my political awakening | i know i've changed.
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- my big ole radicalization journey.
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time stamps //
0:00 - fire ass intro
1:09 - phase 00: an incomplete liberal education
7:15 - phase 01: a chronic illness diagnosis
9:12 - phase 02: a global pandemic
11:02 - phase 03/04: an eruption of protests + shift in social media visibility
13:51 - phase 05: theory
16:21 - phase 06: a re-orientation
18:09 - phase 07: praxis
19:45 - where does that leave us
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I think I got radicalized and educated on the true nature of our county when I saw how the “Democratic Party” slandered and demonized Bernies name.
It’s sad to see so many so blindly loyal to the democrats. They turned on us !!!!! Nobody wants to see it.
@@Dwelleronthethreshold89 The problem is that even though democrats suck, republicans are waaaay worse. If you have two parties, one of which wants to do little to nothing helpful and the other wants to actively fight against certain people's human rights, can you afford not to vote for the former?
@@mielipuolisiili7240 voting for either party is voting for the status quo. If you think one is better than the other, then you are either young or naive. If you want to send a message, you either vote outside of the two party system, or you don't vote at all.
@@michaelbrown5768 And achieve what excatly? It's not like any party is going to casually rise to being able to challenge the two party system. You claim I'm naive, yet you refuse to aknowledge that there aren't viable options that could potentially rise to power. In the meantime every time the republicans rise to power, actual real living people will have to suffer. Like you do you but if I were an American, I would vote democrat so that poor people, women and minorities wouldn't have to suffer quite as much. Maybe it's not much from my or your perspective, but to these groups of people it can make a huge difference.
@@mielipuolisiili7240 to assume that the Democrats do anything to help the poor is false. It's a platform idea at best that never materializes. To listen to their words my give you comfort and a sense of nobility, but their actions show otherwise. I'm not a fan of false virtue signalling by the presumption that I'm doing the "right thing" by voting for a party that says they are for the people, while they line their own pockets by gaining power, and then doing the exact opposite.
I got radicalized at my internship at a tech start-up. As a project management intern, I became friends and really looked up to the lady who ran HR. She designed and came up with all the HR processes and was brilliant without ever having a degree. It happened to be at the time the start-up was getting acquired by a company. The first thing they did was demote and gave her title to a new college grad that didn't know anything. She was supposed to train her new boss. When she found this all out she left crying and never came back. Sucks to have your entire self-worth based on an expensive piece of paper.
I worked as a server all through college, and though if I get a degree things will get better. That internship was my awaking that maybe the whole system is just screwed up.
wait, also. remember old school "tag" youtube videos? can we make that comeback with the "My Political Awakening Tag ✌️💕"
You can do that with hashtags
I went to college when everyone would say "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" unironically. It was infuriating lol. How could they not see it was interrelated?
because it isn't necessarily interrelated
Because they’re not. If you believe fiscally conservative policies are most successful thus giving the people more money thus more liberty then that’s exactly what is being said. One can be supportive of socially progressive movements like lgbtq and still think fiscal conservatism puts most money and liberty in the pocket of those lgbtq, minorities and the rest of the country.
@@armeni15 just say you hate poor people
@@armeni15 We know that those theories of trickle-down economics don’t actually work. As see we in the US, lack of economic regulation (like strong labour policies) don’t result in wealth and liberty for all. They result in wealth accumulation for very few, very high income earners to the detriment of everyone below. If free market capitalism worked, there wouldn’t be over half a million people who are experiencing homelessness in the US, the country with the most billionaires in the world.
@@robynotto722 US doesnt have a free market economy. Huge corporate bail outs, lobbies, printing trillions of dollars causing inflation, needless regulations which harms the small businesses,the fed single handedly manipulating the value of the currency instead of gold standard ..........these are not capitalism.The Austrian economics explicitly spoke against these type of practices.
Someone sent me this I’m my discord and I’m so glad they did. Glad to see I’m not the only one who had these journey over the past year!
me, an Italian, that sees that in school there they don't teach you what Communism and socialism mean: 👁👄👁
That's partially because of what happened in the 60s and 70s with our left wing parties and partially also a leftover of the red scare and the DDR-UdssR..
Most Americans really like to believe that Cololialism is over & then there’s me a Puerto Rican and a current victim of colonialism in an island taken apart and in debt due to the US imperialism who just can’t believe that the existence of Puerto Rico isnt even acknowledged most of the time in the US. The education system is willlld.
It's interesting how you say in economics class you learned "here's the only option, capitalism". Sounds so similar to sex ed that tells people "here's the only option, abstinence" ...
What really radicalized me recently was losing my job during the pandemic as a mentally ill person with no insurance outside of that job. I personally deal with hallucinations visual and auditory, so there are times when, unmedicated, I am so disconnected from reality that it feels like I'm fading in and out with no way to tell the difference. I rationed my pills. When things would get bad I'd take just one. Realizing how difficult it is living as a young adult with a disability, seeing my friends struggle, seeing people I love worry about ever marrying because they'll lose their benefits, in an age where we're underpaid anyhow, it's truly dystopian. None of us seem to be at a point where we can survive without a roommate, but being in love currently only complicates it more. Do I apply for disability or do I continue the cycle of being in and out of the mental hospital twice a year. I'm not really focused on this as much as BLM and stop Asian hate but I'd really love to see the world change into a place where mentally ill people can exist safely. I don't like feeling crazy... And I don't like that capitalism is what's potentially going to kill me should I lose insurance again. Also reproductive rights are being Hella challenged rn and we really need to talk about it
Damn this made me sad af to read
@@VanityLuxe I lost my job yesterday so unfortunately this has become a reality for me once again. Without a job I run the risk of losing my room here at my parents. But it's extremely difficult for me to take care of myself and work simultaneously so here's to praying my bf magically gets rich
@@HarmonyHeart8D - Keep taking your medication and get a job. You live with your parents for Christ's sake. Stop whining like a big baby.
@@anarki777 for starters I don't have to prove a damn thing to you. But also it would be a good lesson to learn to maybe mind your business if you have nothing nice to say.
@@HarmonyHeart8D - You're talking about your business on the internet so deal with it.
When I was a kid I wanted to be as rich as Bill Gates. But I took Economics as my main course in graduation and then I realised, fuck, earning money ethically is impossible and then I gave up on that childhood dream.
me too!!! i used to wanna be a billionaire so bad...
Yep, that is soo true!
What exactly is"money"? Is it some arbitrarily selected means of keeping score? Who decides? Do you want to join the "money club"? How about this: you don't need to BUY a million dollar yacht if you can build it yourself. You don't need to pay $25/lb for grass-fed beef if you can farm it yourself. If you go fishing and catch a red snapper, did you just catch $20/lb or did you just catch a tasty meal which is far more valuable(and how is it that we determine "value" in terms of "dollars"?) What do you value, truly? To me, I value freedom to decide what I value. Leftists want to take that from me. Case closed.
Me too! I’ve also come to the conclusion that having a big house and all that artificial stuff won’t make me happy. I really want a small comfortable home, but I feel as though in today’s eyes that isn’t deemed as “successful”
@@debbieliz8612 ikr! which is very unfortunate. it's almost as if all of the definitions of dreams and success is all for a show orchestrated by capitalism.
"I wouldn't say I was ever truly apolitical - maybe when I was a BABY" dunno why that got a chuckle out of me.
🌱🌱🌱 3 hr version please!! ♥️
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I WAS GONNA COME TO THE COMMENTS TO SAY THE SAME
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🌱 A long version would be great.
The irony of me getting an ad from amazon advertising how great their workplace and pay is for employees while watching this
Ahhh thank you for saying you thought a lot of the instagram carousels were really informative! i totally acknowledge how harmful performance activism is but i am so thankful for the creators that actually put together informational posts. seriously learned so much and dont take that work lightly.
I was radicalized after finally getting out on my own and realizing the insane amount of effort that goes into having even a studio apartment and one meal a day.
I was working 6 days a week 45 hours a week and a flat tire would have rendered me homeless. I only had 3$ a day for food, dropped to 122 lbs as a 6.1 male.
It's hard to not start questioning a system that can work you to the bone while you slowly starve to death.
Around this time I was watching lots of youtube on my phone since I couldn't afford T.V. or internet but had unlimited data and discovered some channels that just started making sense.
I went back to school and am living off of work and financial aid and it's way better, I can afford normal stuff now but I never stopped distrusting and even hating the system and seeing how it wrecks everyone around me. Once you see it you can't unsee it. Now I'm that annoying guy ranting about capitalism but hey, someones gotta point this rank BS out.
socialism causes starvation
You're gonna question the shit outta communism once it hits.
@@openmind2464 but he said he was starving under capitalism.
@@JohnJohnson-fm1gy And you should, that's what leftist do all they long if you ask me. Inner critic is never ending on left circuits.
@@OjoRojo40 But is he dead though? His solution is something that would make him dead, aka socialism.
Guys, there is an important thing, I want to share.
I wrote this message today as an answer to a person who said ''Communist countries never worked'', but I think too few people will see it in the sub-comment, so I decided to write this as a separate comment here so more viewers can see it.
I'm answering. Seriously. Very seriously.
I am from an ex-socialist country and let me tell you: nothing was more devastating in the history of my country (Russia) than the transition to Capitalism. Not Stalin's Purges. Not the hunger of the 1930s. Not the Second World War. The restoration of Capitalism in the 1990s killed and generally speaking destroyed more lives than anything in the last hundred years.
Just a simple example, my grandfather. Both of his parents were killed by fascists in 1941 and his house was destroyed by bombs. In a capitalist society, he would've stayed poor and uneducated, with no hope of ever escaping the misery. And yet, thanks to the fact that our country was Socialist, he was able to obtain high education completely for free (in fact, the university actually PAID HIM to study because he had good grades).
His dream was to become a pilot but he had problems with his health, so he decided to pursue a Ph.D. in agricultural economics, making calculations, as well as spending some time in the communal farms as a consultant. He also worked as a planner at some point in his life. You have no idea how primitive the planning methods were in the 1960s and 1970s, and yet the USSR economy was growing faster than the economy of the USA (yes, it's a fact, the Soviet economy was indeed growing faster than the American economy, which even pro-capitalist sources like medium.com acknowledge, even though they are trying to cover up this fact with some logical ''reasoning'' why the Soviet economy was ''bad''). Now imagine how planners would actually be able to plan with modern technology usage. Instead of that, we are still hectically creating new iPhones every year for some abstract $$$GDP, while the planet suffers.
Also, on the topic of food, by the 1970s, food security in Russia was actually higher than food security in the US, which was even acknowledged by the CIA and I even read their report on this topic, although they suddenly decided to ''unpublish'' it the last year from their site for some reason).
At some point in life he had a brain tumor, and thanks to the Socialist healthcare system, he got it removed for free. He did lose the ability to move for a few months, and even years later he could barely walk, but his thinking was mostly unaffected and after his recovery, he continued to teach at a university and was professionally active until his eighties (basically, he was a researcher and a professor from 1960s to 2010s), so he saw the changes in the economy first-hand and could see the devastating effects Capitalism had on both the availability and the quality of agricultural products (basically, the food we eat).
The transition to Capitalism also caused the shutting down of thousands of factories and there was unprecedented growth in unemployment, the growth in crime rates, the diminution in the quality of healthcare (in fact, it took us THREE DECADES to re-reach life expectancy which Russia had in 1989), not to mention the rise of depression, drug abuse.
Capitalism is unhealthy. It's a fact. Promoting Capitalism is like promoting the usage of coal steam engines when one can use more modern and more scientifically advanced, more humane alternatives.
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Well, if it wasn't for capitalism you wouldn't be able to write this comment nor watch this video, because:
A. Almost all (if not all) of the population's personal belongings were supplied by the government, and trust me, the communist government gives two shits about you having your basic needs met (that's why most of the groceries stores or shops were almost always empty), but to expect the government to provide you with devices that will lower your productivity???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Nice try. Remember during communist times, people worked for the government and not for their personal interests/ needs. And you'd get paid, but where would you spend your money if every shelf on every shop was empty?
B. The Communism was a social dictatorship and the media consumed by the citizens was highly controlled by the government.
My country was part of the Soviet Satellite States and my grandfather was FORCED to fight for that ideology and he had to serve the military, because otherwise his family wouldn't survive. I also know a friend whose family's property was expropriated by the State for "military purposes" and if they refused to cease the property, they would have been sent to the gulags as enemies of the government for not collaborating with them, otherwise known as soviet's concentration camps. Yup. Because that's how communism works.
I know that you're not defending the oppression of the Communism in your comment, but please bear in mind there are always two sides of the coin and perpetuating socialist ideas from the past century is -maybe- not the answer to our 21st century problems? Maybe we should think of a new system that acknowledges the progress we've made so far in the past century and start from there?
And of course, during the transition times every country suffered. I don't know you or how interested you are in history, but usually that's the dynamic of every systemic change, especially when it's in such a large scale as the Soviet Union fall.
So, summing up:
Communism = crap
Soviet's Satellite States= colonization, but make it Russian
Capitalism= also crap
Dictatorship= dictatorship no matter if communist, nazi or fascist.
Stay safe! 🖖🏼
Half my family died in communist gulags, workers army or while being forcefully migrated throughout middle asia by the "humane" soviets. All borders where closed so no one could emigrate, thats the only reason a lot of people even stayed in the ussr. People like you paint a rosy image of communism that naive youngsters actually believe, while completely ignoring the atrocities it brought.
It worked out for your grandfather, it didn't for many others, and brought so much hell on earth it can't be defended.
Also, most good things you quote are available in European countries without devolving into communism. Free / inexpensive university? Check. Free healthcare? Check.
Both extremes are terrible, let's not go drown ourselves because we're on fire.
Intermediate systems work.
I would also add that after 70 years no one knew how to practice capitalism anymore. Not to mention the higher rate of poverty compared to the rest of Europe in the USSR as well (ironic considering that the USSR was a superpower occupying the territory of other nations.) Just look at the former satellite states, they were under socialism for half the time and were more industrialized and less impoverished than the USSR. Compared to Russia today, the former Eastern Bloc is flourishing.
Wow ok forgot LoveGame existed until 15 seconds ago but I am here for the chaotic energy
this is my favorite video on the internet right now, from watching you for the last 8+ years and seeing this kind of evolution and its similar to what ive gone through....?!?!?!?!?! wow
ASTRIDDDDD so good to see your name pop up in my comment section
How did NO classes at USC talk about "class"? That was a big part of discussions in the sociology and anthropology classes I took in college (another "prestigious" private school)
@@Parker-Green a big part of uni seems to be choosing to take courses about race, class etc, and i think business is one of those majors where you dont get to choose as much? but i feel the same, i go to fordham and almost all of my courses talk about labor issues, class inequality, racism
@@Parker-Green it really depends on what you were studying. A Business Major will likely only hear pro-capitalist ideas
I took anthropology classes in NY. Never did we discuss class or cultural issues connected to colonialism.
Considering a business major primarily takes classes about business management, econ, finance, etc and if you've received AP credits from high school can effectively skip past a lot of undergrad graduation required classes like History or English....I can see how some people managed to inadvertently avoid a lot of discussion about class without even knowing it.
USC is very siloed. Since she was in the business school, the classes she probably took are wildly different to the classes sociology students (like myself) took.
Give us the 3 hour podcast 👀 honestly my favourite video so far probably, so many important ideas were brought up
in my case, it was actually a STEM education that ended up radicalizing me. i went to a liberal arts college and ended up in majoring in physics. ironically, all the mandatory history, philosophy and fine arts courses didn't do jack to provoke much critical thought. it was all the upper level physics, math, computer science and statistics that reshaped my thinking. when i started reassessing my position within the socio-political spectrum, i went from moderately liberal to downright leftist. even purely scientific thought/inquiry will lead you to see how broken a system capitalism is.
I love this comment. People associate leftism with artsy fartsy sentimentality but actually it's just common sense with an ability to seek out and observe the actual facts as opposed to internalising the propaganda which our culture is saturated with
My environmental science degree was essentially an entire degree focusing on fixing the problems caused by businesses and short term economics. It’s literally everywhere!
Same. Studying pure science really makes your critical thinking sharp. I took a logic elective in the philosophy dept. That actually ended up radicalizing me alot
Do you care to elaborate more on this? Your comment caught my attention and I would like to understand more about how computer science helped you reshape your thinking.
Being an historian in a global south country gave me no choice but to radicalize, I wish more ppl from the USA would have the courage to step up to your own government, bc if it wasn't for the USA's intervention communism and radical leftists here would have a much easier time bringing equality and justice to our own ppl. Keep it up! Hope you guys up there can end the cycle of new colonialism and imperialism in our lifetime!
Amiga onde você fez facul??
(Believes in ideology that calls for world domination of said ideology *then proceeds to call individualistic ideology imperialist)*
This. Solidarity, comrade. ✊🏽
Exactly! More people in USA should have more interest in studying the impact of american imperialism in third world countries, especially in their direct involvement in the military dictorships of the 20th century. Understand the destruction of the american imperialism in those countries would definetly make them think more about other countries and not just their own
@@christianmorales8978 talking about yourself, right? Lol
This is literally my new favorite video on the internet. Watched the whole thing. 🌱 I've always been super interested in politics and never understood why it was a "taboo" thing to talk about so I LOVE that it's becoming more common to discuss and post about now.
Also down with capitalism
@@talia8953 Capitalism is what brought you internet computers, phones, supermarkets, cars, houses, schools, etc.
@@taoist32 the publicly funded military created the early internet. Communist republics are able to educate and provide for their citizens lol
@@kiammcquaid More than just the internet was brought to us by public funding. Most medicines and medical technology is developed with at least partial funding from the government and then gets turned into an avenue for private profit. The dreaded P-word that ruins so many things.
Down with capitalism etc.
@@kiammcquaid you poor soul.....do you actually think communism is good?
I'm loving watching this, seeing people learn and empower themselves and those around them is so inspiring and necessary! Love how you edited this video as well! ❤️
I went from falling down the alt-right pipeline, and almost being a white nationalist, to now being very pro-social justice, pro feminist, and left-leaning. I really enjoyed your political shift story.
Wow, I feel sorry for you. I hope someday you realize your mistake before it costs you dearly. I'm not being snarky, I sincerely hope you realize that feminists don't care about you and social justice warriors don't care about you. You're the wrong gender and have the wrong skin color. The solution to being in the alt-right pipeline isn't to go radical in the other direction. Both the far left and the far right are pretty terrible positions to take for most people. Only the fringe benefit. The average person suffers regardless of whether it's the authoritarians on the right or the authoritarians on the left. Both want your freedom and your money.
@@patrickbarnes9874 Sis what the fuck
@@patrickbarnes9874 agree man, thinking one side is "wrong" and the other "right" doesn't work for anyone.
@@patrickbarnes9874 FACTS 👏👏👏
@@patrickbarnes9874 Cringe.
As somebody who was born with a disability, Cerebral Palsy, and also saw my grades and work performance as a mesure of my worth, I can totally relate! Your video have also been helpful. I live in Canada, but for most of my life, I blamed myself for other people's ableism. I was the one who needed fixing and only then could I achieve my goals. I ended up at a large bank and it didn't go as I expected. Thank you so much for your video, as they are reinforcing what I've come to realized.
i am LIVING for these political videos!! please make more :)))
i will be leaving lil leftie breadcrumbs in future videos :-)
@@Katherout breadtubecrumbs? ;)
Gosh, this is so well-spoken. (long time lurker, first time poster) I have consistently stayed a subscriber of yours for YEARS. Watching you grow up through your high school and college videos, to now, post-college conversations that are honest/genuine/transparent... it all too reassuring that mentally, you continually strive to question the very things we think we are toooooo sure of. Although, this may be looming to some, you always find a way to make it digestible. ***All that to say*** Katherine, you are such a pleasure to watch blossom into the young women you are today! Thank you for taking the time to share such a vulnerable but MUCH needed topic! :-) Much love from Virginia!
YASS KATH!! So here for this - let’s go radical progressive politics, down with late-stage capitalism and neoliberalism complacency and up with these types of radicalization journey’s + anti-racism + mutual aid / compassion, etc! Hope to see more of these videos 🥰👏🏼
Mutual aid is paid for by hard working tax payers. Nothing is free.
@@ChaosRUsEnt no shit, but many aspects of life are more costly, and if removed or reworked could save that hard working tax payer so much and give more happiness and opportunity to those you need it
BTW, you realllly might not want to use the word "reeducation" when describing communist beliefs 😂 Google the two together if you don't know why
OOOOOOOOOP in the moment i really did not put two and two together 😬
@@RIPKabosu2000 Every communist regime required a one party system which is a problem from the get-go. One person will rise to immense power and any change people might require will be neglected past that point. Party > People this is how it failed every time.
I'm not even 4 minutes in and I'm subscribing. You have managed to say everything I've been thinking for YEARS!!
Same!!
IM SO HYPED FOR THIS VIDEO!!
i been waiting for this one, turn it up 🔊
The embedding of your ethos in your newer videos (that I’ve binged) is literally why I’ve fallen in love with your channel.
Loved watching you grow over the years. This is only the beginning! Thank you for speaking on this!
Probably one of your best videos. I was so mad during the entire thing, agreeing and learning. Awesome short graphic in links too!
as someone who has watched you since I was 16, I love seeing you evolve, and seeing you make these concepts be accessible to everyone :')
fire ass intro is ROIGHT. Currently reading How to Hide an Empire and it is mind blowing 🌱 I feel you on "not feeling like you're doing enough." To me it's kind of like running/walking: if you take a few steps that's already better than staying on the couch!
This is so so good hell yeah! We’re in lock step in our journeys. Can’t wait to keep growing!
I’m been WAITING for this one 😍
🌱...... My dude. Phase 6 hit me like a ton of bricks. That's exactly what I've been feeling these past few months.
Worse still, I've recently graduated from advertising school and cannot morally come to terms with pursuing a job in that field anymore, but that doesn't remove the existence of my school loan debt. So I'm paralyzed between a moral compromise and financial ruin/entrapment. 😔😔
🌱This is SO GOOD! Such an important conversation to have.🌱
i love this so much. please keep sharing your knowledge!!
love this video so much!! i've been subscribed for many years and it's been so awesome seeing your growth and evolution and i very much relate to your journey and radicalization!
i skipped the liberal stage in my deconstruction and arrived at libertarian socialism with concepts of parecon and social ecology. It was a combination of leaving faith and being confronted with my bigoted opinions that only held up trough religion. My obssesion with learning drove me to the light
I think it started in 2012, post collapse, I watched a job I invested hard work and energy for five years lie and weasel into a termination based on the fact I rocked the boat and reported highly unethical behavior of my immediate managers. It's then I learned that these companies don't care about you, what you've done, or the ethics of what others do so long as they can save face or not get caught. That was my first trip, when I watched everything I worked for vanish and I had no savings, no retirement after a year of searching for a job. Next was student loans, finally realizing my parents' deaths were just another statistic, and how their struggles fed into their addictions and ultimately them losing their lives to their problems.
Now I can't unsee any of it. I can't unsee the exploitation, people using other people, concepts of selling my labor for mere dollars an hour just to afford food...struggling to live while I worked and went to school. Every step informed by how DIFFICULT it was just to live... just to have a bed to sleep in. Bad relationships, toxic people. It's as if the whole country is sick, suffering, an illness of the mind that they refuse to acknowledge, all the while things get worse for people less fortunate than me, people who don't have friends or family that can step in.
I feel so alienated, I can't seem to get people to listen, reflect. It's like talking to a wall. They just don't understand, and refuse to see how things have changed. I'm not sure I can ever convince them, but I won't stop talking or trying to usher in change and aim to build something better than what we have now, to try to provide real justice, real equality, real fairness to our world and every. single. human who lives in it. We can do better for each other, I know we can. Thanks for this. I know it's going to be hard, discouraging, rage-inducing. But you're not alone. We're not alone.
🌱 thanks for the well-prepared video and clear points! I will gladly sit through a 3 hr version
This video is AMAZING!!! literally a ted talk wow
Also: if you have the time, I highly highly recommend Edward Said. He was a Palestinian American scholar and his novel Orientalism is considered the inaugural work of postcolonial literature -- I'd go as far as to say that it's required leftist reading
I just want to note that Edward Said's work contains a lot of factually incorrect information about Jews and the history of antisemitism. Unfortunately this is also a major problem in leftist spaces
Your story is so reflective of my own. Thank you for sharing in such a vulnerable and honest capacity--with you all the way!
Love this sooo much and right on for sharing your journey. 💪🏽🌱
I love this growth and realization I have been watching you since I was in high school I’ve been out for 6 years atp
McCarthy-ism is pretty much alive to this day.
good
@@brennanbosco9477 cool
🌱🌱THREE-HOUR VERSION *PLEASE* 🌱🌱
i've been watching you for YEARS and I honestly feel like I've been growing with you on this radicalization journey (independently obviously but our timelines are v similar) v proud of both of us. what you said about your history education really struck with me. I am in my first year of my history PhD program focusing on medieval gender, religion, and power dynamics and I was drawn to history bc I craved that understanding and application of cause and effect and want to change the discipline and approach. also i got emotional when you talked about your journal entries and feeling disconnected from work. I feel so small and insignificant trying to change academia and the world at large. what has helped is following other academics who are more radicalized than me and how they bring activism into their classrooms. great vid!!!!
The way you speak is so eloquent and lovely to listen to. I am so glad I came across your channel. Though recent, I am absolutely in love with it and cannot wait to learn/discuss/explore more :) thank you for the content and education!
I was 14 when i understood how the system actually works yet came from politically moderate family. Became radicalised with the crash of 2008 at age 23 after getting kicked out of my first job while bankers got bailed out. Greetings from Finland.
You really said "NOPE! I'm outta here" and I so wish I could do that lol
Loving this so far, there’s definitely a deeper and darker reason why the “incomplete liberal education” exists / why you experienced it
I really enjoyed this video! I definitely had a similar experience with the Instagram infographics and similar posts being legitimately helpful and propulsive for me.
this was amazing, thank you for this!!!!
You had us all at the intro haha I love that you spoke about your radicalization journey because it is always interesting to hear how different people articulate theirs. This was so well done!
I was radicalized when I chose to not get health insurance this last year. I cannot afford it, so I skipped it. Every painful, spiking feeling in my stomach or cluster headache makes me remorseful for living in this country.
Why can't you move to Canada?
Then leave. I don’t understand why people who hate this country and it's way of life don’t just go. Pack up you're things and leave. Go anywhere you think has all the things you want in a nation. You will be happier for it, as will the rest of us.
Totally went on this journey with you and I am so happy you put it into words! Been a long time subscriber and my whole view has changed over the last few years lol
I've been watching since your college dorm hauls/tours and have also been radically awoken during this period of the pandemic! Thank you for putting my experience into words!!
There is a better future possible because of people like you girl! 🌱
For me as a German, the US 'health care system' is just unbelievable (+ sad + infuriating).
i love that this is the first video i watch from you!
you *literally* put into words what I've been trying to explain people ( and my therapist) since the beginning of the year. HELL YEAH
i can’t even explain how refreshing it is to come on to youtube and see a video with substance and purpose. you are such a role model and so knowledgeable and i absolutely love how you use your platform. after your videos i truly feel like i learned something, and feel like i’m not alone in journeys/realizations i’ve had recently. thank you for producing content that we need!!!🤍
🌱 much 2 think about in this one... thank you for having these conversations! it’s awesome to see a (former?) lifestyle girlie who’s able to discuss real world issues!
it's time for the lifestyle girlies to come out of the political closet!!!
Giving the thumbs up AND the hell yeah. It's what we owe a fellow comrade.
true solidarity
love hearing your thoughts! 🌱
this video is everything !!!
All these UA-camrs talking about anti-capitalism like “we should tear the system down now” but I haven’t come across one video talking in specifics what should be done or what these people actually think, it’s so vague.
Literally what. She implied a lot of potential policy changes here. This isn't a video about specific things that should be done, like abolishing cash bail, funding education, ending the school to prison pipeline, labor reform, etc. It's a video about her journey to leftism.
@@KelseyRodriguez you’re right, but nobody makes those videos and I doubt she will so
@@LitheBird John Oliver's show and his clips here on UA-cam delve into this exact topic. Idk I just think it's unfair of you to expect her to be a policy expert when her background is corporate work. If you want that kind of content and no one is making it, start a channel and do it
@@KelseyRodriguez all I’m saying is don’t complain if you won’t list any alternatives at least in passing. A lot of people don’t know what they’re talking about and are intentionally vague.
@@LitheBird I'd recommend watching Paul Morrin's Socialism intro series and his channel overall if you want to learn more socialism and communist ideology from a Marxist Leninist perspective. Hope that helps for a start for learning more about actual alternatives.
Literally so glad you made this video. This is so important. And I’m so impressed that you just put your beliefs out there.
a creative risk to be SURE 😬
girl, I don't know who you are but you're speaking my language right now! I need to check your back-catalog!
i’ve been watching your channel since i was in high school and i have also gone through a dramatic leftist political awakening in the past year or so. i like to think that we have grown together :’) it’s so cool to see ur favs acknowledge their past beliefs and grow. this video made my week.
you’re amazing and i really do look up to your character since you were still at usc, i admire your ability to empathize and speak on several things that are impactful and meaningful 🌱
hellllll yeaaaaaahhhhh comrade kath
We were accidentally on purpose not taught economics in school.
oh wow thank you thank you thank you! this is an amazing video and it made me very hopeful listening to all the realisations you made and your efforts to further educate yourself. I only expect more and more people to expereince this type of awakening. BTW You speak so very eloquently.
i've been loving how you insert politics into all your videos now. it's been really interesting to listen to how your thoughts/beliefs are shifting and growing. we're also the same age, so i'm like "damn let's be friends" 😂
i was radicalized when i started to unpack the internalized ableism i had as a disabled person and realized how ableism is connected to every other form of oppression through the work of Talila (TL) Lewis and learning about the ways that disabled people care for themselves and fellow disabled peeps despite living in a society that deems our lives worthless unless we exist for pity or inspiration. huge run on sentence lol! i don't know a lot of the political theory, academic terms, etc. but hoping to learn more some day!
Could you please link or provide more information about the class that you took in Phase 5 theory? I’d love to learn more about it!
Very glad to see someone else on this journey. I especially relate the alienation which comes from these realisations. Big love, from the faschy island across the pond.
Amazing video!! Your path to radicalization is similar to my own. Being a business major and realizing that all of my economics classes were solely based on capitalism and had no open conversation about any alternatives was especially frustrating!
How do you reconcile working in saas sales with your world views? I would posit that saas sales is one of the most exclusive sub industries and being in sales has got to be a very direct capitalist profession seeing as you are selling something that has a 70+% gm etc
I also work in the industry and did learn about all the things you are discovering through majoring in political economy and being interested in global history and economics and have a slightly different view on the world but it’s good for you to discover these things and explore them and act on what you think is right
i was also wondering about this
You do what you need to do to survive and make the best out of life as it is.
3:34 you are honestly the first white person I have ever really heard acknowledge the moment that they realized that what happened there was genocide. As a black woman I can appreciate that so much. I know this is really irrelevant to the topic and your video was not meant to be racially related at all. But a friend and I were talking about how our education system really screwed over White people. I feel like too many times we focus on White privilege and how privileged whites are, but I went to a predominantly white school with many of those same White kids, and the reality is our education system simply just failed them and shielded them them from the true reality. I mean is that really their fault?
I mean if a white person has been taught untrue and inconsistent facts their whole lives, how can they truly be self-aware? I mean they literally taught us that we just rolled up on the mayflower, and the pilgrims were happy to teach us how to make turkey and stuffing and cool new dances. Even taught us a few songs. I mean absolute complete b*******.
How can a white person ever learn about the ways in which they might have privilege while being simultaneously shielded from true instances in history that could help them understand. I mean wouldn't cognitive dissonance play a huge role here? I mean you have taught to believe one thing your whole life, and you are now realizing that is not the real reality.
The radicalization comes after you get over and cope with the cognitive dissonance. So I just wanted to say that even though I know your topic is not racial at all I really love that you included that in your journey to radicalization.
Recently discovered your channel, love your content, and i have to say I love you editing! I think is so simple yet so effective, feels so genuine. Best wishes
Love this video! THANK YOU 💗
Oddly enough, i began to challenge the traditional political ideology I was brought up in through AP US history. One of the textbooks was “The Peoples History of the United States” by Howard Zinn and it teaches about what actually was happening throughout American history that we weren’t taught in elementary school. As a freshmen in college, I was lucky enough to take a course taught by Noam Chomsky, which really introduced me to the idea of present day imperialism. As someone who has organized for democratic campaigns, the vast majority of the staff are actually very leftist but often reign it in to toe the line of the candidate trying to win a majority of votes. I want our country to change and progress but in our current 2 party system it’s impossible to hold radical beliefs and actually go on to make real policy change.
I grew up poor and suffered too much trauma but I got a good education. I never once thought about blaming capitalism. You're taught if you just work hard enough the system will reward you. It wasn't until I was on medical leave from my tech job back in 2019 that I really started questioning what I knew. I think you're forced to question things when your entire identity is shaken to the core from something like that. It was a really lonely journey and your videos inspire me and show me I'm not alone. Once during my "awakening" I was out with friends at this downtown bar and had to use the restroom. There was a homeless woman in the stall and her 5 year old daughter waiting. It was the middle of winter so she was wearing a dirty pink snow coat and looked sad. I asked her her name and she seemed shy, so I decided to try to make her laugh by blowing bubbles with the soap in the sink. She giggled and started playing too. She starting talking up a storm and just completely brightened up. After a bit, I told her I had to return to my friends and she seemed sad but just looked at me and said, "You're so beautiful" so I bent down and told her that "no, you're was the beautiful one". When I went back to the table I was disoriented. It was surreal and I couldn't sit there at this fancy table in nice clothes, drinking $30 cocktails and eating cheese plates after meeting this wonderful little girl who was probably going to sleep out in the cold that night. I felt sick to my stomach and just went outside to cry. It was so f*cked up. 2020 and the hell it brought me life only reinforced how messed up the system is.
Did you talk to the mother? That would help you understand the situation in case you wanted to do something about it.
So radicalized she says comrades now 🤣
Hell yes. These kinds of vids give me life. I was radicalized by watching the events at Standing Rock unfold in 2016. I've basically been a rage tornado ever since, but god it feels good to see so many others joining the fight for a better world.
talk about a GLOW UP baby welcome comrade
Honestly I used to watch you more frequently, then kind of drifted away, but since you’ve been infusing more of your beliefs and political opinions I have been jumping on each video! So 100% hell yeah!
I love this. I sometimes feel out of sync with people in general. Thanks for sharing this, and being brave. I'm very happy to find your UA-cam channel today and feel less alone.
Me too, feels like everyone I try to express this to thinks I’m lazy or weird lol
I resonate with this so much and it is such an overwhelming thing to realize you’ve been lied to by the people you were taught to trust
for future usc students, i highly recommend joining the thematic option program for some real ass discussions and readings on class and leftist theory. i am in it and could not be more excited and grateful that i get to replace my generic GEs with classes that prioritize critical thinking nonconventional frameworks
ok, i hated the topic of basically everything you said in this video, but... now im really interested in study it and listen more about it.
thank u.
it's never the subject that's boring but rather the teacher
My radicalization started with a simple question. "How TF are we still poor when we work so damn hard every day?"
And boom. I found Lenin and Marx and it all made sense.
Workers of the world UNITE!
its exciting to see that as i changed, the content and people i keep up with on youtube did too!