This Canadian University is Out of its Mind

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  • Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
  • On this video we'll read together and talk about the directives and public guidelines on what language is deemed offensive and what is considered an acceptable replacement within the structure of the university of Waterloo in Canada. Let bring some sense into this mess. I hope you enjoy the video.
    You will find this page on the Race and ethnicity: Terminology section of | University Relations
    Link to the page:
    uwaterloo.ca/university-relat...
    Do you agree with the language assessment and proposals of this page? Do you agree or disagree with the idea that these specific words are deemed offensive? Let me know in the comments, and as always thanks for watching noble ones.
    Language can be a powerful tool, but the control of language can also be a tool of manipulation of the masses. There is a line that must not be crossed by governments and institutions that must be protected.
    Controlling what can be said and more important what should be said is a way to manipulate the masses and force those who disagree with your message or those who don't have an opinion to still present and spread your message.
    Historically this has been used by many governments and institutions throughout the human experience, at the expense of the masses, to control said masses.
    It has happened within the propaganda systems of both far left and far right totalitarian regimes and those who know history recognize the steps. Will you stay idle? Or will you speak?
    I will speak.
    #censored #offended #politicallycorrect

КОМЕНТАРІ • 9 тис.

  • @dmjole
    @dmjole Місяць тому +3354

    George Orwell is slapping his forehead, saying, "It was supposed to be a WARNING, not a MANUAL!"

    • @alchemicalalek7535
      @alchemicalalek7535 Місяць тому +23

      HA

    • @The1stDukeDroklar
      @The1stDukeDroklar Місяць тому +111

      Exactly. The problem is that Newspeak used in the book is based in sound psychology and does work. It can alter the general mindset of the masses within a generation or two.

    • @user-vd5uq4uc9b
      @user-vd5uq4uc9b Місяць тому +27

      He would have been put on antidepressents till he stopped dwelling on sad things and writindg

    • @archermadsen7744
      @archermadsen7744 Місяць тому

      Orwell was a socialist who who fought in the Spanish Civil War against fascists. He isn't your friend.

    • @il_gran_signore
      @il_gran_signore Місяць тому

      Nah…; he was a trotskyist, trotskyism is one of the most culturally liberal branches of marxism.
      And Eric literally risked his life in Spain to fight against fascism, conservatism, White supremacy, Christian extremism, nationalism, capitalism, and racism.

  • @Seankwondo87
    @Seankwondo87 Місяць тому +2864

    "Equity deserving groups" sounds like something you write when you need to increase your word count

    • @markp44288
      @markp44288 Місяць тому

      Or when you are an idiot.

    • @tonycrayford3893
      @tonycrayford3893 Місяць тому +146

      NOBODY deserves equity.

    • @Mtonazzi
      @Mtonazzi Місяць тому +102

      @@tonycrayford3893 equity of opportunities? Can argue for that. Equity of results? No way

    • @ShaggyRogers1
      @ShaggyRogers1 Місяць тому +117

      It is blatantly saying the quiet part out loud. Not only is it bigotry of low expectations since it pretends that there aren't wealthy people that are minorities, but also directly stating what their goal with the language switch is. They aren't trying to not be "offensive". They are directly trying to control thought through speech.

    • @Mr.Marbles
      @Mr.Marbles Місяць тому +100

      i love how this can turn so bad if you use it for anything else than their idea of race.
      "the equity deserving groups of white people in africa"
      "the equity deserving groups of our population that want relationships with minors"
      "the equity deserving groups of south america that burn crosses and wear white hoods"
      like dude they did NOT think that through, jesus christ.

  • @aaronwinter447
    @aaronwinter447 Місяць тому +329

    I see what they did there. They swapped "Minority" for "Equity Deserving", because they feel some minorities don't deserve equity.

    • @TheWoollyFrog
      @TheWoollyFrog Місяць тому +60

      Nope. It's because some minorities are majorities in certain parts of the country.

    • @IncognitoDiabetic
      @IncognitoDiabetic Місяць тому +5

      @@TheWoollyFrogthis is the real answer

    • @mirandazhang1359
      @mirandazhang1359 29 днів тому +30

      billionaires are minorities, i think theyre doing just fine. plus there are cases where the majority may be the suppressed group, like in countries who are being colonized

    • @ArthurB26
      @ArthurB26 29 днів тому +30

      ​​@@TheWoollyFrog First of all, if they're the majority then they're not minorities. I know what you're trying to say but it sounds ridiculous.
      Second, there's plenty communities where minorities like African Americans or Asian Americans are better off than the majority demographic so the idea they're all "equity deserving" is also ridiculous.
      The term "equity deserving" can apply to minorities or the majority depending on the area. It's a stupid term and anyone who uses it should be shamed for their stupidity 😂

    • @SDCDIABLO
      @SDCDIABLO 29 днів тому

      It's because since lots of the groups aren't minorities anymore they lost that excuse for victimhood and being awful. Also funny since lots aren't minorities its why our cities are turning to shit in Canada.

  • @mr.platypusgaming
    @mr.platypusgaming 11 днів тому +21

    Actually did group work with a black guy at uni, didn't know his name. He was missing one day. Was asked who my partner was, said I didn't know his name. Was told to describe him. Said "uh, he's black."
    People in the room lost their marbles I'd call someone black, called me a racist and so on. Dude comes in late, sits down. Girl tells him "he was asked who you were and he called you black." He answered: "what colour am I? Purple? I'm the only black guy in the course, what else was he going to say? For fucks sake, you guys are racist." Gave me a fist bump and asked me how the project was going.

    • @user-s0m30n3
      @user-s0m30n3 10 днів тому +2

      This story is either fake or exaggerated to the high heavens

    • @mr.platypusgaming
      @mr.platypusgaming 10 днів тому +4

      @@user-s0m30n3 neither nor. Happened because people in the 2010s couldn't imagine calling someone black.

    • @anastasiachristakos2480
      @anastasiachristakos2480 19 годин тому +1

      Expat here. I recall in the 70's it was appropriate to call someone black and not negro. After that, I would have to catch up every decade what was the more appropriate term- African, black, colored- these words have been juggled around alot and I loose track every now and then and check with these kind of videos to see what is the latest consensus because it keeps on changing... it seems these are more like language mind games than anything else.

  • @huntforbigfloptober1333
    @huntforbigfloptober1333 Місяць тому +3119

    “NOOO!! You can’t refer to Black people as colored!!”
    Same people referring to non-white people: Ah yes, PEOPLE OF COLOR.

    • @User-xh5zu
      @User-xh5zu Місяць тому +450

      Which is funny in both cases because when talking about the light spectrum white is the presence of all colour while black is the absence of colour

    • @himbrine6668
      @himbrine6668 Місяць тому

      But also black people are black because the presence of pigments and White one because of abcence or however u write that

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 Місяць тому

      The term 'people of color' was coined by racists though, aim was to draw the asians (mostly) and latinos (if we gotta) in the 'our' group to get more support against the 'white enemy'.

    • @JohnCrawford1979
      @JohnCrawford1979 Місяць тому

      That's just among unhinged liberal idiots, usually white people pretending to be talking for black people. But I will say, simply being called "Yo white guy!" Would be annoying. Can't speak of how much more or less annoying than some one black being called, "Yo black guy!" It's somewhat disrespectful, though can be understandable if someone is trying to call for you, and your skin color is the most notably different feature about you then the rest of the guys around you. Preferably, most people would like to be called by their name, especially if you know their name. Yet, even there, some people don't even like their name. So maybe for some, "Yo black dude!" would be preferable than, say, being called Peewee, because that's what your parents named you after because they liked Peewee's Playhouse, and named you before the whole getting caught wanking it in a porn theater incident.

    • @michele-33
      @michele-33 Місяць тому

      'white' people are the true people of color.
      We turn red when embarrassed, brown/bronze when suntanned, green or yellow when sick, we turn grey or ashen when dead, lol

  • @forgotten_islander4530
    @forgotten_islander4530 Місяць тому +1023

    As a Canadian, in stereotypical fashion, I apologize for this ridiculousness 🤦‍♂️

    • @Tommytakanawa
      @Tommytakanawa Місяць тому +37

      Don't apologize for other people's actions.

    • @enricogiust
      @enricogiust Місяць тому +18

      NO! *As an Individual from Canada! Come on my friend 😂.

    • @robinkleinsteuber5217
      @robinkleinsteuber5217 Місяць тому +8

      ​​​​@@Tommytakanawa As Canucks, we are used to doing that. It's just ... what we do! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @robinkleinsteuber5217
      @robinkleinsteuber5217 Місяць тому +5

      @Tommytakanawa I KNOW that. I was being acutely sarcastic about this strange behaviour. View my emojis. My attitude is more American-like than Canadian. I will not hesitate to call a spade a spade.

    • @gametime2473
      @gametime2473 Місяць тому +7

      This is authoritarian. Ridiculous is way understating it

  • @user-fj7df3ng7z
    @user-fj7df3ng7z 28 днів тому +34

    I read an anecdote on an American website told by a guy who had a white friend from South Africa who was a naturalized American. Whenever this man filled in questions from his company's Human Resources people, he inevitably described himself as African-American. Apparently, the HR people were *really* unhappy about this but they couldn't figure out any way to make him use a different term so they let it stand.

    • @annwesson
      @annwesson 12 днів тому +8

      I've got one better. Back in high school (in the USA), my sister had a friend from Egypt. When this friend was filling out college applications, she naturally filled in the "African American" box to describe her race. 'Cause... you know... she was from Africa but was also American? Like, how much more literally African American could anyone be? But the colleges told her she shouldn't use that description for herself! Apparently you're only African American if you're sub-Saharan?

    • @dutchman7623
      @dutchman7623 11 днів тому

      @@annwesson Sub-Saharan? But do not go too far, cause you end up with Afrikaners.

    • @Zak6959
      @Zak6959 3 дні тому +1

      @@annwesson it’s hilarious and ridiculous.

    • @kilerog
      @kilerog 2 дні тому +3

      @@annwesson If your family lived in Canada for ten generations before moving to the US, and you are Black, you are African American. Meanwhile if you are literally from Africa but your skin is too light, you aren't supposed to use the term. Yes, many people--both Black and not--have pointed out how silly this is.

  • @chopperking1967
    @chopperking1967 Місяць тому +110

    Metatron, I am Canadian, I received a bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1991 from a Canadian university. I am caucasian. I am not offended by that word, and I don't care if anyone else is. Well done with this video. Overly political correctness is a cancer western societies are dying from. The occasional hurt feeling is NOT a bad thing. Always being protected from hurt feelings as an adolescent, or as an adult IS harmful. Because it guarantees weaknesses. And as the expression goes, "If you think strong men are capable of great harm, you should see what weak men are capable of!"

    • @canbeone7277
      @canbeone7277 Місяць тому +9

      What part of the Caucus region are you from?? Not many people are from/ live in that area. The majority are from the English Isles and other parts of northern Europe.

    • @canbeone7277
      @canbeone7277 Місяць тому +6

      @@chopperking1967 Try to read what I said, then answer my question. I'm very clear with my question. You say you are a Caucasian, where in the Caucus region are your ancestors are from? I love that area and want to know.

    • @chopperking1967
      @chopperking1967 29 днів тому +4

      ​​@@canbeone7277I am mistaken. Your question was correctly phrased.

    • @15footgelatinouscube
      @15footgelatinouscube 19 днів тому +4

      'Caucasian' (used to mean 'white people', especially Western European-descended people) isn't offensive - merely inaccurate.

    • @mardenhill
      @mardenhill 17 днів тому

      »caucasian« is offensive, to use your wording, i don't care what anyone else says. it's either european or of european ancestry. caucasia is a region in asia, which i have nothing to do with it.
      united statesians and canadians are victims of toxic conditioning by religious and political extremists, the so-called first settlers who were proponents of racial constructs that have long been refuted by science. the terms caucasoid, negroid, mongoloid are the remnants of these degenerate ideologies.

  • @screwtape2713
    @screwtape2713 Місяць тому +916

    Speaking as a Canadian lawyer who practiced immigration and refugee law for years, classifying "foreigner" or "illegal alien" as offensive terms to be replaced by "refugee", "newcomer" or "international person" is actually very deliberate. It is highly politicized long-term social engineering propaganda. It is part of an attempt to make any discussion about taking effective government action against people from abroad who enter and live in Canada illegally a taboo subject in our political discourse.
    A "refugee" is someone who has made a formal application for refugee status and has had it reviewed and approved by an Immigration and Refugee Board tribunal. Until then they are a "refugee claimant". Once approved, a refugee may apply for and automatically receive permanent legal status in Canada as a "permanent resident" or "PR" for short. After a number of years, the PR may then apply to become a "citizen". These are all official terms.
    A person from a foreign country may also enter the country legally as a "temporary resident" (again an official term). They may enter on a visitor visa as a visitor or tourist, on a work visa as a foreign worker (and "foreign worker" is the official government designation for them - NOT "international worker"), or on a student visa as an international student (again the official designation).
    All these people may be described as "newcomers" - and are called just that in many official government suppoer programs. Again, "newcomer" very much implies (or used to) someone with a legal status in Canada and therefore a legal right to be here.
    A person who either enters the country illegally or enters fraudulently on a temporary visa and then never leaves is NOT a "refugee", "newcomer" or "international person". They are a person from a foreign country (i.e. a "foreigner") who is in the country illegally and therefore is an "illegal alien". Period. Trying to force university students writing on Political Studies issues, for example, to discuss immigration issues without being allowed to refer to them as such is a deliberate choice by the university.

    • @BoredSquirell
      @BoredSquirell Місяць тому +14

      While I make fun of some phrases elsewhere in the comments, some of these things make sense.
      As far as I understand it's the offical policy of Canada to encourage immigration, preferably legal, but illegal is tolerated.
      It such an environment discussing anyone's legal status must be a taboo.
      Now if only your goverment could fix the housing it might even be worth immigrating to Canada.

    • @mihainita5325
      @mihainita5325 Місяць тому

      I'll live in US, and always legally.
      But being called "alien" feels very weird.
      alien == non-human (as a non-native English speaker)
      Martians and Klingons are aliens

    • @The_Zilli
      @The_Zilli Місяць тому +31

      Well said, this post needs to be pinned for all to read.

    • @M4421-O
      @M4421-O Місяць тому +22

      There's been a lot of stigma around the term 'Illegal alien' - the term in itself is a bit harsh and dehumanizing. I wonder why something else like 'Undocumented foreigner' has never been used.

    • @robertmoray988
      @robertmoray988 Місяць тому +21

      YOU should be the Federal Immigration Minister.
      Thank you .

  • @nesirosern8596
    @nesirosern8596 Місяць тому +766

    "It's getting so bad that every day now I expect to hear a rape victim being referred to as an unwilling sperm recipient"
    - George Carlin

    • @Omni_Shambles
      @Omni_Shambles Місяць тому +9

      🤣

    • @FlipTheBard
      @FlipTheBard Місяць тому +14

      What...the...effing...heck did I just read?

    • @josephturner7569
      @josephturner7569 Місяць тому

      I called the Rape Helpline. Seems it's just for victims.

    • @8ligh7
      @8ligh7 Місяць тому +27

      Good old euphemism treadmill. Contemporary gender politics discussion is rife with these terms and the constant arguing whether to actually use them or not adds another layer of confusion.

    • @gaia7240
      @gaia7240 Місяць тому +61

      They tried to change woman with "uterus bearer" or something like that

  • @Michael.Custance
    @Michael.Custance Місяць тому +31

    I was born in Canada and the only time I EVER heard anyone using the word "Caucasian" was in a documentary or when the term was meant to sound "official" or "technically correct" - Everyone just uses "white person", "white guy", "white" etc...

    • @olewyrdd
      @olewyrdd 8 днів тому +1

      In the US it is either white, Caucasian or both. irritating? Yes. Offended (or more like Meh cry bad wurd)? No. Ugh. Effing PC crap.
      Kinda reminds me of the Politically Correct Fairy Tales books from the 90s. Funny stuff. Wonder what it would read as now.

    • @Michael.Custance
      @Michael.Custance 8 днів тому

      @@olewyrdd I agree 100% with the "meh" - All the way back to highschool (1980's for me) I heard about PC but it never really touched my world till about 2015-2016 when the alt-left? far-left? ... oh yeah I mean "batsh!t crazy libt@rds" started demanding all the crazy sh!t. "Use my pronouns" - "I'm a woman but I pee standing up!" etc...
      The way things are going I won't be at all surprise WHEN my American neighbours finally decide that it's time to to actually exercise their Second Amendment Rights....I'll be sitting here cheering them on...

    • @maryjohnston4296
      @maryjohnston4296 2 дні тому +2

      All applications in US for years had Caucasian as a choice- it was not until the past year it has been changed to white- or fill-in the box- if you want to

    • @Michael.Custance
      @Michael.Custance День тому

      @@maryjohnston4296 Don't even get me started on job applications - the only possible purpose for wanting to know ethnicity on a job-app is for sorting purposes. SO basically you have 3 things that are problematic:
      1) Are you a visible minority?
      (Replaced with the choice list)
      2) Are you a physically challenged?
      3) What is your gender.
      There is active legislation in place that forces companies to fill a set quota in order to fulfill their "diversity" agenda - or face fines etc.
      Using those three criteria you end up with essentially two piles of resumes/job-apps
      A) White males
      B) Everyone else
      And companies will just ignore the first pile in order to meet their agenda... THERE is your so called "systemic racism" - it really does exist - it's just not what they CLAIM it to be....

  • @Elegiast
    @Elegiast Місяць тому +51

    I got an ad for 1984 as an audiobook before this video.

  • @gamediverbr
    @gamediverbr Місяць тому +2057

    Does anyone remember when universities EXPANDED our knowledge and vocabulary, rather than restricting it? Good times, I miss that...

    • @patrickancona1193
      @patrickancona1193 Місяць тому +24

      @@cryp4life509WHOOOOSH

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +41

      *_Make Academia scholarly again!_*

    • @MustardSkaven
      @MustardSkaven Місяць тому +14

      @@patrickancona1193 Not sure if this is a joke. The guy is pointing out how universities are making up bogus words for their social studies, thus technically expanding vocab.

    • @richardhockey8442
      @richardhockey8442 Місяць тому +51

      newspeak - restructuring language so complex or 'problematic' ideas can no longer be expressed or communicated

    • @Aidames
      @Aidames Місяць тому +30

      ​@@cryp4life509 Because it restricts word usage. That's it.

  • @markbrown6763
    @markbrown6763 Місяць тому +966

    As a black male who teaches in Germany, I have already come across this nonsense at my school. I will never, ever use terms such as Equity deserving groups etc!

    • @joergwoelke1455
      @joergwoelke1455 Місяць тому +41

      Greetings from Germany.

    • @adriennedunne1748
      @adriennedunne1748 Місяць тому +23

      Good on you mate. 😊

    • @SchmulKrieger
      @SchmulKrieger Місяць тому +2

      In Berlin?

    • @Omg-py3wz
      @Omg-py3wz Місяць тому +15

      Gott sei dank, ich küsse dein Herz

    • @ruas4721
      @ruas4721 Місяць тому +20

      Yes, in germany we got a lot of this shit too.

  • @christoffcreations1389
    @christoffcreations1389 Місяць тому +11

    As a Canadian I'm so sorry, were losing our minds ever since the maple syrup shortage 😢

  • @agoogolofgeese
    @agoogolofgeese Місяць тому +14

    In North America, few people use “Caucasian” and fewer still are offended. I’ve never heard of someone being offended by that.

  • @EmilysDismantlingIllusions
    @EmilysDismantlingIllusions Місяць тому +560

    I am Canadian and i am sending out an SOS.. its absolutely unhinged here.

    • @tammylaronde8593
      @tammylaronde8593 Місяць тому +54

      I’m Canadian as well and you’re right. This country has become unhinged.

    • @EmilysDismantlingIllusions
      @EmilysDismantlingIllusions Місяць тому +45

      It isn’t the Canada 🇨🇦 I was once proud of. It feels like hell here in earth.

    • @sqae8398
      @sqae8398 Місяць тому

      It has really degenerated here. A boring, lower IQ, less hopeful country that is almost fully dependant on money printing to survive (most G20 countries are at that point). It is too late to stop the decline(or change for those who are OK with it).

    • @cheriemonami
      @cheriemonami Місяць тому +8

      Fight back.

    • @cheriemonami
      @cheriemonami Місяць тому +7

      @@EmilysDismantlingIllusions I'm also doing what I can. Don't give up, even if hit with temporary set-backs. Act locally. It makes a difference and sends the message you're paying attention. Don't break laws but question them. You plus one other, then two more and so on. Grassroots strategy. American living in Waterloo shaking her head at the silliness.

  • @Voicelet
    @Voicelet Місяць тому +905

    "Equity deserving groups" implies that there's a group of people not deserving equity, thus undermining the meaning of "Equity" in itself.

    • @NaqrSeranvis
      @NaqrSeranvis Місяць тому +126

      Every animal is equal...
      but some are more equal than others.

    • @artm1973
      @artm1973 Місяць тому +16

      ​@@NaqrSeranvis....but some are more equal than others.

    • @notsoprogaming9789
      @notsoprogaming9789 Місяць тому +33

      Equity and equality don't mean the same thing. I agree with op though

    • @JFJD
      @JFJD Місяць тому +47

      This is on purpose; the philosophy behind this treats everything as part of one big power dynamic, so by doing little things like capitalizing certain races (which are “historically oppressed”) while leaving others (the “historical oppressors”) lowercase, in order to subtly erode their supposed power, until eventually they’re reduced to an out-group that can be removed.

    • @luisoncpp
      @luisoncpp Місяць тому +29

      "equity deserving group" would mean a disadvantaged group that require an extra help from the authorities, I'm pretty sure not all groups deserve equity, however "minority" and "equity deserving group" have 2 very different meanings, asking to replace one by the other is actively pushing an agenda.
      For example, the 1% richest people are a minority, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't require equity, they already have it (badum tsss... explanation of the joke: equity in finance it's pretty much all the wealth that is not cash, like stocks or real estate).

  • @laoaidan2400
    @laoaidan2400 Місяць тому +13

    I am mixed race and in my country I’ve never heard anyone be offended by that first word (idk how UA-cam feels about it and i dont want my comment erased) and it’s still used pretty frequently and isn’t considered offensive in my experience

    • @ermass89
      @ermass89 9 днів тому +2

      To be honest for me as a non native English speaker it sounds nice. Like a fancy expensive coffee with flavour, cream and a biscuit beside it.

    • @laoaidan2400
      @laoaidan2400 6 днів тому +1

      @@ermass89 yeah that’s what i thought too but not coffee, i thought it sounded like an ice cream flavour

  • @twistyrose
    @twistyrose Місяць тому +4

    I'm offended by the younger generation constantly trying to correct my grammar. They're sense of entitlement is nauseating.

  • @KingWilliamI
    @KingWilliamI Місяць тому +711

    It's refreshing to hear non-Canadians say what many of us in Canada have been saying for years: all is not right here

    • @Red-Brick-Dream
      @Red-Brick-Dream Місяць тому +9

      Bill Maher did a fantastic segment on Canada (entitled "Whoa, Canada) a few weeks ago.

    • @cindyspowart555
      @cindyspowart555 Місяць тому +6

      @@Red-Brick-Dream : Thank-you! I believe I did see that specific segment if it was comparing Canadians to people in the U.S. (how Barbie wouldn't be able to afford to buy her dream home in Winnipeg), but I will double check.

    • @banjoperator
      @banjoperator Місяць тому

      when your country..yes I am from Canada as well..the biggest part of what goes on here in Canada si that people believe that Canada is a democracy, sorry to burst the bubble,,Canada is a constitutional monarchy , using democratic principals.. that essentially means that though we supposedly have various rights and freedoms , it can be changed, removed at the whim of govt at anytime it wishes.. and those so called amendments can be made with out consulting the populous they politicians don't have any oversight except the rules they write for them selves and well if the populous decided to do what the politicos get away with we would all be arrested..fined..serve time , and have our lives ruined..if you don't agree..ask yourself this..when was the last time you heard of a politicp go to jail for what he did in office. that the populous didn't want..

    • @bakerbob533
      @bakerbob533 Місяць тому +5

      i find it sad when our government (canadian) not only allow, but endorse the ''plan'' to put into regulation the proper use of language. I know we don't have an explicit absolute free speech in the constitution (real quote: (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;), but still

    • @TheWoollyFrog
      @TheWoollyFrog Місяць тому

      "Many"? You must be a freedumb trucker.

  • @mansfieldtime
    @mansfieldtime Місяць тому +795

    . "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles′′ -Dostoievski

    • @amicableenmity9820
      @amicableenmity9820 Місяць тому

      Good old Marxism. Peasant cult.

    • @rosemoreno6249
      @rosemoreno6249 Місяць тому +59

      This would be Hilarious , if it weren’t so true 😩

    • @greg967
      @greg967 Місяць тому +43

      Thank you. Not for educating me on how the modern world works, but that (inevitably) someone saw it coming a century ago. Not that I am surprised, just glad to learn the source.

    • @dashwhatchamakalit
      @dashwhatchamakalit Місяць тому +5

      Welcome to Cost-Co. I love you. Welcome to Cost-Co. I love you.
      ...freakin' crocs, man.

    • @HenshinFanatic
      @HenshinFanatic Місяць тому +6

      We are only another Turdeau term before an official Handicapper General is instituted.

  • @wendymagnussen97
    @wendymagnussen97 Місяць тому +9

    Im Canadian and super embarrassed about this complete insanity. Thank you for breaking down this craziness and I agree- it offends me too!

  • @IRLWojak
    @IRLWojak 28 днів тому +16

    As a Canadian, I want out if this looney bin...worst government in almost 50 years, their policies completely ruined my life.

  • @inferiorinferno8859
    @inferiorinferno8859 Місяць тому +413

    As a minority who grew up in the ghetto, I cannot believe I would be policed on how I describe MYSELF. The world has gone nuts.

    • @ItsJustAdrean
      @ItsJustAdrean Місяць тому +23

      Right? This is so inconsiderate and disgusting

    • @Davo_enchilada
      @Davo_enchilada Місяць тому +3

      In Australia, in the 80s Greek and Italian immigrants claimed the term “Wog”
      In the early 2000s another comedian reclaimed “Chocco” for other ethnics.
      These people would lis their minds

    • @Darkclowd
      @Darkclowd Місяць тому

      Apparently the loser's defence of this practice is that minorities using "racist" terms is "perpetuating racism"

    • @beyondrecall9446
      @beyondrecall9446 Місяць тому +9

      It's the same everywhere but.. even here, in Serbia, where there really aren't black people (really, you might see a black person maybe like , once in a few days if you're really going through the city to malls and walking on busy street, so really rarely but nobody really gives a f****) but there are Gypsies.. Who have always called themselves Gypsies but I've witnessed it evolving into an offensive word and being replaced by "Ŕoma" people. But when I say "Roma" , a Roma person would freak out and say that he is a Gypsy and not to call him that (Roma) but if some politically correct shitlib hears me saying Gipsy, I get corrected and let to know that it's offensive.. Damn, so I literally call one of my closest friends "Gipsy" and he gets offended when using this special "kind" language around him and hates the word "Roma" because he feels that he is being treated with caution and something, you know? So the minority gets offended by the name they force on society to use. They feel racism when hearing that word being used so carefully, they feel taht they stand out and are treated or looked upon different and some ppl get really insulted and I've heard it a thousand times, like "I am a Gypsy, not Roma, we are Gypsies and proud of it.!" So doesn't that forced ussage of terms actuallcontributing to these people obviously being made to stand out l, isn't that racism? When I was a kid, they were called "Roma" if used on tv, or if it's something official, and they have the Roma political party, but not in use outside of official stuff.. and .....
      it was all cool..
      The newspeak made it stand out more.. Also, for an Albanian, we use he word "Šiptar" and it is very offensive, you can get a lot of flak for using that word, but bro.. just look how they call their own country and nation.. Yeah .. yoh guessed it.. in Albanian it's he word they use to describe themselves...
      Wokeness and living in Berlin for years made me see where I am at. Because I travelled around, wandered. Took up factory jobs just to kinde meet people , the mentality and see other countries from within, not as a tourist.. And I realized that I really like and enjoy my home country.. but it is becoming what I escaped.. (meaning Berlin) and so, the only place I felt the right vibe, has strenght, people have integrity, see these things from afar and say "no thanks" is for me, Russia, where I spent a year working .. and btw, as my gf is trans, we have visited and seen many places in Russia, never had a problem because of her and you know why? They don't care and don't want to know.. they just don't care if you sck d/$k or eat pssy.. they don't want tk know bcs it's your personal thing and if you keep it that way, you'll have no problem whatsoever.. If you were to harass and assault people to use some pronouns and demand respect because you put a dress on, you're getting smacked in the face. And I agree, respect is earned, not forced upon people ...
      So you realize that ... People, trust me on this one, the West is a dictatorship... call it democracy but what were you asked about and was your opinion heard ever on anything? On any war or some other money launderibg scheme or the censorship . .. no. That's why you don't even know that the NSA took over the internet , literally overnight
      WHat I experienced j Russia, still the freedom and safety, due to collective rejection of wokeness, made me, the, a 33 year old guy, a cknstruction worker now, to enroll into University, Slavic Studies, so I learn Slavistics .. I have much Russian, Ukrainian, Ruthenian lang. (already know Slovak, Czech alongside Hungarian and German)
      So seeing it coming to Serbia made me study Russian so I can go when it's time. Also, their methods and speech made me research propaganda and I want to do my Master's in Communicology. That's a nice word for propaganda ..
      anyway, , like the NSA since today controls the internet in the US, I'm gonna watch how worse it gets now, I've just listened to the new CEO of NPR and it's so crazy. She literally said that journalists often go digging for the truth but that's not what they should be focused on, said that misinformation is a problem and we have to turn to the government to help us determine what's true and what's false, she said that currently, the biggest obstacle for "us" is the 1st ammendment. So, they also don't use the word "censor"when referring to themselves (because it's just doublespeak, becajse Putin censors and every "New Htlr" they have on their sight (except for Israel, they get a pass (like you wouldn't charge the owner of a Café you work in)
      There is just one more thing I'll add, very important .. I got licked out of my FB account for spreading hateful content by a "dangerous individual" . Namely I posted a investigative journalism piece by Kit Klerenberg about factual evidence he found involvement of the CIA in creating IsIs. How were weapons were channeled through Libya to the Islamic state after they wrecked Lybia for wanting to move oil away from the Dollar and Euro and I've seen it, like, Isis with tg44 rifles which my dad had as a Yugoslav paratrooper, whjch we took from the nzis and later gave it to Libya.. So Kit, after this piece, an investigative journalist, for presenting facts , was deemed a" dangerous person" and if you spread some of his reporting you are engaged in hate crime.. So FB is helping a terrorist organization by doing this. It is all in the open qnd people see it but the whole thing is so just made up that it is a perfect mechanism. You raise a real issue and get called "conspiracy theorist" and "nut", and they don't have to do much, the system an culture does it by themselves. Trust me, Russia is more free than you think but they have different views on things which is cool if you adapt to the culture you come into instead of vice versa.
      Peace out

    • @charleswhite758
      @charleswhite758 Місяць тому +2

      My friend it is up to you to get us out of this mess, only you have the power to say what you want, you are right, they cannot criticise you for using any word you wish to describe yourself. They can try but it's not going to work. If all minorities (sorry EDGs😂) rose up and said "Enough! We are sick of being treated like overly-sensitive invalids", it would all end.

  • @bignumbers
    @bignumbers Місяць тому +531

    Instead of "master bedroom" we should say "enslaver bedroom"

    • @williamjenkins4913
      @williamjenkins4913 Місяць тому +18

      But that is going to piss off the Feminists.

    • @cftyftyufyfuyfty
      @cftyftyufyfuyfty Місяць тому +85

      k i n k y

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Місяць тому +30

      the tennis circuit for veteran players is now the "Enslaver's Tour"

    • @Schwertfisch13
      @Schwertfisch13 Місяць тому

      ​@williamjenkins491fighting the Patriarchy by wearing Dog collars and wanting to be choked during orgasm. And If you find that gross you're a bigot!!!!1!1!1!

    • @kittehgo
      @kittehgo Місяць тому +17

      ​@@SantomPhThat sounds like they have made slavery into a sport, each contestant are facing 12 people. In 30mins max they have to enslave as many as possible

  • @Pengouinn
    @Pengouinn Місяць тому +11

    As a french canadian, I'd say the word "oriental" can be used in many ways. Orient basically means "east" or "right". I've seen people use this word to talk about exotic and somewhat mysterious things from the east but after all, orient is a word like many others that is frequently used in geography or history, so banning it is just dumb.

    • @olewyrdd
      @olewyrdd 8 днів тому

      I had to orient dial to the correct setting while doing my analysis.
      Doesn't make sense if I said I had to asian the dial...

  • @gryaznygreeb
    @gryaznygreeb 17 днів тому +4

    I've literally seen Asian immigrants to the USA name their shops things like "Oriental Imports." It's another one that's archaic but not really offensive. If I remember correctly, oriental just means Eastern, and Occidental means western. You see it in plant scientific names, like tradescantia occidentalis, the Western Spiderwort, or Hyacinthus Orientalis ( Eastern Hyacinth), or Helleborus Orientalis (Eastern Hellebore)

  • @stefanmilicevic5322
    @stefanmilicevic5322 Місяць тому +677

    “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."-George Orwell, 1984

    • @esmeraldagreen1992
      @esmeraldagreen1992 Місяць тому +29

      The book has become reality

    • @craigquann
      @craigquann Місяць тому +21

      He was off by 40 years.. but he's not wrong.

    • @Mtonazzi
      @Mtonazzi Місяць тому +27

      @@esmeraldagreen1992 bit of this, bit of Brave New World...
      They were supossed to be warnings for things to avoid, not manuals to follow, tsk tsk

    • @GreenHoleSun
      @GreenHoleSun Місяць тому +10

      Straight to the point.
      2+2=5

    • @shadowdragon3521
      @shadowdragon3521 Місяць тому +21

      Literally Newspeak in the making

  • @xtremeranger30
    @xtremeranger30 Місяць тому +632

    Avoiding "ghetto" as a term means we can't discuss the Warsaw Ghetto for it's importance in Holocaust history. This part of the uni guideline is absolute lunacy.

    • @davidfinch7407
      @davidfinch7407 Місяць тому +158

      You mean the "Warsaw Underprivileged Zone"?

    • @danielefabbro822
      @danielefabbro822 Місяць тому

      Not even the Venetian ghetto. I mean, it was the first ghetto for Jewish people in Europe.
      It was created to both control the Jewish and keep them safe.
      More the first than the later but, you know the period, right? Those wasn't years of tolerance and opening to the world, at least not in that way.
      And thank god there was little or nothing racism at the time yet. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @bumblebee9337
      @bumblebee9337 Місяць тому +43

      Bye bye ghettoblaster :(

    • @auzad3s601
      @auzad3s601 Місяць тому +48

      @@davidfinch7407 This comment made laugh. Now I feel bad. But that’s still pretty funny

    • @ONI_002
      @ONI_002 Місяць тому +85

      @@davidfinch7407 holy shit, this might actually fall under holocaust denial in my country

  • @jojitsu5620
    @jojitsu5620 13 днів тому +2

    Equity deserving groups???" the world owes you nothing. It was here first". Mark Twain.

  • @asmartbajan
    @asmartbajan Місяць тому +14

    Yeah, a couple months ago I heard the presenter of the Most Amazing Homes program (on the AWE channel) say some nonsense about replacing the term "master bedroom" with "primary bedroom" and thought to myself, "How ridiculous!" We've now become a society walking on eggshells, fearing we might offend others.

  • @UmamiPapi
    @UmamiPapi Місяць тому +235

    >word is made taboo
    >ban it
    >replacement is made taboo
    >ban it
    >repeat

    • @DantesDarkside
      @DantesDarkside Місяць тому +23

      That is called an euphemism threatmill

    • @spaceknight793
      @spaceknight793 Місяць тому +10

      That is how they control thought.

    • @danda1124
      @danda1124 Місяць тому

      This NeanderthaI (4% Neanderthal) didn’t want to be called a NeanderthaI hybrid, which is scientifically proven. If he can’t accept a scientific dna make up then he shouldn’t cry about others not wanting distasteful labels.

    • @muhammaddarrenputra6389
      @muhammaddarrenputra6389 Місяць тому

      Yup common in linguistic

    • @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
      @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Місяць тому +11

      Jews had the correct idea. Never renamed themselves; no matter how derogatory people tried to make the word. That's strength.

  • @elbavarden6084
    @elbavarden6084 Місяць тому +1186

    Notice how they capitalized "Black people", but not "white people".

    • @carbonjohnson6414
      @carbonjohnson6414 Місяць тому +110

      ya they capitalized Asian too

    • @scenemaker864
      @scenemaker864 Місяць тому

      Love that casual anti-white racism

    • @shinian6523
      @shinian6523 Місяць тому +57

      Yeah I've seen that in a lot of places

    • @Jamie_Wulfyr
      @Jamie_Wulfyr Місяць тому +318

      I'm a white Briton and certain people really grind their teeth when we refer to ourselves as "Indigenous". It drives them crazy...

    • @leegaul2161
      @leegaul2161 Місяць тому +176

      @@Jamie_Wulfyr That's why education has failed. Indigenous doesn't refer to any specific ethnic group. It refers to the oldest known group living in a region. Anyone can be indigenous as long as their ethnic group has the oldest or shared history in the region. This is the reason we are playing language games the past decade, because language has completely been dropped by the recent generations.

  • @user-fj7df3ng7z
    @user-fj7df3ng7z 28 днів тому +4

    I remember seeing a Canadian talk show along the lines of Oprah Winfrey where race was the issue. The host posed a question to the audience and a young black man in the audience got up and said "As an African-American er African-Canadian, I believe....". This showed me that even our own blacks were just reflexively referring to themselves as African-Americans as a direct substitution for the word black.

  • @martinhumphreys4891
    @martinhumphreys4891 Місяць тому +5

    I think there's another reason for all this which goes beyond inoffensiveness: it serves as comfort food for the people who come up with these terms. Instead of trying to work to help the groups they're discussing, they spend time and effort focusing on terminology which lets them feel like they're actually achieving something.

  • @BrotherHood-xh9sg
    @BrotherHood-xh9sg Місяць тому +388

    Remember, they consider "blacks" offensive, but they don't mention "asians", "whites", "hispanics" etc.

    • @JordanSherrington-dn7wd
      @JordanSherrington-dn7wd Місяць тому +36

      That's exactly what I was thinking lol, it showcases how little thought they actually put into creating this pathetic rule set. The double standards are numerous.

    • @CorporateG0th
      @CorporateG0th Місяць тому +15

      Apparently it's also offensive if someone calls you African-American. How often do you suppose they yell that at someone intending it to be an insult?

    • @masumi158
      @masumi158 Місяць тому +18

      ​@@JordanSherrington-dn7wd "Asians" refer to people from Asia or Asian descent (Asia is a continent), however blacks or whites refer to colour of people's skin, and hispanics refer to people of certain culture. Make it make sense.

    • @RohitKulan
      @RohitKulan Місяць тому +5

      ​@@CorporateG0thif you were called that in Canada, you would be a bit confused.

    • @AllyFin
      @AllyFin Місяць тому +5

      ​@@RohitKulanI wouldn't, because America is a region consisting of two continents. Many countries are in it including canada.

  • @amandamccallum6796
    @amandamccallum6796 Місяць тому +189

    I live in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 and this crap has completely taken over.
    I tried to watch a video from a local university about disability access in our local communities because I am disabled. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the introductions because everyone introduced themselves like this:
    I am xyz, I am a white colonizer living on the traditional lands of, goes on to list 10 tribes, now called London Ontario.
    I was so WTF by the introductions that I couldn't even get to the subject matter.

    • @PracticaProphetica
      @PracticaProphetica Місяць тому +47

      I always tell them, "Well if you think it is their land, then give it back to them!" If I took over my neighbor George Brown's house, do you think he would be satisfied if I trotted around saying, "I am living in the traditional house of George Brown"? I think he wouldn't be happy until he got his house back.

    • @carmenmccauley585
      @carmenmccauley585 Місяць тому +21

      Omg! Seriously? They don't realize everyone came here from somewhere else?

    • @letsdothis9063
      @letsdothis9063 Місяць тому

      Wow. Canada is hard-core. Are there really people up there that are actively participating in colonization?
      I mean, I know that it's still happening, but it usually isn't white people doing it now.
      That's interesting.

    • @CJ-fs9gt
      @CJ-fs9gt Місяць тому +27

      Every day in school, little children are hearing those same 'land acknowledgements' before class begins and before any assembly.
      I refuse to stand up while they go through these rituals.

    • @mpf5381
      @mpf5381 Місяць тому +5

      The introduction also includes description of clothes worn, hair colour etc on behalf of the blind. My bad, People without Vision.

  • @capitainemmhenri1299
    @capitainemmhenri1299 Місяць тому +6

    I'm Canadian and I left this country. Will only come back right before the election hoping for things to change.
    If things stay the same then I'm leaving forever

  • @ryantron9
    @ryantron9 Місяць тому +3

    The funniest thing about the whole “visible minority” thing is on all the medical federal documents…it’s asks you “are you a visible minority or part of an equity seeking group”. This means even the federal government - where it all stems from - is aware they’re different terms describing different people.

  • @rogervandusen8361
    @rogervandusen8361 Місяць тому +776

    I had it drilled into my skull to not use the term "oriental" during the late 1990s. Imagine my shock when I arrived in Bangkok in 2015 and on my taxi ride to a hotel I pass a giant billboard advertising a ladies' clothing shop called Oriental Princess!

    • @DmnHd81
      @DmnHd81 Місяць тому +152

      lol yeah here in Asia we have no problem using the term. Heck we got places called "Pearl Of The Orient" and The Oriental Hotel is well known.

    • @yumiyacha7287
      @yumiyacha7287 Місяць тому

      The Philippines calls itself "Perlas ng Silanganan" PEARL OF THE ORIENT!!!

    • @petesantos5124
      @petesantos5124 Місяць тому +125

      Yeah the whole "Asian" thing is stupid. Asians included not just Orientals, but also Arabs, Persians, Indians, Armenians and others. These woke people are ridiculous 🤦.

    • @cptrelentless80085
      @cptrelentless80085 Місяць тому +20

      People in East Asia think they live in the Orient. They think it’s east.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Місяць тому +11

      Oriental and Occidental are outdated terms for the East Asian and European populations respectively. The actual people don't care and just make money out of it. The Orient Express literally went from Europe to China after all.
      You can't use "oriental" to describe the people in writing. Whatever they want to use the term for, it's their business.

  • @stardust6691
    @stardust6691 Місяць тому +162

    A girl I met (she was Australian), told me that when she was in school she had American (US) students, who where there for an international exchange, ask her why there were so few black students in the school. They clearly didn’t want to outright say black, so they resorted to the closest thing: Why are there so few African-Americans in the school?. Laugher ensues, and somebody answers: because we are in Australia.

    • @user-tm8jt2py3d
      @user-tm8jt2py3d Місяць тому

      I know people hear these stories and like to laugh at "lol dumb Americans," but that's just the sad result of social conditioning. It's endless too now, you have to capitalize Black to denote that they are something different than the color, they are something elevated somehow. But still the only barrier to entry there is melanin levels.

    • @GreenClassified
      @GreenClassified Місяць тому +12

      Nothing screams "oppressed" louder than self entitlement.

    • @DecrepitBiden
      @DecrepitBiden Місяць тому +4

      Also, any countries in Asia, though I did see a few in Tokyo, but nowhere else in Japan. Cruise ships will rarely have them as well, like maybe 15 out of 3000 guests.

    • @nisa3695
      @nisa3695 Місяць тому +13

      Exactly. Same reason in some places in Africa people have never seen a white body

    • @phantomkate6
      @phantomkate6 Місяць тому +3

      I had a friend who talked like this. The African Americans...in our city of Montreal. 😂 Ok.

  • @jimolygriff
    @jimolygriff Місяць тому +3

    My African wife actually gets offended by woke terms. She says that she's not coloured....she is black.

  • @paulpine6511
    @paulpine6511 Місяць тому +5

    Language in the field of race, history and politics, is a cross between "egg shells and minefields", it's okay if someone wants to steal that as a book title, you are free to do so.
    Great content.

  • @formdusktilldeath
    @formdusktilldeath Місяць тому +236

    So what's a majority then? "Equity non deserving group"?

    • @wombatillo
      @wombatillo Місяць тому +44

      If they are white, men, straight and atheist or christian, yes.

    • @nikolaosaggelopoulos8113
      @nikolaosaggelopoulos8113 Місяць тому +8

      Waterloo University graduates are equity deserving.

    • @Netist_
      @Netist_ Місяць тому +44

      woah buddy, you're not supposed to say that part out loud.

    • @richardhockey8442
      @richardhockey8442 Місяць тому

      'oppressors' in the minds of the people that like to use democracy to gain power, and then subvert democracy so only they have power

    • @scenemaker864
      @scenemaker864 Місяць тому +41

      Ethnic-replacement-deserving-group.

  • @stephengray1344
    @stephengray1344 Місяць тому +248

    Switching slave master for enslaver completely changes the meaning. Enslaver means the person who turned someone into a slave, whilst slave master is the person who owns the slave, and would usually be somebody who bought or inherited the slave.

    • @fransbuijs808
      @fransbuijs808 Місяць тому +82

      Exactly. In the case of the transatlantic slave trade, the enslaver would be African. Guess they didn't think about that!

    • @sboinkthelegday3892
      @sboinkthelegday3892 Місяць тому +5

      But Metatron also used this word for SLAVs adn directly calls it descriptive instead. It's not descriptive, Slavic Rus established a civic state to escape being called "just a gas station" and things like that, JUST forced labor. TWO WORDS that actualy descirbe your "slavery" without using racism.
      Karel Čapek was a Czech writer who also invented ONE word for forced labor, "robota". The word "slav" comes from defining a people MEANT to be treated like robots, and thanks to having the word robot, we could just call robotic things robotic and human beings human.
      USA can't even call "Americans" a continental demonym, or Asians, their current Apple-Amazon forced labor, as anything by a race, of lesser humans. The big talking point is if AI art will take the jobs, that previously would be forced on cheap asian labor like animation.
      Because Japanese people whose intelligence USA calls artificial, already HAD a robot uprising in making their own "anime" and started resembling humans in US view. The Ghost in the Shell.

    • @nikolaosaggelopoulos8113
      @nikolaosaggelopoulos8113 Місяць тому

      He should be called the "enslavement commodity acquisitioner"

    • @TGPDrunknHick
      @TGPDrunknHick Місяць тому +5

      @@fransbuijs808 probably did. that's why it was changed.

    • @oblivionsa7973
      @oblivionsa7973 Місяць тому

      @@fransbuijs808 That's exactly why they wanted it changed. They are trying desperately to absolve African tribes (and by extension black Americans) of any responsibility for the slave trade. In order to "enslave" someone you must oppress them, which means you cannot be a victim in that scenario, and that ruins the perpetual victimhood narrative they've been using to excuse all sorts of horrible behavior.

  • @bradmcmillan8654
    @bradmcmillan8654 23 дні тому +3

    To be clear, this is from the University Relations portion of UWs website, right? So it's not terminology that is required for degree work, but for employees of the university in their communications with external clients. Correct me if I am wrong.

  • @justtired123
    @justtired123 6 днів тому

    Just found this channel and binge watching. Fantastic! Thank you!

  • @ilanay
    @ilanay Місяць тому +269

    Before coming to Canada, I used to think that all people were equal and can only be judged by their character and actions. Since then, it turned out that this was actually deeply racist, and that we SHOULD judge people first and foremost by their skin colour and ethnicity. Its a strange world.

    • @martinliehs2513
      @martinliehs2513 Місяць тому

      Canada has been turned upside down since around 2015.

    • @silkeotd7194
      @silkeotd7194 Місяць тому

      Yes, well you can thank the U.S.A. for infecting us and the rest of the world with this nonsense. It didn't start in Canada.

    • @crataeguscrusgalli
      @crataeguscrusgalli Місяць тому

      The destruction of Canadian society and Canadians' minds has accelerated greatly under the Trudeau regime.

    • @martyvandenberg9914
      @martyvandenberg9914 Місяць тому

      Our country is run by morons

    • @user-hj7ld4ff7p
      @user-hj7ld4ff7p Місяць тому +1

      Paint chips are available at RONA for comparison purposes.

  • @Trevan2412
    @Trevan2412 Місяць тому +159

    "Equity deserving groups" is particularly interesting because it is an opinion baked into language. Whether a group "deserves" something is never an absolute truth, but they only allow this word to be used.

    • @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
      @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Місяць тому +6

      Doesn't it need a hyphen? Equity-deserving groups. (Oh God it's a "university" too.) :(

    • @wiseonwords
      @wiseonwords Місяць тому +5

      @@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking - Yes, you're right - the term does need a hyphen.

    • @littlegiantj8761
      @littlegiantj8761 Місяць тому +1

      "Who are you referring to? Because there's a category of people who got it far worse than who you're probably thinking of."

    • @thekickanoragm8559
      @thekickanoragm8559 Місяць тому +2

      Well, doesn't it work by the logic that a certain race is systematically let's say "discriminated" per se(allegedly) and hence the opinion that it should be equited? It's not based on just abbarant stamenent, but in fact history of racial interrelationships, as we know it. I'm pretty sure this would be revelant in South Africa in 1950s, lol

    • @Enyavar1
      @Enyavar1 Місяць тому

      Fringe minorities in our societies - like nazis - shall NEVER be referred to as a "fringe equity deserving groups". They do not deserve anything but contempt.

  • @thorssensgamesNCC1701
    @thorssensgamesNCC1701 5 днів тому +1

    This makes me thankful I stopped at a Bachelors degree and did not continue any further. I would have burned a rejected dissertation on youtube as a protest, probably. And I'm not even in Canada.

  • @23ADJ93
    @23ADJ93 15 днів тому +1

    The state of universities in this country currently has absolutely murdered any ambition I had of going to university one day.

  • @hugovandyk9918
    @hugovandyk9918 Місяць тому +162

    One of my favorite quotes from Terry Pratchett "The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning."

    • @bigfoot8103
      @bigfoot8103 Місяць тому +13

      I'm definitely having that, thanks. Good old Terry Pratchett strikes again.

    • @archermadsen7744
      @archermadsen7744 Місяць тому

      Terry Pratchett was very woke.

    • @hugovandyk9918
      @hugovandyk9918 Місяць тому

      @@archermadsen7744 Terry Pratchett is a humanitarian. Not woke.

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Місяць тому +3

      @@archermadsen7744 Doesn't make the quote any less amazing.

    • @archermadsen7744
      @archermadsen7744 Місяць тому

      @@jasondashney Yes, and he wasn't on your side. He was a part of the woke left.

  • @familiecole
    @familiecole Місяць тому +117

    As a father of a disabled child, who has given up a highly paid career to take care and to teach him the basic skills needed to function independently in life, I find it difficult to find upset and angst in the way other people use language. These have too much time on their hands, and not an ounce of compassion.

    • @atraxian5881
      @atraxian5881 Місяць тому

      Generally the people "offended" by this use of language are affluent white people who have never experienced any hardship, but want to be viewed as heroes.
      The rest are in for the extra privileges being a "equity deserving person" brings them or a misguided useful idiocy.

    • @radiofreeriver
      @radiofreeriver Місяць тому +1

      Let us not be like them, learn from their mistakes, and support eachother as the brothers and sisters we are. God bless us and ours.

    • @radiofreeriver
      @radiofreeriver Місяць тому

      Let us not be like them, learn from their mistakes, and care for one another as the brothers and sisters we all are.
      God bless us and ours.

  • @patriciarocco2610
    @patriciarocco2610 Місяць тому +2

    The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill -- A Black-Canadian writer. It was published in the US but I understand that his publisher had to change the title even though that is what the book was called. It was the book of black Loyalists who left the US after the War of Independence.

  • @zatmanh2
    @zatmanh2 8 годин тому

    As a French man, the name of this University (Waterloo) offend me 😢: should be «Wellington’s Victory » !

  • @fen6300
    @fen6300 Місяць тому +183

    as a French person, oriental means "to the East". That's it. Occidental is west, Meridional is South, Septentrional is North

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Місяць тому +5

      English academic writing is rooted in its colonial heritage. They separated the "civilized" worlds of North America and Europe with the mysterious "orient" full of magic, superstition, defying physics and sexual misanthropy or "The Other"".
      Other places like India and the Middle East get lumped into "The Orient" despite being very distinct from the East of Asia.
      The English academics have given us a lot, especially in map making and surveying techniques, but the basis for their thinking is often very flawed.

    • @ionlawrence4401
      @ionlawrence4401 Місяць тому +45

      @@SantomPh BS. Orient means east, not all of this crap that you assign to it. Cringe

    • @bunderlemu7802
      @bunderlemu7802 Місяць тому +26

      ​@@SantomPh What's your point? That mystery has lured many Westerners to come here and learn about us. We also learn about you as you learn about us.

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr Місяць тому +15

      In Romanian it's the same, except for "Septentrional" for the North. We use 'Occident' for the West (including geopolitically), and variations of 'Orient' for the Near East, Middle East or Far East regions.
      Even geographically ("Carpații Orientali" - Eastern Carpathians). It's just descriptive & seen as proper, academic language...

    • @fen6300
      @fen6300 Місяць тому +11

      oriens in latin means either "east" or "dawn, sunrise" which confirms my statement. Yeah it's pretty much the same in every language that derives from latin, except the english academics had to put a political statement

  • @nogmeerjan
    @nogmeerjan Місяць тому +140

    "minority of murderers" => "the Equity deserving group of murderers"
    Does not feel right to me 🙄

    • @PracticaProphetica
      @PracticaProphetica Місяць тому +6

      This should work well for our American friends: "a minority of voters voted for Donald Trump" becomes "an equity-deserving group of voters voted for Donald Trump"!

    • @exosproudmamabear558
      @exosproudmamabear558 Місяць тому

      This has similar energy of life is bitter, soap is bitter life is soap.

  • @Yourequiremoreminerals
    @Yourequiremoreminerals 29 днів тому +2

    School in Canada has always been an awful experience and they find innovative ways to make it worse. Love your channel btw!

  • @mickinetsystems
    @mickinetsystems 21 день тому +1

    Another great video. Was wondering where u have been. As a black person, I don’t feel offended when called black, african etc. Its who I am and am proud of it

  • @Ninja.Alinja
    @Ninja.Alinja Місяць тому +144

    This African American thing got totally out of control in Germany. I’ve heard people referring to black people in Europe as Afroamerican even though they’ve never been there or might not even speak English.

    • @ratisbonawau
      @ratisbonawau Місяць тому +1

      Same thing with how National Identities like Bavarian, Saxon, Westphalian have been replaced with "white" to really hammer in the destruction of our Cultures. Or how theyre also currently trying their best to remove any mention of the expelled Heimatvertriebene Germans of the former Eastern Territories.

    • @huwhitecavebeast1972
      @huwhitecavebeast1972 Місяць тому

      They need to go home. Germany for the Germans.

    • @ratisbonawau
      @ratisbonawau Місяць тому

      First Comment got removed "Same thing with how N○tion○l Identities like Bavarian, Saxon, Westphalian have been r-plac€d with "huyite" to really hammer in the destruction of •ur C\/lt\/res. Or how theyre also currently trying their best to r/move any mention of the expe//ed Heimat veгtгiebene G - rmans of the former Oriental Territories."

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold Місяць тому +8

      Das Thema ist aber nicht neu, zieht sich schon lange hin, mir ist dabei sofort eine über 20 Jahre alte Szene aus der Harald Schmidt Show eingefallen, als Co-Moderator Andrack irgendwelche Leute überkorrekt als Afro-Amerikaner bezeichnete ...nur hatten die eben mit Amerika überhaupt nichts zu tun.

    • @Zdraviski
      @Zdraviski Місяць тому +5

      There was even a joke about in the movie Brüno (with the actor who played Borat).

  • @christophernuzzi2780
    @christophernuzzi2780 Місяць тому +83

    People only started to be "offended" by these words when they were told they should be offended by them.

    • @wambokodavid7109
      @wambokodavid7109 Місяць тому +7

      Whos getting offended tho? People use these word daily and I have yet to see someone lose their mind

    • @halburd1
      @halburd1 Місяць тому

      @@wambokodavid7109 all you need to know to answer this is that leftists are insane and evil. knowing this then you understand.

    • @aaftiyoDkcdicurak
      @aaftiyoDkcdicurak Місяць тому

      They were taught to be offended in school. Why do you think Gaydolf Shitler said to reach a nation you need to reach its youth. It's why schools are places of indoctrination and not education.

    • @No_name860
      @No_name860 Місяць тому +1

      @@wambokodavid7109nobody is, that’s the point. The globalists use our institutions to push their ideas. Part of the ritual is to force you to change your language. Check out what the Soviet communists did and what the Chinese did under Mao. It has nothing to do with offending people. They’re using that excuse to get you to comply.

    • @thethrashyone
      @thethrashyone Місяць тому +5

      And when they realized that "I'm offended" is the magical phrase that gets them special attention.

  • @Mr.Nichan
    @Mr.Nichan 16 днів тому +3

    I think the problem with "oriental" among Anglophones may be a reaction to the 1978 book "Orientalism" where Edward Said apparently criticizes the attitudes of Western "Orientalists", such as the whole idea that everything other than "The West" is "The East", and the way they come from a perspective of assuming their own "Western" perspectives are correct. I've never read the book myself, though, and those two criticisms I mentioned were just vaguely remembered. Anyway, I think most "Orientalists" were really influenced by his criticism and tried to ditch the name "Orientalist" while trying to be different from what he criticized, and meanwhile the ideas he criticized entered pop culture as the meaning of the term "Orientalism", which probably indirectly made people stop liking "Oriental" as a racial or geographic term. Interestingly, what you said the word "orientale" conjures in Italian is mostly not that different from what it conjures in English, and the criticism of "Orientalism" is MOSTLY not that it is directly derogetory, but rather that it has misleading mythologizing elements (similar to the "noble savage" trope about "primitive" peoples) and also that there are some derogatory elements usually not focused on as total negatives by people using the word "Oriental", like ideas of "the East" being "primative" or unscientific with lots of superstition, prone to absolute monarchies, and effeminate.

    • @lindylou4378
      @lindylou4378 4 дні тому

      I must mention this to The Oriental Museum in Durham which has, until now, been showing things of beauty from the Orient unaware of it's own extreme prejudice.

    • @Lohensteinio
      @Lohensteinio 3 дні тому

      You’re right. Anglophone hand-wringing over the word “oriental” and its variants is largely thanks to Said’s book.

  • @jaserart
    @jaserart Місяць тому +4

    Forza Italia!!
    In Spanish the world "Orient" means "from the East " or "of the East" although a lotta old people sometimes uses it to refer to people from Asia. For instance my country's full name is: Republica Oriental del Uruguay. (Republic East of the Uruguay River)
    Thanks for your videos, I appreciate all the work you put into them, keep it up!!!
    Ciao!

  • @GodsGrace758
    @GodsGrace758 Місяць тому +311

    I HATE it so much too, because it’s DEVIOUS, but masquerades as compassion, & it’s heading to hell on earth!

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle Місяць тому +7

      But the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!

    • @ulrikjensen6841
      @ulrikjensen6841 Місяць тому

      As a counterpart to "orientale" and "orientalist" there is "occidentale" and "occidentalist"; all words are non-racist - and would you all please be quiet from now on 😮😊

    • @Error_404_Account_Deleted
      @Error_404_Account_Deleted Місяць тому +8

      Just like religion. Painted as a good thing but it’s about lies, control, and money.

    • @ceciliacrocker390
      @ceciliacrocker390 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@Error_404_Account_Deleted, In today's world view of Christianity, I agree ..

    • @Vocal-Vegan
      @Vocal-Vegan Місяць тому +1

      it is allowable racism n influences a focus on Our most obvious differences, what we look like.
      but it gives the guvs what they want, the divide n conquer that eventually conquers Our Humanity.

  • @fubokuen
    @fubokuen Місяць тому +65

    The message:
    If we allow them to control certain words, they can control any words they desire.

  • @laureenbrandon7209
    @laureenbrandon7209 18 днів тому +6

    I'm from Canada were not aloud to say what we think,and soon we will be jailed for thoughts we havnt even spoke.

  • @matthewschwartz8730
    @matthewschwartz8730 22 дні тому +1

    I figured I would let you know that I really do appreciate your content I have no idea how I found your channel and I'm glad I gave it a fair shot and started just going by to look real quick maybe pass it over... Your content is pretty thorough and it's actual it's real it's not some bullshit and I'm happy to be subscribed I wish you the best keep it up from Syracuse New York

  • @rdhudon7469
    @rdhudon7469 Місяць тому +383

    As a older Canadian I cannot describe how embarrassed of Canada I am . I would be eaten alive in Uni today. Take off noble hosers . eh !

    • @rogerloger1935
      @rogerloger1935 Місяць тому +2

      There nothing noble about British north-American.

    • @crw-bm7mm
      @crw-bm7mm Місяць тому

      Did you mean there is nothing noble. You must be a toad.​@@rogerloger1935

    • @shinian6523
      @shinian6523 Місяць тому

      Same :D

    • @rdhudon7469
      @rdhudon7469 Місяць тому +15

      @@rogerloger1935 Agreed . My heritage is French and Miq Maq . I'm a half breed .....oops.Lol

    • @sebwan
      @sebwan Місяць тому +15

      Get rid of Trudeau asap

  • @handsolo1209
    @handsolo1209 Місяць тому +118

    "Oh oh, I'm an International Person, I'm an International Person, I'm an International Person from England in New York".

    • @GreenHoleSun
      @GreenHoleSun Місяць тому +5

      You are for sure an international person, unless you come from Canada, I suppose...

    • @bumblebee9337
      @bumblebee9337 Місяць тому

      World Citizens are a thing.

    • @chepman08
      @chepman08 Місяць тому +10

      A man of culture here. “Be yourself no matter what they say” 🎶

    • @marSLaZZ66
      @marSLaZZ66 Місяць тому +2

      😂🤣

    • @CastlesKingSide
      @CastlesKingSide Місяць тому

      but modesty, propriety, can lead to notoriety and you can end up as the only one

  • @user-vj2wt7jh7j
    @user-vj2wt7jh7j Місяць тому +1

    I am glad to see you back in my UA-cam feeds. I wasn't sure if you had taken a break or if UA-cam/Google was playing games.

  • @CataclysmDM
    @CataclysmDM Місяць тому +1

    Canada in general is out of its mind lately. Just in general. Just.. all over.

  • @hdmairbf
    @hdmairbf Місяць тому +123

    As an Asian person born and raised in Florida, there is nothing racist about the word oriental. It’s literally a Ramen Noodle flavor

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Місяць тому +10

      Also Latin meaning Eastern

    • @cariopuppetmaster
      @cariopuppetmaster Місяць тому

      Because oriental seems extremely old fashioned at best

    • @hdmairbf
      @hdmairbf Місяць тому +27

      @@cariopuppetmaster so old fashioned = racist?

    • @cariopuppetmaster
      @cariopuppetmaster Місяць тому

      @@hdmairbf are you seriously saying words cannot be come outdated?

    • @hdmairbf
      @hdmairbf Місяць тому +23

      @@cariopuppetmaster is that what I said?

  • @soulwynd
    @soulwynd Місяць тому +107

    There are about 30 million enslaved persons right now. But thankfully Canadian universities are on the case of not offending them.

    • @Free_Krazy
      @Free_Krazy Місяць тому

      That's nearly the population of Canada...
      Atleast the Universirty of Waterloo is doing their part to end this modern horror, so progressive!

    • @chaosgyro
      @chaosgyro Місяць тому +6

      Thank goodness they are only People Currently Experiencing a State of Involuntary Non-Self Ownership. That seems like an administrative problem for which their local office surely has a form. I was worried they might actually be slaves!

    • @soulwynd
      @soulwynd Місяць тому +7

      @@Free_Krazy The number breakdown is more like this.
      Around 10 million slaves in Africa from generational slave families, including the same ones that were sold to the Americas.
      Around 20 million in forced labor and indentured service around the world
      Around 20 million of women in forced marriage, which the UN now also call slaves.
      Meanwhile, we best not say anything offensive.

    • @junkandcrapamen
      @junkandcrapamen Місяць тому

      Is it the U of W's responsibility to free those slaves? No. How would they?
      Is it their responsibility to have a welcoming and respectful environment at their school for everyone who attends? Yes.

    • @soulwynd
      @soulwynd Місяць тому +4

      @@junkandcrapamen No. The responsibility of any university or college is to challenge people and make people able to think for themselves so they can go and potentially improve the world in their field of work.
      If they want to enact social justice, they should do it for real instead of virtue signalling with shitty fucking words that don't matter in the slightest in any environment outside their reach. They should teach about the real inequalities that still exist and challenge their students to come with solutions on how to fix it.

  • @kimb5245
    @kimb5245 20 днів тому

    I just found your channel a couple of days ago. Every video I see, I appreciate your perspective more!

  • @Monkey-Boy2006
    @Monkey-Boy2006 13 днів тому +1

    I talked to a Biological Anthropology graduate and she said terms like Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negroid are offensive and instead use the term European, Asian or African Ancestry. I realised something....those new terms aren't accurate. I think the problem is, when it comes to Biological Anthropology, people need to put emotions and politics aside and switch into a Scientific and Analytical mode. Otherwise it's not constructive. 🤔

  • @i-craftsdesign3175
    @i-craftsdesign3175 Місяць тому +210

    Newsflash. Me as a Portuguese man am a "mulato".
    We use that exact word to refer to ourselves as mixed race.
    And not only do we not find that offensive, we downright roast ourselves and get roasted by others in a good spot of banter.
    But only "light roast" that is...
    Get it? Get it?
    I'll see myself out.

    • @casualcausalityy
      @casualcausalityy Місяць тому +21

      If we can't laugh about this stuff we're doomed

    • @ms.blackcat
      @ms.blackcat Місяць тому +7

      😁

    • @FireflowerDancer
      @FireflowerDancer Місяць тому +17

      A new racial descriptor "lightly roasted" 😂 And when you have a tan, it's 'full roast' status

    • @alanmichelsandovalcardona4938
      @alanmichelsandovalcardona4938 Місяць тому +9

      Yeah as a mexican, I was told my great grandpa was a mulato, however for you and me that word has a different connotation because some dudes in some places used that as a derogatory term and now they ruined the party for everyone else.

    • @derekgiandolfi39
      @derekgiandolfi39 Місяць тому +7

      Bro...thats awesome.I am Sicilian who lived in Florida since Kindergarten. We went to Tyndall FAB Elementary school. We all grew up together..all races..nothing is more diverse than the military

  • @dominiccassidy9708
    @dominiccassidy9708 Місяць тому +117

    Over here in the UK there was a comedian Charlie Williams, who was born and brought up in Yorkshire . His father was from Barbados and came to England in 1914. One of the jokes Charlie used to tell was, "There's this fella, he's got pink skin, yellow hair and blue eyes. He calls me coloured."

    • @jarlnils435
      @jarlnils435 Місяць тому +11

      my grandfather asked his neighbor, who was from Congo, why he would be coloured.
      He said, "If you hit me, my skin will turn red, than blue, than green and yellow. If I stay to long in the sun my skin will turn red and than develope brown spots. You are always brown. Now who is coloured?"

    • @zeljaanaaa
      @zeljaanaaa Місяць тому +2

      This reminds me how in Turkey people call blue and green eyes coloured (renkli) 😅

    • @tacticalskiffs8134
      @tacticalskiffs8134 Місяць тому

      Technically, black and white are not colours. Black is what you see when there is no reflected light. Some paints do that 99+%. Or you are in an unlit bank vault with the door closed. White is all elements of the visible spectrum of light together, which is why a prism can separate them out. Not sure what "of colour" means, but it sounds more like white than blacks. Of course people are melanin, blood, and skin, in variable amounts.

    • @leinadreign3510
      @leinadreign3510 Місяць тому +2

      Sir, you made me laugh by telling this great joke!
      Thank you ^^

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Місяць тому

      @@tacticalskiffs8134 I'd argue white is a colour. If you call any combined combo of other colors a new color, then the combo of all the colors is also a color. I'm not sure it would make much sense that you can have billions and billions of amalgamated colours and only one combo is excluded.

  • @shaunloates5051
    @shaunloates5051 Місяць тому +2

    We are all red blooded..❤❤❤❤🎉
    Love one another..❤❤❤❤Love is kind...forgive one another,encourage each other to walk in

  • @rociomiranda5684
    @rociomiranda5684 13 днів тому

    I am a native Spanish speaker, and I concur with all your comments.

  • @jemmrich
    @jemmrich Місяць тому +101

    The lower case 'w' speaks volumes to the purpose and agenda.

    • @nagyati87
      @nagyati87 Місяць тому

      Yep, we should not call Caucasians white people, but "The enslavers"

    • @mpf5381
      @mpf5381 Місяць тому +13

      Racism.

    • @TCGdp
      @TCGdp Місяць тому

      To refer to European descended peoples as "white" in lowercase serves to undermine a distinct identity to Whites and facilitate an inferior view of their culture in lieu of their demographic replacement. In other words to call European peoples "white" is to lay the groundwork for their genocide.

    • @carolthedabbler2105
      @carolthedabbler2105 Місяць тому +4

      I agree, it should be either "Black" and "White" or "black" and "white." Upper-case "White" looks kinda racist to me, so that settles it -- in my opinion it's got to be "black" and "white."

    • @jesustyronechrist2330
      @jesustyronechrist2330 Місяць тому +6

      Yeah, at first I was just thinking "oh well the 'multiracial' part is lowercase too and then every point after is capitalized..."
      But the lack of care and attention to detail is so convenient, it either paints the creators as racist or incompetent.

  • @charlesodonnell2993
    @charlesodonnell2993 Місяць тому +66

    One of my ancestors was abducted from the Adriatic coast north of Bari during the days of the Ottoman slave trade. The story has passed down by word of mouth every generation since. We use the words ""slavery" and " Turkish slave traders" so we do not forget.

    • @richardhockey8442
      @richardhockey8442 Місяць тому +13

      the barbary pirate slave raids on southern England and on US shipping which eventually resulting in the US marines being sent in - 'to the shores of Tripoli'

  • @karinbeyaert9950
    @karinbeyaert9950 День тому

    I want to underline that bold people do feel insulted by being called bold. Less hairy contemporary person sounds much more friendly! So easy is it to make the world a better place!

  • @Coromi1
    @Coromi1 6 днів тому

    My aunt emigrated from Romania to the US. She called herself Caucasian. It was the only time I had ever heard this word.

  • @christiano9693
    @christiano9693 Місяць тому +123

    "Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak it's to narrow the range of thought?"

    • @Ingulf_The_Mad
      @Ingulf_The_Mad Місяць тому +15

      It is much more than this. The purpose of propaganda, at least in its late stage form, is not to inform you, or deceive you or even manipulate you. It's to humiliate you. Its purpose is to be so outlandish, so ridiculous and so blatantly untrue and yet totally undeniable in order to reinforce the power of the state. The Soviets referred to this as 'hyperrealism'. That is-the state of everyone saying things that are completely false and that they know to be false-but which they cannot deny. The supermarket shelves are empty and bread lines stretch around the corner, but the newspapers report that the year's agricultural quotas have been exceeded once again. And then everyone is forced to repeat this lie and thus they become complicit in it. It is a system of total social humiliation and control, theorized in the aftermath of the October revolution by those who wanted to spread a communist utopia throughout the world and today made into a weapon by the world's economic powers in search of control over the masses, who take advantage of the work of these useful idiots.

    • @christiano9693
      @christiano9693 Місяць тому +8

      Real world newspeak primary characteristic: words and terms that include their own interpretation.
      For example "newcomer" or "refugee" instead of the neutral word foreign.
      Newcomer self contained interpretation:
      You are oldcomer, they are newcomer, this is an equalization, so they have right to come like your ancestors come from other land (like all human groups). Conclusion, your population don't have right to have a migration politic based on your population interests, because there are not nationals and foreigners that can become nationals through nationality acquisition, there are oldcomers and newcomers.
      Refugee self contained interpretation: Because this is proposed as alternative to foreigner, doesn't matter if this reflect the truth, don't matter that the person is from a country in war or anything like that, the aim is that if you don't agree with open frontiers you are against offering refuge so you are morally bad.
      You can do this exercise with every newspeak word. All of them contain an interpretation, none of them are neutral just words, all of them are political devices.

    • @agnidas5816
      @agnidas5816 Місяць тому +5

      more than that.
      it is racist language where racism didn't exist before...

    • @archermadsen7744
      @archermadsen7744 Місяць тому

      Orwell was a socialist who who fought in the Spanish Civil War against fascists. He isn't your friend.

  • @MinionofNobody
    @MinionofNobody Місяць тому +40

    I am an old retired guy. I have witnessed polite ways of referring to various minority groups change during my life. It can frankly be difficult for some older people to keep track of changes in terminology. Thus, some of us default to using those polite terms that were common when we were young without having any bad intent.
    My personal opinion is that we spend too much time and effort changing polite terms for minority groups. I think we do this because it is an easy way of convincing ourselves that we are making positive changes while failing to address the underlying issues. It is a lot like covering decaying walls with new wallpaper.
    Regarding the word “ghetto”, my grandparents were Italian immigrants to the U.S. My father was born and raised in an Italian ghetto. My father and his parents referred to it as an “Italian ghetto”. Changing the terminology does nothing but obscure the historical reality of where they lived so that modern people can feel better.

    • @charlayned
      @charlayned Місяць тому

      Yep, I'm right there with you, there are times when I slip and say "Oriental" when speaking of someone of Asian heritage and it's not meant to be a slur at all. Chances are good that I"m forgetting the word "Asian" (pain medications and neuro problems make word recall a bit wonky) and just have to revert to the word that I'm remembering.

    • @tashatsu_vachel4477
      @tashatsu_vachel4477 Місяць тому

      @@charlayned - The term 'Asian' is quite offensive to many of the people it can be applied to. Try telling someone from China and another from Pakistan that they are both Asian and watch them both insist they are not the same as the other group.

    • @reekinronald6776
      @reekinronald6776 Місяць тому

      I'm old enough to remember the birth of Political Correctness in the late 70s early 80s. Political correctness just referred to personal social interactions where a person, typically a white person would say something that was innocent to a black person, but could be taken the wrong way. For example, I recall making a joke to a group of people about me being the token man at an all female event. However, there was a black woman in the group I was talking to. After I said it, I cringed,....because "token" was often referred to black people. That was all Political Correctness was at the time. Social engineering to control speech in personal conversations. Now, it's controlling all of society, but the principles are the same.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому

      Its exactly as you say, people change a few words and then feel good about themselves instead of taking any actual action to improve outcomes for the people they supposedly care about. If you call them out on this hypocrisy, they call you names and throw a fit.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому

      @@tashatsu_vachel4477 Thats missing the point. They are both Asian just like both me and people from Serbia are European. That doesnt mean we are the same, just that we live on the same continent geographically.

  • @OddawallWood
    @OddawallWood 2 дні тому

    Instead of the word, slave, one might say, "a person who is the personal property of another person or persons." For example, a person who has a large balance on a credit card is the personal property of the bank.

  • @toucan221
    @toucan221 22 години тому

    The reason they want to change meanings is to soften anything that can be used as political leverage, also to stop any kind of differentiation, so No one call anyone else by person of group. As you say also to suppress any kind of individual thought.

  • @kevingray4980
    @kevingray4980 Місяць тому +154

    'Equity deserving people' is the most egregious example of newspeak rendering rational discourse impossible. "Are ethnic equity deserving people the only people who deserve equity? "

    • @holyfool343
      @holyfool343 Місяць тому +8

      I had the same response. Some of these are odd to see, e.g. I haven’t seen “mulatto” in print since the 1970s; but this one is just bizarre. “Minority” doesn’t have any stigma associated with it, and is most often used by the mainstream left. What, exactly, are they trying to combat here?

    • @whatrubbishthishandle
      @whatrubbishthishandle Місяць тому +1

      Is this university Woke?😮

    • @erikblomqvist8325
      @erikblomqvist8325 Місяць тому

      ​@@holyfool343 They are pushing their political ideology, that minorities deserve equity.
      If Justin gets caught murdering someone, they'll replace "murderer" with "freedom deserving individual".
      It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with their agenda.
      Pray for Canada. 🙏🏼

    • @littlegiantj8761
      @littlegiantj8761 Місяць тому +6

      "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

    • @TheGraemi
      @TheGraemi Місяць тому

      @@whatrubbishthishandle No, extremists.

  • @JustMe-ob7lu
    @JustMe-ob7lu Місяць тому +114

    I'm an Robotic Engineer from Austria. We once in the USA we had to rename our robots to Robot 1 anf Robot 2 from master robot and slave robot which is a technical term for a leading machine, motor, component on any kind of machine (including robots) .
    It took a while to do so and it took a while to understand the stupidity. It's just a machine. It wasn't offended

    • @lettersquash
      @lettersquash Місяць тому +19

      Hmm, that still puts Robot 1 in prime position and Robot 2 ... wait, isn't that an equity deserving robot?

    • @ra13579_
      @ra13579_ Місяць тому +7

      This also happened to software engineering

    • @leoniepipe6910
      @leoniepipe6910 Місяць тому +7

      @@ra13579_ And electronics. I rather liked the term "master-slave" for the controlling and the controlled transistor circuits. Very descriptive and not at all offensive IMHO.

    • @jean-louispech4921
      @jean-louispech4921 Місяць тому +8

      in my work we use the word master and slave for communication with some network protocols.
      what is funny is that the smae robot, API , etc.. can be slave with one item and master with another item....

    • @kurtellestad4070
      @kurtellestad4070 Місяць тому

      I call bullshit on this story. Nobody forced y'all to change a damn thing

  • @clouds2593
    @clouds2593 27 днів тому +1

    Slave = The person was always a slave, never any other thing.
    Enslaved = The person was a free human being that happened to be forcefully enslaved by the enslavers.

  • @LanielPhoto
    @LanielPhoto 3 дні тому +1

    I'm so happy I'm in a position where I can totally ignore all of this politically correct and woke crap.

  • @scassoniostrarompi1691
    @scassoniostrarompi1691 Місяць тому +74

    14:45
    "I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien,
    I'm an Englishman in New York"
    Sting, Englishman in New York, 1987

    • @adriennedunne1748
      @adriennedunne1748 Місяць тому +3

      You know, that came into my mind too when it was mentioned. I was trying to figure out how Sting would re-word that and keep it musical. 😅😂 hahaha

    • @ms.blackcat
      @ms.blackcat Місяць тому +2

      Illegal Alien Genesis. Will that song be banned? Is it offensive? 😅

    • @kellerkind6169
      @kellerkind6169 Місяць тому +1

      nowadays this is probably a racist song...alongside "In The Ghetto" by Elvis (other people in the comment section have stated have refered to the later song well before me)And we will probably see those songs on a list of "problematic songs" that should not be played or talked about rather sooner than later

    • @FireflowerDancer
      @FireflowerDancer Місяць тому +1

      @@ms.blackcat I don't know, all I know is, 'it's noooo fun, bein an illeguul aleeyuuun' 🎵

  • @LyonTheGreat
    @LyonTheGreat Місяць тому +69

    As a Canadian, let me tell you my dear Italian friend, it gets SO MUCH WORSE. You have not even begun to scratch the surface regarding the kinds of academic pollution going on up here. Would love to see another video taking a look at other universities and how they conduct themselves in the realm of social and institutional discourse.

    • @FireflowerDancer
      @FireflowerDancer Місяць тому +5

      'Academic pollution' perfect term! I picture a book falling right in the toilet 🤣

    • @FireflowerDancer
      @FireflowerDancer Місяць тому +3

      Also, I second your suggestion. That would be amazing if Metatron would do a piece on universities.

    • @FSboy70
      @FSboy70 Місяць тому

      Don't worry, you aren't alone. It's happening in all Western countries. Somebody clearly doesn't like western peoples, nor reality or facts lol

    • @watchmanonthewall14
      @watchmanonthewall14 Місяць тому +3

      Exact same occurring in the US.

  • @capansonyaiii
    @capansonyaiii 18 днів тому +1

    You're the first person on the internet I've agreed with on Canadian politics. It's a shit show here. My life goal is actually to leave the country.

  • @markgnarz5399
    @markgnarz5399 Місяць тому +2

    Yesh, I was recently told this is also on the Associated Press Style Guides--how they write their articles.

  • @JavierSalcedoC
    @JavierSalcedoC Місяць тому +60

    If you even ask "is it offensive to you?" you will ALWAYS find a lunatic that says YES

    • @U20E0
      @U20E0 Місяць тому +2

      I find this offensive /j

    • @inkognitou6982
      @inkognitou6982 Місяць тому

      😆😆😆

  • @Blainosdias
    @Blainosdias Місяць тому +77

    Im in canada and the government is out of touch . Its not just university

    • @JesusFriedChrist
      @JesusFriedChrist Місяць тому +1

      Society too.

    • @Blainosdias
      @Blainosdias Місяць тому +1

      @JesusFriedChrist people tolerate the dumbest stuff in the name of "good adornment"

    • @Vocal-Vegan
      @Vocal-Vegan Місяць тому

      the canadian guv is trying to cause the same racial division in Canada tht gets So pushed in America.
      there is even a blk caucus in the ontario ndippy party. the website had thew mission statement tht read, we will focus on issues relating to the blk community........evryone pays them, but they get to only work for the ones tht look like thm........
      the guv fully knows about politics being segregated in ontario n no-one is doing anything about it.
      if Our politics r segregated, then so should Our taxes be.

    • @ch-yq5yn
      @ch-yq5yn Місяць тому

      Then maybe people should start getting involved in politics and vote different. Instead of whining about it go out and do some outreach and talk with people. Complaining about something without taking action is a bit annoying. It's a victim type complex.

    • @acecatman
      @acecatman Місяць тому

      @@ch-yq5yn sounds like you're fond of being labeled a nazi by the CBC, losing your job, bank account and credit, and sleeping in a tent

  • @TheBeastCH
    @TheBeastCH Місяць тому

    The last point on the list implies that an illegal immigrant is just a more derogatory term for refugee.
    A refugee is someone who fled his homeland from danger, seeks shelter in a safer place, and goes back once the danger is over. An immigrant is someone who comes to stay, for whatever reason. And an illegal immigrant is someone who comes to stay, despite not being allowed to by law.
    No idea what international people are supposed to be, but it implies someone who naturally belongs to several countries, and travels between them.
    I know too little about what Equity means to touch that can of worms, but it's being mentioned a lot in places where one could expect the word Equality 10 years ago, and from what I read so far, it clearly isn't the same.

  • @mrs.w5145
    @mrs.w5145 Місяць тому +1

    Canadian here… I can’t believe what I’m hearing! What if your writing a paper about history? You would have to use all kinds of words to describe it, and then get kicked out of school I guess.