Faith Goldy: Canadian Hitler. ⓐⓡ⊞ⓘⓞ

i realize that the supporters of faith
goldie are likely to close this video after just the first few seconds and so it is in the first few seconds that i'm rushing to show you this simple map and these few statistics before i get into a more nuanced and balanced discussion of the underlying issues in the bottom right corner of your screen right now you see the percentage of canada's current population comprised of first nations peoples faith goldie has stated with no irony that she does not want to be a minority in her own country i know you've said that you don't want to be you don't wish to be a minority in your own country i respect that i don't want to be either i don't think that's controversial faith goldie is half greek and half ukrainian canada in a very real sense is not her own country and never will be and in a very real sense the cree the ojibwe the inuit the dene the mohawk the native peoples of canada have indeed become minorities in their own country in fact as you can see here there are more chinese people in canada than all indigenous peoples combined they're outnumbered by the chinese and they're pretty much neck and neck with east indians and ukrainians below 5 faith goldie is asking the audience to sympathize with her with her plight as a white woman who's supposedly afraid of becoming an ethnic minority in her own country when it isn't her country at all faith the question i have to ask you just now just in kicking off this video just in opening up what is indeed a more complex conversation in which i also am critical of the far left which i also am critical of both multicultural policy immigration policy all the peculiar qualities of both left and right wing views of these things but let's open with a very simple and frank admission that if the audience is supposed to sympathize with faith goldie we must by the same token demand of her that she takes seriously the position that first nations are in when they have indeed become a minority in their homeland i'm a realist uh that that's all it is uh you look around the wild and you realize everyone's acting like a group if you're gonna act as an individual you're gonna get eaten alive right so we need to have a little bit of collectivism within our politics i think in group preference which is actually psychologically sociologically natural right you see it in birds you see it in humans and europeans have through the enlightenment and the cancerous thought that came therein um had that bread outside of them and now they're being prayed on as a collective but still continue to act as individuals and it will lead to not only our psychological demise but also i mean where is the white supremacy when every single european nation is about to see whites become a a minority basically within the next 40 years and we're already a minority in the major cities like the future is already here in terms of vancouver toronto montreal and all that whether or not the use of immigration statistics by the far-right and white nationalists is fear-mongering depends entirely on what it is that you're afraid of these are official government of canada projections but i reiterate projections so they are estimates with a range of possible outcomes for the year 2036. the rest of the population in quotation marks which i have to assume means white people is between 69 and 64 of the total whereas so-called visible minorities 31 to 36 percent now the pie chart does not add up to the same total and i did indeed type in all the data myself using the pdf the government report i'd assume that's an old-fashioned rounding error because the numbers were indeed all rounded off but um whether we're talking about 69 71 or what have you what you'll look for in vain in this pie chart is a slice for our indigenous peoples arab right where where are the cree where the ojibwe where the mohawk where where are the dna on this chart and where is the concern for their future in canada no i'm not one for conspiracy theories so i have to give the canadian government the benefit of the doubt here but it is a peculiar fact that the uh indigenous peoples of canada are ethnically cleansed from this report that is indeed dealing with the future of canada's ethnic diversity and um they're addressed instead in a separate report now in that second report that you can also find as a pdf on the internet it's projected that they'll be above five percent of the population in 2036 they put the most likely scenario at 5.8 percent i wonder though if it wasn't a strategic decision to separate the math into those two separate reports so that we wouldn't have the unseemly contrast between the enormous and growing numbers of south asians in canada south asia being india pakistan and sri lanka um and the diminishing role of the minority of canadians for whom this is their home and native land who needs national identity when you have post-national values seriously though think about these post-national values just for a second if our culture is to celebrate multiculture then we are in effect saying that our culture is all the cultures and therefore no culture in particular we are in effect saying that our values are all the values and therefore no values in particular we are in effect saying that our land is a land for all the people and therefore no people in particular some people say that even a broken watch is right twice a day i don't even know faith goalie faith gold maybe she's right maybe once a day i don't know she can't she can't possibly be wrong about everything um the questions she's raising about shall we say the semiotic significance of multiculturalism those are questions of real urgency in the year 2018 and i think they're only going to become more urgent why not because of the vocal minority of white nationalists of softcore neo-nazis of people promoting the idea of an ethnostate i think these questions have become more important than ever before because simply neoliberalism is going out of style neoliberalism in its early period more commonly referred to as neoconservatism a remarkable reinvention of an economic theory from i don't know one part of the mainstream political spectrum to the other from neoconservatism to neoliberalism topic for another video um neoliberalism actually presented a wildly new and foreign attitude towards immigration policy and it boiled down to this recipient nations like canada and england were in a position to profit from the third world by importing skilled labor who would arrive in those countries already educated i.e who would arrive in canada having already gone through medical school in india they would arrive in canada as a fully qualified medical doctor for example or for example a nurse from the philippines who's already gone through all of her years of schooling and education would arrive in canada and i think it has to be said in the early period especially in the united kingdom and europe there was also the expectation that many of these people would earn money in england and canada or what have you and then return to their country of origin one influential example of this as the legacy of the british empire was actually england's interaction with nepal so large numbers of nepalese migrants would come to england earn money and then return to nepal in their old age nepal is hardly the only example and when you do the math this is an almost parasitic economic relationship between the first world and the third world when you add up all those millions of dollars that go into taxes it's unbelievable just how much is being spent by the government on you on the years before you enter the workforce and after you leave the workforce and then they only get to milk you for tax dollars during those relatively few years where you're a productive tax paying member of the workforce now especially if you talk about skilled workers architects medical doctors nurses it may sound like i'm joking here but no it might be 20 the first 25 years of your life when you're spending taxpayers dollars on healthcare education etc and maybe the last 25 or more years your life people live for a long time now when you're in the hospital receiving nursing and what have you and uh by cutting out those costs by recruiting uh labor immigrant labor from well basically from anywhere outside your own country not necessarily the third world but it often is countries like canada and the united kingdom stood to gain this was in the government's interest short term and long term to have a perpetual influx of skilled labor first things last however the big fundamental shift in economics and politics which was seen throughout the neoliberal world even in countries like japan that actually remained opposed to mass immigration both they're both opposed to the immigration of skilled labor and to cheap low salaried labor um was the idea that it was in the government's interest to undercut the wages of workers at all levels that it was in the government's interests and society the whole to discard what had become popularized as the virtuous cycle of keynesian economics so stick with me over one second this actually does come back to racism ethnicity and these more salacious themes that we're discussing in this video um john maynard keynes but not john maynard keynes only profound propounded and popularized the view that what countries ought to do is to put themselves in a virtuous cycle of ever increasing productivity which is say people um accomplishing more with the same number of hours of labor ever increasing wages rewarding them for their productivity and moving up what's called the value ladder moving up the ladder from cheap easily manufactured products to ever more sophisticated and exclusive products so the issue here being if japan can't compete with thailand in providing the cheapest labor japan will naturally tend to stop manufacturing cheap easily manufactured products and will go more and more into specialized high-end goods and indeed you see this if you even compare today the economy of italy to the economy of china they manufacture purses in china they also manufacture purses in italy they're not the same purses italians manage to sell handmade purses for a thousand dollars or more and you can get a handmade purse from china i don't know 60 bucks um and yet they're both competing on the free market at very different ends of this spectrum and with very very different wages being paid to the laborers and the factories that manufacture the purses that's an extraordinary example because it's exactly the same product but by the same token you can have a situation where partly because japan can't compete with lower wages in third world countries japan and other high salaries high tech countries that have ever more of an incentive to specialize in say manufacturing aircraft because they maybe increasingly can't compete with manufacturing bicycles but there was indeed a time when japan could export bicycles to mainland china and then that time comes to an end when china is manufacturing more and more of its own bicycles etc so this was the fundamental cycle of economics and it led to all kinds of ideas in terms of social planning for conservatives and liberals alike like the general sense that labor unions were a good thing that when people got organized had a labor union and demanded higher wages they were doing something positive for society as a whole under neoliberalism even in japan where they refused to admit large numbers of immigrants governments started to take on the opposite mentality in the period when margaret thatcher was in power in england and ronald reagan in the united states governments started to believe was in their best interests to not just crack down on labor unions which again the japanese did a great deal of by the way um but to actively import laborers at all levels of society skilled laborers like doctors and architects um the workers who you see at walmart the workers who you see behind the the desk at tim hortons people selling coffee totally unskilled laborers up to the highest skilled laborers and to do this not despite the fact that it would lower wages for workers born and raised in canada or born and raised in england this case might be but because of that fact because they started to see it as in their best interest to drive down the cost of labor because they saw themselves not as being on a virtuous cycle of moving up the ladder of value to manufacturing more and more high-tech more and more valuable services devices etc or even if it's the same product like a purse moving up the ladder of value to make better and better purses so you're not really directly competing with china to make the cheapest purse you're making the most desirable designer purse etc instead the neoliberal view of the economy was precise to try to drive down the cost of labor to remain competitive with well whatever the market will bear the lowest cheapest wages you can get and you see the impacts of this across the united states and canada this idea became tremendously powerful tremendously popular and it was in many ways the engine behind um i don't know the ideological veneer of multiculturalism now i've said in other videos in the past and i still mean it today from the perspective of indigenous first nations people in canada multiculturalism is really a code word for genocide and it's really somewhat pathetic to see far right wing thinkers like faith goldie in as much as they can be called thinkers trying to co-opt this in the name of hysteria over a quote-unquote white genocide clearly this does not threaten the position of the white majority not even in the government projections i've just shown you for the year 2036. um i think what it does threaten though is worth discussing here briefly one if we were to take some of the fear-mongering statistics presented by white nationalists if we were to look at the possibility that in the future canada would be 80 non-white if we were to look at that future i think it's worth reflecting who is it that considers that future desirable what is it that's we're trying to accomplish whether we're sleepwalking into this change or consciously electing and pursuing it and it's easier to think this through if you were to look at another culture that you may not be so fond of that you may not be attached to i don't know anyone who goes on vacation to saudi arabia i know a lot of people go on vacation at thailand and in a simple sense we all know why that is now let's think through constructively if we wanted to profoundly and permanently change the culture of saudi arabia if we wanted to make it more moderate more cosmopolitan more open and receptive to new ideas how could we really achieve that non-violently one of the easiest most reliable ways would indeed be through mass immigration and multiculturalism i think if you can set aside your particular attachment to whatever you imagine as being canadian culture you can probably see that whether it's 80 or 60 or what have you or sorry as according to the canadian projections i don't know more like 40 if you really do have a significant number of new people coming in from other cultures and other traditions it's going to challenge and it's going to change the traditional culture of the people in that place and it's open to discuss whether or not it will change it for the better i think probably anyone who is watching this video right now it's very unlikely that a muslim fundamentalist saudi arabian nationalist is going to watch this video almost anyone watching this video would probably be open to the possibility that saudi arabia would improve if 20 of their population in the future were new immigrants from latin america if 20 percent were immigrants from western europe maybe they had 20 percent of immigrants from china some mix if they suddenly had a massively cosmopolitan culture of people living in their country and to some extent learning and responding to their customs and to some extent adapting them if you look at canadian multiculturalism from that perspective i think it has to be acknowledged there is some political basis for the white majority of canadians responding to their own sense of dissatisfaction with their own culture by wanting to take this i don't know gradual and non-violent path towards transforming what canada is and what canada is supposed to be now what percentage of people today or more importantly in the year 2036 in the near future really sincerely believe and embrace that what percentage of people really see multiculturalism as a positive transformation with the country and from my perspective it's even more important to ask how do the cree and the ojibwe and the dene feel about it conversely what percentage of people have completely cynically embraced multiculturalism out of the ill-founded assumption that canada is somehow so technologically superior that other countries that migrate to this country sorry other cultures that migrate to canada will just somehow be overwhelmed with awe at how great canada is and will then want to assimilate into it seamlessly definitely in both western europe and in colonies like canada and australia there was a false assumption that the people arriving on this shore would come from far often distant lands where their sense of their own cultural identity the sense of the value of their own language and cultural traditions was so weak that as soon as they arrived in whether it's canada australia or england they would be very eager to assimilate now i find that you know a strange self-serving delusion in many ways i don't think that for example by contrast the government of egypt imagines that people who are migrating to egypt which is an interesting factor are so overwhelmed by the sight of the pyramids that they want to become ardent and passionate egyptians and yet here in canada we have no pyramids we have no great accomplishments of that kind on the contrary what we have is a sense of aimless collective guilt for the fact that we have a paper thin layer of european culture laid over what we all know is a shameful history of cultural genocide we don't have the kind of messisto culture that they have in mexico we don't have a hybrid culture of indigenous people intermarrying with europeans and to some extent preserving and promulgating elements of their own culture intermixed with european ideas and technology um and we don't have an ancient continuous culture such as well okay credit where it's due thailand and cambodia might have what is the tradition that we're supposed to be enticing other people to adapt to and embrace and that i think that is the one sense in which this broken wristwatch in which someone like faith j goalie she at least gets to be right once a day she's here questioning what does it mean to be a multicultural country to open the doors wide and say this land is your land to the whole wide world and to say this land is not any one culture's land in particular well i'll tell you what it means it's the end game to cultural genocide and the genocide the culture that's being wiped out here isn't german culture and isn't british culture and isn't chinese culture either each of those cultures has its own homeland that's doing just fine preserving its own language literature philosophy and customs the culture that's being wiped out in the midst of all this the rise and fall of neoliberal economic ideology is indeed first nations indigenous culture and if any of you watching this video if you actually subscribe to ethnonationalism if you actually believe the words that faith j goldie is preaching look inside your hearts and ask yourself how you would feel if you were in one of these marginalized cultures that now really is looking forward to the possibility of going extinct in the century ahead [Music] uh [Applause] dad