Jerry Seinfeld Hit The Nail On The Head About 'Privilege'
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- Jerry Seinfeld gave a commencement speech at Duke where he explained why privilege shouldn't be considered a dirty word.
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"First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker
In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.
Well said 🎉
That is 100% correct and we are seeing it right before our eyes.
Good quote but this is nothing new. I hope we wake up and resist evil legally and spiritually.
George Orwell’s 1984
Great lines
I’ll never be ashamed of the fact that I was born a poor white man and worked for everything I’ve ever had, and never needed the governments help in any way 👍
me too
Same here from a poor woman.
LOL sure, Jan. You're like all the other Republicans who say they grew up on food stamps but never needed the government's help. So lame.
Same
That's called being a real man. Well done! 👍
Nobody has to apologize for being successful and passing the wealth that they earned down to their kids. That's a major part of the whole reason we work, to contribute to society and provide for your family. If you were born into a shitty family that didn't provide for you, that sucks, and I send my genuine condolences. But that isn't a reason to demand a free handout, it's a reason for you to work hard and do better than your parents did, so your kids can have a better life.
Govt will almost leave you nothing to pass down
I was homeless, got into drugs, went into prisons, then i got to know Jesus, He changed my life.. Now i make 22k weekly. have a home, a wife, a lovely daughter... A child of God. HALLELUJAH
My dear, please for the love of God can you shed light on how it happened??
It's Renee Marie Harrison doing, she's changed my life.
After I raised up to 325k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my daughter's surgery (Joey). Glory to God.shalom.
I do know Renee M. Harrison, I also have even become successful....
Absolutely! I've heard stories of people who started with little to no knowledge but made it out victoriously thanks to Renee Marie Harrison.
The Privilege of Victimhood
Agreed. It's obscene.
That which is completely normal for First Worlders, namely the ability to produce civilized societies as a mere byproduct of our collective existence, will naturally be considered by others as “privilege” simply because it is something of which they are not capable. It’s like how they project onto us their feelings of envy and inferiority but re-brand it as our “supremacy” because the reality of the situation is far too painful and humiliation for them to face honestly.
Being a First Worlder capable of creating civilized societies as a mere byproduct of our existence IS a privilege... just not to us. It seems like a privilege to literally all others because they're incapable of doing the same. It always boils down to envy. This is yet another slur for them to hurl in an attempt to alleviate their profound feelings of inferiority.
@@petercaulfield5065What’s even more cringe-inducing is all the willful mass delusion central to their collective self esteem. Many honestly believe that the civilized can be banished from their midst thus liberating them of all that inadvertent humiliation and… POOF… magically, they’ll still be able to live the spoiled existences only First Worlders could possibly provide them. These truly are not the brightest bulbs.
Being a First Worlder and creating civilized society as a byproduct of your mere existence is only a privilege to those who follow us around the globe like puppy dogs and need to project onto us deep-seated feelings of envy and inferiority.
I am not rich. I work for everything I have. I have a home, pay my own bills every month and have some left over to buy things I want. If people believe me to be privileged, so be it. Get a job, work hard for everything you have and the things you want, then you can be privileged too.
Same. I wasn't born here, came when I was 11, didn't speak English. I've worked hard for everything I have. I now own a house that I bought by myself, and just bought a brand new car. It's all about work ethics and morals.
American Privilege is one of the greatest privileges. Few in history have had such a grand privilege. Glad you covered that. o
"Privilege" is having two normal parents.
Kind of is these days. The majority of kids now only have one.
Normal huh? What do u mean by that
Privilege is Matt disappearing
Having two parents that were married and still are married. Ones that prioritized their children's well-being and saved money for them. You're supposed to be embarrassed now if your parents paid for your education and left you an inheritance. Nothing is wrong with that, that's what's supposed to happen. Now you should be embarrassed if you had all that and you pissed it away. If you got your education in a meaningless field and spent your inheritance on leisure, that's something shameful.
People now are prioritizing themselves where a lot of our ancestors were trying to build legacies. working hard so that their future generations don't have to.
@zack6012 you can always educate at any point and start something new if you have the ability to do so in todays world
If you are born with good health in aby decent country that is a huge privilege that is often overlooked
It's called a birthRIGHT
Not birth privilege🙄
That group probably doesn't know who Frankenstein is.
100%. I’m consistently amazed at the things people just 10 years younger than me do not know.
@@brittneythompson7218 Yep, the generation born in the 21st century lack knowledge of a lot of what us 20th century people consider common cultural touchstones. People like me born in the 1980's, asume that everybody knows Frankenstein, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist, Zorro and other classic characters and stories, but a lot of zoomers just dont know these things because they are a generation raised on fractured, chaotic internet culture as opposed to the narrower, common culture that everyone of the pre-internet generation takes for granted.
You would be surprised how many people refer to the monster using the name Frankenstein instead of its creator, Victor Frankenstein. Can't honestly say whether the book was better than the 1932 film, since they are two completely different stories altogether.
These damn kids say "Well I'm not as old as you so I don't know this or that" but Frankenstein was written in 1818. The movie was 1931. The hilarious send up "Young Frankenstein" was 1974. I'm 35 years old and I know all this stuff. You can't claim that not knowing something because it happened before you were born is a good excuse.
@@rattis I bet you've noticed how any form of common knowledge is disputable at best and scientific facts are no longer a cornerstone within the society and behind our understanding of the world. Perhaps it was by design, who knows.
People who whine about others having “privilege” are life’s losers. If they only spent as much time improving themselves as they do making excuses.
You’re right. Movements which aim to make the world a better place inevitably always make it a worse place.
Movements which aim to make the individual a better person inevitably always succeed. That’s what they need to start doing.
A lot of successful people talk about privilege
Yes, identifying as a “victim” is easier than trying to improve oneself.
True
@@ErikWeinsteinExceptions
What has the world come to when Jerry Seinfeld is the voice of reason?
Jerry has always been a pretty common sense guy.
If you have a problem with him being a Dem for most of his life then you shouldn't vote for Trumpy either since he was (and arguably still is) a big lib his entire life.
@@Antonio_Serdar That's not how it works at all. Try rebooting your brain. Jerry is visibly anti-woke but behind closed doors he will continue to be friends with Dems and vote Dem. Trump has to play ball with Dems and Libs to get things done, as President, of course, but behind closed doors he vehemently despises them for their witch hunt against his family.
@@Antonio_Serdar That's not how it works at all. Jerry is visibly anti-woke but behind closed doors he will continue to be friends with Dems and vote Dem. Trump has to play ball with Dems and Libs to get things done, as President, of course, but behind closed doors he vehemently despises them for their witch hunt against his family.
Comedians have been leading the way against wokism. The first and the strongest.
Most old school comedians have common sense. Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Dave Chapelle, Ricky Gervais.
It’s absurd that there’s multiple news segments on how like 15 duke graduates walked out… friggin losers, Seinfeld was probably great!
Were any of them white males?
He was awesome. You should watch it if you haven't.
Virtue signalling has become ingrained into them like a trait. Indoctrination is a powerful thing.
It’s a privilege to live in this nation. They have ruined the words true meaning
Obviously, by audience reactions, his viewpoint is the mainstream viewpoint. We need to get back to calling dumb or crazy people “dumb or crazy”, or at the minimum getting back to ignoring their stupidity.
Unfortunately, that'll be a tall order with social media.
You can't even say re-tard-ed on here without thought police banning you. It's ridiculous. You can't even use it as a way to describe a mechanical throttle state.
Exactly. If you talk to the average gen Z liberal, you'll probably have a lot more in common than expected. The loud minority is really propped up by the media and a lot of people are too spineless to stick up for themselves
“Fetishization of suffering” Succinctly put!
Privilege comes via sacrifice, it's that simple. Want privilege for your children? Make a sacrifice.
Kenny Bania: "Use the Frankenstein joke, Jerry. It's GOLD! It's GOLD, Jerry!"
"We're embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about" 2024 in a nutshell
I don’t mind the former as much as I’m horrified by the latter.
Mr. Walsh…Your explanation of what “privilege” really is was articulate, relevant and well delivered. There are two or, more probably, three generations who don’t know what privilege is and more horrifyingly, wouldn’t understand what you said. So sad. Thank you for saying it. You should make that image as a preface to all of your talks. My husband and I worked hard for our privilege as did our parents.
Kierkegaard warned that this hatred of achievement and excellence would come with the destruction of Christianity. He was right.
Christianity is a joke and always has been. It was contrived to control people and still does.
I should have known the opposite opinion wasn't going to get past censorship.
@@MotoAtheist are you saying that the western world hasn’t turned into a dumpster fire since abandoning Christ??
@@MotoAtheist Yeah we all know how pro-Jesus big tech is, right??
I love Kierkegaard, but it amazes me that anti-establishment Protestants like him never seemed to realize how the Reformation paved the way for the end of religious society by tearing down religious structure.
Mr. Walsh on-point, per usual 💯!
Nice face
@@Maserati7200 Thank you
the sport jacket thing was hilarious
It's also funny that I, and most people, never even gave a thought to why the monster would wear a sports jacket lol
My biggest thing about privilege is this: my parents worked incredibly hard to stay on the straight and narrow path; to raise me and my sisters with morals and work ethic; to keep us out of major trouble, and off of drugs; to motivate us to try difficult things, and to set our sights high. The fact that I am the one to benefit from this privilege is absolutely an accident of birth...but my birth and upbringing were not accidents. They were the intentional efforts of two amazing, compassionate, dedicated human beings, who, themselves, opted to work hard, make good money, stay off of drugs and alcohol, stay together, and spend time with us kids. Privilege isn't arbitrary, or accidental. While I didn't earn it, my parents absolutely did, and I hope to earn my own children the same privileges.
I am proud of and grateful for my upbringing.
I am a beneficiary of the privilege of inheritance. The very least of these was money although I did get a small financial inheritence. The more significant things were being raised in a loving home, being taught the importance of values, being treated to a good education and raised in a house filled with books, being taught that all people regardless of backround, creed, or appearance are worthy of respect and compassion, and given a strong work ethic. It is no wonder that with that inheritance it was much easier to succeed in life and I am dedicated to passing the same inheritance to my kids and grandkids.
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Dont worry... the people that try to deny your privilege, are the same exact ones waiting by like vultures to swoop in and take it from you. You see, they dont want equality or equity... they want what you have, and then will kick you to the curb once they enjoy those same privileges.
This is why they will never move to another country.
An affluent person might still pass an illiterate beggar and think 'there but for the grace of god, go I". It's not necessarily a view of "I deserve this because I'm innately better". If you've been dealt a better hand, you might view yourself as a recipient of benefits you don't want to squander. So I think there are often ethics of appreciating luck, having humility and then working hard directly out of understanding that you were given a lot. All of us were one accident at the hospital away from being put on a different path.
If someone is poor enough that they're eating road kill, it seems weird if someone born to affluence is eating quail and insisting they aren't enjoying it. Is self-flagellating helping anyone?
Lucky you… no sarcasm… I grew up with an alcoholic mom with dad out of the picture, on welfare, but we were taught my sisters and I, a good work ethic and be respectful of other people! It seems to have worked, I get up and go to work every day and the universe has rewarded me… I am married to a beautiful woman and have two intelligent and thoughtful children and live in a wonderful home in Southern California and the mortgage is almost paid off… i’m happy for you. Teach your kids right, teach your grandchildren right, and this way it can continue….. I hope to do the same❤️
@@Chef-vg4pu 🙏🙌❤
I love Seinfeld. I grew up watching it cause my step dad would watch it. It matches my step dad and my humor. I’m even watching it now on Netflix. It really touches a part of my heart because my step dad is sick with cancer right now.. I love Jerry Seinfeld, he showed me that humor is not always black and white. There’s a special place in my heart for that show.
Hear hear! The show brilliantly lampoons PC and cultural stereotypes. Perhaps it is to subtle for modern audiences who seem to mistake satire for the promotion of decadent and shallow lifestyles.
Always remember
Without violence Islam dies
Which country was America attached to the hip with? Oh yeah, Israel.
Yup
@@xeanthomas5231are u Muslem? Or educated?
@@xeanthomas5231America doesn’t negotiate with terroism
Without LIES
Islam DIES
I'm still trying to figure out how working hard to achieve your goals is privileged and therefore bad.
No, that Frankenstein joke is amazing. Sport jacket lol
We are embarrased about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrased about....
-Jerry Seinfeld
He nailed it .
"We're embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed of." Nailed it! That is America in a nutshell. So fortunate that I left the ludicrous country years ago.
I love that classic Liberald are now conservative
The Frankenstein joke flopped because the audience is likely unfamiliar with it.
Harrison Butker.....BEST commencement address of all time!!
I actually went by a building the other day that said "Hmong School".
I couldn't ever imagine being part of a group that helped specifically my category of Caucasian....
On The Adam Corolla Show, there's a transition segment called "Obviously Not a Jew."
All the East Asian people I know went to Saturday school of their own race, usually called Chinese School or something like that. Their parents find the American education lacking so they send them to Saturday school in addition to their regular school.
Being born with a high IQ is a privilege, albeit an unearned one.
So.....Jerry Seinfeld is a "FRANKENSTEINIST?!?!" CANCEL HIM!!!!!
Heaven forbid if we organized a " Straight Pride " Parade!! I think we should! ( also Straight Pride Day!! ).I'm SOO sick and tired of these " alphabets.
I thought the reason young people went to college was for two reasons: 1. Men. to get an education so they could get a better job, make more money, and get more PRIVILEGE, and 2. Women. To marry rich men with more money and more PRIVILEGE.
I like that Seinfeld thinks his name is Franken Stein.
That was part of the joke.
@@jackmessick2869 I know, I like it.
Maybe his real name is Francis Napoleon Stein. Ha Ha. That would make Young Frankenstein even funnier.
@@jayarcher4200 frahnk ennn steeeeeeen
frank n. furter
"What's the deal with Ben Netanyahu and Ben Shapiro? When the prime minister farts, the prime miniature gets pink-eye!" -- Jerry Seinfeld
I grew up poor in a poor, formerly communist country. I worked my ass off, made it to the US and doing pretty well. It pisses me off to no end when someone calls me "privileged". Which part is "privileged"? Growing up in hand-me-down clothes or the part that I didn't even have a bicycle until someone gave us an old, rusty one that I had to fix up?
I suppose it was a privilege that you were able to escape and not killed in doing so. But that's again not a privilege to be ashamed of
I benefit from white privilege. Because I'm white, I was more likely to have 2 parents raise me. I was more likely to have parents not in prison, not addicted to drugs. My father was gone a lot, because he was working to provide for his family. He never told me I should work and provide for my family, he showed me. Because I'm a straight white man, I've had to earn everything. No affirmitive-action for me. Because I"m a white man, I could be fired from any job I had, so I had to produce. Thank God I'm a straight white man!
You wouldn't last five minutes as a Black woman.
@@ntk4569 You can't be fired for being a while male FFS. But you can be profiled and shot for being a black male and walking in the wrong neighborhood. You can be a Black woman who is the most brilliant and hardworking and accomplished in her field exactly like Ketanji Brown Jackson and dumb bigots will stay claim you are a DEI hire. most white men here whining wouldn't last five days as a Black woman in this country.
God didn't make you white lol
One group of students don't know who Seinfeld is referring to when he speaks of "Frankenstein." The other half are probably people who took a literature class, and they're thinking, "The Monster didn't wear a sports jacket in Mary Shelly's novel."
American society broken down into victim versus oppressor. Thanks Obama.
Self deprecating humor is admirable.
Amen, I have no shame for what my forbearers were able to accomplish. If I have any shame, it's for my modern fellows who don't grasp just how blessed that they are by our ancestors.
Charlie Munger used the word “serendipity”, where many others might have chosen privilege. He spoke about the fact that when he was born, as a white male in an English speaking country he had a far greater opportunity to acquire wealth. He said this was serendipity.
Privilege. They own New York City !
Yay what a privilege to have no ads in this one!
Well said and well explained. Bravo Mr. Walsh, bravo.
"a spiritual sickness rooted in the elevation of victimhood and the fetishization of suffering"
We need a word for this, and in the dictionary next to the word should be a picture of Tom Morello
A broken clock.
The sad thing is Seinfeld dislikes what's happening due to wokeism and leftism but he'll keep voting Democrat.
He might be closeted right wing
Yup
Oh, do you know him personally?
That's usually how it goes 🤷♂️
Look at Bill Maher 🤦♂️
Well, he is a ... He may change sides.
One of your best yet!
Well said. Thank you for speaking up in my defense in a hundred different ways.
I am privileged and I am grateful for it. No body in this world has the right to make me feel bad about it
You are the captain of your own emotions. No one can.
No laws that help European Americans.
You’re not European if you’re American.
This is one of your best videos, Matt!
Jerry Seinfeld was never a great standup comedian, but he was good enough to get on Carson repeatedly which led to a sitcom offer. His accidental brilliance was in teaming up with Larry David. We all have some abilities and opportunities and luck. The key is to take all of that and make something happen with it.
Well said
Hats off to Duke for inviting Jerry Seinfeld, hats off to Jerry for actually accepting and putting on the getup and doing it. Writing the speech and going and doing it. I really believe Jerry Seinfeld is so comfortable in his own skin that he Is willing to take whatever fallout or criticism that he knows would come from doing this ( this is 2024) , and just smile, shrug his shoulders, and walk away whistling…. On a side note, I can imagine that the faculty, parents, (old people) at this commencement, enjoyed the crap out of the speech, and the twenty something graduating students were wondering who this ancient, genocidal, bigot, privileged, cis, so and so is and why is he allowed to speak to us!?
Spot on! He and Larry David’s work on Seinfeld is too clever, too subtle and too politically incorrect for “modern audiences”. They seem to be unable to understand the concepts of satire and irony, and would rather laugh like a maniacal North Korean audience at every sentence uttered by Hannah Gadsby.
The only privilege that people seem to recognize is the privilege that the other person has.
"Any privilege that I have had growing up does not matter because I don't have the privilege that John Doe over there has." or "I went to a prestigious university but I didn't have the privilege of having received a scholarship." etc. etc.
There is no such thing as "Privilege" but there are earned benefits that jealous people envy.
I argued with my millionaire friend about his adult daughter, who marched with BLM. His dad created a business and earned the money. I told him he should be proud of that. He said there shouldn't be poor people when he's rich. I told him to give me some of his money so I was no longer poor. Of course he didn't.
She left to march with BLM. I asked if they knew any black people, other than rich ones. He said, "YES, WE DO!! I've been to a crack house!" I burst out laughing and that upset him more. I told him you can't visit a crack house while partying one weekend and expect to know what poor blacks want. We no longer speak. 😂
See also David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech “What is Water”.
Awesome vid. Thanks Matt
I've earned my privilege by working hard. Most people who want privilege demand it because they are not willing to toil and suffer to earn it. If I just went to work for 40 hours a week and sat at a desk and really didn't use my mind the whole week, and then demand respect, a raise, and status, I'd be embarrassed. Not the woke, waking up and walking to their Uber is an event worthy of 12 selfies. The guy who drives 1000 nails a day and builds homes, if he wants more money, he just works another 5 or 10 hours a week. The entitle do nothings of the world need to get paid on their value to society, which is zero.
If you receive welfare benefits, you are privileged. If privilege is defined as receiving benefit without earning it, if money comes into your pockets and food onto your plate without having to work for it, then you are privileged. Who is more privileged, the working class person who gets up every day to go to work and pays over 30% tax (more than 3 days out of 10, you're working for the govt), or the welfare benefits recipient who doesn't earn what they receive?
Now, if you want to talk about race and white privilege, I'd be interested to see which races have a higher proportion of people on welfare benefits?? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Anyone that chooses what they feel or believe over the truth
It's not privilege that is the issue, it's your reaction to it. Every citizen in the US is privileged to be born in this country. You can be thankful, or you can hate yourself for having it and let that hate flow out to others by hating them. It's the superrich who fund medical research and endow organizations with money. Average people cannot do that.
Matt I love your channel! ❤
The privilege of inheritance comes with the obligation to pas that inheritance on to the next generation in a condition just as good preferably better than what we have received. It seems what is going on now, is the opposite.
I love your well thought comments. Thank you.
Walsh always standing up for the unoppressed majority. 😅
Eloquent as always Matt. And more importantly... true.
Privilege is something we should work to give our children and families. You're supposed to be embarrassed now if your parents paid for your education and left you an inheritance. Nothing is wrong with that, that's what's supposed to happen. But you should be embarrassed if you had all that and you pissed it away. If you got your education in a meaningless field and spent your inheritance on leisure, that's something shameful. There are people who would have built a business empires that could have helped millions of people given those resources. Instead it got used on gender studies, tattoos, piercings and spiritual traveling.
People now are prioritizing themselves where a lot of our ancestors were trying to build legacies. working hard so that their future generations don't have to
I come from privilege and am exceptionally proud of that fact. Some people have it some people dont 🤷🏿♂️. Life isn’t fair!
Douche
Every single person at this commencement should realize: Life is not fair.
And that’s a good thing…
If life were completely fair, no one could create advantages for themselves. Like, say the advantages of a higher education.
they don't who Frankenstein is
Great talk! Wish he had been at my segregated graduation. Who would have guessed the left would begin embracing Jim Crow segregation??
We will never appreciate this inheritance fully.
You shouldn't be proud- or ashamed- of your privilege, but you should be grateful for it, and use whatever opportunities you have been given to your(and humanity's) fullest advantage.
They took my right foot today, and I’m damn angry. At myself, and the world.
I have nothing against your left foot, but then again neither do you.
Isn't a more important issue - why Frankenstein's monster never had a change of clothing of any kind? He must have smelled pretty God-awful by the end of the movie. Of course, being constructed out of sewed-together corpses has its' own odor challenges, I suppose...
Matt Walsh needs to run for POTUS
@6:56
Col. Nathan Jessup,
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
I would rather that you just say "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think you're entitled to!"
Maybe it's just me, but I always loved Seinfeld's bit about how utterly ridiculous it is that Frankenstein's monster wears a sport coat.
People in that crowd weren't laughing at the Frankenstein joke, because they WERE the brainless Frankensteins he was talking about. Frankenstein wouldn't get the joke either.
You can't go wrong by having an attitude of gratitude. If you try to find something to be grateful for, chances are you won't whine and cry and blame others for your situation. The basic problem is that we are a nation of spoiled brats who've had it too good for too long. We've forgotten to be grateful for our heritage and are instead ashamed of it.
You should see Harrison Butker's! Brave SOB.
If I know someone with great privileges
I will aspire to gain those privileges I admire most
I certainly won’t tear down the system that allows these privileges
good speech.
Yes.
I've always heard that being able to legally possess a driver's license and drive a car is a privilege, not a right. So, where does that privilege come from? Who provides that privilege? The state, correct? So, if someone has a problem with that particular privilege which I possess, they should take it up with that particular state. Therefore, it follows that if there is a problem with any other privilege that someone possesses, that should be addressed to the one who gave that person the privilege. If a person is privileged because they happen to have very little melanin in their skin, or very little estrogen, or a strong work ethic, where did that privilege come from? I say, take it up with the One who created that person, and be thankful for the privilege to draw another breath that was given to you by that very same creator.
He's not privileged, he's jewish, huge difference.
Spiritual sickness!
Did he just moosh the word Trans with another word??
Considering Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old when he was 38, it makes perfect sense that this Walsh thing would defend him...