Govna Zulim says we have two choices, war or accept repentance, terrorism. And former Speaker of the House of Representatives Dali Umar Akbar says the third force being promoted to major political parties in 2023 will not fly. This is plus politics, a dire merit and a hope. Baba Gana Zulim Govna of Zamfara State has said he is in a difficult situation. The reintegration of repentant Boko Haram members. He said the choice between to cautiously accept the insurgents. He added that accepting repentant insurgents had the risk of offending the feelings of victims, lead to rebellion, and adding that the risk of insurgents returning to ways, their ways, if they are rejected. Now he's obviously talking about being in between a rock and a hard place, but we're going to be discussing it from a security perspective. And joining us right now is Dixie Natchat. Sajie, he is a security expert. Thank you very much, Dixie, for joining us. This is my pleasure. Thank you for having me. This story obviously I've been making the news, making the rounds for a couple of days now. And the first thing that Nigerians obviously are wondering is, why do we have to even be in this situation in the first place? I would like to take your mind back to the first time when the so-called repentant Boko Haram members submitted themselves. They were holding up placards asking that Nigerians forgive them. I remember drilling one of the security persons we had here about the questions that were raised. These are people who said they do not believe in Western education, but the English and the placards were very, very, very good. And who knows exactly what the plan of these people are? Are they really repentant? And Dixie, I'm asking because the army had recruited and there had been some form of amnesty program and reintegration program for certain repentant former Boko Haram members who the army even said had, some of them had gone back to Boko Haram, taking information to these people. So why are we doing it again? Whatever happened to once bitten twice shy? Thank you very much, Merehan and nice being here. I think the Nigerian military has not learned its lessons because I am not against surrendering or some group of criminal elements, national criminals, international criminals, bringing their arms to order. Sometimes we must be very careful not to accept surrendering as a form of defeat because surrendering could be a deception in the battlefield. When your enemy overpowers you, when the bombardment are very tedious and very heavy from the Air Force wing and the military artillery and ammo bombardment are hitting hard on these terrorists, they have no option than to surrender. So for us, first of all, we need to understand the methodology in which they surrendered to the Nigerian states. Like you rightly said, these guys, they do not believe in Western education and the writings on the placards are very, very clean, loud and clear. They are very readable. I think the Nigerian government, the state of Bruno, must be very careful because when we talk about surrendering, surrendering is another deceptive methodology from the criminal wing. For example, when you look into the 48 laws of powers, law 22 tells us that we should be very careful about surrendering. Surrendering does not mean the military has won the war or taking victory. Surrendering does not mean the enemy has been defeated. Dixon, are you still... I think that your connection has frozen. But can you hear me? I can hear you. All right, go ahead. Yeah, so sometimes we must be very careful about surrendering because surrendering definitely could be deceptive. So for us to... Apologies, I think that your connection again has frozen. But I'm curious if you can hear me. A hundred of these members of the Insurgent Group have surrendered in the past months and their families. These people came with families. And one of the notable persons among these people who surrendered is one of the girls from the school that was kidnapped years ago. She returned with two children and a man who obviously is a member of, you know, the insurgents and who she referred to as her husband. Now, I mean, I know that the average person is not supposed to be asking about tactics or, you know, sudden information that the army has. But if we have had so many of these people continuously we show up and say that they're surrendering, why is it taking so long for us to... And I say us as Nigeria, the army, to find where the others are. Why is it so difficult for us to extract information from these guys to help the army to continue to win the war and have the upper hand? I think it's very difficult. We are not following the process of disarmament and surrendering. That's where the administration of justice system comes to play. That is the CGS. The administration of criminal justice begins with the police, the court and the district. Most of these guys that have surrendered, I would definitely recommend that the government must have them reprimanded because they can't just come and surrender free of charge after killing Nigeria and sending many people to the graveyard and, you know, putting the state of Nigeria at mess from the international ranking. For me, I would advise that even if they're going to surrender, they must be punished for their crime because if they're not punished, then the government of Nigeria will be satisfying criminality. And when you satisfy crime, then everyone from all Nooks and crannies will be a little confident that Nigeria is a place where you can commit crime and surrender. Surrendering can be deceptive, like I rightly said. So we must be very careful about those guys surrendering. What are their plans? If they want to strike back, they want to come back and gather more information against the state of Nigeria and strike back. So I would advise the federal government to be very, very diplomatic and the military must go all out to engage these guys from their hideouts because if we don't go all out, I would look at it as a form of friendly march because Nigerian military is too big, you know, to be heard hostage for the past 12 years by these criminal elements. Well, joining us again is Ambassador Roy Ojidibi. Ambassador Roy, you obviously are very acquainted with this story and what Governor Zuloum is talking about. Help us to paint a picture. When he says he's in a difficult situation and he makes reference to the fact that it's either they receive these people back into society or we will risk an endless war. What exactly do you think he means? Well, thank you for the opportunity and thank you for having my brother also on stage. You see, one thing that these guys are just making statements. They are making unimportant statements. Now, if we have numbers of patients that submit themselves that we are tried to be terrorists and have been in active service as terrorist groups then they are not a problem for the army anymore. The military should not be seen taking pictures with them giving them food, water and clothing. Others are just the mantis of policy. Now, the first thing to do is to hand them over to the DSF and the police and the DSF and the police would begin to separate those that were in active service those that would claim that they were forced into terrorism. There are those that would say my village was captured and I joined as a child so I don't know what I'm doing and you begin to separate all of these people and they should be incarcerated. They should be within the confines of a correctional center in Nigeria and once they are taken in like that, we are set. We are not going to do a judicial killing. We are not going to begin to torture you inhumanely but the law must set its course to start as a deterrent. All of these radicalization process that they are pampering them to re-settles in the foreign region would not be allowed. They should be seen within the confines of a correctional center as the same needs and the security agencies should penetrate them with our mode and begin to find out what rules the slave and who are those still at large because if you don't do that, you will not be able to archive penalty and if you don't archive penalty, you are not sad and likely silent to order. Okay. All right. Well, let me continue with you, Ambassador Roy. Again, back to what the governor Zulum said again, he talked about the fact that if we do not accept these insurgents, repentant insurgents, they might go back and be re-radicalized. In other words, they would join other insurgents. Now, he also says that accepting them into the society means that you are going to hurt the feelings of people who have been victims of these insurgents but I'm really wondering why the governor should be the one making this decision. Should he be the one making this decision? Should this be a civilian's decision? And I'm not saying or trying to water down the duty or the job of a governor in this regard but this is a high-level security issue. It's an insurgent. People are dying. Should the governor be the one who has to say, like you have said, we should have the DSS, the police, the army at some point will wash his hands off it but should the governor be the one deciding all of this being that this is a guerrilla warfare and these are people who have been termed as killers, terrorists. Should we be actually allowing the governor to debate this or try to decide what should happen? Okay. Well, you see, a governor of a state is the chief security officer of the state but that does not mean that in such a terrorist situation it has become a national issue and those people should be handed over directly to government security agencies that should handle processing them before the law. So I don't think that is a governor's place but you know that everything is apron towards 2023 and you should all agree with me that there must have been some covert discussions before you can have a volume of people coming out to submit themselves. They must have tried their waters. They must have discussed covertly with certain persons and trying to find a soft landing. So if the governor had a discussion, I think he should forward his discussion to any kind of soft landing towards the judicial process that will be settled. And you know, there are people that have been going on for years in Nigeria so why haven't we found alternative judicial channels for those that submit themselves party to the national assembly, party to the senate and let it be end up. It can't be now that they are submitting themselves and you are now walking towards a soft landing. Ambassador Roy, I am sorry to talk to you. I am so sorry, I apologise for talking over you but are you insinuating that all of this is a mere political gimmick because someone wants to get votes in 2023? Is this what you are implying? In every intelligence and quality practitioner in this country and global intelligence terrorism watchers, we are seeing the challenge of policy and security and we have yet been able to separate it. Okay, if you have people submitting themselves before now and those people were searching through the radicalisation process why do you need to make this a, what is the noise about for these types of people that are also submitting themselves? If you have a radicalisation process going on already each people we are speaking against it we are saying that the radicalisation process is not strong enough, it's not separating the crime from the criminals. So if you have this set of people what is the business of the government? What is the business of these media hype? Why are these people not also channeled through the existing radicalisation process? So I don't want to believe everything our politicians do because if you count the number of people that die in Nigeria every day even these criminals that are terrorists they break away and become bandit they are kidnapping in Kazuna, they are kidnapping in Hondo they are kidnapping in Polakos, Bayeta, Elugu they are saying that they are going strongly in place to stay, as we did many so what is the media hype? If it is not policy. I'm coming back to you now Dixon of course I know you want to comment on this but let me also speak on a couple of things pick on a couple of things that Governor Zulum also said he said we have to choose between an endless war or cautiously accept the surrender terrorist which is really painful and difficult for anyone that has lost loved ones difficult for all of us he said and even the military whose colleagues have died and volunteers he said so let's put in context these people let's take into consideration the soldiers the victims, the people of Zamfara whose lives have been distorted they have been discomfited some of them have lost homes they've lost family members even volunteers who have been killed whether they worked for aid, NGOs and all of that it's a quarry of people and issues let's take into consideration all of these things where do you even start to deal with this issue because you have to consider all of these people where should we start to deal with this issue and again do you agree with Ambassador Roy that this is a ploy for 2023 to make a person a politician or whoever it is to look good I think we lost Dixon if we are going to have to reintegrate these people back into society or even accept them in the first instance I forgot to raise the issue of the fact that the man who showed himself as the husband to one of the girls who returned with her kids what is going to be done as to the fact that this girl left here as a child but then returns as a married person and this man obviously is not a child so we're talking about issues of child molestation here and of course a terrorist for that matter who has made her a mother at her age so that is on one side there are people who have lost their livelihoods their lost family members their soldiers who have lost their friends in battle how do you address all of these issues and still try to win a war against insurgency with all consent let's not also forget that the president has reflected on what's happening in Afghanistan he's brought his fears to play talking about what's happening in the Sahel and what's happening in Nigeria and the fears that this should not hoping that it would be but he was afraid that if we do not deal with it it might become an Afghanistan problem so Dixon, where do we start to address this issue of all the parties concerned before we even start talking about the deterioration of the issue alright Maryam, thank you very much for having me see, sometimes we just look at this bit of insecurity in Nigeria from a discretionary perspective discretionary perspective in the sense that we don't tend to look at the Nigerian state we don't tend to look at our people who are citizens we've lost a lot of soldiers over the past few years we've lost a lot of brothers and sisters in the battlefield and these guys, Dixon and the camp just come on air to surrender their weapons who has attained their true presence who has attained the truthfulness of their surrendering because for me, I think that it is very essential that the Nigerian government must look into the administration of criminal justice system there's not many powers of the government to pardon these guys they've committed a crime against the state a crime against the federation and also an international crime so people like that must be sent to prison they must be reprimanded let me see, for one or three years they carry out their psychological evaluation for us to believe that they are truly repainted if they don't do that, the fighters, our soldiers they are more dissipated they are highly demoralized these are the guys that killed our brothers and sisters they are now being forgiven so quickly so we must be very careful not to trade on the part of demoralizing our troops for me, I don't think they are truly repainted I think it's a deceptive mode for them to go back and replant because the surrendering is not a form of defeat from either side the surrendering could be tactical and they might have a game plan going by what you just said about Afghanistan yes, the problem is worrisome to tell you that Afghanistan perhaps will be a safe haven for most of these criminal elements so it's the right time for them to tighten up our national bodies and engage this war take it as a full blown war because we're not taking it as a full blown war we're just taking this war as a discussioner war it's not a discussioner war it must be a full blown war because you can see that most of these guys they are bringing down our fighters jets bringing down our soldiers bringing down our military they've tested the integrity of our military they've tested the integrity of our defense they've tested our national powers so the Nigerian government must buckle up and seek advice from security professionals for the way to go about this reprinted or surrendering criminal elements Ambassador Roy if we were to go by what the governor has said that he's obviously in a tight place he does not know what to do and he cannot do one without the other who's to say that these people will not take advantage of the fact that oh well the government pardoned the first group they closeted them they rehabilitated them even though some of them returned who's to say that we're not going to have more people take advantage of this kill people do whatever they like and then come back and say Nigerians we're sorry and we take them in where is the place of making sure that justice is served just like Osadje said where is the place of the justice system can we even trust that that process will be free, fair and will bring justice to and some form of soul ace to those who have been victims of this endless war Boko Haram insurgents has taken over a decade and many people have died I mean the statistics I cannot get exactly right now on the top of my head but who's to say that if we go the way that the governor wants to go these people will not take advantage of it advantage of it let me tell you something you know every country has its check and balancing now for our executives the effects of our leadership is the presidency now the presidency has its check and balancing one of its check and balances is the federal constitution we have a constitution in this country and you know we have the judiciary to always be there to monitor compliance to that constitution and the judiciary has the agency to help it to arrest certain group of people even government personnel that violate the constitution so what our political system first thought to do was to intimidate and destabilize the Nigerian check and balancing institution so the judiciary became to play the senate and the left of left they became a house of promotion the other agencies they lost touch with the current dynamics of international investigation and before you know what's happening God's father is in violation distortion has just taken place NIT is the name of what is happening right now in Nigeria because if you look at the selection of agencies for communities of the judiciary to actually implement tenancy against the forces where are all the people that are being paraded for the banditry, terrorism murder even even the kidnapper Madume was arrested soldiers and policemen and balanced themselves by engaging in discourse and killing themselves the army was intimidating the police the police was arresting policemen and today the one to make it is still a quagmire is still a manate in the judicial system do you think that people don't understand right now that the check and balancing system in Nigeria has been distorted that is why the international community will be asking to the agile case outside of Nigeria because if they say put these cases before your country it will become a problem of what ethnic group do you belong to what political party do you belong to what religion do you belong to even in Islam there is division even in Christianity in Nigeria so there is division everybody is just at the best and call of a distorted presidential system so it's a major issue that we face and we hope that in the next institution of Governor who are high to be clear enough to begin to be quiet okay well because we're out of time I want to say thank you Dixie Nassajee and Ambassador Roy Ohidibi at both security experts thank you for speaking with us we appreciate it thank you very much alright thank you all for staying with us we'll take a short break when we return the Speaker of the House of Former Speaker of the House of Representative Gali Umna Naba says that the third force being promoted to ask the major political parties in the country from 2023 will be a flop, stay with us


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW Blue Plan. Today we are talking all about the brand new My WW Plus, which is the changes that Weight Watchers WW made to the app for the new year. Generally Weight Watchers WW will completely change the program or pieces of the program every year. We know that last November they made a huge switch into the three different color plans for the program, blue, green and purple. This year they didn't make any changes to those plans or the way that the program is set up and done. However, they did make a few changes to the app. Some of these changes I think are great. Some of them I'm kind of on the fence about, but there are also things that didn't happen as far as changes went, that I was really hoping that WW would have incorporated. So I'm here today to talk to you all about the new WW Plus and then I'll share with you my thoughts and my honest feelings and opinions on these minor changes to the app and again what I think maybe should have changed or been added that wasn't. So if you are excited for today's video give it a big huge thumbs up. It really helps out my channel and shows me that you like these types of videos. Also if you are new to my channel stick around and subscribe. We'd love to have you. I have a ton of content coming your way. Lots of great ideas for rolling into 2021 and my traditional what I eat in a day's meal prep, weigh-ins, all of those are still coming your way. So definitely make sure that you're subscribed. Check out that description box down below for my nutrition coaching website. I do offer macro and calorie calculation along with one-on-one coaching in both 30 minute and 60 minute sessions. So definitely check that out. Take advantage of calories and macros. Really, really important to kinda know where you fall every day as far as calories go. Also you'll find links and discount codes to all of my very favorite things. And lastly the link to head over and join my Facebook group. You don't wanna miss out on this Facebook group. There is a ton of great things coming just specifically for this group in the new year. So make sure you head on over and join us. We would love to have you. So let's jump in and let's talk all about the new MyWW Plus. Let's talk about the changes that were made to the WW app. Like I mentioned, there were no changes made to the programs, the blue, the green, or the purple. Nothing that changes with smart points or smart point configuration or zero point foods. All that changed this year were a few minor app changes. So I wanna go over what changed on the app. We'll kind of dive into those. I'm going to show you here on the screen what they look like in the app and we'll talk about where you can find them and what the benefits are of those. So the first new feature in the app, and I'm actually pretty excited about this, is called What's In Your Fridge. This portion of the app will suggest dishes that you can make with what you have in your fridge. So let's say that all you have in your refrigerator is some ground beef, some mushrooms, and cheese. And you wanna know what can you make for lunch or dinner with just those ingredients. So this portion of the app will actually recommend a ton of recipes and give you the smart points for the program that you're on with the ingredients that you have in your fridge. So I definitely like this feature of the app. This is probably one of the ones that I will utilize the most. There is also a new in-depth progress report and weekly check-in portion of the app. So normally we would log in and we would track our weight or if we went to in studio they would track our weight in the app. And that's really all that we could see. So WW bumped up what we can now see under our weekly progress. It even asks us how we were feeling that week. We can talk about what we would change, what we would keep going moving forward. I like this portion of the app. I don't see myself using it very often. For me it's really just a place for me to track my weight. If you want to see your success on and off the scale this portion of the app is going to be great for you. It includes a new way to view what fit points you've earned and how to incorporate new activity. So it looks like they updated a lot of the different workouts that are free as a part of the WW app using what is called fit on. I'll put that right here for you. Now this is free with your app. So take advantage of this especially when we are at home and we're not able to go to the gym to work out and the weather is getting cold and snowy and rainy for a lot of us.  And now this new dashboard basically allows you to just track that activity a little bit more effectively. There is also now new five minute coaching. So what these are is little blurbs about different things that happen in our life that maybe we would seek a little bit of coaching from a WW coach or maybe we would utilize the online coaching for. It's little bite-sized behavior techniques that we can use when we're stressed out, when we find ourselves bored eating, when we find ourselves choosing the wrong food. They're little blurbs that are available for us and little five minute coaching sessions to kind of help us move and navigate through the feelings that we're having when it relates to our healthy lifestyle journey. The next section is new personalized recipes. So I like this as well. Basically you can put into this section how many smart points you have left and what types of foods you like to use in recipes, what you like, what you dislike and the app will populate some personalized recipes for you. You can also use the already figured recipes on the app. You can actually edit those by hitting the edit button and then you can go in and edit the ingredients, remove things you don't like, add in additional ingredients and it'll recalculate the smart points for you. And we all know that we can create a recipe or build a recipe within the app as well. So I like that there's a lot of options to find recipes that are already existing, create our own recipes and build recipes that are personalized to us with our likes and our dislikes and of course, the number of points we have. And lastly, there are new science backed sleep tools. So they have made sleep kind of the fourth pillar of the program and they really want you to concentrate on getting good quality sleep because sleep affects so many areas in our life and weight loss is one of those areas. Generally when we're sleep deprived, we immediately want to select food items that give us instant energy. That's generally sugar or processed foods. So we generally make less healthy food choices when we lack sleep, not to mention all of the other physical characteristics that come along with the lack of sleep. So they are really focusing on adding sleep as kind of the fourth leg or the fourth pillar of the program. They did keep the wellness wins on the app but where you can redeem your points for items, they also of course still have Connect, which is like Facebook for WW where you can go and connect with other like-minded individuals on the program. And lastly, they still have the 24 seven live coaching and also where you can chat and ask your questions. So they kept the fundamental pieces of the app and then they just added in these new things. So I wanna know from you guys, what do you think about the changes that they made when it comes to the app? Do you think that you'll find yourself utilizing these new tools or do you think that you'll just utilize the staples or the pillars that the app had prior to introducing them my WW plus? So let me know down in the comments what your thoughts are on that. Now I wanna share my personal thoughts and my personal opinions on the new features on the app and some of the things that I wish WW would have incorporated into the app. So first of all, I think that a lot of the new features on the app are great. Now, do I see myself using all of these features? No, probably not. There are a couple, like I mentioned, that I see myself utilizing in the future. I think the changes were great because we're all different and we all have different goals and different needs when it comes to our weight loss journey. So some people may use every single new component on the app and some people may not use a single one. So I like that WW is trying to encompass everybody by adding these new features to the app. Now the rest of what I have to say may be an unpopular opinion. So don't come for me. Like I said, this is my personal opinion on what I would have like to see as far as changes from WW for 2021. There are actually three things that I'm bummed out about that they didn't implement or change with the program. Number one is calories. Now I know WW is a business and actually when you're counting points, you're counting calories in a sense because a calorie makes up a point's value. So of course they're not going to want you to count calories because then that takes away from their points program which is why you're on WW. But just be mindful that when you count points you're essentially counting calories and the points that you're given by WW put you in a calorie deficit and that's partially why the program works. I just would have liked to see calories a little more available to us in the app. Now when you enter a food item in your tracker, say an egg, if you click on the egg, it does tell you the calories. It tells you the macronutrients so that you can see how many calories, how much fiber, fat, carbohydrates were in that egg. But what I wish that I could have seen was at the end of the day, a total tally of how many calories I consumed and maybe even how many macros I had. How much fat did I eat? How much sugar, carbohydrates, protein, healthy fats? How much did I consume every day? I just wish that there was an overall daily tally of calories and macronutrients. Now again, I get why they didn't do this because it would take away from what they're branded on which is their point system. But on the flip side, knowledge is power and I think it's important that even though we stay within our points, that we still eat enough calories to lose weight and lose weight sustainably and healthy. So that's why I wish that they would have implemented a total tally of calories and macronutrients. The next thing that I wish that they would have implemented is putting a cap on zero point foods, putting a limit on how much of a food that you can eat before it turns into points. So an example of this would be fat-free cheese. You can have up to a certain amount of fat-free cheese for zero smart points. Once you surpass that amount, it starts counting as points and I wish that they would have done this for the other zero point foods. Things like chicken breast, potatoes, fruit, maybe not so much vegetables, but the zero point foods that are calorically dense. People seem to fall into one of two camps.  A serving of chicken breast is three to four ounces. Now if you're eating five, six, seven, eight ounces, you're into the three, four, 500 calorie range on that chicken. So in my opinion, you should be able to have a serving of chicken for zero points and anything above that would start counting as points, maybe along the lines of the points that are part of chicken on the green program. Now I see both sides of this situation. I see why WW does not do that and that's because the whole point of zero point foods is for WW to navigate you towards selecting those foods versus processed foods, foods loaded with sugar or high point foods. But I also think that even if chicken breast was zero points up to a certain amount, that we would still choose chicken breast because it's zero points up to a certain amount. But I just think that in the event that you fall in the camp that you eat a lot of zero point foods and a lot of calories from those zero point foods, then putting you out of a deficit and now you're not losing weight and you're blaming the program is it because you did what Weight Watchers told you to do and choose zero point foods but are you just eating too much calorie wise to remain in a deficit? So that's my other opinion is that I think there should have been a cap or points value assigned to zero point foods past a certain amount. And the third thing, which is again, my opinion is I wish that Weight Watchers would not have penalized us so much on healthy foods.  The foods that we should be choosing are really, really high in points. So most people, now I'm saying most because not everybody but most people on Weight Watchers when it comes to yogurt are less likely to choose the full fat yogurt because it's a lot higher in points than the non-fat yogurt. But the issue especially with yogurt is the nutrients are stripped when they process that down to be low fat or non-fat. So it's better health wise to choose the full fat yogurt but it's better points wise to choose the non-fat yogurt. I know that there are a lot of people who don't eat avocados because they're point heavy and there are even more people who don't eat real peanut butter or real almond butter because of the points and instead they lean towards PB2. Now there's nothing wrong with PB2 but there's a lot more healthy fats in the real peanut butter and the real almond butter not to mention it tastes so much better. So I just wish these weren't so heavily penalized with points that we would be more likely to choose the real whole food over the more processed food. So in a nutshell, I think WW made some great changes to the app but I also think that they missed the mark on some really good pieces of a healthy weight loss journey that WW is missing. And unfortunately I think this is going to turn off a lot of current users that are leaning more towards the whole food healthy approach and maybe not be as desirable for others to join WW that are looking for a way to count calories and to really focus on whole real foods and good healthy fats. So maybe they'll take a lot of the feedback that I know a lot of people have given them when it comes to these three areas and maybe we'll see them add that to the program this next year. But overall I think they made some great changes. I'm really grateful and glad that they didn't completely revamp the entire program because honestly we're just getting used to it from about a year ago. So I'm glad that they didn't do that because they tend to do that every year or every two years. So again, I think the changes are great. I just think they missed the mark on a few other additional changes. So I hope this helps you kind of understand a little bit more about my WW plus. 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Full of contradictions. So later on she denies the fact that there is such race Which again is the kind of kind of stuff that their left does all the time They they they take the marble high ground.  So they take something that they believe doesn't exist and then they attribute to it massive significance They are so dishonest in that sense So creepily dishonest in that sense and then she says It took me a long time to figure out that this is important and It's uncomfortable because race is something we attribute to them, but we treat ourselves as individuals now There's a certain truth to that. There's a certain group among Americans. There's certain group call them white racists Who think of themselves as individuals and many of them Fly the banner of Capitalism and individual rights, but they consider anybody who looks different thing from them as Inferior So they view race as belonging to somebody else and of course in in more recent times what's happened is That group is now self-identified With their own race, which is white and I don't see much difference between her Who is going to be apologetic about the fact that she's white and the white supremacists? The fundamental difference between the fundamental sameness between all of them Is the importance they place on the color of their skin is the importance they place on so-called race the importance they place on the group to which they belong the fact that they do not cannot will not Identify as individuals and not only identify themselves as individuals, but identify others as individuals So what all this is is? collectivism on steroids and Everything the whole frame of mind the whole way she thinks about These issues You'll notice is purely collectivist There is no individual There is no individual mind. There are no individual choices All there is is the group the group you belong to and the other group the group you do not belong to Now the modern view of race racism is that only the dominant view Only sorry, I need the dominant race and I put race in quotes because I don't believe there is such a thing can be racist That the oppressed group cannot be racist But that is a perversion of the concept The concept of racism applies to anybody oppressed or oppressed sore Who treats people views people as member of a race rather than as individuals? That's what racism means And it goes in all directions All right So notice that she's white. She's in a sense. It's important to her.  I didn't have race I was socialized to see race as individual acts of discrimination and prejudice Which is actually what racism is but notice too There's no free will in her story And and and she's not a what she does is combine two aspects of determinism She is a Gene determinist that's her racism. That's her whiteness. Although she rejects that later More importantly, she is a social determinist She constantly talks about I was socialized to I was socialized to Every idea she had in her head. She was socialized to Nothing was her conclusion. Everything was how she was socialized and She attributes that to all of us. You will see all of us have been socialized to View the world in a particular way if you race in a particular way and for example, one of the things we socialized to God forbid is The view of colorblindness the view that color doesn't matter. We were socialized to View ourselves as individuals and not member of this collective That's not a positive in her mind. That is a negative That we were socialized to that Individual acts that anybody could do to anybody else and if you did those acts you were a bad person Oh, that is true. What's wrong with that? And that is why since I saw myself as a good person. I didn't see myself as connected to racism And certainly didn't see myself as connected to race in other words I didn't have a sense of a racial identity today I and that's good by the way, that's that's the way you should have stayed But she she's got a duct in front of her names. I assume she got a PhD my guess is that's where she got corrupted While going to school while being socialized into academia That's where these bogus notions of race Were Implanted she adopted them right by choice. She has free will Stand that I move through the world always and most particularly as a white person I have a white frame of reference and I have a white experience So you move through the world as a white person with a white frame of reference and white experience and Try to turn her volume down.  I don't know if that differentiates us or not The angel is she's not Jewish so She experiences the world Weird and part of being white is to have that be invisible to us and to be able to live our lives without ever Acknowledging that to see that as non-operative. I now understand racism as a system as a deeply embedded System a system that our country was founded on and that all our institutions were created out of Now notice This is a gimmick a trick that they play on us model judgment can only be placed Could fundamentally on an individual You can place model judgment on a system The system of slavery is a model but fundamentally The actions taken by individuals are moral or immoral and the system is a system created by individuals and the system is A system upheld by individuals and a system in a sense is the cumulative actions of individuals You can't have a racist system if individuals are not racist for example Notice also, she believes the country was founded on a system of racism ignore 90% of what America represents ignore the Declaration of Independence ignore what was written down The fact of slavery is the dominant fact. It's the only fact that's relevant for these people It makes nothing else matters The fact that the Declaration of Independence indeed lays the foundation for the elimination of slavery the elimination of racism in the end It under underpinning the declaration is the morality of individualism, which rejects racism ignore that they were created a government of a government of of Checks and balances and and that protects individual rights again the Constitution which lays the foundation for the Elimination of slavery and ultimately the elimination of all racism institutionalized racism All of that is ignored Basically, she takes and I'm sure she's been involved in this in the New York Times 1619 project which basically says The defining characteristic of America indeed the only thing that really matters about America is racism America was established to protect racism To protect slavery The Declaration and Constitution are just pretenses At some kind of universal rights of man. They didn't care they didn't matter what mattered was that that that the founding preserved slavery That even when we fought a civil war to eliminate slavery we maintained Jim Crow and even when we got rid of Jim Crow we continue to have Institutionalized racism and indeed the argument is that by being white we have no choice Even if we are immigrants to this country We have no choice by being part but to be part of a system of institutionalized racism against Black Americans. I mean it is such a perversion of history first slavery has been a part of them human race Forever it's in the Old Testament Jews have slaves Jews are slaves in Egypt, right? And then Jews have slaves Everybody has slaves Romans had slaves The Greeks had slaves Now I'm not justifying slavery. I'm just saying it's been a feature of human existence for ever and then in a miraculous period of Some I don't know 60-70 years Slavery basically is outlawed is Deemed morally reprehensible and is banned from human society and It all happens it all happens within a few decades of The writing of the Declaration of Independence Inspired by and you can see it in all of the people who fought For getting rid of slavery whether here in England in other places Inspired by the idea of all men are created equal in the Declaration inspired by the idea of Individual rights and illegal individual rights, which you all have Because we're human. I mean it's it's To not see the cause of relationship Between the founding of the United States of America and the elimination of slavery now. This is not to excuse The fact that there was slavery in America. This is not to excuse the founding fathers who had slaves They should be morally condemned for that But at the same time not to see that it was them Their words their ideas their philosophies their teachings their writings That made the elimination of slavery ultimately possible in England, which not just banned slavery For themselves were banned the slave trade And then ultimately in the United States By Lincoln and through a civil war is just not to understand history It's not to understand anything about human beings It's to view everything through one prism a Racist prism. I mean the real ugly truth is that the Defenders of racism today the the people who propagate racism today are Leftist intellectuals and our universities. They are the equivalent of The intellectuals of the South who defended slavery at the time So today they're not defending slavery, but they are defending racism. This is not to deny That white racism against blacks Has been around for forever In this country It's not to deny the evil of slavery.  You don't justify that history does not justify racism You don't fix an evil by creating an evil fact That you're poor you're suffering That you are being discriminated against that you're at a disadvantage does not does not Justify your racism I ran wrote in in in an essay called the age of envy in the return of the primitive she wrote Today racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority But as an inalienable way to practice by a minority The notion of one's culture is superior to all others solely because it represents the traditions of one's ancestors is regarded as a chauvinism if claimed by a majority But as ethnic pride if claimed by a minority So I know and reject racism in every direction by any individual or group But what the left today does is it places? virtue morality identity in one's race and In doing so It is the most racist movement today in America and I think much of the white racism that exists today And I think it's rising and I think it's increasing and I think it's becoming very very dangerous Some of it has always been in America and some of it now has become a response to the intellectuals of the left the response to identity politics that's reflected by people like Robin the Angelo Okay, let's keep listening And every institution reinforces the system Every institution reinforces the system Like what what institutions Like give us an example Like how do universities reinforce the system given given affirmative action Given what is being taught in the humanities Doesn't this institution Indeed reinforce your point of view. Is it your point of view now dominant at the universities? Then why is the system still in existence? If you are running the system Does this exist in every workplace in America? It these broad generalizations without examples.  You can all go listen to her video and watch the whole thing straight and enjoy I'm here to comment on her stuff and I'm gonna expect to comment five minutes on every minute she has because you know She's got the floor and this is my one opportunity to go at her If you ever want to organize a debate between me and hope love to do it And it's a system of unequal power. So let me give you an example Women in the united states got the right to vote in 1920 And there was only one possible way that we could have gotten the right to vote And that was for men to give it to us Because we literally were not sitting in the seats of institutional power We could not give ourselves the right to vote that doesn't mean that we couldn't have personal power But we didn't have institutional power and that's the difference between a system and individual acts So what does that even mean? So it's true The woman cannot get the right to vote until Men who had the right to vote could vote for them to have the right to vote And that's again a tragedy of the declaration of independence and Of the starting of the country that women didn't have the right to vote But again, there's a history there women have not had a right to vote anywhere And america was one of the first countries to allow women to vote and give them right to property And and and not give them the right to property recognize their right to property and recognize the fact that they are equal to men from a rights perspective That was an achievement And the system was geared against women before that, okay What is the equivalent of that? Clearly slavery was systemic racism Clearly jim crow laws were systemic racism clearly laws that didn't allow women to vote were systemic Now what now what? Prior to women's suffrage, I could certainly discriminate against men. I could be unfair to individual men But my group could not systematically deny men as a group the right to vote And men controlled all the institutions and they all worked together to convey the message that women's place was here And men's place was there and then it changed the difference between individual prejudice and a system of inequality Know how she switches here And and she does this all the time And we'll see if I can catch her every time she does it a system of prejudice and a system of inequality What kind of inequality? They never define their terms They never define their terms Inequality what kind of inequality economic inequality Or political inequality political inequality is bad political inequality is usually a reflection of racism or prejudice But is that what she's talking about? Or something else Also note that yes, men could stop women from having to vote, but how did that change? It changed because individual men changed their minds individual women fought for it individual women got together In organizations and lobbied and fought and argued and debated and wrote and spoke and convinced men Some men not all men to change their minds And they did change their minds because individuals Have free will individuals can think of themselves individuals can change their minds It wasn't the group suddenly Got the revelation that women should have to vote It was hard fought And lots of individual minds needed to be changed, but in who university individual doesn't exist It's just groups. It's just gangs. It's just tribes men black white women black white And of course there are all kinds of relationships of power between them, which is the whole intersectionality Story, which I've done shows on in the past and probably will have to do shows on in the future Because it doesn't look like it's going away So in this field we think about oppression or in this case racism As group prejudice backed by institutional power Group prejudice back by institutional power That's what racism is. No, that's not what racism is But that is a manifestation can be a manifestation of racism The question is what is a group? Who is the group? I assume whites and what is the institutional power they have Where does that institutional power manifest herself? So we'll see the example she uses And so prior to the civil rights movement It was fairly socially acceptable for white people to just come out and say we are superior My father certainly was comfortable saying that the great joke of archie bunker and all of the family was that he wasn't up with the times And he was still saying Things that conveyed this idea But post civil rights it became bad to be racist, right? It became unacceptable to be racist It's not a good thing. You think that would be something to be celebrated And that seems like a positive thing right racism is bad But unfortunately what it morphed into is to make it impossible For white people to look at racism because what we hear is I would have to be a bad person in order to perpetuate racism It became a moral issue. Isn't it a moral issue? Isn't racism a moral issue?  It's just a system That is at fault In addition to years of reflection and study of my own racial identity and she needed years of reflection and study to figure out her own racial identity I mean, it's it's truly spooky language Really spooky racist language Shapes my life and my experience and my perspectives I've had the very rare opportunity to for a living day in and day out Lead primarily white groups of people in discussions of race and racism And there are some very very predictable patterns That come up in these conversations and as I listen to these it's almost like a script Right that like it's almost as if as white folks were we just pick up this script and we say the same things again and again That's why folks that's why folks were all the same We all say the same stuff. We have the same script because we've been Socialized in the same way And as a sociologist rather than seeing something that's patterned as meaning therefore it's true I look at something patterned as as very revealing of how we get socialized to see things and to see the world And then the next question that follows that is and so how does that function? Right and when we look around us we can see that although we have Changes since the civil rights movement and we have this idea of racism being bad We still have the same unequal outcomes by race So now it's unequal outcomes by race Now it's not equality before the law Now it's not Discrimination it's not legal discrimination it's unequal outcomes by race now you know the whole idea of Equality of outcome is a very dangerous very very dangerous idea Now there is a good question of if you see whole groups That are fundamentally different and the outcome is fundamentally different then it's legitimate to ask the question of What's going on? right, but it's not It's not clear right so While it's true that blacks as a group Do worse economically than whites And there's certain historical reasons for that That have to do with accumulation of wealth or regenerations that they didn't get an opportunity to do because of Institutionalized racism before the civil rights It's also true that some blacks are very successful Very successful in academia in business In every in every aspect Lawyers doctor in everything right they're just as successful as anybody else But again individuals don't matter what matters is these group things And the only explanation that is possible for this inequality is racism But not the racism of you discriminating against somebody Institutional racism The system is racism The system somehow is holding them down and I did a whole thing on systemic racism. You can find that in my in my Videos from about a week ago two weeks ago Every measure we have racial inequality So how do we have such different narratives than we had prior to the civil rights movement and still have unequal outcomes Because it would be bizarre if you had equal outcomes particularly given the the unequal history Even if you had complete lack of capitalism, which we don't of course Even if you didn't have all the things holding back the black community like welfare like minimum wage like licensing laws like the war on drugs like everything else You still wouldn't have equality and equality doesn't matter what matters is individuals Have maximizing the opportunities And then it's a question of whether they take advantage of those opportunities And that also has to be asked Are people taking advantage of the opportunities that they live in a culture which encourages Taking opportunities and succeeding And as I listen to white folks my group Repeat these narratives over and over I got this image of a dock like a pier And it's just floating on the water and that's all the superficial things that we say And you probably recognize some of these you hear them. Maybe you've said them yourself I don't see color.  My parents weren't racist That's why I'm not racist or my parents were racist. That's why I'm not racist It doesn't really matter what goes in front of it. How are those superficial? I don't see race. I don't care about race all that which is what all of those represent That is deep That's a huge achievement But that's who is unreal because it doesn't conform With her priors the prior is The prior the shapes of thinking is There's racism everywhere the inequality that we see around us is a consequence of racism There is no other explanation for it Therefore everything people is saying Is meaningless It's just the disguise It's not real There's always I'm not racist. I know people of color. I used to work in the military All of the things we say to rationalize That we ourselves are not complicit in this system And I want to speak to two of these before I kind of take us below the surface of the dock And one is this idea that our parents taught us to treat everyone the same And I am just going to put it out there like this. No, they didn't That is not humanly possible. Human beings are not objective You cannot be taught to treat or to see everyone the same And when you say that you're indicating that you don't understand how socialization works Which is actually a positive thing in the sense that that can direct What you would need to focus on if you want to get deeper understanding The other one I want to speak to is this common trope of I don't care if you're pink, purple, polka dotted If that's in your vocabulary, I would urge you to please drop it and never say it again Although it isn't intentional. It's actually very demeaning People don't come in those colors and what it conveys is that you're not prepared to engage with authenticity In other words, you're not willing to engage in the fact that you are racist You're not willing to engage in the fact that you are inherently racist No matter what you actually do And that's why I have this image of a doc, right? That's very superficial surface And for me in trying to understand how all this works What it means to be white And live so separate by race even though I have was taught to see myself individually as Open-minded and outside of all she says her parents were pretty good Although she said her father was a racist So that's kind of interesting. Her father was a racist but she was taught to be open-minded and view yourself as an individual And now view other people based on the race. What happened to you?  I think what happened to her. She got a phd I've had to go under the surface And that's why I have this image here now of under the water You see the peer the pillars or posts that prop up the surface okay so For example, it's very common in in discussions of race to have white people Tell you about all the people of color in their lives, right? Oh, I have these co-workers or my best friend or my second cousin married a black man or All of the ways that we want everyone to know that we have relationships with people of color Okay, and so we're giving you evidence Right when someone gives you tells you that they're giving you evidence And so what are they giving you evidence of they're giving you evidence That because they love people of color know and love people of color They can't be racist, which means they see racism as conscious dislike or What else is it? It's conscious dislike. It's conscious discrimination That's what racism is So if you have friends if you have loved ones who have a different race, you're probably not a racist But that again doesn't fit her price explicit bias or hatred, right? And they're they're communicating to you that they don't have conscious dislike or hatred As evidenced by all of these people in their lives And what we don't understand is the power of implicit bias most bias is unconscious Most bias is unconscious because we're not in control of our own lives We're not in control of the decisions that we make now. Let's say that is true. Let's say there is significant unconscious bias But when you make a decision You make it consciously So you can ignore the unconscious bias Now maybe when you're making very quick decisions, you can't but most important decisions we make in life are not quick decisions They're thoughtful We weigh the evidence. We look at facts. We use reason and when we allow when we notice racist ideas coming into our thinking We can easily suppress those reject them as irrational and move on So even if you have unconscious biases, you are not a racist Even if you have unconscious biases, if you don't act on them, if you don't allow them to corrupt your thinking Your actions Then you are not a racist But again, to some extent for her Everything about us is unconscious Because we are deterministic beings We're determined by our environment by our socialization. We're determined by our implicit biases And you see you can't win with these people because even if you act 100 non-racist even if you have act every single day of your life as a good rational human being Even if consciously you reject the idea of race as irrational and silly silly as a man made Mechanism to feel superior to others. That's why racism the whole idea of race came into existence You're still not a good person. You're still not. Well, you're still not free of racism because you've got those implicit biases And those you know what you can't really get rid of those So you're always going to be a racist And that makes it very very dangerous because it drives our behaviors But we're not aware of it. So you're not aware of the behaviors. You're not aware what drives your behaviors You're not a thinking being you're not a reasoning being you're not a choosing being you're just a being that is driven by a subconscious Yes, it's wonderful to have people of color in your life.  Yes, it's wonderful that you have people of non-color in your life Who the hell does she think she is? It's so potentious and aloof and superior It's Relationships, but that doesn't mean your life is free of racism.  She's going to admit to being a racist in a minute So it's not going to become a shock to her, but she is the racist And it also what we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life? And who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence And does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist Using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed For support for the show many of you step forward and actually Supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today Um, if you like what you're hearing if you appreciate what I'm doing Then I appreciate your support Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity. 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