Keeping it real: authenticity, academic integrity & the demimonde.
26 October 2016 [link youtube]
#vegancannibals
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this question of you know from vegan
cannibalism vegans attacking and denouncing other vegans just to get views just to get there a little bit of money a little bit of fame arm I just had a comment you know ethics applies to how human being Street of the human beings very true for me a lot of the issues here in publishing on YouTube are fundamentally similar to questions of publishing books you have to be rigorous in writing a book a non-fiction what ideas are really your own what ideas are you borrowing from other people where are you being influenced by other people's worker research what's original what's derivative it's a crucial you know ethical issues you have to be upfront about to what extent are your opinions based on really reading another person's work or not to give you an example I used to write about you know history of religion it's totally possible that i would post something where i saw a post using internet terms i would write an article or contribute a you know an article to a book where i would have to say as a disclaimer look I'm responding to this other scholars work about Buddhism but I actually haven't read his book of his books or his his articles I haven't read his work on Islam because the same author will have written on on more than one topic that may not sound like a big deal but it really is part of having intellectual integrity it's part of the the moral code of being an author I mean so honesty doesn't just mean you admit when you've done something wrong or terrible honesty in publishing in writing in being a creative person or in being a scholar or intellectual or even debating politics means that you're upfront about what you know how you know it how you came to form your own opinion and even your motivations even talking honestly about why you're pursuing this point so I mean you know what I see on youtube with in veganism these days with this kind of cannibalism it's lacking all of those virtues so I'm going to talk about keeping it real add a question from peanut butter um that's a name that's a person named peanut butter jams I had a question saying well you know what does keeping it real mean to you I always used to point out that one of the one of the crucial problems with musial adji with the way museums present their information was that museums lacked any such code of honesty that you would have in writing an academic article or in publishing a book on a topic you would have a museum making a claim I remember one that really offended me there was a totally political hatchet job in a museum washington DC about the history and politics of Sudan aka the Sudan and at that time I had actually done some research on the history and politics of Sudan and this was full lives and you know of course that would be offensive you actually from the Sudan etc but at that time it was linked to making excuses for the Clinton administration's policy in Sudan which included some bombings dropping some bombs on a medicine factory and some other bizarre things so I mean you know when you look at text written on the wall in a museum why doesn't it have to live up to the same standard as text written on a page in a book or in an article etc etc right and so I've got to kind of ask the same question about keeping it real and the ethics of you know what we do here in the digital vegan demi-monde i do not think it's ethical to come on camera and say well i haven't watched your video but how how can i write a critique you know for publishing an article saying well look i didn't read the book that i'm reviewing but here's my review why didn't read the primary source document i have an act like if you write an article well i haven't read that the Constitution United States of America but here's what's wrong with it no you got to read it and then you got a site what other scholars have you read whose opinions are influencing you what are your sources in terms of the information and in terms of your attitude towards the information and you even have to talk honestly about what motivates you so me why are you criticizing this part of the United States Constitution and it makes your writing better if you're ready article keeping it real it makes you less pretentious it makes you may engages with your reader so you might begin an article like that by saying look when I was ten years old there was a shooting on my block and somebody was shot dead and then when I was 11 and 12 I followed that case when I went through the courts and since that time I've really been concerned about how the Constitution is interpreted in terms of the right to own guns great great way to open an article and it's honest and it's real and it's human and it's meaningful and it's worth talking about right but now you gotta say okay here's the research i did and you've got us i mean if you never read the US Constitution you shouldn't be running the article all here's what i read here's what shape my thinking here's what directed me that's all the stuff you should share in a intellectually rigorous honest way you know what I'm saying so what does keeping it real mean to me and what does it mean in terms of the the cannibalism these you know nasty backbiting attitudes it's more than just not lying it's more than just admitting when like vegan cheetah you're making up a story or lying to people you're intentionally you know generating gossip that you again he knows to be false it's really a step beyond that it's about being honest with yourself and it's about you know a kind of rigor that again one of the good things about it is that it's more engaging with your audience I admit you guys all the time look I care about this issue because it reflects my background in Buddhism but his studies it reflects my background in doing humanitarian work in Laos it reflects my background in the caring about the politics of China or some research i did in japan whatever it is the problem of that and you know again if you watch that one video i did with zaria the agony of activism we talk honestly about you know what it's like being around animals that are having a throat slit what's like being around the violence that's a normal part of the slaughterhouse industry of the meatpacking industry what it was like for me to be in Laos on a farm so again i'm admitting i'm talking about motivations i'm talking about my source information talk about why i care and now here's my argument for you right who that's that's it I mean that's keeping it real keeping it real is an academic virtue it's an author's virtue it's a stand-up comedians virtue and I mean what we do here on on YouTube it incorporates elements of all those genres right in some ways it's a lot like stand-up comedy then in some ways I mean if you're gonna get into you know criticizing the material on my channel yes at a minimum you've got to actually watch the video and you've got to be honest and forthcoming but what you watched and why you why you respond to it that way and uh I was talking to another youtuber in a private conversation by skype the other day and he was saying some really weird stuff with my channel and what part just has to ask him like you know my channels over 400 idios about how many of you watched and he said maybe five by the end of the conversation I thought more like maybe three I wasn't mad at him but very often when people have misconceptions about what I said or why I said it what the theme of the thesis the video was the reason is because they haven't watched the video let alone of course they haven't watched related videos so yeah citing your sources being honest about what you know and how you know it it's not just for writing university paper people it's something that makes your whole life meaningful it's something I've got to be honest about even if I'm doing a review of a rap album of the internet how did I come to listen to this album what would my expectations before I heard the album etc etc this pattern i'm talking about about keeping it real it's a lot more than just university papers what
cannibalism vegans attacking and denouncing other vegans just to get views just to get there a little bit of money a little bit of fame arm I just had a comment you know ethics applies to how human being Street of the human beings very true for me a lot of the issues here in publishing on YouTube are fundamentally similar to questions of publishing books you have to be rigorous in writing a book a non-fiction what ideas are really your own what ideas are you borrowing from other people where are you being influenced by other people's worker research what's original what's derivative it's a crucial you know ethical issues you have to be upfront about to what extent are your opinions based on really reading another person's work or not to give you an example I used to write about you know history of religion it's totally possible that i would post something where i saw a post using internet terms i would write an article or contribute a you know an article to a book where i would have to say as a disclaimer look I'm responding to this other scholars work about Buddhism but I actually haven't read his book of his books or his his articles I haven't read his work on Islam because the same author will have written on on more than one topic that may not sound like a big deal but it really is part of having intellectual integrity it's part of the the moral code of being an author I mean so honesty doesn't just mean you admit when you've done something wrong or terrible honesty in publishing in writing in being a creative person or in being a scholar or intellectual or even debating politics means that you're upfront about what you know how you know it how you came to form your own opinion and even your motivations even talking honestly about why you're pursuing this point so I mean you know what I see on youtube with in veganism these days with this kind of cannibalism it's lacking all of those virtues so I'm going to talk about keeping it real add a question from peanut butter um that's a name that's a person named peanut butter jams I had a question saying well you know what does keeping it real mean to you I always used to point out that one of the one of the crucial problems with musial adji with the way museums present their information was that museums lacked any such code of honesty that you would have in writing an academic article or in publishing a book on a topic you would have a museum making a claim I remember one that really offended me there was a totally political hatchet job in a museum washington DC about the history and politics of Sudan aka the Sudan and at that time I had actually done some research on the history and politics of Sudan and this was full lives and you know of course that would be offensive you actually from the Sudan etc but at that time it was linked to making excuses for the Clinton administration's policy in Sudan which included some bombings dropping some bombs on a medicine factory and some other bizarre things so I mean you know when you look at text written on the wall in a museum why doesn't it have to live up to the same standard as text written on a page in a book or in an article etc etc right and so I've got to kind of ask the same question about keeping it real and the ethics of you know what we do here in the digital vegan demi-monde i do not think it's ethical to come on camera and say well i haven't watched your video but how how can i write a critique you know for publishing an article saying well look i didn't read the book that i'm reviewing but here's my review why didn't read the primary source document i have an act like if you write an article well i haven't read that the Constitution United States of America but here's what's wrong with it no you got to read it and then you got a site what other scholars have you read whose opinions are influencing you what are your sources in terms of the information and in terms of your attitude towards the information and you even have to talk honestly about what motivates you so me why are you criticizing this part of the United States Constitution and it makes your writing better if you're ready article keeping it real it makes you less pretentious it makes you may engages with your reader so you might begin an article like that by saying look when I was ten years old there was a shooting on my block and somebody was shot dead and then when I was 11 and 12 I followed that case when I went through the courts and since that time I've really been concerned about how the Constitution is interpreted in terms of the right to own guns great great way to open an article and it's honest and it's real and it's human and it's meaningful and it's worth talking about right but now you gotta say okay here's the research i did and you've got us i mean if you never read the US Constitution you shouldn't be running the article all here's what i read here's what shape my thinking here's what directed me that's all the stuff you should share in a intellectually rigorous honest way you know what I'm saying so what does keeping it real mean to me and what does it mean in terms of the the cannibalism these you know nasty backbiting attitudes it's more than just not lying it's more than just admitting when like vegan cheetah you're making up a story or lying to people you're intentionally you know generating gossip that you again he knows to be false it's really a step beyond that it's about being honest with yourself and it's about you know a kind of rigor that again one of the good things about it is that it's more engaging with your audience I admit you guys all the time look I care about this issue because it reflects my background in Buddhism but his studies it reflects my background in doing humanitarian work in Laos it reflects my background in the caring about the politics of China or some research i did in japan whatever it is the problem of that and you know again if you watch that one video i did with zaria the agony of activism we talk honestly about you know what it's like being around animals that are having a throat slit what's like being around the violence that's a normal part of the slaughterhouse industry of the meatpacking industry what it was like for me to be in Laos on a farm so again i'm admitting i'm talking about motivations i'm talking about my source information talk about why i care and now here's my argument for you right who that's that's it I mean that's keeping it real keeping it real is an academic virtue it's an author's virtue it's a stand-up comedians virtue and I mean what we do here on on YouTube it incorporates elements of all those genres right in some ways it's a lot like stand-up comedy then in some ways I mean if you're gonna get into you know criticizing the material on my channel yes at a minimum you've got to actually watch the video and you've got to be honest and forthcoming but what you watched and why you why you respond to it that way and uh I was talking to another youtuber in a private conversation by skype the other day and he was saying some really weird stuff with my channel and what part just has to ask him like you know my channels over 400 idios about how many of you watched and he said maybe five by the end of the conversation I thought more like maybe three I wasn't mad at him but very often when people have misconceptions about what I said or why I said it what the theme of the thesis the video was the reason is because they haven't watched the video let alone of course they haven't watched related videos so yeah citing your sources being honest about what you know and how you know it it's not just for writing university paper people it's something that makes your whole life meaningful it's something I've got to be honest about even if I'm doing a review of a rap album of the internet how did I come to listen to this album what would my expectations before I heard the album etc etc this pattern i'm talking about about keeping it real it's a lot more than just university papers what