Think of the Government as a Giant, Corrupt, Woke Corporation ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the government, racism, the media, and identity markers in our society. We discuss the role of identity markers and how they affect our understanding of racism and identity. We also discuss the current state of race relations in Canada and the lack of a unified identity.
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a lot of people will say they don't trust corporations and corporations become corrupt
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over time because look at the power dynamics people just want more power and they'll just
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grow and they'll just take more power and they're fundamentally corrupt yeah and then they think
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government or the media are immune to the same problem but they're just they're just different
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types of corporations i've had this exact conversation with some of my family too it's
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like i need you for a second just to think of envision the government as a giant company
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and then you're getting close to you might you're getting to it like a tenth of a percent
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of how corrupt it is imagine the government is walmart corporate head office you know like
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it's yeah that we we we've talked about this before you know this is not my idea this is
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this is jordan peterson's statement basically about how we've been in canada we've been
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typically you know we've been spoiled for a number of years with a relatively uh you know
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a high trust media that has been born primarily out of the um then the good faith kind of compromising
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that is necessary in a country that had spent a significant portion of the 60s and 70s um
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trying to keep the country together with uh quebec separatism right i think that was 60s and 70s is
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when it was really quite contentious and since then you know that sort of um built uh through
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various factors built a media apparatus that was relatively forthright in its in its reporting and
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and it was you know it was considered you know that was sort of a cornerstone of of
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canadiano you know we have a you know we're we're a reasonable people we get along generally and we
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you know we try and see the best in our neighbor and we try to you know like you know things like
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that that's how we develop a reputation across the world of being oh you know we're the polite
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canadians right but that's um that's long gone that hasn't been that hasn't been the case in a long
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time if anything you have two things that are either happening you have suicidal empathy
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where you have being too nice to a point that you're letting terrible things happen and people
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don't have the backbone to stand up or you have just targeted hate towards certain groups so
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with our dei environment in canada is very much woke in that respect there's hatred towards men
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anybody who's kind of white that that umbrella is widening because they need more people to hate
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so uh mike you may be too white you're too much of a man and you're too white and you're too straight
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therefore you are an oppressor in three dynamics yeah i yeah i i have heard actually that that gay men
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are actually no no longer even considered oppressed like they don't they don't count anymore they're not
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they don't get the uh any sort of oppression points for that yeah so it's you get moved around
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these these dynamics but so in our tolerant compassionate canadian society there's a lot
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of hate and there's a lot of demonization of groups based on these identity markers so we've
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we've this is a far i don't know it's hard to like know the level of hate and like disdain that
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people have but i feel like your national identity gets watered down when you have leaders that say
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well like there's no canadian culture or there's nothing special about canada and when you have
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when you're replacing your population like we're like we're on track to double it that number may vary
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but it also depends on the exact number of um immigrants versus permanent residents versus
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students versus how many get in that way and if there's no push to assimilate if there's no push to
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adopt the values that were here before or if we hate what canada was founded on
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then what is our national identity other than just pockets of other countries and other cultures
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that get implanted into here so we're not setting ourselves up to have any unified identity and i think
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that's there are certain political ideologies that well they find that's a advantage the lack of unity
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advantage and i i feel like well if anything they're unifying by creating an us versus them
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almost like a well if you're looking at the oppression dynamics you just blame it on the oppressors
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and that's whoever fits conveniently well if somebody if a prior person was prior elected official 100
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years ago they're a colonizer so we don't have to we can throw down their statue we don't have to
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we don't have to respect anything they stood for therefore their values get watered down or
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if somebody's if they're part of this if they're a straight male then they're
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an oppressor and you can direct hate you can still have a unity
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for people who benefit you can still have a unity on the on these other dynamics and i think we're
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seeing this from the left and we're seeing these in the these elections you're seeing
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the label of racist trolls anti-vaxxers these are just new ways to hate and they unify people over
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hate rather than an actual understanding of issues yes and it's very and this is you know perhaps a
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a podcast for another time but it's very religious in nature i find it's very um
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um this is what religions have typically done to separate to to to this is the second time i'm
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going to use the word delineate in the last few minutes great word right to delineate between you
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know the in group and the out group you know you're either like us or you're not like us and that's
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somewhat goes back to to my previous point of um you know you get a reputation for the you know
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the the polite canadian and you know we're you know that's how we're known across the world but
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but actually when you when you when you actually look at what like what that means it's it's not
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actually politeness a lot of the time what it is is passive aggressiveness passive aggression um
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and and there's a there's sort of an accepted way of like it's it's pathologized in a way where it's
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like basically it's demanded of you to be tolerant and inclusive
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or else you're not going to be tolerated or included so it's it's sort of um it's not real
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inclusion it's a it's a it's a sort of like how i don't know sort of a cult mentality sort of of um
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i gotta i gotta i gotta form my idea a little bit a little bit better before i think before i say this
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but like it's um it's an identity without a without a basis you know it's a it's just it's it's defined
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by what it's against more than than what it represents do you know what i'm saying it's almost
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a performative inclusion it's you're saying you're including like you're inclusive within a
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certain defined framework yeah and if somebody doesn't fit that framework they're excluded because
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they're not inclusive enough that's right that's right yeah it's it's sort of it's it's self-limiting
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like that and it and it's it's very um yeah it it's it typically what it boils down to is it you
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know exactly the things that you've that you were mentioning you know you know race sexuality uh uh
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gender identity um you know it these are what the the actual inclusiveness quote unquote that they want
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is um people who their most obvious physical attributes are varied but the things that they
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believe are in lockstep they just want people who look different to believe and talk about and
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say and preach the same thing so it's that's not that's not the type of diversity i don't think that
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uh is uh is robust in the long term it's just a it's exactly like you said it's performative it's
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hey look look at this group of diverse people we all believe and think exactly the same but boy do we