Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "Understanding Social Justice" video.

  1. As a Nigerian-immigrant currently working and schooling in North America, I have come to one conclusion: Social Justice, wokeness and progressivism can ONLY exist in a developed, liberal and first-world nation/region where there are very few existential threats and where the purposeless masses in urban areas have to create some form of ideology to fill the void in their lives. That is why it makes no sense and destroys that society. That is also why rural westerners, non-western countries and immigrants mostly tend to hate social justice and wokeness more than the native citizens.
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  2. Yeah, that one still hurts so much. If there will be a backlash to the woke and social justice, I will be happy to see it just to see the destruction of the ideology that led to the "summer of love" and all the innocents (RIP David Dorn) being killed, businesses being looted, monuments being desecrated and communities being destroyed.
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  3. ​ @ladybernkastel5696  None taken. I can understand why it boggles people's minds why I would emigrate to a foreign country and face challenges rather than stay in my country. But the honest answer is I, like most immigrants, want better opportunities but more so, in my case, it's the only way I can actually improve my own life and improve my country. I have seen how many Ghanaians, Indians, Filipinos, and Israelis emigrated legally to better countries and established themselves, contributed to those countries via their work and paying taxes and setting up businesses and later used their wealth to help improve their own countries via things like remittance payments and setting up joint ventures or businesses back home to help bring jobs to their countries. That is my main goal and that is partly why I emigrated here. I want to change my country and the best way I can do so is to get enough personal capital and wealth in the land of opportunity to do so. Believe me, I still feel some sense of shame and guilt like I ran away but then I remember that I am also giving back to my parents to manage their farm business. I cannot do a whole lot now but I aim to do so much more and the only way for me is to establish myself here. That is honestly one of the ways I feel much of Africa will be fixed and developed via the expats who return with the know-how, the connections and the resources to impact real change.
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  4.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Thank you for this. You stated the facts behind it. I will not pretend that all of us Nigerians here or back home are all hard working but most of us are and our traditional culture coupled with the backdrop of our developing country compels us to be more "nose-to-the-grindstone". Also, sorry about your job circumstance. Believe me, it is tough for all of us. I am still an international student and my tuition is higher than domestic students and I have no access to loans. I basically have to finance my own education here but the best things in life are not easily obtained.
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  5. It was basically Hawks vs Doves in real life.
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  6.  @mateovazquez6685  Oh, I don't despise western culture and values. That is why I always denounce social justice and wokeness. They are antithetical to western culture and values.
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  7.  @tomatop6754  Pal, I am not white but I can assure you that the white population in North America will never become a minority, despite what weirdos say. This is because in North America, unlike Europe, there is a high and vibrant white population that has not being undermined by leftists and their destructive ideology. Plus, they still have the highest birth-rates in their part of the world. Europe will still have a high white population but the declining birth rates in western Europe are an issue. Eastern Europe will be fine, however. Also, the majority of Hispanic immigrants tend to identify as white and intermarry with the existing white population. If anything, it's us in the black population that will suffer thanks to a combination of factors, courtesy of the left: promotion of abortion, destroying the nuclear family, illegal immigration that actually hurts black communities, the cancerous welfare state that has eroded any incentive for cultural and demographic improvements, the crime rates and recidivism.
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  8.  @mateovazquez6685  Oh, I am actually in Canada, friend. I am currently an international student in a college but my student visa allows me to work as well. I currently work as a Personal Support Worker while pursuing my Medical Office Admin. diploma.
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  9. I hear you. I am black and also a center-right person, myself. Nice to see another long-term fan of Whatifalthist. Started watching him in 2019 before the pandemic.
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  10. Anyone who studies history will usually end up becoming based to some degree and also being opposed to far-left radicals given how frequently they have screwed over societies in history.
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  11.  @Betterhose  true. I wondered why he didn't reference it too since he has done so in several other of his vids. I guess he just forge or he implied it and expects that we, as his audience, understand it.
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  12.  @martymcfly1833  As a black person who became a conservative after interacting with the left, I fully agree with you on this one. The conservatives were easily the most open minded and tolerant group I encountered since I have been in North America. They didn't pre-judge me based on my race or try to pander to me as a token minority.
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  13. But African immigrants in America earn high incomes on average. Asian-Americans are the richest demographic in the country. There are even many Native American communities who do not receive annuities or welfare from the federal government and yet have high income levels and less levels of poverty, drug usage and other ills. Maybe you should consider that black Americans have issues due to their current culture and not just "racism" No one, especially many of us black people, is buying that BS excuse anymore.
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  14. Hi. I'm black. Can you explain to me how he is wrong or how "the system is treating me badly", mister white liberal who knows all?
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  15. Agreed. I look forward to the end of these evil divisive ideologies but one thing I fear, as a black person (especially as a conservative) is that many of us black people who opposed these concepts and spoke out against them for the evil they are, will be negatively impacted by the backlash due to the fact that the actors in them have being made to look like spokespeople for our entire community (largely thanks to the white leftists who also benefit from these ideologies) and make all of us out to be like them i.e. bigoted woke black supremacist scum. This is genuinely frightening.
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  16. No one with brains takes Vaush seriously. he said kids and adults can have meaningful and consensual sexual relationships. He also called himself a feminist and said J.K. Rowling should STFU. He also said Kyle Rittenhouse should have surrendered to the mob and let them kill him. He also implied Israel shouldn't exist.
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  17. That is the harsh nature of the progressive and woke movement. They are just this era's version of the marxists and communist cults. They crave control and collectivism. the moment you have any dissenting opinion, you are ostracized and vilified and even attacked outright. I am black and was never part of them and whenever I countered many of their tenets, like the stupid cultural appropriation thing or the black victimhood mentality, I was immediately labelled a white supremacist or "not-a real-black-person" I stopped caring what they think a long time ago and these movements always end up self-destructing but doing real harm to society before that.
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  18. I'm confused. What's your point? Isn't he saying that the prevailing standard of female beauty across much of the world and time has been feminine, youthful and attractive women? Or were you just looking at the pictures and not what he said?
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  19.  @WokeBegone  I do see your point and actually agree. I remember when the Occupy protests were happening. I was 17 and it surprised me when it just suddenly fizzled out. I later learned from listening to Tim Pool how identity politics was what destroyed it. It really makes sense that a good portion of the woke/progressive movement is being backed by folks with special interests who just want to keep up further division and distractions from important issues.
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  20.  @DrWoog  Oh, i have no issue with anyone criticizing the flaws and bad policies of developing and undeveloped countries. In fact, i welcome it. Criticism makes others improve.
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  21.  @natasharules770  I know what #EndSARS is and I also know that the social issues in Nigeria and those in the USA are several worlds removed from each other and cannot be compared. So trying to compare activism in Nigeria to activism in the USA makes no sense. I seriously doubt even you could say that the American police are half as bad as the ones in my birth country. FInally, as to your weird point that we immigrants hate social justice because we are comfortable with developed countries, that makes no sense. We don't support the majority of your "social justice" movements because they are contrary to the concept of social justice itself and seek to foster more division or create problems where none exist while ignoring real progress already made or real problems that need to be solved. For example, you guys here in BLM simply want to abolish the police, despite the proven fact that such a terrible decision would do great harm to the black community while #ENDSars has no aim of abolishing police or security. It mainly aimed to remove corrupt police officials and end the brutal clampdown tactics they use against civilians. Another example is your social justice movement regarding immigrants. Your side tends to advocate for unrestricted immigration with no vetting or due process and even offer free citizenship to illegals. In what world would you ever imagine that legal immigrants like myself would support such a movement that would disenfranchise hard working legal immigrants who obey the law and work hard to become a part of the American society? Then there is the #Metoo movement and how that one does away with the legal concept of due process entirely, the abortion debate where majority of immigrants and black people do not agree with it because of how our community has been demographically destroyed by it and for religious reasons. Basically, your version of social justice is not the same as ours and given how the majority of Americans tend to disagree with the "social justice" crowd here, I doubt I am alone with my views.
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  22.  @srelma  Well, the simple reasons why my country is still, unfortunately, a shithole (I won't disagree with you there) is mainly due to our government and terrible government policies that have hampered our infrastructure (especially electricity) and eroded law and order; both of which are critical to attract economic investors and give rise to economic development and growth. No, seriously, that is just it. The corruption, the hesitance of foreign companies to further invest in the country is mainly down to our government; especially our current one since 2015. After 1999, when civilian rule returned, our economy was being remodeled and improvements were happening. Privatisation of many public monopolies was been done and our national debt was greatly reduced. Foreign investment and our middle class was rising up until 2015 when we elected buhari, a northern Nigerian, whose policies and incompetence have undermined much of the socio-economic progress, national unity and development our country made and resulted in many economic problems and worsening security crisis. One major issue with Nigeria is that when the British colonized us, the incorporated many different ethnic groups and tribes into the entity that became Nigerian republic. This is broken into the north and south. The British stayed longer and incorporated the south; fully pushing their social system, economic models and democratic process there and as a result, even before our independence, the south became-and remains-the economic power house of Nigeria and is also the most literate, and most developed and most secular region in Nigeria. However, with the north, the British did not fully incorporate that region. They conquered them but struck a deal with the ruling muslim elites to let them continue their social and political structures with little British influence. Thus, the north is more homogenous ethnically and culturally but lags developmentally and culturally behind us in the south. After independence, our union had to be maintained and many compromises were made like a national police force, a national electricity grid among other things. It was done with the aim of centralising power and helping the less developed regions catch up but it has been such a problem. Our country is a federal republic but federalism barely exists. Many corrupt politicians (especially in the north) have been abusing our federal system to embezzle public funds for their own enrichment without improving infrastructure and they also use the cover of "adhering to tradition" as an excuse, especially in the muslim north. In the south, we have our corruption too but the more established economic infrastructure here provides an incentive to said corrupt politicians to ensure that things function.
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  23. But a father in Canada was literally arrested and jailed for not using his daughter's pronouns. What exactly do you mean that he is wrong about C-16?
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  24. no, he didn't. A father was arrested for not using his daughter's gender pronoun in Canada.
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  25.  @Sean__F  okay, fair point. I thought you meant media in general and not just what the video was referencing.
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  26. But Greta Thunberg, AOC, the German Green Party, green Peace and other left leaning groups are all against nuclear energy, despite it being the cleanest and most renewable source of energy we have. Is this a lie?
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  27.  @the_17th_dragon32  Well said. And American and much of the west has always challenged and amended these values and belief systems and norms when they were either lagging or failing in their purpose but with social justice and progressivism, they do not try to amend or improve. They simply work to subvert and undermine regardless of the benefits of drawbacks. This is because they stem from marxist doctrine which is pretty much built on that framework. After I learned about what happened in countries like China and Russia post their leftist revolutions, it just proved it to me.
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  28.  @juniorjames7076  I won't lie, friend. When I look at the long-term metrics for our country, it certainly looks more and more likely that a break-up is inevitable. However, I honestly am still choosing to be a blind optimist and hope that more national unity is possible. If Nigeria was just the west and east and the middle, unity would be more likely. The north (mainly due to the entrenched traditional and cultural and elitist interests) are the main part that hinders national unity but in the prior 8 years (especially during Yar'Adua's term) national unity was improving and so were economic and security metrics for Nigeria. All this changed mainly due to buhari and APC and their mismanagement of the country. If we can get a better administration to reverse their horrible policies then I believe things will improve again and national unity will increase.
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  29.  @CamouflageMaster  thanks and well said.
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  30.  @onpatrolforthejuice  I am glad my fellow citizens have given you such a good impression. Thanks
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  31.  @kamikaze5528  This actually makes sense now that I read your comment. Also, pretty based.
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  32. I hear you. I am black and I genuinely hate how much the SJWs, BLM and other leftist groups have effectively set back racial progress and color-blindness in this country. Worst part is that many of us black people actively opposed them. Most of us didn't support the defund police nonsense and most of us opposed the BLM riots, since they targeted our communities, businesses and people. Honestly, the backlash to all this cultural marxism is something i look forward to.
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  33. That am true.
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  34. Nuclear is expensive but wind and solar are not? Also, in terms of energy yield and cost of maintenance, can you really compared the two? Had you included natural gas, I might have taken this more seriously. Even Germany who ended all their nuclear reactors and invested heavily in green energy are the highest consumers of fossil fuels in Europe. Why? Because all that green energy generated unsubstantial energy yields and was more costly than fossil fuels.
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  35.  @cows543  They are the "cheapest" if you happen to be a first-world nation politically and culturally inclined to use them but in terms of energy yield, they are not very good and in terms of maintenance and installation, they cost more.
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  36. Guy, western civilization is not killing the world. I am from Nigeria and we have so many things because of western civilization. We have a country (yes, by colonialism. Better than having none). We have modern technology, modern medicine, modern economic systems like capitalism, no more slavery(the British are responsible for that) and better standard of living than our ancestors. We still have problems but we have better outlook than if we were without western civilization's benefits. Life is not a zero sum affair or black-and-white as you think. I can understand that you being from the west and being born privileged and never facing greater social issues like I have, enables you to think and waste time on such useless diatribes and generalized concepts like what you typed but maybe you should lay off it and explore these concepts in a more objective manner?
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  37. care to explain?
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  38. Much like how you leftists (yes, I am calling you that) overused the word "racist" to discredit anyone you disagreed with to the point that the word has lost much of it's significance and meaning, you are now doing the same with "right wing" This may get you affirmation from your fellow ideologues but it costs you credibility with us non-aligned folks. I mean, you folks call Joe Rogan "alt-right" but he now has more mainstream appeal than places like CNN. You really need to stop this. If you disagree with someone, say why. Don't just act like stupid kids and resort to name calling. No one will take you seriously.
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  39. Sadly, he didn't. But very good observation, friend. Most people tend to not know the connection between much of the leftist ideologies of today and the French.
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  40. Sad, friend. Post modernism is a serious societal cancer.
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  41.  @Ae-oxian  yes.
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  42. I see you conveniently left out Huffington post articles, CNN reports, buzzfeed articles, MSNBC and PBS and other mainstream media reports and articles.
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  43.  @silencer1286  A father was arrested in Canada for misgendering his daughter long after c-16 passed into law. Why are you lying?
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  44. How so?
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  45. And? who the hell takes reddit seriously, these days?
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  46.  @joshuamitchell5018  Respect to you for this! Good sourcing!
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  47. No he didn't. The algorithm likely saw some word in your comment and flagged it. It happens a lot of times. YouTube can be dumb a lot.
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  48. Well said, friend! 👍👍👏👏
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  49.  @TheLastMugwort  Oh boy, I hear you. You can only imagine what they constantly say about us.
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  50.  @azariyelvarro6271  Friend, I have been to the deep south. Yes, there is racism, same as there is in every place on earth but you'd have to be a fool to think it is ever-present there. I have also been to New York and Chicago where black communities are plagued with poverty and crime but no one is calling out that problem or thinks it's racist. Also, if you seriously think America has issues with discrimination, you should take a trip to Nigeria with me sometime. You need more perspective in your life.
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  51.  @werrkowalski2985  I'd tell you "Thank goodness for that!"😌
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  52.  @werrkowalski2985  Well i'll be! You explained it in great detail and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks, friend. Also, now I realize I need to do more reading up on history. Really enlightening stuff.
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  53.  @whateva1983  You are right that justice will always be needed to stop injustice, just not the superficial and ineffective and problematic garbage we see in some first-world countries and people, like you.
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  54.  @craigpyburn2968  for education. I started in high-school and am now about to start my final year of college.
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  55.  @thebrospaul2312  sadly, you are correct. Ours is tribalism😕
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  56. ​ @deathbyunicorn5213 no, it didn't😕 Wokeness is cultural Marxism. The transatlantic sl*ve trade was abolished by the British empire due to a combination of Liberalism, Christian culture/morals that gave rise to the early abolitionist movements early in the mid 1600s and also the early innovations of the industrial Revolution that made sl*very economically bad. Same thing played out in the USA, except with conservative Republicans, Christians, freed sl*ves, and industrialists. Wokeness is opposed to industry, Christianity, and liberalism. The fact that societies with Cultural Marxism like Maoist China a d the Soviet Union had terrible sl*very of masses just shows how wrong you are.
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  57. So the guy who advocated for racial unity, justice and tolerance in America is more radical than the black-supremacist islamist convert who attended a convention with a nazi one time?
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  58.  @suyogv8235  Um, supporting worker's rights, especially their union afforded right to strike is not radical.
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  59.  @suyogv8235  Okay, i see your point. I won't lie that even my own perception of people like MLK tends to be the more polished and romanticized version that ignores or minimizes the flaws such people had. Thanks for pointing this out. I feared you were some progressive who was trying to use MLK's work as a justification for the current radical leftism we see today but I was wrong. That being said, I still support MLK but I will be more aware of his flaws moving forward. It's hard not to support controversial but beneficial and great figures like him. He may have had his radical side but he was smart enough to keep it in check while also advocating for widely beneficial things for the majority of people. It's like Lincoln and Ghandi who both had deep flaws but still accomplished great things in retrospect.
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  60. But Michael Jackson had vitiligo (a disease that reduces melanin in skin and makes one susceptible to UV rays and skin burns) He had to get surgery for his deteriorating condition. What makes you changed his skin color?
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  61. Yep, the guy who thinks ped0philia is okay, that Israel shouldn't exist, that women should shut up for gender confused men, totally destroyed Whatifalthist.......yay......
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  62. Oh my God! I am in a timeline where being a fan of Jordan Peterson is now a bad thing and a sign of mental illness😂 Well, I guess I and millions of others are screwed. But seriously, read your comment. You just tried to use him being a fan of Jordan Peterson to discredit him and his video. You even use histrionics like assuming that he wants to bring about handmaid's tale because......Do you leftists have any idea how crazy you sound to us normal people?
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  63.  @urphakeandgey6308  Okay, this actually explains i better. I didn't even know about None Aggression Principle until reading this. Thanks.
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  64. So, are you going to point out the flaws in the video or just say it is wrong? Also, "Make Amerikkka Socialist"? What was "BLM non-binary pog-champ" too on the nose?
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  65. But there are still Indigenous people in America. What the hell do you mean? they didn't die out.
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  66.  @johnmccall3347  I am familiar with all those things. What exactly is your point and how exactly does that answer my question? Asian-Americans are literally the richest ethnic group in all the USA. Nigerian-immigrants in America tend to occupy high income positions. Didn't both of these people have history of oppression as well? Why are they doing well? Why are they not moaning about being victims? Why are they not failing due to oppression?
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  67.  @ifiwantyoutofeel  MLK also said he thought socialism was nice but that Capitalism was awesome and actually benefitted people. What point are you trying to make?
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  68. But a father is in jail for not using his daughter's "pronouns" or am I lying or are you lying?
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  69.  @silencer1286  Oh, you were right friend. It was a court order he violated but the Chief Justice who gave the order also noted that his "refusal to respect [his son's] decisions regarding his gender identity is troublesome" during his arrest and part of the court order did stipulate that he use his former daughter's preferred pronouns. he referred to her as "daughter" during his talks with the media and that was the impetus for them arresting him.
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  70.  @silencer1286  hmm, okay, you make a very good argument that even I cannot deny. well played.
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  71. Here is some advice from one black person to another: Stop letting the word negro have any power. Also, if you seriously think attacking someone for calling you that is smart and that you will face no consequences, think again.
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