Hey everybody this is James Lindsay you're listening to new discourses bullets where I

give a short bullet point type summary of a single topic from Oak Marxism you need

to understand so we can stop this thing.

I want to talk to you today about a concept or a technique or a goal really of left wing

activism and it's nullification.

So a lot of what their activism seeks to do is to nullify their opponents.

This isn't the same as destroying it's not the same as silencing or censoring and in

a lot of ways it's worse than silencing or censoring an opponent because what nullification

actually entails is the idea that if you are in a nullified category anything that you

do makes your situation worse.

And so here's a common question we face with woke stuff a lot where are the men?

Why are their moms standing up around the world and around the country?

Why are there women standing up and fighting for this?

Where are the men?

Why aren't men standing up?

And I've given an explanation in the past that goes something like well this is a female

ideology it skews female it codes female and if you get up and punch it in the nose

if the men stand up it's going to be interpreted as patriarchy asserting itself or something

like that.

It doesn't have to actually have the argument made just has to have that vibe and the

reason for that is actually because men as a class if you will are nullified.

So if men stand up and talk in a manly way and assert masculine strength against this

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