Juno News - Will the woke mob listen to their elders？

00:00:00.000 in case you've been asking yourself when will the pushback happen when will you hear more people

00:00:10.160 saying hold on pause stop the madness about a lot of things happening during this current reckoning

00:00:15.580 well we have some developments for you really interesting stuff happening over at harper's

00:00:21.420 magazine harper's magazine was a sort of standard bearer of the left wing back in the 1980s 1990s

00:00:26.900 they're not so relevant anymore but the magazine is still published and now they've put together this

00:00:31.580 open letter of over 150 public figures most of them are authors talking about the current national

00:00:38.040 moment and they have some problems with it so interesting to hear this coming from the left

00:00:42.780 they begin by saying powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands

00:00:48.800 for police reform along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society they make

00:00:53.620 it clear they're really supportive of that but they have some caveats major caveats they say that

00:00:59.600 this is creating a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms

00:01:06.620 of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity they're coming out

00:01:13.140 against the mob against deep platforming against cancel culture you got individuals like noam chomsky

00:01:19.460 very much a left-wing person jk rowling margaret atwood they disagree on the transgender issues but

00:01:24.580 they're uniting on this one canadians well margaret atwood is one of them you got michael ignatiev

00:01:29.280 adding his name to the list a whole bunch of people there now they take a lot of cheap shots at

00:01:33.160 donald trump conservatives right-wingers i think they do that just as as kind of to let sjw's know oh no

00:01:39.340 you're still in a safe space you can read this we're not saying this from a right-wing perspective

00:01:43.220 kind of trying to be leftist elder statesmen and here's the question on that note do the young

00:01:49.400 radicals running around trying to tear things down whether it's literally in terms of these statues or

00:01:53.980 tearing people's reputations down online do they believe in elder statesmen anymore do they

00:01:59.800 do they admire these people do they believe that there are totem figures in their own sort of realm and

00:02:06.320 world or are they like the cultural revolution during the maoist days when it's all about the young

00:02:11.040 tearing down their elders and saying no we do know better so i support the the sort of spirit and

00:02:17.920 theme of this letter here basically saying open debate free speech inquiry it matters whether you're

00:02:22.800 left winger right winger but the big question will the woke mob actually say you know what these people

00:02:28.280 do have a point or will they turn on their elders it remains to be seen so grab the popcorn and

00:02:34.500 let's watch it unfold

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Juno News - July 08, 2020