On this episode of Restorally Uncensored, we are joined by Sargon of akkad, host of the popular YouTube channel "Sargon of Akkad" where he discusses the rise of the social justice warrior movement known as "Gadgetgate" and its impact on the gaming community.
00:00:24.000And if you were a good feminist, you'd – So glad to have this next guest.
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00:01:19.000Well, I'm glad to have you on the program.
00:01:22.000You came to us through Milo Yiannopoulos, who people really liked.
00:01:26.000And, you know, it's funny, like you said, you didn't really expect, I guess, to be on sort of this terrestrially syndicated show, and I never really expected to be kind of I like the use of the word notoriety.
00:02:36.000But why do you think that has been such a big driver?
00:02:41.000Why do you think that's become so important?
00:02:42.000Because a huge portion of your content now is either centered around Gamergate or the social justice warrior sort of topic.
00:02:49.000I think initially, I mean, I've always been...
00:02:53.000The main reason that I got into doing my YouTube channel in the first place is because I've become very, very concerned with what I see as major violations of the principles of classical liberalism.
00:03:05.000I find it very, very disturbing, some of the Some of the bizarre attitudes I've heard coming out of the press, coming out of the gaming press, the mainstream press.
00:03:16.000The prevailing attitudes are worrying.
00:04:16.000Well, we talk about that on this program a lot.
00:04:18.000Obviously not just the Gamergate thing.
00:04:19.000But as a Yankee, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Larry King, all people who at one time were thought of as, my God, actual journalists.
00:05:08.000But the important thing is the journey rather than the destination.
00:05:13.000It's attempting to become objective that is important because these people, instead of – they have done exactly what I consider to be the wrong thing to do.
00:05:23.000They've looked at the situation and said, well, you can never really be objective.
00:06:05.000Well, you're actually sounding a lot like Andrew Breitbart right now.
00:06:07.000He talked about that for years and everyone made fun of him and said he was a – have you actually – I mean you're in the UK. I know he has Breitbart London now with Milo.
00:06:15.000But have you followed Andrew's work at all?
00:07:49.000Yeah, I was a pretty good friend of Andrew, and I never worked for him on a professional level.
00:07:54.000I was one of the first writers ever at his site when it was big Hollywood, but I was never on a pay scale, so we had a bit of a different relationship.
00:10:04.000it doesn't matter what i would be considered right because if i was to take a political compass test which i have obviously done i'm center left the the issue is that the progressive left is so far to the left anyone who is even slightly more right than them is far right in their opinion right and this but basically a lot of the people who subscribe to my channel are people who are left-wing but not extreme progressives and And what we are effectively seeing is a civil war within the left.
00:11:00.000They're the sort of radical ones, but I'm talking about the more moderate ones who, you know...
00:11:05.000Here's the one thing I would say before we get off that trail.
00:11:07.000I would say there's nothing moderate about wanting equal pay.
00:11:11.000There's nothing moderate about saying women should have the right to vote about equal rights.
00:11:14.000There's nothing moderate about that, but we have it.
00:11:16.000So what is considered extreme is for me to say it's not an issue anymore.
00:11:20.000That needs to be discussed because you have those things.
00:11:23.000So I understand what you're saying, but I think you relinquish a little bit of territory by even considering that moderate because the left already considers that extreme.
00:11:30.000That's not what I was considering moderate.
00:11:32.000I was really speaking to what they consider.
00:11:36.000My own opinion is there is no gender pay gap.
00:11:49.000common sense um but yeah so basically a large portion of the left i mean you could see this in the daily telegraph in the uk on literally in subsequent days in the same newspaper you had editorials from various different uh staff members either lionizing or castigating these radical feminists who declared chivalry to be sexist right and you you could see the contrast they were like no it's not sexist for me to you know want to hold a door open for a woman that's me being a gentleman you know but then you have the other side going yeah
00:12:18.000but that in itself is just benevolent sexism it's it's still sexism and so this is where the sort of radical left are really starting to lose people and what basically And that's where language matters.
00:12:30.000Inherently, if you want to get down to the definition, it is sexism and that you are treating someone differently because of their sex.
00:12:37.000But like I've always said, and I've said this on the show many times, I don't know how many people on your channel have seen it.
00:12:41.000I told a friend of mine, and I told my wife, I said, listen, it is sexism that has me treating you so much better than I treat my video producer, Jared.
00:12:50.000If Jared comes and smacks me when I'm not looking, which is what guys do, I smack him back.
00:13:24.000Ultimately, the path of reasoning they've gone down, it does lead to the point where you realize that any treatment of women for being even slightly different, which they obviously are different, is a form of sexism.
00:13:36.000It's too extreme for almost everyone except the extreme progressives.
00:13:51.000You guys seem to have lost not only the media battle, but the academic battle.
00:13:55.000And mainly, this comes because you guys don't have any communications courses.
00:13:59.000In communications courses, what they are teaching students these days are the tricks of Edward Bernays and Saul Alinsky.
00:14:06.000And you've probably got some viewers whose ears have perked up at those two names, if yours haven't already.
00:14:11.000Well, Andrew Breitbart was the one who brought Saul Alinsky to the foreground and drew that sort of connection with him and radical leftists like President Obama.
00:14:18.000And the thing is, what's interesting about Alinsky is he was a leftist, obviously, and he wasn't a full Marxist.
00:14:26.000But his book, Rules for Radicals, isn't a partisan text.
00:14:33.000He describes it as the counterpoint to Machiavelli's The Prince.
00:14:37.000When Machiavelli's The Prince is the book to help the haves keep what they have, Rules for Radicals is to help the have-nots take what they have.
00:15:35.000And there's a pivotal issue there, and that's why the right has sort of lost culturally again, because they've conceded territory, not only media, entertainment, academia, and the narrative is set where basically it'd be like someone watching someone going for a high jump.
00:15:51.000Leftists are sitting there watching from the stands going, you didn't hit the perfect Fosbury flop there, and they laugh, but they don't even attempt it.
00:16:12.000The left have spent decades in academia solidifying their position with all sorts of complex rationales.
00:16:19.000They have sociological definitions for things.
00:16:22.000For example, racism is not merely being prejudiced against someone based on their skin colour or their race.
00:16:29.000That's not what racism means to the extreme progressive sociological definition of the word.
00:16:35.000what they use it to mean is a system of uh or interlocking sort of system of power structures so in their minds if you're not someone who is benefiting from a power hierarchy you can't be racist so in their minds white people are the only people who can be racist because if you look at say politicians in the u.s or in the uk any european country uh they're predominantly white and they're predominantly male because what else i don't like that
00:17:05.000you lumped the u.s in with We are not of your ilk, sir.
00:17:36.000And so once you get down to French, like, well, who's the other sect of French people?
00:17:40.000And the people from Paris are like, we had the French-Canadian, and then the French-Canadian, we had the people from Paris, and there's no one left.
00:17:49.000First of all, Yeah, so basically, in Western countries, the people who predominantly hold positions of power in, say, corporations and governments are white men.
00:18:12.000The sociological definition of these things like racism and sexism, they have taken all of this into account and decided that what this is, and I'm going to quote directly, they call it a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
00:18:24.000And so they think that if you aren't a white man, then you cannot be racist or sexist, which enables them to go and be as hateful as they like to white men.
00:18:34.000In Being right-wing is a pejorative term in these circles.
00:18:41.000They will call you right-wing as an insult.
00:18:58.000And I think there was a point where people who were right wing and listen, I think I have a lot of family members and probably when I was a young teenager was guilty of this, where...
00:19:08.000Because of the religious influence, and I am full disclosure, I still am a Christian, I think a lot of people didn't have to rationalize their arguments anytime you get into an echo chamber.
00:19:16.000So I think one could have argued, yeah, the right wing seemed like they were fixated on certain points and weren't open to reason.
00:19:23.000Where now you've got the left, and like you said, they have their very important narrative that they will protect at all costs through Alinsky Tactics.
00:19:29.000You were singing my song, babe, and now they're the ones who are closed off to reason.
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