Multiculturalism is a Mistake. #NotRightWing #NotSatire

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happen to be living in new zealand the title of this video is multiculturalism is a mistake and i am pleased and proud to see that the very first comment in the question section is you're pushing the envelope it's regrettable regrettable there's a spelling mistake that comment it's the wrong you're it's y o u r instead of y-o-u apostrophe r-e but nevertheless it is completely true i'm pushing the envelope of acceptable discourse and this live stream is worth recording it's worth sharing with you it's worth opening up my comment section to hear of any of you want to try to change my mind nobody ever does precisely because i'm not right wing precisely because i'm not racist and precisely because i am not proposing a traditional model of a monoculture that must be assisted in continuing into the future i think all of those are false paradigms in debating or discussing multiculturalism what we're debating precisely is a future culture that remains as yet unestablished and unknown if what we're talking about is that in the year 2500 he was around him if you imagine that in the year 2500 the people of france should still be pious catholics who go to the notre dame cathedral and who still pray to the same images of jesus and you perhaps visit the plaque on the floor that says this is where napoleon bonaparte was crowned if that's your idea of the future if your idea of the year 2500 is of a cultural continuity with the year 1500 i don't think we need to be having this conversation at all the culture i am imagining for the year 2500 is in a word unimaginable that's exactly why we need to have this conversation exactly why this conversation is worth happening is your assumption about the year 2500 instead that some people in paris will still be pious catholics still attending mass religiously at the notre dame cathedral and still honoring the memory of napoleon bonaparte and in case you know some of you don't pick up my drift here you may not realize just what a kind of left of center dissident intellectual i am you you do realize napoleon bonaparte is responsible for trying to revive slavery in the caribbean you know you do realize that napoleon bonaparte is responsible for destroying the democratic dreams of the french republic and the french revolution reestablishing monarchy i mean napoleon bonaparte is from my perspective a completely morally despicable person the history is worth studying the history is worth knowing it's worth learning from mistakes but i mean before there was adolf hitler there was napoleon bonaparte and he really was remembered as one of the worst people in the history of the world before there were figures like hitler and stalin who made his evil seem quaint by comparison he's a man with many massacres on his record massacres of people innocent and massacres of people who were not so innocent but who nevertheless shouldn't have been massacred yeah the blind bar was a terrible person but is your assumption that in the year 2500 there was a multicultural paris with each and every culture comprising paris continuing to be as backward looking with every little tribal community creating the multicultural mosaic of paris existing as a kind of perpetual living museum devoted to its own past where one of the facets in that mosaic is a traditional catholic population that it maybe doesn't just maybe it worships jesus maybe to some extent they worship the memory of napoleon and they go to the notre dame cathedral and then there's another facet which is north african muslim and another facet that's maybe saudi arabian muslim and another facet that's indonesian muslim and another facet that's turkish muslim and all of them are in this sense equally conservative equally backward looking equally struggling to maintain the cultural accretions and errors of the year 1500 in the year 2500. here we are in the middle of this millennium long process in the year 2021 and i'm saying to you in this sense multiculturalism is a mistake and what we are debating is not the contrast between multiculturalism and the preservation of a monoculture right it's not the difference between having the cosmopolitan society that frankly during the bill clinton presidency i would say hit the peak of idealization and idealism about multiculturalism the idea that you would be able to walk down the street of every city in america and in the same way that you could walk through downtown new york city and have indian food and chinese food and mexican food cuisines of the whole world you know he's not completely wrong here guys this is bill clinton's view of the future that every small town in america would likewise have restaurants representing the cuisines of the whole world living together in a kind of cacophonous harmony that we'd all be able to share main street we'd all be able to go to lunch together and eat each other's restaurants all this all this and more is true this part of the ideal i completely confess you know is attainable here we are at this you know midway point between the year 1 500 year 2007. and i'm saying to you the contrast is not between bill clinton's vision of the mosaic america and the vision that one culture a monoculture should be preserved continuously intact the reality of the history of the world is that absolutely none of our cultures will be preserved intact and none of them should be i do not want the future of france to resemble the past i do not want the future of saudi arabia or the future of afghanistan to resemble its past and i do not want downtown paris or downtown toronto to be a mosaic of any of these cultures each and every one of which i would like to see transcended and transformed very fundamentally so let's just let's just put a human face on this shall we the year is 2005 a.d and your great-great-grandson is walking down the streets of paris and having a delightful conversation about circumcision saying oh tell me in our enlightened age how does your community carry out circumcision oh really that's interesting over in my neighborhood where my children go to a separate school that recognizes our ethnicity and our cultural tradition this is how we carry out circumcision whereas in your neighborhood with your religious and cultural tradition that's interesting you have a different way of doing circumcision well that's great we're all equal we live in a multicultural society where each and every one of us gets to be equally ignorant and equally self-righteous holding each other hand in hand in the great chain of multicolored multilingual humanity as we prance from the dark ages to the even darker ages of the future in which none of us is enlightened none of us becomes an atheist none of us rejects the idiocy of our forefathers to proceed to something fundamentally better some of the writers all the assumptions of our past obsolete observe ridiculous we look back on the world that it was in 1500 and think what fools we were right the model of multiculturalism preserves pardon me the model of multiculturalism presumes at a very deep level that each one of our communities exists as a kind of perpetual living museum devoted to the glorification of the past i'm going to glance at your questions in the audience obviously i can i can speak under so anonymous 101 commented right off the top before i started speaking that his prediction is that he thinks i'm going to go in the direction of multiculturalism oh go in the direction of claiming that multiculturalism in the sense of different belief systems is bad however multiculturalism in the sense of people from different cultures is good so that's an interesting interesting prediction you cannot evaluate how how accurate or inaccurate your apprehensions were but what direction i would say say you're about 25 right and 75 wrong so far but who knows by the by the end of this video we'll see uh we'll see where it goes so another comment from frida a regular view of the show she says that she thinks multiculturalism in gastronomy should be kept yeah yeah uh great question the audience how did he get a name like bonaparte referring to napoleon bonaparte uh he was corsican so his real name in corusca was more like buonaparte uh he had a he francified his name he tried to sound more french as his political military career uh proceeded in france but uh he began as a corsican i was gonna say a corsican peasant but actually his family were really more like bankrupted nobility penniless nobility uh i think you might say william mcgeehan comments no such thing as a delightful conversation about circumcision well you can't imagine just how erudite and refined people will be in the year 2500 how familiar all of the objections to uh to uh circumcision will become so you know and actually here's uh so several interesting questions here one do you want to demolish christianity question mark question mark in 500 years okay another interesting question what about cultimulturalism now i didn't mispronounce that that's how we spelled it cultivation so yes cultural so perhaps what he means is cultural multipleism i think would be a better way to a very provocative and interesting question i must say so joel asks do you want to demolish christianity in 500 years okay um think about how much violence would be required to eliminate christianity entirely in the space of just five years think about how much will be required to eliminate christianity in 50 years 100 200 500 years progress comes at a terrible price we talk about progress as if it's all good and no evil why don't you ask the people of afghanistan how they feel about that we promised the people of afghanistan progress and we delivered at a terrible price how long did we wait around to get rid of the islamic state also known as isis did we take the attitude that we should wait 500 years did we take the attitude we should wait 50 years did we take the energy which weighed five the islamic state was put out of business in number of months with tremendous violence and a tremendous cost and i'm not saying this to insult my audience i appreciate the people here by the way if you guys want to pause and hit the thumbs up button you can change your mind later and uh hit thumbs down or under the thumbs up on help more people discover and join the audience of this tremendously provocative podcast is going i would ask has anyone in this audience read the history of the islamic state its rise its fall its destruction has anyone read a single book of that babe why don't you grab the tiny book on the history of cereal just show that out i mentioned it now i'm not saying that to insult your intelligence anyone in the audience life is finite i bought this book on the history of the conflict in syria it's not long it's a very modest very time efficient book i think the guy who wrote it spent about 40 years involved with the the politics of of syria i'm sorry if it's 30 years if i've been spoken but this guy basically devoted his life to the politics of syria as far as i know and he wrote a very concise book on the topic that's what i'm willing to put into the ongoing you know political crisis in syria the history that i think this covers about a thousand years it covers the whole culture of political class any of you guys done that for what what happened everyone watching this during your lifetime isis unfolded basically it was barack obama through donald trump was their advice it's really easy to talk about learning the lessons of history isn't it and it's not so easy to actually learn the lessons of history my point is guys i'm finite too my attention span is finite too i can only give so much time to syria and this this is about the size of it this is about the extensive and there are there are many many other topics on my bookshelf that frankly are a higher priority for me you know uh short term um i have made other videos talking about multiculturalism before and i think one of the points i've made implicitly before that i should now make explicitly is this when people talk about the integration of multiple cultures they leave it up to your imagination to suppose that they are integrated horizontally that they are integrated laterally they do not talk about the integration of differing cultures hierarchically vertically unequally canada has plenty of new immigrants coming in from saudi arabia do you think it would be a good idea to have people cross the ocean accept canadian citizenship and join our society as slaves no no no no no that would be terrible no no no no no no no we did that before didn't we we integrated foreign cultures into our own not equally not horizontally not laterally we integrated foreign cultures at the absolute bottom of our system of social hierarchy in an extremely unequal extremely prejudicial extremely oppressive way oh well no no no we'll never go back that's not what we mean by multiculturalism okay there are a lot of very poor people in the philippines and they're willing to do almost anything to leave the philippines behind and come to canada at what level of canadian society are they integrated are any of my university professors filipino or any of the politicians filipino are any of the commanders the leaders of our society filipino what really is the presumption about how people from the philippines will be integrated into our society now i've spoken to people who work in these fields i have also spoken to university professors who study this stuff formally i had one university professor who was involved actually with union activism for filipinos in toronto and had interesting conversations with him um there are recognizable patterns in how filipinos are incorporating a site and this is partly because there are recruitment agencies and companies that organize this and receive formal permission from the governance on so in downtown toronto we had tremendous numbers of filipinos who worked as cleaners in hotels they were hotel janitors both male and female there's another whole community of filipinos this is well known in uh california especially who work as nurses who work in hospitals and there are special training you know there was a whole regimen in canada a government regiment for actively recruiting in filipinos to work as our babysitters we use the french term au pair for this ah this is very different from slavery this isn't this isn't like slavery in the past at all is it oh no no this is multiculturalism oh oh really so we're integrating these people we are quote-unquote integrating these people into our society in such a starkly unequal way so what is it about their culture that is being integrated it's completely clear of course the extent to which they are being exploited as low wage labor the extent to which they are being actively recruited to do jobs that either canadians are unwilling to do or the canadians are going unwilling to do at such low wages where canadians would have to pay a higher wage to do that job so the employers would be willing to recruit people in the philippines it doesn't seem to me that people from the philippines are being recruited as cultural ambassadors it doesn't seem to me that they're being brought here really to enrich our culture in any way at all now you may or may not tell from my rather arch tone you know um i'm open to the possibility of a much more meaningful cultural exchange with the philippines that strategy would look completely different in the city that you are living in wherever you are watching this i'm certain there are small for-profit language education schools agencies shops there are there are small businesses and small possibly small government agencies to help teach newly arrived filipino immigrants english you know there are people who arrive here speaking almost no english at all or very little english they get a job as something like a babysitter or cleaning rooms and hotels and to help them learn english where are the programs to help me learn any of the languages of the philippines for example tagalog it's not the only language spoken was oh i'm sorry i thought this was a multicultural society that wasn't your idea of multiculturalism your idea wasn't that government education was going to support me in integrating into their culture oh i'm sorry how were we going to incorporate aspects of their culture into ours oh i'm sorry are we reaching out to the people of the philippines to bring over those who would best be able to be cultural ambassadors to bring over something of real substance and real significance from the philippines their literature their theater their history where is the filipino history professor in my high school let alone my university who is telling me about the history of their country and what i have to learn from it there is there is a possibility in some kind of parallel science fiction universe of multiculturalism really sincerely being about the productive and positive exchange between cultures but that's not what we have that's not what's uh ongoing right now now i'm gonna mention this to you guys so okay so we've got some cynical comments zen master me comments that he's pretty sure there are not too many filipino nobel prize laureates so you may think the filipinos have nothing to teach us you're wrong you may think you can't benefit from the study of the history and politics of the philippines you're wrong what was the first colony of the united states of america what was the first overseas war of conquest fought by the united states america it was the american invasion of the philippines starting in 1898 1899 it's really rolling by 1900. okay one of the most important turning points in the history of america in the american empire was a decision to invade to conquer to colonize the philippines anyone want to guess the body count you guys will google it i can't do this anymore unless i can prevent you from googling okay the current estimate is that the americans killed one million people in total conquering the philippines circa the year 1900 it happened over several years some of it was through starvation straggling disease injury wasn't entirely through the firing of bullets but there were mass graves there were enormous numbers of people killed uh by the lowly rifle by old fashioned rifle gunfire there were no gas chambers there were no other methods use okay actually actually there are really interesting political authors from the philippines who reflect on their history of european colonialism their history of the conflict between christianity and islam you may not know that about the philippines they have a history of being divided between muslim and christian and you know european influence and asian influence and they have a history of being conquered by the united states of america and then being incorporated into the american empire as frankly no other country in the history of world does but even if you want to compare it to the vietnam war if you want to compare it to america's invasion and conquest of haiti who want to compare something else it was the first it was a landmark it was a turning point in the history of the american empire and by the way that's also part of the genesis of the japanese empire why did world war ii happen in asia it's because japan saw what the americans did in the philippines and said hey we're next look at a map there's no real difference between japan and the philippines geographically okay there are cluster of islands on the outermost cusp of asia japan was aware of this they said okay the americans took hawaii the americans took the philippines either we become a great world empire or in all likelihood we're next and they had their own experience with shall we say american hegemony they did have good reasons i am not an apologist for the japanese empire i do not glorify any period of japanese history frankly i'm really not very pro-japan at all however i can explain the japanese empire i can explain how it originated primarily from american and british influence the model for the japanese empire in many ways was the british empire they looked at a map and they saw this one small island that had dominated a huge part of the world partly by building an outstanding navy etc they said look at this little island england that for most of them they'd never visited certainly the emperor of japan would never visit england they had they had written descriptions of what england was like by the dutch they had texts that were translated from dutch into japanese holland also you know the dutch empire was another example it was a tiny country with a small population but that had managed to conquer and control a huge part of the world okay the dutch empire the british empire and now here comes the american empire oh all right there's a model of something there and in large part the genesis of their imperialist ideology was in fact defensive this is digressing from the point about if we're talking about multiculturalism if we are talking about the integration of foreign cultures right we cannot possibly mean only recruiting cheap labor to be at the bottom of our society in a form that is really the 21st century equivalent to slavery i know their status in our society is much better than the slaves of say the 17th century or the 18th century i am aware but nevertheless the status of filipino immigrants in our society is balefully the lowest of the low and there is absolutely no interest in terms of government policy in having a meaningful integration of our culture into theirs or their culture in ours of one learning from the other of having the filipinos take up a role of leadership or influence in our society if the idea was really to have multiculturalism wouldn't there be seats in our parliament for the filipino community wouldn't they have representation wouldn't we be interested not just in us governing them but in having them govern us isn't that the whole concept of responsible government government of the people by the people for the people however you want to put it different people express as well you know responsible government isn't the idea not that we're going to be equal separately but that we're all going to be equal together and become part of the same democratic society the tragedy of multiculturalism is that we all know that's not that's not the plan at all there are some very wealthy people in saudi arabia there's very wealthy people in china who would like to immigrate to canada also you know i'll just digress about this why is it that so many wealthy people from uh why isn't so many wealthy people from china want to leave china you get to a certain point in china where you have done a favor for someone in government or someone has done a favor for you and no matter how abstractly honest you've been it is possible you will face criminal charges for corruption seems that everyone who becomes a multi-millionaire in china wants to move a lot of their money outside of china because they can be persecuted by the same communist party that has made their whole career possible so you meet wealthy people who became wealthy in china either moving their own money outside of china moving their relatives outside of china whether they moved to vancouver in canada or they moved to thailand wherever it is they they want to escape but you know likewise there are very many uh wealthy saudi arabians who would like to move to a western democracy like canada why don't we welcome them why don't we prepare in our multicultural society not to integrate them the way we integrate poverty-stricken refugees not the way we integrate filipinos why don't we welcome in the wealthiest most powerful most highly educated people from saudi arabian society or from china to take their seats in parliament to take their seats at city hall to take their seats in the senate in canada you don't even have to be elected to the senate literally the the queen or the prime minister can just point at a seat nobody votes for you you take up your state in government we could have very easily have seats in the senate for filipinos for the chinese or for saudi arabians they could come and they could rule over us or they could participate in our democracy as equals they could teach at our universities they could become our leaders right now you see the whole tone of the discourse shifts when we're no longer discussing the filipinos and we're instead discussing a culture like china or saudi arabia right we have been unwilling to question the extent to which our model of multiculturalism presumes a starkly unequal and frankly oppressive form of hierarchy in which the foreign cultures integrate into arm in which the foreign cultures integrated into our own are presumed to take up their place at the bottom and frankly to remain there forever nobody white black brown indigenous european colonizer no one of any background is imagining a future in which canada becomes sinusized the latin term becomes more of a chinese society in which we in any way for example reform our education system to more resemble a chinese education system in which our children grow up learning about the philosophy of confucius the philosophy of lord chan the philosophy of sunza nobody has suggested that we even reform our education system to teach our children the modern history of china what happened with mao zedong what happened to china during world war ii this is apparently of absolutely no significance towards your system naturally nobody has proposed the idea that our primary schools or high schools should teach our students the history of the philippines what i just told you could be common knowledge about what happened in the philippines 100 years ago apparently it doesn't matter to us no no no we're all just going to go on teaching british empire history in the british empire way in what is frankly a white western euro center eurocentric completely racist completely conservative completely backward looking mono cultural way and we presume that any other cultures integrated into our own will be at such a low level we'll be in such a position of powerlessness that they will by sheer dent of poverty be compelled to assimilate into the wealthier culture right i will take a moment now to answer questions paul means guys prove me wrong change my mind uh so far nobody you know nobody's really you know disagree with me which is fine i'm i'm happy to uh i'm happy to i'm happy to respond to your questions i'm happy to respond to your objections i'm i'm happy i'd be happy if this podcast ends with me coming to the crushing realization that i've been very much misled about the past present future william mcgeehan comments the whole idea behind multiculturalism is integration and assimilation they have to accept separation of church and state but oftentimes don't so william you're mistaken integration and assimilation that's monoculturalism not multiculturalism if you believe in integration and assimilation then you would have one school system in the city of toronto we could be talking about a city in australia we could talk about city and england could use any i'll just say toronto toronto doesn't have one school system no no no no no toronto has a catholic school system toronto has a protestant school system right it has a francophone school system right when you start to look into oh yeah there's that italian school it's just specifically italian catholic i'm thinking of a school with a hilarious name it's dante allegherie high school it's named after the guy who wrote a famous poem about hell dante's in front of anyway fantasy oh no no there's a portuguese high school there's a korean high school toronto had several jewish only high schools toronto had muslim-only high schools that's not assimilation integration that's multiculturalism the difference is not subtle right and toronto did have okay in toronto i do not remember a chinese school there were chinese cultural centers i do know that in other cities in canada in calgary there are separate chinese schools where people are raised speaking chinese and studying chinese things i know that in paris there are chinese schools we've talked to some of them so in some places chineseness also is a basis for a separate school the same way that being francophone is uh or being muslim or being jewish or some of these other criteria whereby people set up a separate education system so that what is the point of that short term and long term right what are we talking about we're talking about preserving one identity forever as i said 30 minutes ago right we're talking about a mosaic in which each subculture exists in a state of being a sort of perpetual museum devoted to preserving and contemplating the greatness of its own prior history right in which uh the distinctive features of judaism christianity islam chineseness frenchness and so on that they are perpetuated forever and ever and ultimately 500 years from now in the year 2521 the same religions the same petty distinctions between cultures will be preserved that's multicultural and i'm pointing out the most fundamental error here is the presumption that the future should be in this way behold into the past instead of planning for a future in which our own culture is profoundly different from what it is now and is much more different from anything it was before great comment from ugly bob quote dude i was at panago getting a vegan pizza last month with my buddy in west van i pointed out that the pizza shop was open until 1am and said ain't no locals born here willing to do that um shout out to panago pizza in west vancouver um uh someone else in the audience comments that his grandfather built the felt the first pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in the philippines the late 1950s i had a filipino repairman come into my home once so this was when i was university age um uh i i saved my parents money by staying at home when i was in university by the way my parents at that time claimed they were poor they were flat broke they had so many kids it's possible that they were temporarily poor and and the kids many of them were in university at the same time so i just mentioned it's it is plausible that i was so i stayed at home for university anyway this this filipino repair guy came in i totally forgot what he was there the the vents i totally forgot what repair he was there and the minute he came in the door he said hey you know i'm from the philippines and everybody there knows your dad your dad's a big guy dad's a famous guy and philly's dad's a very important man oh yeah you know i always have a somewhat sardonic air about me i did really respond to this as if it were a joke and he said yeah and he went on to describe um how personally indebted he felt to my father for my father's work and creating what i believe is just called the national museum of the philippines if i've gotten the name wrong i apologize maybe it's the national history museum of the philippines it was something like this this history museum and i know that was politically a tremendously contentious museum in terms of the message it's sort of pro-democracy pro-equality message delivered to the public and like then there were elections and the new government took over hated this museum that had been created by the government that just been power before them there was all this contention but i remember i was a really rare i mean most my father is not famous like that there's just nowhere there was a guy he just walked in off the street to do these repairs and he was really taking the time to tell me this and i told my father my father was not bewildered but anyway really interesting really interesting example of how my own family's history intersected with the philippines and also it shows the way in which life in toronto and that guy by the way i wasn't imitating his accent he could barely speak english he spoke broken english on he'd obviously just uh arrived from the philippines recently or or hadn't studied much english in since it got canada it also shows the way in which living at toronto your whole life is and meshed with filipino immigrants although in a totally um unequal way um the toothless prophet asks how's that doing writer lawsuit progressing well there is a whole playlist for that topic so if you go to playlists and search for the word doreenrider you can you can get the last update we made on that um i don't think the future holds out much hope for another update but i mean if if my lawyer in chiang mai makes some kind of breakthrough and gets back to me you will be the the first to know uh but yeah obviously i did i did continue making updates on that case as long as there was anything worth saying here's a question from the audience how would you tackle the practical problem of achieving some kind of human unity like dissolving religion and promoting science some cultures will obviously resist such a change so i just mentioned that question comes from amogh i could i could pretend to pronounce your name in various ways based on the presumption of where this name comes from but perhaps um okay i don't believe in unity i'm not here to preach unity i'm here to preach minimum standards no matter what you believe i do not think that you as a parent should have the right to cut off part of your child's penis that's called circumcision all right i don't really care if your excuse is the muslim faith or the christian faith huge number of christians cut off but you know the same ritual it's a slightly different ritual by the way the same the same fundamental surgical procedure right now you may not know this there are indigenous people in australia who are not christian and not muslim who carry on an animist traditional tradition there are indigenous people in south africa who have their own traditions of circumcision genital mutilation shall we say okay i think all of that should be illegal because what i'm interested in is not unity it's minimum standards right now it's quite liberating to talk about minimum standards we're not talking about maximum standards i am not actually interested in talking about the extent to which we should force all people to learn algebra or calculus melissa what level did you study algebra and calculus do i think you did university yeah yeah melissa did university level calculus melissa at any time in the last five years have you made use of your university education in calculus i'm gonna give her a minute here no i understand what you're getting at in talking about unity and talking about dissolving religion and talking about promoting science you know promoting science would involve things like raising the knowledge of mathematics of god i understand that and at first it seems sympathetic but my approach to politics is really about minimum standards you know now even that one example i've given of a minimum standard okay let me ask you how much violence would it take to eliminate circumcision in 500 years how much to eliminate it in 50 years how much do you eliminate it in just five seems like a simple example the enforcement of a minimum standard there it's as simple as you want it to all be thanks to latin red who encourages you to hit the thumbs up button i i make no money from this the amount of money i make from this you can see from patreon it's symbolic but giving a thumbs up helps other people discover the live stream and join the conversation so that we're all frankly more entertained so i appreciate if you give a thumbs up but yeah uh conversely i understand with the title of today's video some of you might feel a bit intimidated it is what it is all right um sorry i'm trying to go through these in order here and it keeps jumping to the bottom quote do you think western democracies have a preference to integrate people from other western democracies close quote so question from from freda so her question is does multiculturalism favor the integration of one western democracy to another my answer is no i think the reality is that employers in canada actively recruit powerless people people who will not talk back people who will not question and contact their employer people who will not form unions people who will not fight for their rights people who will not go to city hall and participate in local politics i think the tragic reality is that what i see again and again across the whole of the canadian economy is a preference for inequality that resembles slavery as much as is legally possible and it's sickening to me so i'll give two examples here there are farms right in the outskirts of victoria victoria's name the city i live in the farms are in between the city and the airport just to give you an idea of how close it is it's just it's really just in the suburbs these farms and these farms have a youtube channel yeah unusual where they recruit minimum wage and below minimum wage labor that's piece work you're not paid by the hour you're paid on how many things you plant how many things you pick you know this kind of thing so how little you get paid is and you know what the funny thing is on their youtube channel they have instructions on how to do the job in punjabi [Music] in this list of exotic language i think in tagalog languages from india languages in the philippines they're actively recruiting low-wage laborers i would assume legal perhaps illegal perhaps they don't ask but they're actively recruiting workers who don't speak english and i have met and spoken to people and i have read comments written on the internet for people who are born and raised in canada and speak english as a first language and when they go to try to get the same job they are refused and they're insulted and scorned they're treated very badly so they won't come back by the farm owners why do you think that is they want employees who don't speak english they want employees who won't ask questions and they'll make this youtube video explain to you how to do the job and then they'll put you in the back of a truck and take you to this farm and they want you to silently work in that field and take your 30 or whatever you paid and get out and that's all that they want they're reinventing slavery in a more legal guys why do you think tim horton's donut and coffee store actively recruits and actively employs people from the philippines using a special visa program permitted to them by the government of canada rather than recruiting and employing canadian citizens rather than recruiting and employing for example first nations citizens are indigenous people there are some first nations reservations that have like 80 percent unemployment the populations are really small by the way you're talking about like 100 people so you say 80 unemployment it's not that many people but you know there are you can go into some areas where there's this really high rate of unemployment you could send out a truck and recruit people say hey guess what instead of importing people from the philippines we're just going to drive our truck and we're just like hey we can give you a really well-paying job in the city and you can start a whole new life and guess how easy the job is you take a cup you pour coffee in the cup you hand it to someone you take their money anyone can do that job and it sure helps if you speak english fluently they don't want people who speak english they don't want people who have political rights they don't want people who have the self-assertive attitude of being citizens who have ownership of this country who are part of the leadership that's going to be a part of debating and deciding the future of this country they want meek subservient submissive supplicants and that's what multiculturalism gives them access to and that's why they're not recruiting canadians and they're not recruiting americans and they're not recruiting people from sweden or germany or france all right and that is the way in which the the hierarchy of so-called multiculturalism present really produces an invidiously divided society that in some ways resembles slavery all right uh here's a comment from mr kurtz quote doesn't multiculturalism make poor countries more corrupt because the people who value democracy and fairness will just relocate so the situation becomes more hopeless in their homeland so i have made videos talking about that aspect in the past the relationship between both immigration and refugee policy and the further impoverishment of the making hopeless of the source country rather than the destination country so i have made videos uh talking about that i'm not going to repeat that here this country is dealing so this video is dealing with a destination country with canada with the country being migrated to i will just say very briefly that migrants and refugees alike transform their country of origin with their absence who leaves dissidents intellectuals people who are motivated to change the country who leaves entrepreneurs you know young business people who want to do something new something different people who care about democracy people care about a better life people who let's talk about afghanistan guys what's happening right now in afghanistan who is leaving afghanistan and what's the effect on afghanistan going to be if we open our doors to allow as refugees everyone who wants a more secular democratic life from afghanistan instead of telling them no you have to stand and fight for the future of your country you know i mean afghanistan's an extreme example but guess what jamaica is an extreme example too you know a whole lot of the talent that could go into transforming the future of jamaica is instead living in downtown toronto jamaica is a small enough country that the toronto the community that's in otto transforms jamaica by its absence to a greater extent than it transforms canada by its presence someone asks can we get some more foot soldier impersonations so a comment from sat 12 says quote if your co if your title is multiculturalism is a mistake this implies you believe influenced by the government on immigrants to assimilate is not a mistake okay close quote i i think this is a a confused and confusing comment sat12 so this brings me back something i started saying video and didn't really finish i thought about okay um i live in the capital city of my province in canada where can i learn chinese where could i learn german where can i learn japanese oh oh i thought this was multiculturalism oh i'm sorry shouldn't we have a very muscular very proactive policy of the government to promote education in these languages and to promote these cultures i mean culture is much greater than language oh i'm sure where can i see traditional chinese opera oh oh that's not government policy oh what what is government policy you know again i think the filipinos are a very palpable example you have a huge population here filipinos when i was in toronto i believe now we had a huge population of tibetans there's no there's no government policy to provide you with education in the tibetan language good luck learning tibetan and toronto there's there's nothing to promote tibetan culture you know you know and it's even difficult to imagine what that would look like okay so if you actually had a policy for multi-culturalism that would involve bringing over representatives of the culture of china to teach us to enrich us in our lives with chinese culture right to actually enhance and transform canadian culture with chinese culture that's not what's happening at all right the the assumption that british empire multiculturalism is based on is instead that immigrants like the filipinos will enter society at its absolute bottom and will become a silent and subservient part of the greatest whole a pardon me will become a silent and subservient part of the greater whole right and i'm saying that's really a rather evil and oppressive um assumption it's a it's a bad model of society it is a mistake now if you want to talk about in some other sense true multiculturalism i mean i really think even just imagining the primary school classroom puts this into focus i went to primary school with chileans they were refugees from chile i went to school with koreans i went to school with greeks i could think about the difference there was one jamaican there were there were different representatives of cultures around the world russians don't remember a single chinese person from china i remember koreans just being honest through my own school my own class or whatever you know there probably were a couple chinese somewhere i don't know in my own school as it as it happened okay and and what is the education they're given they are exclusively given a white western eurocentric british education it's a uniquely canadian education it's uniquely anti-american education in fact if you want to get into the political details the main thing we're being taught is how superior we are to the americans because we're canadian what does that mean to someone who just immigrated here probably their parents flipped a coin they're like well we were gonna immigrate to new york but we decided on toronto for this reason like uh what's the difference oh yeah okay we've signed up for you know canadian nationalism right so you know you know what would multi multicultural education mean what would be the status of chinese culture in that classroom we'll just have to set us the chinese language will be the status of japanese culture filipino culture african culture jamaican culture so i know africa is a continent not a country body woman nigerian culture you want me to specify within africa what is going to be the representation of these cultures in these languages you know in the classroom what what actually are you going to teach children what life are you going to pray with oh oh oh oh and aren't we aren't we forgetting someone aren't we forgetting the cree the ojibwe the inuit the dene the mohawk oh right and this is the other irony about multicultural this is the other sense in which it's a mistake is that it's just a fig leaf for the reality of british empire genocide right is that the united states canada australia to some extent new zealand they're all just based on genocide of the indigenous people at the end of the period of unflinching and overt genocide we didn't turn it around and say okay well now we're going to have multiculturalism with our own native people now we're going to change the system of education and the system of political representation and we're going to change our culture in a real meaningful sense to represent and include our indigenous people as equals no no no we continued to commit genocide against our peoples we continue to erase them from history and certainly from the classroom and from parliament for all these institutions but we decided to share the guilt by bringing in people from poland and china and the philippines and everywhere possible in the world we decided to diversify the colonialists the settlers the people you know complicit in genocide if not actively participating in it so again this is another sense in which multiculturalism is a mistake is that it's an extension of it's a perpetuation of british empire genocidal policy oh so sorry it keeps uh the comment thing keeps snapping down to the most recent comment but i'm trying to just read these one by ones that come up so someone comments there's that fustel de claude quote about uniting disparate beliefs uh otherwise i forget it also as a french canadian this is a 100 valid point uh um okay so numa denistel de colange talks about the multiculturalism of rome of ancient rome they incorporated foreign cultures into rome by incorporating their gods into their own religion they had temples for foreign gods they had ceremonies for foreign gods they had priests for foreign gods and they were incorporated into the pantheon of rome they had a kind of they had a kind of pluralistic society we can't imagine today you know on this basis right they incorporated foreign cultures into rome by enslaving them and they raped the slaves and they had children with the slaves you know and they committed infanticide and all these other unspeakably barbaric things right and they incorporated foreign cultures into rome also through military alliances and by having foreign cultures fight with rome as equals shoulder to shoulder they would then be incorporated into the empire on a very different basis not slavery so you know the the multiculturalism of rome um it's a cautionary fable in many ways i could say a lot more about it i'm just going to be honest i could talk about this for an hour but i think for the purpose of this video what we should recall from numa numa dini fustel du claus from this particular author is that his conclusion his ultimate point if you ever get at the end of the book it's very long very long slow difficult book to read and it's not his only book but his other books i think were never translated in english i've only read them english the ultimate point of his book is that the example of rome is so alien to our own culture primarily because of the religion that it's really false and misleading to presume any kind of parallel between the two his point is ultimately that we should stop drawing conclusions about our past present and future on the basis of very loose and misleading comparisons to to ancient rome so i do think that's that's salient here uh to mention you know um but it's not true that the united disparate beliefs you know in this very peculiar way they just incorporated foreign cultures kind of whole cloth uh into rome and if you guys look into it um to give an example you know hercules himself hercules was a north african god i know you guys don't remember him that way but he was hercules came from north africa it is everything about his legend even the locations of the events in it and so on and what hercules did um his origin is neither greek nor italian and both the greeks and the and the romans ended up with their their own version of hercules just reading through your comments guys so someone comments i don't know if you can see traditional chinese opera but you can watch plenty of falun gong shows in bc lol uh somebody in the audience says jj gave you props where in canada are you from so i am from just down the road from jj we live in victoria uh victoria british columbia canada so jj is three hour trip from here we've never met him face-to-face irl but at this point we feel we know him uh pretty well so uh here's a comment from sat12 good i like these these cutting comments quote your title is multiculturalism is a mistake but instead you are arguing that multiculturalism is good but hypocritical so i think you need a comma here or a semicolon and then he says false multiculturalism is bad okay i'm going to answer that just a moment i'm going to come back to this provocative comment we're going to just read the others just a few more and then i'll come back to that so uh shout out to [Music] kujurapic close to the informal border between the korean inuit nations i don't know how many viewers i have in could you rebecca shout out to good europe a comment from erasmus simply saying that multiculturalism is a failed fantasy erasmus it's 2021. it hasn't failed yet it has not failed yet that's why this debate is worth having right is communism worth debating anymore like things that have really failed you know what i mean so yeah okay let's let's put this in a shower focus if you go to phnom penh cambodia today if you go to the capital city of cambodia and you say hey guys we're going to have a debate about whether or not we should go back to communism nobody in cambodia is going to debate the option of going back to congress nobody no admittedly that's not the whole world i mean if you go to kerala in southern india and you say hey guys let's have a debate about whether or not we should try communism in southern india it hasn't been discredited that maybe there'd be a few people in southern india say hey guys i know what happened in cambodia or something but you know when you talk about something that has really failed that has really been discredited it's very different no multiculturalism hasn't failed yet it hasn't been discredited it's very much worth debating for the reason i keep indicating over and over that precisely what we have to uh what we have to determine is the is the is the future um the future of a culture that remains i think definitionally um unknowable and unknown ah i gotta click i'm gonna click a lot of things here all right so i'm just reading the last few comments here i'm gonna go back and reply to that one before okay here's another interesting comment from rasmus quote having so many parallel communities isn't really a society those people who want to assimilate will be okay as they become one but everyone else will mostly be of making of the parallel communities poorly phrased but i understand that the point um erasmus what do you think about south africa today how did how did south africa turn out you know i i think that it's really worth taking seriously what multiculturalism already is in what are genuinely multicultural societies a lot of you guys may not know this mohandes gandhi the lawyer and politician known as mahatma gandhi his career began in south africa south africa had to some extent still has a hindu community as a multicultural society i got an email recently from someone who's part of the uh the jewish community in south africa everybody in south africa who had the money to get out i mean you know they migrated to israel some of them migrated to france into canada and so on you know as south africa has kind of fallen apart uh many of those formerly multicultural communities have withered up and have moved on but south africa is an example in the sense of a of a multicultural community what would it mean to assimilate in south africa whoever you are watching this i have viewers of all different ethnic groups i viewers of all different linguistic backgrounds i really do if you personally not an abstract hypothetical person if you chose to move to south africa would you assimilate into south african society and how and what would that mean okay i knew a white south african quite well and within south africa there are the the dutch white people the people of dutch ancestry and there are the british white people and they don't mix they don't assimilate they have separate schools they have separate universities like either groups of different white people that haven't assimilated with one another and to some extent they hate each other they're politically divided and so on right and this is without even getting into the kind of division you're dealing with with say south asians east asians the different black groups the division between black and white this is a deeply deeply divided society and of course it's profoundly unequal right and so it's great common finance and the question is where will those nations be in 150 years right so that's what i opened this by asking starting with the local future in the year 2500 what is the society of paris going to be what is the society of afghanistan going to be what's the society of saudi arabia what's the society of south africa what is the kind of society you want to have and how are we going to get there so just to refer back to cree people so but if you don't know cree are one of the indigenous people of canada their proper name is the nihi away win i'm not even saying that correctly that's the name of their language it's nehemiah anyway i think there's nakey away for the people you know okay 500 years from now i want the cree language to exist i want the cree people to exist i do not want them to still believe in supernatural aspects of their religion from 500 years ago you know i look at 500 years ago i look at 500 years in the future we're in the middle making this transition right now even with something as simple as that if i just do not want this language to go extinct think about the tremendous sacrifices the tremendous vision and commitment and policy direction we're gonna need to have a future in which there are human beings on the planet still speaking the cree language 500 years now are you willing to get it now conversely what is your vision of the future canada it's it's not possible for everyone to speak 10 languages is your vision of the future of canada one isolated community where people speak chinese and one where they speak vietnamese and one where they speak cambodian those three groups do not get along i grew up in a neighborhood where we had portuguese speakers from brazil and portuguese speakers from portugal and they did not get along we had greeks from greece and greeks from macedonia and they did not get along we had southern italians and we had northern italians they did not get along this is downtown toronto i'm not joking it wasn't uh it wasn't war but i was saying they they absolutely did not get along and the different communities from the caribbean you know haitians and jamaicans and jamaicans and people from the turks and caicos islands and uh you know dominicans and so on they do not get along with one another okay but what is your vision of future of the future of canada or the future of paris in the year 2500 is it that some people over here speak chinese and go to a chinese language school and some people here speak vietnamese and some people here speak cambodian and none of them get along with one another and each of them has a separate school system and a separate religious foundation you know a separate buddhist temple or muslim temple or is that your your vision of the future i think that's a tremendously dark and depressing vision of the future right and you have to recognize if the cree people are going to have a special status in canada in their own homeland if the ojibwe people are going to have a special sentencing if the mohawk people like we don't have just one indigenous people but whether collectively or selectively if the indigenous people of canada are going to have a special status in their own homeland of course that is going to be to the exclusion of other cultural religious linguistic and historical traditions because it is not humanly possible to study at all to know it all to receive a sophisticated educational and look guys i'm jewish in some ways the jewish people are the most persecuted people in history of the world but guess what we're also the most over hyped people in the history of the world the education i received was about judaism in primary school in middle middle school in high school again and again and again the only thing we learned about was condoms aids and judaism in my whole high school primary school education the holocaust was like the only thing we learned from history okay you learned about the holocaust again and again and again you learned about anti-semitism again and again and again and you learned about wearing condoms that you wouldn't get aids and that was about it but like the extent to which you know the conflict between christianity and judaism the conflict between jew and gentile and the extent to which christian culture is itself derivative of and devolved from jewish culture in the bible it's a massive part of formal education in my own cultural upbringing right how much did i learn about the cree growing up how much did i learn about the ojibwe how much did i learn about vietnam how much did i learn about the philippines how much did i learn about china even sorry again i mentioned some of the other cultures in my classroom we had greeks we had russians yeah i mentioned all these other cultures we didn't learn anything about their their countries their culture they had nothing absolutely nothing pretty safe even though yes jews have been persecuted and suffered terribly throughout history but the extent to which they are treated as the primary other the primary antagonist in the british empire view of the history of europe is remarkable so we were we were kind of an over-hyped aspect of that that education and everyone everyone knew all about judaism in my school everyone knew all about israel and palestine you know the ongoing conflict everyone knew all about the holocaust and we studied it again and again and again i'm so sorry there was a good question here i wanted to come back to maybe it's too late okay i think uh i think this would you think multiculturalism is good right that was it thanks babe okay so the title from stat 12. pardon me the comment from set 12 is quote your title is multiculturalism as a mistake but instead you are arguing that multiculturalism is good but hypocritical i.e that false multiculturalism is bad um okay what is culture okay i am neither arguing in favor of monoculturalism nor multiculturalism now my view of culture is that all of it is fundamentally bad and evil and wrong um i've given the example of circumcision again and again and again we're not the only culture that has a history of circumcision there's a history of circumcision in africa there's a history of circumcision and amongst the indigenous people of australia that is just as brutal if not more brutal if not more terrifying okay we're not the only culture to have devised this okay i am not saying that one culture is good and others are bad and evil and i'm not saying that many cultures would be good whereas one culture is bad and evil and wrong when we think about what culture is it is the accumulation of past beliefs it is the burden of ignorance we take on from our ancestors it's a set of authoritarian attitudes that the past is trying to impose upon the present and the future and we have to resist it all now chinese culture is interesting to me no offense i have probably read more about the history and politics and philosophy of china than you have in the eye probably if any of you are big fans of lord shang and sunza and early han pre pre-handed the philosophy he's like great okay yeah but you know chinese culture is interesting to me and in terms of understanding the world as exists today and what's going to happen in the future it's important it's not good i've never said it's good i've never said it's wonderful right i've never said i'd want to raise my own daughter or raise my own grandchildren to believe in chinese philosophy or chinese religion or chinese tradition i've never said i want to raise my kids to be able to act out the dramas of beijing opera or cantonese opera right never never i don't even think chinese pop culture is good i don't want my kids growing up watching kung fu movies from hong kong none of it um now again i don't know who's in my audience i have some sense i've been reading your comments the odds are i know more about the history of india than you do i've done quite a lot of study about the history and politics of india and literature and philosophy of india i won't get into my whole backstory how it is i spent years doing that i know a lot about india right i do past president and future but especially the past let's be honest a lot of my interest in india was about 2000 years ago i have some interest in my money okay the literature of ancient india whether you think of it as philosophy religion or if you think of it as just archaeology and anthropology it's interesting there is a sense in which it is important analytically in understanding what's going on today and the future okay but all of it all of it is bad and evil and wrong all right when i'm talking about circumcision i am giving you one example of how the irrational authoritarian attitudes of the past are punitively inflicted on the next generation are impressed upon the next generation at a stage at an age when none of us can talk back when none of us can reason with our parents or grandparents on our own behalf and say think of the future do you think 500 years from now in the year 2500 people will still be eviscerating their bodies this way in the name of a magical ritual how can you be so blind all right um you know the horrors of the hindu religion you know may be more subtle if you haven't put in the hours of study they may not be as obvious as the example of circumcision okay but they're just as terrible and from my perspective they also need to be overcome right um the horrors of chinese communism may be more obvious you know it may be quite easy to see what was wrong about the dictatorship of mao zedong it is certainly quite easy to see what was wrong about the dictatorship of adolf hitler right you ever you ever sat down and talked to someone who really believed in those things someone who supported those things and tried to bring them into your 21st century detached enlightened perspective to help them understand trump have you ever sat down with a buddhist who believes in meditation and tried to deprogram i have all right now again i see the evils of culture some are more obvious than others probably for the people in this audience and by the way i have many i have many uh ex-muslim viewers you can guess why they like this channel people used to be muslim and aren't anymore they write to me they let me know how much they appreciate the channel um i don't have i don't have many viewers total but you know i i do i do hear i get appreciative email and and instagram messages and so on from people who are who are ex-muslims for the people in my audience it's probably very obvious what's wrong with the muslim faith the drawbacks to the muslim you can probably very easily think about how you personally would not want to become muslim how you would not want your own son or your own daughter to start practicing the muslim faith to convert how you wouldn't recommend it to others you can think of the ways in which you would make your own life worse and then i start talking about buddhism let's say the form of buddhism practiced in thailand okay so specifically thai buddhism or then i start talking to you about communism the type of communism practiced in china today it may not be so obvious to you the way in which this cultural tradition is bad and evil and wrong the way in which it would really snuff out your own potential as a human being ruin your life and to some extent ruin the life of your descendants if you imposed upon them the same cultural pattern okay the problems with buddhism are more difficult to explicate than cutting your dick off um when i started this channel i named it a balacial in large part because i really wanted to deal with those problems i want to deal with them a third going away i thought about writing a book at that time really dealing with what's wrong with with buddhism and it still matters to me i still care you know and i still care about those people on a one-to-one level when i meet and and deal with those people um you know there there are 24 hours in the day okay there are a lot of buddhists who meditate for one hour a day it's common all right the impact on your life of circumcision the impact on your life of meditating for one hour a day now there are other buddhists who do not meditate for one hour a day they work a job relatively intensively they save up money and every year they donate a large percentage of the money they've earned to a buddhist temple to a buddhist institution and they then go on a retreat it's an interesting term and they stay for possibly several months but at least several weeks let's say six weeks or something to engage in fasting meditation chanting right it may not be obvious to you the damage done the harm done what's lost here right and the pattern of self-righteous ignorance that's being reproduced from one generation to the next it may not be as obvious as self-evident as the evil done through circumcision but i'm saying to you it's it's just as evil it's just as wrong and again if you have grandparents who are nazis and raise the grandchildren to be neo-nazis it may not be obvious to them what's wrong with that but it's obvious to all of us and if you have grandparents who are communists and they raise the grandchildren to be communists all right um the most fundamental reason why i'm opposed to multiculturalism is in this sense my critique of culture itself what are we talking about when we talk about culture if not a way for the dead to impose their will upon the living if not the stupidity and self-righteous ignorance of the past um destroying individually or collectively are possible futures things enough