The Critical Compass Podcast - November 04, 2024


Think of the Government as a Giant, Corrupt, Woke Corporation ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

Canadian Media's Adversarial Relationship w⧸Conservatives ｜ A Critical Compass Clip Election Interference & the Uphill Battle of Conservatives vs. the Corporate Press

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Also mentioned:
Jordan Peterson

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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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00:00:00.000 a lot of people will say they don't trust corporations and corporations become corrupt
00:00:10.200 over time because look at the power dynamics people just want more power and they'll just
00:00:15.600 grow and they'll just take more power and they're fundamentally corrupt yeah and then they think
00:00:22.520 government or the media are immune to the same problem but they're just they're just different
00:00:29.980 types of corporations i've had this exact conversation with some of my family too it's
00:00:34.620 like i need you for a second just to think of envision the government as a giant company
00:00:41.340 and then you're getting close to you might you're getting to it like a tenth of a percent
00:00:47.620 of how corrupt it is imagine the government is walmart corporate head office you know like
00:00:53.380 it's yeah that we we we've talked about this before you know this is not my idea this is
00:00:59.740 this is jordan peterson's statement basically about how we've been in canada we've been
00:01:06.440 typically you know we've been spoiled for a number of years with a relatively uh you know
00:01:12.180 a high trust media that has been born primarily out of the um then the good faith kind of compromising
00:01:22.500 that is necessary in a country that had spent a significant portion of the 60s and 70s um
00:01:28.860 trying to keep the country together with uh quebec separatism right i think that was 60s and 70s is
00:01:35.700 when it was really quite contentious and since then you know that sort of um built uh through
00:01:42.680 various factors built a media apparatus that was relatively forthright in its in its reporting and
00:01:48.440 and it was you know it was considered you know that was sort of a cornerstone of of
00:01:52.060 canadiano you know we have a you know we're we're a reasonable people we get along generally and we
00:01:59.700 you know we try and see the best in our neighbor and we try to you know like you know things like
00:02:04.980 that that's how we develop a reputation across the world of being oh you know we're the polite
00:02:08.780 canadians right but that's um that's long gone that hasn't been that hasn't been the case in a long
00:02:16.560 time if anything you have two things that are either happening you have suicidal empathy
00:02:22.300 where you have being too nice to a point that you're letting terrible things happen and people
00:02:28.020 don't have the backbone to stand up or you have just targeted hate towards certain groups so
00:02:38.100 with our dei environment in canada is very much woke in that respect there's hatred towards men
00:02:45.540 anybody who's kind of white that that umbrella is widening because they need more people to hate 1.00
00:02:52.980 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 0.99
00:03:00.140 therefore you are an oppressor in three dynamics yeah i yeah i i have heard actually that that gay men 0.98
00:03:06.900 are actually no no longer even considered oppressed like they don't they don't count anymore they're not
00:03:11.920 they don't get the uh any sort of oppression points for that yeah so it's you get moved around
00:03:19.040 these these dynamics but so in our tolerant compassionate canadian society there's a lot
00:03:28.480 of hate and there's a lot of demonization of groups based on these identity markers so we've
00:03:34.920 we've this is a far i don't know it's hard to like know the level of hate and like disdain that
00:03:42.840 people have but i feel like your national identity gets watered down when you have leaders that say
00:03:48.740 well like there's no canadian culture or there's nothing special about canada and when you have
00:03:57.380 when you're replacing your population like we're like we're on track to double it that number may vary
00:04:04.200 but it also depends on the exact number of um immigrants versus permanent residents versus
00:04:11.280 students versus how many get in that way and if there's no push to assimilate if there's no push to
00:04:21.160 adopt the values that were here before or if we hate what canada was founded on
00:04:28.040 then what is our national identity other than just pockets of other countries and other cultures
00:04:38.120 that get implanted into here so we're not setting ourselves up to have any unified identity and i think
00:04:45.800 that's there are certain political ideologies that well they find that's a advantage the lack of unity
00:04:54.260 advantage and i i feel like well if anything they're unifying by creating an us versus them
00:05:01.220 almost like a well if you're looking at the oppression dynamics you just blame it on the oppressors
00:05:07.020 and that's whoever fits conveniently well if somebody if a prior person was prior elected official 100
00:05:16.740 years ago they're a colonizer so we don't have to we can throw down their statue we don't have to
00:05:23.780 we don't have to respect anything they stood for therefore their values get watered down or
00:05:28.260 if somebody's if they're part of this if they're a straight male then they're
00:05:36.020 an oppressor and you can direct hate you can still have a unity
00:05:40.420 for people who benefit you can still have a unity on the on these other dynamics and i think we're
00:05:47.380 seeing this from the left and we're seeing these in the these elections you're seeing
00:05:53.220 the label of racist trolls anti-vaxxers these are just new ways to hate and they unify people over
00:06:01.460 hate rather than an actual understanding of issues yes and it's very and this is you know perhaps a
00:06:08.980 a podcast for another time but it's very religious in nature i find it's very um
00:06:15.220 um this is what religions have typically done to separate to to to this is the second time i'm
00:06:22.900 going to use the word delineate in the last few minutes great word right to delineate between you
00:06:27.620 know the in group and the out group you know you're either like us or you're not like us and that's
00:06:32.660 somewhat goes back to to my previous point of um you know you get a reputation for the you know
00:06:38.740 the the polite canadian and you know we're you know that's how we're known across the world but
00:06:42.260 but actually when you when you when you actually look at what like what that means it's it's not
00:06:48.420 actually politeness a lot of the time what it is is passive aggressiveness passive aggression um
00:06:54.420 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
00:07:00.180 like basically it's demanded of you to be tolerant and inclusive
00:07:04.740 or else you're not going to be tolerated or included so it's it's sort of um it's not real
00:07:13.140 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
00:07:21.620 i gotta i gotta i gotta form my idea a little bit a little bit better before i think before i say this
00:07:26.500 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
00:07:35.460 by what it's against more than than what it represents do you know what i'm saying it's almost
00:07:40.420 a performative inclusion it's you're saying you're including like you're inclusive within a
00:07:49.220 certain defined framework yeah and if somebody doesn't fit that framework they're excluded because
00:07:55.220 they're not inclusive enough that's right that's right yeah it's it's sort of it's it's self-limiting
00:07:59.860 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
00:08:06.820 know exactly the things that you've that you were mentioning you know you know race sexuality uh uh
00:08:12.340 gender identity um you know it these are what the the actual inclusiveness quote unquote that they want
00:08:20.900 is um people who their most obvious physical attributes are varied but the things that they
00:08:28.500 believe are in lockstep they just want people who look different to believe and talk about and
00:08:34.180 say and preach the same thing so it's that's not that's not the type of diversity i don't think that
00:08:39.620 uh is uh is robust in the long term it's just a it's exactly like you said it's performative it's
00:08:45.700 hey look look at this group of diverse people we all believe and think exactly the same but boy do we
00:08:51.540 look different