WOKENESS: The New Western Morality | Douglas Murray

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  • čas přidán 17. 04. 2024
  • In this clip, Douglas Murray and John talk about the incoherence of woke ideology.
    Douglas Murray is a prolific British author
    and journalist. He has been contributor to The Spectator since 2000 and has been associate editor of the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets, including: the Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Evening Standard, and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint Magazine since its founding. His latest book, 'The War on the West', was published in May 2022.
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Komentáře • 177

  • @nigelwitgunn3406
    @nigelwitgunn3406 Před měsícem +78

    "Are men better at certain things than women...", well yes, at being a woman according to recent awards.

    • @abazely2743
      @abazely2743 Před měsícem +5

      With same height and weight men are 20% stronger.

    • @geekazores253
      @geekazores253 Před měsícem +3

      😂😂😂

    • @hdk11
      @hdk11 Před měsícem +3

      Men are breaking ALL of the women’s world records 😂

    • @waaagh3203
      @waaagh3203 Před měsícem +4

      We even won Time's Woman of the Year :D :D :D GO MEN!

    • @nigelwitgunn3406
      @nigelwitgunn3406 Před měsícem +1

      @@waaagh3203 🤣🤣🤣

  • @dorianshadesofgray2981
    @dorianshadesofgray2981 Před 2 měsíci +155

    Armed forces , firefighting , police officers . This dropping physical standards to allow women to serve in the field is a severe danger to our society

    • @daniellebcooper7160
      @daniellebcooper7160 Před 2 měsíci +28

      Agreed. Im all for woman doing any job they want, Provided standards arnt dropped just to accommodate them.

    • @ulrichenevoldsen8371
      @ulrichenevoldsen8371 Před měsícem +13

      I was in the army over a decade. Women recruits made more money than the men ( because men in Denmark are drafted women start as constables) women have more time to pass the 5k run. They get things to step on during the obstacle course and generally they would get all the easiest tasks.
      I did know one or two women that would lift more run faster and work harder than most men, but that was definitely not the norm.

    • @ma3stro681
      @ma3stro681 Před měsícem +19

      DEI = Didn’t Earn It ☠️

    • @returnofthenative
      @returnofthenative Před měsícem +9

      Maybe, maybe not. It depends, look at the IDF.

    • @UNCHART3DGAMING
      @UNCHART3DGAMING Před měsícem +1

      Women have been pushing for “equality” for a very long g time - give it to them if they want to test their “mettle” against men - especially ones that wouldn’t think twice to torture them before killing them in combat - they only want “boardroom” jobs and power not jobs requiring physical and mental strength

  • @user-rt2ym5xz4v
    @user-rt2ym5xz4v Před měsícem +77

    I always appreciate Douglas Murray!!

  • @fiedag
    @fiedag Před 2 měsíci +52

    Keep it coming please John.

  • @ItaThe3rd
    @ItaThe3rd Před měsícem +1

    The voice of reason! Thank you, Mr. Murray, for your tremendous journalism!

  • @ulrichkuhlmann5459
    @ulrichkuhlmann5459 Před měsícem +27

    Mr Murray would be right to dismiss interpreting society by interest groups because morality comes from one higher than ourselves. Trouble is our society has lost sight of who this is. The influencing social divide that once governed our society was that of good and evil defined by the 10 commandments.

  • @michaeljoblin873
    @michaeljoblin873 Před měsícem +39

    It’s very pleasing to hear and listen how Douglas thinks and can express himself.

    • @kenvanlit402
      @kenvanlit402 Před měsícem

      Dougie loves the sound of his own voice. But he's just a person making money out of yapping but not helping society. Like Jordan Peterson, his time in the spotlight will end. He is just as woke as the wokes. Just from a another woke hemisphere.

  • @Serving.God.And.Humanity
    @Serving.God.And.Humanity Před měsícem +3

    Outstanding and remarkable work John and Douglas exposing and declaring the truth! 💯 God bless you! 💯✝️🕊🙏❤️🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺🇮🇱🇺🇸

  • @tonydique4554
    @tonydique4554 Před měsícem +32

    Brilliant and cogent

  • @bart-v
    @bart-v Před měsícem +9

    identity is the opposite of individualism. Individualism is what makes one unique; identity is what makes you identical to everybody else within a certain group. Identity leads to collectivism; collectivism to totalitarianism.

  • @johnnieg3214
    @johnnieg3214 Před 2 měsíci +37

    Douglas is sooo correct and cogent on this issue.

  • @joetato2227
    @joetato2227 Před měsícem +27

    Talking to crazy with common sense does not work. What's plan B?

  • @gregorycasey5486
    @gregorycasey5486 Před měsícem +3

    Murray is brilliant!

  • @mustang607
    @mustang607 Před měsícem +51

    Wokeness: a new tribal religion

    • @paperback333
      @paperback333 Před měsícem +2

      unlike the other religions...

    • @mustang607
      @mustang607 Před měsícem +5

      @@paperback333 Wokeness is definitely unlike other religions.

    • @neilreynolds3858
      @neilreynolds3858 Před měsícem +4

      Yes, that seems still to be missed by almost everybody. New religions don't go away because they're madness like their detractors assume. The best you can do is to not be taken over by them and we're failing at that.

    • @lkyuvsad
      @lkyuvsad Před měsícem

      The next US president may well be the guy backed by people who want to turn the world’s most successful democracy into a theocracy. Are we worried about that as well?

  • @shawnpatrick4703
    @shawnpatrick4703 Před měsícem +11

    In answer to the question why would we take the individual out of individuals?
    The idea is to confuse and make people generally unsure of themselves.

    • @lkyuvsad
      @lkyuvsad Před měsícem

      All human beings are sovereign individuals and the idea that we should collaborate as communities with shared interests is ridiculous. The minute anybody becomes part of a community, their individual identity is completely erased.

    • @KernowFay
      @KernowFay Před měsícem +1

      Maybe, but a society where people are loyal to the group and only have one view is easier to control.

  • @zsuzsakeller9968
    @zsuzsakeller9968 Před měsícem +8

    he is describing doublethink perfectly executed

    • @stevekilligrew788
      @stevekilligrew788 Před měsícem

      I have just recently revisited Orwell’s 1984 & the thing that struck me most was, as you have precisely identified, doublethink and newspeak have now been hard-wired & fully assimilated into our media and on-line narratives to such an extent that they have subverted both our use of language & our common-sense ability to objectively and rationally examine and discuss almost every topic under the sun. We now longer agree to disagree, or say we need time to think complex things through, all judgement has currently morphed into no more than an immediate reflex action. The other thing that the book 1984 reminded me of was the systematic and wilful destruction of love as a social good and its calculated replacement by universal hatred which we seemingly as a species have also undertaken almost without any comment or reaction. Hate, hatred, war, polarisation, divide and rule, ghettoisation and divisiveness are all there seems to be in our world in 2024. How did we get here? More importantly how do we get out of here?

  • @alman6581
    @alman6581 Před měsícem

    I love Douglas' strength of opinion. Fabulous. I also happen to agree with him on near everything.

  • @mxvega1097
    @mxvega1097 Před měsícem +4

    Putting people into tight, essentialist boxes, according to characteristics they didn't choose, seems like the road to fascism.
    One group gains, one group stays about the same, one is victimized; each takes shots at each other, and blurring between the boxes or moving becomes a crime. All while the group on top smiles and claims it's for the best and nicest of reasons.

    • @lkyuvsad
      @lkyuvsad Před měsícem +1

      How _do_ we help ensure that all people have similar opportunities regardless of race, gender and sexuality?
      Do we want that? Because if we do we have to think about these things at least a little bit. Because people have prejudices that will win out without systems that account for them.
      It’s a ridiculous straw man to suggest that everyone concerned with these issues thinks people are entirely defined by race or gender or whatever. Isn’t it the opposite of defining people by their race or gender to say that you should be able to access every opportunity your talents permit regardless of those characteristics? There’s some double think going on there, surely?

    • @mxvega1097
      @mxvega1097 Před měsícem

      @@lkyuvsad Easy. Focus on equal opportunity. That where we were in the 90s.
      The problem (for activists) becomes that it's slow, flawed, and insufficiently extreme. So the objective drifts into equality of outcomes (which is theoretically and practically impossible). This approach must push the classification and regimentation of people into tight boxes - because that is what is measured, that is the success factor: if a measure is racial diversity, you have to measure everyone participating or wanting to get involved by race - whatever that is. And every other intersectional gradation: ethnicity, language, accent, gender, mental illness, disability and so on.
      And which aspect - remediable, and worth focussing on for social mobility - is getting ignored? Class, aka poverty. By focussing on tight boxes of characteristics that can't be changed, we risk ignored the most obvious one that can - adjusting for equal opportunity and access for the economically disadvantaged.

  • @cctv5348
    @cctv5348 Před 2 měsíci +34

    Awful title. Wokeness is vanity driven idiocy, to call it morality is absurd.

    • @daniellebcooper7160
      @daniellebcooper7160 Před 2 měsíci +10

      I think its a form of modern Marxi'sm,

    • @mowse73
      @mowse73 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@daniellebcooper7160 post modernism influenced by Kant,Hegel, Marx and the Frankfurt School.

    • @jamestanne1971
      @jamestanne1971 Před měsícem

      Marxism, Hegelian Dialectic, Fabian Socialism, Revolution or Counter Revolution, Progressivism, Secularism, Deconstructionism, Nihilism… whatever school of thought, it’s the same old lies by which men (and women) seek to replace meritocracy and virtue with the pretense thereof, seeking gain without offering anything of true value, playing on the most base of human emotions, whether pride, fear, vanity, the ugliest of which is envy.

    • @rudi5139
      @rudi5139 Před měsícem +10

      It‘s female emotionalism and won‘t go away.

    • @wayneharrison
      @wayneharrison Před měsícem +1

      @@rudi5139 As in... Crazy Cat Lady, yelling at the sky?🙀🧟‍♀

  • @littlebilly8747
    @littlebilly8747 Před měsícem +3

    “Women are apparently exactly like men but better, because they are female but have rejected everything feminine (because it’s not acting like a man that’s toxic, it’s acting like a man while *being* one that’s toxic)” -Me, in my sarcastic voice

  • @michaelallred1516
    @michaelallred1516 Před měsícem

    Very truthful

  • @alijames180
    @alijames180 Před měsícem +4

    Exactly

  • @Sequoia690
    @Sequoia690 Před měsícem +2

    Douglas get rid of your whiskers! You're handsome clean shaven. But oyur mind is as sharp as ever!! Thanks for your wisdom and insights

  • @leepd1
    @leepd1 Před měsícem +8

    I try as much as possible to stay politically neutral.. centrist if you must, hence always wary of arguments from both sides, but.. a critique or basic judgement of todays nonsensical left wing is like shooting fish in a barrel, leaving the right simply stating the bleeding obvious.. so it seems its now down to the rest of us to get on with resisting this nonsense.. the right wing have their issues, but im thinking we need a swing back in that direction here in OZ, if only for some seriously needed political balance.. EVERY state and federal government on mainland Australia is currently Labour/left.. and that should bother anyone, regardless of any personal political bent, who is determined to make sure we remain a free, secular democracy.

    • @neilreynolds3858
      @neilreynolds3858 Před měsícem

      Single party states always end up being disastrously incompetent.

    • @KernowFay
      @KernowFay Před měsícem +2

      As a centrist I've found that we are now classed as far right.

    • @leepd1
      @leepd1 Před měsícem

      @@KernowFay Yep.. anyone who disagrees with todays fundamentalist left are considered right wing nazis..

  • @Alan-lv9rw
    @Alan-lv9rw Před měsícem +6

    Wokeness is slowly dying.

  • @TheManOfGold7
    @TheManOfGold7 Před měsícem +3

    Full video?

  • @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894

    Equally valuable but not equals

  • @kerenskable
    @kerenskable Před měsícem

    I wish you would say when these clips come from, as the debate moves on. This seems like an old Douglas Murray clip, from the way he expresses the issues around trans ideology

  • @cybersamurai4578
    @cybersamurai4578 Před měsícem +1

    Wokeness has done more harm than good we need to get rid of this cancer

  • @lenoakes2450
    @lenoakes2450 Před měsícem +1

    To answer your final question "Why are we doing this?" Because we are terrified of the future, knowing what we now know about cruelty and heartbreak?

  • @Rachael7823
    @Rachael7823 Před měsícem +2

    Vote Uk Reform and win our Christian England back again 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @johnthecloud
    @johnthecloud Před měsícem

    I don't have a problem with it if it is backed up by empirical proveable facts. What I do have a problem with is if it's entirely subjected, at odds with empirical data, and refuses to engage in reasoned criticism.

  • @johnl5316
    @johnl5316 Před měsícem +6

    No one is trans, says this clinical psychologist

    • @johnhoran9840
      @johnhoran9840 Před měsícem

      What would happen if you diagnosed someone that way in your office and they complained to the appropriate people? I agree with you, but I've heard stories of severe backlash.

  • @charles6232
    @charles6232 Před měsícem +1

    We need to put an end to “Wokeness” and get back to some normal common sense. Yes?

  • @FinnDelMundoTravel
    @FinnDelMundoTravel Před měsícem +1

    LGB without the T 👌

    • @bart-v
      @bart-v Před měsícem

      you mean FJB?

  • @adamnbayley
    @adamnbayley Před měsícem +2

    Excellent.

  • @geofftaylor8627
    @geofftaylor8627 Před měsícem

    St George day.I am a jockney born in Glasgow lived in London for 35 years I'm 56.I am the only one in my upmarket Fulham street who is flying the union jack as respect to the locals.lol.Nobody had a Danny larue what day it was.They all march for gaza but.

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay Před měsícem

    A RARE , AND FAST DISAPPEARING VOICE, OF REASON AND COMMON SENSE. HE SHOULD BE GIVEN PROTECTION.

  • @noelhausler2911
    @noelhausler2911 Před měsícem

    10 Symptoms of the WOKE mind
    1. You read books and don’t burn them.
    2. You embrace science.
    3. You are willing to change your mind when new information becomes available
    4. You understand most issues are not black and white
    5. You believe in true equality for all people
    6. You like to share
    7. You embrace cooperation
    8. You respect other’s rights
    9. You believe culture and the arts have values
    10 You care for the planet and all its life

  • @jonah9861
    @jonah9861 Před měsícem +4

    Return to Christ

  • @paperback333
    @paperback333 Před měsícem

    "They don't even exist" I thought men and women had differences. How does that work if they don't even exist?

    • @KernowFay
      @KernowFay Před měsícem

      They make women more masculine and men more effeminate. They break things down by 100s of genders and brainwash the young.

  • @TimBitts649
    @TimBitts649 Před měsícem +2

    How a benevolent billionaire can save Western Civilization: fund research on gender and race, hire a brilliant guy like Douglas Murray to run an institute to sort out our understanding of race and gender, based on science. Hire people like Heather & Brett Weinstein.

  • @noelhausler2911
    @noelhausler2911 Před měsícem

    Just see who a guest writes for and it will give you an idea on where they are on the spectrum. The Spectator not the Guardian.

  • @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894

    Trans extremely rare one in 4000 masculinity in woman and femininity in men

  • @thatday5070
    @thatday5070 Před měsícem +3

    The answer is simple accept the creator’s plan?

    • @robertholland7558
      @robertholland7558 Před měsícem +2

      Rather the exact opposite, reject creation and accept our inability to know.

    • @bearowen5480
      @bearowen5480 Před měsícem +1

      With respect I would suggest that you're implying that humans cannot detect fundamental universal truths about our behavior. If you authentically believe that, I would advocate a careful reading of the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins. Then ask yourself what is there in those widely accepted principles that we should honestly reject?

    • @robertholland7558
      @robertholland7558 Před měsícem

      @@bearowen5480 indeed, the universal truth lies way beyond the human capacity to understand.
      As for our behaviour, we can only perceive things from our limited 3 dimensional 5 senses perspective. The Ten Commandments and seven deadly sins are but mere fairytales, used to control the masses. If you fail to recognise this it clearly demonstrates the truth of what I say.
      Only those that accept the fourth, and further dimension, sixth and even seven sense and beyond, whether or not we understand such, realises this truth that we simply cannot know the truth of the universe. Why the divine is a mystery that can not be named. And “God” is a name, a false truth.

    • @neilreynolds3858
      @neilreynolds3858 Před měsícem

      And which creator would that be?

    • @robertholland7558
      @robertholland7558 Před měsícem

      @@bearowen5480 did my response get deleted?
      Reject the Ten Commandments and the 7 deadly sins. They do not exist!

  • @jamescrydeman540
    @jamescrydeman540 Před měsícem

    Ably aided and abetted by our ill measured and loose use of language. Where did the delusion that a superlative lends substance to discussion and debate when it only lends volume? It appeals to the smart arse I suppose but then the only person who appreciates a smart arse is another smart arse.

  • @chopincam-robertpark6857
    @chopincam-robertpark6857 Před měsícem

    I think Dave Rubin is trying to be Sir Douglas Murray.

    • @joesamson26
      @joesamson26 Před měsícem +1

      Nah.. Rubin just rides the current conservative grift. That’s his business model.

  • @bonniemoon6790
    @bonniemoon6790 Před měsícem

    We are both created equal in the eyes of God, for we are both made in the image of God. That doesnt mean we are equal in other areas, i.e strength, proclivities, specialities, etc. Men are better/best at some things and women at others. Men have wide shoulders to protect. Women have wide hips to nurture. Those things dont change no matter how much the world says so or tries to distort or destroy it. God help us.

    • @fluffythepitbull
      @fluffythepitbull Před měsícem

      We should be evaluated on our individual merits. Should anyone be shut out of applying for certain jobs solely on assumptions based on gender or on their demonstrated competence at the job in question? Anytime I hear people say something like, "Shut up and just accept who and what you are." I often wonder if what they really mean is, "Shut up and accept my untested assumptions regarding your capabilities." Though I find woke extremism profoundly silly, I find that the right tends to revert to an unwillingness to recognise the talents and accomplishments of the outliers.

  • @user-kl7ug9dr2k
    @user-kl7ug9dr2k Před 8 dny

    I would like to restore the double headed eagle to the wester church it symbolises the east and western christian civilisation it would be a western traditional catholic church and it could be built with all the traditional teachers and the orthodox from ukrain would join that church it would be canonical and lefebvrian (study archbishop marcel lefevbre)

  • @locustsandhoney486
    @locustsandhoney486 Před měsícem

    Propraganda Machine x 2

  • @eric2685
    @eric2685 Před měsícem

    Television advertising so obviously attempts to move women into traditional mens areas , whilst emasculating men in ways which make them look foolish , incompetent , and less tough than the women who are often portrayed in those same adverts . Football ads show women and young girls determined to succeed , despite the obstacles put in their way . In one , the caring dad gets his community to help his young daughter , who has been stopped by some old guy from playing football in the backyard , put together a workable football field . A very commendable course of action depicting a caring male ; a old male who doesn't ' get ' young girls playing football in the streets ( like boys do much of the time ) ; and community spirit harnessed to further the cause of girls football . Another , an advert for the RAF , shows a determined female determined to attain fighter pilot status - a small propeller driven aircraft is not good enough for her ! It's everywhere . Well , come the next major war , we will know ...

  • @alijames180
    @alijames180 Před měsícem +3

    Trans is not real

    • @KernowFay
      @KernowFay Před měsícem

      They have been around for long before woke.

  • @timothypye901
    @timothypye901 Před měsícem +2

    I'm fed up with seeing this two enabling each other on CZcams. Boring beyond belief. Leave us alone.

    • @matton36
      @matton36 Před měsícem +3

      In what sense do you mean?

    • @ulrichenevoldsen8371
      @ulrichenevoldsen8371 Před měsícem +19

      No one is forcing you to watch the video 😅 and it's these not this😂

    • @jackieann5494
      @jackieann5494 Před měsícem

      So , go elsewhere !!!
      It's sooooo bloody WEIRD that with the COUNTLESS options for you to choose from , you choose to plant here and whine about two men who are appreciated by millions .
      You must be one of the grotesque high- entitlement mob who think everyone's taste , interest and opinion should revolve around YOU and your approval 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
      Go
      Elsewhere !
      It's as easy as one motion with your index finger .
      You can do it !
      You got this !!
      Buh bye !

    • @Ruprecttt
      @Ruprecttt Před měsícem +11

      Unsubscribe and leave then.

    • @bart-v
      @bart-v Před měsícem +1

      That is such a convincing argument!

  • @steveb2249
    @steveb2249 Před 26 dny

    Dishusting world we are living in

  • @valnicholson2519
    @valnicholson2519 Před měsícem

    Go woke = the insane run 🌎