Definitions of political terms affect what we see and don't see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors.
The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to the people who rule over us in our private lives.
Popular definitions of left and right propagated by media and academia (the state vs. the market, big vs. small government, liberty vs. equality), frame the world in right-wing terms, while the historical definition (hierarchy vs. equality) frames the world in left wing terms.
Competing definitions of racism have different consequences on how people people relate to other cultural groups, and how effectively people can communicate about racism.
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,1,When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the language and symbols of radicalism and egalitarianism.
The replacement of the word “equality” by the word “equity” in the worlds of academia, NGOs, activism, and corporate HR departments, is an example of the attempts by elite people and institutions to transform historical movements for racial and gender equality, into ideas that promote the interest of elites - in particular, economic inequality and the division of the working public into antagonistic groups who don't join together to fight for their mutual interests.
In this episode we explore how forms of oppression based on cultural factors like skin colour or gender or religion, etc, can only be understood and effectively combated by understanding them in the context of economic exploitation and economic competition which is what the human propensity to discriminate evolved for in the first place.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 If the slavery abolitionists had been liberal “antiracists”
0:29 Introduction: thesis
2:04 Equality and the left
5:46 How the terms left and right became confused
10:41 Equity vs. equality: liberal vs. conservative takes
15:17 Liberal vs conservative methods of maintaining economic inequality
16:52 Lizard People: right wingers disguised as left wingers
17:59 The Class Filter: turning egalitarian ideas into hierarchical poop
22:47 Equity vs. Equality: definitions and lizard semantics
24:50 Equity for rich people vs normal people
25:47 Lizard words in the law
26:41 “Serious injury” to the landlord in the 1970s vs today
31:17 “Be Excellent to Eachother”: ambiguous worbs as a power grab
33:19 Lizard politicians left and right
35:20 “Antiracism” & “equity”: How to pretend to do social justice
36:23 Roots of racial and gender discrimination
37:07 Exploitation and racism in the United States
38:34 “Minimal Group” discrimination experiments
39:17 Racism and self-interest: the economics of “Dying of Whiteness”
41:21 Discrimination instincts in tribal vs civilization contexts
41:50 Racism in utopia vs. in capitalism
43:51 Chris Rock vs. Crack Rock: racism and economic inequality
46:55 The Brown Pill: eliminating racism but not economic inequality
49:32 Lizard morals: why rich people need poverty
51:40 Lizard social justice: Ibram X. Kendi’s “antiracism” and “equity”
53:26 If the Abolitionists had been “antiracists”
54:10 Benefits of “equity” for the ruling classes: PR and self-delusion
56:21 French colonialism and liberal identity politics
57:49 Robin DiAngelo trains people to be anti-black racists
59:57 Divide and conquer: why corporations love ineffective “antiracist” trainings
1:01:01 Lizard “equity” as a make work program for Harvard kids
1:02:12 “Antiracism” begets Afropessimism
1:02:38 Legitimating the ruling class: Gauls in the Senate
1:03:33 Obama protects racist banks and wipes out black wealth
1:05:02 Politics of representation in dictatorships (“communist,” fascist and corporate)
1:06:10 Ivy League admissions
1:08:52 The Matthew Effect: deindustrialization and black history
1:11:04 Warp drives for animal shelters
1:11:58 “Antiracism”: rich brown people as a stand-in for poor brown people
1:14:49 “Antiracism”: Asians are too boring
1:15:58 Rainbow race war for rich kids
1:17:08 Left proposals for college admissions
1:20:21 TLDR RECAP
1:24:52 Gimme
,1,The terms "cancel culture" and "political correctness" are used to delegitimize ideas like gender equality and racial equality by conflating them with toxic dominance behaviour practiced by up-and-coming elites dressing up their power seeking goals in egalitarian social justice language.
In this segment, by seeking to properly define these terms, we look at:
The Class Filter: how ideas that are a threat to power historically get mutated into tools of power once they pass through elite institutions, in this case Ivy League universities and corporate HR departments.
The Interloper Left: how elites and aspiring elites (who by definition are right-wing actors) will disguise dominance behaviour in egalitarian language in order to gain legitimacy and prestige in democratic societies.
Poison/Sugar Pilling: how elites will de-legitimize popular ideas which are a threat to power by conflating them with unpopular ideas, and how they will convince people to accept things they don’t like by associating them with popular terms
How egalitarian language and ill conceived “anti-racism” trainings like “White Fragility” are being used in the corporate world to divide workers and prevent them from banding together in defence of their rights.
How to spot some of the red flags that distinguish movements rooted in equality and solidarity from toxic “cancel culture” and “political correctness” dominance power plays.
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,1,Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb.
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,1,How can people who don't have official decision-making power exert their influence over those who do?
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,1,Definitions of political terms affect what we see and don't see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors.
The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to the people who rule over us in our private lives.
Popular definitions of left and right propagated by media and academia (the state vs. the market, big vs. small government, liberty vs. equality), frame the world in right-wing terms, while the historical definition (hierarchy vs. equality) frames the world in left wing terms.
Competing definitions of racism have different consequences on how people people relate to other cultural groups, and how effectively people can communicate about racism.
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,1,Saturday, October 7th 2023: the world wakes up in shock. Over 1,300 Israeli civilians have just been massacred. While the population thought it was safe behind its walls, its iron dome and its barbed wire, protected by its invincible army, the country is undergoing an unprecedented attack. At the helm is a terrorist group: Hamas. An Islamist faction that no one, least of all Israeli believed capable of such an operation. So who are these men, with their green bandanas, capable of such atrocities? Who are the organization’s supporters? How did they manage to plan this attack?
With the help of leading experts, we investigate the rise of Hamas. Founded in the late 80s from Muslim resistance groups, the organisation won popular legitimacy in Gaza. We investigate its leaders, in particular the coordinator of the “al-Aqsa flood” attack: Mohammed Deïf. The Israeli security services have been tracking him relentlessly for three decades. The other mastermind of the organization is Ismaël Haniyeh, head of the political bureau. He has taken refuge in Qatar.
Thanks to the testimonies of former members of the Israeli intelligence services, we reveal the methods that enabled Hamas to slip under the radar of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service: underground caches, a network of dozens of kilometers of tunnels, old-fashioned communications, homemade rockets and also the use of modern technologies, such as drones and cyberattacks.
According to its former director, Ami Ayalon, the Shin Beth had relied solely on electronic surveillance to the detriment of human intelligence. We reveal the financial support Hamas received to carry out this operation. For years, the Iranians have been the terrorist movement’s main allies in its fight against Israel. In Lebanon, we interviewed a senior Hamas official who, a few days after the massacre, was delighted with the success of the operation.
We also look at the role of Qatar, which finances the movement to the tune of $30 million a month. per month. The terrorist nebula also relies on appeals for donations in crypto-currencies. The sums collected are enormous, more than $100 million between 2021 and 2023. Our investigation will finally take a closer look at the movement from the inside, and analyze its hold on the Gazan population. A population that has been imprisoned for years on this tiny strip of land, living in part under the yoke of the by the Islamist organization.
In Egypt, we caught up with a Hamas opponent who fled Gaza in 2021 after spending two hundred days in the terrorist group’s jails. He tells us about the group’s hold over the civilian population, the recruitment of young people and the terrorist group’s propaganda methods.
Director : Marc de la Villardière & Vincent Prado
