The Woke Infection in Education: An Eye-Opening Discussion with Vivek Ramaswamy and Mark Ousley

Truth with Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy

Business, News, Government

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode, Vivek Ramaswamy and Mark Ousley discuss the rise of the managerial class in America that exploits fear to advance their own agendas. They explore the infiltration of global mindsets in education, the impact on individual students, and the potential influence of tech giants on private schools. The conversation also covers the challenges surrounding school choice and the importance of local control in improving public schools. Vivek Ramaswamy is a successful entrepreneur and author, while Mark Ousley is an experienced educator and advocate for educational reform. Together, they dive deep into the issues facing the American education system and the need for open dialogue and involvement from parents and community members.Mark Ousley is a grassroots activist based in Oklahoma and the host of the UnWokable Podcast. A vocal critic of wokeness and gender ideology in academia and the media, Mark has become a leading figure in the fight against these dangerous and divisive trends. He has been featured in interviews with prominent commentators such as Tim Pool and James Lindsay, where he has shared his unique perspective on the challenges facing our society today. Time-Codes: 00:00 - Discussing the rise of the managerial class in America and the exploitation of fear. 02:07 - The pattern of exploiting fear in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic. 03:55 - The exploitation of fear leading to school closures and educational inequity. 10:34 - Commitment to the World Economic Forum's sustainable development goals in universities. 11:32 - The infiltration of global mindsets in the education system and the decline in student mental health. 14:09 - The cultural revolution developing in America through the education system. 20:22 - The potential influence of tech giants on private schools through capital campaigns and ESG scores. 21:07 - The importance of defunding the Department of Education to make school choice "woke-proof". 23:15 - The shift in Pell Grants and the possibility of K-12 education student loans. 25:49 - The dangers of the WISC model and its potential impact on private schools. 40:20 - The influence of accreditation organizations in the education system. 42:22 - The challenges of implementing school choice and the need to cut certain strings. 43:55 - Data mining in private schools that receive public money. 45:40 - The personal nature of community data mandated in the ARPA reporting system. 50:24 - The importance of local control in improving public schools and the involvement of conservatives in school boards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	So what we see in America today is the rise of a new managerial class that wields its power in part by exploiting fear. Can we suffer this moment of a lack of self-confidence in America, in ourselves, and as a country.
0:24.5	When you have a vacuum of self-confidence, fear fills the void.
0:28.1	Then when you have fear praying on that vacuum of self-confidence, the managerial class can then prey on that fear to advance
0:35.1	their own agendas. We saw it in recent days, okay, in recent weeks, with the
0:40.2	collapse, for example, of Silicon Valley Bank.
0:43.8	What did Silicon Valley say?
0:45.2	Well, for years, they had actually said that Silicon Valley Bank is not a systemically
0:49.3	important bank.
0:50.1	It's just a weird bank in Silicon Valley that does its own business that enters special deals with startup founders and that's why it was one of the reasons they lobbied for exemptions from financial regulations that said that they were allowed to take risks that large banks weren't allowed to take.
1:03.5	Now I think that makes sense, but there's two sides to the bargain, which is that when that bank takes risks that cause it to fail,
1:10.5	the bank and its depositors and its clients have to ultimately pay the price for the risks
1:16.0	that they took.
1:17.0	Yet what do they do?
1:18.9	They preyed on this fear, manufacturing the fear of a nationwide bank run, as a way for arguing on a Sunday night
1:29.2	for a bailout.
1:30.2	And they got it because it then became a technocratic issue.
1:33.0	It's not a moral issue, it's not a normative issue, it's just a technical issue.
1:37.3	We have a banker in America, you've got to understand the specific technicals of this.
1:40.1	If you don't understand this, then you're a Luddite because you don't really understand how finance works and how there's contagion from one bank to another completely
1:47.0	eliding the distinction between Silicon Valley Bank where there's a tiny portion of total deposits that were actually
1:54.3	insured by FDIC compared to most banks where it's the majority of those deposits
1:58.1	compared to the fact that Silicon Valley Bank had the highest concentration of
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