A New Red Scare Is Coming
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2021
- If you thought McCarthyism was gone...well, no such luck. In this episode, we'll discuss the US' newest wave of reactionary, anti-communist rhetoric and legislation. As capitalism's popularity wanes among the American population and the economic system begins to show signs of impending collapse, we should expect more kneejerk measures like these to try to rally support around a failing system.
A New Red Scare Is Coming - Second Thought
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Cuba government approval rating:
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PBS War On Nicaragua documentary:
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Nicaragua death squads:
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Iran-Contra:
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US created anti-sandinista media:
thegrayzone.com/2021/06/01/ci...
McCarthyism and “communist teachers”:
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I'd like to congratulate Drugs once again, for winning the War on Drugs.
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 And our minds, For Winning a war in our minds.
L🤣L
No mate Congratulate the CIA who started all this War on Drugs and War in the first place back in Vietnam silencing of D.E.A Undercover Agents in Central and South America
😂
It was the CIA who were distributing crack to the inner-citys of the U.S.
“Patriotic education standards” sounds like propaganda with extra steps
Heh
Not even extra steps. It is direct brainwashing of children with propaganda.
@@sassyviking6003 They've been doing that in the past, its just done on normal level. Now the brainwashing is taken into new heights in the name of patriotism. China have been doing it to theirs for decades. The US is just playing catch up now. Whenever political matters are involved, the people always suffers.
I was telling a friend recently that forcing the pledge of allegiance on 6 year olds was weird and just wrong. This upset him. I asked him to picture Hitler Youth, or Soviet children in class saluting their flag, and chanting in unison about their love of the flag. Does that seem normal or healthy for children?
People have a really hard time seeing truth right under their noses, because we have ALL been indoctrinated. “We are the best! Everyone else is bad!”
@@Deeplycloseted435 Show him how we used to do the salute back in the day... We literally heiled at it... The "under God" part was also added during the red scare because we americans aren't gOdlESs coMmiEs or whatever
It feels absolutely surreal to hear the line "the evils of comunism" as a legitimate political statement in 2023
It's ridiculous that there are still people in 2023 who believe "communism is evil" despite being presented with cold-hard evidence.
because communism that killed hundreds of millions in the soviet union and china, and currently kills thousands as a result of famine in north korea is not evil.
Ms. Private Property is evil. Her defends are too blind to reality to admit that. No matter how many atrocities she commits, the bootlickers will excuse every single one.
Especially given that “We the People” and “Co”mm”Uni”sm share the same derivation/etymology.
They literally mean the same thing.
Means the U.S. founders were ahead of Marx 🤣🤣🤣
@@72marshflower15 ...what?
One time on a cruise in the Caribbean, the ship picked up two guys from a capsized raft. Parents on the ship were explaining to their kids how refuges flee Cuba to come to the USA for "freedom," but it turned out that these two guys were fleeing the US because they were wanted for fraud.
man i dunno what to think
@@BobBob-zu2dt don’t commit fraud
@@BobBob-zu2dt the fact that people like to spin narratives about specific events and or occurrence's before any facts have been released
Lmfao haha
😂
Conservatives love the marketplace of ideas until they realize they aren’t winning in the marketplace of ideas.
Yet...
Competitiom baby!
*Proceeds to ruin any country not because the policies themselves, but sheer incompetence*
@@sirnikkel6746 You're thinking of Communism, sir.
Mao's War on Sparrows go brrrrrrrrrrrr
@@wartrix6046 Pinochet: _Hmmms, yes, fixation of peso with dollar is good, good idea._
*Causes Chile to fall in the worst economic crisis since Allende during the 80's*
Nah, it just depend of the people at charge and culture of the people in general. That is why the 60's USSR, 90's Japan, XVI century Spain, XIX century Britain, 2010's Norway and 50's USA did so good even with pretty distinct policies and eras: They implemented what was best under their conditions.
@@sirnikkel6746 Worst economic situation since Allende?
Allende the Socialist... yeah
“We want intellectual diversity” as he signs a bill blocking intellectual diversity.
@@Sirbikingviking I would love to know what you think CRT even is and how the left has political power in the US. Also if you don’t like how powerful corporations are then maybe you should take a good hard look at our unfettered capitalist system we all live under.
@@Sirbikingviking there you go, you've cycled through all the talking points. Or did you have another que card?
@@Sirbikingviking wow you extrapolated alot about me from 17 words.
@@Sirbikingviking CRT is a high level academic lens of analysis typically in law schools to evaluate how systemic racism was infused into our laws and how those laws still impact people of color to this day. It’s not racism, it’s actually anti racist and it helps people grow more understanding for those laws. Knowledge is power and education is the way there.
I don’t know any tech company that is ran by leftists. They are however ran by big capitalist who like to maximize there profits by pandering to the masses. Now of days, being more progressive and less bigoted is profitable for all of these corporations so that’s why they will fly pride flags and promote Black Lives Matter. Not because they care about these causes, but because they want your money. That’s why I say you may have a problem with capitalism, which I do.
@@Sirbikingviking how do you know they conspired to do this? Also why does the hunter Biden thing even matter? Trump had jarred and ivanka on staff and being payed by tax dollars for their nepotism. Do you have an issue with that? Which racist things are you referring to? I mean if you really want to hit Biden, you should look into his legislative past…….. I just assume that you support trump but I could be wrong.
America after making socialist nations suffer "Look how bad they are!"
USA has the worst government approval on this planet because they are the most paranoid people on this planet... They are so paranoid that they don't understand it's because people wear guns... Guns are evil.
These guys tried socialism, and they got couped! Clearly it doesn't work!
Tale as old as colonialism. This is how those who benefit justify all the crimes and corruption they spread.
Ron DeSantis going out of his way to say that schools will be teaching "communist and totalitarian ideologies" without mentioning Nazism is insane
That's on purpose
But also it's treating all "communist" countries as being interchangeable. I wouldn't say Russia, the US, Sweden and Egypt are all interchangeable even though they are all capitalist.
Or Oligarchy which the US currently is. Maybe we could discuss how it use to be a Democracy?
@@0ctatr0na capitalist democratic republic will always have officials who politcally prostitute themselves to the owning class
“Children should not be shielded from ideas” yet moments earlier, he said that kids need to be thought to think socialism is evil.
Right now, your college students are getting shielded by marxist professors from the tragedies of the 20th century directly caused by communism. 100 million dead in China, 50 million dead in Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea, list goes on.
@@vinnsterpj is this an insult to Socialism or a Praise?
@@vinnsterpj LMAO where?! idk where you went to high school or college but that is wildly false. my history, economics, & government teachers & professors were always incredibly anti-communist & anti-socialist.
@@vinnsterpj know your audience man. This is not the sort of place that people will just blindly accept your red scare nonsense. Authoritarianism and imperialism, both ours and theirs, was responsible for those deaths. The economic policy had nothing to do with it.
@@vinnsterpj no lol, most professors are liberal capitalists. as for your numbers im assuming your source is the black book of communism which has been debunked over and over again.
"Patriotic Education".... Like, do people read that and actually think: "Yeah, that doesn't sound like Propaganda at all".....WAT?!
Well China is preparing their citizens to fuk up anyone in their way while we are talking about transracial intersex o phobia and how we are evil and to hate ourselves. When u are licking Chinese boots u will miss the patriotic education.
@@rubenbubba4878 Ah, so propaganda is good when it's from your home country... yeah, that checks out.
@@thecameronator patriotic doesn’t mean propaganda. I live in Belgium with a ton of gov propaganda , scaring us into compliance especially with covid .We have benefits sure, but it costs freedom. Don’t give up your freedom for luxury’s.
Luxury? Like living and not die from virus?
Urgh, that phrase makes my blood run cold. I remember being young and seeing kids in an American film having to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and for years I thought it was something the film made up to emphasise how strict the school was! Finding out the Pledge was real gave me the same chill that 'Patriotic Education' does. Both are just euphemisms for Indoctrination.
As a Vietnamese living in Hanoi, I think he meant the people who fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon - a brutal dictatorship backed by US
Yes. And I hope Việt Nam’s political leaders gets back to its communist fundamentals, expels Chinese corporations, and let’s their intelligent, beautiful, and hard working people flourish.
Vietnam seems to be doing better now. Imagine what it could've been if USA listened to Ho Chi Minh to get independence for his country.
Fox News says America never does anything wrong so you can't be right because Vietnam is a pro America ally.
@@ayubnor0I think we enjoy decent life here, at least don’t have to worry about homelessneas, starvation, student’s loan or stupidly expensive healthcare
Imagine the life you could live if the most powerful predatory western nations would lift the siege on your nation.
I'm at a school currently where almost all of my professors are anti-capitalists, but the school itself is extremely staunchly capitalist
It’s seems to me, that a collage/uni set in a more metropolitan area, tend to lean more far-left. Though, I’m no student..
@@fuct9569 the students do, the business that is college how ever are usually white, rich and conservative.
@@Exspazament Does your school have “safe spaces” and demand your status upon introducing yourselves?
Or is this exaggeration, from the right?
@@fuct9569 no, that's not a thing. Just conservative fear mongering.
@@Exspazament it’s not that scary, but cool
It’s amazing we didn’t learn anything from McCarthyism.
@norm simpson I’m talking about politics you don’t need to bring up peoples imaginary friends into the conversation…
@@jackroyaltea5034 Assuming Christianity and politics in USA are not intertwined is not rational.
A great deal of the American people probably think McCarthyism and the first red scare were overall positive movements/events
They did but are embracing it fully!
It's hard to learn from something you're never taught
The irony of a government that claims to defend rights like free speech while actively suppressing dissenting ideologies it doesn't like would make me laugh, if it wasn't so soul crushingly common in the world.
But it's how democracy works - you are allowed to say anything, as long as it's "right" thing you got to say.
It’s almost as if the leaders want to hold onto their power
The irony of the 'land of the free' having children across the nation pledging to a flag every morning at the start of school.
@Real Napster Have you tried it?
@Real Napster Blah blah blah blah shut up and acknowledge the problems of your country
I had exactly one sociology professor I could pin as a leftist, and it took me years to do some. I realized after thinking about what he ment by a off handed comment to the effect of "Lets not talk about how absurd it is for restaurants to call it theft when workers eat the food they've made". I realized years later than he was commenting on the stolen value of their labor.
I definitely had a few rabidly anti communist ones tho.
i’m not even in college yet but I have had my high school engineering teacher up and tell the class (we’ve had tons of political/philosophical debates in his classroom before, this was nothing new) that he was a socialist. in his own words, “i’m gonna get dogpiled on for saying that in this country but yep, i’m a socialist”. he also said that was the reason he got into teaching was because at least his labor would be going towards educating the next generation instead of just lining the pockets of old rich guys. anyway shout out to Mr. Ortman you’re a super cool teacher
@@wren_. based
A new Red Scare isn’t coming. The Red Scare never truly went away in the first place
It is atleast more toned down, communists aren’t shot for doing nothing as they were in the 60’s.
In my country the mainstream media is subtly beating the war drums, making communist China our trading partner out to be our #1 enemy. the elites want a war.
And how so?
The Red Scare is a brain washing tool by the West to keep their populace in line ...
Well, technically, there was a period when everyone believed in the "end of history"
And it was more like "triumph over the Red forever, until red comes again"
The only professors I've had who were even remotely leftist were always history teachers
It's easy to be right wing as an economist, but as a historian... Not so much
Because studying history gives you a good perspective of why things happen the way they do. And you can see how things repeat
@@baruchespinoza6703 why so? The Democratic Party seceded from the US, which sparked a civil war. They also started the KKK and still support it to this day. They also want to control what you think, say, and see. Abe Lincoln was a Republican who ended slavery in the US.
My history teachers were all very right leaning. One was from what was Yugoslavia and was very anti-socialism. Now my anthropology teachers were all very left leaning … because to love anthropology you cannot have a closed mind about other cultures … you have to appreciate all cultures and beliefs.
Me too
"We want diversity in thinking"
"Cool here's other systems besides capitalism that work"
"Not that kind of diversity"
I hate living in this country so much.
move
1. Working on it but the US makes it ridiculously difficult to estrange yourself from it.
2. Why? Why is it bad to want to make the place I live better?
3. Why don't you move? Because the majority of people want change...so it should be the few who refuse who should have to leave instead of holding everyone else back.
@@lolsxd8433 NO you can't be a slave owener without slaves, Are You A God Forsaken Socialist!?!
@@lolsxd8433 Why? This is such a chauvinistic and bigoted take only repeated by entitled children. This country is shit, it needs a revolution, deal with it.
Then take your ass to China
i've definitely met a couple of vaguely socialist professors- one of them briefly taught us Marxist economic theory when discussing the history of advertising, which was extremely based and cool- but i have a feeling that's because i went to an art college
@@drakebell6784 and why not? Who benefits from government assistance more than large corporations? They put their guys and gals in office to get large tax breaks and other perks.
American capitalism = corporate socialism. Fact.
@caitlin ୨୧ if you’re going to accuse me of thinking you better have evidence lol.
I had a history teacher teach the whole class in community college. Only one student disagreed with her lecture. But next class with her she seemed like she was told not to do what she was doing...
Moot , and your response to the criticisms made? Public Defenders Public Prosecutors. Highlight and Low Lights. America Is Exceptionally Good America is Exceptionally Bad. 🦉
For me as a German it was a shock when I found out that American schools don’t teach about all the bad things that happened in the US history.
We learn about slavery
Most countries don't teach about their wrongdoings at school. The US, UK, France, the Balkans, Russia, China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Israel, etc. all just sweep their atrocities under the rug. Germany is a rare exception, but that's only because of how evil the nazi regime really was.
@@sweetpeach3649 we now spend less time on fucking slavery than learning about "how the big bad USSR was really really bad and it was poor and it was just really really bad communism and socialism bad!", and I'm in the south but not in Florida and its before all these bills passed. we learn about the big bad Castro but never the really chill and I'm sure very nice Batista or General Augusto Pinochet or the Iranian Shah.
@@sweetpeach3649Aren't their states that teach that slavery benefited slaves?
It's all super intentional, especially the CIA destabilizing any country ever possibly could get it's fucking hands on
A new Red Scare is coming? I feel like it’s already here
Edit: In retrospect, it never stoped in the first place
*been here
It never left
There is the red scare of socialism. But republicans treat everything left wing like a red scare. Just look at how they act about CRT
It just changes focus. The Soviets were an adequate boogeyman for nearly 5 decades. Then came Islamic Fundamentalism. Now that is also fading, so we are focussed once again on Communism. Never mind that China has an entirely Capitalist economy, that US corporations have helped build into a powerhouse. North Korea is communist AF, AND threatens to nuke the US. Somehow, we don’t pay any mind to Kim Jong.
ISIS is evil, yet the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia practices the exact same Sharia Law, has horrible human rights records, and regularly beheads people in public for drinking alcohol or being homosexual. So are they part of the axis of evil? Not at all. Every single US president is pictured hand in hand with the King. Are we waging covert war against Saudi Arabia, as we did in Syria, because of their treatment of their people? Not at all. In fact, we sell the Saudis weapons constantly.
They will literally say anything, to keep the military budget where it is, or increasing. It has NOTHING to do with Communism or Islamic Fundamentalism. It has everything to do with, “do business the way the US says to do business, or we will slander you in the global media, then invade”. Its really that simple.
@@vrinnmetagen it’s fake garbage
“The first and most important thing you can do is to know what communism is” How ironic.
I mean is important to know
@@moalston4203 thats the thing, the haters dont even know it exactly
@@moalston4203 thats whats funny. Because the next line is literally "know your enemy", so its already summed up as "evil" up front. Basically, "the first and most important thing you can do is to know what we want you to think communism is".
@@vudangtung5638 if you who you are it won't matter what they think
"And by that we mean know what we tell you communism is... and we say communism bad.... capitalism good... don't think about it too much!"
“Students should not be shielded from intellectual ideas” and then blocks CRT.
Not woke thoughtcrime
CRT is harmful to black people. It’s not good to be constantly told “you are oppressed “ it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. There is equal opportunity for anyone willing to work and become good at something useful.
Wish they blocked Scientology...
Oh, yeah, they're just a part of religious freedom and people have right to spend all their money on them
We need a victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation
Here in chile we are writing one of the first inclusive constitutions that is written by workers,men,women and indigenous people :D
Some capitalist: Caaaaaaaaaaarl that kills people
Let's see how long it takes the CIA to muck it all up for you 😑😔
Based epic and liberation pilled. Sorry about when the US nukes you and erases all evidence your country ever existed
@@nzuckman the workers revolution is hungry for hands
Cheers
There have been far more capitalist dictatorships than socialist/communist ones. Dictatorship is a form of government. Capitalism and communism are economic theories.
to be fair, left ideology tries to politically change the economy - that's the whole point. conservatives are afraid of positive change for the people and therefore fearmonger with "government oppression".
@@trillionbones89 That is true. I’m not a communist or socialist, but I’d still argue that any government ideology will try to intervene in the economy in some capacity, whether is be through deregulation or regulation.
There have been far more Capitalist countries. If you have a barrel of apples and 10 are bad thats not okay . But if you have 10 apples and 8 are bad thats way worse.
Cus there’s been less Socialist and Community countries.
@@Charles-472 Hi, here’s a foundational understanding of Marxs theory
Central Economic Problem
Humans have UNLIMITED desires and only LIMITED resources in which to fulfill those desires. There will always be SOME level of scarcity and trade offs will NEED to be made. There is NO solution to this problem due to the laws of the physical universe, as far as we know the real world has X amount of X resource. This problem just leaves us with our best attempt to answer 3 questions.
WHAT should be produced?
HOW should it be produced?
WHO should it be produced for?
What Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued is that the factors of production which are Land, Labor, and Capital should be controlled through VARIOUS means of SOCIAL OWNERSHIP to best serve the interests of society. To best use our material reality for the benefit of ALL humans. This is why Communism is associated with Egalitarianism. The problem most people argue is that one form of Social ownership, which is state ownership, is a horrible way to control Capital, and it is. What they fail to understand is that, fundamentally, a government only represents society as long as it fights for democracy. What happens in a Capitalist society that becomes a plutocracy or a corporatocracy such as the United States? The same thing the Soviet Union suffered from, centralized power over Capital in the hands of a few, the only difference being Capitalists don’t even ATTEMPT to represent society, they’re MUCH less subject to scrutiny than the government even though they are often the same actors. What tends to happen in a Capitalist society is those with the power over Capital, Capitalists, make the state their puppet and use their control over the means of education to preserve their power. The best example of this is the history of the Red Scare in the US and the period of massive power in the hands of capitalists in America between the years 1870-1899 called the Gilded Age. This is why Karl Marx argues that the state is nothing but an oppressive tool to be used against society should Democracy fail to prevail in the face of Capitalist power, which it often does.
One of my teachers at the school I came from was from Vietnam and was an open communist and had a communist flag in his office and is here because he want's to teach music and most schools over there are properly staffed there while here, we have plenty of openings for teachers.
What a based comrade
And I have an American professor that bring AR to school, he had the confederate flag in his office and he always talks about how gun makes a place safer and people should openly carry arms everywhere they go
@@Thekidisalrightthat never happened btw
@@Thekidisalright well, not like you don't rationally want to have some weapons when far right are around...
You know what's funny? My 12yr old son came home one day and started telling me about Marx and some other guy who wrote this Communist maniufesto. I had never even heard about this. Went online and started reading it. Totally shocked at how different this was than the term "Marxist " I had heard before. BTW, pretty sure my son didn't learn this in school. Internet is a mother for curious minds.. good or bad
I'm just glad that he is still open to talking to me about what he's learning, so we can talk about it candidly, and I can share my knowledge with him in return. To me, the learning he gets in school will always be insufficient anyways, because there's just no way to cover everything from every angle. I see it as a starting place. He's also going to be learning from home, the intenet, friends, snd just life in general as he grows up and ask through his adult life. In the end, he's going to make his own mind up about it all.
If I can, I'll keep the dialogue open with him so that I can not only share what I know, but continue help to him keep an open mind, be a critical thinker, and encourage him to keep a that love of learning.
very late but i suggest you read "Wage Labor and Capital", "Value, Price and Profit" by Marx, and "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Engels
it's not everything, but it's very helpful insight to the fatal flaw of capitalism and what socialism really is respectively
@@degradingattentionspans6151 no worries! I appreciate the response and reading suggestions! Thank you!
@@elibella5660 you're welcome!
@@elibella5660im also late and while i cant name anything because i dont exactly remember you should read stuff made by lenin !
US Conservatives: Vietnam is evil.
Vietnam: You guys are just salty that we humiliated you.
Unfortunately, US weren't ready and didn't menage to wipe the commies out of Vietnam
@@cyberretard2192 good job! that's trolling done right
@@billybatseenddeeerste1271 I wasn't trolling..
@@cyberretard2192 They had the bombers, napalm, flamethrowers, AC 47s, etc. How are they not ready?
@@rusty3073 They lost
Everytime someone mentions how great Reagan was, my first thought is always “Yeah, but his administration nearly murdered my grandpa.” My mother’s side of the family knows about those right-wing death squads.
Reagan was a piece of shit President and should have been removed from office during his second term via the 25th. He was not mentally there, Nancy ran things more than the actual President did.
Even from a domestic point of view the de-industrialization of the American Midwest due to falling rate of profit devastated various manufacturing communities. The most famous of these places would be the city of Detroit. Reagan can only be seen in a positive light with ignorance and lies.
Reagan and crack go together like bread and butter.
Any context? Not just historically but also how your grandpa was involved.
That and he removed regulations on banks which led the country into dept, gave banks more power and contributed to another economic depression and they still haven't changed back to the regulations after the Great Depression.
It speaks volumes about the inadequacies of your system when you have to ban children from even learning about the existence of alternatives.
I had an art professor who called themself socialist. It was this professor who helped me learn and try to understand the shortcomings of our country. They even helped with material expenses because they new how expensive tuition is and didn’t want to add to our burden.
The only Marxist professor I've ever met was one of the most principled and well-educated communists I've ever had the pleasure of speaking to, but had to keep all of that knowledge and passion under wraps at all times because of the risk to their job and reputation. The Cold War never ended it just got slightly cooler
that is true
so truuuuuu, I have no doubts at some point this period in time is going to be called modern cold war or something like that.
And the trend of blaming America’s inadequacies and societal shortcomings on other countries continues. Politicians would like you to believe that China is responsible for all of our problems instead of their political decisions that has led us to where we are today. Healthcare, education, crime, wealth and racial inequality, climate change are all problems that our politicians are responsible for through their active lack of decision making and corruption. We can’t blame all of our shortcomings on China as we are responsible or our own problems and wellbeing.
It's almost never the enemies they tell us about but rather the ones telling us that there is a problem.
@Real Napster You lost buddy?
@Real Napster Right back at ya', McCarthy...
@Real Napster SURE. must be China's fault our corporations keep selling us out, selling our jobs to the cheapest bidder (aka Chinese), selling our corporations to Chinese investors (aka AMC, Snapchat), selling products made from china (Amazon), selling our data to Chinese investors. sure must be China's fault for all these things, not the american ceos who decided to sell us out. if the CEOs were actually patriotic, they wouldn't sell us out to the Chinese and wouldn't create media propaganda saying it's all Chinese's fault when it's 99% their own doing.
@Real Napster are you sure your kind isn't the one to deflect blame off our corporations selling us out? Nice capitalistic propaganda to deflect blame for our corporations selling americans out to China.
I had a history professor in my local community college (allegedly the best in the county) that taught the economic systems of both capitalism and communism, with a viewpoint that was clearly anti-capitalist. However, it seems like she was silenced by administration by the next class I had with her a couple semesters later, she was very outspoken before, and now she's a lot less...herself in class
My mom is a socialist and a college professor who spent her youth in student politics (specifically in the democratic socialist group who were always fighting the conservatives, the social democrats and the USSR-backed stalinist youth parties). I didn’t do a major where politics was likely to come up, but one of my high school teachers and at least two of my middle school teachers were outspoken socialists who spent many lessons debating poltics and history with us. But then I’m scandinavian so it’s not exactly unexpected for teachers to be socialists.
"We must defend intellectual freedom and also force the teaching of lies and misrepresentations about any ideology i dont like" -Ron Desantis
as a vietnamese, i should point this out. The waves are coming back up and we are trying our best to extinguish them. However, we are near our limits, especially HCM city. If our system is sruggling with the pandemic, other systems like the US should take extra precausion to protect its citizens rather than b*ing around and make people from overseas depressed at the sh* show.
That's sad to hear. I hope you manage to contain it again. Good Luck!
China is behind this it never gave to Vietnam nor India stay strong, love from India
What's worse is that not only are they making people from outside the US (i.e. us, pun not intended) depressed, but they're also hurting/killing their own people to save/get an extra buck. It's saddening to see the mess that they have over there.
Alsoo.. hopefully your situation there gets better soon! Love from the Philippines ❤️🇵🇭
Vietnam had one of the best responses to covid out of any country, I'm sure you'll be fine.
That's so sad to hear.
I had an ethics professor who took us through the entire curriculum, and then the last few classes were ones where we discussed slavery, American treatment of indigenous populations etc and watched 2 or 3 movies, all of which totally radicalized me because (even though I’m not even American originally, until 10 years ago) I learned about red lining, separate but equal, etc etc and it really opened my eyes. Thank God for leftie teachers and professors.
It's sickening. The audacity of a US politician to use countries their government actively makes difficult to live in as an example on the dangers of communism.
Ikr😡
"We don't want people to be shielded from ideologies"
"So, we've decided to ban anything slightly out of line"
Congratulations you became a master politician. Here is a small loan of a million dollars.
Banning anything slightly out of line is shielding ideologies.
You say the same about Nazism tho....
@@TheNeRvClanHQ you just described our capitalist society... and pointed out how it's drifting towards fascism
Yeah they need to be taught that Capitalism (Planned Obscelesence, Vulture Capitalism, Predatory Lending, Fee Fucking, making wage slaves of the people) is PATRIOTIC!
“Freedom was a luxury and liberty was just a dream”
Damn Desantis pretty much summed up America in one sentence. Of course he didn’t mean to describe America but it definitely works
We're no north korea, and we do have some freedom, be we are among the worst as far as free countries go.
Sure, we arent genociding a population right now, and we can choose most things, but the lack of basic saftey nets terrifies us all.
@@Vesper8088 You shouldn't speak with such confidence about other countries when you know nothing about them, typical american issue.
That vaguely lines up.
@@AndrewManook to be fair, how many people actually know what’s going on in North Korea except people who live there?
@@AndrewManook and what country are you from that you're brainwashed into thinking North Korea is so great?
I had an anarcho-syndicalist English professor at Southern Illinois University. One of the people who've had the greatest impact on me.
Fellow Saluki!
"patriotic education" just call it indoctrination 😭
Fascism.
Every time I watch a second thought video, I think "Damn, this is quite left wing, even for me" and then I get hit with well sourced facts that sound absolutely insane. The US is whack yo
@@drakebell6784 probably because right wingers don't have sources and at that point its misinfo
That sounds like me.
It makes you say thanks for living in a developing third world country.
Moral of the story: Keep moving left and never stop. Don’t let society shame you out of your humanism.
me too
@@sticks128 it’s definitely an up hill fight,education is key and the right wing understand this. So they must control the process any way they can,just like the process for voting ! Even though it’s really a one party system,because they control that also. “It’s a big club “ and Social Democrats are not welcome.😡🤬🤬🤬
I had one professor who might have been a socialist. He never explicitly said anything anti-capitalist, he only hinted at it, and he was a math professor so socialism (or capitalism) wouldn't even be part of his curriculum in the first place.
Mathematics and economics are important parts of socialism, just like any other ism.
"The Evils of communism."
If they implement that without implementing
"The evils of capitalism."
Then they're actively creating biases towards the students and only creating demagogues instead of informing the children.
No buts and if's.
Put that same energy and resources on both sides.
Because there are Americans who leave the U.S for canada to just get medical health care.
Or immigrate to EU countries.
Both Sides.
If the goal is informing children. Then teach both side of the coin of governance.
The political spectrum without bias.
Since they want to start that Political issue with the children.
@@abramrexjoaquin7513 Too bad the goal isn't informing people it's indoctrination into an ideology to create minions that don't question the status quo.
My degree was in a STEM field but I never encountered any professor whose political views were obvious, at least during lectures. I actually considered myself to be a conservative at the time and was sensitive to that. At most I had a humanities professor who seemed more a little more amenable to the idea of authoritarianism than democracy. When speaking in more private contexts they all definitely seemed left-leaning compared to my republican parents, because they'd support things like, you know... NSF grants. My dad was a TA a long time ago and he was super republican. A family member of a partner of mine was an associate professor, and he spoke openly about being a socialist among family.
I hope you parents get what they deserve
Funnily enough, my Intro to Sociology professor was an anarchist and thought very poorly of capitalism and hierarchy in general, preferring social commune, including unironically holding a democratic blind vote with students about how long the deadlines should be for assignments.
"When the communists start hunting you" Sir, this is not a first-person shooter game
Oh in America it just might be
It’s gulag time.
+
Time for demon mode 👹
They're basically just saying "Red sus! Red locked the doors in elec and tried to kill me!" When they failed to trap red in elec with the doors. McCarthyism is no different from among us public lobbies, but somehow dumber.
In college I had an environmental engineering professor that didn’t believe in climate change.
that's crazy! where did you go??!
Ironic
Did you ask why he didn't believe in climate change?
Isn't that like having a Gynaecology professor that doesn't believe in vaginas?
Maybe he knows the subject better than young kids??
The small socialist group that formed PRIVATELY on our campus got boycotted by a much bigger proud boys group. It got violent. It wasn’t in the news. The university defended the proud boys. No one was expelled but it was still an awful year
I’ve met a hardcore socialist professor before, however I should note she was a visiting professor and she was Swedish, but the hours I spent in her hall were by far the best spent credit hours of my university career.
The saddest thing about the “Red Scare” is that so many Americans lacked the curiosity to ask themselves what was motivating it.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Ask yourself: who would benefit from anticommunist propaganda being passed and, by extension, the demonization of anything remotely left-wing (social democracy for instance)? It doesn’t take a political scientist to figure it out.
@@BifronsCandle Everyone, considering how awful communism is.
That is the saddest thing......
@@BifronsCandle answer: CEOs, corporations, billionaires, shareholders, Military-Industrial Complex, Prison-Industrial Complex...
@@Omega97DX Not gonna try to nudge you on that since you seem pretty dead set on it. Instead, let me ask you why is it that anyone to the left of Reagan, especially mild Social Democrats like Bernie Sanders and AOC, are labeled communists? Why is it that any talk of giving power and agency to the workers sounds like “commie talk”? Why are we all supposed to agree that “communism” is awful when the vast majority of Americans don’t know a lick of what it actually means?
After all that, who do you think benefits the most from laws that disadvantage laborers, workers and Unions (or the rest of society in general)?
My stepdad watches Fox News constantly, and you can't go five minutes without hearing about the "far-left's radical socialist agenda" that they desperately want you to fear and despise. I'm not a socialist but I'm not consumed by hatred and fear of the ideology either.
And here I was, thinking I'm more red than blue. I got a lot of cognitive dissonance to clear up. This is an amazing channel, great brain food.
Well, how did it go?
We have to share accurate información and start questioning whoever says communism is bad, just to find out if they know what communism means. There is a high possibility they don't know the definition to begin with.
Exelent content as usual !
Why would people leave these countries that we've worked so hard to destabilize and destroy since their inception? 🤔
Yeah, it's so wierd. 🤔
Noe -ring- *force* to rule them all: *MONEEEEHHHHH*
i'm 62 and you know what? it's always been like this. i didn't learn about how russia actually won world war 2 until i saw the world at war on pbs. some things never change.
It's an issue of pride and politics more than anything else. Many people who try to prove that the Soviet system was better than the US because they won WW2 is ridicilous to me.
Let me guess, you also did not learned that Canadians were on D-Day?
@@BMD19840 yes i knew the canadians were there on d-day. thanks captain obvious.
this is class struggle, bourgeoisie won't let things can threaten them alive
Russia won the space race, too. Americans are brick-willed. It’s unbearable.
I had a professor who was an outspoken Marxist. Although I went to a small liberal arts college known for being kind of hippie. Most of my peers were left leaning at least, very few conservatives (or at least ones that self identified as such)
This aged wonderfully
"Students should not be shielded, but exposed to ideas."
This is coming from a rather thin-skinned censor-prone party...
exposed to ideas*
(without descent)
Teach how to think, not what to think. Way commie professors have been teaching, just by reading this comment section is teaching what to think, using other subject matters as guise to push their propaganda to kids, all according to KGB cold war mission to destroy west from with in. These new patriotic education classes, sure i'm not fan, but its counter to propaganda that has been pushed for decades now by commie professors and what this lead us? More divided population than ever and riots on the streets....
@@Hellsong89 Bullshit. Pot & Kettle. GOP and right wing christians have been censoring CV across the US?
Rich people giving gifts to sit on school and university boards, determining which books to read, which professors and teachers to hire.
@@Hellsong89 - do you want creationism being taught in school? Stupidity in system?
All im going to say is that we need to teach history not tell a story in history class.
Well put!
@@user-zy4wv7yx1zWell there is no simpler way to put it, the schools normally tell us the same stories each year and leave out many key details.
Tell that to Critical Race Theory
@@funkfordays2300 Do you even understand what critical race theory is, or are you a troll who's never read anything about it?
@@funkfordays2300 No comment...
I was highly fortunate to take a history course at a community college that taught from People's History of the United States and Lies My History Teacher Told Me. Plus, she showed Iraq for Sale and the High Cost Wal-Mart documentary. These were among the only books I actually read out of 20 years worth of classes. They provided an instant boost in self-worth and corrected my perspective, immensely. From then on, I knew why my Russian and Latvian "friends" gave me a hard time for my "views."
I have some similarly progressive videos on my channel, and I am starting a second channel dedicated purely to intellectual content. Even if I cultivate half of your "success" I will be happy.
I went to two different Universities and only met one Marxist. Most professors never hinted at their political leanings and there are only two I can think of that were openly conservative, but not obnoxious about it. The Marxist taught sociology and he was very open about his beliefs. In other words he came right out and said he was a Marxist. He was pretty cool. So for the Right to constantly rant about the Universities being full of Marxists is absurd.
We shouldn't shame children for different ideas yet we should shame children for not having "American ideas". That makes sense.
Yeah non American ideas are different ideas
We should not shame them for their ideas, but explain how they would work and if they would work. Capitalism clearly isn't.
I don’t think a new McCarthyism will survive with the internet.
Hopefully Nate, hopefully
I mean google works with the cia and we all saw what happened with his video about them, so we'll just have to see.
And the fact that nobody who isn’t already a conservative is taking them seriously
@Nika The Neko 日本語 Hrvatica what does that have to do with anything ?
It easily will, censoring the internet has been done by corporations for years. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit censor it's users far worse than anything China has done
Up here in Canada, I had the pleasure of learning both sides from my professors, and often both from the same professor.
In my experience, I’ve had a borderline fascist professor, a libertarian capitalist, independents, and liberals. No leftist socialists.
My college history professor mostly talked about the dangers of fascism. He discussed anti-intellectualism, he showed us a video by Timothy Snyder about Russia’s interference in the US elections, & about national identity in general. He told us that he is an expert in the Holocaust, & has given dozens of speeches around the world about how nationalism gave rise to it. He was the only person or group in power at LA Tech that I can only guess was left-wing. He never directly denounced or endorsed capitalism though.
He’s a lib if he thinks Russia is the enemy of the American people
Louisiana Tech? If so I’m from Nicholls and I made comment earlier
That is, Russia was able to intervene in the most sacred ritual of the United States, which, in theory, should be protected like the apple of an eye. To carry out a cyberattack on a country that is a leader in information technology, with mega-corporations themselves possessing the power of states. Either super hackers live in Russia, or the US has given a HUGE hole, or all this is a lie for political purposes.
My econ teacher taught us some awesome stuff without ever mentioning who wrote it, years later i found out it was marx
@@drakebell6784 indoctrination is when you teach multiple ways of understanding the world, I am very smart
@@drakebell6784 he's the only leftist teacher here of literally hundreds, he also taught us neolibral and Keynsian economics, both of which are capitalist, soooo
@@francismarion6400 He shoudnt have needed to mooch, the punishment for not wanting to work shouldnt be starvation, thinking otherwise is thinking the the deserved punishment for not getting a job should be death, because you need money to afford the privilege of not dying and thats wrong
@@francismarion6400 nice own tho, communism defeated
@@francismarion6400 he wanted to provide for everyone’s family, he was the most prolific egalitarian writer of all time, he literally dedicated his life to the cause of making sure everyone’s family would be provided for forever
I had a Christian conservative professor who made us do an assigned reading on why Jesus would support capitalism
OMG
WTF, man! What a sick world we are living in!
Funny when you consider he more than likely wouldn't
Desantis: students should not be shielded from ideas.
Rest of Florida: we can’t teach CRT even if we don’t know what it is.
US: Let’s burn the books we don’t like.
Seems like a well adjusted society.
At 11:00 he literally said they're 'taking advantage of American academic freedom to get through to student's naturally inquiring minds to preach revolutionary tactics to change peaceful campuses into scenes like this..', he literally said people are taking advantage of freedom to use their free speech.
Yooo im blowing up
if free speech threaten capitalism, they will ban it
I had a professor who described himself as a socialist, and he was one of the best professors I’ve had.
I had an art professor who I’m pretty sure was a socialist. He showed us movie They Live and would talk about how we were being lied to by the media.
@@sendimejia yea my professor is a film professor so it makes sense
@@thomasmaughan4798
No, only a few professors are actually socialist.
I have an art professor from Cuba, who escaped 😞
I had a pretty based English professor last semester who was recently let go from my university
Closest I've come was a history professor who gave me that smile you give someone when you're telling them you agree but can't actually say shit.
“The commies want you”
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at something so hard in my life
Also notice the vast difference between the threat of "being approached to join them" and the actual mindless injustices committed against suspected "commies" in that era and afterward
Finally someone wants me!
Projection. Oligarchs always resort to violence in order to retain their power. That's why fascism almost always happens in capitalist countries when the majority lose trust in the economic system because they are hurting so much that propaganda can no longer keep them in line. The oligarchy stirs up a hyper-nationalist shit show in order to hang on to their power.
@@marshallsweatherhiking1820 Fascism is the rabid attack dog that Capitalism keeps chained up in the back yard. Only to be let off when Capitalism's Supreme Authority is being truly challenged.
At least someone wants me now so... *hey Siri, hack into all megaphony systems in the US and blast Internationale-english version, full volume*
00:58 - "Just don't ever agree to join any committee or support any cause or sign any petition or allow your name to be used in any manner until you know the whole story, who's behind it, what their real objectives are."
Unironically great advice.
That's why it's also applicable to U.S. capitalist propaganda as well. Perhaps especially so.
It’s actually more relevant to our side of the argument. I mean compare Bernie and Trump. Which one has shady money practices. Which one has the average of 22 dollars per supporter?
Well it can be use in every day moment, its good to know to what are you joining or giving consent
YES! your point at the end is so true, our school taught us that communism was horrible and all that absolute shit, however, it is becoming more and more clear that socialism is starting to become more favorable, just last week I saw three people in my school reading copies of the manifesto, and talking about the socialist idea. and other things like that. It's pretty great to see. (I'm a senior in high school btw)
I don’t think I had a “socialist professors” but I have had a lot of professors that gave me good grades when I talked about labor, workers, and capital with a socialist light. There’s departments and profs that are cool and ones that aren’t. Still have had 98% neoliberals teach me.
The year is 2025, Prager University has been made an official school with a campus in Florida....
Dont pls dont 😭
Truly a more Dystopian Future than a Handmaid"s Tale.
Pee pee poo poo university
i mean there are almost certainly some poor home-schooled children , whose parents can't be bothered to teach them so they just use the PragerU , i mean i liked it because i had more right leaning mindset aaaaand then i saw the creationism video and i fucking jumped put of that trainwreck
Don't tempt fate like that 😭
If that happens we'll have to set up a proper Gravel Institute College to counter it
“The ‘land of the free’? Whoever told you that is your enemy!” - Rage Against The Machine
Says the user with the hammer and sickle defaced US flag on their profile picture.
@@odysseyvoyager2354 based
@@frecklenuckle4450 based on having 0 bitches
@@odysseyvoyager2354 Cry harder about their freedom of speech
@@ngotemna8875 it better to have dictator who listen to people than A free speech that never get to leader
The only “leftist-ish” teacher I had in college was my ceramics instructor, who was an old hippie and a brilliant instructor. He was denied tenure of course. The university of arkansas wouldn’t let Stephen Driver keep his job
I had a socialist political science professor. I didn’t get to see it first hand because I only took his 100 level course but I had a friend that went deep into the 300-400 levels and dude didn’t hold back. He was head hunted to teach at my school and stayed around for so long because he hated the school president and wanted to make sure he was there to see him go
I think the most left-wing professor I had in college was my Russian history professor. I took 3 of his classes and it really made me look at the USSR through a more critical lense and it was really hard to reverse all the anti-communist brainwashing I went through in high school.
Also I can safely say I started leaning more left wing after I graduated, started working full-time as a teacher and fully experienced the ills of capitalism.
You realise the troubles you go through are an inherent part of reality correct? It is hard to survive. Period. No political ideology is going to change that unfortunately.
@@beardfistthegoldenone7273 No, they are not. A lot of the hardships people experience are due to the systems that are in place. For example, we have enough food to feed every single person on earth and still have an excess amount to feed an additional 3 billion. But because it wouldn't be profitable, companies instead choose to throw away all that excess food.
Is he basically a traitor of the USSR?
Do you realise that the USSR has huge hunger, and shortages of normal consumer goods. Learn some history before admiring communism.
Communism is bad because it doesn’t work. I mean the USSR has shortages of everything, and the only reason China survived communism is because of implementation of free market policies which allowed commerce. Learn some history.
One of my free textbooks was written by a Marxist. I really appreciated his distribution strategy.
What's it called? Could you share it?
@@majl9585 I second this
It’s not YOUR textbook, it’s OUR textbook, Comrade
Intrudution to Human Geography: An Interdisiplinary Approach Third Edition by Steve Graves
A couple of the dumbest utterances I've heard on capitalism and communism is "capitalism lifts people out of poverty" and "capitalism isn't perfect but it's a much better system than communism."
I had a self identified anarchist professor in undergrad and a self identified anarchocommunist in grad school. Though I think my odds of encountering those ideologies had more to do with my interests Poli sci major and social justice concentration in grad school
Is there anything more authoritarian than dictating what can, AND CAN'T be taught in schools?
Yes, something more authoritarian is dictating what can be learned and what cannot - oh wait, nevermind!
Forcing all children to go to state mandated brainwashing.
I'm not from the USA but isn't that supposed to be unconstitutional.
@@khalidalyahya7285 No lol because the constitution protects nothing and it wasn't supposed to be. It was made by greedy slave owners.
@@internetperson8638 bro you need to enforce it. We are all being cowards or corrupt. We gotta put or foot down. Also they aren't limiting, they are just putting a minimum supposing they should be in charge if schools. Now the argument could be made for it being limiting by not giving time to teachers to discuss topics that are important at the moment for students to learn in said topic.
Mfs laugh at people with sociology degrees but love patriotic education.
Your work is extremely important. Thank you comrade ;)
Much love from a brother from Quebec, Canada.
I had a professor who was surprisingly socialist, extremely anti-establishment and quite the revolutionary. I loved the conversations we had. We need more voices like that in schools who are willing to be critical of our institutions.
I met a socialist professor, but it was like a secret. His whole field of study and phd focus was on the civil rights movement, so he had some lefty in him for sure, but was clearly distressed about, and had to weave around actually expressing those views for fear of the dean coming down on him. He later ended up killing himself, it was really really sad to hear about :(
@@AlynGabriel Did you... Did you express happiness at the news of suicide?!
For fuck's sake I thought everyone had at least a shread of human dignity, but now I'm starting to question that.
@@imperatormaximus8952 wtf did he say?
@@toppler8164 He said something along the lines of: "A socialist killed himself? I don't see the loss."
scary that this is still continuing, the red scare never ended, and it never will until a change in government
“If there’s one thing I learned growing up in a castle looking out at the peasants in the village, it’s that you don’t want to stoke envy amongst the proletariat.” -Tucker Carlson
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not
@@nickc3657 no it’s not a joke, it’s from a late 2000’s radio show he appeared on
@@nickc3657 check out both of Carlos Maza's videos on Tucker Carlson
@@MABfan11 oh man, I forgot about Carlos. Now I’m missing him and his videos again 😔
He's certainly become a master of propaganda, directing the pitchforks against each other and the hammer towards the sickle. That's why he does his best to come off as not belonging to the elite of whom he is very much a lifelong member.
JTs videos get more and more correct with age it’s crazy😭
When the will of the people becomes indistinguishable from governance, that will be the day that we have won.
I also like how capitalism's only tactic to sell itself is "Look how bad Socialist are!" Because they know there's no reasonable argument towards "Why capitalism is good."
The thing I find interesting is that they point to countries that are obviously authoritative dictatorships as examples of socialism and why it can not work. But if you mention the Scandinavian socialist Democracies they will say they are not socialists. And if you say well can we get universal healthcare like they do in Scandinavian countries they say no because that would is socialism. So which is it??? Also I think people get political system and economic system mixed up. Socialism is an economic system not a political one. No economic system is good under a dictatorship for a political system.
@@thomasmaughan4798 wow literally "vuvuzela no iphone", you're a walking joke.
Well having private property is nice and commies did a lot of crimes tbh
@@thomasmaughan4798 "you do not like capitalism yet you LIVE in it?" is your argument
@@thomasmaughan4798 Mate capitalism does not equal scientific progress. I can live anywhere even slightly more socialist and have a phone
I have had one socialist professor. She was very upfront about her political bias, but didn't participate in our discussions so as not to sway us. She taught the history of American imperialism, and exposed me to so much information that public schools never touched.
Thank you for immedeatly educating your audience about the "Victims of Communism Foundation" after it came up!
I live in south Africa my history teacher is very left wing I asked him why he's so open about it he replied "I live in a democracy I can say my opinions". So america maybe is not as democratic.
Edit yes I know its a republic I'm just calling out the hypocrisy
Bingo
America lost it's democracy a long time ago. Gerrymandering is out of control, and other policies as well. If your not a capitalist you're boned in this country.
Can't lose what you never had
America lost it's democracy a long time ago, and capitalism stole it. That ship has sailed.
America is losing its thing that makes America. It's Democracy.