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Woke came from awake - i fully suspect it derived from Occupy Wall Street 2011 to 2013. Although “Wake Up” has been around centuries - as in “Wake Up Australia” old old Aussie saying. OWS talked of the 99 vs 1 % more accurately 99.9 vs 0.1% OWS spoke of SHEEPLE and ZOMBIES and those ASLEEP If you don’t get that the 0.1% control the fight, the division, the angst then you not very woke as OWS would have liked. Regardless of which english speaking country you live in, If you don’t get that liberal left political party supporters and bigoted right wing conservative party supporters are stored by the 0.1% then you not very woke indeed.
Nothing new under the sun.. same old drivel about being an individual in a group collective (tribe)... can't have the best of both worlds... you identify as the tribe you belong too, or you shut up about those who are in groups like they shouldn't be as it damages your individual identity..
Quite so, and I know that it’s a cliché, but whenever I hear of these so-called students and their attitudes, I blink and see piles upon piles of burning books.
capitan von chicken pants The BBC has two philosophies for presenters. 1) The interviewee is getting dangerously close to destroying my question. 2) It's too long since I heard my own voice.
@Jimmy Jenkinson I think that they are fighting it out for 1st place! It's hard to believe that they don't see the BBC lefty bias which they push, for THEMSELVES.
The Brexit Party has given me a political home. The more I become aware of the suppression of free speech and the 'woke' elite the more determined I am to challenge the PC brigade. If the LibDems can say Bollocks to Brexit I can say Bollocks to the 'woke' elite!! Thank you Brendan and Peter for allowing us to find our voices again....
Brexit party is just a bunch of subscribers that did not have the balls to vote UKIP for the fear of being called racist or to keep there snobby status with there current friends intact.
@@clangerbasher individualism just leads to the individuals being crushed by the people who are in a group nothing else. Have a weak none dominant ideology and you will be dominated by those who don't. It is that simple.
Absolutely fascinating. I'm from a leftwing background myself and find the Wokeness increasingly terrifying. So pleased to have found this channel, and Brendan particularly. Whatever happened to mature, civilised, open discussions like this one? We used to be able to talk to each other, didn't we? Isn't the whole beauty of life being able to exchange ideas and think out loud and be open to totally different points of view? How the hell can you ever develop your own thoughts if you never bounce them off other people and be challenged by new ideas?! If we don't have freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, there's not much point, is there, we may as well just bury ourselves alive.
It reminds me of the kind of "Utopian" "Right think" in youth that precedes and is utilised by the kind of crazy authoritarianism that leads to Stalins, Mao Tse Tung,Hitler,etc etc etc...its pious nonsense espoused by naive predominantly young and a great way to manipulate they all start off painting a glorious picture of the future and indicate the "old" as out of touch,mainly stupid and probably "evil"
The new left, mainly middle class people, live in a guilt fuelled fantasy land. And the working class ones who remain, especially from ethnic groups, are driven by (misguided) anger. So their theories and views are biased, flawed and unworkable. So the ONLY way they can hold power or change things to their way of thinking is to completely cut off ANY criticism or alternative view. Unfortunately, they’re doing a good job of it at the moment.
"...people without uteruses..." They admonished two men because they did not possess a uterus and yet a man can become a woman without having a uterus?
People of the left are becoming more stupid and ridiculous by the day.....god help their offspring, oh, forgot many won't be having any....well that's encouraging for the future of mankind....and that is the correct word btw!!!!
Yes the left really are starting to eat themselves. The other day I heard howls of protest from a prominent feminist lesbian. She was upset by a male to female transgender with a penis, who liked to date women and considered themself a lesbian. She was also upset about male to female transgenders competing in athletics, cycling, rowing etc smashing women's records and leaving the best of the best women athletes in their wake. When you travel down that road you can't really criticize others who have just travelled a bit further.
Brilliant. Had this been the hated BBC the interviewer would have hectored and prevented the point from developing, personally attacked the interviewee and pushed the BBC agenda over and above that of the subject. As Marie Le Pen said "You seem more interested in your questions than my answers"
Nazi schmartzi. That word is simply designed to shut down debate by people who can't manage it and who often resort to the behaviour they accuse others of. It is the ad hominem weapon of choice along with anti-Semitic. Extend your vocabulary, young lady.
Le Penn is hard left, that's why she is supported by so many blue collar workers. Look at her economic policies. It's only the likes of the BBC who label her far right because of her stance on Europe. They realised it didn't fit so are now calling her "populist".
@@spleen5527 stop using words you don't what their meaning is , If were to be known there are very few actual Nazies given the definition and beliefs of Nazism, what you mean when you label someone Nazi is I don't agree with or like your opinion so therefore I will just label you a Nazi to suit my own narrative and try silence your voice you most likely would also call her mysognist, Islamaphobe, sexist , and of course racists ,
I'm no lover of Marie Le Pen but that is a poignant quote to hit back at interviewers whose sole interest is carrying out a calculated smear job to appear virtuous.
I’m a big fan of Brendon O’Neill and Spiked and for that matter of new culture forum, honest opinion with intelligent conversation, Peter whittle lets his guests speak (something that is sorely missing in the mainstream media) and he’s absolutely right, we are living in an age where you can lose your livelihood by saying the wrong thing, a silent majority who are being bullied by a noisy minority.
I like Brendan O'Neill and agree with a lot of what he says. I don't agree with all his views but the point is he is free to air them and I am free to listen and make up my own mind. That's why I, as a generally pretty left wing liberal person, no longer associate with the left. Identity politics, groupthink and censorship are abhorrent to me and I find myself defending the so-called alt right nowadays because they appear to share more of my values!!! It's weird to feel that way. I'm not easily offended at all - Milo, Carl Benjamin and co aren't even on my radar of offensiveness. I find screeching, violent sjws and antifa obsessing over 'bad' words and identities, rather than actions or real equality, far more offensive.
A lot of us who have been on the Left our whole lives, and in my case come from three generations of Socialists, are now sick and tired of the identity politics and censorious militancy of the so called new left. It hasn't made me Right wing- just politically homeless.
I'm probably best characterised as social conservative and economic classical liberal; but it's nice to see there's still some genuine liberal-leftists out there.
Not being actually correct is literally the point of political correctness. Just ask the person who coined the term, Stalin. He said, "It may not be factually correct. But it's politically correct."
@@DoctorMandible Before Stalin Lenin was requiring Soviet leaning publications in the West to be' Ideologically sound and Politically Correct.' and it became a catch cry in the young revolutionary Russia.
As a lonely ‘middle class’ Brexiteer I have long concluded that self confessed Remainers are desperate to be identified as middle class. It reminds me of Britain 20 years ago when office workers openly eschewed trade unions. This is undoubtedly about the need for social classification. I’m intrigued that remainers are never asked why they support the EU! Marion
There are plenty of middle class Brexiteers. I'm one too. In fact I know a number of upper-mids who are as well. They all live in rural areas though. The upper-mid types in and near London that I know are definitely "woke" and very much Remainers. If you read The Spectator or The Telegraph you'd come across a large number of middle class Brexiteers. I think many of those live in rural communities. There is a class factor as Brendan says but I think there's also a rural urban divide as well. BTW I now live just outside London but for many, many tears lived in a rural area.
I totally agree, I've long observed how PC and leftist politics operates on social conformity. It is a way in which the 'clever' (middle-class) people can distinguish themselves from the 'uneducated' (lower classes). The social Marxist Pierre Bordieu wrote about the way people aspire to and attain social status through conspicuous consumption of consumer goods- it is now the case with conspicuously wearing leftist ideology.
That's a risky way of taking a position. Negativity rules in the rightwing ecosphere and people whose first reaction is negative are easy meat for the controllers. Taking a sceptic view of whatever information we come across and testing it from a socially positive viewpoint is a much better way of dealing with issues.
Most hated on UK campuses gives him instant appeal. And people think we should lower the voting age whereas we should be *raising* it precisely so these self-righteous kids still in Uni can have more time to develop their opinions and outlook on life. They haven't yet created an independent existence for themselves without any real life experience have the audacity to think that higher academic achievements somehow gives them a more enlightened view on any political matter. My opinions have changed a fair bit since I graduated, and I dare say the same would be true for many other graduates.
I agree entirely. The voting age restriction is historically there because that's the age that people used to join the workforce and get going. Now, for most of my peer group, it seems that adulthood starts at 30, and the legislation around staying in formal education longer than ever implies that the government agrees that young people aren't equipped to deal with the difficulties of reality yet. As such, we should raise the age to 21 and only give the vote to people who have an actual stake in the country.
@Felix Furball again, I'm very averse to disenfranchising people because they don't contribute. There's a whole manor of reasons why somebody may be out of work, many out of their control. I agree with the lowering of the voting age. 'Its easier to convince young people that paying more tax is a good thing, because they don't understand economics. It's easier to convince young people the military is pointless because they've never experienced the horror of war' 'Its easier to convince young people that government is effective because they haven't experienced it fully' etc.
Even though I’m on the right , I have a ton of time for Brendan. He’s what I call “the decent Left”. The left of my dad and grandfather. The left of Tony Benn and that huge tradition of decent Labour via the Quakers and the Levellers and the Chartists. A decent and entirely honourable tradition. We disagree on economics and we can have a calm discussion about it. And we can come to a centre ground of agreement. Which is how it should be. The New “SJW” Left by comparison are terrifyingly totalitarian and downright cult like.
Except apparently no concern for human rights of small, weak people (still in uterus). Some US abortion law allows killing up to 9 months and Democrats broadly and publicly support infanticide, an obvious extension of abortion, because they mention it in the same breath.
Marisa Martin your opinion is based on assumption, as you have not heard him speak on the subject , take up your argument on partial birth abortion in the USA , the only nation that endorse that evil .... most Brits don’t even know of it , it is beyond imagination to decent humans ....
identity politics has become the thing it hates, and they can't see it. they prey on kind, compliant, polite people bending their knee to their ideas. which i have done, so i have to take some responsibility for this monster. we didn't challenge, we indulged the baby and created a narcissistic generation. i grew up in the 90's in Haringey, watched the Spice Girls, played football and drank pints of lager. i stopped watching tv and reading papers over 2 years ago, sourced my own information and my politics changed, almost to the polar opposite of the group think i was expected to toe the line with. in jungian terms, political correctness is the controlling mother (so those in spirituality who say there has been no feminine are in denial, she exists and she's become bitter, twisted and hateful (they've projected 'hate speech' onto everyone else. repression). i'm so grateful for this channel, i'm quiet and i get very fearful about saying how i actually think and feel about anything politically. that there is not right. i can't change the world, i can only change myself, so i take little steps such as leaving a comment on some videos, and if i'm feeling brave, sharing a video or 2 on facebook (which is part of the problem too).
Tracey Glazebrook I have done very similar. I do not watch tv or read newspapers. My news I source online and therefore my views on many subjects have now reversed/changed but I find I am now part of the silent (majority), as noted by current elections around the globe. It is a strange place and at times I feel isolated
@@youserious6725 me too. i've found others through channels like this and i feel less scared and alone. i loved voting recently, proper fingers up stuff.
I woke one morning and realised my family never owned a slave ,always worked ,joined in the fight to save our country from fascists so am I missing something?
You are one of the luckiest people on earth just like me as I could have exactly the same health problems abroad as here but I’d get chained up in some places not here I know that there are puritanical mutters that run hospitals but they get exposed and punished here unlike where they come from
Another excellent talk, thank you. Good to hear a calm reasoned discussion after the hysteria of this morning's 'Today' programme where no-one gets more than 20 uninterrupted seconds to speak.
There needs to be a system other than 'the left', or 'the right'. Capitalism clearly does not work for the 'whole' in the end, as seen in every capitalist system. Neither does socialism work perfectly as proven in socialist systems. Every political system appears to allow greed to percolate to the top. Where could be the checks and balances? So....in the end does not the left and the right eventually lead to totalitarianism? Two paths to the same destination. The way I see it, we are witnessing the return of Judeo-Bolshevism, both from the left and the right. The "Protocols" have something very vital to inform us of what is happening to education, right on up to university level. Get a copy.
Excellent discussion Peter. Thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Brendan. Such an interesting person. I am sure many people wanted to know what “wokeness” means. In itself an absurd word. But we are living in very interesting but disturbing times in this segment of the 21st century. I like your channel because you invite guests who challenge these strange times we live in, and the craziness of how our culture is becoming. Keep up the good work you are doing with your channel ! Many thanks.
Albert Finney did go to the best Grammar school in North Manchester (Salford). The old Grammar School system was genuinely meritocratic and yet it was the Labour Party who destroyed it and brought in the Comprehensive system with its general lowering of academic standards.
Peter Whittlle is pure oxygen to all who woke up one day in Covid isolation and were traumatized by woke madness. Sharing the New Culture Forum link is a duty. Today's guest Brendan O'Neill analysis is brilliant. Love the title of his book. lol a great gift that says it all for us.
Things have gone too far when such a venerable institution who have previously hosted Malcolm X amongst others can refuse to debate or seek the opinion of guys like this.
Superb! The thing I love about this channel is that the dialogue expresses so clearly the deep-seated thoughts and concerns I have, but can’t always quite articulate. Keep it up!
A "Woke" person is someone who is aware of the Deep State, the Shadow Government, Black Ops/Cia programs like Operation Mockingbird, the Rhodes Roundtable, UN Agenda 21, the book Tragedy And Hope, who created the Council For Foreign Relations and the US State Dept and why, Dr Antony Sutton, DARPA, HAARP, the Dulles brothers, etc., etc. In other words...someone far more knowledgeable than 99% of the general population.
@chris andrewes Where? Last time they were able to gather in groups of more than 10 was in Charlottesville, and there they managed what? 500? That is the closest thing to a 'right woke' there is, there is no large scale group of the 'woke right', and the few tiny groups of 'woke right' that there are are pariahs scorned and outcast politically. Woke is pretty much an anti-right term. So who specifically do you think you are talking about when you say 'woke right? Where is this 'shitload'?
@@Bix12 Longest period of peace , freedom from want, freedom from persecution, the rule of law and the highest standards of living in history. None of this is a birthright, it was fought for with the struggle and sacrifice of your betters. It needs to be defended if you want the same for your children. Why don't you state 'awareness' of the global subterfuge and conspiracies of the FSB, the CCP, extremist religion etc. . . Woke is dangerously naive. It will sleep walk us into disaster.
the 'Anointed' (classification of a self serving public figure who assumes moral responsibility for others, without their permission, see Thomas Sowell) assumes the role of saviour because of guilt. repressed guilt at the privilege they've experienced. classic psychoanalysis. they've got so much power that they've infected the culture; they have come from middle class backgrounds, gone to uni and because of that taken pivotal roles in media, law, education and the police. so much power over what other people should be thinking.. it is a class issue for sure.
The working class (my background) is is traditionally patriotic and always stuffed down at every opportunuity and excluded from the so-called democratic process.
"Tyranny of custom" a brilliant citation of JS Mill. Timely beyond measure. How do we reawaken freedom of speech? Speak out and refuse to be silenced. Excellent interview.
Being woke isn't about being politically correct it is about belittling others to make yourself look better. Why do you think the standard for being PC and woke constantly changes.
So let me get this right. You can’t speak about a topic unless you have a “ lived experience “ but you can say you’re a woman just because you say you feel Like a woman even though you have NO lived experience as a woman. And around and around we go. Glad I got it right, for a moment I was confused 😐 SMH 🤦♀️
Speaking of uni students being authoritarian (6.30mins) I was talking to a student last year and they literally said "I would absolutely promote the end of freedom of speech if it stopped people saying things I disagree with".
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a woke person is humourless and utterly miserable in their life. Tenured leftists will be liquidated one day.....soon I hope.
Dr. Who had even had to be changed into a woman! They could've brought back one of the female timelords from the past, but that wasn't good enough. She has to be a woman now. Next incarnation they'll make The Doctor transgender. For years the series had been mouthing more and more PC, but this was the last straw for me!
Gracias, gracias, a million times thank you...this was simply “refreshing “. I only wish I had the time and the skills to subtitle this in Spanish. Again, thank you; listening to this was like breathing fresh air. Gracias.
“All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenaline addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats " - Frank Herbert
The schizophrenic mind! Attempting to hold two opposing views at the same time. The delusion of wishing to promote Marxist filth in which by doing so, sends the left unwittingly into the land of the loony left - putting it mildly.
Trans-exclusionary and intersectional are two sides of the same transphobic feminist coin. Both are saying that you're not a (wo)man if you're not cis, but in different ways.
The “stay in lane” philosophy is simply cultural apartheid and when you have separated everyone into their little groups comes the scary next step, for example this group we have labelled “Nigerians”, we want to keep their culture pure without your negative white influence, so we will now send them all back to Nigeria to preserve their purity.
At last a ray of sunlight has been opened by this interview, Peter Whittle listens, absorbs the information takes his time and gives a thoughtful reply, not the standard BBC or current media format of forcing their thoughts. This is the beginning of challenging the rot we have in our society, we are all humans we have the same struggles and pains. Help each other.
Last year I left a comment on another post stating how much I resent these antisocial individuals for making me aware of skin colour and becoming suspicious of certain types. Before these 'woke' individuals I never thought about skin colour or even of anyone as different from me in terms of race or orientation. It never impacted on my interactions with people. Maybe that stems from being gay but really I think it's just normal for well adjusted people to be that way. They say they fight for equality when in reality they are enforcing tribal-mentality and creating divides.
Great interview. Good to see an interviewer who knows a bit about the person they're interviewing and can ask worthwhile and important questions. Much better than the BBC these days.
I have noticed that local councils have become very authoritarian over the past few decades. Are we heading back into a feudal system with the local lord (council) and the surfs (us)?
You think that’s bad you have never been in a mental hospital try that and then remember that they are enlightened compared with outside of the western world
When I think about the people who've been honours or peerages over recent decades, I realise I wouldn't want to be seen dead among them. Those baubles are merely rewards for being part of the globalist system (example: Oily Robbins, the Government's chief Brexit 'negotiator' in Brussels, was given a knighthood in Treason May's recent resignation honours list).
Peter C I’d love Douglas Murray on a panel with that wasp Ash Sarkar, he would annihilate her in two minutes flat without raising his voice or even an eyebrow!
joe buffalo I agree, but these people like Sarkar need to remove the huge chips they have on their shoulders first. She’s a race baiter, and the British public have up with this crap longe enough. We are on to them, the sooner they realise it the world will be a better place.
This is maybe the most clear explanation of wokism that I have come across. I believe many people feel uneasy around it without being able to dress it in words this simply. Thank you so much!
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This was a great talk, one of the best. How about Roger Scruton for a future episode? BTW, this is my favourite channel online.
Woke came from awake - i fully suspect it derived from Occupy Wall Street 2011 to 2013. Although “Wake Up” has been around centuries - as in “Wake Up Australia” old old Aussie saying.
OWS talked of the 99 vs 1 % more accurately 99.9 vs 0.1%
OWS spoke of SHEEPLE and ZOMBIES and those ASLEEP
If you don’t get that the 0.1% control the fight, the division, the angst then you not very woke as OWS would have liked.
Regardless of which english speaking country you live in, If you don’t get that liberal left political party supporters and bigoted right wing conservative party supporters are stored by the 0.1% then you not very woke indeed.
'Stay woke" sounds like something a 3 year old would say.. but was probably invented by a low IQ jungle beef.
Nothing new under the sun.. same old drivel about being an individual in a group collective (tribe)... can't have the best of both worlds... you identify as the tribe you belong too, or you shut up about those who are in groups like they shouldn't be as it damages your individual identity..
Who is the “they” who is pushing this agenda and why is everyone going along with it, I’m a pensioner and just want people to get real
He’s my kind of man, I agree with everything he says.
The worlds going insane.
Most hated man on college campuses
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Most reasonable and intelligent man on college campuses
That's why they hate him
Quite so, and I know that it’s a cliché, but whenever I hear of these so-called students and their attitudes, I blink and see piles upon piles of burning books.
How nice to have a presenter who doesn't but in all the time
capitan von chicken pants
The BBC has two philosophies for presenters.
1) The interviewee is getting dangerously close to destroying my question.
2) It's too long since I heard my own voice.
@Jimmy Jenkinson
Huh! You noticed, Jimmy!
@Jimmy Jenkinson I think that they are fighting it out for 1st place!
It's hard to believe that they don't see the BBC lefty bias which they push, for THEMSELVES.
@Jimmy Jenkinson And the dozy tart who Jordan Peterson destroyed!
BECAUSE HIS GUESTS ARE INTELLIGENT
The Brexit Party has given me a political home. The more I become aware of the suppression of free speech and the 'woke' elite the more determined I am to challenge the PC brigade. If the LibDems can say Bollocks to Brexit I can say Bollocks to the 'woke' elite!!
Thank you Brendan and Peter for allowing us to find our voices again....
The Brexit Party are another safe party that panders to political correctness. UKIP is the only party willing to make a stand on free speech.
Brexit party is just a bunch of subscribers that did not have the balls to vote UKIP for the fear of being called racist or to keep there snobby status with there current friends intact.
You should be your own 'political home'.....
@@clangerbasher individualism just leads to the individuals being crushed by the people who are in a group nothing else. Have a weak none dominant ideology and you will be dominated by those who don't. It is that simple.
@@painbow6528 uh No, UKIP are Tory lite as is the Brexit Party.
Absolutely fascinating. I'm from a leftwing background myself and find the Wokeness increasingly terrifying. So pleased to have found this channel, and Brendan particularly. Whatever happened to mature, civilised, open discussions like this one? We used to be able to talk to each other, didn't we? Isn't the whole beauty of life being able to exchange ideas and think out loud and be open to totally different points of view? How the hell can you ever develop your own thoughts if you never bounce them off other people and be challenged by new ideas?!
If we don't have freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, there's not much point, is there, we may as well just bury ourselves alive.
The discussions worth listening too are mostly online now.
Totally agree 👍
Very well put. Maybe you should run for office?
It reminds me of the kind of "Utopian" "Right think" in youth that precedes and is utilised by the kind of crazy authoritarianism that leads to Stalins, Mao Tse Tung,Hitler,etc etc etc...its pious nonsense espoused by naive predominantly young and a great way to manipulate they all start off painting a glorious picture of the future and indicate the "old" as out of touch,mainly stupid and probably "evil"
The new left, mainly middle class people, live in a guilt fuelled fantasy land. And the working class ones who remain, especially from ethnic groups, are driven by (misguided) anger. So their theories and views are biased, flawed and unworkable. So the ONLY way they can hold power or change things to their way of thinking is to completely cut off ANY criticism or alternative view. Unfortunately, they’re doing a good job of it at the moment.
"...people without uteruses..." They admonished two men because they did not possess a uterus and yet a man can become a woman without having a uterus?
It’s an ideology, not a cohesive line of critical thought...
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A hypocritical ideology then?
@Alf Tupper, that’s one of the least damning but truthful criticisms that could be levelled at it I would say.
It's called Clown World for a reason.
People of the left are becoming more stupid and ridiculous by the day.....god help their offspring, oh, forgot many won't be having any....well that's encouraging for the future of mankind....and that is the correct word btw!!!!
I hope these people can live with the society they are building. It will come for them eventually.
Of course it will they are useful idiots but will they then believe they were wrong I doubt it but they will have to live within it.
They already eat their own when they slip up.
Yes the left really are starting to eat themselves. The other day I heard howls of protest from a prominent feminist lesbian. She was upset by a male to female transgender with a penis, who liked to date women and considered themself a lesbian. She was also upset about male to female transgenders competing in athletics, cycling, rowing etc smashing women's records and leaving the best of the best women athletes in their wake. When you travel down that road you can't really criticize others who have just travelled a bit further.
When the Bolsheviks gained power the first group to get put up against the wall and shot were the liberals who had helped them to take over!
I hope that those of us who utterly reject this society will MOBILIZE and put a stop to their demented dreams--BEFORE they can create it.
A great example of a polite and well informed interviewer who listens to their subject. Bravo.
See so many interwiews interrupting snd not letting people answer so any interview that both talk is great to see.
100%
A seriously endangered species.
Yes, very refreshing.
Brilliant. Had this been the hated BBC the interviewer would have hectored and prevented the point from developing, personally attacked the interviewee and pushed the BBC agenda over and above that of the subject. As Marie Le Pen said "You seem more interested in your questions than my answers"
Nazi schmartzi. That word is simply designed to shut down debate by people who can't manage it and who often resort to the behaviour they accuse others of. It is the ad hominem weapon of choice along with anti-Semitic. Extend your vocabulary, young lady.
Le Penn is hard left, that's why she is supported by so many blue collar workers. Look at her economic policies. It's only the likes of the BBC who label her far right because of her stance on Europe. They realised it didn't fit so are now calling her "populist".
@@spleen5527 stop using words you don't what their meaning is ,
If were to be known there are very few actual Nazies given the definition and beliefs of Nazism, what you mean when you label someone Nazi is I don't agree with or like your opinion so therefore I will just label you a Nazi to suit my own narrative and try silence your voice you most likely would also call her mysognist, Islamaphobe, sexist , and of course racists ,
I'm no lover of Marie Le Pen but that is a poignant quote to hit back at interviewers whose sole interest is carrying out a calculated smear job to appear virtuous.
@@spleen5527 Spoken like a true - but infantile, - lefty.
Brendan O'Neill is the 'woke' spokesperson for free speech and democracy. He articulates well what most people are thinking.
I’m a big fan of Brendon O’Neill and Spiked and for that matter of new culture forum, honest opinion with intelligent conversation, Peter whittle lets his guests speak (something that is sorely missing in the mainstream media) and he’s absolutely right, we are living in an age where you can lose your livelihood by saying the wrong thing, a silent majority who are being bullied by a noisy minority.
I like Brendan O'Neill and agree with a lot of what he says. I don't agree with all his views but the point is he is free to air them and I am free to listen and make up my own mind. That's why I, as a generally pretty left wing liberal person, no longer associate with the left. Identity politics, groupthink and censorship are abhorrent to me and I find myself defending the so-called alt right nowadays because they appear to share more of my values!!! It's weird to feel that way. I'm not easily offended at all - Milo, Carl Benjamin and co aren't even on my radar of offensiveness. I find screeching, violent sjws and antifa obsessing over 'bad' words and identities, rather than actions or real equality, far more offensive.
Well said.
A lot of us who have been on the Left our whole lives, and in my case come from three generations of Socialists, are now sick and tired of the identity politics and censorious militancy of the so called new left. It hasn't made me Right wing- just politically homeless.
@@thedativecase9733 I'm a Liberal and I'm now politically homeless
mogznwaz couldn’t disagree with you at all.
I'm probably best characterised as social conservative and economic classical liberal; but it's nice to see there's still some genuine liberal-leftists out there.
If something is *actually correct* , there is no need for it to be *Politically Correct*
Yeah. What is correct is sort of virtuously modified by them
I'm offended by your hate facts.
Not being actually correct is literally the point of political correctness. Just ask the person who coined the term, Stalin. He said, "It may not be factually correct. But it's politically correct."
@@DoctorMandible Before Stalin Lenin was requiring Soviet leaning publications in the West to be' Ideologically sound and Politically Correct.' and it became a catch cry in the young revolutionary Russia.
Well put
As a lonely ‘middle class’ Brexiteer I have long concluded that self confessed Remainers are desperate to be identified as middle class. It reminds me of Britain 20 years ago when office workers openly eschewed trade unions. This is undoubtedly about the need for social classification. I’m intrigued that remainers are never asked why they support the EU! Marion
There are plenty of middle class Brexiteers. I'm one too. In fact I know a number of upper-mids who are as well. They all live in rural areas though. The upper-mid types in and near London that I know are definitely "woke" and very much Remainers.
If you read The Spectator or The Telegraph you'd come across a large number of middle class Brexiteers. I think many of those live in rural communities. There is a class factor as Brendan says but I think there's also a rural urban divide as well. BTW I now live just outside London but for many, many tears lived in a rural area.
I totally agree, I've long observed how PC and leftist politics operates on social conformity. It is a way in which the 'clever' (middle-class) people can distinguish themselves from the 'uneducated' (lower classes). The social Marxist Pierre Bordieu wrote about the way people aspire to and attain social status through conspicuous consumption of consumer goods- it is now the case with conspicuously wearing leftist ideology.
@@myla6135 I'm one, too.
No Remainer can give one reason why staying in the EU is a good idea. Not one.
You are generalising remainers and brexitiers in exactly the same way the ultra left does to races and sexes
The liberal left don't like him, that's enough for me to like and find out more about him 👍
@Annabel Lee Too long; didn't read
@@Anglisc1682 lolololol
That kind of thing makes you like them
That's a risky way of taking a position. Negativity rules in the rightwing ecosphere and people whose first reaction is negative are easy meat for the controllers. Taking a sceptic view of whatever information we come across and testing it from a socially positive viewpoint is a much better way of dealing with issues.
A well spoken, sensible, thoughtful man, no wonder he is the "most hated".
Most hated on UK campuses gives him instant appeal. And people think we should lower the voting age whereas we should be *raising* it precisely so these self-righteous kids still in Uni can have more time to develop their opinions and outlook on life. They haven't yet created an independent existence for themselves without any real life experience have the audacity to think that higher academic achievements somehow gives them a more enlightened view on any political matter.
My opinions have changed a fair bit since I graduated, and I dare say the same would be true for many other graduates.
I agree entirely. The voting age restriction is historically there because that's the age that people used to join the workforce and get going. Now, for most of my peer group, it seems that adulthood starts at 30, and the legislation around staying in formal education longer than ever implies that the government agrees that young people aren't equipped to deal with the difficulties of reality yet. As such, we should raise the age to 21 and only give the vote to people who have an actual stake in the country.
@AJ Last 30 is wayyyy too high. I'm 26, a home owner, full time worker etc. Disenfranchising me shouldn't be the aim, as I have a stake in society.
@Felix Furball again, I'm very averse to disenfranchising people because they don't contribute. There's a whole manor of reasons why somebody may be out of work, many out of their control.
I agree with the lowering of the voting age. 'Its easier to convince young people that paying more tax is a good thing, because they don't understand economics. It's easier to convince young people the military is pointless because they've never experienced the horror of war' 'Its easier to convince young people that government is effective because they haven't experienced it fully' etc.
The most popular man in my local Wetherspoon's
@@jordank1489 agree jordan 30 is too high 22 maybe .. but it will not happen anyway
Even though I’m on the right , I have a ton of time for Brendan. He’s what I call “the decent Left”. The left of my dad and grandfather. The left of Tony Benn and that huge tradition of decent Labour via the Quakers and the Levellers and the Chartists. A decent and entirely honourable tradition.
We disagree on economics and we can have a calm discussion about it. And we can come to a centre ground of agreement. Which is how it should be.
The New “SJW” Left by comparison are terrifyingly totalitarian and downright cult like.
Except apparently no concern for human rights of small, weak people (still in uterus). Some US abortion law allows killing up to 9 months and Democrats broadly and publicly support infanticide, an obvious extension of abortion, because they mention it in the same breath.
Dragon Energy I so agree with you , as a old school socialist I-am adrift in a ocean of fools calling themselves socialists ......
Marisa Martin your opinion is based on assumption, as you have not heard him speak on the subject , take up your argument on partial birth abortion in the USA , the only nation that endorse that evil .... most Brits don’t even know of it , it is beyond imagination to decent humans ....
This channel is really good and has great guests it should have many more viewers , Mr Whittle asks the right questions too.
identity politics has become the thing it hates, and they can't see it. they prey on kind, compliant, polite people bending their knee to their ideas. which i have done, so i have to take some responsibility for this monster. we didn't challenge, we indulged the baby and created a narcissistic generation. i grew up in the 90's in Haringey, watched the Spice Girls, played football and drank pints of lager. i stopped watching tv and reading papers over 2 years ago, sourced my own information and my politics changed, almost to the polar opposite of the group think i was expected to toe the line with. in jungian terms, political correctness is the controlling mother (so those in spirituality who say there has been no feminine are in denial, she exists and she's become bitter, twisted and hateful (they've projected 'hate speech' onto everyone else. repression). i'm so grateful for this channel, i'm quiet and i get very fearful about saying how i actually think and feel about anything politically. that there is not right. i can't change the world, i can only change myself, so i take little steps such as leaving a comment on some videos, and if i'm feeling brave, sharing a video or 2 on facebook (which is part of the problem too).
Tracey Glazebrook I have done very similar. I do not watch tv or read newspapers. My news I source online and therefore my views on many subjects have now reversed/changed but I find I am now part of the silent (majority), as noted by current elections around the globe. It is a strange place and at times I feel isolated
@@youserious6725 me too. i've found others through channels like this and i feel less scared and alone. i loved voting recently, proper fingers up stuff.
Go for it. Say what you think. You’ll feel better once you do and you’ll find you’re not alone.
You're not alone
The left wants you to feel isolated and alone, you are not.
articulate, thought provoking and (in my view) 100% correct. The point is that if I disagree I can do so, rather than ban him from speaking.
I woke one morning and realised my family never owned a slave ,always worked ,joined in the fight to save our country from fascists so am I missing something?
You are one of the luckiest people on earth just like me as I could have exactly the same health problems abroad as here but I’d get chained up in some places not here I know that there are puritanical mutters that run hospitals but they get exposed and punished here unlike where they come from
I can't even start to properly say how brilliant this discussion is.
I am not surprised.
The fact It's named ”So What You're Saying Is..."
Cracks Me up ^_^
"Stepford students", brilliant description
Lol! On a side note...at least the Stepford Children were grateful.... " I'm a lucky girl" ....
You are a bloody good interviewer Peter.
Yes, WOKE "ideology" captures the minds of the (naive) new generations! Thanks, Peter, for this "disturbing conversation"!...
When you become the establishment, you act like every establishment ever has.
Exactly.
A brilliant semantic distillation...
All I had to hear was "the most hated man on UK campuses" and I love him! And subbed!
Guys - you are doing sterling work with these interviews. No gotcha questions. Just free flow discussion. Loving it! 👍👍👍
Enlightening and educational. We are straying so far from freedoms of all sorts it’s frightening. Resist through debate.
Another excellent talk, thank you. Good to hear a calm reasoned discussion after the hysteria of this morning's 'Today' programme where no-one gets more than 20 uninterrupted seconds to speak.
Saw him talk yesterday to a room full of free thinkers, it was an excellent event
Thanks for the talk Peter and Brendan, really interesting. This is a long way from Newsnight!
Well done again Peter. Love Brendan too although occasionally I don't agree with him but he's a good chap and a true democrat.
The left left him
The left left me
The left leaves everyone
Eventually.
or ruins them first
It leaves them as a pile of skulls
Andy Robertson: I never left The Left however it appears that The Left has left me.
You're a poet Andy ;)
There needs to be a system other than 'the left', or 'the right'. Capitalism clearly does not work for the 'whole' in the end, as seen in every capitalist system. Neither does socialism work perfectly as proven in socialist systems. Every political system appears to allow greed to percolate to the top. Where could be the checks and balances? So....in the end does not the left and the right eventually lead to totalitarianism? Two paths to the same destination.
The way I see it, we are witnessing the return of Judeo-Bolshevism, both from the left and the right.
The "Protocols" have something very vital to inform us of what is happening to education, right on up to university level. Get a copy.
Very enjoyable. Real journalism. Well done.
Excellent discussion Peter. Thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Brendan. Such an interesting person. I am sure many people wanted to know what “wokeness” means. In itself an absurd word. But we are living in very interesting but disturbing times in this segment of the 21st century. I like your channel because you invite guests who challenge these strange times we live in, and the craziness of how our culture is becoming. Keep up the good work you are doing with your channel ! Many thanks.
Another brilliant discussion. Thank you Peter and Brendan.
Riveting.
Albert Finney did go to the best Grammar school in North Manchester (Salford). The old Grammar School system was genuinely meritocratic and yet it was the Labour Party who destroyed it and brought in the Comprehensive system with its general lowering of academic standards.
Absolutely right! Trust the Left to fix what ain’t broke!
Because they want people who have not been educated to think for themselves.
i went to a grammar school and consider myself extremely lucky
Yet another triumph in the race to the bottom.
Peter Whittlle is pure oxygen to all who woke up one day in Covid isolation and were traumatized by woke madness. Sharing the New Culture Forum link is a duty. Today's guest Brendan O'Neill analysis is brilliant. Love the title of his book. lol a great gift that says it all for us.
Things have gone too far when such a venerable institution who have previously hosted Malcolm X amongst others can refuse to debate or seek the opinion of guys like this.
Depressing isn’t it?
I am amazed at how quickly Oxbridge has caved to this nonsense. I would have expected them to put up a bit of a fight.
Superb! The thing I love about this channel is that the dialogue expresses so clearly the deep-seated thoughts and concerns I have, but can’t always quite articulate. Keep it up!
Another excellent guest and interview. Thank you.
A 'Woke' person is a free range brown shirt with an ideology, a mission and a cause.
Aka - a communist
A "Woke" person is someone who is aware of the Deep State, the Shadow Government, Black Ops/Cia programs like Operation Mockingbird, the Rhodes Roundtable, UN Agenda 21, the book Tragedy And Hope, who created the Council For Foreign Relations and the US State Dept and why, Dr Antony Sutton, DARPA, HAARP, the Dulles brothers, etc., etc. In other words...someone far more knowledgeable than 99% of the general population.
@@Bix12 You definitely sound like someone rationalizing their superiority complex in order to look down on the 'commoners' to me.
@chris andrewes Where? Last time they were able to gather in groups of more than 10 was in Charlottesville, and there they managed what? 500? That is the closest thing to a 'right woke' there is, there is no large scale group of the 'woke right', and the few tiny groups of 'woke right' that there are are pariahs scorned and outcast politically.
Woke is pretty much an anti-right term. So who specifically do you think you are talking about when you say 'woke right? Where is this 'shitload'?
@@Bix12 Longest period of peace , freedom from want, freedom from persecution, the rule of law and the highest standards of living in history. None of this is a birthright, it was fought for with the struggle and sacrifice of your betters. It needs to be defended if you want the same for your children. Why don't you state 'awareness' of the global subterfuge and conspiracies of the FSB, the CCP, extremist religion etc. . . Woke is dangerously naive. It will sleep walk us into disaster.
Wokism is this century's Puritanism.
Without the morals
Brendan brilliant as always. Democracy, free speech and capitalism. Doesn't get more succinct than that.
the 'Anointed' (classification of a self serving public figure who assumes moral responsibility for others, without their permission, see Thomas Sowell) assumes the role of saviour because of guilt. repressed guilt at the privilege they've experienced. classic psychoanalysis. they've got so much power that they've infected the culture; they have come from middle class backgrounds, gone to uni and because of that taken pivotal roles in media, law, education and the police. so much power over what other people should be thinking.. it is a class issue for sure.
Brendan,as someone who hails from Western Ireland you are indeed a Great Briton!
Well done again, thank you. Douglas Murray at some point please. I suppose that's inevitable.
thank you for great channel, and brendan is great (especially on sky press previews)
"... Has a duty to offended ..." - I'm liking the guy already
The working class (my background) is is traditionally patriotic and always stuffed down at every opportunuity and excluded from the so-called democratic process.
They only hate when you’re effective so carry on.
Fantastic summing up! Thank-you both.
"Tyranny of custom" a brilliant citation of JS Mill. Timely beyond measure.
How do we reawaken freedom of speech? Speak out and refuse to be silenced.
Excellent interview.
It takes learning not to be fatally polite. Decent people have hard time being loud enough to be heard over the woke herd.
Being woke isn't about being politically correct it is about belittling others to make yourself look better. Why do you think the standard for being PC and woke constantly changes.
Another great interview. Keep up the good work.
Another great interview, thank you.
A great interview. Thanks for posting it.
Wow, never heard of this guy before, but I will be looking up his other stuff. He is dead on about so much.
So let me get this right. You can’t speak about a topic unless you have a “ lived experience “ but you can say you’re a woman just because you say you feel
Like a woman even though you have NO lived experience as a woman. And around and around we go. Glad I got it right, for a moment I was confused 😐 SMH 🤦♀️
Coal miners from Wales voting for BREXIT Brendan? That would be former coal miners
There are still small mines (small meaning 1 million tonnes a year) in Wales and the rest of the UK. The last 'deep' (big)mine closed in 2013.
@@realMaverickBuckley
Tower Colliery? It's still open, just operating as open cast.
So we are now have cultural apartheid. Utter madness.
Mike Absolutely
Speaking of uni students being authoritarian (6.30mins) I was talking to a student last year and they literally said "I would absolutely promote the end of freedom of speech if it stopped people saying things I disagree with".
a woke person is humourless and utterly miserable in their life. Tenured leftists will be liquidated one day.....soon I hope.
And yet James bond is changing to a black woman !!🤔🤔
Dr. Who had even had to be changed into a woman! They could've brought back one of the female timelords from the past, but that wasn't good enough. She has to be a woman now. Next incarnation they'll make The Doctor transgender. For years the series had been mouthing more and more PC, but this was the last straw for me!
Gracias, gracias, a million times thank you...this was simply “refreshing “. I only wish I had the time and the skills to subtitle this in Spanish.
Again, thank you; listening to this was like breathing fresh air. Gracias.
Like any broken movement. They use fear to get what they want. Thought crime.
This is an important exposé, Brendan is a national treasure.
Mälli Fair | We need Brendan to come to Canada for a year or two!
@@warmflash No way - we need him here! Vote the "peoplekind" soyboy out and we'll talk about it!
Mälli Fair l That’s the plan but we sure could use Brendan’s acuity in the lead up to the election •
“All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenaline addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats " - Frank Herbert
So he claims. Herbert is not the ultimate in wisdom and cannot speak for motives of others (unless it becomes manifestly apparent- it has not.
@Marisa Martin I agree with you for a reason you will likely hate.
His comparison is unfair to aristocrats. Aristocrats wrote the Magna Carta.
"People without uteruses"? Isn't that trans-exclusionary?
I don’t have a uterus.Can I get one on EBay ?
The schizophrenic mind! Attempting to hold two opposing views at the same time. The delusion of wishing to promote Marxist filth in which by doing so, sends the left unwittingly into the land of the loony left - putting it mildly.
They don't care that they ideas are contradictory, or are just to stupid or blind to see it
Trans-exclusionary and intersectional are two sides of the same transphobic feminist coin.
Both are saying that you're not a (wo)man if you're not cis, but in different ways.
Great interview thoroughly enjoyed every minute
The “stay in lane” philosophy is simply cultural apartheid and when you have separated everyone into their little groups comes the scary next step, for example this group we have labelled “Nigerians”, we want to keep their culture pure without your negative white influence, so we will now send them all back to Nigeria to preserve their purity.
Perfect solution
Why not let them have this cold,damp place in exchange for that fertile country they don't want?
At last a ray of sunlight has been opened by this interview, Peter Whittle listens, absorbs the information takes his time and gives a thoughtful reply, not the standard BBC or current media format of forcing their thoughts. This is the beginning of challenging the rot we have in our society, we are all humans we have the same struggles and pains. Help each other.
He shows the most amazing restraint when he's got Yasmin flapping her arms next to him on Sky.
the 'victim' role wields the most power, it's a really sneaky tactic
Unless u call them out upon it , wich we all must do from now on if to save free speach and democracy
Last year I left a comment on another post stating how much I resent these antisocial individuals for making me aware of skin colour and becoming suspicious of certain types. Before these 'woke' individuals I never thought about skin colour or even of anyone as different from me in terms of race or orientation. It never impacted on my interactions with people. Maybe that stems from being gay but really I think it's just normal for well adjusted people to be that way. They say they fight for equality when in reality they are enforcing tribal-mentality and creating divides.
An excellent conversation between two intelligent people and so many points I can only agree with.
Great interview. Good to see an interviewer who knows a bit about the person they're interviewing and can ask worthwhile and important questions. Much better than the BBC these days.
"...who cannot abide the fact that there are people in the world that disagree with HIM or HER." 😂😂😂 Love this guy!
“Divide and conquer”
Excellent series of programmes Mr Whittle, you are explaining so much, thank you.
I have noticed that local councils have become very authoritarian over the past few decades. Are we heading back into a feudal system with the local lord (council) and the surfs (us)?
You think that’s bad you have never been in a mental hospital try that and then remember that they are enlightened compared with outside of the western world
Oh....
So "Woke" is being asleep...
Get Douglas Murray on!
SIR DOUGLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I think about the people who've been honours or peerages over recent decades, I realise I wouldn't want to be seen dead among them. Those baubles are merely rewards for being part of the globalist system (example: Oily Robbins, the Government's chief Brexit 'negotiator' in Brussels, was given a knighthood in Treason May's recent resignation honours list).
Peter C I’d love Douglas Murray on a panel with that wasp Ash Sarkar, he would annihilate her in two minutes flat without raising his voice or even an eyebrow!
joe buffalo You think Ash Sarkar is a decent human being???
joe buffalo I agree, but these people like Sarkar need to remove the huge chips they have on their shoulders first. She’s a race baiter, and the British public have up with this crap longe enough. We are on to them, the sooner they realise it the world will be a better place.
This is maybe the most clear explanation of wokism that I have come across. I believe many people feel uneasy around it without being able to dress it in words this simply. Thank you so much!
Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion. Will be a regular from now on. WWG1WGA UK
Thank you so much, Peter and Brendan. Absolutely fascinating.
Love Brandon!!! God bless him, thank you for the interview
45 min to prove that common sense is still alive and thriving! Thankfully!
Keep it up, Brendan !!!! You're our voice in the censored world of woke
Political correctness gone mad? Sorry, political correctness was mad from the outset.
The Daily Mail has become very PC.
Yeah. They realized where the money was, got rid of Hitler and went for the woke pound. Hilarious.
A highly interesting conversation with many points to ponder, thank you
Thank you Brendan, you burn our lights brightly, rock on brother.
Excellent interview 🇬🇧❤️
They’ll be calling them ‘the great unwashed’ soon.
We need more of this, civility
An excellent analysis of what is going on at the moment. Brendan hits several nails square on the noggin.