Mijn weerwoord naar Dan (The Iconoclast) n.a.v. bovenstaande video:
Here's what struck me about your latest video on Asda's firing of a disabled elderly man who dared to post a Billy Connelly video:
You cite Brendan O'Neill and the way you introduced that snippet suggested that he's, in your words, 'totally out of touch with reality'. So I listened to what he had to say and it was absolutely spot-on! Now, I had never even heard of the man and I suspect you can't take him seriously due to multiple previous comments that you probably deemed highly annoying. Not knowing who O'Neill is or what his general stance is, however, allowed me to weigh his words in an unbiased manner. I honestly can't find fault with his statement in your video!
So tell me exactly what is wrong with him saying that muslims should embrace our western values of freedom of thought and freedom of speech? Your counter argument is that societies are based on identities, not ideas. Do you honestly believe that tired alt right chestnut? Do you still subscribe to right-wing identity politics? What you are advocating is nothing short of the same mindless tribalism that muslims adhere to. No ideas, just identity. Ten Commandments anyone? Separation of Powers, Trias Politica? Ah, forget it, those are just "ideas". Now let me fight you to the death based on my perceived superior identity, off with your heads!
The past 300 years have been crucial to the formation of true superiority for a civilization - and that's ideas. There's a reason why this is called the Age of Enlightment or Age of Reason. It's exactly that which Brendan O'Neill appeals to - and rightly so, if you ask me. If muslims can't subscribe to that - and we all know they don't - they should be kicked out to whatever shithole they came from and have their medieval Sharia "justice" there. Now, if your criticism against O'Neill was directed at him failing to state that these muslims should get the hell out I could stand behind that no problem. But his statement that our society is still based on certain basic freedoms is not at all 'out of touch with reality', but in fact an important reminder to a dumbed-down British population, which was never taught this in their History or Civics classes. If anything, this message should be repeated more often, so bravo Mr. O'Neill!
Is a strictly identitarian society truly the society you want for Britain and other western nation states? If we hadn't had the Age of Enlightenment we would still be bogged down in the primitive tribalism that characterized early European societies. It's IDEAS which caused us to become civilized human beings. It will be a tall order to restore these all-important values in Britain and elsewhere in the west, but if we succumb to alt right identitarianism as the answer to islamic identitarianism we are equally doomed. Me thinks you've been watching a few too many Mark Collett vids.
It is HIGHER VALUES, in other words; IDEAS, which turn us into higher beings, whether they be spiritual or religious in nature or whether they are based in secular humanism. And the great thing is, here in the west those two have been able to exist side by side for the last three centuries without us bashing each other's heads in, based on mindless tribalist identitarianism! The problem is, we have taken our hard-fought freedoms for granted, causing the left to hijack these very ideas and turn them into identity politics, while claiming they're fighting for "equality". Hopefully now you can see why you can't fight left-wing identitarianism with right-wing identitarianism. Like Einstein said: you can't solve a problem at the same level from where it originated. You need to TRANSCEND the problem based on IDEAS. Our ability to THINK is what separates civilized humans from animalistic tribalists.
This brings me back to my email to you about Jordan Peterson and how I felt you were spewing alt right comments about their victim du jour. I'm surprised you didn't call Brendan O'Neill a "boomer", one of the alt right's favorite derogatory terms, as their identitarianism is even divisive for the right in its entirety, playing off the old against the young. Peterson was making a similar point as O'Neill does in your video: it's about IDEAS based on INDIVIDUALISM, NOT GROUP IDENTITY. I believe you totally missed the point and you're doing it now once again. If we forget where we came from, we won't know where we're going. The left has been very successful in rewriting history and cutting us off from our historic and traditional ties. They want to rally people around identity politics, when it should be VALUES AND IDEAS we should be rallying around. It's what has caused western civilization to become THE MOST SUCCESSFUL modern civilization on the planet - no wonder these primitive lowlifes all want to come here and turn it into shitholes! It's IDEAS we should be defending and reminding our populations of, exactly like Mr. O'Neill does. And if enough of us can go back to embracing these very ideas, our national and cultural identities will follow. IDEAS create civilized identities, the alternative is primitive tribalism without ideas and values.
Mike
