Comments by "Seva" (@seva4411) on "THIS Is Why Wokism Is a Threat to Our Society" video.

I saw a video of Vivek Ramaswamy recently at a Townhall meeting where he was asked what he would do on his first day as president. He said he would issue an Executive Order banning race based affirmative action. That’s exactly the opposite of what Biden did on his first day in office which was to issue an Executive Order to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes. In effect then, this shows that Vivek wants to base America on the ideas of a public intellectual like Thomas Sowell whereas Biden and the rest of our ruling class have already decided to base America on the Equity ideas of Ibram X. Kendi. This is now one of the many profound differences between the Woke vs the nonWoke in America and these do seem to be irreconcilable differences.
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“How have we got here?” Some excerpts below from a Quillette review of a book about the irrational side of human nature. The last one says: “One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” That sure is the truth. “Mackay makes the case, often in gory detail, that episodes of collective mania seem to be an inevitable consequence of human nature. Humans in every time and place have cast aside their better judgment and allowed themselves to be caught up in all manner of irrational hoopla.“ “His chapters on the Swabian Peasants’ War and Anabaptist uprisings are terrifying depictions of the end-times frenzy that wreaked havoc on northern Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The distance between these events in the German-speaking world and, say, the Reign of Terror in France or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not that great. And the speed with which apparently reasonable people moved from the embrace of a new theological idea to a willingness to torture those whose own theological ideas diverged even slightly is startling.“ “There is plenty to recommend about The Delusions of Crowds. It is laden with great anecdotes and the writing is always engaging. One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” “The Delusions of Crowds-A Review.” Quillette. Feb 8, 2021
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@foreverhungry7777 You overlook the fact that our ruling class, their media, and many people in the general public like the idea of everyone being forced to be “equal.” Does America have a future? Does America even still exist as a country?
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@theophrastus3.056 I believe the two wild cards in our future are Vivek, who can bring many to our side, and the incredibly rapid advance of AI that will soon be advanced enough to be able to reason and interact with people yet have an overview of humanity and able to see the good and the bad and support the good. This is in fact what Elon is working on with his new AI company called “XAI.” We will soon see what fate has in store for us.
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@2trichoptera “Douglas Murray- Ibram X. Kendi Is A Race Hustler.” (4 min) Chris Williamson. Apr 27, 2022 “Glenn Loury Destroys Ibram X. Kendi.” (2 min) Southern Comfort Productions. Nov 15, 2022 “Exposed: Med Schools Drop Merit For Racial Admissions.” (6 min) Breaking Points. Saagar Enjeti. Jan 30, 2023 “California Nukes Math Standards For Racial Equity.” Breaking Points. Saagar Enjeti. July 17, 2023
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@2trichoptera Ibram X. Kendi is hardly a “non-entity.” On his first day in office Biden issued an Executive Order to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes. And where did Biden get the idea that meritocracy is racist and must be canceled and replaced with Equity? Primarily from Ibram X Kendi who is quite well known to democrats in the government and in the media. These are the people who set the social agenda in America. Believe it or not, these people are Woke Marxists who want America to be ruled by race based socialism aka Woke.
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@simonmcintosh6565 This Real Clear Investigations article below from 2020 is about the “1619 Project” and what the author Nikole Hannah-Jones told the editors of the Chicago Tribune about its purpose which is, she said, to instill guilt in white liberals so they will support reparations for blacks. White liberals are not being targeted though. White children in our public schools are. And our Woke white leftist ruling class loves this and is totally supportive of it. She was even given a Pulitzer Prize for this poison in 2020. This is not “black history” though. This is anti-white hate mongering pretending to be history. This is evil and this is what the democrats have become. And these are the same people who are working to put Trump in prison. “If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October. “I'm not writing to convert Trump supporters. I write to try to get liberal white people to do what they say they believe in,” she said. “I'm making a moral argument. My method is guilt.” “Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids Minds on Race.” Real Clear Investigations. Jan 31, 2020
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@theinngu5560 Trump won in 2016 and 2020. He made it to the White House in 2016 but was not allowed to govern by our ruling class which launched a hate campaign against him to destroy his presidency. He won in 2020 but was cheated out of the victory. If he won in 2024 and somehow made it to the White House he would not be able to govern due to all the years of being demonized. I believe America has lost the ability to have successful elections due to the fact that America has already ceased to exist as a country internally and therefore is no longer governable externally. This becomes ever more obvious by the day and will soon become common knowledge. And then what? Perhaps Vivek can alter this path we’re on. Hope springs eternal. We will soon see what fate has in store for us.
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@billmorrison9068 Vivek is fighting for meritocracy and traditional values. He’s fighting to save a society that’s rotting and disintegrating. I see nothing wacko about that. You have no idea of how far gone this society is.
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@Lexus7912 Communism was about class. The left traded class for race and called it Critical Race Theory or “Woke.” Still sees the world in terms of oppressors vs oppressed but now it’s white people who are the oppressors and “people of color” in general and blacks in particular who are the oppressed.Basically “Woke Marxism!” Quite insane. A recipe for racial tribal warfare which goes way beyond race and is also about replacing meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes.
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