And so for Marx, remember that 
Marx said that the dialectic 

646
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,500
Materialism is the true science 
of society, the true science of 

647
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:38,500
history and that it is direct 
socialism is the rational than 

648
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:43,100
communism worth of is the truly 
rational way to live in to order

649
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,000
a society. 
And therefore when he says that 

650
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,300
we anything that doesn't Point 
toward a more rational Society. 

651
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:49,900
What he actually means is 
anything that doesn't Point 

652
00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:53,500
toward communism because the 
Communists believe in. 

653
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:57,000
They still believe that true 
rationality, true science and 

654
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,100
true democracy all exist, only 
under a communist. 

655
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:05,800
System. 
So when you put those two things

656
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,000
together that statement then 
becomes very indicative of 

657
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,200
what's going on. 
You have these philosopher types

658
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,900
these marks in place for types 
of neo-marxists philosophers, 

659
00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:16,800
who want to be able to order 
Society in the direction of a 

660
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,900
communist Utopia that they 
believe is possible. and, What 

661
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:26,700
they want to do is undermine the
idea of objective truth because 

662
00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:29,300
that's what would reveal them to
be charlatans. 

663
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,200
That's what would reveal them to
be utopians. 

664
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,000
I would prove what we reveal 
them to be. 

665
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,600
In fact totalitarian. 
You want to control the way 

666
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,100
everybody thinks. 
If you don't understand it's 

667
00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,200
about communism is a very 
important point. 

668
00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:41,500
The fundamental belief of 
Communism in the reason it ends 

669
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:44,500
up murdering so many people not 
starving them necessarily. 

670
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:47,300
That's just as failure. 
The reason ends up murdering so 

671
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,100
many people. 
So many dissidents. 

672
00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:53,300
Some people get carted off to 
gulags is Typically because the 

673
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:55,900
Communists belief and 
re-education camps is that 

674
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,800
communism will work when 
everybody has the proper 

675
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,400
communist Consciousness, when 
everybody is awakened to the 

676
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,400
truth of Communism, that's when 
it will work. 

677
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,400
That's when it will 
spontaneously begin to take 

678
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,700
shape into function, which is, 
of course incorrect. 

679
00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,300
But what does that mean? 
It means you have to eliminate 

680
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:17,900
people who are irrational. 
You have to eliminate people who

681
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:20,300
are not fitting in with that 
program, people who are not 

682
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:24,800
re-educate about people who are 
not not able to be awakened out 

683
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,300
of reality into the the false 
power struggle that they're 

684
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:32,100
actually trying to thrust people
into. 

685
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,400
And so the assault on objective 
truth is an assault on the 

686
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,400
ability to put brakes on that 
train in some sense. 

687
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:46,100
I said this recently, it's as 
though critical theories and 

688
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,600
communism for that, have 
Unleashed a train rolling down a

689
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,800
hill and salt. 
Things like objective Truth. 

690
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:58,700
For example, remove the brakes 
on that train and at the bottom 

691
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:01,000
of the hill, there's a cliff and
it's going to fly off. 

692
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,400
But what they've done is try to 
like it's already rolling. 

693
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,900
The question is what's going to 
happen and what they are doing 

694
00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,800
with the assault on objective. 
Truth is trying to remove the 

695
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,800
brakes so that there's no way to
stop that train because they 

696
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,300
think once the train comes off 
the tracks and falls into the 

697
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:15,900
cliff. 
Everything's going to be 

698
00:37:15,908 --> 00:37:18,500
perfect. 
That's just that's where it is. 

699
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:26,500
And yeah, so in 1943, James 
Burnham wrote the Machiavelli 

700
00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:29,100
ins Defenders of Freedom. 
He wrote about the iron law of 

701
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,700
oligarchy and says, whatever 
social changes, occur, whatever 

702
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,700
happens to economic relations, 
whether property is in private 

703
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,900
hands or socialized, 
organization will remain and 

704
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:42,300
through organization and 
oligarchical Rule will be 

705
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,800
perpetuated. 
Another words. 

706
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,800
Even if you're in a union of 
people trying to seek equality, 

707
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,900
only some people show up to the 
meetings. 

708
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,900
And only some people speak and 
one or two people, or one 

709
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:57,500
percent of people are going to 
decide what the rules are and 

710
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:02,600
use their linguistic or 
rhetorical tactics to convince 

711
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,200
the large people of how to vote.
So, oligarchy is almost an iron 

712
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,000
rule in nature. 
Do you think critical race 

713
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,400
Theory and post-modernism is 
therefore a Fool's errand 

714
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,800
because it doesn't accept the 
Pareto Principle or the iron law

715
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,900
of oligarchy post-modernism. 
Yes. 

716
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:25,100
Post-modernism misunderstands. 
Those rules of hierarchy and 

717
00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:28,100
Society critical race Theory. 
No because critical race Theory 

718
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:29,800
actually wants to become the 
oligarchs. 

719
00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:33,800
The goal of critical race theory
is to enforce critical race 

720
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,500
Theory as the iron rule. 
It is to become that one percent

721
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,700
who shows up to all the 
meetings, who talks at every 

722
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:42,300
school board meeting who takes 
all of the positions of 

723
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:43,800
bureaucratic power. 
In particular. 

724
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,400
They very rarely want to be like
the president of a thing or the 

725
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,700
head of a thing. 
They usually want to be an 

726
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,400
administrative and bureaucratic 
roles. 

727
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,500
They this was the danger with 
Joe Biden. 

728
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,500
People say, oh, it's Joe Biden. 
Critical race. 

729
00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:57,000
Theory says you woke. 
Blah, blah blah. 

730
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,100
And it's like, it doesn't 
matter. 

731
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:01,700
Is Administrative state with 
5000 or whatever unaccountable 

732
00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:05,800
point. 
He's will be largely influenced 

733
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,600
by the ideology. 
And that's what it wants to do 

734
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,000
is he wants to occupy those 
bureaucratic positions. 

735
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,600
It wants to show up to the 
meeting so that it does. 

736
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,200
In fact, create the de facto 
oligarchy, but when you have it 

737
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,600
in service to an ideology like 
that, we no longer call it an 

738
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,600
oligarchy. 
We call it a party with a 

739
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,400
capital P. 
And that is the objective of 

740
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,300
critical race Theory. 
So critical race theory is not 

741
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:30,900
purely postmodern. 
It is in fact uses 

742
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,100
post-modernism, but is largely 
based also in critical theory 

743
00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:38,100
and Neo Marxism, which sought to
create that, you know, rash, 

744
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,500
so-called rational, liberated 
Society. 

745
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:45,600
In other words, a kind of 
Marxist style, but not exactly, 

746
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,100
Marxist Utopia. 
Where would themselves in 

747
00:39:48,107 --> 00:39:51,200
charge? 
They would be the leninist? 

748
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,500
What are they called? 
The Vanguard or whatever? 

749
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:58,900
It's going to Shepherd Society 
through the process of refill 

750
00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:01,100
Liberation by empowering 
themselves. 

751
00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:06,600
So critical race Theory does not
does not fail to understand 

752
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,300
this. 
Get me talk about it as being a 

753
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:10,600
problem. 
That it says that there's all 

754
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,200
these hierarchies but it's very 
I blatantly like we talked about

755
00:40:13,207 --> 00:40:16,500
with intersectionality creating 
an alternative hierarchy that 

756
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:22,600
puts itself strongly into Power 
And as far as that iron law goes

757
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,700
is probably correct. 
And what this means is that we 

758
00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:29,500
constantly have in societies 
that we want to have Be Free by 

759
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:32,200
one means or another, whether 
that's minimizing the size of 

760
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,800
government or institutional 
apparatus has whether it's, you 

761
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,500
know, other means, whether 
separation of powers, whatever 

762
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:43,300
it happens to be some set of 
means have to be Is that 

763
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,200
minimize the ability for the 
oligarchs to have absolute or 

764
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,500
tyrannical influence over the 
populations or systems that they

765
00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:58,800
control? 
That is the under the underlying

766
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,800
goal of successful. 
Political systems that avoid 

767
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,100
tyranny and critical race theory
is trying to do. 

768
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,000
Exactly the opposite of that. 
They are trying to make 

769
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,500
themselves that one percent, who
control everything people. 

770
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:14,000
I think have realized this. 
This in the past three to six 

771
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,300
months, rather rapidly, which is
a little bit. 

772
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:21,000
Encouraging Professor. 
Stephen Hicks says the failure 

773
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,800
of epistemology made 
post-modernism possible and the 

774
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,200
failure of socialism made 
post-modernism necessary. 

775
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:35,400
Do you agree with that? 
Yes, largely, you know, Hicks 

776
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,400
and I have some very slight 
different disagreements around 

777
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,200
the idea of Concord ideas of how
counter alignment can't was, but

778
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,600
otherwise, I agree with the 
majority of his analysis. 

779
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,000
Think he's a little bit. 
I used to think. 

780
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,100
Anyway, I'm not sure. 
Now a little bit bent on the 

781
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:53,700
idea that it was all, you know, 
an attempt to bring to keep 

782
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:55,000
bringing communism into the 
picture. 

783
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,800
But now I'm kind of more 
convinced that that is the case 

784
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,800
post-modernism though itself. 
I don't think post-modernism 

785
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:07,200
developed intentionally as a set
of tools to undermine Western 

786
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,900
Civilization. 
So that communism could come 

787
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,800
into play. 
I think it just developed 

788
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,300
itself, has decided tools to 
undermine civilizations, period,

789
00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:19,000
all of them and then people who 
had communist, agendas were able

790
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200
to pick it up and then use it in
that regard. 

791
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,800
So, you know, I think Hicks is 
broadly, correct? 

792
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,600
Their yeah, just with a little 
bit of nuance there at the I 

793
00:42:29,607 --> 00:42:31,600
don't think. 
The post the postmodernist 

794
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,700
themselves. 
I don't think we're nearly as 

795
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:36,100
purposed and what they were 
doing, as people think they 

796
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:38,800
were, but the people who picked 
up post modern tools in the next

797
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:45,100
generation of thought, certainly
are, which then links, you know 

798
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,800
to what what Hicks is writing 
there. 

799
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,600
I think the post-modernism by 
the way is a failure of 

800
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,800
authenticity primarily. 
It is. 

801
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,300
A also critical theory is an 
another way, but there's this 

802
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,200
Disconnection from the real. 
They feel like societies 

803
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,700
progressed to a point where 
nothing can be real nothing. 

804
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:02,800
There's no connection to the 
real. 

805
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,400
Nobody can understand who they 
really are. 

806
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,100
Everybody's caught up in. 
Whether you hear it from like, 

807
00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:11,200
you know, fucose talking about 
the idea that it were culturally

808
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:17,000
conditioned and just contingent,
you know, avatars of the 

809
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,500
cultures we find ourselves in 
with you hear from Herbert 

810
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:21,000
marcuse. 
So, the neo-marxist, who's 

811
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,200
talking about the idea that 
we're subject all of the 

812
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,200
heteronomous, interests of 
Consumer capitalism, there's 

813
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,800
this idea that there's this 
gigantic disconnection from 

814
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,000
authenticity that it's 
impossible to be yourself and to

815
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,200
be real. 
And I think that, that's 

816
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,200
ultimately what this is all kind
of speaking into, especially in 

817
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,300
the, you know, modern. 
And then going into what we 

818
00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:46,000
would now be in a postmodern. 
Hold up. 

819
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,700
My cell phone is an example of a
very digital, you know, almost 

820
00:43:49,700 --> 00:43:52,200
hyper real world that we live 
in. 

821
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,700
Now, there's this crisis of 
authenticity and I think that 

822
00:43:55,700 --> 00:43:59,400
the The root of a lot of that is
a crisis of authenticity, but 

823
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,200
certainly, the neo-marxist were 
angry vengeful people who wanted

824
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,200
to install of a communist type 
Utopia. 

825
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:07,600
I don't think the post 
modernists were. 

826
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,100
I think they've given up on 
everything. 

827
00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:11,900
I think they're just pessimists.
Wanted to just question 

828
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:13,500
everything at its very 
foundations. 

829
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,300
What is falsification and why is
it important to be able to 

830
00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:20,300
falsify a theory? 
Yeah. 

831
00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:24,900
So Karl Popper laid out the idea
of falsification, which has 

832
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:30,000
become one of the Cornerstone 
objects of scientific thought. 

833
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:34,800
So what popper argued was that? 
It doesn't. 

834
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,700
It's not that you can show that 
something is true in the 

835
00:44:38,700 --> 00:44:43,500
scientific process, but it is 
possible to show something is 

836
00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:45,800
wrong. 
So, you know, somebody can 

837
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,800
forward an idea, you can show, 
disconfirming evidence that 

838
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,400
knocks it down off of, its 
pedestal and now that's not 

839
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,500
correct anymore. 
And so you can disconfirm these 

840
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:56,400
things. 
And so what will poppers Is that

841
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,600
for a theory to be scientific? 
Didn't say that? 

842
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,600
This is the only way to think 
about things with the only kind 

843
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,300
of knowledge. 
He said, before a theory to be 

844
00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:05,800
considered scientific the 
hypotheses. 

845
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,900
It forwards must be falsifiable.
You can't have something that's 

846
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:14,500
so vague that you know, you can 
then argue even if you were 

847
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:16,300
presented with contradictory 
evidence. 

848
00:45:16,300 --> 00:45:19,800
Oh, well, it's still right? 
Because some other complicated 

849
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,200
thing you could use the example 
of astrology and say, well, you 

850
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,300
know, you don't really act like 
a Taurus or whatever you say. 

851
00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:30,900
Well, that's because my moon is 
in Scorpio, you know, where my 

852
00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:36,300
my ascendant is in the I don't 
know another, another one 

853
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,600
Capricorn or something. 
And so, you know, there's these 

854
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,100
just these abilities to it to 
dodge the or, you know, well I 

855
00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:46,200
would, but Mercury's in 
retrograde so there's there's no

856
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,300
like tight clear weight by, 
which the statements before, 

857
00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:54,900
with why a model like astrology 
can properly be shown to be 

858
00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:57,000
false. 
What Papa said is, if we're 

859
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,100
going to consider something 
scientific, which isn't the only

860
00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:02,300
way to get the knowledge, but if
we're going to consider 

861
00:46:02,300 --> 00:46:04,600
something scientific, it has to 
be able to be falsified. 

862
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,400
It has to be able to be shown to
be incorrect. 

863
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:15,000
And that which does not fall to 
falsification those hypotheses, 

864
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,600
which cannot be falsified are 
ones that we will take 

865
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,100
provisionally to be true or 
regard, is true with the idea 

866
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:25,700
that it's still possible that 
maybe we will uncover the 

867
00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:27,700
Necessary evidence at some point
later. 

868
00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:32,900
So why falsification is so 
important is because we're human

869
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:34,800
beings are engines of the 
opposite. 

870
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,900
We are engines of confirmation 
bias. 

871
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,900
We're engines of desirability 
bias. 

872
00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:43,700
We are we desperately? 
But so if you have an idea, 

873
00:46:44,500 --> 00:46:49,500
whatever it is, you know, that, 
you know, electrolytes are what 

874
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:51,800
plants crave. 
For example, that's your idea 

875
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,500
and you decide you're going to 
start. 

876
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:57,800
What are you going to do? 
Your guy most people are going 

877
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,400
to try to find ways to confirm 
that they're going to add 

878
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:03,700
electrolytes to water and water.
The plants are at electrolytes 

879
00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:06,700
and Soil and Water, you know, 
and fertilize the soil 

880
00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:08,200
electrolytes. 
They're going to, they're going 

881
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,000
to try to find ways to confirm 
it. 

882
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:13,500
That's we generally tend to do. 
We get an idea and we try to 

883
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:15,400
find out reasons why we're 
correct. 

884
00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:18,700
That's called confirmation bias.
And sometimes it's that we don't

885
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:21,300
want to face the Alternatives or
whatever or we really want 

886
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:23,600
something to be true. 
We really want the person to 

887
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,400
like us and so we have a bias of
desirability. 

888
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,300
The thing we want to be true. 
We've look for reasons why that 

889
00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:33,500
would be the case. 
Falsification says, look if 

890
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:36,100
we're going to get properly 
scientific knowledge. 

891
00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:40,100
We can't have vague theories. 
That could be anything like 

892
00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:43,900
astrology or Biblia, Mansi or 
reading of tea leaves and 

893
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:47,000
entrails. 
We can't do that vague social 

894
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,400
theories. 
We need to have falsifiable 

895
00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:57,800
hypotheses and then secondly, 
What we have to be able to do is

896
00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:01,600
step into that realm, where 
where? 

897
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,600
You know, ideas can be cut down 
and we retain what is, right? 

898
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,600
So that we avoid the 
confirmation bias that we're 

899
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,300
looking for. 
So rather than becoming engine, 

900
00:48:11,300 --> 00:48:12,800
if we want to get the right 
answers, rather than being 

901
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:18,400
engines of confirmation bias. 
We want to become rational users

902
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,400
of disconfirmation Technology. 
If you will, or even to adopt a 

903
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:27,100
consummate scientists would have
a so-called skeptical 

904
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:29,300
orientation, which would 
actually be a biased toward 

905
00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:31,100
disking. 
Disconfirming things. 

906
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:32,600
When I was, I'm trained as a 
man. 

907
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,500
Petition. 
And so one of the first things 

908
00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:38,200
that you first mistakes, all 
would be mathematicians make. 

909
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,000
As you know, you're given a 
proposition but conjecture or 

910
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,700
whatever and you dive in to try 
to prove it. 

911
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,600
But after you get a little 
seasoning, what you actually 

912
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,200
learn to start doing is to look 
for Content, rather than looking

913
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,200
for a way to confirm the thing 
that's in front of you. 

914
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:52,700
Start looking for 
contradictions. 

915
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:56,800
So are looking for 
counter-examples specifically, 

916
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,100
we're all trained when you take,
you know, under Elementary 

917
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:02,600
number Theory, we're all trained
about this famous example. 

918
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,600
I forget if it's the mersenne 
Prime's or one of these famous 

919
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,500
sequences or one of these famous
types of prime numbers. 

920
00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:11,700
They're not sequences. 
And you know, what happened was 

921
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:13,900
back in the day, the very large 
numbers are very difficult to 

922
00:49:13,908 --> 00:49:16,700
calculate and check, but back in
the day. 

923
00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:19,100
They checked the first one and 
it's a prime. 

924
00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:21,200
They check the second one and 
it's a prime and they did that 

925
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,400
all the way up to the sixth one.
And it's a prime and they said, 

926
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,100
hobbies are always Prime. 
And turns out the seventh one is

927
00:49:26,100 --> 00:49:30,400
not Prime and so, but it's 
really, it's a what you start to

928
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,600
do is you look, you train 
yourself to look for those. 

929
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:36,000
Disconfirming, counter-examples 
those places where the thing you

930
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000
think might be true. 
It's probably wrong. 

931
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,700
And this is a very typical 
discipline for thought. 

932
00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:44,300
It's a very difficult habit of 
mind to adopt to seek 

933
00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:46,000
disconfirmation rather than 
confirmation. 

934
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:48,200
And that's really what poppers 
leaning into. 

935
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:55,300
So no ideas that are so vague 
that we that they could be you 

936
00:49:55,300 --> 00:49:57,700
can't possibly have them. 
They can't possibly be wrong 

937
00:49:58,700 --> 00:49:59,900
there. 
So interpretive their 

938
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:02,400
interpretive range is too wide 
to tell you anything. 

939
00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:06,200
Her to ever be shown to be 
incorrect on the one hand and on

940
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,500
the other hand is to avoid the 
problems of confirmation bias. 

941
00:50:09,500 --> 00:50:12,700
And desirability bias. 
Also something like the 

942
00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:14,700
availability heuristic a lot of 
these. 

943
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:18,400
Very simple biases and are 
logical errors that can lead 

944
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,700
people down rabbit holes, that 
go the wrong way, away from 

945
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:24,700
truth. 
That's really important because 

946
00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:28,700
when I had one said I'm having 
person X on my show and they go.

947
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:32,500
Oh God you hang out with that 
racist and I said, first of all,

948
00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:35,600
Define racism and I got almost 
all of his books in front of me.

949
00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:39,100
Where where did he Embrace 
racism? 

950
00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:42,400
Or promote This Racist ideology.
I got to get that definition 

951
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,400
first though. 
And of course the definition is 

952
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,800
something like the 
institutionalized, foundational,

953
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,400
ideologies, that stem that are 
embedded Within. 

954
00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:56,500
In the majority group in a 
certain demographic within a 

955
00:50:56,508 --> 00:51:01,000
certain time based on Prejudice.
It's like well from that you 

956
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:02,900
can't get it. 
You can't get anything. 

957
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,000
How about this one? 
I constantly hear about. 

958
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,300
You know, Robyn D'Angelo very 
popular. 

959
00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:13,300
Jimmy Kimmel show always talking
about privilege. 

960
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,900
Now. 
I cannot imagine why I would 

961
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:19,000
ever say walk up to a Jewish 
person and say you have 

962
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,800
privilege your people have 
higher incomes than whites 

963
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,100
Asians. 
You people are privileged. 

964
00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:26,000
You have higher incomes than 
whites. 

965
00:51:26,300 --> 00:51:29,400
Black Americans are privileged 
because they are better off than

966
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,800
black Liberian. 
So they need to embrace their 

967
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,600
privilege and read this book 
called black fragility and women

968
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,900
have privilege because they're 
less likely to be homeless and 

969
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,400
they have longer life 
expectancies. 

970
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,400
The only reason I would ever do 
that is if I were Iago. 

971
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,200
The Shakespearean character 
trying to divide People based on

972
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,300
lies and technicalities. 
Why on Earth is this privilege. 

973
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:54,700
Something, they put so much. 
Focus on because it works 

974
00:51:55,900 --> 00:51:58,200
because it works. 
That's why the. 

975
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,900
So the concept I'm just going to
cut straight to Bare Bones. 

976
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:04,300
I'm not really talk about this 
publicly much yet occurred on 

977
00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:07,400
Twitter, but I haven't really 
dialogue about it. 

978
00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:10,200
But the concept of privilege is 
a maoist concept. 

979
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:15,200
It is a concept to divide 
Society into groups, to stratify

980
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:18,000
in factor to identify 
stratification, or claim 

981
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,900
stratification Society to divide
people into the Haves and the 

982
00:52:20,900 --> 00:52:22,400
Have Nots. 
And too. 

983
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:25,600
Stink on the have. 
There is no like privilege is 

984
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,600
not a positive word and I always
say it's a, my privilege, you 

985
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,000
know, it's a privilege to be 
able to speak with you or 

986
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,200
privilege to appear on your 
show. 

987
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,500
That's one thing, of course, all
these words have multiple 

988
00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:37,700
meanings, but that's a different
thing entirely to say you are 

989
00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:40,300
privileged. 
Which means, what is privileged 

990
00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:40,900
mean? 
It means? 

991
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:43,900
Oh, well, you have unearned 
advantages and you're probably, 

992
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:45,300
you probably think you deserve 
them. 

993
00:52:45,900 --> 00:52:49,100
That is just something that is 
meant to knock people down. 

994
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:52,100
This is legitimately the same 
concept that was used. 

995
00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:57,000
With the people who had, you 
know, standing in society in the

996
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,800
mouth cultural revolution. 
It is a maoist idea. 

997
00:53:01,100 --> 00:53:04,400
They use it because it works 
because exactly what you said 

998
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,300
about Iago because it does 
divide people. 

999
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,900
And that is the goal. 
It is, it is the goal to get 

1000
00:53:08,900 --> 00:53:13,200
people to divide themselves 
across these lines of 

1001
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:18,200
stratification to make it so 
that it's a poor whites and poor

1002
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,000
blacks. 
Now, can't unify and realize 

1003
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,100
that the it may be elite. 
Of society are screwing them 

1004
00:53:24,100 --> 00:53:27,100
both at the same way because now
the white people are privileged 

1005
00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:31,300
over the black people and they 
have their own class conflict 

1006
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:33,600
that they now have to have in 
terms of privilege and they have

1007
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,900
to fight with each other rather 
than realizing that they're in 

1008
00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:39,000
the same circumstance. 
So it's a very divisive kind of 

1009
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,900
thing. 
It's meant to knock down. 

1010
00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:44,900
The people who are being labeled
privilege. 

1011
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:48,900
It's meant to create the 
scapegoating situation of those 

1012
00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:53,000
in those groups. 
And it's also Meant to induce 

1013
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,500
shame. 
If you look at the Mao's 

1014
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:57,400
cultural revolution, that was 
the entire purpose was to shame 

1015
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:02,800
people publicly, shame people, 
humiliate people into doing the 

1016
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,200
bidding of the Red Guard into 
doing the bidding of the 

1017
00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:07,000
maoists. 
And that's exactly what the 

1018
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,500
purpose of the concept of 
privileges is to shame. 

1019
00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:13,900
The people who are labeled as 
privileged as needing to, to 

1020
00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:16,500
reflect until they understand 
why they should be ashamed. 

1021
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:20,400
And then to use that shame as a 
motivator to work in so-called 

1022
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,300
solidarity, on behalf of the 
people. 

1023
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,000
Who have less privileged or who 
are pressed? 

1024
00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:31,000
It is a pretty vile manipulation
tactic. 

1025
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:36,300
There's there's pretty much 
nothing nice about it, but it's 

1026
00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:39,000
also means, you know, when you 
attach it to something like race

1027
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,600
of doing racial scapegoating, 
which is extremely poisonous and

1028
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,500
extremely divisive extremely 
dangerous. 

1029
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,000
I spoke with an intelligence 
officer, Chase use of the 

1030
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,600
behavioral panel and he said 
that if I could describe mind 

1031
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,700
control in one word, it would be
repetition. 

1032
00:54:57,300 --> 00:55:00,600
How is repetition used by social
justice activists? 

1033
00:55:01,100 --> 00:55:04,700
I mean, they have a variety of 
know if you've read, Robert, 

1034
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:06,600
Jay. 
Lifton, Robert, Jay lifton, 

1035
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,900
studied. 
In fact now is sort of stances 

1036
00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:13,800
around Chinese Cultural 
Revolution and was particularly 

1037
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,100
interested in understanding the 
patterns of thought. 

1038
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:21,800
And so repetition is certainly a
way that you can condition, 

1039
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:26,400
somebody. 
But simultaneously what they do 

1040
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,200
within within this kind of woke 
approach as they have those 

1041
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,700
variety of things that lift and 
called thought, stopping 

1042
00:55:31,700 --> 00:55:35,000
techniques. 
Stop thought stopping ideas. 

1043
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,100
And so, you know, do the work, 
you know, silence is violence, 

1044
00:55:39,100 --> 00:55:43,000
and then they slogan eyes. 
These things are all very black 

1045
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,900
lives matter. 
These are all very slogan eyes, 

1046
00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:47,800
did things there's not a Lot of 
thought involved, but then they 

1047
00:55:47,808 --> 00:55:49,700
say them and stick them and 
write them everywhere. 

1048
00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:51,400
Site. 
They chant them silence is 

1049
00:55:51,408 --> 00:55:54,100
violence, you know, in 
particular silence is 

1050
00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:56,400
complicity. 
These very simple slogans. 

1051
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,700
That think it repeated again and
again and again and again. 

1052
00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:04,200
And again, you see in particular
also with the attempt to name, 

1053
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,400
everything that goes wrong in 
society as a manifestation of 

1054
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,100
whiteness or white supremacy, 
you know, something going wrong,

1055
00:56:10,107 --> 00:56:12,700
white, some things on her own 
white. 

1056
00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:15,900
Something's gone, wrong white 
over, and over, and over, and 

1057
00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:17,200
over and over. 
Over and over again. 

1058
00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:21,300
And these are, in fact, kind of 
cult conditioning techniques. 

1059
00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:23,400
And then when you add in these 
thought, stopping techniques in 

1060
00:56:23,408 --> 00:56:26,800
the idea that somebody who 
deviates it, somehow, you know, 

1061
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,700
going to be punished. 
Do you end up having quite the 

1062
00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:33,000
effect of kind of cult 
indoctrination, going on in the 

1063
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,700
ideologies? 
Extremely effective at this will

1064
00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:37,500
look at how the corporate press 
will. 

1065
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:41,400
So selectively choose to report 
on some stores and not others. 

1066
00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:45,600
The white officer shot, the 
black victim. 

1067
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,200
When There are more White's 
killed by officers. 

1068
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,400
Now, of course, we're getting 
into their disproportionately 

1069
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,700
targeted, whatever. 
Well, so are men, but they 

1070
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,300
commit more crime. 
The point is, is that if you 

1071
00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:00,300
hear about the story, it's not 
because it's just out there and 

1072
00:57:00,300 --> 00:57:02,200
they're just unbiased Lee 
reporting the news. 

1073
00:57:02,300 --> 00:57:04,700
They are choosing to report on 
some things and not others. 

1074
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:06,700
Dave Rubin makes the great point
in his book. 

1075
00:57:06,700 --> 00:57:09,700
Don't burn this book that. 
Yes, a climate change. 

1076
00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:11,600
In the environment is something 
vitally important. 

1077
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,700
We should focus on, but please 
realize, you're always hearing 

1078
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:16,200
about these environmental 
disaster. 

1079
00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:19,600
If you are afraid of 
environmental disasters, there's

1080
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,600
never been a better time than 
today to be alive because of 

1081
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,900
technology and better 
infrastructure and better 

1082
00:57:24,900 --> 00:57:27,800
communication methods to get 
people safe and to warn them 

1083
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,000
ahead of time. 
So you never hear about that. 

1084
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,800
I mean, how often will the 
corporate press say the year 

1085
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,200
1795 percent of humanity lived 
in poverty? 

1086
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,200
Today. 
It's closer to 15%, Lets lets, 

1087
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,700
you know, hooray for that. 
You know, there isn't a World 

1088
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:45,300
War something. 
They're constantly using this 

1089
00:57:45,300 --> 00:57:49,300
fear and Titian in order to get 
us into this terrified state to 

1090
00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:52,700
look to the critical race theory
has for the solution for 

1091
00:57:52,900 --> 00:57:55,000
everything. 
I wanted to take a look at that 

1092
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,500
with the with the cases of like 
the so-called Insurrection on 

1093
00:57:58,500 --> 00:58:00,500
January 6th at the Capitol, 
right? 

1094
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,400
So all of this happens and when 
you hear white supremacist, 

1095
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,400
white supremacist Whispering, 
this is a saturation. 

1096
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,700
New cycle, you have the Congress
going through like its own 

1097
00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:10,900
struggle sessions and crying. 
The Congress is crying in front 

1098
00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:12,500
of the nation, like what the 
hell. 

1099
00:58:12,700 --> 00:58:16,300
And so this is going on. 
And then literally this week. 

1100
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,700
Eek like four days ago or 
something like this. 

1101
00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:24,600
There was a black man and member
of the Nation of Islam who drove

1102
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:29,500
his car into police officers at 
the capital into a crashing into

1103
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:32,400
a barricade. 
Got out with a long knife. 

1104
00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:35,700
You know this whole thing this 
get reported on in vanished 

1105
00:58:35,700 --> 00:58:37,300
almost immediately. 
So there is a selective 

1106
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:40,600
repetition of stories that serve
a particular narrative that 

1107
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,500
pushing a particular direction 
and this is absolutely a part. 

1108
00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:47,400
We see this also with the with 
the Karis, right. 

1109
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,600
So it's like, new strain, new 
variant new strain, double 

1110
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,700
mutation new strain. 
New variant vaccine vaccine, 

1111
00:58:54,700 --> 00:58:58,500
vaccine vaccine, vaccine new 
strains are up, cases are up. 

1112
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,800
Yeah, of course. 
And again, and again, and again.

1113
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,300
And again, the same repetition, 
the same repetition. 

1114
00:59:04,300 --> 00:59:06,100
Then you have States like 
Florida and the Texas, 

1115
00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:11,000
humiliating that narrative and 
rather than cases are cases are 

1116
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,600
up which they can no longer say 
they have to lean into new 

1117
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,200
strain, new variant. 
Ah, you know, the whole thing. 

1118
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,300
And so, there is this I mean, I 
think it's legitimately. 

1119
00:59:19,300 --> 00:59:22,400
I don't know whether it's 
happening fully organically or 

1120
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,300
quasi, organically, or somewhat 
organically or not. 

1121
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:27,100
All organically. 
I'm not going to make any claims

1122
00:59:27,100 --> 00:59:29,600
about like conspiracy or 
whatever but it's virtually 

1123
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:34,400
taken on the effective. 
Its it is effectively a psyops 

1124
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,000
at this point. 
The media. 

1125
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,200
I don't know if they are my 
running. 

1126
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,000
Hypothesis is if they psyops 
themselves, they got such a bad 

1127
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,800
case of trump, derangement 
syndrome that they drove 

1128
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,100
themselves literally nuts and 
they just keep repeating this 

1129
00:59:46,100 --> 00:59:47,700
stuff. 
You can hear it like, with 

1130
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:49,400
Jordan Peterson. 
He has this really great talk 

1131
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,000
about. 
How did Hitler become Hitler 

1132
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,400
with the Nazis? 
And he says, you know, Hitler 

1133
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,300
didn't make Hitler Hitler. 
You can't, you have to put 

1134
00:59:57,300 --> 01:00:00,200
responsibility, but Hitler was 
interacting with his crowd. 

1135
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,100
So Hitler would get onstage and 
he would say some crazy stuff 

1136
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,900
and he would hear, you know, 
when did the crowd Roar one of 

1137
01:00:05,900 --> 01:00:09,700
the crowd cheer and then hit 
Peterson says, is that anybody 

1138
01:00:09,700 --> 01:00:13,500
would just five or six people? 
Would be so swayed by this that 

1139
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:15,700
they could be led way off the 
track, right? 

1140
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:19,100
Then imagine 100 people or 
millions of people cheering. 

1141
01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:21,400
And so what you had with the 
news media with trumped 

1142
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,700
arrangement, for example was 
ever like, look at the ratings, 

1143
01:00:24,700 --> 01:00:28,000
CNN MSNBC are complaining that 
the ratings are in the toilet. 

1144
01:00:28,008 --> 01:00:32,500
We just saw what Jim Acosta and 
Brian stelter and somebody else 

1145
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:35,700
go on TV, and they're like, we 
kind of have Trump withdrawals. 

1146
01:00:35,700 --> 01:00:38,200
We don't know what to do without
Trump, they drove themselves. 

1147
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,500
So nuts that they LED 
themselves, literally. 

1148
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,700
Crazy Land into blue, Adonis. 
Some people are jokingly calling

1149
01:00:44,700 --> 01:00:47,300
it like these left-wing 
conspiracy theories. 

1150
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,300
And at some point functionally 
speaking. 

1151
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:54,100
This becomes a psyops, their 
craziness is being projected 

1152
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:57,400
onto everybody else in this 
rampant detect to keep pushing 

1153
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:02,100
the narrative that only they 
believe and it's driving people 

1154
01:01:02,100 --> 01:01:05,400
nuts. 
It's like the repetition is part

1155
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,100
of that, but they've also 
repeated it to themselves so 

1156
01:01:08,100 --> 01:01:11,600
many times, but it had it Maggie
like reflected back to them. 

1157
01:01:11,700 --> 01:01:15,200
By a panicked audience. 
That was just gobbling it up. 

1158
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:19,000
If you look at the ratings, just
gobbling it up that I think they

1159
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,300
psyops to themselves and then 
use that to psyops us in 

1160
01:01:23,300 --> 01:01:27,000
repetition is a huge huge piece 
of that political Warfare. 

1161
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,700
Well any day now Mueller is 
going to come out with part 2 of

1162
01:01:30,700 --> 01:01:33,700
the report and prove collusion. 
So then you'll be really sorry. 

1163
01:01:34,100 --> 01:01:36,800
Final question, sir. 
Thank you so much for your time.

1164
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,900
Why is social justice theory 
false? 

1165
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:43,200
Well, this is a complicated 
thing. 

1166
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,100
So if we're going to talk about 
social justice theory, I assume 

1167
01:01:45,100 --> 01:01:48,700
you mean the way that we've 
described it in in cynical 

1168
01:01:48,700 --> 01:01:52,000
theories. 
And so yeah, so social justice 

1169
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,200
are both capitalized letters and
theories, capitalized as well. 

1170
01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:58,000
Okay, so what that actually 
refers to, that's a kind of a 

1171
01:01:58,008 --> 01:02:02,500
shorthand, so it's accessible 
the formal name for this is 

1172
01:02:02,500 --> 01:02:07,800
called critical Social Justice 
by offers on Robyn D'Angelo or 

1173
01:02:07,900 --> 01:02:11,100
another much more academically 
for Animal name for this is 

1174
01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:14,800
called critical constructivism. 
And the reason that it's false 

1175
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,400
is because it doesn't reflect 
reality. 

1176
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,200
It assumes a particular 
theoretical lens which is 

1177
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:22,900
critique. 
And that's in the form of 

1178
01:02:22,900 --> 01:02:28,300
critical theory, which is I 
could describe for you at some 

1179
01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:30,400
length. 
Y critical theory is a very 

1180
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,200
biased way. 
We already talked about 

1181
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,900
horkheimer and his whole thing. 
But what we're Comer laid out, 

1182
01:02:35,900 --> 01:02:38,700
we need to find critical theory 
in 1937 for the first time. 

1183
01:02:39,100 --> 01:02:41,100
Was that for a theory? 
To be considered a critical 

1184
01:02:41,100 --> 01:02:43,100
theory. 
It has to satisfy three criteria

1185
01:02:43,100 --> 01:02:47,100
at a minimum. 
It has to have a normative 

1186
01:02:47,100 --> 01:02:51,700
vision of a perfected society 
and a Utopia and it has to be 

1187
01:02:51,700 --> 01:02:55,000
able to critique how the society
that we currently inhabit. 

1188
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,600
Doesn't live up to that or isn't
heading in that rational 

1189
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,900
direction as he would have put 
it and then three ass Inspire 

1190
01:03:01,900 --> 01:03:04,500
social activism. 
So this is what critical means. 

1191
01:03:04,500 --> 01:03:07,700
So this is already a problem 
because it has its conclusion in

1192
01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,200
mind as its direction in mind. 
And what it's designed to do. 

1193
01:03:10,300 --> 01:03:13,000
Do is not necessarily understand
something or Kaymer. 

1194
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,900
Separated, traditional theory 
out for understanding the world 

1195
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,400
rally to understand how the 
world is not headed in that 

1196
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,300
so-called rational communist 
Direction. 

1197
01:03:21,700 --> 01:03:23,800
And so it already has its goal 
in mind. 

1198
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,900
So critical is already a problem
and it uses the method of 

1199
01:03:26,900 --> 01:03:29,000
complaining raising 
contributions bringing up 

1200
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,200
division agitating creating 
alienation. 

1201
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,200
It's very poisonous - cynical 
pessimistic approach that's 

1202
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,600
already damaging. 
Okay, so then that's the 

1203
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:40,200
critical aspect, achieving 
social. 

1204
01:03:40,300 --> 01:03:43,000
Through critical so critical 
social justice, which is social 

1205
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,500
justice theory, that's probably 
not going to work for a while. 

1206
01:03:45,500 --> 01:03:47,100
But then what I said, is it 
formally? 

1207
01:03:47,100 --> 01:03:50,200
It is constructivist. 
It's critical constructivist, 

1208
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,400
which means it relies upon the 
social constructivism thesis of 

1209
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:57,000
post-modernism, that's wrong 
too. 

1210
01:03:58,300 --> 01:04:00,800
It's not to say that. 
Nothing in our society is 

1211
01:04:00,900 --> 01:04:03,700
socially constructed, certainly,
there are norms that are 

1212
01:04:03,700 --> 01:04:06,400
socially constructed. 
If you go to the Ballgame, which

1213
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,400
would not be baseball because we
don't go to baseball games 

1214
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,600
anymore. 
Apparently, but But that's a 

1215
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,900
joke. 
But you know, if you go to a 

1216
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:16,200
like, say, you got your team and
everybody goes. 

1217
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,400
I saw this baseball came to mind
because they remember watching 

1218
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,200
the World Series with the Astros
and they, for some reason in 

1219
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,500
their their ballpark. 
They have a train or something 

1220
01:04:26,500 --> 01:04:29,800
like this as like a gimmick or 
something with that. 

1221
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:31,900
Has to do with rockets and 
stores. 

1222
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:34,400
I don't know, but they have a 
train and so there's these weird

1223
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,300
like, you know, little dances 
that people do at certain times 

1224
01:04:37,300 --> 01:04:40,200
like the train dancer or, you 
know, or the wave or whatever it

1225
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:41,800
is. 
And that there will be patterns,

1226
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,100
you know, and people will say 
some chance of social 

1227
01:04:44,100 --> 01:04:47,800
constructions do come up right? 
Social conventions do come up 

1228
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,400
and they do dictate aspects of 
Our Lives. 

1229
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,200
We have our inside jokes and all
of our social groups. 

1230
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:53,900
These are social constructions 
as well. 

1231
01:04:54,100 --> 01:04:56,200
We also have socially 
constructed beliefs. 

1232
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,600
I would say that that they're 
not totally wrong. 

1233
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,100
For example, to say that gender 
is largely socially constructed 

1234
01:05:02,100 --> 01:05:05,300
where they are wrongs to believe
that it's divorced from sex, the

1235
01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:09,800
social constructions that Define
what gender is. 

1236
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:14,800
Are overwhelmingly dependent 
upon the underlying biology in a

1237
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:18,200
very complicated way. 
They're not arbitrary. 

1238
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,200
They're not just social 
constructions or social, 

1239
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,600
constructions, are rooted in the
fact that there's biology and 

1240
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:27,200
that these things within certain
contacts have led to more 

1241
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,500
successful reproduction, or 
mating, or dating, or whatever 

1242
01:05:30,500 --> 01:05:34,600
happens to be. 
And so these things are or, you 

1243
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,200
know, functioning societies, 
maybe with masculine and 

1244
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:39,800
feminine Norms. 
These things are not arbitrary, 

1245
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,900
so too. 
Social constructivist thesis 

1246
01:05:41,900 --> 01:05:44,800
that everything is just socially
constructed and therefore, can 

1247
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,400
be questioned in a very 
foundational way and replaced, 

1248
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:50,100
by other social constructions. 
If we just get great enough 

1249
01:05:50,100 --> 01:05:52,400
consensus around, it is all 
Theory. 

1250
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:57,600
So if you have this idea, also, 
the social construct instructor 

1251
01:05:57,700 --> 01:06:02,300
construction of knowledge is 
more false than true. 

1252
01:06:02,300 --> 01:06:04,900
It's got like this tiny kernel 
of truth to it. 

1253
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,200
That ye are our scientific 
theories are ultimately 

1254
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:11,000
expressed in language. 
They're ultimately, you know, 

1255
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:13,700
they are models. 
They are not actually reality. 

1256
01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:15,300
There are descriptions of 
reality. 

1257
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:19,100
So to the but philosophers of 
science who are more careful of 

1258
01:06:19,100 --> 01:06:21,100
actually dealt with this. 
We could talk about John Searle,

1259
01:06:21,100 --> 01:06:23,800
we could talk about Hawking and 
Stephen Hawking Leonard 

1260
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:25,800
mlodinow, they've all dealt with
this kind of thing. 

1261
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:28,200
This isn't confusing to anybody 
with social theorists. 

1262
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,500
So what do you talk about the 
social? 

1263
01:06:30,700 --> 01:06:33,900
Theory of knowledge. 
This is just Preposterous. 

1264
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,400
There are true things about the 
world. 

1265
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,800
The objective world does exist. 
We can actually very 

1266
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,600
approximately know things about 
it in a functional sense. 

1267
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,100
We can just say, we know them, 
we don't have to have some weird

1268
01:06:44,100 --> 01:06:48,200
absolute perfection of knowledge
for it to count. 

1269
01:06:48,300 --> 01:06:51,700
And since you take both of those
aspects of constructivism is 

1270
01:06:51,700 --> 01:06:54,600
just wrong. 
There are social constructions 

1271
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,200
and social construction, should 
be investigated and looked at 

1272
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,500
and studied Etc. 
And we should understand them 

1273
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,400
and where they are. 
Are stupid, you know, like 

1274
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:06,700
racism was a socially 
constructed phenomenon and it 

1275
01:07:06,700 --> 01:07:09,800
was bad and we questioned it and
we tore it down. 

1276
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:12,900
That was good. 
But everything is not socially 

1277
01:07:12,900 --> 01:07:15,800
constructed and so the social 
constructivist thesis is 

1278
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:20,400
incorrect, but a critical method
is incorrect and poisonous and 

1279
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,200
when you put those two things 
together, you don't get 

1280
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:23,900
something better, you get 
something worse. 

1281
01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:27,700
And so the social justice 
theory, the capital theory of 

1282
01:07:27,700 --> 01:07:31,600
the social justice movement is 
Absolutely. 

1283
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,900
And impoverished way to think 
most importantly though, just to

1284
01:07:34,908 --> 01:07:38,200
kind of wrap back to critical 
race Theory, kind of began. 

1285
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,300
It assumes like I said, it's 
critical race Theory assumes 

1286
01:07:42,300 --> 01:07:45,000
that racism was the ordinary 
State of Affairs when uses 

1287
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:48,900
critical methods to find it. 
It assumes its conclusion and 

1288
01:07:48,900 --> 01:07:53,800
then Works its way to that. 
That's automatically a terrible 

1289
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,500
way to go, anything that does 
that is sofas tree. 

1290
01:07:56,500 --> 01:08:01,500
It's not a theory. 
It's not even remotely close to 

1291
01:08:01,500 --> 01:08:03,000
it. 
It's not even a hypothesis 

1292
01:08:03,300 --> 01:08:06,100
saying that racism is the 
ordinary State of Affairs of 

1293
01:08:06,100 --> 01:08:08,800
society. 
In better than all of the fabric

1294
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,400
of The fabric of society is a 
metaphor. 

1295
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,100
It's not even falsifiable. 
It's not even if it's not even a

1296
01:08:15,107 --> 01:08:19,300
hypothesis, something that's T. 
It's mythology, literally 

1297
01:08:19,300 --> 01:08:22,700
mythology. 
And so, it's wrong because it's 

1298
01:08:22,700 --> 01:08:26,300
premises are all wrong, and it 
misunderstands Humanity, which 

1299
01:08:26,300 --> 01:08:29,200
it doesn't seek to understand. 
And misunderstand Society. 

1300
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,899
It has an agenda, State goal, 
operating underneath it. 

1301
01:08:34,399 --> 01:08:38,600
It's literally difficult to 
think of a worse way to go about

1302
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,899
it. 
Achieving the occasionally. 

1303
01:08:41,899 --> 01:08:46,200
There are some very Noble and 
that this movement seems to be, 

1304
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:47,800
you know, after it's about 
treating people were fairly. 

1305
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,700
So being, you know, it's about 
getting over racism. 

1306
01:08:50,700 --> 01:08:53,500
These are all great things. 
But this, you could hardly 

1307
01:08:53,500 --> 01:08:55,200
devise a worse way to go about 
it. 

1308
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,700
And the reason this is such a 
bad way isn't necessarily 

1309
01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:00,300
because the people are bad 
people, although that's probably

1310
01:09:00,300 --> 01:09:03,000
true of some of them. 
The reason is probably mostly 

1311
01:09:03,700 --> 01:09:06,500
that. 
It's just a backwards Theory. 

1312
01:09:06,500 --> 01:09:11,399
It gets everything wrong. 
Didn't kind of its desperation 

1313
01:09:12,100 --> 01:09:16,200
to make change without, you 
know, making change their method

1314
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:17,600
matters. 
If you want to change something,

1315
01:09:17,899 --> 01:09:18,899
you have to do it. 
Right? 

1316
01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:21,100
Right. 
If you want to change your tire 

1317
01:09:21,100 --> 01:09:22,800
on your car, you have to do it, 
right? 

1318
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,000
You can just you know, stick a 
different wheel on there. 

1319
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,399
You can just like hack at it 
with an axe or whatever. 

1320
01:09:28,700 --> 01:09:31,100
You actually have to do it 
correctly, the method matters 

1321
01:09:31,100 --> 01:09:33,200
and they've got like the worst 
their methods. 

1322
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,600
Like we need to change the tire,
blow up the car. 

1323
01:09:37,700 --> 01:09:41,899
Unbelievable cynical theories. 
How universities made everything

1324
01:09:41,899 --> 01:09:44,100
about race, gender and identity 
and white harms. 

1325
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:45,500
Everyone. 
Dr. Lindsay. 

1326
01:09:45,500 --> 01:09:48,200
Thank you so much for your time,
a link to the book, as well. 

1327
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:51,200
As new discourses, will be in 
the description below. 

1328
01:09:51,300 --> 01:09:53,200
Dr. Lindsey. 
Thanks, so much for being so 

1329
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,300
generous with your time. 
Thanks Keith. 

1330
01:09:55,300 --> 01:09:56,100
I appreciate it.