The Bizarre Union of Woke and Jihad | Melanie Phillips — Transcript

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1. 0:00progressives marching side by side,
2. 0:02shoulder-to-shoulder with is with
3. 0:03Islamists. Uh it's quite comical if it
4. 0:06wasn't so awful. Uh because the
5. 0:07Islamists would basically, you know,
6. 0:10kill them. Um some of them uh for what
7. 0:12they stand for. Um you know, women's
8. 0:14rights, gay rights, I mean, these things
9. 0:17are enimical to Islamic society, but
10. 0:19they are bound together by a common aim.
11. 0:23uh even though the society they want to
12. 0:25have uh is very is is is the they are
13. 0:28the they are are polar opposites but
14. 0:31they're bound together by the common aim
15. 0:32of destroying the west and hatred of
16. 0:34Jews and Israel. um and this this this
17. 0:38you know this is enough to keep them on
18. 0:39the streets together but I think as you
19. 0:41were suggesting there's actually a much
20. 0:43deeper um uh set of connections
21. 0:47um and one of the most important is this
22. 0:50inversion of reality uh the Islamic
23. 0:54world as I understand it um can you know
24. 0:57is dominated unfortunately at the moment
25. 0:59by people who believe that Islam is
26. 1:02perfection and the rest of the world is
27. 1:04basically the work of the devil. And so
28. 1:06anything that happens in the Islamic
29. 1:07world is good and anything that happens
30. 1:09in the other world in the in the
31. 1:10non-Islamic world is bad. And so uh if
32. 1:14is if if if Muslims um you know uh
33. 1:17commit uh uh terrible crimes um you know
34. 1:20human bomb attacks
35. 1:22um uh in the in this in this framework
36. 1:26of thinking um they are always acting in
37. 1:31self-defense. They're always acting in
38. 1:33defense of the world of Islam.
39. 1:35uh uh because they are doing the work of
40. 1:37God and the people they have murdered
41. 1:41uh are basically bad people and they're
42. 1:44only they're only killed because they
43. 1:45were attacking Islam. It's a complete
44. 1:47inversion. When you come to the
45. 1:49Palestinian cause, that's exactly what
46. 1:51it is. They accuse Israel of doing
47. 1:53precisely what they're doing, but of
48. 1:54which Israel is innocent. So the
49. 1:56Palestinian Arabs uh want the ethnic
50. 2:00cleansing uh of every Jew from a future
51. 2:03state of Palestine. And they accuse the
52. 2:05Jews of ethnic cleansing, the Jews of
53. 2:06Israel. I mean, you know, it was the
54. 2:08Arab world which really ethnically
55. 2:10cleansed
56. 2:12850,000 Jews from the entire Arab world.
57. 2:16Uh a world in which they had lived since
58. 2:18antiquity after Israel was created. And
59. 2:21they were expelled because they were
60. 2:24Jews. So that was ethnic cleansing. So
61. 2:27um uh uh Palestinian the Palestinian
62. 2:30cause accuses Israel falsely. Now the
63. 2:33Western liberal falls for that for two
64. 2:36reasons. First of all, it believes in
65. 2:37the Palestinian cause because it
66. 2:38believes that that gives itself as a
67. 2:40progressive world moral worth but also
68. 2:43because the progressive liberal mindset
69. 2:46has also been to invert reality. uh you
70. 2:50know it was decades ago that the west
71. 2:52told itself the west western
72. 2:54intellectuals told it told themselves
73. 2:57that um objective truth was no more.
74. 3:00There was no such thing as objective
75. 3:02truth. Anyone who believes there is such
76. 3:04a thing as absolute or objective truth
77. 3:07is quite clearly in this way of thinking
78. 3:10a complete intellectual only you
79. 3:13know sophisticated people know that
80. 3:16everything is a matter of opinion
81. 3:18feelings trump facts um and if there are
82. 3:22no such things as there's no such thing
83. 3:23as truth there is no such thing as a lie
84. 3:26and consequently you cannot have a
85. 3:28distinction between truth and lies it's
86. 3:30only a matter of opinion so if I say uh
87. 3:34that um uh uh the Israelis uh are uh the
88. 3:40victims of uh ethnic cleans cleansing
89. 3:43and uh um or the attempted ethnic
90. 3:46cleansing um and attempted genocide.
91. 3:48That's only my opinion according to this
92. 3:50mindset. So if you get rid of truth, you
93. 3:52get rid of
94. 3:53rationality and um you open the way to
95. 3:58what's what we have developed which
96. 4:01is the belief that you know as Opera
97. 4:04Winfrey said to uh uh uh Megan Markle
98. 4:08you know your truth you have your truth
99. 4:11I have my truth. Well, excuse me. I
100. 4:13mean, what she's what is she talking
101. 4:14about? She's talking about opinions, and
102. 4:16she's talking at the worst level about,
103. 4:19you know, lies being someone else's
104. 4:20truth. It's it's a mindfing kind of
105. 4:23hijack of language that we're that we're
106. 4:25living through. Um, and
107. 4:29but going on, you know, what have we
108. 4:32created in the West, in the progressive
109. 4:35West, as a result of this business of,
110. 4:37you know, it's my truth, everything's a
111. 4:39matter of opinion, my feelings. Trump
112. 4:42facts. It's all to do with the
113. 4:44individual. You know what what the
114. 4:46individual wants, what the individual
115. 4:47says, what the individual feels is what
116. 4:49is what is. And that has led to our
117. 4:53victim culture in which I feel oppressed
118. 4:57by you. And because I feel oppressed by
119. 5:01you, I am oppressed by you. Even though
120. 5:05I may have been absolutely dreadful to
121. 5:07you and have caused you to lose your job
122. 5:09and all your social circle and all your
123. 5:12prospects, but nevertheless, I'm the
124. 5:15victim of you. So, it's that kind of
125. 5:17inversion that you can do no right
126. 5:20because you are a an oppressor group.
127. 5:24You are white, you are male, you are
128. 5:26Christian, you are western, whatever it
129. 5:29is, you're an oppressor group.
130. 5:30Therefore, you can do no right. And I I
131. 5:33am black. I come from um a developing
132. 5:36world country. Um I am not
133. 5:39conventionally gendered or sexualized.
134. 5:43Whatever it is, I define myself as a
135. 5:46minority victim group. I can therefore
136. 5:48do no wrong because I'm a victim. I must
137. 5:51be the victim of you. Even though I have
138. 5:53told lies about you, I have damaged you.
139. 5:56These are this is irrelevant because I
140. 5:58feel that I'm a victim. I am a victim.
141. 6:00So you have a western progressive
142. 6:02mindset which because it's abolished
143. 6:05truth and reason and because it's
144. 6:08embraced hyper individual
145. 6:11hyperindividualism and victim culture
146. 6:15has inverted reality. So you have an
147. 6:18absolute ma uh match between the liberal
148. 6:21progressive mindset which inverts
149. 6:23reality for its purposes and the Islamic
150. 6:26mindset which inverts reality for its
151. 6:29purposes. So you have a marriage made in
152. 6:31hell.