I spent most of the time on the quiz asking if there were loopholes. Ex: I have never been called a slur. Okay, but what if you played Call of Duty on XBOX Live? They throw slurs around like beads at Mardi Gras.
According to this test I'm not that privileged at all. Now I'm pale as a sheet and grew up in a middle-class family in a rather well-off country.
Thing is though, that I've been on the internet. Worse yet, I've been in live chatrooms on the internet. This means I had to check all of the derogatory slur boxes, even though none of those slurs were actually grounded in reality, and abra cadabra. suddenly I'm not privileged anymore.
Turns out that allowing some idiot's slurs severely affect your perception of yourself and the world isn't really a good thing, and also doesn't work as a basis for a test. Who could've thought.
I personally grew up thinking that I actually deserved to be hated because of the projected view on white heterosexual (and in some cases christian) males as masochistic racist snobs. I mean, sometimes people can be really insensitive when they don’t consider that people can take this on a personal level. Seeing this kind of message in society projected to me that I was a monster. This ended up fueling my suicide attempts. It’s faded down to a depression that I don’t know I can recover from. At least now I have a motivation to live my life.
Now I do know that some people may just take the message lightly, but there are others that may take it very personally. May I remind that a the suicide rate is currently the highest in white middle aged men— the “message” probably doesn’t have to do with that, but it DEFINITELY doesn’t help.
I honestly don’t know if I’m taking this too harshly, though. After all, I do have autism spectrum disorder, so I’m near certain that people in my demographic don’t feel the way I do. I don’t feel offended by the issue, I’m just deeply hurt.
@Caleb McIntosh That sucks to hear. I think everyone should know that his actions and intentions matter and not stuff in his dna that he can never change. But we also shouldn't become like BuzzFeed with a different agenda.
My grandfather was born in a logging camp. His mother died giving birth to his sister. He worked tirelessly his entire life. Had to get his pinky toes amputated because of how deformed they were from him having to wear shoes that were too small for him. He fought in WWII and worked his way through college. But I guess he was just super privileged because he was a white man. Nevermind that he even endured some 'racism' for being Irish. When white folks are oppressed, it doesn't count.
@ars0on if you functioned correctly you would have had a moment of self reflection already and maybe you would have possibly understood how putrid what you are sayin is.
@midzurugi i like how the only original video there is just some gacha crap and the rest is just mindlessly stealing random peoples videos from a diffrent website
Well I’m not white I’m black and I’m not a girl but yeah Ig you could get that vibe from my videos. I wasn’t sure what I was going to post lol. I made those videos mostly to really spread more lgbt content since those kinds of videos helped me figure out my sexuality and gender identity.
@ars0on none of what you just said matters in the sligthest. I will judge you only for your actions. This is a meeger attempt at garnering sympathy. And no "wanting to spread lgbt content" is not an excuse to steal videos. If you really wanted to spread such content then make it yourself.
@KEK LORD Yh okay never meant to steal content since the usernames are in the video but like why are we even talking about my channel? Were having a discussion about something different and you start talking about my channel? Seems like your trying to change the topic to hate on me
@Lil LathoS basically you wont get discriminated against for being white. your never gonna not get a job because you have a black sounding name or stopped by the police or TSA for a "random" check or called a racial slur or killed ect for being white.
@shinoku250 gaming So what your saying his is mother died,he fought in ww2, got his pinky amputated all because he was white? no? exactly. the only discrimination he supposedly faced was for being Irish which has nothing to do with race.
Anyway this has fuck all to do with my comment which was saying that white privilege is real. White privilege doesn't mean if your white life is easy and you face no hardships it just means your skin colour isnt making it harder for you.
Also no one has explained shit the only comment I got was a 12 yr old calling me a loser lol
@shinoku250 gaming The point is not that his suffering means nothing because he's white. The point is that regardless of what he went through, he's still white and almost definitely lives in a society where people of color are treated worse than non-POC. Nobdy is saying he didn't suffer.
Can someone explain how white privilege is so prevalent, while there are more scholarships and job opportunities for POC? I mean, in very, VERY few areas will anyone in America be extremely persecuted by race. Most common thing (still pretty uncommon) is at most slight bullying in school, but guess what? That isn’t something unique to race. There’s always a reason to bully people, and there will always be people who will bully, no matter race or ‘gender’. I’m not saying racial attacks and crimes based on race don’t happen, but they are few and far between. Hell, the media will publish any hint of a story that, even without anything other than ‘the victim was black’ as evidence, still isn’t a common thing to see.
Damn, your grandpa is the living embodiment of the American Dream. He fought to get his slice of the good life. Your grandpa wasn’t privileged. He earned his ticket to a better life through his work, and damn, that is beautiful and honorable. God bless him.
@Jasmine Phoebe I'm black & like watching things from as many sides as possible, but choose not use the term "privilege" for this. It essentially tells white people that no matter what, they're blessed, plus should feel guilty for it, dismissing other factors that determine their outcome in life and all their shortcomings. You're at most lucky to be white in comparison to other races in the US. This denotes that chance & probability still hold a big part of your outcome instead of it being a set-in-stone thing.
If lack of racial prejudice is privilege & acknowledging this is checking your privilege, then I'm sure the average white person checked theirs bc they know how black ppl can have it bad.
Something else I don't vibe with is the hierarchy that inevitably comes with this theory; if the life jackpot is white>male>straight>able-bodied>Christian, then we're mostly privileged on different levels. Which isn't how privilege works. (You're either privileged or you aren't). It stifles the word. I don't tick white or male but I do tick straight, Christian & able-bodied, which means I'm oppressed and privileged at the same time. We all have different problems in different areas of life, and we shouldn't downplay others' suffering. We're all so varied & unique in our experiences, and this system of categorising people takes away from that reality.
nah but i agree fully. in my counbry if you're "native" (came here on a boat a long time before the current "owners") you get a special government payout. so does that mean i, as an irish convict descendant whose ancestors were torn from their homeland by the brits to colonise a new land, should be paid by the current british government? no. no it does not.
we the human race are constantly becoming "better", socially and culturally, and to be held accountable for things that happened hundreds of years ago only holds us back.
Firstly, I would like to state that your grandfather 100% had a difficult life. In terms of American society your father was oppressed by the system. I’m unaware if he was an Irish immigrant or if he was simply born into an Irish family in America, but I will not comment on that being an example of cultural oppression as it isn’t clear what the story was with that. Also i would like to give a thank you for his service. He is undoubtedly a brave man, who is tough. With that being said, none of those issues are anything close to being racially motivated, nobody is denying the fact that while people cannot have a hard life. Life is hard for everybody, and there is no point in arguing that, however there are certain challenges that people of other races may have to face that people who are white, or even possibly from another county, but still being considered a white person (Canadian, Irish, Italian) and I will admit that back in the day Irish people would face discrimination, but not on the level of other minorities. Again, I am not stating that the modern black person has a harder life than your grandfather did, far from it in fact, but the logic that these examples are all an act of oppression towards white people is false.
Dude all white privilege is, is not facing challenges that you would if you were black/Hispanic/etc. No one is saying poor people have better lives because they're white, it's just that if you're black AND poor you have additional issues
this is really common for war veterans, especially vietnam war veterans, who put their lives on their line, for a system they didn't believe in, in a place they didn't know, and came home, and could never adjust to normal life ever again, and whenever they spoke about their experiences they were lampooned because the war they fought was wrong, as if they had a choice in the matter, they were taken from their homes, and families, and turning your back meant death from both sides.
@Bruh Sound Effect bruh if you actually listen to why black people have to say, they have been talking about this issue since America has existed, I'm not telling them anything, I'm repeating an issue that they still struggle with in their own words. But somehow that equates to me saying the N word? There's literal scientific studies done on how POC are discriminated against, like being given harsher sentences than white people for the same crime, etc. To deny any of this is far more racist than talking about the issue, and the fact that you're so keen to deny its existence says exactly what kind of person you are
@Austin Caldwell bro your taking a class issue and making a race issue. You literally are doing the same thing that racists do. Shitting on a race for something their ancestors did and belive in (which most dont do to this day) and telling them they have to be guilty about who they are.
Well of course a guy whose YT channel has "nerdy" in the name and a profile picture of him angry has something positive to say about a slightly racist video designed to become an echo chamber of alt right comments.
Wait till you see people who think fathers day is sexist and "offends single mothers and same sex couples" AND COMPLETELY FORGETING THAT THEY HAVE A HOLIDAY AS WELL, ITS CALLED MOTHERS DAY
Wait, please tell me people don’t actually believe that. And if people do believe that, please tell me their just twitter users, they’re not that smart anyway so at least I wouldn’t be surprised
@Shapshap Shapshap Twitter users are addicted to their own perpetual cycle of hate and anger. People there have made the argument of making 'fathers day' into 'special persons day', but luckily no one I've ever heard has taken what they spout out seriously.
Honestly the whole idea of “haha whites=bad” is really getting tiring. Not every white person is a racist or a terrible person. Me myself a white hispanic gets bullied because of my color as I grew up in a rough neighborhood in NY. But I bet you no one is gonna care because my color is white lmfao
Trully inspirating, I'm a white hispanic, and I also hate companies showing off how "inclusive" they are as if minorities were supposed to be "looked down upon".
I also hate how some people talk about priviledge based off "race" or "gender" when homeless men are more common than homeless women in the U.S. Also, while working as a waiter does not pay a lot, these jobs are not "bad", as a matter of fact, they are nescesary for society to function...
Racism is bad, but sometimes the most "inclusive" people are just racists in disguise. At least the people that insult people based on their race and gender are not ashamed on showing that they are racist...
Karl Marx is rolling in his grave at how his idea, which was intended to promote equality and end ruling-class oppression, instead turned into another way for dictators to justify the unjustifiable and make murder seem respectable.
Nope it's literally the exact opposite. Communists are capitalist but only for a very small group of elites. Leftists are everyone but the elites that the elites view as cattle.
@Dante's Inferno In the context of how communism and capitalism are used as therms in "political discussions" it is more accurate to see them as labels for directions to move on a scale and not points on a scale. People that for example want "free" healthcare are "communists" or against "capitalism" while actually they still most likely promote a free market system that just has a bit less capitalism. If you advocate for planned economy then you would definitly be against capitalism but I don't think that's what's going on.
@Nyárð the Cat Anarchy: an-arche, without structure, without cause, without motive, without principle, without government. It is the abolition of order and civility, a barbaric and savage ideology Hell bent on the extinction of humanity. It can ONLY be achieved through mass murder and wanton butchery and torture on a scale never before seen by mortal eyes.
@Nyárð the Cat I don't care what you are or what you think you believe. Tell me, how do you intend to abolish hierarchy without shedding any blood? While you're at it, define hierarchy and explain why hierarchy itself is bad.
@Nyárð the Cat And finally, you cannot cite yourself in a debate. It's unprofessional and contradicts the systems put in place by professionals to keep morons from voicing their opinions on things they don't really know anything about.
@Nyárð the Cat That's like saying schizophrenics are a better source of psychological information than psychologists.
Not even a random dictionary, it's the most literal definition of the word achievable, deduced through my unassailable intellect and rigorous study of etymology and classical languages. But, of course, intelligence and study are things that anarchists don't really do.
If you cannot define hierarchy, then how do you know it's bad?
@Nyárð the Cat "I'm not a fan of having leaders and bosses" translates to "I have no sense of motivation or work ethic and get mad when my boss at [minimum wage job] tells me to stop playing with my phone and get back to work."
@DISTurbedwaffle918 classical liberalism and communism have nothing to do with one another, the only thing they have in common is that they have nothing in common, one wants a tiny state that does the basic things and provides a minimum so noone dies and the other wants you ignorant so you follow them without really understanding the consecuencies of what they are saying, things like "re-distribution of wealth" sound perfect in paper but fail miserably in real life
@Skylex157 You're too focused on the economic aspect of Liberal ideologies, which are inconsistent across the board. The things they do have in common are their sociological aspects. All Liberals, from Classical to Communist believe in the concept of "rights." Some are more vague about it, like the Libertarians, while others are more precise, like the Classical Liberals, the Conservatives, and the Communists. Communists believe in the right to the fruits of one's labor, and then extend that right to whatever obscure niche they desire after the fact. Classical Liberals and Conservatives are more property focused in their focus, but one believes in free speech and expression while the other tends not to. All forms of Liberalism are based on the destruction of traditional ideals and replacing them with the next ridiculous variant of rabid individualism.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 the idea of being liberal is not being constrained with the "what are they going to say", if liberalism wanted to maintain the things as they were, they would be called conservatives, i would agree with you if you said something didn't made sense, but it feels almost as a falacy to say someone is wrong or doing something bad for following their ideology alone "oh, this damn capitalist who want capitalism to prevail"
@DISTurbedwaffle918 is being free in any way shape or form something satanical that must be destroyed, what is your position? because being fascist or cutting away the freedom of other people is not good or angelical by any moral standard i know
@Skylex157 "Being free" is a buzz phrase. Those who use it have no clue what they're talking about. Do you mean freedom to do whatever you want? Do you mean freedom from tyranny? Do you mean freedom from sin? Freedom from justice? Freedom to kill? There are infinite forms of freedom, and only a handful are any good. As for my position, I am a servant of God, the King of kings, and a parishioner of His Church. I desire mankind to be freed from tyranny and sin, but not free to do whatever he pleases without consequences. I believe that a man is entitled to an acre of land, and that those who live in decadence should be brought to heel. I believe a man may conduct his affairs as he chooses in a morally upstanding fashion. I believe that a man has an obligation to his King to be armed and trained, to combat any and all threats to his nation, to his Church, and to himself. I believe a man has an obligation to God and country to be the best he can become, physically, mentally, and spiritually, and should always strive to improve himself. I believe that killing is wrong, barring the strife of warfare, the occasion of self defense, and the dispensation of capital punishment. I believe that, while all humanity is precious, each people has a place in this world, and should retain their own national sovereignty rather than dilute and mingle all the races together into a miscegeneous stew. So I'm a pragmatic idealist, I suppose.
@Skylex157 I will say that the freedom espoused by the Liberals is the kind of freedom that the Devil promised to Eve. It is not the freedom from sin or tyranny or even freedom of consciousness, for it is freedom to indulge, freedom from responsibility, and freedom from consequence. Liberal freedom is the freedom from God.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 how is a libertarian/liberal classic free of responsability or consequense? They literally are the whole reason they succeed or fail, i don't see a reason to think that kind of freedom is bad
Secondly, i want you to remember, god set up adam and eve to fail, as he is all-knowing and all-mighty, he literally knew that leaving eve alone with lucifer would end up in her eating the apple. A god that punishes someone that was set up by himself has no right to tell me what's right or wrong
@DISTurbedwaffle918 there is only one and true freedom, being able to do whatever you want with your life in any way without affecting other people's life, and at that point, being able to affect other people's life you both agree, as long as everything is consensual, you have full freedom in that space, anything else is not freedom as you are limiting yourself with beliefs
@Skylex157 If the government cannot punish citizens for wrongdoing or pay them to do something useful, which all Libertarian swine desire as an outcome, then no one has any responsibility to society, nor would suffer any genuine consequences for usurping the unspoken rules of society.
God gave Adam and Eve free will out of love for them. He also directly commanded them to not eat the fruit of evil knowledge. Just because God is omniscient does not mean He is responsible for the actions of mere mortals. Your hatred of your Father stems from the fallacy of "if God real, why bad thing happen? 😠" God has the EXCLUSIVE right to tell you what's right and wrong.
@Skylex157 Then your idea of freedom is Satanic. Like I said, there are many concepts of freedom, and yours leads to the slavery of souls through vice.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 you don´t need a government to punish people, the definition of someone doing something bad is literally when someone does something non-concensual for all parties involved, if this person were to act against other, this others have all the right to reciprocate, i really don´t know what happens in anarcho communism, because hell know how that works, but at least in an ancap society, if you were to act against others, not only they have the right to act, everyone else that sees the conflict can understand your situation and stop interaction economically with the agressor, furthermore, if it is something serious, lets say, attempted murder, there would literally be hired police forces that can help you
yeah, you can say he did that out of love, imagine that in real life, you put a child in front of a bunch of some delicious desert, brownies, candies, whatever, get the hell out of there and expect them not to be tempted, also, may i remind you, that fruit of "evil knowledge" was really the fruit that gave them the capability to understand right from wrong, literally he created 2 creatures that don´t have any kind of understanding on morals, put them a tree with forbiden fruit and let the freaking devil in snake form get there and talk to them, ALL THIS KNOWINGLY, i want to correct my example, is like you got a bowl full of brownies, tell the kid eating them is bad and then shove the whole bowl down their throat and then be mad at them for eating the brownies, there is no love there
again, if a god that set up a practically new born with no understanding of right or wrong has to judge my actions, i´m better of going to a judge rigged against me
@DISTurbedwaffle918 i mean, in a way, it is satanic, as he believed in total freedom of the individual, but, you should have noticed that i specified that if someone were to go over another´s life project, the first one is the one being punished, so no, it is not satanic in this whole other way
also, i know you think that lucifer guy is like the worst being ever, so calling half the world population hitler level´s of being bad is more like an ad hominem than a real argument against why being free is bad, you yourself said god gave us free will, why would he do that and then be mad at us for no obeying all of his orders to the letter? don´t give us free will if you want us to be robots :/
@Skylex157 Satan did not believe in individual freedom. Satan despises humanity, and desires our eternal torment, just as he condemned himself to eternal torment for hating humanity in the first place. It is Satanic because it is evil, plain and simple.
@Skylex157 God gave us free will so that our obedience would be genuine, and not forced. Those who reject God get exactly what they want: an eternity in His absence - Hell. Hell is not merely a place where the enemies of God are sent, it is the one place God has withdrawn His presence from. Thus, any who so despise their Father can experience the true torment that permeates reality if He were gone. Satan is the worst being. He is the first to rebel against my Creator, and is the one responsible for the fallen state of mankind. Were it not for Satan, the only rule we'd have to follow would be to not eat from the tree of evil, as no other rules would be necessary. Instead, we have to watch over our souls from birth to death avoiding the occasions of sin, because some retard angel decided that he would rather damn himself than serve humanity.
@Skylex157 The definition of someone doing something bad is when they do something contrary to God's will. In Anarcho-Capitalist society, you either have money, or live a short and destitute life because helping poor people isn't profitable in a free market economy.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 if you like, read his story instead of coming up with what you think he has done, maybe i would hear what you hace to say, but you don't even know that all of what he did was because god created a whole race of slaves that exist just to fulfill his orders, called angels (you know, do things that he already can do because he is all-mighty) lucifer, tried to rebel against this god and he was brought down to earth from the heavens alongside the others who tried to help him in his revolution, he does not desire our eternal suffering, he wanted us to be able to know why he was bad, that's why he allured eva to eat the fruit, so she would be able to know that god is bad
Maybe you should stop reading so much bible and start diversifing your knowledge, you can start by understanding how satan really thinks before spreading bullshit, i don't like him either, but attacking the person instead of their thoughts is not a debate is an ad hominem fallacy combined with a strawman
@DISTurbedwaffle918 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it
Dude, it literally says that it looks nice and tasty and they are basically children, mentally speaking, therefore, yes, my argument still applies, god left a tree which there was no need to leave there, with two toddlers and freaking satan nearby, all of this knowingly, you can't get mad at them for actually eating the damn fruits
Is a blatant lie. Eve died, and it was a direct result of eating the fruit. Since the serpent is proven to lie, how do you suggest we prove his other statements are true?
@Skylex157 They wouldn't have eaten the fruit if the serpent didn't tell them they'd become like God for doing so. In fact, it would appear that this is the first time Eve has ever seen the tree, so your analogy of putting it "right in front of them" is disproven by your own citation.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 because he want to rebel from god? Like, all you know about hell comes from people who have never been there, so how do you know it is a torture chamber and satan is not making people willing to fight against god into an army?
@Skylex157 God is omnipotent and omniscient. If a being has perfect knowledge, then siding with the omnipotent and omniscient being is purely logical. Satan, however, is not logical, he's petulant and prideful. He knew very well that he would lose, but would rather spite God and suffer forever than serve humanity. Humanity was never meant to suffer. Neither were the Angels. However, God deemed that free will would be more important than preventing suffering, and so gave His creations free will to disobey and thus suffer, as much as that pains God to allow.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 not in front, ok, in the freaking center of the table, as it says in the bible that its in the middle of the garden, same shit, dude left 2 toddlers around sweats alone and with someone who he hates, the literal devil, and didn't intervine in any way even thought this would totally waste humanity in the future, and i must get this point across, he knew all of this
@DISTurbedwaffle918 where in that part of the bible does it say that she dies? It literally says that she gains consiousness about herself being naked as something wrong and gets ashamed when god comes back, no dying there
@Skylex157 Not toddlers. Fully grown adult human beings who should have known better and DID know better. Eve literally says "If I eat this, I will die." It is only after Satan's constant lying that he convinces her to eat the fruit. That's like me putting a bowl of poison on the table in front of two middle aged adults, telling them not to drink the literal poison, and then some douchebag coming in and telling them that it's actually an immortality potion that they should drink, resulting in both of them dying.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 i never said that michael had a superior ranking, i pointed out he got the attention of an archangel, you know, it is not just a little pissed off random angel
@Skylex157 Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."
@DISTurbedwaffle918 so, he gave us free will to do whatever we want, and when we do whatever we want, people like you get mad, if you want to be logical, don't be emotional and viceversa, he wants us to do what he wants but with our own will, but doesn't give us all the tools to decide ourselves (none of that full knowledge) etc etc, it just doesn't seem like a good plan to me
@DISTurbedwaffle918 i said toddlers, not defficient people with not the tiniest bit of reasoning, if god said this is going to kill you and you don't want to die, you don't do the thing they told you it would kill you, my point comes with satan aproaching and convincing them in 1 line about eating this fruit
@Skylex157 If Humans had perfect knowledge, they wouldn't be Human, they'd be Angels. We have all the tools to decide for ourselves. Adam and Eve had all the tools in reality because they literally lived with God in Eden. Even then, they could be tempted, and thus able to die. Since Humans die, attaining perfect knowledge became impossible. We are, by our own folly, doomed. God, however, is merciful, and revealed all the necessary tools we require to be saved from our sins. He even went so far as to become Human Himself and allow Himself to be killed to prove how we can attain eternal life again. God has suffered more than anyone who has opposed Him, because He was tortured and died, and bears witness to all of our sins personally.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 and doesn't that sound strange? Having a total evil madman who is just crazy and does bad things because "he is bad" my god, you can go to the cruelest person in the world, the one who ordered the most deaths without blinking and even they can cry tears packed with emotions other than self hatred and generalized hatred against humanity as a whole
@DISTurbedwaffle918 all that is unneccesary, like, literally he could just implant in our minds this knowledge, just this one bit "be a good person, get yourself in a giant wooden crucifix to ascend" but no, he decided to do it once 2000 ago in an era where we can't even know if anything on the bible is real or not
i'm surprised no one has said that "she escaped because she was a slave owner and a rich bastard that only escaped because she couldnt be rich anymore" like tankies say to Cubans
@Damian Thorne that is fair, Karl Marx never wanted any of the long-lasting violence that pops up in a communist regime, his idea was just another economic philosophy Sure I agree that it doesn’t work, but in large part it doesn’t work because of the authoritarianism coupled with communism that ruins any “large equal society” attempt However, I won’t be one of those people that says “tHaT wAsN’t ReAl CoMmUnIsM”, because ultimately communist ideas will be taken advantage of to form authoritarian dictatorships
@Andrew Sokolowski the more democratic a country becomes the more likely it will fall that is not crap. Would you want a country that is powerful and equal or would want a weaker country with dumber people and the only that is good is that you have some more liberties.
Also, for the comment that is no longer available, no, 2000 years ago, people were more ignorant than us, by pure definition, only a selected few knew a little bit of everything, whatever they knew back then is nost likely know almost by default in this day and age, i'm not saying the were stupid, but there are a tona and a half of things they ignore in every field of science that makes them ignorant, and i assure you, in 2000 more years, we will be considered the ignorants
@Skylex157 Honestly I'm completely baffled at that guys response to my message. I tried to be as respectful as possible, nd suddenly I'm an enemy of god who should be drowned? im so confused
@Anna Arkless we talked a few months ago, you can see it if you scroll up a bit, he said that god gave us free will and freedom so we can freely choose to go with him, i understand the sentiment, but saying "you can choose, but if you don't choose me, your meat will be burnt to the bones just to be regenerated and burnt again and again for all eternity" its not much of a choice,
@Anna Arkless Communism is derived from the works of Karl Marx, who based his points upon the ideas of the French Revolution, which was a Liberal movement. Note: Liberal does not mean "Democrat," it refers to the broad range of ideologies which spawned from the ideological cesspool of the 17th Century, including Libertarianism, Classical Liberalism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Republicanism, Constitutional Monarchism, and Fascism, and National Socialism. Every ideology I've listed is in direct opposition to the will of God, and must be trampled underfoot.
@Anna Arkless If the ideology opposes Catholic Hierarchical Monarchism, then it is Liberalism. If the ideology opposes the Catholic Church, it is Satanism.
@Anna Arkless My God is the Foundation upon Whom all reality is made. I don't care about what fleeting fad you subscribe to, I am here to annihilate the enemies of God or be in trying.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 the world has been run under neoliberalism for a while, and while there are numerous obviously severe flaws, society is pretty objectively better than when the catholic church were in control
@Anna Arkless When the Catholic Church was in control: golden age of art and philosophy, people had large families, people could find religious unity in spite of national differences, faith inspired men and women alike to great deeds and works, society was organized and orderly. Society under Liberalism: wage slavery, shitty "art," subjectivity reigns, philosophy made illegal under pain of ostracism, disunity and hatred made the norm, people despise one another over petty bullshit like race and socio-economic class, child murder normalized, eugenics campaigns normalized, genocide normalized. Yeah, so much better.
Dude lived from his daddy fortune all his live, when dad died started leeching from his lil'bro. Why? Cuz his dad knew he was stupid and wanted his legacy to last.
Dude never worked on his life, only stayed at university while "studying" and preaching how could a middle class even exist.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 Revolution does not equal genocide. Pick up a thesaurus.
Whilst both entail violence (though actually, revolutions can be peaceful, such as the industrial or agricultural revolution, because revolution is literally just a sudden change), revolutions do not entail the organised and advocated destruction of an ethnicity, culture, or religion.
However, genocide can occur during a revolution.
Essentially, revolutions can lead to genocide but not necessarily. The American revolution did not comprise the wanton slaughter of British loyalist civilians, for example.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 You are correct, I forgot about the italian era. The renaissance reached its height and spread to the rest of Europe during Luther's early life in the 16th century. Before that it was almost entirely confined to the Italian Peninsula. As it happens, Martin Luther thought the Catholic church was too lenient on all these entrepreunering artists and scientists. He thought it had grown too decadent. That is where his criticisms were founded.
As it happens, I am of catholic background but you appear to completely misunderstand where protestantism originated. Judging from your comments, you would fit in far more easily into a 16th century protestant crowd than a catholic one, what with all your godliness bullshit.
As it stands, even in the modern era, protestant sects comprise the most radical elements of Christianity (evangelicals for example). Perhaps you should consider converting to that, because the Pope sure as hell does not support the views you have spouted here.
People who say that the color of someone's skin is the reason someone is successful are just people that can't make that success regardless of their race in the first place
Really tho. I guess they forgot about Shaq, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Kobe Bryant, Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Chadwick Boseman, John Boyega, Ben Carson, Oprah, Barack Obama, etc. That's some real oppression right there.
"I've never been financially ruined by divorce" "I've never been injured and told to 'man up'" "I've never been made to feel guilty because of things my ancestors did"
"I've never had a child I was treating well taken from me because my partner was abusive" "I've never been had my problems seen as lesser or not existent because my gender is almost always seen as the oppressor"
The more you call someone a racist Nazi xenophobe regardless if they are or not, the more that is what they will be. The words lose all their meaning after some time. "If we were gonna keep getting called Nazis by everyone no matter what we did, then by george let's be Nazis"
I concede that some people can be considered to be more "privileged" than others, like one born into a rich family versus one born into a ghetto family. But this is just absolute madness and shaming people for circumstances they have no control over. Hmm... that sounds familiar... if I didn't know better, I'd say this sounded like RACISM!
Don't bring it up and act like we are equal, and that is equal. Bringing it up and using it to stop equally important problems instead of fixing everyone's problems- seems pretty descrimitory.
My business ethics teacher in college literally divided the class by race/sex. She had us "privileged" white males stand on one side of the room, and everyone else on the other. One guy stood in the middle because he's mixed race. She told him he looks "white enough" and pointed to the white male side.
Ted Rayner Never mess with the bread and circuses. This is WHY people who make YTPs or videos about non political stuff get interested in politics in the first place. Things they like get filled to the brim with this idiotic rhetotic and it makes them question: How far does it go? They then question and postulate why and how did things get so ugly?
Always remember we're in the age where people would rather spend their time and energy finding excuses and reasons for their failures rather than pursuing dreams and achieving goals by working hard and bettering themselves.
Remember that in this decade, people claim that being a heterosexual white male makes you automatically 10 times more likely to succeed in life than anyone else, because you know, if you're homosexual, bisexual, female, black, hispanic, asian, etc., it is a disability that causes you to succeed far less often.
You know the 10 hours a day these idiots spend on social media fighting for "equality"? They easily could have used that time to work hard, improve themselves, etc.
Remember, this is the age of excuses, not the age of advancement, at the current rate Humanity will start advancing technologically and scientifically at the rate of which we advanced during the medieval era, because people will be too busy crying about stupid made up bullcrap to actually try in life.
It will bite our generation and later generations in the butt later in life. Eventually we will realize that what these people did were complete idiots, just make jokes and laugh at them for not being serious human beings. We are doing that now (obviously), but it will be more widespread in the future.
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Kurt Trahan2018-11-09 23:16:57 (edited 2018-11-09 23:17:22 )
Ya see this is what happens when a group of people go too damn long without a good ol’ fashioned war, plague, or famine! ; )
Reminder that if they actually cared they would be actually be protesting
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Will Cooper2021-12-17 02:31:40 (edited 2021-12-17 02:34:47 )
Yeah the video in question here is pretty terrible. But make no mistake, privilege is real and significant. Yes, as you’ve pointed out, it would be ridiculous to suggest that every white perish gets “+50 privilege points,” but that’s a bit of a straw man fallacy, and over simplified this concept — admittedly a lot of progressives don’t do the concept justice.
Many people in the world have benefited from factors that are out of their control, and many people in the world have been harmed due to factors that are out of their control. When entire generations of certain demographics are denied certain socioeconomic opportunities, even the most earnest and good hearted of successful individuals ought to understand that they likely would not have been quite as successful if all those demographics had been given the same opportunities.
Also yes, going to summer camp is not the best example of privilege. I’d say better examples would be textbooks and private tutoring, legal counsel, healthcare, transportation, childcare… the list truly goes on. If an individual’s father and grandfather and great grandfather etc were all denied opportunities because of factors that were outside of their control, and you were born into their family with the same disadvantages due to factors that are outside of your control, it doesn’t really seem fair that you should continue spending every afternoon babysitting your siblings while your parents are at work, and some classmate of yours is studying or spending time with friends or working a job to earn their own money or participate in a sport. It isn’t anybodys fault that these things happen, and Buzzfeed definitely isn’t solving anything, but this stuff is real and extremely important if we want to reduce unnecessary and unjust suffering in the world, which I’m pretty sure is like the main objective here
Also stop making privilege out to be a list of black and white criteria. Anybody who says you or your ancestors are automatically privileged or unprivileged based on skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. is simply wrong and doesn’t understand the concept. Don’t blame the ideology for the idiots who don’t get it. Get mad at them if you want, hell I encourage it, but don’t mistake a misinterpretation of a concept for the concept itself.
“If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is. ' In this country, I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't."
Link6456 its so great. Let's all look down on people and if they insult us we call them sjws even when they have insulted sjws. (Pretty much every extremist anti sjw thats obsesses over calling people sjws, even when they aren't.)
It sucks the politicians in both sides of the isle can't sit down and have honest, constructive debates/discussions anymore, everything is about the absolute hatred of what the other side stands for.
"Judge a man not based on the color of his skin, but the content of his character." is apparently racist now. - The color of your skin matters more than merit now. It's sad.
"The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity." -MLK, 1967 "Where Do We Go from Here?"
"I contend that the cry of "Black Power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro." -MLK, 1966, an interview with Mike Wallace
"The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power." -MLK, 1967 "The Three Evils of Society"
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” -MLK, 1967, Southern Christian Leadership Conference speech
and my personal favorite, "First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." -MLK, 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
I can quote MLK too. Not trying to undermine anyone's point, but context matters. MLK was a leftist radical and this is the kind of change he stands for.
+Reggo Waffle I think what OP and cormier are trying to convey is a satire or joke about current SJWs, and how they blow everything out of proportion in literally the most immature ways beyond mortal comprehension, not about Martin Luther King Junior himself, who was an actual Social Justice Warrior. More like a Social Justice Ninja actually, as he was more mature, and effective at achieving his goals than the SJWs of today.
Desert Tortoise 21 did you literally not even read my comment? Martin Luther King has said very similar (if not the exact same) things as the current left are saying today. The only reason people respect him now is because we know now that he was right about civil rights.
Meanwhile, "SJW" is a shitty meme meant to trivialize and mock people for calling shitty societal norms into question.
Maybe op is being satirical but it's pretty shit for satire and these "center left" shits taking MLK out of context has me pissed
Absolutely, positively, exactly right. Racism used to be defined as treating some races better than others. Today it's defined as treating all races equally and not giving special perks to people simply for being nonwhite and/or Hispanic. Of course, this is the exact opposite of racism, at least to those of us with functioning brains, but leftists, progressives, and SJWs come up with their own meanings and definitions of words independent of what they mean IRL.
@Vinnie SamDude To be fair, in the time he lived, the points we constantly quote were incredibly radical, putting him in a radical crowd. His other beliefs likely arose from being in an echochamber of radicals, and constantly hearing their viewpoints and nothing else.
I’ve never understood this line of thinking. Sure, sixty years ago MLK would be considered a political radical. Socrates, Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglas were also radicals to some during the times in which they lived, but their ideas are now so commonplace that most don’t even give them a second thought. Attitudes change and societies evolve; what’s radical in one period may be conservative in another, and vice versa.
I gotta say, I love your choice of music. You could even say it's great background music for going over a "Lizst" of all the things wrong with SJWs and progressives.
What is it called again when someone, for example a Buzzfeed employee, holds the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another? It is on the tip of my tongue here...
What you are describing is definitely racism... if you believe these things are inherent qualities of people from certain races. These people don't believe that people of different races have certain characteristics, abilities, or qualities inherently due to their race, but rather due to the way society is set up and has played out in the past. Some people from certain backgrounds have ended up beginning their lives with different amounts of resources (ex. money, personal and family assets, role models, parents/guardians, etc.), and some of these resources used to be directly restricted from certain groups of people by law. While this isn't done anymore, the effects from it happening in the past have yet to fully dissipate, and as such, we are left with people of certain races holding less generational wealth (usually being the strongest predictor of one's economic outcome in adulthood) than others *on average*, making members of them often less economically priveleged *on average*. What upsets me, is when I see some liberals demonize people with privelege, when what we actually need to do is educate people on what these positions and terms actually mean. There is no way we are going to get meaningful change and a movement towards equality in this world by screaming and shouting at each other.
you've earned yourself a subscriber with your hilarious editing and valid, inspirational points. I'm a straight white male in high school at the moment, and both my parents are white. However, we are struggling financially and lots of sacrifices have had to be made to stop us from going completely broke. It doesn't matter if you're white. You choose who you want to be. I am working hard in school to get into a great college education, and I'm hoping for the best from the future. Thank you for inspiring me to keep it up even if it seems hopeless.
"Excuse me? You think you can just use fancy big words like 'ludicrous' to make yourself sound smarter?" -Someone, somewhere in the world. I guarantee it.
I've never had a problem with people who had different colored skin than me specifically. I had all kinds of friends growing up, plenty of different heritages and ethnicities, I also knew plenty of assholes and bullies who were just as diverse.
The bullies were the only ones who ever made things about race.
But apparently I'm a hating, baby killing racist now because of my skin color lol
My forefather died commanding a regiment and fighting for the North in 1864, yet I'm compared to a minority of Confederate slave traders? Wow, that isn't double standard.
Also, don't forget the classic "MEN ARE EVIL BECAUSE TOXIC MASCULINITY BUT ALSO LET'S LAUGH AT ANY MEN WHO SHOW ANY WEAKNESS OR EMOTION OR FEMININITY AND THEN GO ON TO MANIPULATE THEM BASED ON THE FACT THAT MASCULINITY IS SO VALUABLE IN SOCIETY FOR MEN BECAUSE WE'RE NOT HYPOCRITES."
I've never understood how it is somehow my fault that I was born a straight white male and am making the most of what I have around me. My parents grew up somewhat similar to yours so I completely am with you on that point. Yeah it sucks that some people simply don't have the resources available to them and it's important to be aware of that. However to blame people for having those resources available to them like it's their fault is ridiculous. Instead of blaming groups of people based solely on their gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, it would at least make more sense to blame people that do have certain resources available to them and decide to take them for granted.
Instead of focusing on actual issues (e.g. homelessness, poverty, hunger, war. environment, etc.) it seems that people are creating their own issues so people will feel sorry for them. Instead of spending time and effort blaming other people for something they have no control over or being 'triggered' over something as minor as an internet comment, they should focus on what actually matters, especially things that affect others instead of themselves.
But hey, I have no right to speak since I was born a while male. Although apparently I can identify as literally anything, so I guess I'm a schqueemale half-Hispanic Otamatonesexual gingerqueer Floridian, thus removing my privilege.
Lord appulsaws They only choose soft targets and not real problems because it would challenge what they were fed by others. They find it easier to show vitriol towards a dead horse, yet the same cultures they defend (for egotism mind you) would treat them like utter trash.
Actually, I thinl that because of the hate on white straight males, the word "feminist" became something you don't want to be associated with. When feminism started, being a feminist meant that you feel that men and women are equals and gender does not matter. Nowdays it's associated with saying "fuck straight white males". Like, I'm a bisexual woman and I'm actually ashamed of it, but noth because people think I'm a lesser creature than others, but because of how my own group shames other groups. This is how low society went. Where every single group of people is disrespected by the others.
Issues exist, but keep in mind we're still debating as to whether or not someone can't get a house or be accepted for a job solely based on being in love with someone of the same gender.
I'm not attractive I'm not handsome/beautiful I'm not intelligent I'm not nice I'm not rich or successful And despite that, I stay strong and standing, proud of who or what am I or I look like. To those who's similar like me, Stay strong👊👊👊
I would counter that too many of yall make these trivial culture war issues your main gripe as well, both sides putting most of their energy into this bullshit. But hey its fun to rant sometimes.
Good comment, but wtf was that bit on the end? You can't LITERALLY identify as anything, just gender and sexuality, which are completely valid in most cases. And yeah, at this point it's such a sensitive issue you can't even joke about it. Sorry bro
The issues of homelessness, poverty war, and hunger, has existed since the beginning of the human race. The fact that we as a species can fix these issues, yet actively choose not to is ridiculous.
Thank you EmpLemon. There are people out there that NEED to see this video, to truly understand how stupid and irrational they were to believe in the system, known as "cHeCk yOuR PrIvElEdge"
I did a test once and said that I am a straight white male. "I am privileged" I did that test again with exact same answers except I said that I am a LGBTQ black woman. "I am not priveleged"
@Mr. Moron That's not really a legit phenomenon. Maybe there's one or two jerks out there but it's certainly not big enough to be focused on compared to say, non-binary people.
@General Horse Hate speech? it's a joke, an offensive joke it's supposed to be offensive. Do you think attacking the top will never get old? Jokes know no limits why it come to insulting people, and decriminates against no one, and lot of jokes are so we can laugh at ourselves.
A privilage, from what iv'e been taught, is something you earn and deserve. Some actions can lead to this privilege being taken away, hence needing to be earned again to get it back.
Man, this video, in heinsight, reminds me a lot of the stuff I've seen being played out in the whole Australian politics thing where they make you... basically state whether or not you have aboriginal dna, which, if you do, you get certain benefits... most of the people in the advertisement looked white as fuck and looked like they had no aboriginal ancestors whatsoever... Although, it looks like in the ad, faking your ancestry is seen as raising awareness for the problems, which sure, is a good cause, but damn... I might've misremembered the advertisement entirely, but something perturbed me about it.
I'm pretty confused about half this stuff sadly though, and my opinions aren't very solid so I'll probably fall for this shit, which is what I hate.
Really good video, you are one of my favorite YTers bc of how real you keep things. It sucks that you don't upload too often, it's ok though, Quality over quantity
I feel that, although certain people or groups can misinterpret it meaning, privilege does not necessarily mean anybody should feel ashamed of their background, but rather it's a term to remind people of how certain demagraphics have to make more of an effort to be in the same position that you are. For instance, how to get paid the same as you, a woman would have to work for a higher position (Statistically speaking) Or how inost fields, African American people will find it harder to stick the same job a white guy can. I feel it's best not to look at privilege as a devaluation of your work, but rather it gives you the chance to congratulate and acknowledge those less fortunate around you. That is all.
Yea; I get what you mean, and I'd say I agree. Like, there's obviously no inherent biological advantage in being white, male, heterosexual, whatever. But that demographic of people is disproportionately more successful on average than others. This doesn't invalidate any of the difficulties and hardship and effort a white person deals with; it just means that, like it or not, they statistically have an unfair advantage over an otherwise identical non white person. Emp I think makes a few good points, though overall I think it's mostly rhetoric like what he's commenting on that's alienated him and people like him, rather than the real issue of privilege. Like, I think he and most people in the comments would understand what white privilege is if someone took the time to explain it in a respectful, non-confrontational kind of way, but it gets more people's attention to do the opposite, so I'd doubt this kind of us vs them kind of approach is going anywhere.
jgonascar plus the fact that the word "liberal" has been brought down to that level. I can't even say that's what I am anymore, so I just say that I'm a humanist, cause it's basically the same thing without the political connotation
@Ted Spacey ye like when obama was president everything was fine but when trump became president the US died according to the SJWs & 3rd wave feminists
Literally we should remove identity politics from our system. And have true conservatives and true liberals. People who believe big government is bad, or good.
That's hilarious I have a similar background and I feel exactly the same way! Most people like to complain because they've made stupid decisions and in the short term it seems smarter to make others that have made decent decisions look bad... BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY LIFE IS PURELY ABOUT APPEARANCES! (than to obviously "get a life" work hard and have an end result. I just feel bad for people like that)
Gonna cite this to the Buzzfeed regular-readers at my school, they'll be shocked to hear that them telling me to kill myself because of my skin color counts as "being oppressed" by their own terms.
My dad went through so much shit as a child all the way to where he is now. He lived in a one bedroom apartment with bugs and an alcoholic grandfather. His mom and dad died when he was young. He lived in the murder capital of the country at the time. But ya know what? He tries his hardest to get good grades and, eventually, gets into one of the best private schools in the country. Things happened though, and he hit rock bottom again. The stress got to him and he ended up doing drugs. One day, he picked him self off the streets, and got to work. Years later, and he owns a home, has a wife, and a is a great father. He had to and still has to work hard, and ya know what? He thinks privilege is bs. He’s a Hispanic Male who had a shit life, but he believes anyone could make a life for themselves here in America.
My mom was poor growing up. Her mom and dad had spilt, causing my grandma to work multiple jobs. My mom was called racial slurs and cussed at, bullied and lied to, but she made the best of a bad situation. Now, I live in a Big house with my siblings. My parents have good jobs and I have everything I could want. My dad looks like your average Middle age Guy, but he’s not. He’s the best dad ever.
Tl;dr My mom and dad had shit growing up but now they live happy lives. Fuck communism, white privilege nonsense, and politics in general.
I don't like it when anyone denounces 'all young people', on the grounds of growing up being harder back in their youth. Having future generations lives be easier is kinda the point of it all, isn't it?
In my opinion one of the biggest problems with the quiz is that they define standards as privileges, most of these "privileges" are stuff every human should have, and it seems they are saying that since you have had something everyone should have, a standard, then you should feel guilty because not everyone has had this standard.
If I wasn't female, I'd be the worst enemy of everyone at my school. Me and one of my friends are the only conservatives I know that attend the school that I go to. Is having Asperger's Syndrome considered privileged? Because I have an excuse to go to that school and sit on my ass and do nothing and get a 3.76 GPA. I don't study, I almost never have homework, nothing. But I also don't have people I can see eye-to-eye with, which, if I'm being honest, makes me feel like the minority here.
Being white, Christian, cisgendered, straight, and conservative are the death sentences of this world now. Again, if I was male, I'd be dead already.
I usually agree with everything you say Emp, but using the original Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 instead of the remix from The End is Nigh is heresy of the highest degree!
There is also a divide between people on the left side of the political spectrum, some like 1st and 2nd wave feminism, but not 3rd and are also smarter than the other type, which are the SJWs.
Godzilla 123 You, for example, conflate being a Democrat and a liberal as interchangeable words. I would also assume that you “socialism” and “capitalism” are two black & white economic policies?
Well. I looked at that comment, I looked on the comment section beneath it and I am not in the slightest suprised, that it didn't got any smartter down the answers.
@cryoffe Buzzfeed actually supports democracy. We are a Republic, not a democracy.
Most people don't know what conservatism is either. The most conservative person in the white house that I know of is Mike Pence....and he is pretty laid back for some of the views he holds. Most people today, are what liberals were 80 years ago. Conservatism has more to do with preserving order in society.
Long ago, liberals and conservatives lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Hippies attacked. Only the Centrists, master of order and liberty, could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they remained silent. A hundred years passed and independents discovered the new party, a party named Libertarian, and although their Liberty skills are great, they have a lot to learn before they're ready to save this country. But I believe Libertarians can save the West.
@Eric Lefeld I hope for your sake it's a big enough difference, in your case, to avoid our general dislike of the left. If it is, maybe you're a rational person.
Well... most of this comment thread is fairly disappointing. But, I have learned something today. And that is that the only content on this channel I can actually appreciate, is the never ever series. Yeah, that's about right.
I hate pretty much all political alignment, because anyone who aligns anywhere on the political spectrum makes it a point to hate most other political alignments and can't decide any way to express their alignment other than shitposting about other political alignments in situations where even expressing your political alignment doesn't make sense. In layman's terms: "Oh, this video is a rant about privilege. Fuck liberals."
I'll look out for the next Never Ever, and it's been an interesting 4 days subscribed to this channel, but I think I'm ready to move on with my life.
I actually like these rant videos. They're very informative and well made, especially when you add some of the "YouTube Poop aesthetics" to the videos. It's very interesting and unique. I like it. I just wish some people would be more accepting to these new kinds of videos. Not everybody is happy always making the same kind of content for the rest of their lives.
You actually made some pretty good points in this video. I'd even put you up there with some of my favorite ranters of all time.
Also, I didn't know you were half-white half-Chinese. I guess you learn something new everyday! (I'm actually half-Hispanic half-white since I'm Puerto Rican, Spaniard, German and Italian, specifically from Sicily, but I mostly identify as Hispanic). 😃
When they don't have a scapegoat to cry victim at they go back to crying about generic "people" being the cause of their woes. TDS was just another symptom of being trapped in the liberal matrix.
I took the quiz to see what was on it, and there's a question in there asks "Are your parents heterosexual?" Does Buzzfeed understand how human reproduction works?
@Sam Holt-Williams I've met many people who don't consider their biological parents their actual "parents." The people who raise you obviously have a lot more to do with your social development than someone who isn't involved with your life.
@Is This Important? You make a very good point. I agree completely that coming from the adopted person's perspective, the person raising you would of course be considered way more important than their biological parents.
Any time I accidentally click on trending, I try to click the dots to click "not interested" but you can't do that on the trending tab.....then I realize I'm on the trending tab and feel gross.
EmpLemon, you're a little late on the PC rant side of YouTube. But it's nice to see someone like yourself take this stance, you can offer insight to the new people with little understanding on the subject, good on you man, I hope to see more. Also, adding memes makes this even more enjoyable, so thank you and I hope you enjoy where you're going as well! Much love my dude.
Copy and pasting from the website: You live with 70 out of 100 points of privilege.
You're quite privileged. You've had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don't have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.
My dad grew up in a machine shop and his family was so poor that one year his family couldn't a Christmas tree. Yet instead of complaining about how unprivileged he was he got his act together, saved up for college and now I live a wonderful life.
I think this is the best video on the internet, Emp Lemon throughly explains how race and sex has absolutely nothing to fucking do with success. My father and mother were white but they grew up poor, they got an education because they worked hard to study and make good relationships with at least one of their parents not because they were white
I love all of Emp's videos and thought I'd have fun watching this, but I only managed to watch the first clip from the buzzfeed video before my brain physically boiled with contemptuous rage and poured in a grisly steaming waterfall from my ears.
I confess that I fell into the trap of saying that somebody who has never had to worry about rent doesn't know what is good for poor people. THat happened today. Emp is right though. You can't change who you are. Even though the case I was thinking about was someone who was denying that people who get held back a year in school are then discriminated by society. The issue being that there is an importance in realizing what is up to you and what's not. The buzzfeed video defeats the purpose and it sickens me to see young people spend their days saying bullshit to sound liberal, when there is so much out there that can be done to actually help.
Based on my so called “privilege” from this test I am cos white person in the middle class who has almost everything handed to me on a silver platter because I live in a suburban neighborhood. It also says because I am female I have to be a victim and live for feminism. This is why I am not a third wave feminist. The wage gap is for another time. But, in reality I was raised by a single mom with three kids, I am in the disappearaning middle class, my mental state is wreaked, I have been diagnosed with depression, I have almost been anorexic, the fact that I am female will give me a boost if I join the sciences, and I am unstable to the point where I have though of killing people and have almost killed someone.
I'm bedridden, have autoimmune diseases, chronic incurable diseases, half native Cherokee half white (hah), poor, dad was poor & died at just 52 because though I loved him, he had no common sense & chain smoked himself to death leaving me, 16 at the time, to drop out & work just so mom & I could eat (I was healthy until 19). I'm also a 5' 2" ginger & nobody takes me seriously, even guessing I'm 15-17. Now I'm living with my 64 year old mom & 70 year old stepdad because I literally can't do anything & fall quite often, landing head first without protection (you'd think I'd get a concussion by now). From 19 to 29 I literally couldn't urinate due to nueroginic bladder & thus if I count it up I have used over 1,000 catheters at least. I'm nearsighted so badly I can hardly focus beyond 3". We're on food stamps & all disabled but Medicaid doesn't cover most things unless "it's life threatening" like what the crap?! Dad's hereditary diseases passed to me, including a tooth destroying one, so I had to get every tooth removed & felt it ALL.
But you know what? I'm pretty happy, I don't seek pity, & I take all I do have as a blessing while some people have a temporary problem & whine.
You just need to be strong & it can take time. Being white & native or having incurable diseases doesn't mean I should get more than others. I'm fact, I care more about others than myself!
This modernized SJW bill needs to stop before someone starts a big attack on whatever side. Not all can control their emotions like me & just go "meh, whatever" so it needs to stop. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I love all, but that doesn't mean I like what they think of do, or force feed young people.
I just want you to know that you may in fact be the unpriviliged person since the URSS meant something, the fact that you can be happy even with all that goes to show how is not only what we are physically what makes us "us", but what we have in the mind as well
But Chick Tracts are fucking hilarious. Have you read Dark Dungeons, or literally any of the others? It's even funnier because Jack Chick is completely serious. I freaking love them.
oh yes, as a white man i feel SO privileged being homeless for the last 3 years also i like how this 4 year old video was JUST recommended to me by youtube
People born into wealth have greater financial privilege than you, for sure. But from a strictly racial POV you are privileged in that aspect since it's harder for a Black person to get back on their feet due to various factors (I'll mention one: people with white-sounding names are twice as likely to land job interviews... see source below).
So privilege isn't just a solid label based on race, but a sort of amalgamation of various aspects of ourselves like our race, socio-economic status, attractiveness, the list goes on. That's my view of it, anyway. Emplemon just doesn't really understand it from this perspective.
@ariana "Haha your opinion bad because you responded multiple times" >doesn't have a single argument and can't even muster up the courage to explain what emp's "behavior" is lol
@based goober we literally talked about it in another comment, you came out all the sudden extra salty trying to mock me, knowing that we've already talked in another comment
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@ariana stalling and coping hard rn huh? explain his "behavior" (for like the millionth time) or just stop interacting with me, goddamn.
Buzzfeed is so righteous. They almost talk down to their viewer and then improperly explain a complicated topic while dumbing it down to shit in this video.
being born in a certain country or economic class effects how you do in life but neither of those are strictly tied to race. they missed what actually gives people advantages and those advantages were earned by your parents so yo should feel proud of them not shitty.
Thing is I’m willing to admit I’m privileged but I realised this shit when I was younger when my parents would tell me that there’s millions people right now who don’t have access to basic necessities so I shouldn’t take them for granted. I get that I’m very lucky. But I don’t understand what these people online want me to do about it, it’s like they want you to shout it from rooftops or something
You don't understand. That's ok. This entire video is literally whining about something they admittedly don't understand. I guess the idea of having a reasonable conversation with someone who says "check your privledge" is just too incomprehensible. God forbid having a little bit of empathy. Why understand anyone when you can be extremely defensive and reactionary towards any new idea?
@lightfeather I think "check your privilege" IS the reactionary and defensive statement here. Why would you say that to someone if you weren't trying to piss them off? The point here is that you can't assume how privileged someone is based on a few characteristics that could only have so much influence on their privilege. You don't know what someone's going through in their life and what problems they have, so telling someone to "check their privilege" based on someone's race or gender can definitely be perceived as insensitive and lacking empathy. It goes both ways
I always knew there was something about BuzzFeed that brushed me the wrong way. Their perfect ratios of straight to gay and white to colored etc cast always felt unnatural somehow in how they portrayed them, just, in some subtle way. Like, they were always drawing attention to the representation somehow.
Well, I guess there's no more question about their agenda now.
Yeah, I watched a couple of their vids... I didn't even notice the whole gender/sexual preferance/race balance thing until a couple videos in when it became an obvious trend. That's when i realized how they force equal balancing of different types of people.
It doesn't make the videos any worse, but just think about how stupid it is trying to find only certain types of volunteers. If they're trying to encourage equal acceptance of all people, why the hell do they sort out all their guest stars by such types of classifications?
"Checking your Privilege" isn't actually about genetic chance, it's just the fact that some people have it a lot easier than others, like how someone who is transgender is going to have a harder time in life than someone who is not. Though the term has reached shitty tumblrism meme status, it originally was just a reminder about people more misfortunate than yourself, really. And that sort of reminder has never really been a problem with people until now, it seems.
This video summarizes the problem of these privilege stuff Every joke made clear what was wrong with that one detail The waiter scene was my favorite scene. It fits so well with this weird question at the test without changing much at the original clip Triggered + Bring me to Live make that even better.
,,Fuck you Buzzfeed" I completely agree with that!
While I'm not exactly a fan of the new ear rape poops going around I do however appreciate these videos. Reminds me we're just guys trying to have fun in a system where everyone's trying to screw each other for their own gain. Thanks for the insight! :D
I'm so privileged, because I was born as a white male in America, where that's extremely common, raised in a middle class family, and I'm going to grow up attempting to join the Air Force. So yeah, I'm really privileged because Buzzfeed says that if I'm a white male, I should check my fucking privilege.
The first console I ever bought with my own money was a Wii U before its price cut. Funny enough the first videogame I bought with my own money was Sonic 06 at launch for $60. I truly should be pitted.
Well. I'm the most privileged person in the world. Growing up in an extremely physical, mental, sexually abusive home, well if you count bridges, homeless shelters and, and cheap crappy motels rooms as a home...I got hit by a tornado, broke my spine, two months before 18, was paralyzed for months, and after an entire year of hell relearning how to do basic things like sit up, stand, walk, I started to be decently human again...Aside from being in so much pain every second of the day that morphine tickles in comparison. Guess I'm a bastion of privilege...Totally not endurance, an unbreakable fucking determination that has seen me through the bad. I'm privileged to actively work towards making content for people that they can enjoy, but more importantly that I enjoy making. I'm privileged to not give a rats ass what BuzzFeed thinks of my 'privilege'. All sarcasm aside, taking away a person's success, overcoming strive, struggles, and misery, is basically why we have so many fucking cry babies. My motto is "Never give up, never show weakness, always push forward, there's always a better life waiting for you to FORGE it for yourself."
Because it's easier to write someone's old work off as bigoted in hindsight when the creator is likely to no longer care about it and then pretend like you've gotten the last laugh on the subject.
"Shrek your privilege"...okay! Well I'm a Scottish, Native American and Dutch transgender non-binary person who is highly attracted to men! What does that mean for my privilege?
4:29 It gets even worse than that, this question asks if you have never worked as a waiter. Which means that you could have worked as a waiter for 2 months before becoming a billionaire, and still be "oppressed", since you still would've worked as a waiter and hence the question wouldn't apply to you
The best way to combat the idiots is to ignore them. Never give them the satisfaction of knowing they get under your skin, and if you are to interact with them in this context do it in a respectful manner, that will get under their skin, knowing their words didn't get to you.
Or you could just try to have a genuine dialogue. The concept of privilege has been so mishandled in media: of course it’s a privilege that I’m less likely to be refused service or be shot at by cops because of my race and sexuality, the privilege is 99% the time is a decreased likelihood of a struggle
The thing is, if you study American history, there's actually tons of things corporations and the government did and still does to make succeeding much harder for non-white people. This is what most people mean when they talk about white privilege. And in fact, if you study world history, you learn that the reason why most poor counties are poor today is due to European countries and America taking advantage of them. Obviously I can't go into detail, but a good place to start might be the book "Guns, Germs, and Steal", as it explains the origins of what caused this inequality.
Solar this argument is fruitless but one day I promise you will stop being woke and see the facts. This myth of systemic racism is not a real thing at all. Want to know when it was? Oh that’s right, when black Americans and white Americans were segregated in the 60s, or when they were kept as slaves.
Thankfully outlets like Buzzfeed, Kotaku, etc, are no longer at the height of their power, like in 2016. Things are slowly going in the right direction, and it pays off to have hope.
I’m starting to think Emp is a time traveler because this and the Jimmy Kimmel keep on getting massive Ws for spirting out straight facts considering what’s happening right now
I am a straight, white, cisgender male. I come from a middle-class family and have a decent paying job. I have my own car (my second, first got totaled and insurance paid for all of it). I don't live in a very racially mixed area (probably 1 out of every 100 people around here is black and about 15 out of every 100 are hispanic or asian). I took the test and answered honestly.
44. I got a 44 out of 100. "You are not privileged at all. [drivel about how I must have had to deal with a lot of shit]" It's almost as if being a white man doesn't make you automatically privileged...
Let's just forget the important lesson here, EMPLemon just confirmed that he's half-Chinese... It's not important but that was a clever way of mentioning it.
Just imagine buzzfeed making a article about this video explaining how they're so call "privilege' is bullshit that would be funny and disappointing at the same time
This was entertaining untill earrape comes. I had to lower the volume the entire video. If I can ask one thing, can you have no sudden earrapes in your talk videos? I know it's a staple of YTPs and meme videos, but I just want a calming, funny and thought-provoking video with memes.
Agreed with everything except the rent thing. While I do believe that any one individual has the power to change their outlook on life, including their income, there are some scenarios where no amount of hard work can help you pay for basic necessities like rent. However, while it is arguably a privilege to have a job that pays enough to do so, it's more of a systematic failure in society, one in which allows little to no opportunity to improve your circumstances. But yeah, the rest is completely on point.
As a Wii U owner I would like to say, I was a fan we were looking forwards to the next generation of gaming, We wanted Mario Kart in HD, We wanted a more expansive platforming series we wanted 3d exploration like never before. We were let down, we the purchases are not to be judge like many before us people who bought the xbox fridge it was not us but the lies and deciet from the developers.
You're quite privileged. You've had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don't have them. Thank you for checking your privilege."
You shouldn't be ashamed of having privilege. I'm happy that I have a good life, but it has nothing to do with me being a white male. It has to do with having good parents, a good school system, and basically generally being in a richer country. Hell, a good 2/3 of my school is not white, and about 1/5 is homosexual, and they all do fine. The "insane privilege" thing is a myth. I'm not an overlord compared to a black kid down the street just because I'm white. I'm an equal, because we're both humans and deserve the same rights.
Source: Live in one of the only blue counties in TN, am in a Latino neighborhood, have many gay friends, very few white friends actually (somehow. maybe it's cuz my school is deverse), and have common sense
I like how they take communism/socialism and replace the class aspect with race. seems like... seems like a certain Austrian painter did that once. I forget how that turned out tho.
@WizKidGamer99 meh I don’t think a name means they’re something necessarily even though they actually were, just look at the democratic people’s Republic of Korea which is neither democratic or a republic. Same with the democratic republic of the Congo.
Most of the time when I see an SJW Buzzfeed video in the recommended videos section or in the Trending section, my eyes involuntarily force me to not pay attention. I can't stop myself from doing it.
All i do is look in absolute disgust and let a great sigh of disappointment that's my opinion but, it is now a pain to have one nowadays. I wonder why...
Well it seems to be true, as a white man I can just walk out of a store with whatever I want. But a black man who paid for all there goods get stopped.
for that "lottery" analogy, of course you don't have a chance to get born by someone else, but it means that you weren't born by the majority of people that aren't rich.
coolcat001100 YouTube is inconsequential? Well excuse me, I didn't realize the largest video platform on the entire Internet was inconsequential! And let's examine the insincerity of your statement about the significance of commenting on said website's video. If that is true, why the hell did you post your opinion at all? I rest my case.
+James Meyers ...Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is inconsequential. Emp was not complaining about YouTube, he was complaining about Buzzfeed. Get back to me once you've learned to read.
BuzzFeed is not really inconsequential if people are visting their website and watching their videos. Like it or not, people are taking BuzzFeed seriously and not a small number of them. Buzzfeed appeals to the "oppressed" in whom they basically feed lies. They are quite dangerous actually because of how easy it is for others to just readily accept what they say, or they will become the "oppressors" BuzzFeed preaches about heavily and be scorned by everyone else. It is ironic really. (I apologize for misreading your previous post)
+James Meyers Here's the thing, though: most oppressed people actually know themselves that Buzzfeed is full of shit. Rather than doing the research on the actual oppression people go through, they react through pure emotion and rely on others to do the same thing, and as such they discourage people from looking at the very legitimate social issues because of how terribly they handle them. Marginalized people know themselves that Buzzfeed doesn't actually want to bring awareness to the oppression they go through,. they just want to capitalize off of it. White privilege and systematic oppression are actual things that exist, they just don't exist in the way that Buzzfeed says they do.
coolcat001100 • "White privilege and systematic oppression are things that actually exist" A year has passed and I was just curious, do you still believe in this nonsense?
Actually it sort of does. This is why mental disorders from things like trauma and bullying exists. If you're repeatedly called a 'fucking faggot' for an extremely extended period of time, it'll unconsciously ingrain itself into you and thus cause a 'trauma' where whenever you hear or remember that phrase, you instantly go on the defense and overreact to your current situation like breaking into tears and crouching on the floor as an example
It might sound stupid.. but when I was 12-14 I was constantly told I looked like a rapist and a pedophile by multiple people whom I didn't even know. Ever since I was 15 I've been constantly called a "furfag" or an "animal-fucker" just for the reason of being a furry, to the point where I was forcibly removed from the group of people who I thought were my friends. Yeah.. at first it got me down, it made me feel like everything was slated against me, that I was worthless compared to everyone else, but one of those friends came back to me despite me being "Worthless", it made me realize something important.
That the people who actually succeed are the people who don't give up. People need to stop whining and looking at the "impossible odds"... because there aren't any, you have just as much of a chance at rising to the top as everyone else in this world. The feeling of being less than everyone else is caused by you, and the close-minded way you're looking at the situation. If you're not able to learn to believe in yourself then you're doomed to fail from the start.
To sum it up, people need to stop feeling sorry for themselves, worrying about race and gender are the things that hold people down.
Frosty It depends on the person. Surprisingly enough, there are people who are called faggots everyday and don't go PTSD. Also, theres a difference between actual harassment and feeling harassed. That's the point, not that feelings don't matter.
globoxsas I dug through this admittedly entertaining comment section looking for a reasonable person, I'm always glad when I find a few in places like this. It reaffirms for me that you can find decent people anywhere.
can I be an outsider without keeping super up to date with dank memes? I respect the memescape fully, and I recognize 95% of the references you make, while agreeing with everything you say... but I still don't feel like I can conjure up a detailed analysis on all the memes as some of my friends (and you) can. Does this make me a normie?
You're lucky enough to be born with more wealth, opportunity and support than some other humans. How should you proceed? A: Be thankful for this luck and try to help others who do not have it B: Spend literally 1/3rd of your natural life being a twitter keyboard warrior who brags about how "woke" they are for recognizing their privilege and putting down other people of your class who don't constantly self-flagellate, whilst actually taking nigh 0 real world actions to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate.
Nigga don't pity me for having a Wii U. I got to play Mario Maker at launch. Bet you had to go to a friend's house to play it. I'm the privileged one with the Wii U.
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I’m white and I do have privilege Privilege of being homeless and poor Knowing I have the option to be homeless and poor makes life much much more easier for me!
I’m white, but my family and I came to the US from a virtual shithole in Eastern Europe. We had to work our ass off, so do not ever lecture me about pRiViLeGe
Please make more vids like this, your YTP editing style adds something very unique to topics such as this, its always good to look at the bad things happening in the world and laugh a bit to relieve ourselves from it. I definitely think your channel is evolving in a positive way.
I agree with the message of this video 100% I’m just not sure you understand how shitty what buzzfeed is doing. There’s a lot more to what’s happening here.
“ I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” - Martin Luther King Jr. diversity should be judged by your personality and character, not by your gender, sex, race, ect.
I fail to see how everyone who doesn't have enough to make it in life is automatically bad at managing their finances. It's possible to simply not have anyone supporting you while you're working for minimum wage in, say, central Illinois - where the cheapest rent is like $650 a month, unless you know some people who know a landlord and can convince them to lower the rent - combine the prices for cars and insurance in the area I'm living in at least (where it takes 3 hours at best to walk place to place so you absolutely need the car) and you got a recipe for people failing to pay rent no matter how they budget things out, or starving to death if they're lucky enough to make rent. Then again, it would be men who have it the hardest because our car insurance payments are ridiculously high... looks like no matter what situation we look at, Buzzfeed is wrong.
Well I'm mixed, so does that make me underprivileged, or do my German and Black( which is probably some mixed and is also 1/16 Seminole Indian) halves cancel out and make me "priveledge neutral"?
your point of view is completely valid I also think that "Privileges" are not something to be applied to individual people but is indicative of larger systemic problems. Yes, I don't worry about getting pulled over because of my skin colour,. Yes, I dont have to worry about men creeping up on me because I'm a young attractive girl. Neither of these are proof of character and it depends on what you do with them and fixing society to the point where everyone doesn't have to worry about these things instead of just treating those that get the shit end of the stick like they're special and deserve to be treated better, that's fixing symptoms not the roots of the problem.
overall, buzzfeed is looking at the whole issue from a way too narrow of a lens and jumping on the bandwagon of political correctness instead of the issues on whole.
To be fair, people should have an easy time finding direct political statements from the presumptive nominees. However, one could argue that YT isn't the place, and if it wasn't as diverse a website as it is, then I might agree.
that's all they care about. they take one look at you and you are judged 100 percent. and told wether you are allowed to speak or wether to feel bad about being alive or not.
Most people who say "check your privileges" live in a first world country. Meanwhile, in third world countries kids are starving to death. Yeah, "check your privileges", alright.
+Gabe Nye The Meme Guy Yeah, really shows how isolated most people are. I don't really mean to get deep into this subject, but it must be said. Even the people who don't take it for granted still don't fully get it.
This is a move for the better Emp my old friend. Now you have finally come out of the political closet, I see that you're not a regressive liberal. This brings joy to my very soul old boy, and I dare say, you are one saucy lad for making such moves. Alas, ytp has perhaps met its peak and left it far behind, however you continue on. For this I am grateful. I shall watch on in pleasure. On a completely unrelated note, MAGA
I wouldn't call you a rant channel, I would call you a fascinating amaglamation of YTP, rant, and (gameplay?) that has become a shambling abomination of amusement to me... Keep up the good work!
Mr. EmpLemon, you have changed my life once again. This is the second time, with the first being after I watched Lightning McQueer and the Quest for Tires, which got my subscription to you. Beautiful!
EmpLemon wow from youtube poop to this how have you grown.If i had to describe your progress i would say you went from a single cell organism to a multi cellular organism.So congrats you have grown a lot as a channel and am glad your content has changed 👌
Lemon, I like the fact that you changed to a podcast format. However, I like that the ytp elements are staying. Please keep future video around the same backbone as this.
I fully agree that (white) privilige is currently no existant. But I do feel the need to state that a large portion of black people is poor. Though I also believe that's a lot to blame on the black community themselves.
I really wonder whether youre being ignorant and cherry picking your arguments on purporse or not. Thanks for making this video though! I was wondering whether or not to subscribe and I got my answer. Nice editing tho
Follow Up: The buzzfeed crew has loads of privilege they don't examine in the video. They're all conventionally attractive, able bodied, college educated, with a huge platform to voice themselves, have the financial backing of a huge company to create their content, and living in both a first world country and in one of the largest cities in the USA. But Buzzfeed is such low hanging fruit they reduce the idea of privilege to just race and gender. And the idea is that privilege isn't a 'yes or no' concept or even a sliding scale of 'more or less' privilege. Privilege can manifest in a variety of ways. For example, you probably have the privilege on never having some creepy old neckbeard with awful body odor and horny with Yellowfever think you should be a subservient sex kitten who lets him suck on your toes every day. But that Asian Buzzfeed girl probably has had to deal with that kind of creepy objectification due to her race and gender (despite being advantaged in other ways).
I've seen your other work. I know you can do better than this.
I personally liked the time you talked about how your parents worked to get where they are today and how you had a better life because of that. My father was born with a single mother because his father died in the army not to mention his mother was in a financial situation and my dads grandmother told my grandma to not keep her child because of her situation but she did. On my moms side of the family her parents moved from Italy waiting years to get in legally and they now own a big house in LA . Now I realize my family isn’t privileged in any way. The reason they’re here and the reason I get to live in a big nice house with them is because they saw opportunity and took it, but too many people these days watch that opportunity fly by them and they never reach for it. Currently I’m only 13 and I’m not old enough to take these opportunities, but you bet as sure as hell I’m going to. If my dad can build a business from the ground up then I can at least have a decent living one day. If you’re having trouble to pay rent don’t spend money on wants instead of needs. It might seem like you’ll never get out of your situation but, if you plan ahead everything should go out your way and not the person or company you owe debt to.
The sad thing is most people at my age don't have any opinions about these kinds of topics because no one tells them about them. It's almost sad that I can't find someone my age to talk to about issues like this. I mean people my age know about some if this stuff but all they do is know, but never discus about it or form opinions on something like "privilege" or "equality" or who should they vote for one day because when that day cones they don't know what to do. Now that I think about it maybe it’s just the parents fault. Just the other day my dad saw someone with a Burnie Sanders sticker on someone’s car and he told me about how that person is a socialist and how they want society to be and how they want to take away my rights yet so many kids are blind and ignorant to these things. Well guess what one day they’ll be the deciders and they will have to vote for our leader
sees how sexism and racism is still considered a thing (somehow) despite it not actually being a real thing Me: This is not what 1,000,000 or so Americans died for.
Been bingeing your vids lately. Some are 👌👌 real good. But others, like this, are really cringe. 'Check your privilege' means 'consider the ways you are advantaged compared to others.' So you shouldn't feel sorry for Michael Jordan for Michael Jordan for being black, but he should consider how his wealth, fame, and superior levels of skill and fitness advantages him over an average person who doesn't have those advantages. Different people can be advantaged in different ways and to varying degrees. 'Check your privilege' means 'don't take the things you have for granted' and 'be considerate of how others may face situational differences and struggles compared to you'. Everyone has struggles to varying degrees, some to a greater extent or in ways you may not have considered as it is not a struggle you personally face. I don't feel like this video is a good faith response; just pissbaby crying. This might've been a real spicy hot take, but it tastes like all that spice was dumped in to hide how rotten all the main ingredients in this stew are. This video is inedible garbage, if you ask me. I like it better when you actually know what you're talking about and do your fucking research instead of whining about Buzzfeed as if they're worth discussing at all. Way to set the bar low.
That's true, but it really depends on the context. A lot of the time, "check your privilege" is used in a condescending and insulting way, so it comes off as assuming someone's life problems and status based on their race or something. And sure, it would be nice if "don't take things for granted and consider others' struggles" was what everyone took away from it, but you can't blame people for getting mad when their race or gender or any characteristic out of their control is used to assume what they're going through in life. That's... kinda what racism is.
I agree that this video sounded a little too pissbaby-ish, but you're missing the whole point.
@Linus >"you can't blame people for getting mad when their race or gender or any characteristic out of their control "
This is the wrong takeaway. "Check your privledge" does NOT mean "feel bad for being who you are".
I, for example, have 'able-bodied' privledge. There are things I can do that a person in a wheelchair can't.
So how can I check my privledge? If I walk down a city street and see one of those electric scooter rentals obstructing the sidewalk, I can move it to the side. Sure, I could step over it. But could a person in a wheelchair? A little old lady? A person on a bike/skateboard who is in a hurry? Probably not. That scooter is a serious obstruction for them. So I take a moment to pick up the scooter and prop it up against the wall where it belongs.
I can also check my able-bodied privledge by advocating for ramps, elevators, etc. for important buildings. I don't personally need those things... But there are are other people who do.
"Check your privledge" just means "be thoughtful of other people, their struggles, and be considerate in your day-to-day life".
No one's implying you could have been born to another family. They just mean none of us have any control over who we're born to and so some of us; white, black or brown may be born into better situations than others.
emp ur someone who makes solid ass arguments in amazing video essays and i genuinely enjoy ur content. you probably spend HOURS doing research on some of your videos on the most complete random things and i love that! this being said, i encourage you to put the same amount of effort into your research on what checking your privilege really means.
my mom grew up in a one bedroom apt in east LA and she also decided to make a better life for herself. although even she had the privilege of being an above average student and having a mother who pushed her to go to college. checking your privilege is t supposed to make you feel bad for having it but instead it’s supposed to help you develop a sense of compassion for those who don’t have those privileges. i would more than happy to have an open dialogue with you on this topic!
I'm very late to this conversation, but as a white person (british/canadian/irish/scottish roots with recent native american), i can't check almost all of these that were shown in the video. I was bullied so much in middle and high school, my family was upper poor class, I was called gay and harrassed for something i never was BY MY OWN FAMILY and the people at school. I was neglected, mentally and emotionally abused so much I am on disability, barely able to function in society. I am starting to get better, having been free from it for 10 years or so, about to finally start to be able to work. I've felt unsafe due to my gender because I couldn't fight back when my mother would tear my hair out, slap me, kick me. I wasn't allowed to even try to stop her or i would have been sent to juvy. By these people trying to enforce this shit, they themselves are the evil they are pretending to try and eradicate. Discriminating against people who make good decisions or born into a certain lifestyle, class, or race. I can't control that I was born a race, and by them trying to take away my rights AS A HUMAN is actual real racism. I'VE BEEN TREATED LIKE ABSOLUTE GARBAGE FROM OTHER RACES FOR MY RACE. Do you just want me to ignore that 90% of the black people I have met treated me like garbage? Just.... fuck man.
I'm a white male teenager. Never realized that makes me rich and educated. I guess school is just a place where I'm sent to rot on the daily. To be fair, most of it kind of is.
jesus christ its like someone dropped a 4channer kindergartner on their head and told them to make youtube videos about what sargon of akkad or ben shapiro say about college feminists
I feel like nobody will believe your point when you quote somebody and try to act like it's your own thought. Like Buzzfeed said "I won the ovarian lottery." That's something my history teacher said in those exact words. The fact that I'm hearing it a second time doesn't move me more, it just tells me that either Buzzfeed or my history teacher or most likely both couldn't think of their own thoughts on the subject and are just telling me stuff that moved them. And this isn't something liberals do, it's just something stupid people do in general. I've heard so many times in exact words "Life begins at the moment of conception" and "Donald Trump's agenda is horrendous." And I'm not saying it's bad to quote people. You just have to clarify that first. Say something like "A wise man once told me," or "I remember hearing on the news that." Otherwise you're just making yourself seem like an idiot.
I understand that in parts of the us there isn't much white privilege, I'm from the US and here in india, I am constantly displayed with examples of white privilege.
Put headphones on and turned volume to max so I can go to buzzfeed and fin Amy enjoy there content cause not being able to hear anything and total silence is better than there content
Wait so, the message is: "We believe it's wrong that people are assigned an intrinsic value based on things entirely out of their control, therefore we are going to assign people an intrinsic value based on things entirely out of their control"..?
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Mars 30992018-06-30 14:40:29 (edited 2018-06-30 14:43:26 )
2:01 i think you misunderstand. Its not meant to be seen as something connected in such a physical sense such as genes. Its more of saying that you (as a being, soul, etc.) are lucky to be born into a relatively fortunate family and it is luck because it was decided by no skill on your own accord or at least that's the thought imo.
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hugo mungus2021-11-07 19:08:24 (edited 2021-11-07 19:09:11 )
honestly i watch buzzfeedblue sometimes, just dont want to be that one normie that goes with everyting thats cool to get likes. i also dont realy watch it. it just satisfies me
EmpLemon, I just want to say, Thank you for making this! Society has been a real shit hole lately, and it's not going to get any better without people like you...
Anyway, keep up the great work! And I should continue feeling underprivileged because I have a Wii U, those straight white Wiis are so much more privileged.
I think when they say "Winning the birth lottery" they mean like in a spiritual kinda way. I mean its stupid, but I don't know You think of somethin ng
@***** Probably not for long. When a jerk falls, another one takes it's place. Yesterday everybody hated Leafy and liked Keem. Today, it's the other way around.
I think it'd be interesting to occasionally see him do commentary on matters he's actually interested in; this video was very funny, informative, and well written. But I feel like if he went full-on with commentary-based content, it will start to go down hill, if you know what I mean.
As a Yeti, I have white fur and because of that I am somehow better off because of the color of my fur....? Buzzfeed has never been smart, sorri EmpLemon -Yeti
According To Buzzfeed You Should Be Happy About The Most Poor People That Are White And That You Should Be Sad That Some Of The Most Rich People Are Black (2018 Addition): Because Of Society.
I usually agree with you, but at 1:48 you're missing the point. Sure, the characteristics of the child of your parents would be the same, but what's to say you would be that child and not someone else's child, or yes, a cow born into a factory farm?
My best friend has gone through countless foster homes, never met his dad, and has attempted suicide. But cause he’s white, and his parents are hetero, he’s privileged. K buzzfeed.
It’s like that episode of fresh prince of Bel Air, where Carton gets called out a “sell out” by a member of a fraternity only because he’s black and his father is rich
I don't get the "mocked for your accent" one cuz i'm white straight and all that shit, but i'm from the south, so my accent gets made fun of all the time
I didn't understand the "I went to summer camp" one bc the timms summer camp is a camp that sends poor kids to camp???? Oh no!!! I'm privileged because I went to a fully sponsored camp for poor kids!!!!! I can feel the money pouring into my bank account, my skin is paleing, my tits are vanishing, I am priveledged
I liek dis guy compelling arguments rational thinking entertaining entertaining rant videos uses tf2 references sounds like a cool dude keep being yourself and doing what you want lemonhead
It has no negative repercussion, they can do that to someone and, even if the video is brought back, not be punished for abuse of the system. The copyright system here is infamously bad, that this would be a regular occurrence.
From 2:00 onward is just short sighted. It's not about the specific combination of genes, but about the vessel your consciousness occupies. For all the universe cares your consciousness could've manifested as an African, or a alien on an different planet. The point being that it is not trivial that you are you. Great vid btw
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I kinda liked the Wii U. I enjoyed quite a few games on there, such as Splatoon, ssb4, Mario 3D world, I could go on but I think you get the point.
I took the BuzzFeed quiz of 'Do you benefit from White supremacy' and there is a question asking if a native African name is harder to pronounce than Zach Galifianakis. Also, if you get 0/52, you benefit from white supremacy.
1:50 - 2:30 I don't think you get the meaning of their analogy. It's not about your physical body, it's about your "soul". The child of your parents may have always been the same person but there would have been no guarantee that would be you. For all you know you could have been born from different parents and lived a completely different life, while a different soul lives your life.
I didn't watch BuzzFeed's video and I'm by no means defending it, but life is based entirely on luck as your parents and upbringing are responsible for everything you do. Who you are born as is the ONLY factor in how happy a life you will live.
A more rational sounding take on White Privilege stated that If you pick a random group of whites and a random group on blacks on average the whites will be more fortunate. It's not to say that there are boatloads of exceptions, but it does show there are still some racial problems in society to be dealt with.
My grandma was a white man who worked hard farming for a small salary to support his mother. Then he got his own farm, then he owned buildings! From rags to riches. Instead of whining about how awful his life was, he made something from himself! He became a millionaire! Now, you need to go to college for a chance to live a middle-class life.
I'm white, English, born to middle class family and went to an exclusive grammar school..... I also now live in a YMCA so fuck any implication of privilege
All things in life is a privilege, we do not need all we have save food and water, yet we have it, if a white man is privileged so is a black man, and if one claims they have less than others then they are making excuses for not doing what they should, proving people wrong
I have a friend whos 25% South Korean, and his family is rich as hell. According to Buzzfeed, though, I should feel bad for him because he is 25% Korean. Fucking lol
@This channel is only for commenting on videos and subscribing to channels England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland are all currently part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which recently left the European Union after a referendum where 52% of voters voted to leave the EU.
They technically haven't left yet, they just had a referendum in which the citizens voted to leave. Their government still has to officially leave the EU. It will take time.
*when . since this decision, the mighty Scotland and (northern ) ireland are very close to leaving the UK, the £ has decreased in value significantly, france has decided to send all immigrants over to england basically, the prime minister has fucked off, the EU has no mercy for the UK now (in terms of trade deals) and the UK has dropped from being the fifth biggest economy to the sixth
Welcome to the future, where Supreme Courts Justices hold way more power than all the people that put them there. England is still in the EU, despite the vote to leave. My only question is who the hell asked the permission of the courts?
I like the wii u... but i also have 3 computers, a self hosted website, and is fluent in 3 programming languages. So me being insane and liking the wii-u makes more sense
my mans while I agree that buzzfeed is an awful company, and the notion that your feelings have nothing to do with your privilege. there is a history of policymaking in the U.S. designed to place black people in less favorable socio-economic situations. these have since been revoked but their influence is still strongly present in the US today. that alongside a very real prejudice against non-whites in our institutions (banks and law enforcement) make life as a white man inherently easier. I do agree however that you shouldn't be forced to check your privilege as that is pointless and doesn't negate the underlying issues.
If you've ever been in a classroom for a language you don't speak for any amount of time, you can basically pass this quiz and have Buzzfeed tell you, a straight white male, that you're not privileged.
I am white and I live in Florida, but I am more poor than most of my friends, who are black, cuban, and I have a rich friend who is black-latino mixed. What the fuck Buzzfeed?
Telling someone to check there privilege is basically idiotic. Shaq could buy my house 10 or 20 times over but somehow I'm more privileged than him. He owns high end Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars but somehow my $1500 Toyota makes me more privileged than him. I know there are people worse off than me and very downtrodden but I can't help that, no one can help where or into which life they were born, they just play the cards they are dealt.
I'm a white male with high GPA and IQ and so far pretty much nobody has wanted to hire me. I am UNEMPLOYED atm. I must really be a MINORITY FEMALE and just NOT KNOW IT YET
I'm so privileged, because I was born as a white male in America, where that's extremely common, raised in a middle class family, and I'm going to grow up attempting to join the Air Force. So yeah, I'm really privileged because Buzzfeed says that if I'm a white male, I should check my fucking privilege.
This shit really pisses me off alot, because privelage has nothing to do with your identity. My father is white and straight, yet he was born into in a life of poverty. His parents were alcoholics, and were both physically and sexually abusive. He joined the Army when he was 18, and drove a tank in Desert Storm. He has PTSD from all of this. Yet, when he came back, he married my mother and gave me the best life he could. He still struggles with his demons, and is still currently an alcoholic. I love him to no end, and appreciate the life he gave me. He did not have a privelaged lifestyle, yet BuzzFeed would claim he is privelaged.
Does the quiz ask have you ever been called a cracker or a white bastard I'm white Viking ancestors from England and we were so poor I had 3 pieces of bacon to last a week and it was - 5 in winter in the main living room as we could not afford to heat the house Now where I live there are so many rich blacks and so many rich Asians and rich white so colour has nothing to do with it
But the Wii U was a good console, the marketing for it was shit. That's why the switch was successful and why this fucking TRIGGERED NINTODDLER IS MakiNG AN ITTEVIAVALNT ARGUMENT XCDDDDD
While white privilage is a thing in some senses, as in you have less of a chance of getting gunned down by a cop for being black, there are so many other factors for many other parts of life that the privilage alone isn't going to get someone anywhere in life. For people to think that this privilage does more than lessen our chance of dying from prejudice is just foolish, as money is much more powerful in society.
I can agree with that mostly but I still think it's important to see how generational poverty still disproportionately affects black people due to the economic history of the united states and how they've treated minorities in general. Not to say only that group and impoverished people is definitely a better way of describing who's most affected, however when you have a group of people who have been systematically oppressed for the majority of their history (For simplicity sake lets say the end of Jim Crow laws) and are only then allowed to build wealth it's easy to see where white privilege can be important to talk about given certain circumstances.
They mean the society status and not genetic, genes after all don't affect that much neurological progression but they say that winning the lottery is the chance that you, consciously would be born in the top percentile.
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If you see a person from buzzfeed on the street you should probably push em into a moving vehicle it would be best
By the way don't look at me like I'm one of those mindless oofers that sees a hate video and all of a sudden he's just like "UHHH IM GOING TO SEND INFINITE HATE TO SAID CHANNEL THAT GOT HATED ON" instead let's just keep this to ourselves
I get this video is 3 years old and it may not be Emp's outlook or anyone else in this comment section for that matter. Hell, 3 years ago, I would've agreed with this video. But as it stands this video is a irresponsible analysis of privilege. Strawmanning Buzzfeed's condensed version of privilege as the version anyone left of center believes in wholeheartedly is simply incorrect. Privilege isn't cut and dry; i.e Michael Jordan isn't more oppressed than a middle class white person. Rather privilege is complex web of systems like class, race, and gender. It's that trans person will have less privilege to an otherwise equivalent cis person; same going for P.O.C, women, the poor, etc. It also isn't so black and white in terms of scale-- I mean they're called microaggressions for a reason. It sure as hell isn't Yugi-Oh where its a quantifiable point system, its just a framework to understand people on a socioeconomic level. Emp gives a good general description in the beginning, right before shitting on the Buzzfeed video. And I'm no authority on the subject, nor am I supportive of Buzzfeed. Frankly, I think Buzzfeed is too liberal for my taste and I prefer the more Breadtube side of things. I just am taking what I know and agree with and calling this video as I see it.
I think Emp has made great videos about YouTube culture and will continue to, but unfortunately this one just isn't one of them and I think is indirectly allowing for oppression to exist by undermining the reality of the progressives' view on privilege as a stupid Buzzfeed video.
No one is privileged. Everybody suffers. "Privilege" separates us. And segregates us. This is the kinda thing 60 years ago we worked to change. "Privilege" is racist backward and destructive.
This is coming from a leftist btw. Class divide is the real issue (but we still need to recognize racism and other forms of bigotry to unite the working class against capitali-)
You can work hard and become rich, class divide is a non-issue. People act like your class isn't about the decisions you made. 'You dug your grave, now get in it' kinda deal. People made the decision to quit high school, work at Mcdonalds their entire life, leave nothing to their children, and make those same children dig out of the mess they dragged them into. AKA, my abusive mother and 'stepfather'.
@Kalypso And take from the working class like all other rich people? You don't become part of the capitalist class by "working hard", you do it by exploitation of the working class. They want you to think you can become rich just by working hard. That's how they get you to produce hundreds of dollars of capital for them per hour while you get maybe 10 back.
@ars0on Have you heard of Affirmative Action? It's a law that makes companies favor black people to meet a quota. Black people have lower standards to meet than white or asian people. It's kind of racist, if you think about it. It's basically saying black people can't succeed without help, which isn't really true for any race in America.
@132 Gaming You know poc and black people are WAY more likely to not be hired be a job because of their race than they are to be hired only because of their race
@ars0on I already talked about affirmative action. If you google it you'll see what I talked about. Also, companies don't care who they hire, as long as they make a profit.
The German trend section is much worse. Like you come across a video you'd want to watch sometimes, a few you're not interested in but 90% of the German trending section is that one video. Except they're the majority.
White privlge doesn't mean your rich or you have a better start in life then others it just means when compared to black,Asian,Latino people you would most likely have better odds to getting a job a loan etc
@Nathan Beaubrunit all stems from the unfair advantage that minorities get called affirmative action. The only discrimination going on was helping other minorities by denying Asians
The biggest problem with the "check your privilege" argument is this. If you are calling somebody privileged, you are implying that they are entitled to things which a normal person is not. It is defined as 'a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.'
The key word in the definition being 'special'. If you're throwing around the word privilege you're basically saying that being harassed, abused, singled out, or discriminated against is the norm and should be treat as such.
Discrimination is inherently stupid, it is bred from ignorance. It should be viewed as disgusting behaviour and if you view and treat everybody as equal, that just means you have common sense.
This is not news to anybody but a lot of the people using this kind of language are doing it to try and convince themselves that they're good people, doing great things. If you want to spread a message of equality, stop pointing out everybody's skin colour when nobody else brought it up.
And ho this is what google said :) priv·i·lege ˈpriv(ə)lij/Submit noun 1. a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. "education is a right, not a privilege" synonyms: advantage, benefit; More verbformal 1. grant a privilege or privileges to. "English inheritance law privileged the eldest son"
this actually fucking hurts to rewatch 5 years down the line because the responses are just assuming institutional racism isn't a thing anymore and that people aren't bigoted anymore it's still happening in 2021 and it's still pretty fucking bad if you ask me
i know right its not like pocs get selected for jobs to fit an agender some activists have even if they dont have the necessary skills required for said job
now hold on emplemon. While I understand your ideals and can agree to an extent, the idea of privilege normally seen is based more on how others view you and the benefits it possibly gives you. Take for instance you apply to a company with a boss who is racist (to keep it plain and simple) and you are a person of a non-Caucasian ethnicity. By default, due to that person's mindset, you are less likely to get a job at that company compared to someone of equal educational and economic standing as yourself who is Caucasian.
The whole idea of privilege isn't about an inherent advantage that you possess, it's a privilege of how society will react to you on factors outside of your control such as your skin color, sexual orientation, and even economic stability (see any kind of story where the poor kid is looked down on by the rich kids because they weren't born into a wealthy family even though they possibly earned the spot at the school with the rich kids)
Again, I agree with your interpretation of how privilege shouldn't be viewed, and the video made by buzzfeed is incredibly stupid, but in real life the factors outside of our control do unfortunately make a difference and they only way that will stop is when people no longer view people as "the other", which is very hard to do unfortunately due to human's innate tribal mindset.
my dad graduated collegde majoring in Chemistry. he worked for companies like domino sugar. then started working for Enterprise, bank of America and other places. I mean my family isn't the most rich and we are just surviving. BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER. we have no privalage by buzzfeeds standards, because my dad is black and my mom even though white is A FEMALE And me growing up a person of color and female Plus I'm Bisexual and I'm not heterosexual I will have no privalage when I'm older and I wont be able to go to college and be successful and people MUST pity me. because of my race, gender, and sexuality.
"Does race or gender affect their so called privilege?"Yes.More so race than gender thoughWomen aren't being killed by police as much as black people are being killed by policePrivilege is a real thing.I personally hate people saying "check your privilege", instead I say: just cause you can't see a group of people facing adversity and prejudice doesn't mean they are not.
@DisGuy OvahEere and a black kid that wants to be just like hitler... and a white kid who wants to be just like mj.
You basically proved the point; Race and gender don't matter a lot in the grand scheme of things, any individual can be privileged regardless of those things, which is why we shouldn't generalize everyone by race and tell them how privileged they are just because of it.
You're missing the point of the "privilege" argument. We're not supposed to feel sorry for people who are less privileged, and we're not supposed to feel shame for our own privilege.
We're just supposed to be aware of our privilege when talking about issues that minorities face. When somebody makes a statement based on their life experience, you should take your differences in privilege into account before judging what they have to say.
When somebody says "check your privilege", they're telling you that you are making assumptions based on your own experiences rather than the other person's. That's it. It's nothing to get triggered over. There are certain hardships that you have never faced and could not really understand, so when somebody who has faced those hardships speaks about them, you should put more weight in their experiences than your own.
And yes, obviously there are privileged black people and under-privileged white people. That doesn't mean white privilege suddenly doesn't exist.
Except it becomes moot when you have politicians, teachers, professors, and people on their social media platform saying that a homeless white man has more privilege than Barack Obama. Lots of white people are already aware that others are less fortunate. What's the point of bashing people over the head and throwing "white" in the mix?
So yeah, its trying to trigger a feeling of guilt. Its not about being poor anymore, your skin colour is gonna be the deciding factor.
I don't know how you made Buzzfeed look completely reasonable, but EmpLemon you did it! This is one of the single cringiest videos I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm glad you've moved on from this "SJW BAD" content because it doesn't suit you even remotely.
This is a poor description of what White Privilege really is. It's not about being given a special gift because you're white, It's about all of the challenges that non-white people are forced to deal with that white people never have to think about, (for example, non-white people are often heavily judged for their skin color when applying for jobs or apartments, while white people never even have to think about these things). White privilege isn't about receiving added benefits from your skin color, it's about the things that white people don't have to think about and deal with that other people do.
Then why are we seeing groups such as Indian and Filipino Americans being the most successful. They didn't pull that money and success out of their asses. And according to the study, they had a more difficult situation with names yet here they are.
The practices such as Loan denial solely based on race has been over for over half a century. If you're being denied for a loan more often, it's probably something other than your race. Yes it did happen and we shouldn't forget about it, but we have to realize that it is not the issue today.
It’s a shame because I like some of this guy’s content but he really just started ranting without trying to understand any of what privilege is. Like, it IS a privilege to me that I’m less likely to be shot by police based on my skin color, or be assaulted because I’m male, or refused treatment because I’m not gay or trans.
@Seth Then go watch the rest of this website. By now the near entirety of the internet is catered toward you lefties yet you complain about the very few who aren't.
@hppvitor there’s a lot of left wing content. But you’re blind if you can’t realize there are tons of people just like you who make reactionary content and make comments just like yours. It’s not as one sided as you think
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Dim the Cat2021-04-29 23:56:26 (edited 2021-04-29 23:57:09 )
@Linus the buzzfeed video is pretty stupid, it’s buzzfeed. But he made some pretty stupid arguments. Yeah, don’t assume someone has a better or worse life because of their race. But minorities, particularly black people, face tons of problems purely based on their race. That’s just a fact, whether it’d be in the courts, police, generational wealth, being way more likely to be poor, ect. We should focus of why these minorities have it worse socio-economically and try to fix that through policies and stop trying to tell them just to fix it and stop focusing on it. People said that during every civil rights movement and they’re saying it now
@zabB police police black ppl more then white ppl and resisting arrest doesn't mean you should get shot?????? also if someone hates a certain minority that you are a part of you target automatically thats how discrimination works. they arent being rightfully prosecuted mostly and even if they were it doesn't matter the person has already been hate crimed?
2:00 - Why do you spend so much time on this? That's not the argument. Of course you couldn't have been born another race, that's the point. It's nothing to do with odds in that sense, it's the fact that you didn't choose your race, so it isn't really fair for society to treat you better as a result of it. Privilege is having 1/4th the odds of someone exactly like you but with darker skin of going to jail for smoking pot. It's not like you did anything wrong or need to be punished, it's like if you buy a TV, and the color is off, you adjust it. If there's too much red, you're not punishing the red light by adjusting the knob so it's balanced.
3:15 - "You're saying I should feel sorry for Michael Jordan because he's black?" Nobody is saying that. That's another strawman. Do you seriously think anyone would argue that?
4:00 - Again, another strawman. Non-white people don't need to be pitied, they need a level playing field.
4:30 - Tipping. If you've ever had black friends who've worked as waiters, you should know this. Also, not saying I have a large enough sample size to write a fuckin paper or anything, but I've known enough people who have been pulled over for speeding to know there is a huuge difference in the experience largely depending on your skin color. Obviously it also depends on the cop.
This was a little disappointing. It almost sounded like you were trying not to understand.
As for the change in your channel's direction, I loved your poops, but it's probably a good idea.
Tipping has nothing to do with the question that was presented in that questioniare. Salary was not brought up as an argument. Let alone being the deciding factor for your skin. lol keep making up shit. Love how you brought up the "I have a black friend thus I understand" meme.
That's like saying "I don't get it, therefore there is nothing to get" If you don't understand how magnets work, that doesn't mean magnetism doesn't exist.
"Salary was not brought up as an argument. Let alone being the deciding factor for your skin" He said he doesn't get why those jobs are relevant to the questionnaire.
""I have a black friend thus I understand" meme." Yeah, sure, if you can't beat someone's actual argument, just pretend it's something else
+AndroidDoctorr I like how most social justice points are supposed to be all about equallity when that's the last thing checking your previllage does. Someones skin color or sex doesn't matter to people who actually accept everyone as actual EQUALS. No one person has the right to not ask someone a question based on their skin color or sex, but no they've had it worse so they need more respect than someone else. I should know this better than anyone here because my zodiac sign is Libra. Excuse me while I check how privlaged I am. Sense I come from a middle class family and I am a straight white male probably doesn't let me have an opinion on the matter because I have a low privelage score. My point is treating someone differently based on their skin color or sex just adds to the problem if we are trying to be equals. Think of it as if you were dealing with someone how has autism. You don't want to offend them by treating them differently from anyone else. I would know because my friends bro has autism. I treat him as if he was my brother. Nothing else, to me he is just my little brother.
@ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ "Someones skin color or sex doesn't matter to people who actually accept everyone as actual EQUALS" You're almost correct. it SHOULDN'T matter, but unfortunately it does. Unconscious bias is unconscious, unless you become aware of it. Duh.
"Sense I come from a middle class family and I am a straight white male probably doesn't let me have an opinion on the matter because I have a low privelage score." Your opinion on racism is like my opinion on repairing electrical transformers. I have no idea how they work, because I've never had to deal with them. If you've never had to deal with racism, you're allowed to give your opinion, but I don't have to take it seriously. What you can do, however, is listen to people who DO experience it.
"My point is treating someone differently based on their skin color or sex just adds to the problem" That's like saying "If some crops don't get enough water, treating them differently by giving them more water doesn't make things equal" Or "If the TV color is way too red, you don't solve the problem by adjusting the color knob" Yes you do!!!
@gibsterhipster 88 And if everyone could be treated equally, that would be really really nice. But that doesn't happen. People are treated differently based on how they look, that's just a fact of human nature.
+AndroidDoctorr I have dealed with racism. People have called me trash and made fun of my name calling me saltine craker because I am white. Just because I may have not been through it doesn't mean I have to understand it. It's alot like relegion people still believe in God regaurdless of it actually bring seen.
Let me put it this way - Let's say applications of "PC-ness" like affirmative action are racist. I actually agree that in a sense they are. But it's not a two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right situation, a) because that's just a saying, not a law of thermodynamics, so it isn't necessarily true, I mean surgery is technically stabbing someone with a knife, but anyways b) it's more like this: You wouldn't turn your steering wheel if you're on a straight road... unless the wheel is already turned, and you're veering off the road. Then turning the wheel is ok, because it's correcting the rotation that was already there. Theoretically, you're right, we should be holding the wheel straight, but that doesn't work. The car drifts slightly to one side if we hold the wheel straight. Does that analogy make sense?
+AndroidDoctorr 'privilege' is not a true progressive idea. If your aim is to further equality in society why would you support an idea that gives different merit or value to people's opinions because of their origins? The current state of the world is far from equality but believing in something like this does nothing to address the problem, only causes more conflict.
+AndroidDoctorr Also, people have struggles no matter who they are. Every economic class has their own unique problems, and varying complexity. No one should be shamed for their position in society or the way they were born, just like nobody should be pitied or given a break because of their given situation.
+AndroidDoctorr If I , a young person , wants to not be racist then why is race shoved down my throat so often? Won't that led me to dislike others because they are given an advantage by law over me because some people don't like them?
@I Need Big Drink I've addressed all of them. Your response doesn't counter my argument. It counters someone else's argument, maybe. No idea whose, though. E.g.:
"why would you support an idea that gives different merit or value to people's opinions because of their origins" I wouldn't. How is that relevant?
"The current state of the world is far from equality" Exactly. "...believing in something like this " ...like what? You basically just agreed with me - the world is far from equal. Exactly.
"Also, people have struggles no matter who they are" Well of course. Some of those struggles, however, are man-made, and can theoretically be solved or at least countered.
"No one should be shamed for their position in society or the way they were born, just like nobody should be pitied or given a break because of their given situation" Exactly my point!! But that's what happens though. That's what white privilege is - people being given a break because of their situation! It doesn't happen all the time, it's not nearly as bad as it was 50 years ago, but it still happens
+A Well the thing lemon was upset about was people treating each other differently based on race from the other side of the spectrum. Racial bias is one end, like you mention, and then idea of privilege - where 'more fortunate' ppl who 'win the genetic lottery' are so privileged and therefore cannot understand or are not qualified to talk about other people's issues-that's the bullshit part. These people that wish to raise awareness only further divide each other by class and distinction and privilege. like it was said above-just live life, suck it up and treat everyone based on character. Privilege is now thrown around to shame others, often white males, or as an excuse for not applying one's self
Try again racebaiter. Quit pushing a false narrative. He's questioning the backwards logic. These "strawmen" are examples that are completely accurate to the absurd claims and agenda of Buzzfeed, you clearly are unaware of all the nonsense they push. I have black friends that worked as waiters, they made the same as everyone else... and on the other hand I have a black friend who has never left a tip at a restaurant in 30 years. How is the playing field not equal? Its more equal than ever and for every "unequal" opportunity there is one that's more than "equal" such as EOP and their quotas for hiring and there's even college scholarships for simply being black and on and on and on. What do cops have to do with race? In urban areas where there is a large black population that is more susceptible to racial profiling, brutality, etc. there is also far more cops who are also minorities. The problem with racism today is people like you pushing false narratives and being pitiful just like Emp talked about, you're as bad as Buzzfeed. Grow up and be thankful you live in a country where you aren't imprisoned for your sexuality or enslaved, now that's unfair. You and all the other whiny racebaiters are a disgrace to every impoverished, enslaved and abused person who is actually a victim in some war and poverty stricken country, grow up, be thankful for what you have, and if you don't like it change it
What's that song that played during the FUCKING MAO segment? I've heard it in a filthy frank video but i can't seem to find it anywhere, help pls. (6:48)
Your newer videos are so good! These older ones I can't really blame you for though lol. I am so glad I don't have any videos out there of my bitchy, smug, ill-formed worldview from my early 20s
@Hi Darling Because privilege exists and it's nothing to be ashamed of, but it definitely is something you should be aware of if you don't want to hurt anyone unintentionally by playing into systemic inequalities. A huge component of privilege is ignorance towards the fact that you even have privilege to begin with. Again, ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, but it is something you should confront if you're aware of it, if you don't want to do anything unintentionally
@Lyra Black ...of course you'd like affirmative action. It's literally a form of racial discrimination, but I guess that doesn't matter when the race is "marginalized" (ya know, a marginalized race that's in every advertisement, corporations treat better than others, and pioneered the most popular musical genre around right now).
@Hi Darling Black and otherwise marginalized people have literally pioneered nearly every form of popular media to date, only to be excluded from the very art forms they created once those forms became "mainstream". Movies as an art medium weren't taken seriously until white (using the historical definition of whiteness here, not just the current definition) men brought it into the public view.
It's entirely different for a person with more privilege to punch down at a more marginalized person than it is for a marginalized person to throw off their historical oppressors. As I said in a previous reply to you, ignorance is a key facet to privilege, so I understand that you are probably unaware of the struggles of marginalized peoples throughout history, including Black struggles in the United States. As a person who passes as a straight cis white able bodied woman myself, I am constantly finding out how much I don't know about the struggles more marginalized people face, and how every single person's intersectionalities overlap to produce vastly different perspectives (some people take the side of their oppressors, some people actively beat them back, some don't have the energy to expend at all for such things).
It's incredibly interesting and enlightening to view this kind of thing through a dialectical materialistic approach and see exactly what material conditions produce which outcomes. Ignorance really is nothing to be ashamed of; there's so much to learn and unlearn, and it's a lifelong process
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@Lyra Black Yeah, you're talking about events that happened literally 100 years ago with the movies example. Of course back then when racism was actually still the norm, people didn't want to support an black-majority medium.
However, things are kinda different now and I doubt we'll get another artform created by black people that nobody watches until white people take over. Hell, with anime as an example, it wasn't really taken seriously until black people really showed their love for it. When it was japanese people, it stayed in japan. When white people and other races besides black started messing with it, it stayed a nerdy little niche for a decade.
Actually, rap music is typically said to have been popularized by white people despite being black-created... however how true is that really? Vanilla Ice had the first #1 rap hit I believe, but everyone saw him as a fake and a regrettable mistake and white rappers were seen with this horrible stigma until Eminem and Mack Miller came along. It wasn't until Snoop Dogg and Gangsta's Paradise that rap really exploded and was seen as legitimate.
Also, the funny thing about movies is I looked up who was credited with inventing it and according to Google (a very liberal company), it was a french-man named Louis Le Prince.
@Hi Darling When I think of people who like anime, I don't think of people of color (despite the fact that they are usually the most passionate about it), I think of white people who are not only not the target audience, but also misinterpret and over sexualize the characters as the tradition of doing so goes, with "foreign others"; men emasculated, and women fetishized.
Saying that Google is a "liberal" company is just saying that it appeals to the masses rather than being overtly racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, etc (which it very much is, covertly, hidden behind algorithms and without tracking the data, therefore without any proof available. This isn't to say that more overtly fascist content isn't likewise concealed by the algorithm, but as history has shown time and time again, the moderate will always bend to the fascist (to their own and everyone's detriment) rather than to concede to the demands of the working class and other more marginalized groups, which will benefit the masses, yet at the cost of the precious hierarchy the moderate enjoys being near the top of).
I wasn't talking about who invented movies in the sense of who patented it (as the answer will always be, "whoever had the money and connections to do so first"; source: Benjamin Franklin, notably racist against the Irish and Germans alike, stealing the credit for numerous inventions by taking it to the bank first), but rather who showed that movies as a medium were a viable art form.
As far as "these events happened 100 years ago", that's true, but it's also literally happening right now, and has been this entire time. The easiest example is the gentrification of the "blaccent", or African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Ebonics.
Nothing* Black people (or indeed any person of color) originates is beneficial to them and is instead detrimental in the fact that a Black person with acrylics or box braids or who doesn't speak "proper" English will literally risk their job and therefore their livelihood just to express themselves in a way that they themselves created, while white celebrities are praised for tanning their skin, getting more "racially ambiguous" features through plastic surgery, speaking in AAVE, wearing fashion that Black people originated (including acrylic nails), wearing box braids and indigenous headdresses, etc, etc. Elvis Presley, Ariana Grande, the Jenners, Billie Eilish, the list goes on and on of white people appropriating Black art forms for their own profit.
*"Never say never", my point is that this is the rule, and anything else is a notable exception to this rule and should be further looked into; for example, predatory record companies taking credit for Black artists' work while forcing them to create art through their contracts with the label (Doja Cat would be a recent example; which isn't to say this only affects Black creators, Taylor Swift also recently bought the rights to her own music; I could go on about how capitalism is terrible for art, but I digress).
If the length of this comment hasn't made it clear already, this has an incredible amount of nuance to it, and I highly encourage you to do your own research and educate yourself about this by listening to Black and otherwise marginalized voices
Edit: About what you said about rap… I'm just gonna link a video because white people such as Mack Miller and Eminem consistently win awards for their mediocre (in comparison) rap over other more qualified artists, simply because of the fact that their skin has a lower melanin content: https://youtu.be/V7prxvu_GiQ (and to save you from wasting time and get to the point, specifically 8:16)
I hate what buzzfeed has done with commodification and oversimplification of some pretty complex and nuanced topics like privilege theory. This was something I studied in college, and done right, it IS a great framework for understanding how circumstances throughout america differ and effect each of us at many levels.
but presented out of full context, it DOES sound stupid. Pop media takes on it are always too shallow and leave people with logical holes that are frustrating to them. The worst part is those logical holes ARE filled in my opinion by the full and in-depth theory. But bastardized buzzfeed takes on it just leave out too much.
For example, any privilege is meant to be analyzed as a small independent facet of a persons entire life. Race in analyzed on its own axis, gender on its own, class and income on ifs own as well.
If you analyze being white, we’re only saying the person is privileged in terms of race alone and protected from certain cruelties that black people are targeted for. That’s it though. It doesn’t mean you have gender privilege, or money privilege. It certainly doesn’t mean you have wealth or any easy life. It just means, on top of anything else good or bad, you aren’t dealing with the hatred of black people that still manifests in our society today.
When you start to look at how many elements of a persons life are actually pretty privileged, and how many are stacked against them, you get a better more sympathetic picture of what they’re dealing with, for what you yourself are dealing with, and some perspective on stuff that you’re lucky to have, each in their own right. It comes from a scholarly essay which is pretty intellectually and historically sound. It’s a huge problem how dumbed down this concept has been presented to mass audiences, because skeptics think it’s all bullshit, and they’re kinda right, because the simple version does not hold water. But really, they’re often not shown the full theory, which holds water quite well in my opinion. And has less drastic conclusions than “how privileged are you” and more nuanced reflections that help you understand others a little better and how little things stacked against someone can build up to a anyone’s breaking point. https://vetvoicenational.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/exploringinvisibleknapsack.pdf
It is like winning the birth lottery, because not everyone is fortunate enough to have the chance to be born into a wealthy family or a middle class family. Does genetic law make Donald Trump's kids any less fortunate to have been born into a billionaire's family and having the resources to do practically anything they want whereas children in working class families, well, just have less priviledges? You could've skipped the video.
Privilege is absolutely a real sociological concept. Problem is, people exaggerated and misrepresented it to such a point that they attacked individuals rather than the systemic problems which the term was meant to address.
Around 2:30 you jokingly ask if you should check your "human" privilege. You're not a bee. You're not going through their problems. Go ahead and make fun of me, but tell me I'm wrong.
While his points aren't exactly wrong, he does act like "just make your situation better" is just as easy or hard for everyone. That's what privilege is. Some people don't get hired or accepted to college because they have a black-sounding name. Just because it shouldn't happen, and you don't do it, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I'm hoping that someone so usually well informed as EmpLemon has learned better since this video.
He never said it was easy or the same for everyone. His point was that instead of wallowing in shame you actually hold yourself accountable and make something meaningful in your life regardless of the circumstances of your birth. Not actively seeking to have people accept you in every facet of life. The less you expect from others, the less likely you are to be disappointed.
"Quoting someone who said something that flows nicely off the tongue proves you are right on Youtube" ~George Washington~
Seriously though, Idk who is telling you to dislike yourself because you have privilege, but the reality is that whether or not your realize it, you in fact did.
Should you hate yourself because of it? No, but the reason people are telling you this (If they even actually are and you didn't just read it from someone stupid on the left) is because you are making claims that you got to where you were without any sort systematic oppression built into the culture you grew up in; then you go around saying things like "I got where I am solely because of my hardwork and me and my dad never had any help, we just did it all by ourselves!"
Really dude, grow up, not a single person on earth can claim they haven't had some help from outside resource; so either you don't understand the actual argument that is being made, or you are distorting your opponents arguments in an attempt to discredit them. I seriously hope it's the former, because based on the few things you described in this video, I can point out how your father was able to find a job in a culture that did not despise his existence, where as had he been gay, black, trans, or any other marginalized group he would have had a much more difficult time and might not have had the capacity to ensure you had a better existence.
Are there some people who manage to overcome even more diversity? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean that the deck wasn't more stacked against them from the start.
I’m a white male who’s parents were the definition of “poor white trash” but those are the only 2 boxes I check. I’m The first person in my family To graduate college..but that isn’t because I worked 2-3 jobs while Going.
Is the OP implying that the SJW phase, by proxy, is also almost over? Because most "anti-SJWs" are simply people who've had a gut-full of being lectured and preached to.
I'm legit autistic. I'm 38. in the 90s autistic kids were very mistreated.
Are you saying the reason I am poor and under-educated and not successful is because I didn't work as hard as the person who wasn't born with a neurological disorder and it has nothing to do with my birth defect?
Are you saying the THOUSANDS of kids stuck in the foster system and either run away or age out without an education any money family or self worth just need to work harder?
Are you saying babies addicted to crack just need to work hard and they can be billionaires?
You mean, I don't need a "small loan" of $1,000,000 from my father to start a business like Trump had? Are you honestly saying Trump born into a billion dollar empire didn't help him at all? Just took at Trump JR and tell me that make just worked hard for what he has and his success had NOTHING to do with being Donald Trump JR!
The idea that rich people are rich because they work harder has been 100% disproved over and over again! How hard you work has nothing to do with how much money you have or your place in economical society and you fucking know it!
You know DAMNIT WELL even YOU didn't have the same options and privileges and opportunities Trump had or even GW Bush had! You are implying that everyone starts at the same level physically mentally socially and financially and only poor choices make the difference and you are fucking RETARDED for this idea!
I'm "high functioning" but I am extremely limited, was it just my poor choices that landed me where I am now?
Some people ARE born into a better life and with going for them than others, if you can't admit this fact you lose every argument 100%
IF you think all people start at the same level in life you are fucking blind and stupid!
I sure bet your daddy isn't rich and isn't a millionaire and THAT is why you do youtube!
My trash man works harder than ANY CEO of a tobacco company but the trash collector will NEVER be a millionaire doing that job, but we NEED someone doing that job. So someone has to go without success so others can be lazy and have someone ELSE take out their trash!
You will NEVER be a millionaire from hard work, doesn't happen. Even Steve Jobs bought other people's ideas and branded them as his own to be successful!
You're right about working hard not being the key, it's working smart..... or specifically, working smarter and possibly backstabbing others to get ahead.
At some point though, you're only hurting yourself by not taking responsibility for your own life. Being autistic can be a challenge, but it's not impossible to overcome or overcome psychological trauma from abuse and mistreatment. Gordon Ramsay's dad legit beat the shit out of him and he still got successful. I think that one song by a former Linkin Park Member nailed it: "10% Luck, 20% Skill, 15% concentrated power of will"
Kinda funny that as a biracial person (white dad, black mother) I never saw privilege or was never discriminated against (saw a lil racism tho). Both grew up poor. Now I’ve grown up on a weird financial rollercoaster, but never was my dad ever privileged because of his race or gender, and neither was my mom.
Its not so polerized. All white males dont have it easy, but they can exercise wd40 in some cases... While others rust out... But we all have that advantage in our own ways. The idea of who controls what who built becomes the issue when you take part of things you didnt build. Laying bricks dont equate to owning a building. the workers demand shelter they didn't check the contract. What on earth am i saying? Its a white males world. Everyone who is in search for power is doing their best white male impression. They didn't reap the benefits. So now they want to tax those who benefited... But the problem is. Normies are normies even if its white guy mode. And we all know how out of it normies are. Its too early to make logical statements... Lol hope reading this is as fun as it was not paying attention to what i was saying
Hmm yes today I will discard the rational claim that people being born into wealthier and more prosperous households tend to succeed in life over others who struggle to live paycheck to paycheck because a bad news site did a stupid video misunderstanding the actual arguement.
I wonder if emp still holds these opinions 5 years later bc he for sure sounds like a very pretentious white suburban teenager who tries to use “logic” to rant about “privilege”, but looking at these comments I’m probably not gonna be liked with this opinion
Ngl, if his logic is debatable, your "logic" is hardly even perceivable. You're basically saying he should stfu cause he's a white suburban teenager (which he's asian btw).
This type of "anti-SJW" video is way over done. Even back in 2016, it was oversaturated and I don't think anyone could add anything new to the discussion. I would not make another video like this again. It's also really a non-issue anymore. At least you made your video pretty damn hilarious
I watched this because I liked your video about monday night raw, and didn't like it as much, and I am aware it's 5 years old so you might not think identically now, but it made me think/write so here is the tl;dr.
I think the reason people talk about 'luckiness' with regard to the social group someone is born into but don't do so with regard to cows, bumblebees, or trees, is that 1) human society is a thing that doesn't extend into cows, bees, trees and 2) nations/societies of humans frequently attempt to represent themselves as meritocratic (with all members having a fair chance at success). It's capitalism's own "anything can happen in the royal rumble" but in parallel, there's more than a hint of pre-determination about winners.
Fair statistical arguments can be made to say that this meritocracy doesn't bear out in reality - salaries, rates of inprisonment, college admission, etc vary in a measurable way between groups, so it's relevant to talk about what characteristics (out of the control of the individual) potentially modify one's chance of success, why these patterns exist, and what can be done to make society more meritocratic if that is indeed a good goal.
I don't expect buzzfeed to express this in the best way with personal anecdotal stuff in a 6 minute video or in a clickbait quiz but that doesn't invalidate the whole concept.
There are going to be occasions where high level patterns don't apply for everyone in a group at all times. You mention Michael Jordan & Morgan Freeman are wealthy and perhaps now experience less opression than some other people - yes, but is their experience now typical of the group they are from? is this their experience throughout their lives? and do relatively uncommon exceptions to a general pattern completely undermine that pattern?
You reference having a good childhood because your parents worked hard, and you nail the missing piece in a lot of conversations about privelige and intersectionality - wealth. I'd say this was an important factor in determining your range of options as a person, the likely floor and ceiling on your success. So it's relevant to talk about when talking about privelige - it's probably not talked about as often as race, gender & sexuality because it's the toughest bit to talk about while preserving that ideal of meritocracy - you can't really create a wholly level playing field with wealth redistribution (to remove inhereted wealth/parental investment as a factor in someone's future success) without reducing the degree to which parents feel society is meritocratic (i.e. why should I be taxed more if i work hard, and why should i work hard if my kids get the same as everyone else?). Instead it's a balancing act politicians attempt while usually pleasing neither side particularly.
Identity politics between those other methods of categorising people (the ones the united colours of buzzfeed denote in the vid) does not have this problem so it's an easier direction for discussion to take (certainly a less thorny one for politicians). Even if we ignore wealth, it's still a mess to talk about how all the different characteristics define that floor and ceiling for one individual person (the whole intersectionality thing), there's just more going on than a 100 question quiz is going to summarise, but this is where statistics are more useful than anecdotes, where understanding the big picture matters way more than understanding our individual place in it does. If there are clear differences in outcomes for people when you generalise (rather than cherry picking examples) then there's probably still a problem worth thinking/talking about.
Could there be a bit of survival bias in your interpretation of success being completely individual & meritocratic for your parents - imagine some external circumstance had gone against your parents slightly worse in their lives - an injury, some beaurocratic problem when your mother moved, a market/industry they worked in crashing at the wrong time - you don't get the same childhood; do you still grow up to believe that the route to success is entirely down to the individual? Do you then decide that your parents failed you, or that 'luck' failed them? Reasonable to believe that others very like you, dealt a slightly different hand, take a very different opinion on this, again maybe the bigger picture means more than the individual example.
Framing the whole thing as being about things as abstract as 'pity' - seeking or wallowing in it - and 'shame' is a bit disengenous given that the impact of systemic racism/sexism can be much more tangible than those feelings. Nobody who wants to make a meaningful difference to systemic biases, to make society more meritocratic and make privilege matter less would ask you to feel ashamed, or for pity, when it's much more consequential that people recognise where imbalances exist that prevent society from being meritocratic, and do their part to change them when they can.
And I almost agree that a lot of this stuff is completely outside your control because none of us are that individually influential, but there are instances where we can probably do slightly better when dealing with people, there are cases where individually we might have disproportionate influence (hiring managers etc) and can do more, and for what slim progress it seems to offer most of the time, there's always voting/trying to sway politics at a local or party level. I wouldn't feel ashamed because I can't make the world substantially better, I wouldn't dwell on pitying the people it's not completely fair to currently, but I would try and do my bit where I can.
I'd say most of your points are fair. Yes, some things are out of your control in life, beyond identity and wealth as well (I.E having loving parents), and yes it is not absurd to say something like "If you are black, you most likely will have it harder than most whites in specific situations," but it is entirely another thing to say "Because you are a minority, you are guaranteed to have it harder than almost all/all nonminorities in most/all situations and context". Yes, there are things you can't help, but you also have to work hard, try to stay optimistic, and be your own best friend. That's the best way to try to have a happy and productive life, even if you fail and can't get there, you can still at least live decently most of the time, but if you don't try, then you will never get anywhere and can't blame anyone but yourself.
man, i like your newer content, but I disagree with this video. like I feel is the point of privilege is that having an advantage over somebody else because of things like gender, sexual orientation, race, class, and ability.. being privileged is not having to deal with having to deal with questioning if a officer is questioning you because of your race, be sexually harassed, be discriminated against, around a medical condition you have to center change your life about, or having to work in a gas station they're whole life to get by. its not someone's fault to be born with the advantages of not having to deal with those things, and you shouldn't feel guilty for it. However, people should acknowledge how they have the advantage of not having to deal with those things. Basically i am just trying to say that being privileged is having a benefit over someone else by as i have said, not having to deal with and be a victim of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, classism, ableism. Yes, they can still achieve things, however it can be harder because of factors outside of they're control. Privilege is not dealing with those factors that are out of someone's control. i am still kinda formulating my thoughts about what i've been talking about , but hopefully whatever stuff I write at least kind of makes sense.
Ya'll are making this political, he's literally just criticizing generalization of races and the assumption that someone is automatically privileged because of their race
@Linus that comment doesn't make sense. Were criticizing his take and saying that its unfounded. There's nothing political about call out a bad take: That itself is based on political leanings from the right, that being said its so separated from everyone else comments that it has no bearing here.
@PR Jackal So saying "you shouldn't assume my privilege and struggles in life based on my skin color" is a bad race take?? That shouldn't even be controversial, much less "red pill propaganda". You sound exactly like the people you're lumping this guy with
I love Emplemon but this isn’t it. Nobody is telling you to feel bad for Michael Jordan. But recognize the problem when racist housing policies that lasted until the late 60s caused the net worth of white families to be 10x more than black families. Not every black person doesn’t have privilege, not every white person does have privilege. But this country especially has a history of trying to make it that way so respect that
Check this out: An ex girlfriend of mine would always say I'm crazy privileged because I'm a guy and white. *However*, she's been working jobs paying much higher salaries than me, and ALMOST ALL of my bosses at work have been women. Are women still discriminated against? Probably. Does that mean being a white male is some magical gift that guarantees wealth and success? FUCK no! And I see enumerable women Online suggesting that's not possible. ...as a side note, I've been single for like 6 months now, and it's GREAT! I may never have another relationship again! I truly used to be in long-term relationships out of insecurity; feeling like I was unattractive solely due to not having a reliable sex partner. Now I'm putting my own needs ahead of relationships with the opposite sex, and it is AWESOME. Highly recommend it. And bonus; I don't need to worry about getting into a huge argument because I refuse to go sleep on the couch when the girl decides she's gonna stay pissed at me all night.
Some of the takes on this video are awful, I never liked Buzzfeed, but the counter points just entirely miss the mark. For example he says that a rich person like Michael Jordan is priviliged because he's rich, and his race is unrelated, but forgets about systematic opression and racism in general. Yeah, of course some black people will be successful like him, but the amount of opportunities they get in America relative to white people, in general, is much lower. You could make the same argument for any other topic, it's called cherry picking. He also keeps pointing out that gender has nothing to do with privilege, even though women get much lower wages than men, working the exact same job with the exact same status. I'm not saying white males should burden themselves with the responsibility of repaying every person in the world that has ever been opressed, that's bullshit buzzfeed shoves down your mouth. My point is, we should at the very least aknowledge that variables like race and gender can influence your life in meaningful ways, good and bad, even thougn those things are completely out of your control.
Fair enough, but remember this was made back when Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder started to get big, and Buzzfeed, Vox, and other news articles started to attract attention with their awful, pathetic takes, so Ben and Steven seemed like rational, intelligent people in comparison, and although most now have realized all they did was take the worst arguments from the most smoothed brained people they debated with so all they had to do was have basic competence and be calm to win.
Also, this is a bit nit-picky, but your wage comment was very generalized and vague. Are women paid less on average? Yes. But is that true in all areas at all levels for each female worker? No. Some of the wage gap can be connected to sexism and frat-boy culture, but it also has many more variables, like men and women on average choose different types of jobs, women on average work fewer hours in some fields, etc. Like most problems, it's a complicated issue that involves "privilege" but "privilege" is only one factor, and Buzzfeed saying it can only be the "Patriarchy" is oversimplifying the issue and ultimately just counterproductive and divisive.
EMPLEMON hear me out: all that privelige implies is that your consciousness is fortunate for having a white ethnicity or born in the middle class because you can't choose whether you are born from a white or black, or poor or rich family. Not everybody has the same opportunities because workplaces, realtors, etc. inherently choose certain types of people. This is something you have no control over. It's not an excuse or a "race card" or whatever, it just means a societal system favors certain traits.
+Nexon Bomber I bet you like to use that word because Emp does it too, but all I'm saying is that I find it a shame that he is heading in this direction, no longer expanding his skills as a YTP maker, but instead become another fish in the rant-sea.
+ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ Does not negate the fact that this new video style does not interest me in the slightest. This ranting (complaining) trend on YouTube is dreadful. And before you point it out, don't worry, I will be off this channel after my comment loses its popularity.
You complain about someone giving their opinion, in a creative manner too, while you make shitty TF2 jump stunt videos, surely this man knows about quality.
+Yami6692 My video history has nothing to do with what I like to watch and what not. There's enough people on YouTube making videos about giving their opinions and ranting over literally every tiny thing, putting people in categories in the process. It's despicable at best.
I thought he did a pretty good job at this. He was genuinely interested in making a response to Buzzfeed's ludicrous claims, and it showed. I found his commentary to be informative, well written, and very funny. Just just opinion, though...
The problem with videos like this, is that the only people watching them already agree with them. People who disagree can always surround themselves with information already matching their beliefs. Confirmation bias, in some sense.
Personally I like the new content you're putting out, also, I love how you infused YTP memes to keep the rant from being dull. It keeps the video interesting and entertaining while still keeping the message of the video: that buzzfeed is absolute cancer. TBH I give this new theme a 10/10
Hey, Emp, long-time fan here. As much as I love YTPs, I fully support the direction your channel is going and hope that your other fans feel the same. It's not even like your content is shifting too drastically. You're basically pooping your own rant, which I found hysterical (it kind of reminds me of a less fiery version of Naked Ape's content). Keep doing what makes you happy, and I hope you continue mocking the regressives.
This is easily one of your funniest videos. I subscribed to you shortly after you released the Uncredibles, and I never once considered unsubscribing. Honestly, your new fast paced uploads have made me enjoy this channel even more, and I really hope you keep doing videos like this, cause this was incredible.
Thank yo u so so much for making this video. I am having to fight in court with my dad against a crazy lady who is using all of the, for lack of better words, "Tumbler Feminists" who are just engulfed with anger and irrational hatred towards all men. I'm 1/4 black and my dads half black! It doesn't matter what your race is, these people hate you no matter what! I am loosing my sister to these fucked up people, have had my life threatened, and police officers break into my house with semi-auto firearms and steal most of my things. Keep speaking up!
this is a great video emp lem, I was born to a broken drug torn family that moved up a little bit and fell to divorce and now it is at good standing and I am an extremely well regarded child, I'm smart and disciplined and I'm apart of my areas racial majority, Hispanic, this is a good video because it points out that brown doesn't automatically mean down
I actually thought this was going to be terrible but was actually very entertaining with all the clips in there, huzzah! I don't think my minimum wage white male self gets any privilege except having a damn job.
Yeah... Pretty much all of buzzfeeds videos/articles are about as idiotic as the one in this video. Proceed with caution when entering the pit of idiots. That aside, it was cool to see a different type of video from you. Keep up the good work!
Holy shit, I took the test and it was by far the most offensive shit I have ever witnessed. They classed Greece as the "shit" part of Europe,😂 to think it is one of the happiest places in Europe
What those people who say 'check your privilege' should know is that, at least in the Western countries, privileges based on race, gender, sexuality, etc. are, as a matter of FACT, non-exisistent currently.
Reminds me of how Steve Harvey's story was part of the "that's effed up" on my radio station. So Steve Harvey grew up in the hood then made a life for himself later on is somehow "effed up"? I think that's amazing and congratulate the guy.
Okay. That's it. America has officially become the most sensitive country ever now. There has been fair debates on things, but now, it's gone too far. I mean the privilege thing is just now ridiculous. America, please stop being stupid, and let's just be smart and, uh...NOT CARE IF YOU'RE A DIFFERENT RACE, OR GENDER, OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU ARE! Thank you.
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Dude, Buzzfeed doesn't "think like this". They think like this: "How can we piss people off so hard that they will keep coming back to our channel to dislike our videos, giving us views?"
All the labeling of this "privilege" is not very progressive. In fact as EmpLem said "if I'm so underprivileged, then why should I better myself?" That mentality exists, and actually allows those who are supposedly "privileged" to gain a stronger stance in society because that mentality doesn't exist for them.
Buzzfeed is literally the catalyst for the problems they wish to address with hopes of solving. (Or at least making money off of)
im guilty of doing all of those things they say are bad. I said a girl is cute for her race, but she is half white and half black so im hoping i didn't offend anyone cause im white and you know how blacks are to whites.
This is YOUtube! Not a bunch of 'popular humans' tube! UGH! EMPEROR, PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE! Instead in my youtuber Undertale, you have to be Napstablook! Misunderstood, doesn't believe in himself a lot! It's sad.
Buzzfeed is total clickbait and that. Survey is absolute shit. But this brings little nuance to the conversation. It's basically "I don't get it" the video. Maybe it's buzzfeed that failed to educate you properly on the subject. I'm going to chalk it up to that.
Stop talking about “privilege” Even if in America, all this stuff was true it’s not privilege, it’s rights that are easier for straight whites people to have, and that is assuming all of these claims are true. In my opinion the most true candidate for not having privilege is homosexuals because they are still widely unaccepted, but for women it’s not that bad and the only thing that should change is improving social behaviors by a small amount. Now when it comes to race there to an extent is privilege whites have that blacks don’t. Many blacks are born into a family in which their father leaves. This unfortunately is a cycle that appears to continue. Slavery crippled blacks abilities to create a good economic foundation, but by now, blacks are often engaging in a gang culture which only leads to death destruction and more gang culture. Many claim they have to to make a living, but to be honest that’s just idiotic gibberish or an excuse because here in America, while it may be harder to get a job with a poor background and black skin, if one works hard, they can definitely, definitely make a living.
No part of my comment here was meant to be racist or accusing of black or white people just for being black or white, but what usually needs to change when problems get to the point that people start saying “well racism is true” is that cultures need to change and stop going on a DoWnwArd SpiRaL so that the same stupid problems keep arising.
BuzzFeed’s definition of privilege isn’t a good representative of what privilege means. I think you sorta knows this, but choose not to discuss it seriously as your audience is filled with ppl who live in eco-chambers and only picking low fruit like this.
You have become one of my favorite youtubers Emp. I have been watching and subbed for years, but now that I know your political position I appreciate you so much more. Stay sensible.
I have been around with your channel for quite some time, I think I've been subscribed for roughly through most of my high school. I am sure, us fans will follow wherever you go with this channel, without poking and nagging at your decisions. Personally, I think my subscription won't be ogre for quite a while. Your YTP-styled ranting is actually funny after all.
Since the disease of idiocy is quite powerful this day and age, you'll find a lot to rant about.
Honestly, I love these even more than your YTPs, which I didn't think was possible. Keep making points as excellent as these with the brilliant edits, and holy crap you're bound to grow. Nice job, Emp.
I wish the "montage parody" giants (that left the community) would do editing over their videos like this, I love hearing them talk and such but a more engaging video like this instead of boring game play is always welcomed
thank you lemon. Tjank you for getting the truth out about this. I am genuine when i say all of the privilege shit being thrown around now is actually used as an excuse.
Love the video man. Honestly in this day and age everyone is getting to focused on petty things and racist ideas. Its nice to know that the fun loving Emperor is as sick as it as i am. Also quick question, any poops on our way, and how have you been?
good mix of logical talking and hilarious editing. I like it... but is this the total end of YTP? I hope not, I wouldn't mind seeing more of these but I hope we still get YTPs once in a while
I honestly like the way your channel is going Lemon! I fully support your drastic-and-probably-channel-threatening change if content, full support pal!
This is a very cool turn in your channel, Emp. It would be funny to have a sort of YTP/rant hybrid like this video. And many new styles of videos that still include the wonders of YTP. Keep it up!
I was really worried that this change in direction would turn your channel into pyrocynical 2.0, but this is actually really hilarious and relatively pretty unique. Keep it up
I saw the buzzfeed video too before I saw this. All I can say is that adding Brian right before the end is how I feel about the situation too. Just when I felt annoyed about the video, I found this and have to say it made my day. Stay you Emp. YTP or not, your content always puts a smile on my face.
As sick and tired as I am of seeing anything related to SJWs, be it for or against them, I'm honestly astounded by how genuinely I laughed and contemplated at this video! It seriously amazes me how thoughtful and entertaining you're able to make your content, Emp, especially with as young as you are. You're extremely talented in just about any form of YouTube content you create, and even if you do decide to retire from YTP altogether, I'll happily stick around to watch your content evolve and grow.
This video is a glorious cocktail of a rant video, YouTube Poop, and dank memes- all mixed together in a rusty bucket with the chopped up remains of a Dutch prostitute and an old gym sock...Beginning to think that Emp's downward mental spiral isn't the worst thing in the world.
What a beautiful video. I love the message, to not let others judge your life because of something you were born with and you can't control (race, gender, parents, etc.) But it is YOUR CHOICE, DECISION, YOU HAVE THE CONTROL to not let that be in your way. Live your life fully, be proud of who you are. Nobody is "youer" that you! Your life relies on your decisions. Thanks Emplemon for this beautiful video. I can't wait to see the new content of your channel. Oh and thumbs up for the Rick and Morty parts. This show's awesome!
I like this, a mix of rant and YTP, it's like chocolate and peanut butter, you should make more of these, it presents a serious issue but riffs on it as well!
Thank you so much for making this video! Political correctness is the worst thing in America to this day. Also thank you for making fun of the Donald trump joke. They are so over done. Thank God someone else thought those were overdone. Just because someone brings up a problem that involves a group doesn't make them racist, sexist, or stupid. This pc stuff is just cancer on this country.
I thought first this was going to be a "Boring Vlog", but this was both a smart and funny way to tell you opinion on something and also give good entertainment. More like these please! :-)
I love the trumpet "sound of silence", but I disagree to *most * of your points. I agree the barista is a bit far fetched, but we must, no matter what or where we are born into, try to understand the factors in the lives of others and how this might lead to inequality to increase the efficacy of our societal communication. That is, of course, only if you want to live in a functioning society. It is a tightrope we must walk, and it is our responsibility to constantly check that we aren't leaning to far to one side or another. For if we ignore others, we become alien to one another and tear our society apart. Likewise on the other side, if we become jaded and careless in condemning others and helping ourselves to much, we have devolved to pointless shouting and are then tearing our society apart as well.
I'm really not a fan of rant videos, except for alphaomegasin, so I wasn't feeling this one. But I love your poops so I'll stick by you for the time being and see where this goes.
I just never got why these videos try to make people feel bad about who they are. All it does is just further this circle of people hating groups of people for the actions of a few individuals within it or because of deep-rooted bigotry over the generations.
Why not just encourage people to be more empathetic and understanding, rather than just make everyone feel bad, even when lots of people haven't done anything wrong?
Lemon. Make the videos you wanna make. If people unsub because they aren't YTP enough, fuck 'em. They aren't worthy of the Gift of Lemon ("Drink it in, maaaaan.") anyways. Keep doing what you do, and enjoy the gap between high school and college as long as you can. Take it from a humble sub: college life is fraught with ups and downs, and you just gotta make the best of it all.
Yo dude some ppl can't become better just by "trying" that's the entire idea of "systemic oppression" do you think slavery kept going because they didn't "try hard enough" to escape it?
As much as i agree with the points made, I think that you shouldn't go into politics. I've been thinking about doing a political channel but separate on a different channel, I do youtube poops on my main channel. You are probably going to lose some viewers because of this, but it's not my decision, go ahead and make these videos if you want to, just a recommendation.
10/10 Would get triggered again! Err- I mean- KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS! KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS! KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS!
I tend to type stuff into the search engine e.g. marjoram drying led me to a muppet with a really bad French accent I am not making that up. Public domain movie can be a bit hit and miss and Science Fiction short film is good but that is because I love Science Fiction also recommend Philip K. Dick interview.
I am the best pooper in the room. I mean I like you Poops 4 the World, I like you a lot more than a lot of the guys in the back but you are not the best pooper in the world. Because I am
U got Jokes. You as an elite are privileged both as a YouTube icon and a white dude... with or without being rich. Don't be sad that you like wrestling.
are we toying with the thought of voting Trump? you are expressing some of the frustrations that many Trump voters have been expressing. we would welcome your vote in November! the hypocrisy of liberals is astounding. they proclaim to be "anti-racist" or "anti-sexist" while judging people's standing within society based solely on their race or gender. do not let leftist bullies sway your vote!
nuance must be a daily struggle if this one is hard to understand buzzfeed still fucked up explaining it but ig that’s not on you for not trying to understand why people think this is an important concept
You're smart, but I think you're misunderstanding some things here. First of all, it's BuzzFeed, they don't really take anything very seriously, so I totally get them being annoying. But I don't think that's a good enough reason to write off the entire idea of "privilege." I know it's really easy to feel attacked in this context. It's the internet, after all, the craziest people tend to get the loudest voice here, everybody's seen at least one crazy SJW freak out video. But you have to understand that these people are the minority. While the angry man-hating pseudo-feminists that people love to hate so much may be saying otherwise, the idea of "checking your privilege" is not about writing you off if you don't meet a weirdly specific "suffering criteria." Really, it's about asking people to think about things they normally wouldn't have thought of, and hopefully inspiring more empathy and compassion. It's a conversation, not a high-score. It's not asking you to change who you are because you've never had to worry about not having rent, or that you've never been stopped on your way out of a store and asked if you payed for everything you're holding. All it's asking is that you think about these things and maybe learn a little about other people's point of view. It isn't about pity. It isn't about guilt. It's about empathy and thoughtfulness.
that bit around the 2:27 mark is wholly confusing to me, I'm not sure what's so false about saying that you basically win the birth lottery when you really do not get to choose the life you were born into and some people got dealt better hands than others? Maybe a philosophical difference in how we view our sense of self relative to our physical bodies, but that's a question that is literally impossible to answer so there is room to disagree.
Also, a person's race and gender identification affect their life experiences, including issues of class and social standing. This is true for everyone, but the people who need to deal with the least amount of negative social stigmas are the ones who notice it the least and are the quickest to dismiss its viability. I recommend spending time talking to some people from those marginalized groups about their experiences, it might help with your perspective.
And contrary to popular belief among people of your demographic, no, most of the people who deal with social pressure more than you do are not going to go out of their way to make you feel like a piece of shit unless you deliberately provoke a fight by, say, claiming their problems aren't real. Most people who actually know what that feels like aren't going to push it on someone else, and the people you do see doing it are a mix of loud fringe extremists and clickbait websites looking for views.
Ever heard of a "straw man argument"? There's a valid point in your video somewhere, but it's shrouded in all of these fallacies that render it moot. I don't understand why people actually like all of these "Buzzfeed hates ______" videos or "Buzzfeed is ______" videos; they're all the same and they don't make many good points. Yes, Buzzfeed makes low-quality, uninspired content, but so are the majority of the 5,000 different videos on YouTube that I could find about Buzzfeed and the concept of privilege. It's a shame, too, because I actually liked some of your other content.
Dude, I love your videos, but can you please consider not having such a huge discrepancy in volumes? I understand you want to make a loud noise cause it's funny top kek etc. but it's just unpleasant to watch and I really like listening to you :(
@Joshua Graham Hello. Don't you think it's going to get really cramped up if we wait for others? I think we should try to get something asap. I tried a bait with legit comment, but I see that I only found another lost soul in this dimension... If this keeps on happening, I'm afraid we will need to come up with something more elaborate, or we will end up commenting on "Evolution of Dance"
People that say "check your privilege" are annoying as hell. That said, your argument is strange and flawed:
1. A lucky person is someone who has benefited from inputs to his life that are outside of his control.
2. You say a person with beneficial circumstances is not lucky.
3. Given 1 and 2, it's implied that each person is in complete control of his life and thus was not affected by outside inputs.
4. In order for there to be no inputs, the definition of a person must be expanded to include both his environment and his genes, as well as whatever caused that environment and those genes to arise.
5. It follows that the definition of a person must grow to include the entire universe and its first cause (i.e. God or otherwise).
6. At this point, the definition of the person has become, "all of existence," which is absurd and useless.
Here's a more reasonable line of thought, which is the way most people intuitively think about the issue:
1. A lucky person is someone who has benefited from inputs to his life that were outside of his control.
2. Barring time travel and other fantasies, someone cannot possibly be in complete control of his environment and genes.
3. Therefore, it is unjustified for a person with a desirable life to deny that luck played any role.
2.06 hate to do this to you but Wikipedia is the worst shit you could ever use. You said it was ninth-grade biology right? Use a freaking .edu or .org. This is basic!
I love your videos and Buzzfeed is the worst, but I really don't agree with you on this at all, which really sucks. It sucks disagreeing with my current favorite youtuber.
@Densester that's a shame. I'd like to know. it's probably something about how SJW culture has expanded or whatever. it still seems pretty topical, if you just change the themes slightly
hey yeah you were right i never get notifications when people respond to my stuff for some reason but by chance i came across these comments again.
it's hard to exactly explain, but it's very much a product of its time. there was a lot of content in 2015-2016 basically just picking at the low hanging fruit of dumb "SJWs" and buzzfeed or whatever and it's very much an overdone and even parodied idea now. not only that though but i feel like he didn't really do that good of job actually understanding and refuting the arguments presented, like of course nobody should pity Michael Jordan and of course not every white person is privileged, but on average white people will be better off than black people, that's just how it works in society.
the whole "check your privilege" shit was dumb though, but he seemed to not understand it very well, or at least the arguments he gave were pretty poor.
Just about anyone can do well in school, get a useful degree on scholarship (or work hard to pay for college), and have children that can be raised comfortably aka "privileged"
Checking privilege is about recognizing things like how having a "white name" has been shown to increase your chances of getting interviews when using the exact same resumes with "black names". It's not about shaming, it's about awareness and understanding that not everyone has the same experiences. You aren't a bad person if you have privilege, but you are pretty ignorant if you ignore those systemic benefits everyone has to some extent.
Umm, im white with a white ass name. I'm still poor and with nobody wanting to hire me. What privilege do I have? Being alive? Because this is the type of talk rich people love to say so they don't want to think privilege is about class.
@Bruh Sound Effect You have white privilege? I'm not sure how you got the impression that I was implying there is only one type of privilege or all privileges "matter" the same amount. And when talking about societal issues you really have to focus more on the aggregate, so one anecdote about how you as a complex individual with many attributes can't get a job doesn't disprove anything or even contribute to the discussion much.
"It's about awareness and understanding that not everyone has the same experience." You literally said it yourself. I don't have the same experiences that every white person has. I used to get questioned by law enforcement for no reason other than me being lower class in a high class area. I'm saying privilege was never about race, just class.
@Bruh Sound Effect It doesn't have to be one or the other. Race was just an example. Class, race, sexuality, disabilites, etc. All of them matter and have societal biases associated with them.
I'm a half white half Hispanic 17 year old and I find it ironic how these ppl accuse ppl of racism when the white privilege bs is racist bc they're divided by religion, race, gender, and sexuality.
Privileges is something that we should be aware of but it isn't a bad thing. And no race isn't inherently related to priviledge. There are many types of "priviledge " which simply refers to the opportunity you've had over others that you have no control over. In your video "making poor economic choices" isn't what it is referring to. Race and gender play a role in who has the best opportunities on average. Beijg white and male doesn't automatically mean your privileged and the point of the video isn't making you feel guilty about anything . Its simply about acknowledging our privileges in trying to understand the oppression of those less fortunate than ourselves.
@SoftBleach The joke was to tell this guy to check his privelege in the first place. I used this as a joke because I consider all the leftist/SJW divisive terminology and ideology to be a joke. But it is true that I never got to use a locker ever in any school I was ever in though...
@sadgoy people do this all the time though. they'll say "check your privilege" in a non joking manner on a video like this. Hell I assume there's probably some on this video. The way you wrote your comment does not imply it was a joke, especially if you say it's true you never had lockers(which I didn't either). Sorry not woosh worthy
@SoftBleach I would argue that it does imply that it's a joke simply due to the absurdity of checking someone's privelege for something as trivial as having access to a locker. I emphasize heavily on the "checking your privelege" part because there are people out there who take all this leftist ideology very very seriously. If anything, it was a sarcastic jab the leftists. Maybe I should've added a funny emoji to further clarify that it was a joke but I felt that wasn't necessary. Maybe my message is lost to people who haven't fully entrenched themselves in watching videos on the ridiculousness of the radical fourth wave feminist agenda. I would argue that it is woosh material even though most wouldn't understand the political implications and message of the joke.
Sure, you could argue that I could've made a joke of a different style that would be more appealing and understood to a wider audience, thereby making it more wooshy since it can be understood by more people, but I feel that that would detract from the narrow focusing on mocking the origins of such a ridiculous statement as "check your privelege."
TL;DR : If you don't watch and understand anti-radical 4th wave feminist videos, you won't get my joke. Sorry, bud. 😮
Gotta say though, your critique on people feeling scared to address their gender is backwards. It's one thing to tell someone "not to care" about what other people think. It's another thing entirely to feel like the way you dress, the way you act, the way you lead your life is a bad thing. Something you can't tell your parents or peers. Wear a dress to school as a guy and watch you get isolated from everyone, beat up, outcast. Over something as simple as clothing. I've felt unsafe leaving my house wearing lipstick because if my parents saw me they'd beat me. And fuck your comparison of fat people or skinny people to trans people. You don't choose to feel like your gender isn't yours, but fat fucks can work up some motivation and diet. One of those is indulgence, the other is an immovable state of existing. You can eat less to get skinny, but people with gender issues can't just work out to feel better.
A Liberal is not the same as a Leftist. But the Left seems to think they are Liberals themselves. Liberal and Leftist ideologies are actually quite different and actually oppose each other in some areas.
It really depends. In the United States, liberal and leftist are mostly synonymous, whereas in Europe, liberal means something more like centrist-libertarian.
1:55 “this is a shitty analogy because it implies anyone born into a prosperous life had a random chance of being born with rich parents”. Dude. This is literally true lmfao. Everyone born anywhere literally has a certain, definite chance of being born in to rich parents depending on how you define rich. Again, this is just statistics and probability that point to a larger picture, but those born to rich parents are overwhelmingly likely chances of maintaining or succeeding that wealth. This is called social mobility (moving up) and it’s just a statistical fact that more wealth you’re born into the more likely you are to then make more wealth. It is simply easier to go to college and get certified for a well paid, professional job than it is for you and your parents to work to pay that tuition. College was just an example, but it’s not even limited to just education. Consider if one of your parents is an experience lawyer who could afford law school, resources to pass the bar exam, etc. Say it was this kids dad. That child will be able to spend exponentially more time with his mother than a child whose parents simply cannot afford to be with their children in the daytime so he stays at daycare. Again this is literally just proven statistics, but there’s a good chance that kid will learn faster and better than kids raised in daycares. Why are you purposefully misunderstanding this? Your weird misunderstanding of thinking the concept of privilege implies genetic disposition is completely wrong. And I think you know that. You actually think “white privilege” means white people’s European ancestry predisposes them to accumulate wealth at a rate faster than other races in the US? Nobody thinks that retard.
EmpLemon I feel you're kinda missing the point. Buzzfeed is cancer, yes, but the "privilege" thing is just acknowledging some people are systematically discriminated imo. Which is true.
Insisting people identify themselves primarily through their skin color is a remarkably awful idea tho, and will backfire in the end by creating more racist white people than it converts to anti-racism.
I know this video is 5 years old, but, I’ve been a fan of Emp for 6 years at this point, and I just found out his dad is white and his mom is a Chinese immigrant WHICH IS MY LINEAGE TOO so that’s cool. No wonder I sensed relatability lol
As an SJW myself, I gotta say, just because you're privileged, doesn't mean your life can't be hard, and that has never been the intended message. Most of us suffer in this world, and it's what makes us stronger for it. It's what makes us into who we are. All that privilege means, is that your life sucks, but not because you're Cisgender/Caucasian/male/heterosexual. Your struggles are still valid, and so are most other people's.
All that us SJW types want is to level the playing field for people that are unfairly treated over how they were born. Nothing else. Don't believe the slanderous propaganda from the alt right, and please ignore some of our more "special" members, they're but a loud, vocal minority.
I wonder how many other teenagers were radicalised by videos like these back in 2016. It’s embarrassing looking back at this and realising that I actually used to believe the shit you say.
@Nate G. Well a realistic way of solving racism is segregation. Its natural for humans to see humans that differ from them as less human. At heart all humans are murderous chimpanzees.
@hppvitor but like, you are just angry and mean by what? My comment? I'm not hurted neither triggered but I can see it in your comments, I don't know if you had a bad day or somethinf
@hppvitor Chill out, you really just came out swinging at us when we did nothing to hurt you. As in, it’s a sign of insecurity when you insult people out of the blue online.
@hppvitor Damn oh no you got me, guess I’ll go back to the rest of a corporate funded and censored website which is definitely almost all catered to getting rid of capitalism and there’s ALMOST nO ConServAtiVes
@hppvitor it's a free world man, if I want I'll go and talk about this kind of behavior because no one stops me, like you're trying to segregate me or something, I know I could talk about your behavior too, really inmature lol
Looks like someone has some strong feelings about the concept of privilege.
Having privilege doesn't mean you are exempt from all problems in life. It means in certain situations (interacting with the cops, store clerks, banks, potential employere, etc.), white people are given the benefit of the doubt.
Taking the Michael Jordan example, if he was pulled over by a cop who didn't recognize him as a celebrity but harbored certain assumptions about black men (i.e., they're criminal by nature), the encounter may go differently than if the guy being pulled over was Joe McAverageWhiteMan.
That's more of a case of tribalism than legal privilege. When people refer to privilege, they often talk about things that are supposedly written text in lawbooks that give caucasians advantages in life.
Now, I don't doubt that tribalism exists. On the contrary, I think it is a strongly present aspect in the human mind. Everyone has at least a little tribalistic feeling when encountering strangers for the first time, as it is part of our natural instinct.
This reply isn't to say you're wrong, but instead to bring up that what you may call privilege is more like tribalism/racism.
The Merchant That's probably because many of the people on this video are bigots and came here for the click bait as I said in my last comment. I am not turning on him.
Shame that we have to part ways like this..... always got a racist vibe from you, just never thought you’d prove it... and to think I was actually starting to like these videos 🤦🏽♂️
@Grapestation you are completely correct just because someone doesn’t agree me doesn’t make them racist, but failing to recognize minority hardships and mocking them kinda is lol but I didn’t comment for you I commented for EmpLemon, I do appreciate your input definitely worth thinking about :) <3 .
@moonlitee at 5 he starts playing into the bootstrapping narrative, that every one starts at the same playing field. He then downplays the impact of racial slurs.
He doesn’t look at the broader implications and looks at the exceptions. He points at Michael Jordan as someone Who you shouldn’t pity, but the fact how lucky he was isn’t factored in.
Yes people work hard, but that’s not what “privilege” is, he makes the semantic argument that it isn’t luck, they you were inevitable, but this is stupid. So what? the lottery isn’t you, it’s your starting point.
He also thinks that “checking you’re privilege” means you should be ashamed. No, it just means you should see how your position benefits you, not to make you feel bad, no, it’s to make it so you can fight against it. So you can work hard to destroy a system that selectively benefits people based on arbitrary metrics that even emplemon finds unavoidable, you can’t choose your starting point, but the starting point shouldn’t matter.
I don’t think he’s racist, I just think he’s ignorant. Either way he plays into the idea that you are where you are solely because of how hard you work, which isn’t the rule. That’s the same argument that racists make, that if black people really wanted to they wouldn’t be in their position. Bootstrapping or the American dream would be great if everyone was on the same playing field, but we’re not.
He also ends with a rick and morty refrence. :) to be fair.....
@ars0ondid you listen to any of his points in the video, or did you go into the video knowing you would find him racist at the end because you wouldn't dare let a white man have his own opinion on social issues?
@ars0on like i said, you don't really care that he was born in to a middle class family, that his points are logical, or that his mom is NOT WHITE AS HE SAYS SHE IS ASIAN, you just mark him off as priveliged because thats what you decided to think of him before you even watched the video.
I'm mixed race and buzzfeed types have still accused me of having "white privilege" without even knowing what I look like, lmao.
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Star Foth I see you've ironically taken the quiz
22 likesStar Foth buzzfeed is racist
69 likesAh, me too.
4 likesSo... I'm a demisexual woman, but I'm white. Now, am I privalaged or not in buzzfeed's eyes?
17 likes@Natalia Borys Yes.
8 likesBullshit dude, don't let them separate you into some kind of number in a category and if so you're better than they'll ever be genuinely.
9 likes@Familia Youtuber Bruh, nukes can't kill cockroaches! You need literal planet killing lasers!
3 likes@ARedJay C What the actual fuck.
1 likeI spent most of the time on the quiz asking if there were loopholes.
0 likesEx: I have never been called a slur. Okay, but what if you played Call of Duty on XBOX Live? They throw slurs around like beads at Mardi Gras.
Star Foth i feel that. I'm half hispanic but i'm pale as all hell. most people i know didn't know I was part hispanic until i told them
0 likesAccording to this test I'm not that privileged at all.
1 likeNow I'm pale as a sheet and grew up in a middle-class family in a rather well-off country.
Thing is though, that I've been on the internet. Worse yet, I've been in live chatrooms on the internet.
This means I had to check all of the derogatory slur boxes, even though none of those slurs were actually grounded in reality, and abra cadabra. suddenly I'm not privileged anymore.
Turns out that allowing some idiot's slurs severely affect your perception of yourself and the world isn't really a good thing, and also doesn't work as a basis for a test. Who could've thought.
buzzfeed hating on "straight white men" is in my opinion : hetero phobic, racist, and sexist.
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Retmispar indeed but bring this up is how we should truly fight them becuase there DINGDONGS
2 likesNot just your opinion, that’s a fact!
19 likesBuzzfeed be like, but...but...your white!
13 likesI personally grew up thinking that I actually deserved to be hated because of the projected view on white heterosexual (and in some cases christian) males as masochistic racist snobs. I mean, sometimes people can be really insensitive when they don’t consider that people can take this on a personal level. Seeing this kind of message in society projected to me that I was a monster. This ended up fueling my suicide attempts. It’s faded down to a depression that I don’t know I can recover from. At least now I have a motivation to live my life.
17 likesNow I do know that some people may just take the message lightly, but there are others that may take it very personally. May I remind that a the suicide rate is currently the highest in white middle aged men— the “message” probably doesn’t have to do with that, but it DEFINITELY doesn’t help.
I honestly don’t know if I’m taking this too harshly, though. After all, I do have autism spectrum disorder, so I’m near certain that people in my demographic don’t feel the way I do. I don’t feel offended by the issue, I’m just deeply hurt.
@Caleb McIntosh That sucks to hear. I think everyone should know that his actions and intentions matter and not stuff in his dna that he can never change. But we also shouldn't become like BuzzFeed with a different agenda.
6 likesWow I'm really privileged that must be why I didn't even know that hetero phobic was a word
0 likesMy grandfather was born in a logging camp. His mother died giving birth to his sister. He worked tirelessly his entire life. Had to get his pinky toes amputated because of how deformed they were from him having to wear shoes that were too small for him. He fought in WWII and worked his way through college. But I guess he was just super privileged because he was a white man. Nevermind that he even endured some 'racism' for being Irish. When white folks are oppressed, it doesn't count.
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I'm so sorry your grandfather went through that. Honorable man
50 likesGodbless your grandfather <3
33 likesI definitely think that he has had it hard but the fact that he has gone through these things doesn’t change the fact that he has white privilege
13 likes@ars0on People like you are the reason shampoo of all things have instructions
73 likes@midzurugi Why?
3 likes@ars0on if you functioned correctly you would have had a moment of self reflection already and maybe you would have possibly understood how putrid what you are sayin is.
52 likesYall I’m not saying he didn’t work hard for anything but no matter what white privilege will always play apart of it
4 likes@ars0on look at your Channel every single piece of content that you ever uploaded to this website is reprehensible
35 likes@KEK LORD what?
3 likes@ars0on disgrace
30 likes@midzurugi i like how the only original video there is just some gacha crap and the rest is just mindlessly stealing random peoples videos from a diffrent website
18 likesWell I’m not white I’m black and I’m not a girl but yeah Ig you could get that vibe from my videos. I wasn’t sure what I was going to post lol. I made those videos mostly to really spread more lgbt content since those kinds of videos helped me figure out my sexuality and gender identity.
4 likes@ars0on none of what you just said matters in the sligthest. I will judge you only for your actions. This is a meeger attempt at garnering sympathy. And no "wanting to spread lgbt content" is not an excuse to steal videos. If you really wanted to spread such content then make it yourself.
37 likes@KEK LORD Yh okay never meant to steal content since the usernames are in the video but like why are we even talking about my channel? Were having a discussion about something different and you start talking about my channel? Seems like your trying to change the topic to hate on me
4 likes@ars0on I went to what you call your "channel" to get a better grasp at what you keep putting on the internets
24 likes@ars0on are you serious? is this a joke, are we being funny men here? we havin bouts of sarcasm? saying things we don't actually believe?
28 likesbefore i go any further, and say things that would make even the most mentally stable man want death, tell me this;
what is white privilege?
did you go to college, and what degree did you get, if you did?
why abandon morals and tradition for the sake of pleasure?
how did "white privilege" play a part in his story? any person of another race and color couldve done what he did.
32 likes@Lil LathoS basically you wont get discriminated against for being white. your never gonna not get a job because you have a black sounding name or stopped by the police or TSA for a "random" check or called a racial slur or killed ect for being white.
5 likes@ars0on Mostly uniformed right-winged ppl will watch this video so they are gonna disagree with you. ignore these losers :)
5 likes@shinoku250 gaming So what your saying his is mother died,he fought in ww2, got his pinky amputated all because he was white? no? exactly. the only discrimination he supposedly faced was for being Irish which has nothing to do with race.
3 likesAnyway this has fuck all to do with my comment which was saying that white privilege is real. White privilege doesn't mean if your white life is easy and you face no hardships it just means your skin colour isnt making it harder for you.
Also no one has explained shit the only comment I got was a 12 yr old calling me a loser lol
@ars0on nice bait
9 likes@shinoku250 gaming The point is not that his suffering means nothing because he's white. The point is that regardless of what he went through, he's still white and almost definitely lives in a society where people of color are treated worse than non-POC. Nobdy is saying he didn't suffer.
3 likes@shinoku250 gaming what the FUCK is this reply feed?!
2 likesCan someone explain how white privilege is so prevalent, while there are more scholarships and job opportunities for POC? I mean, in very, VERY few areas will anyone in America be extremely persecuted by race. Most common thing (still pretty uncommon) is at most slight bullying in school, but guess what? That isn’t something unique to race. There’s always a reason to bully people, and there will always be people who will bully, no matter race or ‘gender’. I’m not saying racial attacks and crimes based on race don’t happen, but they are few and far between. Hell, the media will publish any hint of a story that, even without anything other than ‘the victim was black’ as evidence, still isn’t a common thing to see.
10 likesDamn, your grandpa is the living embodiment of the American Dream. He fought to get his slice of the good life. Your grandpa wasn’t privileged. He earned his ticket to a better life through his work, and damn, that is beautiful
4 likesand honorable. God bless him.
@Jasmine Phoebe how bout asian african discrimination because of covid 19? Ever heard bout that girl?
3 likes@Jasmine Phoebe I'm black & like watching things from as many sides as possible, but choose not use the term "privilege" for this. It essentially tells white people that no matter what, they're blessed, plus should feel guilty for it, dismissing other factors that determine their outcome in life and all their shortcomings. You're at most lucky to be white in comparison to other races in the US. This denotes that chance & probability still hold a big part of your outcome instead of it being a set-in-stone thing.
4 likesIf lack of racial prejudice is privilege & acknowledging this is checking your privilege, then I'm sure the average white person checked theirs bc they know how black ppl can have it bad.
Something else I don't vibe with is the hierarchy that inevitably comes with this theory; if the life jackpot is white>male>straight>able-bodied>Christian, then we're mostly privileged on different levels. Which isn't how privilege works. (You're either privileged or you aren't). It stifles the word. I don't tick white or male but I do tick straight, Christian & able-bodied, which means I'm oppressed and privileged at the same time. We all have different problems in different areas of life, and we shouldn't downplay others' suffering. We're all so varied & unique in our experiences, and this system of categorising people takes away from that reality.
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1 likenah but i agree fully. in my counbry if you're "native" (came here on a boat a long time before the current "owners") you get a special government payout. so does that mean i, as an irish convict descendant whose ancestors were torn from their homeland by the brits to colonise a new land, should be paid by the current british government? no. no it does not.
5 likeswe the human race are constantly becoming "better", socially and culturally, and to be held accountable for things that happened hundreds of years ago only holds us back.
@AH silver Great replacement rhetoric, very cool.
0 likesFirstly, I would like to state that your grandfather 100% had a difficult life. In terms of American society your father was oppressed by the system. I’m unaware if he was an Irish immigrant or if he was simply born into an Irish family in America, but I will not comment on that being an example of cultural oppression as it isn’t clear what the story was with that. Also i would like to give a thank you for his service. He is undoubtedly a brave man, who is tough. With that being said, none of those issues are anything close to being racially motivated, nobody is denying the fact that while people cannot have a hard life. Life is hard for everybody, and there is no point in arguing that, however there are certain challenges that people of other races may have to face that people who are white, or even possibly from another county, but still being considered a white person (Canadian, Irish, Italian) and I will admit that back in the day Irish people would face discrimination, but not on the level of other minorities. Again, I am not stating that the modern black person has a harder life than your grandfather did, far from it in fact, but the logic that these examples are all an act of oppression towards white people is false.
2 likesI think they would just call that racism xenophobia instead, because it is
1 likeBear in mind that I agree white people can experience racism
didnt ask + dont care
0 likesThe Irish where treated worse then the Sfricans ever where.
0 likesDude all white privilege is, is not facing challenges that you would if you were black/Hispanic/etc. No one is saying poor people have better lives because they're white, it's just that if you're black AND poor you have additional issues
1 like@Austin Caldwell Then, as Biden says, stop being poor
0 likesthis is really common for war veterans, especially vietnam war veterans, who put their lives on their line, for a system they didn't believe in, in a place they didn't know, and came home, and could never adjust to normal life ever again, and whenever they spoke about their experiences they were lampooned because the war they fought was wrong, as if they had a choice in the matter, they were taken from their homes, and families, and turning your back meant death from both sides.
0 likes@Spaghetto that's nice have a good day and god bless
0 likes@Bruh Sound Effect bruh if you actually listen to why black people have to say, they have been talking about this issue since America has existed, I'm not telling them anything, I'm repeating an issue that they still struggle with in their own words. But somehow that equates to me saying the N word? There's literal scientific studies done on how POC are discriminated against, like being given harsher sentences than white people for the same crime, etc. To deny any of this is far more racist than talking about the issue, and the fact that you're so keen to deny its existence says exactly what kind of person you are
0 likes@Austin Caldwell bro your taking a class issue and making a race issue. You literally are doing the same thing that racists do. Shitting on a race for something their ancestors did and belive in (which most dont do to this day) and telling them they have to be guilty about who they are.
0 likesThat part with Woody drowning himself with bleach killed me.
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Now there's a sentence you don't read everyday
49 likesI wish I could do that every day
9 likesI read this seconds before i saw it
9 likesFûcking same, dude.
2 likesBoyThunder Productions, I read this comment RIGHT when that scene came up wtf
5 likesIt also killed Woody
11 likesGreat to see you here.
0 likesSame
0 likesIt killed Woody, too.
1 likeCombining rants with YouTube poop. I like it!
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HOLY SHIT! HE FIGURED IT OUT!!!!
19 likesI JUST WANT A QUIET LIFE
10 likesYou must be fun at parties
4 likesTheNerdyGinger welcome to the downward spiral.
0 likes@deleted channel101 1 The term is copper top.
0 likes@Artorias Gladius That opinion is not an opinion. It is a fact.
0 likesWell of course a guy whose YT channel has "nerdy" in the name and a profile picture of him angry has something positive to say about a slightly racist video designed to become an echo chamber of alt right comments.
0 likes@uwirl Is this (YOU) bait?
1 likeBasically good shit post
0 likes@The Artisan 2:58 fat chocolate women XDXDXD
0 likesWait till you see people who think fathers day is sexist and "offends single mothers and same sex couples" AND COMPLETELY FORGETING THAT THEY HAVE A HOLIDAY AS WELL, ITS CALLED MOTHERS DAY
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Wait, please tell me people don’t actually believe that. And if people do believe that, please tell me their just twitter users, they’re not that smart anyway so at least I wouldn’t be surprised
38 likes@Shapshap Shapshap Twitter users are addicted to their own perpetual cycle of hate and anger.
67 likesPeople there have made the argument of making 'fathers day' into 'special persons day', but luckily no one I've ever heard has taken what they spout out seriously.
Lemme introduce you to International Men’s Day 2020
5 likesliterally nobody believes this
0 likes@Guns and Buns oh you’d be surprised
10 likes@Guns and Buns you would be surprised.
10 likes@Samuel D you must not have a job lmao
0 likes@Guns and Buns you would be surprised.
10 likes@Samuel D doubt it
0 likes@MagicMaster667 why not both? Lmfao gotta spread hate can't have a yay dad day ffs
0 likes@Guns and Buns you are not a homie
7 likes@nuke dukem thats fine, i have friends in real life :)
0 likesExcuse me... they're called "birthing people".
0 likes@ffrank that's offensive it's birthing beings
1 likeNo but mothers day celebrates women which is good and celebrating men is bad so we must get rid of fathers day and not mothers day
0 likesok i’ve literally never seen that
0 likes"You've activated my race card!" LOL!!!
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Didn't expect to see you here, love your videos
13 likesBruh
4 likesAh, a man of culture as well.
4 likesStop motion video of emp lemon when?
0 likesI thought they banned those in tournaments
2 likesStill relevant
0 likesHey man.
1 likeYou've been part of my childhood along with AVGN and Chuggaaconroy
Oh look it's da Dino man
0 likesHonestly the whole idea of “haha whites=bad” is really getting tiring. Not every white person is a racist or a terrible person. Me myself a white hispanic gets bullied because of my color as I grew up in a rough neighborhood in NY. But I bet you no one is gonna care because my color is white lmfao
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Sos argentino por ley
0 likesTrully inspirating, I'm a white hispanic, and I also hate companies showing off how "inclusive" they are as if minorities were supposed to be "looked down upon".
111 likesI also hate how some people talk about priviledge based off "race" or "gender" when homeless men are more common than homeless women in the U.S.
Also, while working as a waiter does not pay a lot, these jobs are not "bad", as a matter of fact, they are nescesary for society to function...
Racism is bad, but sometimes the most "inclusive" people are just racists in disguise. At least the people that insult people based on their race and gender are not ashamed on showing that they are racist...
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Thank you! 👏👏
5 likessome waiters can actually make alot of money if they know there stuff...
4 likesPerhaps a people of color should just be allowed to be in media with little to no fanfare, unless it is about certain issues, like the boondocks
0 likes"My mom escaped Communist China"
3020 likesCollege Liberals: "Well akchually..."
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ThAt'S nOT aCTuaL cOmmUnIsM
505 likesMr Ttripz he’s probably referring to mao or something
99 likesIf they are communist they aren't liberal. Liberals are pro capitalism. Communists are anti capitalist which is farther left.
95 likesChinasplaining
36 likes@Gifyifhk hmcucyk American left had hijacked Liberalism
52 likesKarl Marx is rolling in his grave at how his idea, which was intended to promote equality and end ruling-class oppression, instead turned into another way for dictators to justify the unjustifiable and make murder seem respectable.
101 likes@Damian Thorne welp- The road to hell is paved with good intentions
70 likes@Gifyifhk hmcucyk
6 likesNope it's literally the exact opposite. Communists are capitalist but only for a very small group of elites. Leftists are everyone but the elites that the elites view as cattle.
@Gifyifhk hmcucyk The American left is not pro capitalism. Wtf
18 likes@General Horse yeah, y'all aren't hardcore enough to go all the way.
4 likes@riddell26 You miss the point.
6 likesDid you mean Not-Real-Communist China?
2 likes@Dante's Inferno In the context of how communism and capitalism are used as therms in "political discussions" it is more accurate to see them as labels for directions to move on a scale and not points on a scale. People that for example want "free" healthcare are "communists" or against "capitalism" while actually they still most likely promote a free market system that just has a bit less capitalism. If you advocate for planned economy then you would definitly be against capitalism but I don't think that's what's going on.
1 likefirst of all china was never a communist country
9 likessecond of all communists are not liberals. leftists hate liberals.
@Nyárð the Cat Don't leave it to Muricans measure stuff. The normal units are messed up already so not much to expect for political spectra.
3 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 hilarious
4 likesalso i dont want to murder people i just want an anarchocommunist non-state
@Damian Thorne I don’t hate Marx but his ideas were fundamentally flawed and now we’ve tried them we know they will never work.
4 likes@Maniac Marcus 2 Actually they don't.
0 likesLiterally no Chinese people say this, ever, including OP's mom.
1 like@Pep Pep bold of you to assume. I have multiple friends who have parents that have said similar or the same thing.
2 likes@Cooper Monger Press X to Doubt
2 likes@Pep Pep I’m just telling you what has happened it’s up to you if you want to believe it
2 likes@Cooper Monger Press X to Doubt
2 likes@Pep Pep ok buddy
0 likes@Damian Thorne
2 likesKarl Marx is rolling his grave because there are people who live happy lives
@DISTurbedwaffle918 tell me what anarchy is that makes you believe that
1 like@Nyárð the Cat
0 likesAnarchy: an-arche, without structure, without cause, without motive, without principle, without government.
It is the abolition of order and civility, a barbaric and savage ideology Hell bent on the extinction of humanity.
It can ONLY be achieved through mass murder and wanton butchery and torture on a scale never before seen by mortal eyes.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 bad definition. anarchists believe in the abolition of hierarchy not mass murder
3 likessource: am anarcho communist
@Nyárð the Cat
1 likeI don't care what you are or what you think you believe.
Tell me, how do you intend to abolish hierarchy without shedding any blood?
While you're at it, define hierarchy and explain why hierarchy itself is bad.
@Nyárð the Cat
0 likesAnd finally, you cannot cite yourself in a debate. It's unprofessional and contradicts the systems put in place by professionals to keep morons from voicing their opinions on things they don't really know anything about.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 obviously a revolution would have violence but violence is Bad Actually
1 like@Nyárð the Cat
0 likesSo you admit to wanting to commit genocide, you just it "revolution."
@Nyárð the Cat
0 likesI'm also getting a kick out of that comment.
"Violence is bad, but the only way to force people to obey our system is through violence"
@DISTurbedwaffle918 my definition is the one anarchists use
1 like@Nyárð the Cat
1 likeAnd they are all wrong, which brings me both immense glee and annoyance as a linguist.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 the point of anarchism is that there is nobody to obey
1 like@DISTurbedwaffle918 pretty sure anarchists are a better source of their beliefs than a random dictionary
1 likelike yeah anarchy is stateless but the main thing we dont like is unjust hierarchy
hierarchy is hard to define because im not good at saying definitions but im not a fan particularly of having leaders or bosses
@Nyárð the Cat
0 likesThat's like saying schizophrenics are a better source of psychological information than psychologists.
Not even a random dictionary, it's the most literal definition of the word achievable, deduced through my unassailable intellect and rigorous study of etymology and classical languages.
But, of course, intelligence and study are things that anarchists don't really do.
If you cannot define hierarchy, then how do you know it's bad?
@Nyárð the Cat
1 like"I'm not a fan of having leaders and bosses" translates to "I have no sense of motivation or work ethic and get mad when my boss at [minimum wage job] tells me to stop playing with my phone and get back to work."
@DISTurbedwaffle918 classical liberalism and communism have nothing to do with one another, the only thing they have in common is that they have nothing in common, one wants a tiny state that does the basic things and provides a minimum so noone dies and the other wants you ignorant so you follow them without really understanding the consecuencies of what they are saying, things like "re-distribution of wealth" sound perfect in paper but fail miserably in real life
1 like@Skylex157
0 likesYou're too focused on the economic aspect of Liberal ideologies, which are inconsistent across the board.
The things they do have in common are their sociological aspects. All Liberals, from Classical to Communist believe in the concept of "rights." Some are more vague about it, like the Libertarians, while others are more precise, like the Classical Liberals, the Conservatives, and the Communists. Communists believe in the right to the fruits of one's labor, and then extend that right to whatever obscure niche they desire after the fact. Classical Liberals and Conservatives are more property focused in their focus, but one believes in free speech and expression while the other tends not to.
All forms of Liberalism are based on the destruction of traditional ideals and replacing them with the next ridiculous variant of rabid individualism.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 the idea of being liberal is not being constrained with the "what are they going to say", if liberalism wanted to maintain the things as they were, they would be called conservatives, i would agree with you if you said something didn't made sense, but it feels almost as a falacy to say someone is wrong or doing something bad for following their ideology alone "oh, this damn capitalist who want capitalism to prevail"
1 like@DISTurbedwaffle918 is being free in any way shape or form something satanical that must be destroyed, what is your position? because being fascist or cutting away the freedom of other people is not good or angelical by any moral standard i know
1 like@Skylex157
0 likes"Being free" is a buzz phrase. Those who use it have no clue what they're talking about. Do you mean freedom to do whatever you want? Do you mean freedom from tyranny? Do you mean freedom from sin? Freedom from justice? Freedom to kill? There are infinite forms of freedom, and only a handful are any good.
As for my position, I am a servant of God, the King of kings, and a parishioner of His Church. I desire mankind to be freed from tyranny and sin, but not free to do whatever he pleases without consequences. I believe that a man is entitled to an acre of land, and that those who live in decadence should be brought to heel. I believe a man may conduct his affairs as he chooses in a morally upstanding fashion. I believe that a man has an obligation to his King to be armed and trained, to combat any and all threats to his nation, to his Church, and to himself. I believe a man has an obligation to God and country to be the best he can become, physically, mentally, and spiritually, and should always strive to improve himself. I believe that killing is wrong, barring the strife of warfare, the occasion of self defense, and the dispensation of capital punishment. I believe that, while all humanity is precious, each people has a place in this world, and should retain their own national sovereignty rather than dilute and mingle all the races together into a miscegeneous stew.
So I'm a pragmatic idealist, I suppose.
@Skylex157
1 likeI will say that the freedom espoused by the Liberals is the kind of freedom that the Devil promised to Eve.
It is not the freedom from sin or tyranny or even freedom of consciousness, for it is freedom to indulge, freedom from responsibility, and freedom from consequence. Liberal freedom is the freedom from God.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 how is a libertarian/liberal classic free of responsability or consequense? They literally are the whole reason they succeed or fail, i don't see a reason to think that kind of freedom is bad
1 likeSecondly, i want you to remember, god set up adam and eve to fail, as he is all-knowing and all-mighty, he literally knew that leaving eve alone with lucifer would end up in her eating the apple. A god that punishes someone that was set up by himself has no right to tell me what's right or wrong
@DISTurbedwaffle918 there is only one and true freedom, being able to do whatever you want with your life in any way without affecting other people's life, and at that point, being able to affect other people's life you both agree, as long as everything is consensual, you have full freedom in that space, anything else is not freedom as you are limiting yourself with beliefs
1 like@Skylex157
0 likesIf the government cannot punish citizens for wrongdoing or pay them to do something useful, which all Libertarian swine desire as an outcome, then no one has any responsibility to society, nor would suffer any genuine consequences for usurping the unspoken rules of society.
God gave Adam and Eve free will out of love for them. He also directly commanded them to not eat the fruit of evil knowledge. Just because God is omniscient does not mean He is responsible for the actions of mere mortals. Your hatred of your Father stems from the fallacy of "if God real, why bad thing happen? 😠"
God has the EXCLUSIVE right to tell you what's right and wrong.
@Skylex157
0 likesThen your idea of freedom is Satanic.
Like I said, there are many concepts of freedom, and yours leads to the slavery of souls through vice.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 you don´t need a government to punish people, the definition of someone doing something bad is literally when someone does something non-concensual for all parties involved, if this person were to act against other, this others have all the right to reciprocate, i really don´t know what happens in anarcho communism, because hell know how that works, but at least in an ancap society, if you were to act against others, not only they have the right to act, everyone else that sees the conflict can understand your situation and stop interaction economically with the agressor, furthermore, if it is something serious, lets say, attempted murder, there would literally be hired police forces that can help you
1 likeyeah, you can say he did that out of love, imagine that in real life, you put a child in front of a bunch of some delicious desert, brownies, candies, whatever, get the hell out of there and expect them not to be tempted, also, may i remind you, that fruit of "evil knowledge" was really the fruit that gave them the capability to understand right from wrong, literally he created 2 creatures that don´t have any kind of understanding on morals, put them a tree with forbiden fruit and let the freaking devil in snake form get there and talk to them, ALL THIS KNOWINGLY, i want to correct my example, is like you got a bowl full of brownies, tell the kid eating them is bad and then shove the whole bowl down their throat and then be mad at them for eating the brownies, there is no love there
again, if a god that set up a practically new born with no understanding of right or wrong has to judge my actions, i´m better of going to a judge rigged against me
@DISTurbedwaffle918 i mean, in a way, it is satanic, as he believed in total freedom of the individual, but, you should have noticed that i specified that if someone were to go over another´s life project, the first one is the one being punished, so no, it is not satanic in this whole other way
2 likesalso, i know you think that lucifer guy is like the worst being ever, so calling half the world population hitler level´s of being bad is more like an ad hominem than a real argument against why being free is bad, you yourself said god gave us free will, why would he do that and then be mad at us for no obeying all of his orders to the letter? don´t give us free will if you want us to be robots :/
@Skylex157
0 likesSatan did not believe in individual freedom. Satan despises humanity, and desires our eternal torment, just as he condemned himself to eternal torment for hating humanity in the first place.
It is Satanic because it is evil, plain and simple.
@Skylex157
0 likesGod gave us free will so that our obedience would be genuine, and not forced. Those who reject God get exactly what they want: an eternity in His absence - Hell. Hell is not merely a place where the enemies of God are sent, it is the one place God has withdrawn His presence from. Thus, any who so despise their Father can experience the true torment that permeates reality if He were gone.
Satan is the worst being. He is the first to rebel against my Creator, and is the one responsible for the fallen state of mankind. Were it not for Satan, the only rule we'd have to follow would be to not eat from the tree of evil, as no other rules would be necessary. Instead, we have to watch over our souls from birth to death avoiding the occasions of sin, because some retard angel decided that he would rather damn himself than serve humanity.
@Skylex157
0 likesObedience doesn't make you a robot, it makes you a good person.
@Skylex157
0 likesThe definition of someone doing something bad is when they do something contrary to God's will. In Anarcho-Capitalist society, you either have money, or live a short and destitute life because helping poor people isn't profitable in a free market economy.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 if you like, read his story instead of coming up with what you think he has done, maybe i would hear what you hace to say, but you don't even know that all of what he did was because god created a whole race of slaves that exist just to fulfill his orders, called angels (you know, do things that he already can do because he is all-mighty) lucifer, tried to rebel against this god and he was brought down to earth from the heavens alongside the others who tried to help him in his revolution, he does not desire our eternal suffering, he wanted us to be able to know why he was bad, that's why he allured eva to eat the fruit, so she would be able to know that god is bad
1 likeMaybe you should stop reading so much bible and start diversifing your knowledge, you can start by understanding how satan really thinks before spreading bullshit, i don't like him either, but attacking the person instead of their thoughts is not a debate is an ad hominem fallacy combined with a strawman
@DISTurbedwaffle918 obedience is not a trait of a good nor a bad person, is just a trait, blind obedience is bad, that's what i'm pointing out
1 like@Skylex157
0 likesObedience to God is an objectively good trait.
Obedience to anyone else is dependent on whether they obey God or not.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
1 like2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it
Dude, it literally says that it looks nice and tasty and they are basically children, mentally speaking, therefore, yes, my argument still applies, god left a tree which there was no need to leave there, with two toddlers and freaking satan nearby, all of this knowingly, you can't get mad at them for actually eating the damn fruits
@Skylex157
0 likesPeople who oppose God: go to Hell.
People who obey God: go to Heaven.
If Satan didn't want humans to go to Hell, why does he encourage them to disobey God, and thus get sentenced to Hell? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@Skylex157
0 likes4 "You will not certainly die"
Is a blatant lie. Eve died, and it was a direct result of eating the fruit. Since the serpent is proven to lie, how do you suggest we prove his other statements are true?
@Skylex157
0 likesThey wouldn't have eaten the fruit if the serpent didn't tell them they'd become like God for doing so.
In fact, it would appear that this is the first time Eve has ever seen the tree, so your analogy of putting it "right in front of them" is disproven by your own citation.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 because he want to rebel from god? Like, all you know about hell comes from people who have never been there, so how do you know it is a torture chamber and satan is not making people willing to fight against god into an army?
0 likes@Skylex157
0 likesGod is omnipotent and omniscient. If a being has perfect knowledge, then siding with the omnipotent and omniscient being is purely logical. Satan, however, is not logical, he's petulant and prideful. He knew very well that he would lose, but would rather spite God and suffer forever than serve humanity.
Humanity was never meant to suffer. Neither were the Angels. However, God deemed that free will would be more important than preventing suffering, and so gave His creations free will to disobey and thus suffer, as much as that pains God to allow.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 DUDE, that is literally and extract from the freaking bible, like, literally quoting it, get your facts straight
0 likes@Skylex157 also, Cherubim are above Archangels in the Choirs. You would know that if you actually did any research.
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 not in front, ok, in the freaking center of the table, as it says in the bible that its in the middle of the garden, same shit, dude left 2 toddlers around sweats alone and with someone who he hates, the literal devil, and didn't intervine in any way even thought this would totally waste humanity in the future, and i must get this point across, he knew all of this
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 where in that part of the bible does it say that she dies? It literally says that she gains consiousness about herself being naked as something wrong and gets ashamed when god comes back, no dying there
0 likes@Skylex157
0 likesNot toddlers. Fully grown adult human beings who should have known better and DID know better. Eve literally says "If I eat this, I will die." It is only after Satan's constant lying that he convinces her to eat the fruit. That's like me putting a bowl of poison on the table in front of two middle aged adults, telling them not to drink the literal poison, and then some douchebag coming in and telling them that it's actually an immortality potion that they should drink, resulting in both of them dying.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 i never said that michael had a superior ranking, i pointed out he got the attention of an archangel, you know, it is not just a little pissed off random angel
0 likes@Skylex157
0 likesGenesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."
@DISTurbedwaffle918 so, he gave us free will to do whatever we want, and when we do whatever we want, people like you get mad, if you want to be logical, don't be emotional and viceversa, he wants us to do what he wants but with our own will, but doesn't give us all the tools to decide ourselves (none of that full knowledge) etc etc, it just doesn't seem like a good plan to me
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 i said toddlers, not defficient people with not the tiniest bit of reasoning, if god said this is going to kill you and you don't want to die, you don't do the thing they told you it would kill you, my point comes with satan aproaching and convincing them in 1 line about eating this fruit
0 likes@Skylex157
0 likesIf Humans had perfect knowledge, they wouldn't be Human, they'd be Angels. We have all the tools to decide for ourselves. Adam and Eve had all the tools in reality because they literally lived with God in Eden. Even then, they could be tempted, and thus able to die. Since Humans die, attaining perfect knowledge became impossible. We are, by our own folly, doomed. God, however, is merciful, and revealed all the necessary tools we require to be saved from our sins. He even went so far as to become Human Himself and allow Himself to be killed to prove how we can attain eternal life again.
God has suffered more than anyone who has opposed Him, because He was tortured and died, and bears witness to all of our sins personally.
@Skylex157
0 likesIt doesn't matter if they died right there or not, what matters is that they died as a result of eating the fruit.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 and doesn't that sound strange? Having a total evil madman who is just crazy and does bad things because "he is bad" my god, you can go to the cruelest person in the world, the one who ordered the most deaths without blinking and even they can cry tears packed with emotions other than self hatred and generalized hatred against humanity as a whole
0 likes@Skylex157
0 likesBecause Satan already tried that and got dunked on.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 all that is unneccesary, like, literally he could just implant in our minds this knowledge, just this one bit "be a good person, get yourself in a giant wooden crucifix to ascend" but no, he decided to do it once 2000 ago in an era where we can't even know if anything on the bible is real or not
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 i'm not saying i know a lot, i'm saying that i can come up with better plans than god's if i had his powers
0 likesWell if she wanted to escape she obviously didn’t spend long enough in the education camps
0 likesWell libs aren't commies at all but I get what you're saying
0 likes@GRANTIMUS PRIME OFFICIAL
0 likesNot all Liberals are Communists, but all Communists are Liberals.
i'm surprised no one has said that "she escaped because she was a slave owner and a rich bastard that only escaped because she couldnt be rich anymore" like tankies say to Cubans
0 likes@Damian Thorne that is fair, Karl Marx never wanted any of the long-lasting violence that pops up in a communist regime, his idea was just another economic philosophy
0 likesSure I agree that it doesn’t work, but in large part it doesn’t work because of the authoritarianism coupled with communism that ruins any “large equal society” attempt
However, I won’t be one of those people that says “tHaT wAsN’t ReAl CoMmUnIsM”, because ultimately communist ideas will be taken advantage of to form authoritarian dictatorships
Why would want to leave my country
0 likes@Andrew Sokolowski the more democratic a country becomes the more likely it will fall that is not crap. Would you want a country that is powerful and equal or would want a weaker country with dumber people and the only that is good is that you have some more liberties.
0 likesAlso, for the comment that is no longer available, no, 2000 years ago, people were more ignorant than us, by pure definition, only a selected few knew a little bit of everything, whatever they knew back then is nost likely know almost by default in this day and age, i'm not saying the were stupid, but there are a tona and a half of things they ignore in every field of science that makes them ignorant, and i assure you, in 2000 more years, we will be considered the ignorants
1 like@Skylex157 Honestly I'm completely baffled at that guys response to my message. I tried to be as respectful as possible, nd suddenly I'm an enemy of god who should be drowned? im so confused
0 likes@Anna Arkless we talked a few months ago, you can see it if you scroll up a bit, he said that god gave us free will and freedom so we can freely choose to go with him, i understand the sentiment, but saying "you can choose, but if you don't choose me, your meat will be burnt to the bones just to be regenerated and burnt again and again for all eternity" its not much of a choice,
0 likes@Anna Arkless
0 likesCommunism is derived from the works of Karl Marx, who based his points upon the ideas of the French Revolution, which was a Liberal movement.
Note: Liberal does not mean "Democrat," it refers to the broad range of ideologies which spawned from the ideological cesspool of the 17th Century, including Libertarianism, Classical Liberalism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Republicanism, Constitutional Monarchism, and Fascism, and National Socialism.
Every ideology I've listed is in direct opposition to the will of God, and must be trampled underfoot.
@Anna Arkless
0 likesIf the ideology opposes Catholic Hierarchical Monarchism, then it is Liberalism.
If the ideology opposes the Catholic Church, it is Satanism.
@Anna Arkless
0 likesMy God is the Foundation upon Whom all reality is made.
I don't care about what fleeting fad you subscribe to, I am here to annihilate the enemies of God or be in trying.
@Anna Arkless
0 likesThe world MUST be run upon the laws of God, or else all Mankind is damned for eternity.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 feel free to believe that, but luckily your insane ideas are just a fantasy
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 the world has been run under neoliberalism for a while, and while there are numerous obviously severe flaws, society is pretty objectively better than when the catholic church were in control
0 likes@Anna Arkless
0 likesWhen the Catholic Church was in control: golden age of art and philosophy, people had large families, people could find religious unity in spite of national differences, faith inspired men and women alike to great deeds and works, society was organized and orderly.
Society under Liberalism: wage slavery, shitty "art," subjectivity reigns, philosophy made illegal under pain of ostracism, disunity and hatred made the norm, people despise one another over petty bullshit like race and socio-economic class, child murder normalized, eugenics campaigns normalized, genocide normalized.
Yeah, so much better.
@Damian Thorne I know this is a year old but:
0 likesDude lived from his daddy fortune all his live, when dad died started leeching from his lil'bro.
Why? Cuz his dad knew he was stupid and wanted his legacy to last.
Dude never worked on his life, only stayed at university while "studying" and preaching how could a middle class even exist.
Sounds like today's college crybabies.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 Troll alert lmao
0 likes@CryoraptorA303TM I'm sorry that you're stuck in 2016.
0 likesI'll pray that you might be released from this horrible time prison.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 Ok trollski
0 likesيضحك تراك بتموت 😂
0 likes@رزيئة
0 likesFrater, ego quæro ut tu scribis in lingua Anglica, quia ego non intelligo signa Lunæ.
LMAOOO THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE
0 likesU.S.A is number 1
0 likes@DISTurbedwaffle918 Revolution does not equal genocide.
0 likesPick up a thesaurus.
Whilst both entail violence (though actually, revolutions can be peaceful, such as the industrial or agricultural revolution, because revolution is literally just a sudden change), revolutions do not entail the organised and advocated destruction of an ethnicity, culture, or religion.
However, genocide can occur during a revolution.
Essentially, revolutions can lead to genocide but not necessarily.
The American revolution did not comprise the wanton slaughter of British loyalist civilians, for example.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 btw
0 likesThe renaissance happened after the protestant schism.
Not before.
@DISTurbedwaffle918 You are correct, I forgot about the italian era.
0 likesThe renaissance reached its height and spread to the rest of Europe during Luther's early life in the 16th century. Before that it was almost entirely confined to the Italian Peninsula.
As it happens, Martin Luther thought the Catholic church was too lenient on all these entrepreunering artists and scientists. He thought it had grown too decadent. That is where his criticisms were founded.
As it happens, I am of catholic background but you appear to completely misunderstand where protestantism originated.
Judging from your comments, you would fit in far more easily into a 16th century protestant crowd than a catholic one, what with all your godliness bullshit.
As it stands, even in the modern era, protestant sects comprise the most radical elements of Christianity (evangelicals for example). Perhaps you should consider converting to that, because the Pope sure as hell does not support the views you have spouted here.
People who say that the color of someone's skin is the reason someone is successful are just people that can't make that success regardless of their race in the first place
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if i were a prostitute, i would need to be payed enough to buy a mansion made out of other mansions to LOOK at them.
4 likesReally tho. I guess they forgot about Shaq, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Kobe Bryant, Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Chadwick Boseman, John Boyega, Ben Carson, Oprah, Barack Obama, etc.
5 likesThat's some real oppression right there.
I mean look at captain America
0 likesPeople who say this have no understanding of American History whatsoever
2 likesI’m guessing their aren’t any questions like:
101 likes“I’ve never had a crime committed against me”
Or
“I’ve never been pressured to hide my emotions”
Or
Because those disproportionately affect males, so don’t count
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"I've never been financially ruined by divorce"
29 likes"I've never been injured and told to 'man up'"
"I've never been made to feel guilty because of things my ancestors did"
"I've never had a child I was treating well taken from me because my partner was abusive"
11 likes"I've never been had my problems seen as lesser or not existent because my gender is almost always seen as the oppressor"
#ShrekYourPrivilege
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Shrek is love
4 likesShrek is life
4 likes#greenlivesmatter
3 likesShrek is probably less privillaged than me accoring to buzzfeed
3 likesShrek has "pretty privilege"
0 likesThe more you call someone a racist Nazi xenophobe regardless if they are or not, the more that is what they will be. The words lose all their meaning after some time.
16 likes"If we were gonna keep getting called Nazis by everyone no matter what we did, then by george let's be Nazis"
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Truee
0 likesI concede that some people can be considered to be more "privileged" than others, like one born into a rich family versus one born into a ghetto family. But this is just absolute madness and shaming people for circumstances they have no control over.
38 likesHmm... that sounds familiar... if I didn't know better, I'd say this sounded like RACISM!
This was posted in 2016, height of anti-sjw rhetoric, so i don't think its that bad all things considered
9 likesThese people talk about being accepting, while constantly bringing up race, gender, and sexuality all the time.
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Don't bring it up and act like we are equal, and that is equal. Bringing it up and using it to stop equally important problems instead of fixing everyone's problems- seems pretty descrimitory.
0 likesAt least Buzzfeed was diverse in the hundreds of people it laid off in 2019 to make a quick buck. 🤷🏻♂️
119 likesMy business ethics teacher in college literally divided the class by race/sex. She had us "privileged" white males stand on one side of the room, and everyone else on the other. One guy stood in the middle because he's mixed race. She told him he looks "white enough" and pointed to the white male side.
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Is there truly no recourse for someone who does something so blatantly against the rules?
2 likesThis is the funniest and smartest channel I watch on YouTube.
304 likesThe argument that you who you are is not random is ingenious and I have never heard it before.
So funny how the person making the weirdest fucking videos on YouTube is also the most rational. Well done mate.
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Ted Rayner
9 likesNever mess with the bread and circuses. This is WHY people who make YTPs or videos about non political stuff get interested in politics in the first place. Things they like get filled to the brim with this idiotic rhetotic and it makes them question: How far does it go? They then question and postulate why and how did things get so ugly?
EmpLemon is smarter than most college professors, and that's saying something.
1 like"White men= privlaged"
30 likesMy dad is white and he lived like dirt. Depended on people that isn't even part of his family
Always remember we're in the age where people would rather spend their time and energy finding excuses and reasons for their failures rather than pursuing dreams and achieving goals by working hard and bettering themselves.
332 likesRemember that in this decade, people claim that being a heterosexual white male makes you automatically 10 times more likely to succeed in life than anyone else, because you know, if you're homosexual, bisexual, female, black, hispanic, asian, etc., it is a disability that causes you to succeed far less often.
You know the 10 hours a day these idiots spend on social media fighting for "equality"? They easily could have used that time to work hard, improve themselves, etc.
Remember, this is the age of excuses, not the age of advancement, at the current rate Humanity will start advancing technologically and scientifically at the rate of which we advanced during the medieval era, because people will be too busy crying about stupid made up bullcrap to actually try in life.
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It will bite our generation and later generations in the butt later in life. Eventually we will realize that what these people did were complete idiots, just make jokes and laugh at them for not being serious human beings. We are doing that now (obviously), but it will be more widespread in the future.
15 likesYa see this is what happens when a group of people go too damn long without a good ol’ fashioned war, plague, or famine! ; )
4 likesnice generalazation my dude
3 likes@youtube user it's accurate though. Our generation is absolutely pathetic.
6 likes@Kurt Trahan this comment aged poorly though, we have a worldwide plague and yet, we are equally or more stupid than before
4 likes@Skylex157 fucking YES
0 likesAnd I can only blame SHIT Tok for that
Reminder that if they actually cared they would be actually be protesting
0 likesYeah the video in question here is pretty terrible. But make no mistake, privilege is real and significant. Yes, as you’ve pointed out, it would be ridiculous to suggest that every white perish gets “+50 privilege points,” but that’s a bit of a straw man fallacy, and over simplified this concept — admittedly a lot of progressives don’t do the concept justice.
5 likesMany people in the world have benefited from factors that are out of their control, and many people in the world have been harmed due to factors that are out of their control. When entire generations of certain demographics are denied certain socioeconomic opportunities, even the most earnest and good hearted of successful individuals ought to understand that they likely would not have been quite as successful if all those demographics had been given the same opportunities.
Also yes, going to summer camp is not the best example of privilege. I’d say better examples would be textbooks and private tutoring, legal counsel, healthcare, transportation, childcare… the list truly goes on. If an individual’s father and grandfather and great grandfather etc were all denied opportunities because of factors that were outside of their control, and you were born into their family with the same disadvantages due to factors that are outside of your control, it doesn’t really seem fair that you should continue spending every afternoon babysitting your siblings while your parents are at work, and some classmate of yours is studying or spending time with friends or working a job to earn their own money or participate in a sport. It isn’t anybodys fault that these things happen, and Buzzfeed definitely isn’t solving anything, but this stuff is real and extremely important if we want to reduce unnecessary and unjust suffering in the world, which I’m pretty sure is like the main objective here
Also stop making privilege out to be a list of black and white criteria. Anybody who says you or your ancestors are automatically privileged or unprivileged based on skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. is simply wrong and doesn’t understand the concept. Don’t blame the ideology for the idiots who don’t get it. Get mad at them if you want, hell I encourage it, but don’t mistake a misinterpretation of a concept for the concept itself.
Finally someone under 30 on the internet respects their parents
9 likes“If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is. ' In this country, I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't."
109 likes-Christopher Hitchens
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ThATs OfFenCive
1 like@SaltpeterTaffy He's like the Avatar. When the world needed him the most, he vanished.
8 likeswatching shaq give birth to a pepperoni pizza is the weirdest thing i have seen in a long time
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Good
1 likeAh, it's so nice being a Straight White upper middle class male.
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it's so nice being an attack helicopter
112 likesit truly is Michael. all this privilege so few ways to abuse (all said in sarcastic manner)
7 likesSame, buddy. I also love the fact that I'm a Christian and live in America.
37 likessam nice PFP BTW
2 likesBut are you a CISGENDER male? If you answered yes, that's a -1 Privilege Point™.
11 likesYeah my man. I have so much privilege and it feels, so good.
10 likes@***** can't really do much when your unconscious
17 likesDid anyone else try the free snacks at the last patriarchy meeting?
39 likesAre you assuming my privilege? Triggered
3 likesLink6456 I sexually identify as Dirty Dan.
25 likesFeels great to be a white cis male supremist
9 likesLink6456 I'm the same but ethnic German
1 likeLink6456 Same :)
0 likesLink6456 its so great. Let's all look down on people and if they insult us we call them sjws even when they have insulted sjws. (Pretty much every extremist anti sjw thats obsesses over calling people sjws, even when they aren't.)
6 likesWho is Christian, don't forgrt
0 likes+800 privilege points
0 likesThe only thing that they dont have previlege is Being Critizied for having such "*previlege*"
0 likesit really must be nice
1 likeLink6456 same 😂
0 likes@Punished Pokemon Fanboy dude the Cheetos they had there were so good I think it was like a rip-off brand but my kkk hood got Cheeto dust all up on it
0 likesCome for the facts, stay for the memes.
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In my case, it's the other way around
4 likesIn my case, I came for Emplemon, and stayed for Emplemon
3 likesStop checking your privilege and start checking the early life section on Wikipedia
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me when jewish.
2 likesIf people were to stumble across this today they'd be so offended 🤣🤣🤣
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They can’t handle the truth!!!
11 likesIt sucks the politicians in both sides of the isle can't sit down and have honest, constructive debates/discussions anymore, everything is about the absolute hatred of what the other side stands for.
3 likesAnd it only went downhill from this point of time. Now that kind of talk like this buzzfeed video is mainstream.
10 likes"Judge a man not based on the color of his skin, but the content of his character." is apparently racist now.
1008 likes- The color of your skin matters more than merit now. It's sad.
Awesome vid, Lemon!
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No we are the people who support him for what he said not what you feel or how you think it means.
62 likes"The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity." -MLK, 1967 "Where Do We Go from Here?"
10 likes"I contend that the cry of "Black Power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro." -MLK, 1966, an interview with Mike Wallace
"The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power." -MLK, 1967 "The Three Evils of Society"
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” -MLK, 1967, Southern Christian Leadership Conference speech
and my personal favorite, "First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." -MLK, 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
I can quote MLK too. Not trying to undermine anyone's point, but context matters. MLK was a leftist radical and this is the kind of change he stands for.
+Reggo Waffle I think what OP and cormier are trying to convey is a satire or joke about current SJWs, and how they blow everything out of proportion in literally the most immature ways beyond mortal comprehension, not about Martin Luther King Junior himself, who was an actual Social Justice Warrior. More like a Social Justice Ninja actually, as he was more mature, and effective at achieving his goals than the SJWs of today.
53 likesDesert Tortoise 21 did you literally not even read my comment? Martin Luther King has said very similar (if not the exact same) things as the current left are saying today. The only reason people respect him now is because we know now that he was right about civil rights.
5 likesMeanwhile, "SJW" is a shitty meme meant to trivialize and mock people for calling shitty societal norms into question.
Maybe op is being satirical but it's pretty shit for satire and these "center left" shits taking MLK out of context has me pissed
Saying that's racist is saying that having a african american in something is racist.
9 likesWhat does left or right even have to do with this, just because someone has a different opinion doesn't make them evil.
13 likesCOMPLAIN COMPLAIN COMPLAIN
5 likesI prefer that they call me asshole based on my attitude than because they associate it with my race which I am Caucasian Hispanic
5 likesIt's racism with a new coat of paint.
6 likesAbsolutely, positively, exactly right. Racism used to be defined as treating some races better than others. Today it's defined as treating all races equally and not giving special perks to people simply for being nonwhite and/or Hispanic. Of course, this is the exact opposite of racism, at least to those of us with functioning brains, but leftists, progressives, and SJWs come up with their own meanings and definitions of words independent of what they mean IRL.
6 likes@Vinnie SamDude That was in 1967, over 50 years ago. Even if it was true then, that doesn't mean it's true now.
2 likes@Vinnie SamDude MLK may have been radical by the standards of his time, but he would be considered moderate by today's.
9 likes@Vinnie SamDude To be fair, in the time he lived, the points we constantly quote were incredibly radical, putting him in a radical crowd. His other beliefs likely arose from being in an echochamber of radicals, and constantly hearing their viewpoints and nothing else.
3 likes@Vinnie SamDude “MLK was a radical in his time”
2 likesI’ve never understood this line of thinking. Sure, sixty years ago MLK would be considered a political radical. Socrates, Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglas were also radicals to some during the times in which they lived, but their ideas are now so commonplace that most don’t even give them a second thought. Attitudes change and societies evolve; what’s radical in one period may be conservative in another, and vice versa.
I gotta say, I love your choice of music. You could even say it's great background music for going over a "Lizst" of all the things wrong with SJWs and progressives.
36 likesI just find it incredible how behind the façade of absurd YTP, EmpLemon pushes some decent analytical content :o
4 likesWhat is it called again when someone, for example a Buzzfeed employee, holds the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another? It is on the tip of my tongue here...
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
5 likesI think it's called racism, could be wrong tho
What you are describing is definitely racism... if you believe these things are inherent qualities of people from certain races. These people don't believe that people of different races have certain characteristics, abilities, or qualities inherently due to their race, but rather due to the way society is set up and has played out in the past. Some people from certain backgrounds have ended up beginning their lives with different amounts of resources (ex. money, personal and family assets, role models, parents/guardians, etc.), and some of these resources used to be directly restricted from certain groups of people by law. While this isn't done anymore, the effects from it happening in the past have yet to fully dissipate, and as such, we are left with people of certain races holding less generational wealth (usually being the strongest predictor of one's economic outcome in adulthood) than others *on average*, making members of them often less economically priveleged *on average*. What upsets me, is when I see some liberals demonize people with privelege, when what we actually need to do is educate people on what these positions and terms actually mean. There is no way we are going to get meaningful change and a movement towards equality in this world by screaming and shouting at each other.
6 likesyou've earned yourself a subscriber with your hilarious editing and valid, inspirational points. I'm a straight white male in high school at the moment, and both my parents are white. However, we are struggling financially and lots of sacrifices have had to be made to stop us from going completely broke. It doesn't matter if you're white. You choose who you want to be. I am working hard in school to get into a great college education, and I'm hoping for the best from the future. Thank you for inspiring me to keep it up even if it seems hopeless.
5 likesIrony is that people who like to use these ludicrous terms are more racist than the ones they claim are "racists".
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"Excuse me? You think you can just use fancy big words like 'ludicrous' to make yourself sound smarter?"
54 likes-Someone, somewhere in the world. I guarantee it.
@dtexs04 Liberals who can't form a cohesive argument, so they insult the opposition.
58 likesThey can only silence, mock, and insult the opposition, as well as turtle themselves from reality.
37 likesPrima!
0 likesI've never had a problem with people who had different colored skin than me specifically. I had all kinds of friends growing up, plenty of different heritages and ethnicities, I also knew plenty of assholes and bullies who were just as diverse.
49 likesThe bullies were the only ones who ever made things about race.
But apparently I'm a hating, baby killing racist now because of my skin color lol
My forefather died commanding a regiment and fighting for the North in 1864, yet I'm compared to a minority of Confederate slave traders? Wow, that isn't double standard.
Also, don't forget the classic "MEN ARE EVIL BECAUSE TOXIC MASCULINITY BUT ALSO LET'S LAUGH AT ANY MEN WHO SHOW ANY WEAKNESS OR EMOTION OR FEMININITY AND THEN GO ON TO MANIPULATE THEM BASED ON THE FACT THAT MASCULINITY IS SO VALUABLE IN SOCIETY FOR MEN BECAUSE WE'RE NOT HYPOCRITES."
15 likesSeriously
0 likesNolan Kadinger
0 likesDiversity is great if you live behind a gate.
I am a white male who grew up in a middle class household
6 likesBut I have Autism, have borderline depression, pa sexual, and has almost a lot of mental illness
Wow, saying that Neurological stuff is less important then race and gender when you can change that but not neurological
I took the quiz and I've never seen the most unproductive, ironically racist thing in my life.
21 likesI've never understood how it is somehow my fault that I was born a straight white male and am making the most of what I have around me. My parents grew up somewhat similar to yours so I completely am with you on that point. Yeah it sucks that some people simply don't have the resources available to them and it's important to be aware of that. However to blame people for having those resources available to them like it's their fault is ridiculous. Instead of blaming groups of people based solely on their gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, it would at least make more sense to blame people that do have certain resources available to them and decide to take them for granted.
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kyle shadeck I couldn’t have said it better myself ^^
0 likesYeah this feels like a video from 5 years ago
12 likesInstead of focusing on actual issues (e.g. homelessness, poverty, hunger, war. environment, etc.) it seems that people are creating their own issues so people will feel sorry for them. Instead of spending time and effort blaming other people for something they have no control over or being 'triggered' over something as minor as an internet comment, they should focus on what actually matters, especially things that affect others instead of themselves.
2138 likesBut hey, I have no right to speak since I was born a while male. Although apparently I can identify as literally anything, so I guess I'm a schqueemale half-Hispanic Otamatonesexual gingerqueer Floridian, thus removing my privilege.
Keep on rantin', Lemon.
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Numberer1 PATRIARCHY111111
2 likesZanthor that was so rape culture I literally can't even
3 likesEffect*
0 likesotomatonesexual
16 likesheh heh
"Floridian"
19 likesI legit can't stop laughing and now I'm dying of an asthma attack as I write this.
(Good thing none of it matters, since I'm a cis straight white guy!)
Lord appulsaws
15 likesThey only choose soft targets and not real problems because it would challenge what they were fed by others. They find it easier to show vitriol towards a dead horse, yet the same cultures they defend (for egotism mind you) would treat them like utter trash.
I identify as a Pentasexual Purple Pineapple.
10 likesActually, I thinl that because of the hate on white straight males, the word "feminist" became something you don't want to be associated with. When feminism started, being a feminist meant that you feel that men and women are equals and gender does not matter. Nowdays it's associated with saying "fuck straight white males". Like, I'm a bisexual woman and I'm actually ashamed of it, but noth because people think I'm a lesser creature than others, but because of how my own group shames other groups. This is how low society went. Where every single group of people is disrespected by the others.
27 likesYou do have a left to speak though.
1 likeI couldn't agree more, Numberer1.
0 likesIssues exist, but keep in mind we're still debating as to whether or not someone can't get a house or be accepted for a job solely based on being in love with someone of the same gender.
2 likesIt's harder to solve actual problems than the ones that are made-up
1 like@Candy Corn True. Though simply learning to respect others is way easier than the Right is making it out to be.
0 likesHey, I remember watching your ytps. Also who cares about gender, sexuality, or race? We are all flipping people.
6 likesI identify as a cute neko anime girl :3
2 likesi identify as a mistake of nature
4 likesin buzzfeed's eyes that makes me a cis white male, which i am
I'm not attractive
1 likeI'm not handsome/beautiful
I'm not intelligent
I'm not nice
I'm not rich or successful
And despite that, I stay strong and standing, proud of who or what am I or I look like.
To those who's similar like me,
Stay strong👊👊👊
I would counter that too many of yall make these trivial culture war issues your main gripe as well, both sides putting most of their energy into this bullshit. But hey its fun to rant sometimes.
0 likesThe fact that you're Floridian does remove your privilege tho.
0 likesOh hey there, @Numberer1, nice seeing you here. When is your next installment of the COLD YTP franchise?
0 likesGood comment, but wtf was that bit on the end? You can't LITERALLY identify as anything, just gender and sexuality, which are completely valid in most cases. And yeah, at this point it's such a sensitive issue you can't even joke about it. Sorry bro
1 likeCringe
0 likes@رزيئة boss I think you should spend time with family instead of watching YouTube if you are really going through this shit
0 likesThe issues of homelessness, poverty war, and hunger, has existed since the beginning of the human race.
0 likesThe fact that we as a species can fix these issues, yet actively choose not to is ridiculous.
Thank you EmpLemon. There are people out there that NEED to see this video, to truly understand how stupid and irrational they were to believe in the system, known as "cHeCk yOuR PrIvElEdge"
1 like"So idiotic that it makes you wonder how humans think this way". Yep it always makes me wonder. Even if I never get clear answers
2 likesI did a test once and said that I am a straight white male. "I am privileged"
1 likeI did that test again with exact same answers except I said that I am a LGBTQ black woman. "I am not priveleged"
Dose being called a member of the kkk on the school bus count as a racial slur
9 likesI identify as a Counter Strike and I find this Globally Offensive.
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Nice one
82 likesim the 69th like
19 likesNoice
12 likesAAAYYYY
7 likesI normally don't like these jokes, but this one is freaking clever, I like it
28 likesXûr Hell ye another comrade
2 likesI find this Source
4 likesXûr
1 likeBadum tss
@General Horse ehm, check your privilege!
10 likes@Mark Mountainstream You need to learn what sarcasm is troll.
0 likesStop bein' rude to nonbinary people, yo
1 likehow long did it take for you to come up with that
2 likes@General Horse It was a good one
2 likesI identify as a cute neko anime girl :3
2 likes@General Horse aparently it is, cuz people use it like that. especially if theres a bonus to be had if you identify as a woman.
2 likes@Mr. Moron Transgender women are a real legitimate thing sir.
0 likes@General Horse i know, and people who fake being transgender to get sympathy exist too.
7 likes@Mr. Moron That's not really a legit phenomenon. Maybe there's one or two jerks out there but it's certainly not big enough to be focused on compared to say, non-binary people.
1 like@General Horse it's very legit, ik 5 people who do it
6 likes@Mr. Moron Really? Then why haven't I heard about this being a big thing across all of society?
1 like@Mr. Moron Outside of fear-mongering that lead to the bathroom bills of course.
1 like@General Horse at this point everyone just gave up documenting the bullsh*t some people are doing.
5 likes@General Horse first ever? they were recognised since 1952! don't try to pull that without even checking your data
5 likes@General Horse also, thnak you for going along with all of this!
3 likeslol the troll stopped responding
1 likeHow do I like twice
1 like@Theanonymouswayz new acc
0 likes@M's Tech - Gaming and More! okie making 800 bot actually counts now
1 likeI was just thinking “does Counterstrike count” on the slur questions
0 likesi find these source
0 likescoutner strike xbox 360
@SaltpeterTaffy I did call people out for actually doing bad things.
1 likeAlso it's kind of telling how you used an F bomb to try and dismiss me.
I sexually identify as an attack helicopter so i can fly away of certain people that are within my league
3 likesLMAO xD
0 likesthrowing flashbang
0 likes@General Horse Hate speech? it's a joke, an offensive joke it's supposed to be offensive. Do you think attacking the top will never get old? Jokes know no limits why it come to insulting people, and decriminates against no one, and lot of jokes are so we can laugh at ourselves.
5 likesNice
0 likesThat gets a god damnit from me
0 likesHomie if Nazi is a gender that should be to
0 likesOK Rain
0 likesfunny
0 likes@Deborah Wilkerson no
0 likes@Ryanormous9
0 likesNah
A privilage, from what iv'e been taught, is something you earn and deserve. Some actions can lead to this privilege being taken away, hence needing to be earned again to get it back.
0 likesPrivilage is just Flexing that you're alive.
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Living Privilege.
6 likesSpare a thought for those who lost the birth lottery by never being born.
"Yeah I'm underpriviledged. Now where's my 230 bonus SAT score?"
41 likesMy actual face when I got a Wii U.
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1 like 1 prayer
4 likesNah Wii U better than Switch by miles
3 likes@Link the Pig
0 likesNah the Wii is better than both combined
@Rumble Bird
0 likesRelied top much on motion imo
@Horpus Corpus
0 likesOh the toaster? True gamers appreciate the house plant the most.
Man, this video, in heinsight, reminds me a lot of the stuff I've seen being played out in the whole Australian politics thing where they make you... basically state whether or not you have aboriginal dna, which, if you do, you get certain benefits... most of the people in the advertisement looked white as fuck and looked like they had no aboriginal ancestors whatsoever... Although, it looks like in the ad, faking your ancestry is seen as raising awareness for the problems, which sure, is a good cause, but damn... I might've misremembered the advertisement entirely, but something perturbed me about it.
1 likeI'm pretty confused about half this stuff sadly though, and my opinions aren't very solid so I'll probably fall for this shit, which is what I hate.
Really good video, you are one of my favorite YTers bc of how real you keep things. It sucks that you don't upload too often, it's ok though, Quality over quantity
0 likesDang wish more people could see this. Spitting straight facts, especially at the end.
3 likesYour commentaries are so entertaining, interesting and thought-provoking. I wouldn't mind if you made more of these.
0 likesBuzzfeed back at it again, judging people for the color of their skin.
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Furry
0 likesOof
0 likesSo apparently children are also privileged, can't think of a 5 yr old Who pays rent or works as a waiter
5 likeswell thought out videos with appropriate times for jokes, like the shift in content from poops to rants. Good Job Emp
0 likesI feel that, although certain people or groups can misinterpret it meaning, privilege does not necessarily mean anybody should feel ashamed of their background, but rather it's a term to remind people of how certain demagraphics have to make more of an effort to be in the same position that you are. For instance, how to get paid the same as you, a woman would have to work for a higher position (Statistically speaking) Or how inost fields, African American people will find it harder to stick the same job a white guy can. I feel it's best not to look at privilege as a devaluation of your work, but rather it gives you the chance to congratulate and acknowledge those less fortunate around you. That is all.
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Yea; I get what you mean, and I'd say I agree. Like, there's obviously no inherent biological advantage in being white, male, heterosexual, whatever. But that demographic of people is disproportionately more successful on average than others. This doesn't invalidate any of the difficulties and hardship and effort a white person deals with; it just means that, like it or not, they statistically have an unfair advantage over an otherwise identical non white person. Emp I think makes a few good points, though overall I think it's mostly rhetoric like what he's commenting on that's alienated him and people like him, rather than the real issue of privilege. Like, I think he and most people in the comments would understand what white privilege is if someone took the time to explain it in a respectful, non-confrontational kind of way, but it gets more people's attention to do the opposite, so I'd doubt this kind of us vs them kind of approach is going anywhere.
2 likesThats a nice way of looking at it
3 likesI'm a Liberal and i hate the "Buzzfeed Culture" that my generation seems to have latched on to and instances like this are why.
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jgonascar plus the fact that the word "liberal" has been brought down to that level. I can't even say that's what I am anymore, so I just say that I'm a humanist, cause it's basically the same thing without the political connotation
58 likesjgonascar same. Nice to see a fellow racing fan.
10 likesNPC 4773480
0 likesExactly. Don’t fall into the trap of being polarized by everybody’s this or that view on things.
2 likesSame
0 likes@Ted Spacey ye like when obama was president everything was fine but when trump became president the US died according to the SJWs & 3rd wave feminists
9 likesI'm a conservative and i'd like to say Amen
3 likes3 year's later are you still liberal
0 likesjgonascar i can respect that
1 likeLiterally we should remove identity politics from our system. And have true conservatives and true liberals. People who believe big government is bad, or good.
5 likesCan we not be liberals or conservatives and just be people instead?
5 likesCAPTAINARWHAL45 yeah can we that’s why I’m neutral
2 likeswhenever I watch your videos. I gain my lost brain cells back, I didn't know that was possible!
0 likesThanks EmpLemon!
I like how you know this guy is an outsider when he references an obscure simpsons meme that like two people know about
3 likes4 years later this is more relevant than ever.
12 likesThis was the moment that the downward spiral had infected EmperorLemon.
12 likesWait
460 likesDid
That
Guy. Just
Say
"Big fat chocolate woman"
WAT
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SnowyStormz yeah, fesh pince
41 likesKrōduss
3 likesIntersectionality is a cancer.
No, he just said fat chocolate woman.
18 likesof blair
4 likesI forgot context but I remember it was a really funny joke
1 like#CancelWillSmith?
2 likesForest S. Yeah no, that was Will Smith from 27 years ago..:
2 likes@King Krispy I know, I was making a joke...
4 likesForest S. h ok
1 likeThings like that used to be funny but now its racist
4 likesHow does this not have more views? Oh yeah
12 likesYouTube doesn't like quality well researched topics that aren't what they like.
The best type of commentary is the one that stays relevant over the years... I think that's how that quote went
8 likesDamn I didn't know EmpLemon could be so motivational.
2 likesi fully support the decision to do this content. fuck yeah dude
180 likes2016 content hits different
14 likesWe failed. This is reality now.
Jacksfilms made an accurate privilege quiz
29 likesThat's hilarious I have a similar background and I feel exactly the same way! Most people like to complain because they've made stupid decisions and in the short term it seems smarter to make others that have made decent decisions look bad... BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY LIFE IS PURELY ABOUT APPEARANCES! (than to obviously "get a life" work hard and have an end result. I just feel bad for people like that)
1 likeMe, white dude, got 42/100
3 likesGonna cite this to the Buzzfeed regular-readers at my school, they'll be shocked to hear that them telling me to kill myself because of my skin color counts as "being oppressed" by their own terms.
My dad went through so much shit as a child all the way to where he is now. He lived in a one bedroom apartment with bugs and an alcoholic grandfather. His mom and dad died when he was young. He lived in the murder capital of the country at the time. But ya know what? He tries his hardest to get good grades and, eventually, gets into one of the best private schools in the country. Things happened though, and he hit rock bottom again. The stress got to him and he ended up doing drugs. One day, he picked him self off the streets, and got to work. Years later, and he owns a home, has a wife, and a is a great father. He had to and still has to work hard, and ya know what? He thinks privilege is bs. He’s a Hispanic Male who had a shit life, but he believes anyone could make a life for themselves here in America.
49 likesMy mom was poor growing up. Her mom and dad had spilt, causing my grandma to work multiple jobs. My mom was called racial slurs and cussed at, bullied and lied to, but she made the best of a bad situation. Now, I live in a Big house with my siblings. My parents have good jobs and I have everything I could want. My dad looks like your average Middle age Guy, but he’s not. He’s the best dad ever.
Tl;dr My mom and dad had shit growing up but now they live happy lives.
Fuck communism, white privilege nonsense, and politics in general.
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Privilege is bullshit, the rewards of your hard work shouldn't be meaningless because of your race.
8 likesI don't like it when anyone denounces 'all young people', on the grounds of growing up being harder back in their youth.
1 likeHaving future generations lives be easier is kinda the point of it all, isn't it?
In my opinion one of the biggest problems with the quiz is that they define standards as privileges, most of these "privileges" are stuff every human should have, and it seems they are saying that since you have had something everyone should have, a standard, then you should feel guilty because not everyone has had this standard.
1 likeIf I wasn't female, I'd be the worst enemy of everyone at my school. Me and one of my friends are the only conservatives I know that attend the school that I go to. Is having Asperger's Syndrome considered privileged? Because I have an excuse to go to that school and sit on my ass and do nothing and get a 3.76 GPA. I don't study, I almost never have homework, nothing. But I also don't have people I can see eye-to-eye with, which, if I'm being honest, makes me feel like the minority here.
2 likesBeing white, Christian, cisgendered, straight, and conservative are the death sentences of this world now. Again, if I was male, I'd be dead already.
This was so refreshing to watch. No wonder, its from 2016!
10 likesI usually agree with everything you say Emp, but using the original Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 instead of the remix from The End is Nigh is heresy of the highest degree!
7 likesIts hard to admit you have some sort of privilege when you've amounted to very little in spite of it! :)
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LOL
0 likesThis gets more relevant as time goes on
29 likesWeird thing is I actually felt encouraged and confident after watching this video.
0 likesBuzzfeed is why Conservatives dislike Liberals
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Amen
28 likesThat's why im a lefty rather than a liberal. Yes, there is a difference.
65 likes@Eric Lefeld You do realise its the exact opposite the people who Americans called liberals are not liberal in the slightest.
57 likesThere is also a divide between people on the left side of the political spectrum, some like 1st and 2nd wave feminism, but not 3rd and are also smarter than the other type, which are the SJWs.
11 likes@snorf you have no idea what you're talking about lmfao
4 likesIt would help if Conservatives understood what the word Liberal meant
18 likesGodzilla 123 You, for example, conflate being a Democrat and a liberal as interchangeable words. I would also assume that you “socialism” and “capitalism” are two black & white economic policies?
5 likesBuzzfeed is basically alt liberals while Alex Jones is alt right
7 likesGriffin Steers This right here
0 likesIt's also why liberals dislike liberals.
2 likes"Dislike" is a light way of putting it
0 likesEric Lefeld leftists are even worse
2 likes@Prometheus facts
0 likesWell. I looked at that comment, I looked on the comment section beneath it and I am not in the slightest suprised, that it didn't got any smartter down the answers.
1 like@cryoffe Buzzfeed actually supports democracy. We are a Republic, not a democracy.
6 likesMost people don't know what conservatism is either. The most conservative person in the white house that I know of is Mike Pence....and he is pretty laid back for some of the views he holds. Most people today, are what liberals were 80 years ago. Conservatism has more to do with preserving order in society.
Long ago, liberals and conservatives lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Hippies attacked. Only the Centrists, master of order and liberty, could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they remained silent. A hundred years passed and independents discovered the new party, a party named Libertarian, and although their Liberty skills are great, they have a lot to learn before they're ready to save this country. But I believe Libertarians can save the West.
@Eric Lefeld I hope for your sake it's a big enough difference, in your case, to avoid our general dislike of the left. If it is, maybe you're a rational person.
0 likescryoffe You must not be American
0 likes@Dogtag Yeah it's like the modern corporate-backed clickbait-driven versions of those sides of politics.
0 likes@Cruel Chris I believe that gamers can save the west
2 likesyep, and it’s infuriating for normal lefties like me
0 likesBuzzfeed is the reason why many people don't take modern liberals seriously
1 like@I am slightly better than you I'm not so sure about that....
0 likesConservatives are mord liberal than the type of person calling themselves "liberals".
0 likes@I am slightly better than you Indeed
0 likesYes
0 likes@Leonidas Junior Johnson Wouldn't they mutate and become worse due to the radiation though?
0 likesYes
0 likesWell... most of this comment thread is fairly disappointing. But, I have learned something today. And that is that the only content on this channel I can actually appreciate, is the never ever series. Yeah, that's about right.
2 likesI hate pretty much all political alignment, because anyone who aligns anywhere on the political spectrum makes it a point to hate most other political alignments and can't decide any way to express their alignment other than shitposting about other political alignments in situations where even expressing your political alignment doesn't make sense. In layman's terms: "Oh, this video is a rant about privilege. Fuck liberals."
I'll look out for the next Never Ever, and it's been an interesting 4 days subscribed to this channel, but I think I'm ready to move on with my life.
Why does buzzfeed exist it only divides
1 likeI actually like these rant videos. They're very informative and well made, especially when you add some of the "YouTube Poop aesthetics" to the videos. It's very interesting and unique. I like it. I just wish some people would be more accepting to these new kinds of videos. Not everybody is happy always making the same kind of content for the rest of their lives.
0 likesYou actually made some pretty good points in this video. I'd even put you up there with some of my favorite ranters of all time.
Also, I didn't know you were half-white half-Chinese. I guess you learn something new everyday! (I'm actually half-Hispanic half-white since I'm Puerto Rican, Spaniard, German and Italian, specifically from Sicily, but I mostly identify as Hispanic). 😃
5:16 Actually, the Wii U had some great exclusives later init's life, and, from my point of view, "Tank Tank Tank!" is quite underrated.
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> It's all been ported to the Switch at this point.
0 likes@Kira Slith Wow 3 years later lmao
0 likesXenoblade X was the best game on the wii u and didn't get a switch port
0 likesWho’s here after the media started it back up again in 2020?
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I see your 2020 and raise you 2021
4 likesWhen they don't have a scapegoat to cry victim at they go back to crying about generic "people" being the cause of their woes. TDS was just another symptom of being trapped in the liberal matrix.
3 likesWhere's your apprentice, Anakin?
0 likesyou're doing god's work
4 likesI took the quiz to see what was on it, and there's a question in there asks "Are your parents heterosexual?" Does Buzzfeed understand how human reproduction works?
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You could be adopted.
39 likes@Is This Important? That doesn't change the fact that your biological parents would be heterosexual.
78 likes@Sam Holt-Williams I've met many people who don't consider their biological parents their actual "parents." The people who raise you obviously have a lot more to do with your social development than someone who isn't involved with your life.
41 likes@Is This Important? You make a very good point. I agree completely that coming from the adopted person's perspective, the person raising you would of course be considered way more important than their biological parents.
42 likesNot to be that guy but being bi is a thing
10 likesAlmost no one is like this lol
0 likes@Sam Holt-Williams if you were adopted from birth you wouldn't know your birth parents and would likely consider you step parents your parents.
3 likes@Nathan M that too
0 likesGay adoptive parents or heterosexual parents, it has nothing to do with privilege
0 likesi haven't looked at the trending tab in years.
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No one has
3 likesYou mean you don't like Jimmy Kimmel videos?
10 likesAny time I accidentally click on trending, I try to click the dots to click "not interested" but you can't do that on the trending tab.....then I realize I'm on the trending tab and feel gross.
10 likesNever had and never will
0 likesEmpLemon, you're a little late on the PC rant side of YouTube. But it's nice to see someone like yourself take this stance, you can offer insight to the new people with little understanding on the subject, good on you man, I hope to see more. Also, adding memes makes this even more enjoyable, so thank you and I hope you enjoy where you're going as well! Much love my dude.
0 likesthe "fat chocolate woman" clip from prince of bel-air (i think) catches me off guard all the time
7 likesCopy and pasting from the website:
1 likeYou live with 70 out of 100 points of privilege.
You're quite privileged. You've had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don't have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.
My dad grew up in a machine shop and his family was so poor that one year his family couldn't a Christmas tree. Yet instead of complaining about how unprivileged he was he got his act together, saved up for college and now I live a wonderful life.
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A Christmas tree? That's the big example of how poor he was? 😂😂😂
1 likeI think this is the best video on the internet, Emp Lemon throughly explains how race and sex has absolutely nothing to fucking do with success.
1 likeMy father and mother were white but they grew up poor, they got an education because they worked hard to study and make good relationships with at least one of their parents not because they were white
I love all of Emp's videos and thought I'd have fun watching this, but I only managed to watch the first clip from the buzzfeed video before my brain physically boiled with contemptuous rage and poured in a grisly steaming waterfall from my ears.
1 likeI'd say do both my dude. Make rants, make analysis videos, make whatever the fuck you want.
0 likesI fucking died when Woody dunked his head in bleach.
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So did Woody.
3 likesI confess that I fell into the trap of saying that somebody who has never had to worry about rent doesn't know what is good for poor people. THat happened today.
0 likesEmp is right though. You can't change who you are. Even though the case I was thinking about was someone who was denying that people who get held back a year in school are then discriminated by society.
The issue being that there is an importance in realizing what is up to you and what's not.
The buzzfeed video defeats the purpose and it sickens me to see young people spend their days saying bullshit to sound liberal, when there is so much out there that can be done to actually help.
You are one of the few with thr balls and brain cells to make a factual and sensible argument.
0 likesWhy check your privilege when you can SHREK your privilege???
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My God ... Your a genius
4 likeshell yeah
1 likeBased on my so called “privilege” from this test I am cos white person in the middle class who has almost everything handed to me on a silver platter because I live in a suburban neighborhood. It also says because I am female I have to be a victim and live for feminism. This is why I am not a third wave feminist. The wage gap is for another time. But, in reality I was raised by a single mom with three kids, I am in the disappearaning middle class, my mental state is wreaked, I have been diagnosed with depression, I have almost been anorexic, the fact that I am female will give me a boost if I join the sciences, and I am unstable to the point where I have though of killing people and have almost killed someone.
0 likesI'm bedridden, have autoimmune diseases, chronic incurable diseases, half native Cherokee half white (hah), poor, dad was poor & died at just 52 because though I loved him, he had no common sense & chain smoked himself to death leaving me, 16 at the time, to drop out & work just so mom & I could eat (I was healthy until 19). I'm also a 5' 2" ginger & nobody takes me seriously, even guessing I'm 15-17. Now I'm living with my 64 year old mom & 70 year old stepdad because I literally can't do anything & fall quite often, landing head first without protection (you'd think I'd get a concussion by now). From 19 to 29 I literally couldn't urinate due to nueroginic bladder & thus if I count it up I have used over 1,000 catheters at least. I'm nearsighted so badly I can hardly focus beyond 3". We're on food stamps & all disabled but Medicaid doesn't cover most things unless "it's life threatening" like what the crap?! Dad's hereditary diseases passed to me, including a tooth destroying one, so I had to get every tooth removed & felt it ALL.
5 likesBut you know what? I'm pretty happy, I don't seek pity, & I take all I do have as a blessing while some people have a temporary problem & whine.
You just need to be strong & it can take time. Being white & native or having incurable diseases doesn't mean I should get more than others. I'm fact, I care more about others than myself!
This modernized SJW bill needs to stop before someone starts a big attack on whatever side. Not all can control their emotions like me & just go "meh, whatever" so it needs to stop. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I love all, but that doesn't mean I like what they think of do, or force feed young people.
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I just want you to know that you may in fact be the unpriviliged person since the URSS meant something, the fact that you can be happy even with all that goes to show how is not only what we are physically what makes us "us", but what we have in the mind as well
0 likesMore of these casual talk/rant/story podcasts, pretty fun to listen to
0 likesI think Lemon's been on a downward spiral mentally and now he's lost it completely.
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what if he went up?
15 likesIf that is true, I'm a potato.
3 likesFuck,
4 likesWe've been saying that fr years.
Lost it completely? The spiral is infinite. There is no low point because he keeps getting crazier.
11 likesYeah, I would totally think that too if I had a Shark Tale picture as my profile picture.
1 likeI love how people think I'm being serious with this comment when I'm obviously being sarcastic.
2 likes+HolyShitBabyJesusIsOnFire. I feel ya
0 likes@HolyShitBabyJesusIsOnFire It's kind of hard to express emotion through a 2D Monitor.
3 likes@James Mitchell Not true, I once brought someone to tears of joy using only text. I used ENGLISH.
1 likeI just think he wanted to discuss something that was out right, wrong... In his opinion of course.
0 likes+David Wardrop I think America shouldn't vote this year
0 likes@Death Beats64 Don't fuck with us boy.
3 likesWow thanks now I can add that to my search history
1 like@Broughnut Doughnut Are your parent's home?
1 likeAny minute now...
2 likesyour profile pic and name are perfect
1 like@***** 7/10, too much Potato.
0 likes@Fabreeze Fresh F R E S H
0 likesBut Chick Tracts are fucking hilarious. Have you read Dark Dungeons, or literally any of the others? It's even funnier because Jack Chick is completely serious. I freaking love them.
2 likesAhh, the birth of a legend.
5 likesSounds like Liberal media.
0 likesHolyShitBabyJesusIsOnFire hey your comment got on his empty subscribers video!
1 likeEDIT: your comment is also basically his about tab. Congrats!
Don't you mean upward spiral?
0 likesWHITE SLATE Holy shit, it did? What time in it?
0 likesI can see why.
0 likesNot only in this commentary brilliant but the meme edits are sublime and this is 4 yo to boot
2 likesoh yes, as a white man i feel SO privileged being homeless for the last 3 years
6 likesalso i like how this 4 year old video was JUST recommended to me by youtube
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People born into wealth have greater financial privilege than you, for sure. But from a strictly racial POV you are privileged in that aspect since it's harder for a Black person to get back on their feet due to various factors (I'll mention one: people with white-sounding names are twice as likely to land job interviews... see source below).
1 likeSo privilege isn't just a solid label based on race, but a sort of amalgamation of various aspects of ourselves like our race, socio-economic status, attractiveness, the list goes on. That's my view of it, anyway. Emplemon just doesn't really understand it from this perspective.
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews
@Thomas Saulnier Indian Americans actually have it harder than African-Americans do in that regard yet they have the highest median income in America
6 likesFound the buzzfeed employee
8 likes@Thomas Saulnier Prolly the most rational comment you made so far.
0 likes@Thomas Saulnier Correlation doesn't equal causation.
0 likesDude, I love your videos. I'm subscribing, and keep up the good work!
0 likes"basic 9th grade biology"
70 likes9th grade? I got this in 5th grade!
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Minamimoto Just curious, what country did you go to school in?
1 like@Ismael Nehme it doesn't necessarily depend on your country, it can depend on your state, or even your county (no, not country, county)
6 likesI got it in 7th.
1 likeNot gonna lie “fat chocolate woman” fought me off guard a bit
2 likesLet them feel as bad as they want to... I feel great
2 likes2:59 I lost it at “Fat chocolate woman”
20 likesThis has aged like the finest wine.
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If you had to drank that wine it probabbly would put you into coma, jeez why did everyone had to go into that phase
4 likes@ariana Phase? This is common sense dude, just stop making everything about race
11 likes@Linus wait did you just responded to me two times over an hour in two different comments, stop defending his behavior lmao
0 likes@ariana "Haha your opinion bad because you responded multiple times"
7 likes>doesn't have a single argument and can't even muster up the courage to explain what emp's "behavior" is lol
@based goober 3 month old comment, did you scroll all that down? Plus we talked in the other comment, are you salty too?
0 likes@ariana oh my, I must have no life I scrolled down 5 whole comments lmao!11!1!!
6 likes@based goober you are really salty
0 likes@based goober we literally talked about it in another comment, you came out all the sudden extra salty trying to mock me, knowing that we've already talked in another comment
0 likes@ariana stalling and coping hard rn huh? explain his "behavior" (for like the millionth time) or just stop interacting with me, goddamn.
6 likesNah, more like milk.
4 likes@Linus saying this I instantly know you're white
0 likes@CatchingAir01 oh no, how dare he be white
0 likesI'm a 17-year-old white male, and I scored a 49/100 on the test and it said that I'm not privileged. I beat the system.
0 likesDamn your parents are actually kinda cool people
5 likesBuzzfeed is so righteous. They almost talk down to their viewer and then improperly explain a complicated topic while dumbing it down to shit in this video.
4 likesIm happy to have found this channel earlier today. While youtube poops aren't my thing these kinds of videos are nice.
0 likesIn a way the whole privilege thing enforces the oppressive system than really trying to fix it. It's just really counter productive.
0 likesStill just as relevant. Thank you!
6 likesbeing born in a certain country or economic class effects how you do in life but neither of those are strictly tied to race. they missed what actually gives people advantages and those advantages were earned by your parents so yo should feel proud of them not shitty.
1 likeTo be aware of social issues is to never watch BuzzFeed. The whole thing about privilege is much more complex.
0 likesThing is I’m willing to admit I’m privileged but I realised this shit when I was younger when my parents would tell me that there’s millions people right now who don’t have access to basic necessities so I shouldn’t take them for granted. I get that I’m very lucky. But I don’t understand what these people online want me to do about it, it’s like they want you to shout it from rooftops or something
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You don't understand. That's ok. This entire video is literally whining about something they admittedly don't understand. I guess the idea of having a reasonable conversation with someone who says "check your privledge" is just too incomprehensible. God forbid having a little bit of empathy. Why understand anyone when you can be extremely defensive and reactionary towards any new idea?
1 likeThe point is to help people who aren't privilege.
0 likes@lightfeather I think "check your privilege" IS the reactionary and defensive statement here. Why would you say that to someone if you weren't trying to piss them off? The point here is that you can't assume how privileged someone is based on a few characteristics that could only have so much influence on their privilege. You don't know what someone's going through in their life and what problems they have, so telling someone to "check their privilege" based on someone's race or gender can definitely be perceived as insensitive and lacking empathy. It goes both ways
1 likeWait so the reason Emp exists is because of Mao Zedong?
2 likesHell yeah.
"So where do you get your political news?"
2 likes"Uh, it's complicated."
You're privileged enough to voice your opinions. People in China however...
2 likesEdit: It's a joke. I'm not being racist
It's like they want us to feel like scum of the earth because our parents did things that got them places.
1 likeCheck my privilege 2016 term, but everything about it still goes on today
2 likesI cannot express how much I agree with every point brought up.
0 likesFocus on the big problems not the small problems
3 likesI always knew there was something about BuzzFeed that brushed me the wrong way. Their perfect ratios of straight to gay and white to colored etc cast always felt unnatural somehow in how they portrayed them, just, in some subtle way. Like, they were always drawing attention to the representation somehow.
20 likesWell, I guess there's no more question about their agenda now.
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When was it ever so subtle.
1 like@Torobasa Maybe I'm just imperceptive :\
0 likesYeah, I watched a couple of their vids... I didn't even notice the whole gender/sexual preferance/race balance thing until a couple videos in when it became an obvious trend. That's when i realized how they force equal balancing of different types of people.
0 likesIt doesn't make the videos any worse, but just think about how stupid it is trying to find only certain types of volunteers. If they're trying to encourage equal acceptance of all people, why the hell do they sort out all their guest stars by such types of classifications?
"Checking your Privilege" isn't actually about genetic chance, it's just the fact that some people have it a lot easier than others, like how someone who is transgender is going to have a harder time in life than someone who is not. Though the term has reached shitty tumblrism meme status, it originally was just a reminder about people more misfortunate than yourself, really. And that sort of reminder has never really been a problem with people until now, it seems.
0 likesThis has aged well and is funny
10 likesI think I'ma go Shrek my privilege now...
2 likesSome of the things on this list, yeah they're annoying to have happen to you but how do they disadvantage you economically?
3 likesI used to be an atheist. Now I know EmpLemon is our lord and savior.
7 likesmy mother was born in com-
8 likesbuzzfeed:we dont give a crap
I'm a living cisgendered heterosexual white male and have never been teased for my skin colour or accent.
2 likesI'm screwed.
This video summarizes the problem of these privilege stuff
1 likeEvery joke made clear what was wrong with that one detail
The waiter scene was my favorite scene.
It fits so well with this weird question at the test without changing much at the original clip
Triggered + Bring me to Live make that even better.
,,Fuck you Buzzfeed"
I completely agree with that!
You have quickly become my favorite content creator
0 likesWhile I'm not exactly a fan of the new ear rape poops going around I do however appreciate these videos. Reminds me we're just guys trying to have fun in a system where everyone's trying to screw each other for their own gain. Thanks for the insight! :D
0 likesI’m so privileged that I was raised by a single mother.
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@SummerBreak8333 you're
0 likesThis type of content is why I’m still on YouTube
0 likesKeep it up! :) <3
Emp sounds like he’s trying not to wake his parents up in the other room
1 likedont forget to check your privileges everybody 👌
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Check yourself before you Shrek yourself
9 likeswhat's funny, them talking about races so much actually divides us further
3 likesMine is over 9000!
3 likesI checked and you owe and everyone in these comments owe me free IHOP pancakes for life :V
2 likes@Hanz von ShrekyDreckyWeedStain i responded
4 likes"no"
I answered the opposite
0 likesI got an 18% privalage rate
My actual privilege is 92% gg buzz greed
2 likesM0HAMED-Immortal 69 like😏
0 likesI'm so privileged, because I was born as a white male in America, where that's extremely common, raised in a middle class family, and I'm going to grow up attempting to join the Air Force. So yeah, I'm really privileged because Buzzfeed says that if I'm a white male, I should check my fucking privilege.
0 likesUr so right and I'm glad someone else understands!
0 likesI liked the part where he goes on a downward spiral and loses his will to live.
2 likesYour dad sounds like a good man and you mom sounds cool too your parents would be proud of what you said.
0 likesFor people who want to end what they’re fighting against they’re the reason it exists
0 likesThis is the exact dosis of social commentary and YTP shitpostery I want 24/7
0 likesRemember everyone, always SHREK your privilege
0 likesRemember when the things Emp is saying weren’t controversial to any sane people? I miss those days.
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Now we have more insane than sane
5 likesI knew plenty of poor kids on unemployment or welfare that went to camp.
2 likesThe first console I ever bought with my own money was a Wii U before its price cut. Funny enough the first videogame I bought with my own money was Sonic 06 at launch for $60. I truly should be pitted.
1 likeWell. I'm the most privileged person in the world. Growing up in an extremely physical, mental, sexually abusive home, well if you count bridges, homeless shelters and, and cheap crappy motels rooms as a home...I got hit by a tornado, broke my spine, two months before 18, was paralyzed for months, and after an entire year of hell relearning how to do basic things like sit up, stand, walk, I started to be decently human again...Aside from being in so much pain every second of the day that morphine tickles in comparison. Guess I'm a bastion of privilege...Totally not endurance, an unbreakable fucking determination that has seen me through the bad. I'm privileged to actively work towards making content for people that they can enjoy, but more importantly that I enjoy making. I'm privileged to not give a rats ass what BuzzFeed thinks of my 'privilege'. All sarcasm aside, taking away a person's success, overcoming strive, struggles, and misery, is basically why we have so many fucking cry babies. My motto is "Never give up, never show weakness, always push forward, there's always a better life waiting for you to FORGE it for yourself."
1 likepoorly aged or not, why are people challenging this video as if it's brand new, something that just got uploaded?
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Because it's easier to write someone's old work off as bigoted in hindsight when the creator is likely to no longer care about it and then pretend like you've gotten the last laugh on the subject.
6 likes@Hi Darling yeah the amount of pathetic spite these people have to desperately discredit emp is very telling about what kind of people they are.
0 likesFour years later and still as relevant as ever
3 likes"Shrek your privilege"...okay! Well I'm a Scottish, Native American and Dutch transgender non-binary person who is highly attracted to men! What does that mean for my privilege?
0 likesDang, this video finally puts my hate on buzzfeed into words
0 likes4:29 It gets even worse than that, this question asks if you have never worked as a waiter. Which means that you could have worked as a waiter for 2 months before becoming a billionaire, and still be "oppressed", since you still would've worked as a waiter and hence the question wouldn't apply to you
0 likesFor biology it's now 6th grade science
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I had to learn that the hard way last year,
3 likesIt should really be "check your bias"
2 likesIt's funny how I got a Wii U a few years back and I enjoyed the heck out of it, oblivious of unfortunately deserved hate it got.
0 likesThe best way to combat the idiots is to ignore them. Never give them the satisfaction of knowing they get under your skin, and if you are to interact with them in this context do it in a respectful manner, that will get under their skin, knowing their words didn't get to you.
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Or you could just try to have a genuine dialogue. The concept of privilege has been so mishandled in media: of course it’s a privilege that I’m less likely to be refused service or be shot at by cops because of my race and sexuality, the privilege is 99% the time is a decreased likelihood of a struggle
0 likes@Seth no ur not, and no ur not
0 likesIm triggered by the amount of clickbait on youtube
9 likesBless you Lemon for standing against this social justice propaganda.
21 likesThe thing is, if you study American history, there's actually tons of things corporations and the government did and still does to make succeeding much harder for non-white people. This is what most people mean when they talk about white privilege. And in fact, if you study world history, you learn that the reason why most poor counties are poor today is due to European countries and America taking advantage of them. Obviously I can't go into detail, but a good place to start might be the book "Guns, Germs, and Steal", as it explains the origins of what caused this inequality.
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I mean yeah, maybe this is more well known NOW, but this video was posted 4 years ago. You can't accuse someone of things they've said FOUR years ago.
2 likesI can’t believe this video is 4 years old, everything said in this video can relate to the situation we’re in now.
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ikr
8 likestopical i'd say
1 likeSolar ok buddy keep on thinking that
11 likesSolar this argument is fruitless but one day I promise you will stop being woke and see the facts. This myth of systemic racism is not a real thing at all. Want to know when it was? Oh that’s right, when black Americans and white Americans were segregated in the 60s, or when they were kept as slaves.
11 likesThankfully outlets like Buzzfeed, Kotaku, etc, are no longer at the height of their power, like in 2016.
10 likesThings are slowly going in the right direction, and it pays off to have hope.
Watching this video with a dislocated rib was the most painful thing ive ever done. The amount of laughing i did almost made me cry in pain
3 likesI got 28%, it legit was just like "You're not privileged".
0 likesI identify as a tree and this offends me.
0 likesCHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE HUMANS
I checked my privilege today, and it turned out it’s expired. I don’t know where to get another one.
1 likeGreat video and well said.
0 likesI’m starting to think Emp is a time traveler because this and the Jimmy Kimmel keep on getting massive Ws for spirting out straight facts considering what’s happening right now
0 likesI haven't laughed so hard in years.
0 likesI am a white man.
0 likesNow I'm placed on a SJW watch-list for being too privileged.
I am a straight, white, cisgender male. I come from a middle-class family and have a decent paying job. I have my own car (my second, first got totaled and insurance paid for all of it). I don't live in a very racially mixed area (probably 1 out of every 100 people around here is black and about 15 out of every 100 are hispanic or asian). I took the test and answered honestly.
0 likes44. I got a 44 out of 100. "You are not privileged at all. [drivel about how I must have had to deal with a lot of shit]" It's almost as if being a white man doesn't make you automatically privileged...
Let's just forget the important lesson here, EMPLemon just confirmed that he's half-Chinese... It's not important but that was a clever way of mentioning it.
0 likesJust imagine buzzfeed making a article about this video explaining how they're so call "privilege' is bullshit that would be funny and disappointing at the same time
0 likesOddly enough I scored 46 in the privilege test by buzzfeed despite being a sys white male
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Krubukos bbb Because priviledge is based on how you feelz
1 likeyep
0 likesI agree with you, my good sir.
0 likesI don’t really care about My Privilege. I really just think its their problem!
0 likes"How much privilege do you bear?!"
199 likesWell, gee, it feels like I'm bearing... nothin' at all!
Nothin' at all!
Nothin' at all!
n0Th1N" AT @LL!
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0:51
0 likesThis was entertaining untill earrape comes. I had to lower the volume the entire video. If I can ask one thing, can you have no sudden earrapes in your talk videos? I know it's a staple of YTPs and meme videos, but I just want a calming, funny and thought-provoking video with memes.
0 likesi dunno i have pitty for those who are associated with buzzfeed
2 likesAgreed with everything except the rent thing. While I do believe that any one individual has the power to change their outlook on life, including their income, there are some scenarios where no amount of hard work can help you pay for basic necessities like rent. However, while it is arguably a privilege to have a job that pays enough to do so, it's more of a systematic failure in society, one in which allows little to no opportunity to improve your circumstances. But yeah, the rest is completely on point.
0 likesi remember watching this video 7 months ago, but after watching it again 7 months later its gotten even better...
0 likesAs a Wii U owner I would like to say, I was a fan we were looking forwards to the next generation of gaming, We wanted Mario Kart in HD, We wanted a more expansive platforming series we wanted 3d exploration like never before. We were let down, we the purchases are not to be judge like many before us people who bought the xbox fridge it was not us but the lies and deciet from the developers.
0 likesit's insane how this was made in the summer of 2016. it got sooooo much worse the following year
1 likeThere are way worst jobs than working as a waiter. I should know I've worked them.
1 like7:00 Holy shit that was great!
3 likesAs Ben Folds once said,
0 likesY’all don’t know what it’s like
Being male, middle-class, and white
I'm sorry, I lost it at Shrek your privilege.
0 likesAnd yea, please continue this style of video, EmpLemon.
Having a 10 million subscriber youtube channel is a privilege.
0 likes"You live with 72 out of 100 points of privilege.
0 likesYou're quite privileged. You've had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don't have them. Thank you for checking your privilege."
the f*ck?!
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You shouldn't be ashamed of having privilege. I'm happy that I have a good life, but it has nothing to do with me being a white male. It has to do with having good parents, a good school system, and basically generally being in a richer country. Hell, a good 2/3 of my school is not white, and about 1/5 is homosexual, and they all do fine. The "insane privilege" thing is a myth. I'm not an overlord compared to a black kid down the street just because I'm white. I'm an equal, because we're both humans and deserve the same rights.
0 likesSource: Live in one of the only blue counties in TN, am in a Latino neighborhood, have many gay friends, very few white friends actually (somehow. maybe it's cuz my school is deverse), and have common sense
Graham Alberson I could not have said it better myself, my good sir.
0 likesI own a Wii U (a.k.a. I spent $400+ on pretty much nothing)
2 likesTook the privilege quiz for shits and giggles, I got 66 out of 100 privilege points, not bad.
0 likesI like how they take communism/socialism and replace the class aspect with race. seems like... seems like a certain Austrian painter did that once. I forget how that turned out tho.
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@Krazykek They did attempt to use the socialism system, though. Do you not know that they had a welfare program?
2 likes@WizKidGamer99 meh I don’t think a name means they’re something necessarily even though they actually were, just look at the democratic people’s Republic of Korea which is neither democratic or a republic. Same with the democratic republic of the Congo.
0 likesman i glad i found this channel this so great!
0 likesLast time I was this early Poland wasn't invaded by Germany.
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Last I was this early England was not ruled by Normads...
6 likesLast time I came this early David Cameron was still the Prime Minister.
4 likes+Gabe Nye The Meme Guy he still is...
0 likes+Fralab He resigned after Brexit. Or, I thought he did...
1 likehes going to resign, but not just yet
0 likes@Gabe Nye The Meme Guy
1 likeIn October...
*Normans
2 likesLast time I was this early no one made these comments.
13 likesLast time I was this early, Germany was still the HRE.
10 likeslast time i was this early the universe didn't exist
1 likeSome Guy last time I was this late America was joining WW1
1 likeSome Guy the last time that I was this late connstantinople did not fall
0 likesYou should do more commentaries like this it was really entertaining
0 likesThis is the best video you have made in a really long time! Not saying ur channel is not good.
0 likesFuck identity politics, be labeless be free everybody.
3 likesI freaking love your editing .
0 likesi disagree with some stuff but if you got your knowledge of privilege off of buzzfeed i don’t even blame you lol idk what the fuck they’re doing
1 likeThree years later and I still love this video
0 likesGod I needed this video in 2021
2 likesThis is the most rational counter argument to buzz feeds content I've ever witness
0 likesMost of the time when I see an SJW Buzzfeed video in the recommended videos section or in the Trending section, my eyes involuntarily force me to not pay attention. I can't stop myself from doing it.
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Great video by the way.
1 likeAll i do is look in absolute disgust and let a great sigh of disappointment that's my opinion but, it is now a pain to have one nowadays. I wonder why...
0 likesWell it seems to be true, as a white man I can just walk out of a store with whatever I want. But a black man who paid for all there goods get stopped.
0 likesI do feel that since this video the world got kind of bored of that crap, but it is sad that it is STILL somewhat relevant. Good video.
0 likes07:03 Birth of the Never Ever series, definitely a watershed moment. Adoro este canal!
0 likesfor that "lottery" analogy, of course you don't have a chance to get born by someone else, but it means that you weren't born by the majority of people that aren't rich.
1 like"It doesn't matter how it makes you feel"
812 likesAs true as this is... it cuts both ways as well.
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The buzzfeed video doesn't make sense at all to me
7 likesSo? Some people suck it up and fight back better. Others whine and never move on.
52 likes+James Meyers
22 likes...You do realize you're saying that on a video where a guy complains about an inconsequential website, right?
coolcat001100 YouTube is inconsequential? Well excuse me, I didn't realize the largest video platform on the entire Internet was inconsequential! And let's examine the insincerity of your statement about the significance of commenting on said website's video. If that is true, why the hell did you post your opinion at all? I rest my case.
37 likes+James Meyers
34 likes...Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is inconsequential. Emp was not complaining about YouTube, he was complaining about Buzzfeed.
Get back to me once you've learned to read.
BuzzFeed is not really inconsequential if people are visting their website and watching their videos. Like it or not, people are taking BuzzFeed seriously and not a small number of them. Buzzfeed appeals to the "oppressed" in whom they basically feed lies. They are quite dangerous actually because of how easy it is for others to just readily accept what they say, or they will become the "oppressors" BuzzFeed preaches about heavily and be scorned by everyone else. It is ironic really. (I apologize for misreading your previous post)
44 likes+James Meyers
40 likesHere's the thing, though: most oppressed people actually know themselves that Buzzfeed is full of shit. Rather than doing the research on the actual oppression people go through, they react through pure emotion and rely on others to do the same thing, and as such they discourage people from looking at the very legitimate social issues because of how terribly they handle them. Marginalized people know themselves that Buzzfeed doesn't actually want to bring awareness to the oppression they go through,. they just want to capitalize off of it.
White privilege and systematic oppression are actual things that exist, they just don't exist in the way that Buzzfeed says they do.
coolcat001100 Would've been easier if you refered to it earlier.
3 likesHey there coolcat!
0 likesFeelings are the only thing that matters. Fuck facts
0 likescoolcat001100 • "White privilege and systematic oppression are things that actually exist"
9 likesA year has passed and I was just curious, do you still believe in this nonsense?
Actually it sort of does. This is why mental disorders from things like trauma and bullying exists. If you're repeatedly called a 'fucking faggot' for an extremely extended period of time, it'll unconsciously ingrain itself into you and thus cause a 'trauma' where whenever you hear or remember that phrase, you instantly go on the defense and overreact to your current situation like breaking into tears and crouching on the floor as an example
7 likesFrosty • "it'll unconsciously ingrain itself into you and thus cause a 'trama'..."
6 likesNonsense. Can you provide documentation to support this claim?
It might sound stupid.. but when I was 12-14 I was constantly told I looked like a rapist and a pedophile by multiple people whom I didn't even know. Ever since I was 15 I've been constantly called a "furfag" or an "animal-fucker" just for the reason of being a furry, to the point where I was forcibly removed from the group of people who I thought were my friends. Yeah.. at first it got me down, it made me feel like everything was slated against me, that I was worthless compared to everyone else, but one of those friends came back to me despite me being "Worthless", it made me realize something important.
7 likesThat the people who actually succeed are the people who don't give up. People need to stop whining and looking at the "impossible odds"... because there aren't any, you have just as much of a chance at rising to the top as everyone else in this world. The feeling of being less than everyone else is caused by you, and the close-minded way you're looking at the situation. If you're not able to learn to believe in yourself then you're doomed to fail from the start.
To sum it up, people need to stop feeling sorry for themselves, worrying about race and gender are the things that hold people down.
Frosty It depends on the person. Surprisingly enough, there are people who are called faggots everyday and don't go PTSD. Also, theres a difference between actual harassment and feeling harassed. That's the point, not that feelings don't matter.
0 likesgloboxsas I dug through this admittedly entertaining comment section looking for a reasonable person, I'm always glad when I find a few in places like this. It reaffirms for me that you can find decent people anywhere.
0 likes+Christopher Gonzalez Furry oppression is not the fucking issue we're discussing here. You're not oppressed.
0 likesIF I FEEL like i want to like the comment ?
0 likesThat stuff is so cringe right now, I can't even imagine in 20 years
3 likesI am content with your content, your content really makes me content
0 likesThe bit with Woody is my exact reaction to seeing shit like that on the internet.
0 likesThe story of your parents is really inspiring. That is the stuff that should be preached instead of victim mentality.
0 likesI can't stand these modern leftists. You earned my like man.
6 likesGoddamn your videos are incredible!
0 likesThis is strange. The ytp dungeon master makes more sense than anyone I've ever watched.
1 likeThis didn’t age well judging by the race war going on
1 likeDamn Emp was way ahead of his time
6 likes4:34 Fucking brilliant. Gets me everytime.
0 likesJordan crying holding a Wii U is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
1 likecan I be an outsider without keeping super up to date with dank memes? I respect the memescape fully, and I recognize 95% of the references you make, while agreeing with everything you say... but I still don't feel like I can conjure up a detailed analysis on all the memes as some of my friends (and you) can. Does this make me a normie?
0 likesYou're lucky enough to be born with more wealth, opportunity and support than some other humans. How should you proceed?
0 likesA: Be thankful for this luck and try to help others who do not have it
B: Spend literally 1/3rd of your natural life being a twitter keyboard warrior who brags about how "woke" they are for recognizing their privilege and putting down other people of your class who don't constantly self-flagellate, whilst actually taking nigh 0 real world actions to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate.
You can guess which one BuzzFeed picked.
I'm a straight white male, but I'm also anosmic.
0 likesDoes that still give me more privilege than anyone else?
Nigga don't pity me for having a Wii U. I got to play Mario Maker at launch. Bet you had to go to a friend's house to play it. I'm the privileged one with the Wii U.
3 likessome of these old comments are absolutely insane wow
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Some of these new comments aren't much better
1 likeEmp I’ve said it for years, but I love your wrestling references.
0 likes2:58 Fat Chocolate Woman
196 likesI just about died when I heard that.
I’m white and I do have privilege
0 likesPrivilege of being homeless and poor
Knowing I have the option to be homeless and poor makes life much much more easier for me!
Class is what truly divides us, as you alluded to
0 likesThe power of memes is strong with this one.
0 likes5:55
0 likesRemind me to use this as a way of saying, “I no longer give a fuck about you, and any aspect of your being.”
I fully agree with this video😂
1 like0:46 what I feel like every time someone brings up politics.
2 likesThat was a fucking mess of a video
1 likeI loved it.
I’m white, but my family and I came to the US from a virtual shithole in Eastern Europe. We had to work our ass off, so do not ever lecture me about pRiViLeGe
0 likesPlease make more vids like this, your YTP editing style adds something very unique to topics such as this, its always good to look at the bad things happening in the world and laugh a bit to relieve ourselves from it. I definitely think your channel is evolving in a positive way.
3 likesI would like to thank emplemon's parents for giving birth to him
0 likesAmerica as always living in a bubble itself created
4 likesI took the test as a straight white male and got "not privileged"
0 likesPeople saying you need to check your privilege are like people saying you didnt beat dark souls if you used X item
0 likes“Fat chocolate woman” is the best single-second-cut I’ve ever seen
31 likesI agree with the message of this video 100%
0 likesI’m just not sure you understand how shitty what buzzfeed is doing. There’s a lot more to what’s happening here.
“ I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” - Martin Luther King Jr. diversity should be judged by your personality and character, not by your gender, sex, race, ect.
0 likesThis video is once again relevant.
2 likesI'm going to take the Privilege Test just to see how stupid it is.
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Same here cx
2 likesI fail to see how everyone who doesn't have enough to make it in life is automatically bad at managing their finances. It's possible to simply not have anyone supporting you while you're working for minimum wage in, say, central Illinois - where the cheapest rent is like $650 a month, unless you know some people who know a landlord and can convince them to lower the rent - combine the prices for cars and insurance in the area I'm living in at least (where it takes 3 hours at best to walk place to place so you absolutely need the car) and you got a recipe for people failing to pay rent no matter how they budget things out, or starving to death if they're lucky enough to make rent. Then again, it would be men who have it the hardest because our car insurance payments are ridiculously high... looks like no matter what situation we look at, Buzzfeed is wrong.
0 likesAnd remember, just because the far right is bad, doesn’t mean the far left can’t be worse
0 likesthis aged well
1 likeBruh I’m trying to fall asleep to this but it was made in 2016 so random loud noises and I can’t take it
2 likesWell I'm mixed, so does that make me underprivileged, or do my German and Black( which is probably some mixed and is also 1/16 Seminole Indian) halves cancel out and make me "priveledge neutral"?
0 likesNice video, you put up some good points.
0 likesYour sound game was good with Hungarian Rhapsody no 2.
your point of view is completely valid
0 likesI also think that "Privileges" are not something to be applied to individual people but is indicative of larger systemic problems. Yes, I don't worry about getting pulled over because of my skin colour,. Yes, I dont have to worry about men creeping up on me because I'm a young attractive girl. Neither of these are proof of character and it depends on what you do with them and fixing society to the point where everyone doesn't have to worry about these things instead of just treating those that get the shit end of the stick like they're special and deserve to be treated better, that's fixing symptoms not the roots of the problem.
overall, buzzfeed is looking at the whole issue from a way too narrow of a lens and jumping on the bandwagon of political correctness instead of the issues on whole.
i need more of these vids man! (if u like doing these) because i love em!
0 likesMost of the shit in Trending is 2 hour long Trump speeches anyway
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To be fair, people should have an easy time finding direct political statements from the presumptive nominees. However, one could argue that YT isn't the place, and if it wasn't as diverse a website as it is, then I might agree.
6 likesGotta disagree on some stuff
2 likesAgree on some
Agree on alot
that's all they care about. they take one look at you and you are judged 100 percent. and told wether you are allowed to speak or wether to feel bad about being alive or not.
0 likesThat boondocks reference
13 likesI was born as a tree but I turned into a human
2 likesI love this new content, a commentary that isn't a leafy clone and incorporates YTP comedy.
5 likesActually, it's basic 8th grade biology. I learned it 4 months ago. 😭
0 likes“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!” 😂😂 Classic.
3 likes5:15 When you watch this video on a Wii U...
6 likesthe banny clip at the end made me laugh so much
0 likesI love having white privilege. I love being superior. Except I'm a Cherokee Indian.
0 likesWish I could have a good childhood still in it :(
0 likes6:50 I swear even my 12 year brother knows who Mao is. It's sad to see that grown adults don't.
0 likesKuwi - lil - eni
6 likesWhen your biological name is actually your rapper name.
Oh hey, dat video description looks pretty fascinating.
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ahhhh xd firf
1 likeMost people who say "check your privileges" live in a first world country. Meanwhile, in third world countries kids are starving to death. Yeah, "check your privileges", alright.
29 likesI only watch your ytps but I have to say even your videos that aren't ytps are funny
3 likesYTP with Rants? I can dig it.
10 likesthis was actuakly inspirational, thanl you emp
1 likeThis is actually 7th grade logic because I learned it last year
0 likesAre you FUNKe? You sound exactly like him
0 likesI was thinking the same thing! I'm just glad I didn't have to type it out.
0 likes+Gabe Nye The Meme Guy Yeah, really shows how isolated most people are. I don't really mean to get deep into this subject, but it must be said. Even the people who don't take it for granted still don't fully get it.
1 likeI so excited to see your upcoming videos! I love how you're incorporating ytp into the video to keep it from just being vocal criticism.
1 like+1337er Wildhead that card was a TRAP! ∆
0 likes+1337er Wildhead that card was a TRAP! ∆
0 likesToo bad people won't look at it.
0 likesThis is a move for the better Emp my old friend. Now you have finally come out of the political closet, I see that you're not a regressive liberal. This brings joy to my very soul old boy, and I dare say, you are one saucy lad for making such moves. Alas, ytp has perhaps met its peak and left it far behind, however you continue on. For this I am grateful. I shall watch on in pleasure. On a completely unrelated note, MAGA
1 likeI will still watch if you still make the videos funny while delivering a message.
5 likesd...d...de...descr...wtf is a disscrepchun or whatever
0 likesI'm glad a ytp youtuber is going into this kid of thing. I love ytp editing and adding that to a video where people talk about interesting things.
0 likesThis is amazing.
0 likesI wouldn't call you a rant channel, I would call you a fascinating amaglamation of YTP, rant, and (gameplay?) that has become a shambling abomination of amusement to me... Keep up the good work!
0 likes+ElectroLyghtnyn “Cartoonlover” Mullings he has had a few videos talkn down
0 likesMr. EmpLemon, you have changed my life once again. This is the second time, with the first being after I watched Lightning McQueer and the Quest for Tires, which got my subscription to you. Beautiful!
1 liketemporary unsubscribe
1 likeI really like these kinds of videos. Informative, funny, and entertaining (this word is redundant) all in one.
0 likesIt's the epsilon program all over again from gta v
0 likesKifflom
0 likesFinally EmpLemon is fighting the regressive left. Please make more videos like this.
3 likesEmp, what would you consider your self politcally? e.g. centre-right, libertarian, Maoist
@ElectroLyghtnyn Mullings actually I do say
0 likesemplemon great videos mate XD
0 likesthat was an epic ending
0 likesWhat's the clip at 0:45
1 likeEmpLemon true art my dude, keep it up
5 likesYou ytp experience actually makes these videos EVEN BETTER
5 likesSure is
1 likeMother is from Communist China....
5 likesSoviet Union starts to play...
EmpLemon wow from youtube poop to this how have you grown.If i had to describe your progress i would say you went from a single cell organism to a multi cellular organism.So congrats you have grown a lot as a channel and am glad your content has changed 👌
6 likesSo privilege is litery racism wow
0 likesWell idk what it is but you speak alot of truth, +1 sub and like for you ^^ totally agree on this, its stupid
0 likesSirena Beach 1 billion you mean
0 likesLemon, I like the fact that you changed to a podcast format. However, I like that the ytp elements are staying. Please keep future video around the same backbone as this.
1 likeMK Hero Best comment 2K17
0 likes666 likes
0 likesI identify myself as a person
0 likesIt's NEVER ogre
1 likeT H I C C
0 likesEmpLemon save the net neutrality
0 likesLate to the party. Don't care. Great pooper and amazing commentary.
0 likesEmpLemon
0 likesThe ear rate is my favourite part of these videos, 10/10
EmpLemon Amazing videos my dude... I will miss the YTPs, whenever you feel like doing them once again, do so, you also need to have fun
0 likesProps man
EmpLemon Make the "SCREW" a series again. I love your rants. They're like movies.
0 likesI found MeiAIDS Youtube:MeiFinnishGoat
0 likesEmpLemon indeed
0 likesEmpLemon pity me because I got Wii U
0 likesEmpLemon 5:14 that was Ryan toys reviews.
0 likesI'm not reading all that, fam.
0 likesYou play tf2?
0 likes4G B4nny?
0 likesYTP mixed with rants makes me happy.
0 likesEmpLemon NO IT AINT
0 likesI fully agree that (white) privilige is currently no existant. But I do feel the need to state that a large portion of black people is poor.
0 likesThough I also believe that's a lot to blame on the black community themselves.
But Emp... You're green.
3 likesSubscribed for dank ass ytps, got a-grade social comentary.
1 likeBest trade deal ever :D
I really wonder whether youre being ignorant and cherry picking your arguments on purporse or not. Thanks for making this video though! I was wondering whether or not to subscribe and I got my answer. Nice editing tho
0 likesFollow Up:
0 likesThe buzzfeed crew has loads of privilege they don't examine in the video. They're all conventionally attractive, able bodied, college educated, with a huge platform to voice themselves, have the financial backing of a huge company to create their content, and living in both a first world country and in one of the largest cities in the USA. But Buzzfeed is such low hanging fruit they reduce the idea of privilege to just race and gender.
And the idea is that privilege isn't a 'yes or no' concept or even a sliding scale of 'more or less' privilege. Privilege can manifest in a variety of ways.
For example, you probably have the privilege on never having some creepy old neckbeard with awful body odor and horny with Yellowfever think you should be a subservient sex kitten who lets him suck on your toes every day. But that Asian Buzzfeed girl probably has had to deal with that kind of creepy objectification due to her race and gender (despite being advantaged in other ways).
I've seen your other work. I know you can do better than this.
This is still relevant
3 likesI would check my privilege but I'm lazy
0 likesI personally liked the time you talked about how your parents worked to get where they are today and how you had a better life because of that. My father was born with a single mother because his father died in the army not to mention his mother was in a financial situation and my dads grandmother told my grandma to not keep her child because of her situation but she did. On my moms side of the family her parents moved from Italy waiting years to get in legally and they now own a big house in LA . Now I realize my family isn’t privileged in any way. The reason they’re here and the reason I get to live in a big nice house with them is because they saw opportunity and took it, but too many people these days watch that opportunity fly by them and they never reach for it. Currently I’m only 13 and I’m not old enough to take these opportunities, but you bet as sure as hell I’m going to. If my dad can build a business from the ground up then I can at least have a decent living one day. If you’re having trouble to pay rent don’t spend money on wants instead of needs. It might seem like you’ll never get out of your situation but, if you plan ahead everything should go out your way and not the person or company you owe debt to.
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The sad thing is most people at my age don't have any opinions about these kinds of topics because no one tells them about them. It's almost sad that I can't find someone my age to talk to about issues like this. I mean people my age know about some if this stuff but all they do is know, but never discus about it or form opinions on something like "privilege" or "equality" or who should they vote for one day because when that day cones they don't know what to do. Now that I think about it maybe it’s just the parents fault. Just the other day my dad saw someone with a Burnie Sanders sticker on someone’s car and he told me about how that person is a socialist and how they want society to be and how they want to take away my rights yet so many kids are blind and ignorant to these things. Well guess what one day they’ll be the deciders and they will have to vote for our leader
0 likesI’ve been spewing my opinions for way to long. I should go to sleep now. Have a good day or night whether your a fellow viewer or EmpLemons
0 likessees how sexism and racism is still considered a thing (somehow) despite it not actually being a real thing
0 likesMe: This is not what 1,000,000 or so Americans died for.
Im a straight white dude and I've been called all of those racial terms. Must be trans-black
0 likesI watch this once a month for catharsis.
1 likeBeen bingeing your vids lately. Some are 👌👌 real good. But others, like this, are really cringe.
1 like'Check your privilege' means 'consider the ways you are advantaged compared to others.' So you shouldn't feel sorry for Michael Jordan for Michael Jordan for being black, but he should consider how his wealth, fame, and superior levels of skill and fitness advantages him over an average person who doesn't have those advantages.
Different people can be advantaged in different ways and to varying degrees.
'Check your privilege' means 'don't take the things you have for granted' and 'be considerate of how others may face situational differences and struggles compared to you'. Everyone has struggles to varying degrees, some to a greater extent or in ways you may not have considered as it is not a struggle you personally face.
I don't feel like this video is a good faith response; just pissbaby crying.
This might've been a real spicy hot take, but it tastes like all that spice was dumped in to hide how rotten all the main ingredients in this stew are. This video is inedible garbage, if you ask me.
I like it better when you actually know what you're talking about and do your fucking research instead of whining about Buzzfeed as if they're worth discussing at all. Way to set the bar low.
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That's true, but it really depends on the context. A lot of the time, "check your privilege" is used in a condescending and insulting way, so it comes off as assuming someone's life problems and status based on their race or something. And sure, it would be nice if "don't take things for granted and consider others' struggles" was what everyone took away from it, but you can't blame people for getting mad when their race or gender or any characteristic out of their control is used to assume what they're going through in life. That's... kinda what racism is.
1 likeI agree that this video sounded a little too pissbaby-ish, but you're missing the whole point.
@Linus >"you can't blame people for getting mad when their race or gender or any characteristic out of their control "
0 likesThis is the wrong takeaway. "Check your privledge" does NOT mean "feel bad for being who you are".
I, for example, have 'able-bodied' privledge. There are things I can do that a person in a wheelchair can't.
So how can I check my privledge?
If I walk down a city street and see one of those electric scooter rentals obstructing the sidewalk, I can move it to the side.
Sure, I could step over it.
But could a person in a wheelchair? A little old lady? A person on a bike/skateboard who is in a hurry? Probably not. That scooter is a serious obstruction for them.
So I take a moment to pick up the scooter and prop it up against the wall where it belongs.
I can also check my able-bodied privledge by advocating for ramps, elevators, etc. for important buildings. I don't personally need those things... But there are are other people who do.
"Check your privledge" just means "be thoughtful of other people, their struggles, and be considerate in your day-to-day life".
i appreciate the use of Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 here.
2 likesDamn, Emp.
86 likesExcellent YTP's.
Great taste in music.
Doesn't take any liberal SJW bullshit.
Yep, you're my kind of guy.
I agree about The Trending Tab. It's mostly Stuff I couldn't care for like Music Videos but Buzzfeed just takes the cake
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Tarlo The Boar Liberal Talk Shows too
1 likeI am a white male, took the test, and got "NOT PRIVILEGED".
0 likesshrek your privilege
6 likesNo one's implying you could have been born to another family. They just mean none of us have any control over who we're born to and so some of us; white, black or brown may be born into better situations than others.
0 likesThe WiiU thing hit me right here pound heart
0 likesIll let you take this matter into your own hands, you're a pro
0 likesHmph. I'm starting to see what kind of person EmptyLemon is. He is the most privileged white male in America.
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2010: Hi, I'm Mark!
0 likes2016 - 2017: My name is Orbital Plus I am Gender fluid, 15 years old and I was born on Mar.
Based Emp is best Emp.
10 likesDamn, what if the pp points you gain in the dead rising games were privilege points.
0 likes"You should never ever never eeeeeeevvvvver be ashamed of who you are"
0 likesExept behind the meme
That biology is being taught in 8th grade now, buddy.
0 likesTfw you are privileged because you cant work in certain jobs due to disability
0 likesOh hey, that's an interesting vid description ya got there, Emp! :D
0 likesThis is great! Roast those buzzfeeders with memes!
0 likesToday I learned Emp's mixed race.
0 likesDoesn't change anything, but I learned it.
1:45 that lady looks like she doesn’t really believe what she’s saying, but she wants to keep her job 😂😂😂
0 likesThe squilliam waiter name YTP was so good! Haha
0 likesThis video was amazing!
0 likesemp ur someone who makes solid ass arguments in amazing video essays and i genuinely enjoy ur content. you probably spend HOURS doing research on some of your videos on the most complete random things and i love that! this being said, i encourage you to put the same amount of effort into your research on what checking your privilege really means.
4 likesmy mom grew up in a one bedroom apt in east LA and she also decided to make a better life for herself. although even she had the privilege of being an above average student and having a mother who pushed her to go to college. checking your privilege is t supposed to make you feel bad for having it but instead it’s supposed to help you develop a sense of compassion for those who don’t have those privileges. i would more than happy to have an open dialogue with you on this topic!
He makes a good point
0 likesyour introduction of mao zedong made me think of suicide squad, and furthermore made me wish he was in it now
0 likesGlad you have since grown out of this attitude
0 likesI'm very late to this conversation, but as a white person (british/canadian/irish/scottish roots with recent native american), i can't check almost all of these that were shown in the video. I was bullied so much in middle and high school, my family was upper poor class, I was called gay and harrassed for something i never was BY MY OWN FAMILY and the people at school. I was neglected, mentally and emotionally abused so much I am on disability, barely able to function in society. I am starting to get better, having been free from it for 10 years or so, about to finally start to be able to work. I've felt unsafe due to my gender because I couldn't fight back when my mother would tear my hair out, slap me, kick me. I wasn't allowed to even try to stop her or i would have been sent to juvy. By these people trying to enforce this shit, they themselves are the evil they are pretending to try and eradicate. Discriminating against people who make good decisions or born into a certain lifestyle, class, or race. I can't control that I was born a race, and by them trying to take away my rights AS A HUMAN is actual real racism. I'VE BEEN TREATED LIKE ABSOLUTE GARBAGE FROM OTHER RACES FOR MY RACE. Do you just want me to ignore that 90% of the black people I have met treated me like garbage? Just.... fuck man.
6 likesLMAO this is so good and funny! So true
0 likes2:14 actually its 7th grade science so it proves your point even more
0 likesAmazing songs in the background and really entertaining video!Unfortunately the trending videos are never good shit like these
0 likesshouldeve went over the stupidest options like "i am happy with the gender ive been born as"
0 likesi feel so bad for travis scott being a black man and all, so oppressed...
1 likebased EmpLemon
8 likesPeople creating an imaginary problem in order to substantiate their own existence, humans amiright.
0 likesI'm a white male teenager. Never realized that makes me rich and educated. I guess school is just a place where I'm sent to rot on the daily. To be fair, most of it kind of is.
0 likesI love these videos.
1 likeBecause
1) POLOTICS, and MEMES
2) ITS A YTP!!
6:49 it was closer to a hundred million
2 likesim a straight white man but ive played on xbox live before so ive been called every single slur in that test idk how to answer the question now
1 likejesus christ its like someone dropped a 4channer kindergartner on their head and told them to make youtube videos about what sargon of akkad or ben shapiro say about college feminists
1 likeWell damn that video just made me Shrek my privilage
2 likes4:33 has got to be the funniest thing that has ever transpired on video.
1 likeWhen I see people who complain about this, I ask how they got this fucking far to begin with?
0 likesfun fact you have to go to collage to be a waiter in spanish countries like spain (if im correct)
0 likesno wonder god tried to flood us all...
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also "shrek your privilege."
2 likesI love this channel too much
0 likesCan we get a remaster of this video?
2 likesI feel like nobody will believe your point when you quote somebody and try to act like it's your own thought. Like Buzzfeed said "I won the ovarian lottery." That's something my history teacher said in those exact words. The fact that I'm hearing it a second time doesn't move me more, it just tells me that either Buzzfeed or my history teacher or most likely both couldn't think of their own thoughts on the subject and are just telling me stuff that moved them. And this isn't something liberals do, it's just something stupid people do in general. I've heard so many times in exact words "Life begins at the moment of conception" and "Donald Trump's agenda is horrendous." And I'm not saying it's bad to quote people. You just have to clarify that first. Say something like "A wise man once told me," or "I remember hearing on the news that." Otherwise you're just making yourself seem like an idiot.
0 likesDo I hear the sound of soy boy journalism? It's gotta be BuzzFeed. The world's answer to a question NO ONE ASKED!!!
3 likesPolitics with wrestling references, I love this.
1 likethis got really wholesome at the end
0 likesNo relief...
2 likesIt's never ogre...
4:30 WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS BROTHERS
0 likesouch i'm not white but this fucking puts an arrow into my heart making me want to regurgitate splinters.
0 likesAs a Icelandic person it confuses me a lot
0 likesSKREEEEEEEE!
1 likeGreat Video
E m p L e m o n!
Also I Never Laid my Hands On An "Xbox" or "PS4". I'm Perfectly Fine with My Modern...Virtual...Boy....Gosh...
I’m not the average subscriber. I will consume everything Lemon. The more I watch, the more I cannot understand how you aren’t more popular.
0 likesI swear you're slowly turning into IHE.
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Charles E. Does he hate mars bars?
0 likesFunny that all these intersectional hyper-inclusive liberals weren't so america focused
3 likesThe arrested development version of "hello darkness" is a nice touch
0 likesI had a Wii U, until I sold it for the Switch I have today.
1 likeFuck, the SpongeBob waiter part is well done. I'm lol so hard
0 likesMy mom works as a waitress and usually brings in at least 100 every night n tips how is that privilege
0 likesYes. One's subjective feelings are relevant. Shocker.
0 likesALL HAIL THE EMPEROR OF LEMONS
1 likeYou are an inspiration.
0 likesThat woody sketch killed me
0 likesI understand that in parts of the us there isn't much white privilege, I'm from the US and here in india, I am constantly displayed with examples of white privilege.
0 likesInspiring video dude!
0 likesI am privileged to memes
5 likesIt's actually funny seeing the new comments flow in lmao
2 likes7:30 honestly I need that
1 likePut headphones on and turned volume to max so I can go to buzzfeed and fin Amy enjoy there content cause not being able to hear anything and total silence is better than there content
0 likesWait so, the message is: "We believe it's wrong that people are assigned an intrinsic value based on things entirely out of their control, therefore we are going to assign people an intrinsic value based on things entirely out of their control"..?
0 likesThis video made me feel like batman
0 likesGod dammit in was screaming "nothing at all" with u so hard
0 likesI have been sent back in time from the year 2020.
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same
2 likesThis was the moment that he knew, HE FUCKED UP!
0 likesyou should see the trending page of youtube germany it makes me wanna cry when i see it
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what is on there
3 likesTell us what's on their
1 like@I have no life you misspelled. You mean "they're"
1 likeSWEAT! No they mean there, they’re means they are
2 likesTwo years and we still dont know what's on the German trending page for YouTube
4 likesbig oof boys, we didt do it
0 likesI <3 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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Me too!
0 likesIlie's comment was deleted but i don't need to know what it said to know what it said
0 likes2:01 i think you misunderstand. Its not meant to be seen as something connected in such a physical sense such as genes. Its more of saying that you (as a being, soul, etc.) are lucky to be born into a relatively fortunate family and it is luck because it was decided by no skill on your own accord or at least that's the thought imo.
0 likes5:10
1 likeI don't need your pity!
*sobs in corner
Jim Croce: "I've got a name."
74 likesTHE ROCK: "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!!!!!!!"
Jim Croce: :tears up: "Hello Darkness my old friend..."
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Hello cancer my old friend...
0 likesIT DOESN'T MATTER HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL
0 likesI hate to be that guy but Hello Darkness my Old Friend is Simon and Garfunkel not Jim Croce
0 likes3:41 its a normal monster card it has no special abilities
0 likesI really liked that you used the Hungarian Rapsody as the background music it sounds fucking good
0 likesFor anyone wondering what the intro background music is, it’s called Hungarian rhapsody no.2
1 likeEmpLemon : How Triggered Are You
0 likesMe : Yes
>When you score high on that Buzzword's privilege test shown on this video as a female Asian American. Hm...
0 likesWhat.
But seriously, f**k BuzzFeed.
EmpLemon is half-asian? I'm so sorry please take my money you are too underpriveleged
0 likesyou're right ,and buzfeed should be destroyed,love u r vidz
0 likesThe audio in this video seems alot louder than the others lol
0 likesI'm oppressed because I had a wii u, please fell sorry for me.
0 likesI self identify as a firearm, so I'm totally triggered
0 likesTfw you're a cis, white male and still get a 26/100 on the Buzzfeed privilege test
0 likeshonestly i watch buzzfeedblue sometimes, just dont want to be that one normie that goes with everyting thats cool to get likes. i also dont realy watch it. it just satisfies me
0 likesI bought a Wii U... pity me :'(
0 likesbut in all seriousness I love my Wii U no matter what people say
I love the WWE references so much LMAO
1 likeDude i love all of your vids that i have watched
0 likesFor me im ethnically polish and poles had the privilege of dying from the firing squad instead of the gas chambers during ww2
0 likesYou need to be the official voice of YouTube
0 likesLooking back at this
0 likesAnd I think the “trend” died down
I will Shrek my privilege in future.
0 likesToday shall be known as Net Neutrality memorial day.
0 likesEvery December 14th we will commemorate Net Neutrality by posting videos of you saying how good Net Neutrality was
With Military memorial songs playing in background
give it to 'em, big boy!
0 likesHaha I enjoy your content.
0 likesEveryone is treated equally 99.99% of the time in the west world
0 likesThat rick and morty edit was pretty funny
1 likeI never thought I would see Terry Cruz give birth to a pizza. I feel privileged to have seen this.
0 likesI identify as Team Fortress 2 and i find this as a schematic for ya, my ass!
0 likesthe editing makes it a million times better
0 likesa trading card game is such a good analogy of this my god
0 likesEmpLemon, I just want to say, Thank you for making this! Society has been a real shit hole lately, and it's not going to get any better without people like you...
6 likesAnyway, keep up the great work! And I should continue feeling underprivileged because I have a Wii U, those straight white Wiis are so much more privileged.
Actually... That stuff would be basic 7th grade biology for me....
1 likeWhich is even more sad...
Morty gets it. Now if only Jerry's got it xD
2 likesAh, 2016 YouTube. Good memories.
0 likesThe Michael Jordan meme 😂😂😂
0 likesI feel thirsty watching this
0 likesLove it, the whole time you have music playing from one of Tom and Jerry's episodes
0 likesI Took the Buzzfeed test and as a white male I got under privalige lmao
0 likesI like how emp is big brained and small brained at the same time, it’s simply great I love it
2 likesI think when they say "Winning the birth lottery" they mean like in a spiritual kinda way. I mean its stupid, but I don't know
0 likesYou think of somethin ng
Damn man, I wish I had your editing skills. Might have more subs than I do lol
0 likesUh oh, Emp is in a downward spiral into politics
0 likesI just realized - you need to go the Pyrocynical route! Be a YT commentary channel, and make more vids like this! This was hilarious!
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indeed
0 likesDo you want EmpLemon doxed? Probably not.
2 likes@Thereviewer7387 Keem is dead, man. Everything's gonna be OK. :)
0 likes@***** Probably not for long. When a jerk falls, another one takes it's place. Yesterday everybody hated Leafy and liked Keem. Today, it's the other way around.
3 likesI think it'd be interesting to occasionally see him do commentary on matters he's actually interested in; this video was very funny, informative, and well written. But I feel like if he went full-on with commentary-based content, it will start to go down hill, if you know what I mean.
3 likes5:16 I had a wii u. :( it was a good console while it lasted
0 likesThat Big Bill Hell's edit.. YES.
1 likeI watched this video when it first cane out, but I didn’t see the message in the description. Interesting.
0 likesI'm not priviledged enough because I am not shrek
1 likewhat is up with this dude's vocabulary? so 'diverse'. I like it!
0 likesthis is a classic
1 likeAs a Yeti, I have white fur and because of that I am somehow better off because of the color of my fur....? Buzzfeed has never been smart, sorri EmpLemon
1 like-Yeti
i'm 14 and i never worked as a bartender or barista so i guess i'm priviledged
0 likesWho knew fidget spinners could do THAT?
0 likesWow this one was a banger! I’m surprised it doesn’t have more views
0 likesAccording To Buzzfeed You Should Be Happy About The Most Poor People That Are White And That You Should Be Sad That Some Of The Most Rich People Are Black (2018 Addition): Because Of Society.
0 likesYou represent the best of liberals. Don’t like trump jokes. Don’t like anti-man and anti-white people. Thank you.
6 likes0:35 "A video so insanely idiotic that you can't comprehend what would lead a group of human beings to think this way"
0 likesyou mean like those acid trip meme videos you post
And genes are brought up before the halfway mark, of course !
0 likesI usually agree with you, but at 1:48 you're missing the point. Sure, the characteristics of the child of your parents would be the same, but what's to say you would be that child and not someone else's child, or yes, a cow born into a factory farm?
0 likesThis man does not make videos...... He gives us all, the loyal subscribers, solid life advice.
0 likesso glad we don't have to put up with this shit over here in NZ.
0 likes5:02 what's next I played with Lego as a kid I had a Wii-U oh god now those are the people you should fucking pity.... "Hello Darkness My Old Friend"
0 likesLAUGHED OUT LOUD all day on that one scene!
Politics with wrestling references, I love this.
0 likesNot even 9th grade biology. That's like 6-8 grade general science right there.
0 likesI attack helicopter as an identify.
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Best fucking comment EVER.
1 like1:13 my amount of sanity
0 likesfound your channel because of your good nascar doc. this was even better.
0 likesMy best friend has gone through countless foster homes, never met his dad, and has attempted suicide. But cause he’s white, and his parents are hetero, he’s privileged. K buzzfeed.
0 likes5:05 The wii u is badass. I homebrew that shit and i can play gamecube games on it.
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Fort Hater not to mention the amazing Wii U exclusives
1 like@The Newfie Gamer yes
1 likeIt’s like that episode of fresh prince of Bel Air, where Carton gets called out a “sell out” by a member of a fraternity only because he’s black and his father is rich
0 likesI only liked because of how of guard that image at the very end was.
0 likesBuzzfeed is the Baltimore of the internet
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Reeeeeeee
0 likesim a white waiter (was a waiter) and people ask to touch my hair all the time.
0 likesI don't get the "mocked for your accent" one cuz i'm white straight and all that shit, but i'm from the south, so my accent gets made fun of all the time
0 likesThe description of this video is badass.
0 likesKeep trucking on.
I’m lovin this new era of emplemon
0 likesSuper
35 likesCorrect
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S.C.R.E.W.
1 likeHow triggered am I? I ate a bowl of liberals for breakfast. Yeah so? Without any cringe... Uh right this way sir!
0 likesyu gi oh doesnt have a race card. iv played the game for 3 years and not once have a seen someone use a card with that name.
1 likeMy only irl "friends" are the kind of people who defend BuzzFeed on this crap
0 likesI mostly just try to be alone whenever possible
Yes you should be sad for Micheal Jordan he owns the Hornets
1 likeDear EmpLemon...
3 likesPlease give me more of this ... i need this - I NEED THIS !!
GIVE IT TO ME
1:50 this made so little sense I questioned my sanity
1 likeObviously they mean being born in certain circumstances
How could he have missed something so obvious
This point is disengenuise
Love your stuff
0 likesThat moment when you recognize the background music
0 likeswhaching from 2020, this shit escalated.
1 likeI didn't understand the "I went to summer camp" one bc the timms summer camp is a camp that sends poor kids to camp???? Oh no!!! I'm privileged because I went to a fully sponsored camp for poor kids!!!!! I can feel the money pouring into my bank account, my skin is paleing, my tits are vanishing, I am priveledged
0 likesthe edit on the nothin at all bit is why i hit like being seirieous and comical at the same time i love it
0 likesThat b4nny moment was perfect.
0 likes3:47 best part
0 likesI bet the people who wrote that probably skipped school
0 likesNo, I don't have a Privilege, and so doesn't my dad
My Dad had to work so hard to get my lunch money, and my Mom died, so I can't use my "Privilege" To bring her back
in fact, I'm not even paid, even for Taking a dog out everyday
5:16 bruh the wii u dominated the latter half of my childhood
0 likesthat ending though
0 likesFat chocolate woman. Haha that cracked me up. Love your videos man.
0 likesConservatives 🤝 liberals
9 likesDisliking Buzzfeed
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BASED
0 likesIt's like I'm wearing nothing at all!
0 likesNothing at all!
NOTHING AT ALL!!!!
"Fat chocolate woman" was brilliant. Nice vids
0 likesAh yes Hungarian Rhapsody, a classic…
0 likesSo Ememror Lemon is half asian!?
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I thoght he was mexican.
4 likesI think there are some people of British descent in the Hong Kong and Shanghai areas, but that's like 100k in 1.4 billion so yeah probably
0 likesI think he's a native from florida.
1 likeEh I was taught bit of Meiosis in the fifth grade that makes it even more sad
0 likesCrying Michael had me in tears!
0 likes"How triggered are you"
0 likeshow can i count past infinty
i'd like to see a 2020 update on this :P
0 likesApparently the co-founder of this is also the co-founder of huffington post. Go figure.
0 likesAnd now a moment of silence for little jimmy who got a Wii U
0 likesI hate WWE but god damn it I fucking love the clips you use to further your points because they are fucking perfect.
0 likesHaha you could release this in current year and no one would even know
0 likesI like the mix between YTP and Commentary
8 likesDude when I was 8 I WORSHIPPED the WiiU
0 likesWHY IS BLEACH FUNNY TO ME
2 likesWait, Emp, you're half Chinese? Can you speak Chinese? Can you cook Vuckfuckle fried rice??
0 likesI love crying Jordan and the music you use in the background
3 likesI liek dis guy
5 likescompelling arguments
rational thinking
entertaining
entertaining rant videos
uses tf2 references
sounds like a cool dude
keep being yourself and doing what you want lemonhead
It's like saying being POC is like a curse or something.
0 likes“Loser” gives birth to pizza
0 likesGreat video man
0 likesEmp’s parents are cool.
0 likesWow
36 likesMakes people laugh AND uplifted.
Are you a lord?
“The wishing star the wishing star I’m on my way to the wishing star.”
0 likesif you only had Wii U i wish you had nothing, just like i did, not out of jealousy, but out of pity....
1 likeWhy does youtube put it's own ads on it's own site?
2 likesBased video, aged like fine wine 😂
6 likesenjoy being copyright striked by Buzzfeed.
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umm, sorry that's not how copyright works...
19 likes+lucid poseidon
84 likesIt won't stop buzzfeed
+lucid poseidon doesn't matter, they'll do it anyway. It's the sad truth
36 likes@Nedark they wont be able to go too far when fair use is staring them in the face.
5 likesIt has no negative repercussion, they can do that to someone and, even if the video is brought back, not be punished for abuse of the system.
36 likesThe copyright system here is infamously bad, that this would be a regular occurrence.
YTP people have been getting their fair use rights shat all over right and left by all these rich PRIVILEGED companies.
24 likesAJ34 Hey it's 11 months later and he didn't get a copyright strike. I guess fuck it huh?
10 likesI really appreciated the Chris Jericho "everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr".
0 likesman i used to rant about this shit in 2016 as well and it's an old thing to complain about yet people still bring these arguments out
0 likesI love this .
0 likesI lost it at the Clorox Woody.
0 likesugh my lit teacher was trying her best to shove buzzfeed down our throat
0 likesFrom 2:00 onward is just short sighted. It's not about the specific combination of genes, but about the vessel your consciousness occupies. For all the universe cares your consciousness could've manifested as an African, or a alien on an different planet. The point being that it is not trivial that you are you. Great vid btw
0 likesI thank God I found your xhannel not only do I get memes but I get videos like this
0 likesI didn't expect to hear Franz Liszt from a ytp. Hats off to you.
0 likesAs a ginger I think I lost
1 likeAt the end, you spelled you're wrong. You spelled it "your", not "you're". Just thought I'd point that out :D (Unless you did it intentionally)
0 likesEmplemon Nothing at all
0 likesNed Flanders feels like I’m wearing nothing at all
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I kinda liked the Wii U. I enjoyed quite a few games on there, such as Splatoon, ssb4, Mario 3D world, I could go on but I think you get the point.
0 likes3:19 I died
0 likes5:14 I died again
I took the BuzzFeed quiz of 'Do you benefit from White supremacy' and there is a question asking if a native African name is harder to pronounce than Zach Galifianakis. Also, if you get 0/52, you benefit from white supremacy.
0 likesI'm going to get my life together
0 likesI feel like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 is calling me. I've heard it so much since 2018 started.
0 likesI’ve had not just 1 WiiU
0 likesBut 2 because my first one broke
2,000,000 privilege points
2:13 I'm in 7th grade and I know that stuff
0 likesI know this comment is old, but damn 3:30 nearly gave me a heartattack.
0 likesi got a make men masculine again advertisment before watching.
0 likesNot only is this a very smart video, but I really enjoy the cory in the house sound effect when mao showed up.
0 likes1:50 - 2:30 I don't think you get the meaning of their analogy. It's not about your physical body, it's about your "soul". The child of your parents may have always been the same person but there would have been no guarantee that would be you. For all you know you could have been born from different parents and lived a completely different life, while a different soul lives your life.
0 likesI didn't watch BuzzFeed's video and I'm by no means defending it, but life is based entirely on luck as your parents and upbringing are responsible for everything you do. Who you are born as is the ONLY factor in how happy a life you will live.
Who else just came back to this gem to rewatch it to feel better?
2 likesNo likes please, just reply or comment on the video or something.
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Me bro. Also good job for not fishing for likes. I respect that
0 likesI have never felt poor...
0 likesI AM POOR
You're Asian?
0 likesOhhh right. I can here it now
A more rational sounding take on White Privilege stated that If you pick a random group of whites and a random group on blacks on average the whites will be more fortunate. It's not to say that there are boatloads of exceptions, but it does show there are still some racial problems in society to be dealt with.
0 likesbeen a sub for a while and the algorithm gifted me this today
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Same
1 likeWho else has been binging old emp lemon?
0 likesThe memes are succulent and salty in this one.
0 likesYummy yummy in my tummy
I am 75% privledged
1 likeAight, a late comment, but basic genetics are 7th grade biology
0 likesThe suffragettes would turn in their graves
0 likesI like that you used the originals of the covers from The End is Nigh
0 likesMy grandma was a white man who worked hard farming for a small salary to support his mother. Then he got his own farm, then he owned buildings! From rags to riches. Instead of whining about how awful his life was, he made something from himself! He became a millionaire! Now, you need to go to college for a chance to live a middle-class life.
0 likesI hate the 2010s
5 likesI was talking about this yesterday. You're right man people are getting stupid. Everyone need the rock in their life.
0 likesI'm white, English, born to middle class family and went to an exclusive grammar school..... I also now live in a YMCA so fuck any implication of privilege
0 likes"The United Nations" lmao
1 likePrivilege is non-existing.
1 likethe clorox joke was a prophecy
0 likesCzech your privilege. Do it for the hell of it.
0 likesI'm 74% privilege, boooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
8:22 I like the usage of the b4nny clip lmao
0 likesBro I never thout u were biracial. Great video.
0 likesi really like these thinkpiece kind of videos
0 likesAnd this marks the beginning of this channel's death.
0 likes2:10 hey I learned this in the 7th grade
0 likesI really just appreciate the classical music
1 likeI’m white and I apply to most of those
0 likesStill relevant to this day
0 likesStraight white cis male middle class male here, I got a 37 on the test
0 likesOMFG YOU ARE HALF CHINESE EMP :o
0 likesNow that is a surprise. Here I am picturing you as a cis-white-male :p
2:00 this was a stupid point. Either than that tho good video
0 likesI know, I was a fool for buying a Wii u
0 likesSeems like there needs to be a crossover video with @GregDoucette
0 likesAll things in life is a privilege, we do not need all we have save food and water, yet we have it, if a white man is privileged so is a black man, and if one claims they have less than others then they are making excuses for not doing what they should, proving people wrong
0 likesthese videos are educational acid trips
1 likeI got 22 on that stupid test :/ and I'm white. Would doesn't that mean I'm instinctively guilty of all that privilege?
0 likesAnyone ever notice how his teeth for his face curve upward over the back of his mouth into the upper teeth?
0 likesBro I learned this in 7th Grade science class (2:03)
0 likesChina: The 90 million didn't count! #ZedongDidNothingWrong
0 likesEveryone else: Who--I mean, sure china-just keep doing your things.
I totally agree.
23 likesI have a friend whos 25% South Korean, and his family is rich as hell. According to Buzzfeed, though, I should feel bad for him because he is 25% Korean. Fucking lol
0 likes4:25 Karren be like. no we not make them fire. we just swap them
0 likesAnd thus, the downward spiral began.
0 likesI'm liberal but some are taking it too far
2 likesI should never be ashamed of who I am even if I have a diaper fetish?
0 likesWell at least jacksfilms does it right
0 likesok cool, now we know that you're a Chinese-American, sooo we can kinda figure out what you look like.
0 likesCool, i somewhat know how to draw you.
Most of them didn't do so good at school
0 likesDid you have a cold when you made this?
0 likesCasually explained is great
0 likesNow that's a good video
0 likesThis is pure gold
0 likesI loved the second half of the video because of the HUngarian Rhapsody
0 likesYou're part asian? Good luck driving loooooooooollllllll
0 likesI mean, you seem pretty triggered tbh...
0 likes4 year old video, still relevant. Fuck this planet.
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Yep, you should check out his video on Jimmy Kimmel, it dives into this stuff more deeper
0 likesI thought something entirely different when EmpLemon was that Atlas statue...
11 likesEmp lemon for next supreme leader of North Korea!
0 likes8:22 hahaha I fucking love b4nny
0 likesI need a full version of mariachi hello darkness
1 likewow this video has ads... i'm surprised.. i've been watching a bunch of your videos and this one had ads
0 likeswhat if someone is mixed. by buzzfeeds standards are they half privlaged?
0 likesLove the vid. What was the name of the piano song you used at the end?
0 likesGreat video man
5 likes5:10 pls don’t rub it in
0 likesLast time i was this early Emp. Lemon was still sane.
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Last time I was this early, you released Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
4 likeslast time I was this early you actually made games
0 likesWhere's half life 3!?!?
0 likes@Leon Jones in the twilight zone
1 like@SlenderSmurf (λ)³ Makes sense..
0 likesAnother gaming question: where's Splinter Cell 7??
0 likesEmp was never sane in the first place...
1 likeStill working on Half life 3?
0 likesLol don't pity me, I have been called gay and I'm a wiiu owner. Don't pity me tho.
0 likes8:23 a wild b4nny appears
1 likeI'm white and poor AF, I was born into a biker family that was poor AF. Guess The birth lotto was broke that day.
0 likesHey, that's pretty dank
0 likesThe background music sounds exactly like the Tom and jerry piano episode
0 likesActually now its 7th grade biolgy.
1 likeI’m gonna share this on a buzzfeed video now.
0 likesPrivilege?
0 likesMore like
Nothing
Last tyime I was this early England was part of the EU.
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This is the only early joke that can be applied to the real world
1 likeNot to mention the rest of the UK.
0 likesPlease explain
1 like@This channel is only for commenting on videos and subscribing to channels England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland are all currently part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which recently left the European Union after a referendum where 52% of voters voted to leave the EU.
1 like@Alfa Xeno Kappa why are they doing it
0 likesThey technically haven't left yet, they just had a referendum in which the citizens voted to leave. Their government still has to officially leave the EU. It will take time.
0 likes@This channel is only for commenting on videos and subscribing to channels Cuz Nigel Farage wants to rage-quit life.
0 likes+Ian Helm what happens if they leave
0 likes*when . since this decision, the mighty Scotland and (northern ) ireland are very close to leaving the UK, the £ has decreased in value significantly, france has decided to send all immigrants over to england basically, the prime minister has fucked off, the EU has no mercy for the UK now (in terms of trade deals) and the UK has dropped from being the fifth biggest economy to the sixth
2 likes@This channel is only for commenting on videos and subscribing to channels They die? Idfk.
0 likesa e s t h e t i c
2 likesWelcome to the future, where Supreme Courts Justices hold way more power than all the people that put them there. England is still in the EU, despite the vote to leave. My only question is who the hell asked the permission of the courts?
1 likewe could call the EU EUU to keep people from getting confused
0 likesYeah too bad Disney canned the EU
0 likesbut michael jordan is bald tho
2 likesman some people are getting ratio'd here a lot for having the shittiest takes i've seen in a while (i'm on emplemon's side on this one)
5 likesfranz liszt's 6th hungarian rhapsody.. good choice.
1 likeCheck your privilege/race
0 likesI unliked this video just to like it again.
0 likesI like the wii u... but i also have 3 computers, a self hosted website, and is fluent in 3 programming languages. So me being insane and liking the wii-u makes more sense
0 likesmy dad got hit by a car, which fucked up his wrist and ruined his ninja motorcycle. He'll never be able to ride like he used to.
1 like*WhiTe PrIViLeGe *
0:45-0:51 someone needs to make a gif of this
0 likesCheck my privilege, try NO and see how it fits.
0 likes...
0 likesthat sounds like mother 3 sampled in there
Was that the mariachi Sound of Silence from Arrested Development?
0 likesWait I'm latino AND white. What am I?!
0 likesmy mans while I agree that buzzfeed is an awful company, and the notion that your feelings have nothing to do with your privilege. there is a history of policymaking in the U.S. designed to place black people in less favorable socio-economic situations. these have since been revoked but their influence is still strongly present in the US today. that alongside a very real prejudice against non-whites in our institutions (banks and law enforcement) make life as a white man inherently easier. I do agree however that you shouldn't be forced to check your privilege as that is pointless and doesn't negate the underlying issues.
0 likesThis video made me sub
0 likesWait, EmpLemon is half asian?? Lol I thought he'd be a white dude
0 likessees sjw woman
1 likeopen pants
"wanna check my privilege?" 😏
I paid 9 dollars for this
0 likes1:46 wtf was that
2 likesEmpbased. Love it.
12 likesThis is the middle of his yt poops and the commentary
0 likesPlays video, recognises Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
0 likes2:18 it's actually 7th grade science nowadays.
0 likesChairman Mao
0 likes“Kind of a dick”
1:12 nice Simpsons reference
1 like1:45 well it was 3 Lemons...
0 likesIf you've ever been in a classroom for a language you don't speak for any amount of time, you can basically pass this quiz and have Buzzfeed tell you, a straight white male, that you're not privileged.
0 likesI like your vids :3
0 likesScrew BuzzFeed
0 likesI am white and I live in Florida, but I am more poor than most of my friends, who are black, cuban, and I have a rich friend who is black-latino mixed. What the fuck Buzzfeed?
1 like5:07 i am offended
0 likes>I have never been to Summer camp
0 likesWhat if I live outside of the US? Summer Camp does not exist outside of the US.
I grew a few brain cells.
0 likesYou don’t pity Morgen Freeman, Morgen Freeman pities you
0 likes2:11 actually more like 7th grade
0 likesSwedens trending had a fidget spinner nerf gun.
0 likesI had a Wii U. I never even got Mario kart 8
1 likeTelling someone to check there privilege is basically idiotic. Shaq could buy my house 10 or 20 times over but somehow I'm more privileged than him. He owns high end Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars but somehow my $1500 Toyota makes me more privileged than him. I know there are people worse off than me and very downtrodden but I can't help that, no one can help where or into which life they were born, they just play the cards they are dealt.
0 likesThe song he uses throughout the video is
0 likesHungarian Rhapsody No. 2
by Franz Liszt
It's time to d d d d, d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-discriminate
0 likesI got 40 out of 100 but i still know buzzfeed is full of crap
0 likesFucking empowering
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i hope this is a joke
1 like9th grade??? I learned that in 7th grade.
0 likesShaq giving birth to a pizza killed me
0 likes0:07 Good place to find interesting content
0 likesWHEEEEEEEEEEEZE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
hungarian rhapsody? (orchestral version)
0 likesI had a Wii-U and it was cool.
0 likesi love the b4nny quote
0 likesBuzzFeed’s logo is of their stocks rising and they pander 🤔
0 likesI heard fat chocolate woman and I fucking couldn't
0 likesThis good shit my dude
This good shit.
Was that Hungarian Rhapsody, orchestrated?
0 likesAnd to only have smash and nintendo land. Yeah, dumb decision
0 likesRight on man! Kick ***** @##
1 likeI got a Wii U. I wish I had a switch instead
0 likesWhen you the dude with the Wii u
0 likes3:26 take a chance
0 likeswell... yes you should feel sorry for michael jordan. just because he was rich doesnt mean he didnt struggle due to racism...
0 likesYou don’t pity Morgen Freeman, Morgen Freemen pities you
0 likesWow this video did not age well
0 likesWow, Hungarian Rhapsody top notch music choice!
0 likesWinning the birth lottery? Pff. Everyone's unfortunate enough to be born as a human... duh.
0 likesI thought you where a lemon wtf might plot twist
0 likesCheck yourself before you shrek yourself.
0 likes3:15 wot's that trumpet cover of "sounds of silence?"
0 likesYou see, this is why I hate
1 likevideo gamesEmpLemon.TheyHe appeal(s) to the male fantasy.I still thought emp lemon was black.
0 likesThe only color that matters in this world is green
2 likesI'm a white male with high GPA and IQ and so far pretty much nobody has wanted to hire me. I am UNEMPLOYED atm. I must really be a MINORITY FEMALE and just NOT KNOW IT YET
0 likesLol I got like 39/100. Unprivileged baybeeee
0 likesOld video but I'm 1/8th black and native plus I'm bisexual but male. Do I have any privilege points?
0 likesDamn that hungarian rhapsody
0 likes6:49
0 likesThe CCP would like to know your location
5:18 if you played xbox you arent priviledged anymore
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You are privileged to the ones that couldnt afford or have a game console
0 likesWhat are the names of the classical songs you put in the background of your videos?
0 likesyou make some good pionts
0 likesI guess they mean "the birth lotory" as in you, the mind, the spirit, not your actual body, id that makes sense
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IQ points as well
0 likesWTF was that "CoMpPlIetlehH"? 7:19
0 likesMy sis is subbed to buzzfeed T_T
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Break her device
52 likesYou don't have a sister anymore!
11 likesSame here
1 likeDivorce her
5 likesWait... Emplemon is Asian?
1 likei like how you put tom and jerry bgm. nice.
0 likesHey, I have a Wii U! I love it! XD
0 likeshold the fone we got a rebel over here
0 likesprivilege is all about MONEY ! money buys people privilege and opportunities , no matter what color, sex, ect.
2 likesb4nny
0 likesyou must be a really big TF2 fan
Jesus Christ more people need to see this
0 likesid be good friends with you
0 likesWait this guy is a mix of asian and white?
0 likeson the test part I checked off a couple and i checked off a couple and didn't others and im a straight white male!
0 likes7:20 CCCCCCCPPPPPPPH
1 likeActually tho, new viewer, great vids.
5:05 triggered me so hard.
1 like...the plural of Lego is actually just "Lego" because it's... swedish i think? (edit: no, it's danish)
or Lego bricks/sets, if you must have the 's'
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@Aaron Saucedo Thanks! you right
0 likesYou have balls.
0 likesBeautiful.
0 likesI'm so privileged, because I was born as a white male in America, where that's extremely common, raised in a middle class family, and I'm going to grow up attempting to join the Air Force. So yeah, I'm really privileged because Buzzfeed says that if I'm a white male, I should check my fucking privilege.
4 likesBiggest fucking truth bomb on the wii u rip me hahahahahaha
1 likeAm I tripping or did this guy used to make ytp?
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Yes
0 likesYugioh meme was supreme
0 likesThese videos looks dumb but really say a lot
0 likesThis is basic 7th grade biology
0 likesDamn I'm full black but my skin is white so ...
0 likesI'M SORRY I'M WHITE! I'M SORRY I'M MALE!
0 likesonce you hit 3 subs, can you do a face reveal?
0 likesthis is also fucking brilliant.
0 likesCan I like a video twice?
0 likesThis shit really pisses me off alot, because privelage has nothing to do with your identity. My father is white and straight, yet he was born into in a life of poverty. His parents were alcoholics, and were both physically and sexually abusive. He joined the Army when he was 18, and drove a tank in Desert Storm. He has PTSD from all of this. Yet, when he came back, he married my mother and gave me the best life he could. He still struggles with his demons, and is still currently an alcoholic. I love him to no end, and appreciate the life he gave me. He did not have a privelaged lifestyle, yet BuzzFeed would claim he is privelaged.
0 likesRich white man bad unless he dislikes other rich white men -buzzfeed
4 likeswe literally took this quiz in freshman year
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Sweet buttery Moses.
0 likesdude, your meme game is crazy
0 likesalso,
/thread
The United nations 🤣
1 likeWAAAAAH! WAAAAAH! YOU LIKE THAT?! YOU LIKE THAT?! HUH? WAAAAAH!
0 likesI fucking loved the Wii u
0 likesThis is basic 7th grade science
0 likesEmp's a Hapa lmao
0 likesI own a Wii U please give me a lolly. Pity me, thank you.
0 likesBut wait I’m a white Jew and poor what I don’t know how is privileged me ?
0 likesat the time of watching this hacksmith is #2 on trending
0 likesDidn't expect b4nny. Lmao
0 likesmy gf likes wake me up inside unironically fml
0 likesSuch dank memes
0 likesI cant help it im a straight white male
0 likeswhy did I get this recommended even though I saw it twice
0 likes5:16 Wii U was splatoon and Mario kart
1 likeMy dud do more of these
0 likesDoes the quiz ask have you ever been called a cracker or a white bastard
0 likesI'm white Viking ancestors from England and we were so poor I had 3 pieces of bacon to last a week and it was - 5 in winter in the main living room as we could not afford to heat the house
Now where I live there are so many rich blacks and so many rich Asians and rich white so colour has nothing to do with it
Aaaaaaaaaand subscribed.
0 likesim not priveleged im a burned victim
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Good lord it's kane
0 likesOH FUCK HE BIRACIAL SOUND THE ALARM WE GOTTA REPRESSION OVER HERE <- Emp never change plz
0 likes*DOWNWARDS SPIRAL*
0 likes*DOWNWARDS SPIRAL*
*DOWNWARDS SPIRAL*
*DOWNWARDS SPIRAL*
*DOWNWARDS SPIRAL*
Half chinese Half Humen = emp Lemon
0 likesI have a Wii U, pity me.
0 likesEarrape at: 3:52 4:46 5:39 6:00 6:33
0 likesBut the Wii U was a good console, the marketing for it was shit. That's why the switch was successful and why this fucking TRIGGERED NINTODDLER IS MakiNG AN ITTEVIAVALNT ARGUMENT XCDDDDD
0 likesWait your not talking about tumblr?
0 likesTwitter wants to know your location
1 likeCmon Liszt HR 2 is so overrated
0 likesMj is a billionare 🅱️
0 likesI was a kid who got a Wii U 😔
0 likesWoooooo got 89/100, I win
0 likesSpins the privilege wheel. Fuck I’m autistic.
1 likeBe ashamed by ourself is a weak mentality
0 likesPreach.
0 likesEmp is part asian, nuteral response
3 likesBased
8 likesWhile white privilage is a thing in some senses, as in you have less of a chance of getting gunned down by a cop for being black, there are so many other factors for many other parts of life that the privilage alone isn't going to get someone anywhere in life. For people to think that this privilage does more than lessen our chance of dying from prejudice is just foolish, as money is much more powerful in society.
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I can agree with that mostly but I still think it's important to see how generational poverty still disproportionately affects black people due to the economic history of the united states and how they've treated minorities in general. Not to say only that group and impoverished people is definitely a better way of describing who's most affected, however when you have a group of people who have been systematically oppressed for the majority of their history (For simplicity sake lets say the end of Jim Crow laws) and are only then allowed to build wealth it's easy to see where white privilege can be important to talk about given certain circumstances.
0 likesI don't even understand anything going on in the world anymore
0 likesWow. b4nny snuck into an EmpLemon video
0 likesit was a different time..
1 likeAssuming that making rent is hard because people have too much money instead of not enough money is very weird though
0 likesHa, chairman LMAO XD
0 likesHey! LEGOs aren't awful!
0 likes#LEGOMasterBuilderRace
The song in the background is Hungarian rhapsody and no.2 (Friska Part because the full song is 9 minutes)
0 likesMfw I was that kid w the wiiu
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shrek your privilege
4 likesY0UVE ACTiVated MY RaCE CaRd!!!!!!
1 likePrivilege???
1 like6:20 omg dis dude is a wasian!
0 likesCool video I like it
0 likeswait.... you're part chinese ?
0 likesthe wii u was my first console and it has a lot of my favorite games so in that regard I find this affensive
0 likes0:52 Emplemon Bear Dilf
0 likes0:40
0 likesthe violin keeps getting louder until you can barely hear his voice
I don't own my identity... The Government does. 7:15
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Prince Tricky r/iam14andthisisdeep
1 likeHey China still cool!
3 likesi had a wii u once...
0 likesI have a Wii U, and I like it!
0 likesWho's a milky piggy? Me! Me! Me!
0 likes- Ned from Buzz Feed Videos
unsubs to BuzzFeed
3 likesUtopia is always one exacution away
0 likesWhy does this not have more views?
0 likesSubbed.
0 likesbecause of soooooo many things
1:16 Stupid sexy EmpLemon!
0 likesmy friend had to paint a portait of mao or he whould die
0 likesI didn’t know you were Eurasian
0 likesmeiosis is 7th grade science now.
0 likes7TH GRADE
EVERYBODY SAY HANK
1 likeIt's my opinion that the whole thing is ogre. It's all ogre.
0 likesThey mean the society status and not genetic, genes after all don't affect that much neurological progression but they say that winning the lottery is the chance that you, consciously would be born in the top percentile.
0 likesI am a white male i am fat only because of my overly intense privilege
1 likeＳ Ｈ Ｒ Ｅ Ｋ Ｙ Ｏ Ｕ Ｒ Ｐ Ｒ Ｉ Ｖ Ｉ Ｌ Ｅ Ｇ Ｅ
0 likes-EmpLemon(7/28/2016)
Hay you talking to me !.. you hive me the finger sir.🙄
0 likesSocial Justice Warriors sticks and stones will break my bones but words will always hurt you let me Translate blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank
0 likesShak prints a pizza. 1:45
0 likesIf you see a person from buzzfeed on the street you should probably push em into a moving vehicle it would be best
0 likesBy the way don't look at me like I'm one of those mindless oofers that sees a hate video and all of a sudden he's just like "UHHH IM GOING TO SEND INFINITE HATE TO SAID CHANNEL THAT GOT HATED ON" instead let's just keep this to ourselves
I get this video is 3 years old and it may not be Emp's outlook or anyone else in this comment section for that matter. Hell, 3 years ago, I would've agreed with this video. But as it stands this video is a irresponsible analysis of privilege. Strawmanning Buzzfeed's condensed version of privilege as the version anyone left of center believes in wholeheartedly is simply incorrect. Privilege isn't cut and dry; i.e Michael Jordan isn't more oppressed than a middle class white person. Rather privilege is complex web of systems like class, race, and gender. It's that trans person will have less privilege to an otherwise equivalent cis person; same going for P.O.C, women, the poor, etc. It also isn't so black and white in terms of scale-- I mean they're called microaggressions for a reason. It sure as hell isn't Yugi-Oh where its a quantifiable point system, its just a framework to understand people on a socioeconomic level. Emp gives a good general description in the beginning, right before shitting on the Buzzfeed video. And I'm no authority on the subject, nor am I supportive of Buzzfeed. Frankly, I think Buzzfeed is too liberal for my taste and I prefer the more Breadtube side of things. I just am taking what I know and agree with and calling this video as I see it.
7 likesI think Emp has made great videos about YouTube culture and will continue to, but unfortunately this one just isn't one of them and I think is indirectly allowing for oppression to exist by undermining the reality of the progressives' view on privilege as a stupid Buzzfeed video.
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>I don't mean to defend Buzzfeed.
3 likes>Turns around and defends Buzzfeed.
You contradicted yourself there, buddy.
@Phantom89 Buzzfeed doesn't hold a monopoly on the idea of privilege, bucko
0 likesYea yea this I completely agree with this
0 likesI actually have a test on meiosis tomorrow lol its 7th grade stuff
0 likesI fit the lego and wiiu mold.
0 likeslol ten/10
0 likesWhy did I choose to be born white?!!
0 likes...Oh, wait...
Don't talk shit about the wii u
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(talks shit about the wii u)
3 likesThis was uploaded during 2016 (during Nintendo’s Great Depression).
1 likeI guess it makes sense.
Switch is better in every way but the Wii u was ok
0 likesNo one is privileged. Everybody suffers. "Privilege" separates us. And segregates us. This is the kinda thing 60 years ago we worked to change. "Privilege" is racist backward and destructive.
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I took the quiz.. felt dirty doing it. According to it im underprivileged
0 likes꧁ঔৣ
0 likesTo be fair, it's BuzzFeed.
0 likesI thought you were an Ackbar...
0 likesL i b e r a l s.
6 likesThis is coming from a leftist btw. Class divide is the real issue (but we still need to recognize racism and other forms of bigotry to unite the working class against capitali-)
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You can work hard and become rich, class divide is a non-issue. People act like your class isn't about the decisions you made. 'You dug your grave, now get in it' kinda deal. People made the decision to quit high school, work at Mcdonalds their entire life, leave nothing to their children, and make those same children dig out of the mess they dragged them into. AKA, my abusive mother and 'stepfather'.
3 likes@Kalypso And take from the working class like all other rich people? You don't become part of the capitalist class by "working hard", you do it by exploitation of the working class. They want you to think you can become rich just by working hard. That's how they get you to produce hundreds of dollars of capital for them per hour while you get maybe 10 back.
7 likesi want some tasty pizzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
0 likesdominos pizza
papa johns
hungry howies
B4nny's in this?
0 likesGood.
Only 356 Dislikes? Nice man
0 likesDon't pity me, i have a wiiu with botw, DONT PITY ME
0 likesI'm a straight white male, and I'm not rich. If I got a job, it would be because I'm smart.
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But your white privilege is also helping you
1 like@ars0on Have you heard of Affirmative Action? It's a law that makes companies favor black people to meet a quota. Black people have lower standards to meet than white or asian people. It's kind of racist, if you think about it. It's basically saying black people can't succeed without help, which isn't really true for any race in America.
3 likes@132 Gaming You know poc and black people are WAY more likely to not be hired be a job because of their race than they are to be hired only because of their race
1 like@ars0on I already talked about affirmative action. If you google it you'll see what I talked about. Also, companies don't care who they hire, as long as they make a profit.
1 like@ars0on do you support tokenism?
0 likesPrivilege is not a thing.
1 likeWhy is the trending page full of Saturday night live videos
0 likesThe German trend section is much worse. Like you come across a video you'd want to watch sometimes, a few you're not interested in but 90% of the German trending section is that one video. Except they're the majority.
0 likesEmpy Aison comfimed?
0 likesWhite privlge doesn't mean your rich or you have a better start in life then others it just means when compared to black,Asian,Latino people you would most likely have better odds to getting a job a loan etc
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@DannyNeWedgeGT No go on tell me all you know and not use excuses and have a actual argument
2 likes@Nathan Beaubrun just Google Harvard and Asians
3 likes@DannyNeWedgeGT This just proves my point
3 likes@Nathan Beaubrunit all stems from the unfair advantage that minorities get called affirmative action. The only discrimination going on was helping other minorities by denying Asians
3 likessouth africa and oregon cough nervously
0 likesThere are two genders.
0 likesSUIT UP
0 likesYour half Chinese? Cool!
0 likesS C R E W
0 likesThe biggest problem with the "check your privilege" argument is this.
5 likesIf you are calling somebody privileged, you are implying that they are entitled to things which a normal person is not.
It is defined as 'a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.'
The key word in the definition being 'special'. If you're throwing around the word privilege you're basically saying that being harassed, abused, singled out, or discriminated against is the norm and should be treat as such.
Discrimination is inherently stupid, it is bred from ignorance. It should be viewed as disgusting behaviour and if you view and treat everybody as equal, that just means you have common sense.
This is not news to anybody but a lot of the people using this kind of language are doing it to try and convince themselves that they're good people, doing great things. If you want to spread a message of equality, stop pointing out everybody's skin colour when nobody else brought it up.
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Exactly
1 likeAt my school genes and stuff like that is basic 6th grade shit
0 likesMore like Privilegerprivildge
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And ho this is what google said :)
0 likespriv·i·lege
ˈpriv(ə)lij/Submit
noun
1.
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.
"education is a right, not a privilege"
synonyms: advantage, benefit; More
verbformal
1.
grant a privilege or privileges to.
"English inheritance law privileged the eldest son"
“unde fucking mao”
1 likeBuzzfeed is on a downward spiral
0 likesIdk dude, this kinda aint it
6 likes"This is Ku-Ala AKBAR"
0 likes2:59 Ｆ Ａ Ｔ Ｃ Ｈ Ｏ Ｃ Ｏ Ｌ Ａ Ｔ Ｅ Ｗ Ｏ Ｍ Ａ Ｎ
0 likesDownward spiral... downward spiral...
0 likesI identify as a toaster if if you say otherwise prepare to get toasted.
0 likesSo many mad social justice warriors in the comments
20 likesI hate when people say the females are minority...... (Its 1 to 1.01)
0 likesProbably the only thing more stupid on YouTube are slideshows of ABDL furry drawings. :P
0 likesI was going to delete this. I’m not.
really I'm really sorry Emp watch my December fools video
0 likesChad
6 likesI honestly
0 likesNever goto that cancerous trending tab
oh man emp's asian american. THE PRIVLEDGE
0 likesI need the song that plays at 1:49. I checked the description, but couldn't find it in the Music section.
0 likesstill good
9 likes0:45 XD
0 likesInsert Jacksfilms joke
0 likes👌😂👌
0 likesBuzzfeed is just awful. So awful in fact that it’ll make someone like Brie Larson seem like Albert Einstein!
1 likethis actually fucking hurts to rewatch 5 years down the line because the responses are just assuming institutional racism isn't a thing anymore and that people aren't bigoted anymore
17 likesit's still happening in 2021 and it's still pretty fucking bad if you ask me
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i know right its not like pocs get selected for jobs to fit an agender some activists have even if they dont have the necessary skills required for said job
1 likeNigga this was 6th grade biology
1 likeCHOCOLATE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0 likesearape warning
0 likesYour mom is pretty cool.
0 likesThis video is so 2016 lmao
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agreed lmao
1 likePsst check the description for the date
0 likesyeah thats all cool and all but wheres F I N D I N G D O R Y
0 likesAlot of people just want racism to continue lol. I'm sorry racist people who think their against racism doesn't want to see this as a class issue.
0 likesProgressive stack
1 likeMore bashing on Buzzfeed....
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now hold on emplemon. While I understand your ideals and can agree to an extent, the idea of privilege normally seen is based more on how others view you and the benefits it possibly gives you. Take for instance you apply to a company with a boss who is racist (to keep it plain and simple) and you are a person of a non-Caucasian ethnicity. By default, due to that person's mindset, you are less likely to get a job at that company compared to someone of equal educational and economic standing as yourself who is Caucasian.
11 likesThe whole idea of privilege isn't about an inherent advantage that you possess, it's a privilege of how society will react to you on factors outside of your control such as your skin color, sexual orientation, and even economic stability (see any kind of story where the poor kid is looked down on by the rich kids because they weren't born into a wealthy family even though they possibly earned the spot at the school with the rich kids)
Again, I agree with your interpretation of how privilege shouldn't be viewed, and the video made by buzzfeed is incredibly stupid, but in real life the factors outside of our control do unfortunately make a difference and they only way that will stop is when people no longer view people as "the other", which is very hard to do unfortunately due to human's innate tribal mindset.
Wait you’re Asian?
0 likesmy dad graduated collegde majoring in Chemistry. he worked for companies like domino sugar. then started working for Enterprise, bank of America and other places. I mean my family isn't the most rich and we are just surviving. BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER. we have no privalage by buzzfeeds standards, because my dad is black and my mom even though white is A FEMALE
0 likesAnd me growing up a person of color and female Plus I'm Bisexual and I'm not heterosexual I will have no privalage when I'm older and I wont be able to go to college and be successful and people MUST pity me. because of my race, gender, and sexuality.
yea that's totally accurate buzzfeed
Hell basic 6th grade science
0 likesthis was 6 years ago?
0 likes"Does race or gender affect their so called privilege?"Yes.More so race than gender thoughWomen aren't being killed by police as much as black people are being killed by policePrivilege is a real thing.I personally hate people saying "check your privilege", instead I say: just cause you can't see a group of people facing adversity and prejudice doesn't mean they are not.
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Not all black people are Michael Jordan.
3 likesJust like how not all white people are hitler
But every once in awhile you'll find a black kid who wants to be just like mj
And a white kid who wants to be just like hitler
@DisGuy OvahEere and a black kid that wants to be just like hitler... and a white kid who wants to be just like mj.
0 likesYou basically proved the point; Race and gender don't matter a lot in the grand scheme of things, any individual can be privileged regardless of those things, which is why we shouldn't generalize everyone by race and tell them how privileged they are just because of it.
Ur a happa? Elliot Rodgers confirmed?
0 likesI found this in the spongebob squarepants topic
0 likesFucking... You learnt Meiosis in 9th grade? I learnt that shit in 7th.
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That's the public educational system for ya! [sitcom laughter]
1 likeputs a loaded gun in my ear
3 likes(seinfeld theme plays"
0 likesOne smug mouse
0 likesYour mom and dad are badass.
4 likesI only watch tasty
0 likesOh well what are you gonna do
0 likesBathroom Cleaning Products
0 likesI'm oppressed! Not because I'm African-American, but because I own a Wii U.
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Bro what the hell
1 likedo u still feel the same about this topic emp?
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yes
3 likes@Krle Gulaš I dont think they asked you mate
0 likes@Übermensch i do not care
0 likesBro Mao’s k/d is insane! What a legend
1 likeFRANZ LIZST! T&J! LOVELY MEMORIES!
0 likesIdentity doesn't even matter when you get to a certain point in spirituality.
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Galaxy brain moment
2 likes@Felsbrocken Your profile picture goes well with your comment.
0 likes5:39
1 likeThank you for making this video! This video is just as relevant in 2021 as it was in 2016!
8 likesWe get thought in school that whites have white privilege by a white teacher lol
0 likesthats basic 7th grade biology actually
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6th Grade for me
0 likes3:28 where did this come from pls
0 likesAmen
0 likesYou're missing the point of the "privilege" argument. We're not supposed to feel sorry for people who are less privileged, and we're not supposed to feel shame for our own privilege.
9 likesWe're just supposed to be aware of our privilege when talking about issues that minorities face. When somebody makes a statement based on their life experience, you should take your differences in privilege into account before judging what they have to say.
When somebody says "check your privilege", they're telling you that you are making assumptions based on your own experiences rather than the other person's. That's it. It's nothing to get triggered over. There are certain hardships that you have never faced and could not really understand, so when somebody who has faced those hardships speaks about them, you should put more weight in their experiences than your own.
And yes, obviously there are privileged black people and under-privileged white people. That doesn't mean white privilege suddenly doesn't exist.
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Except it becomes moot when you have politicians, teachers, professors, and people on their social media platform saying that a homeless white man has more privilege than Barack Obama.
8 likesLots of white people are already aware that others are less fortunate. What's the point of bashing people over the head and throwing "white" in the mix?
So yeah, its trying to trigger a feeling of guilt. Its not about being poor anymore, your skin colour is gonna be the deciding factor.
Fuck that.
how tf am i privileged
0 likesMao Was pretty lit
0 likesI identify as the king of the world
0 likes1:44 Wtf!
0 likesWhy was this being recommended to me now?
0 likesEveryone who has used XBOX 360 chat has been called every single derogatory term ever invented.
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you are very correct
0 likesman people in the comment section think emp is racist but havent heard a bo1 game chat
0 likesSuperb
0 likes𝓕𝓸𝔁𝓶𝓸𝓶 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓨𝓸𝓾 <3
0 likesYou are Lisa Simpson
0 likes>mfw Rick and Morty memes
0 likesBuzzfeed AKA california
4 likesHa ha ha W R O N G
1 likei love b4nny
0 likesthe wii u is good okay! ;(
0 likesirelands trending is all sports because its all people do here
0 likestrump isn't white, trump is a orange
7 likesI- I have a wii u ¡~¡
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I know right
0 likesWii u gang and lego kid gang rise up TwT
Wii U gang!!! The Wii U is awesome and nobody can convince me otherwise T~T
1 likeholy shit mao
0 likesToo much editing.
0 likesI don't know how you made Buzzfeed look completely reasonable, but EmpLemon you did it! This is one of the single cringiest videos I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm glad you've moved on from this "SJW BAD" content because it doesn't suit you even remotely.
9 likesNed is a jew not white lmfao
0 likesThe truth
0 likesThanks for Liszt
0 likesHungary rhapsody no.2 nice
0 likesThis is a poor description of what White Privilege really is. It's not about being given a special gift because you're white, It's about all of the challenges that non-white people are forced to deal with that white people never have to think about, (for example, non-white people are often heavily judged for their skin color when applying for jobs or apartments, while white people never even have to think about these things). White privilege isn't about receiving added benefits from your skin color, it's about the things that white people don't have to think about and deal with that other people do.
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Then why are we seeing groups such as Indian and Filipino Americans being the most successful. They didn't pull that money and success out of their asses. And according to the study, they had a more difficult situation with names yet here they are.
2 likesThe practices such as Loan denial solely based on race has been over for over half a century. If you're being denied for a loan more often, it's probably something other than your race. Yes it did happen and we shouldn't forget about it, but we have to realize that it is not the issue today.
Hey, I have a Wii U
0 likesim a white male but i get a verry low score what now buzzfeed
0 likesHungarian Rhapsody
0 likesWhat is summer camp?
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king ghidorah. I think it’s an American thing
0 likesYeah dawg this didn’t age well. Hope you’ve grown but for this you gotta hold this L
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The video description describes you easily
12 likesbruh you probably enjoy jimmy kimmel
13 likesBuzzFeed --> ButtWeed
0 likesMy sis has a wii u. Rip
0 likesI’ve never seen someone misunderstand the concept of privilege that hard
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It’s a shame because I like some of this guy’s content but he really just started ranting without trying to understand any of what privilege is. Like, it IS a privilege to me that I’m less likely to be shot by police based on my skin color, or be assaulted because I’m male, or refused treatment because I’m not gay or trans.
2 likes@Seth Then go watch the rest of this website. By now the near entirety of the internet is catered toward you lefties yet you complain about the very few who aren't.
19 likesHe knows what privilege is, he's just saying we shouldn't generalize how "privileged" people are based on their race
3 likes@hppvitor there’s a lot of left wing content. But you’re blind if you can’t realize there are tons of people just like you who make reactionary content and make comments just like yours. It’s not as one sided as you think
1 like@Linus the buzzfeed video is pretty stupid, it’s buzzfeed. But he made some pretty stupid arguments. Yeah, don’t assume someone has a better or worse life because of their race. But minorities, particularly black people, face tons of problems purely based on their race. That’s just a fact, whether it’d be in the courts, police, generational wealth, being way more likely to be poor, ect. We should focus of why these minorities have it worse socio-economically and try to fix that through policies and stop trying to tell them just to fix it and stop focusing on it. People said that during every civil rights movement and they’re saying it now
1 like@zabB police police black ppl more then white ppl and resisting arrest doesn't mean you should get shot?????? also if someone hates a certain minority that you are a part of you target automatically thats how discrimination works. they arent being rightfully prosecuted mostly and even if they were it doesn't matter the person has already been hate crimed?
3 likesHa! Ha! Wrong!!!!
1 likeWow, you're part Chinese? You sound white.
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0 likes2:00 - Why do you spend so much time on this? That's not the argument. Of course you couldn't have been born another race, that's the point. It's nothing to do with odds in that sense, it's the fact that you didn't choose your race, so it isn't really fair for society to treat you better as a result of it.
18 likesPrivilege is having 1/4th the odds of someone exactly like you but with darker skin of going to jail for smoking pot. It's not like you did anything wrong or need to be punished, it's like if you buy a TV, and the color is off, you adjust it. If there's too much red, you're not punishing the red light by adjusting the knob so it's balanced.
3:15 - "You're saying I should feel sorry for Michael Jordan because he's black?"
Nobody is saying that. That's another strawman. Do you seriously think anyone would argue that?
4:00 - Again, another strawman. Non-white people don't need to be pitied, they need a level playing field.
4:30 - Tipping. If you've ever had black friends who've worked as waiters, you should know this.
Also, not saying I have a large enough sample size to write a fuckin paper or anything, but I've known enough people who have been pulled over for speeding to know there is a huuge difference in the experience largely depending on your skin color. Obviously it also depends on the cop.
This was a little disappointing. It almost sounded like you were trying not to understand.
As for the change in your channel's direction, I loved your poops, but it's probably a good idea.
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Tipping has nothing to do with the question that was presented in that questioniare. Salary was not brought up as an argument. Let alone being the deciding factor for your skin. lol keep making up shit. Love how you brought up the "I have a black friend thus I understand" meme.
26 likesWhat is there to understand? I think the point is that "privilege" really doesn't make that much sense.
15 likesI am a straight white male. Cuff me Papa Smurf for I have sinned. Looks like I'm heading rooooiiight tooo the noose!
13 likesThat's like saying "I don't get it, therefore there is nothing to get"
0 likesIf you don't understand how magnets work, that doesn't mean magnetism doesn't exist.
"Salary was not brought up as an argument. Let alone being the deciding factor for your skin"
1 likeHe said he doesn't get why those jobs are relevant to the questionnaire.
""I have a black friend thus I understand" meme."
Yeah, sure, if you can't beat someone's actual argument, just pretend it's something else
I mean, if you're a waiter, you can't expect to be tipped every time you serve a customer.
12 likes@gibsterhipster 88 Of course not. I don't think anyone does. I don't see how that's relevant.
0 likes+AndroidDoctorr I was referring to you're last point (4:30)
4 likes@gibsterhipster 88 I know. How is it relevant to what I was saying? I didn't say you should expect to be tipped every time.
0 likes+AndroidDoctorr I like how most social justice points are supposed to be all about equallity when that's the last thing checking your previllage does. Someones skin color or sex doesn't matter to people who actually accept everyone as actual EQUALS. No one person has the right to not ask someone a question based on their skin color or sex, but no they've had it worse so they need more respect than someone else. I should know this better than anyone here because my zodiac sign is Libra. Excuse me while I check how privlaged I am. Sense I come from a middle class family and I am a straight white male probably doesn't let me have an opinion on the matter because I have a low privelage score. My point is treating someone differently based on their skin color or sex just adds to the problem if we are trying to be equals. Think of it as if you were dealing with someone how has autism. You don't want to offend them by treating them differently from anyone else. I would know because my friends bro has autism. I treat him as if he was my brother. Nothing else, to me he is just my little brother.
9 likes@ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ "Someones skin color or sex doesn't matter to people who actually accept everyone as actual EQUALS"
0 likesYou're almost correct.
it SHOULDN'T matter, but unfortunately it does. Unconscious bias is unconscious, unless you become aware of it. Duh.
"Sense I come from a middle class family and I am a straight white male probably doesn't let me have an opinion on the matter because I have a low privelage score."
Your opinion on racism is like my opinion on repairing electrical transformers. I have no idea how they work, because I've never had to deal with them. If you've never had to deal with racism, you're allowed to give your opinion, but I don't have to take it seriously.
What you can do, however, is listen to people who DO experience it.
"My point is treating someone differently based on their skin color or sex just adds to the problem"
That's like saying "If some crops don't get enough water, treating them differently by giving them more water doesn't make things equal"
Or
"If the TV color is way too red, you don't solve the problem by adjusting the color knob"
Yes you do!!!
+AndroidDoctorr I think what he's saying is that the only way to get everyone equal is to treat everyone equally.
6 likes@gibsterhipster 88 And if everyone could be treated equally, that would be really really nice. But that doesn't happen. People are treated differently based on how they look, that's just a fact of human nature.
1 like+AndroidDoctorr And when people are treated differently, it is our jobs as people to point it out and tell those people off.
3 likes+AndroidDoctorr I have dealed with racism. People have called me trash and made fun of my name calling me saltine craker because I am white. Just because I may have not been through it doesn't mean I have to understand it. It's alot like relegion people still believe in God regaurdless of it actually bring seen.
7 likes+ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ being* I am typing on a phone.
0 likes+ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ That's true. Regardless of who you are, there is always going to be someone who will mock you for who you are.
10 likesLet me put it this way -
0 likesLet's say applications of "PC-ness" like affirmative action are racist. I actually agree that in a sense they are.
But it's not a two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right situation, a) because that's just a saying, not a law of thermodynamics, so it isn't necessarily true, I mean surgery is technically stabbing someone with a knife, but anyways b) it's more like this:
You wouldn't turn your steering wheel if you're on a straight road... unless the wheel is already turned, and you're veering off the road. Then turning the wheel is ok, because it's correcting the rotation that was already there.
Theoretically, you're right, we should be holding the wheel straight, but that doesn't work. The car drifts slightly to one side if we hold the wheel straight.
Does that analogy make sense?
+AndroidDoctorr it does make sense, I just don't like the way in which we handle this problem.
3 likes+AndroidDoctorr 'privilege' is not a true progressive idea. If your aim is to further equality in society why would you support an idea that gives different merit or value to people's opinions because of their origins? The current state of the world is far from equality but believing in something like this does nothing to address the problem, only causes more conflict.
7 likes+AndroidDoctorr Also, people have struggles no matter who they are. Every economic class has their own unique problems, and varying complexity. No one should be shamed for their position in society or the way they were born, just like nobody should be pitied or given a break because of their given situation.
7 likes+AndroidDoctorr If I , a young person , wants to not be racist then why is race shoved down my throat so often? Won't that led me to dislike others because they are given an advantage by law over me because some people don't like them?
4 likes"why is race shoved down my throat so often"
0 likesWhy do you think it's being shoved down your throat?
+AndroidDoctorr reply to the responses that actually counter your argument.
1 like@I Need Big Drink I've addressed all of them. Your response doesn't counter my argument. It counters someone else's argument, maybe. No idea whose, though. E.g.:
0 likes"why would you support an idea that gives different merit or value to people's opinions because of their origins"
I wouldn't. How is that relevant?
"The current state of the world is far from equality"
Exactly.
"...believing in something like this "
...like what? You basically just agreed with me - the world is far from equal. Exactly.
"Also, people have struggles no matter who they are"
Well of course. Some of those struggles, however, are man-made, and can theoretically be solved or at least countered.
"No one should be shamed for their position in society or the way they were born, just like nobody should be pitied or given a break because of their given situation"
Exactly my point!!
But that's what happens though. That's what white privilege is - people being given a break because of their situation! It doesn't happen all the time, it's not nearly as bad as it was 50 years ago, but it still happens
+A Well the thing lemon was upset about was people treating each other differently based on race from the other side of the spectrum. Racial bias is one end, like you mention, and then idea of privilege - where 'more fortunate' ppl who 'win the genetic lottery' are so privileged and therefore cannot understand or are not qualified to talk about other people's issues-that's the bullshit part. These people that wish to raise awareness only further divide each other by class and distinction and privilege. like it was said above-just live life, suck it up and treat everyone based on character. Privilege is now thrown around to shame others, often white males, or as an excuse for not applying one's self
3 likesTry again racebaiter. Quit pushing a false narrative. He's questioning the backwards logic. These "strawmen" are examples that are completely accurate to the absurd claims and agenda of Buzzfeed, you clearly are unaware of all the nonsense they push. I have black friends that worked as waiters, they made the same as everyone else... and on the other hand I have a black friend who has never left a tip at a restaurant in 30 years. How is the playing field not equal? Its more equal than ever and for every "unequal" opportunity there is one that's more than "equal" such as EOP and their quotas for hiring and there's even college scholarships for simply being black and on and on and on. What do cops have to do with race? In urban areas where there is a large black population that is more susceptible to racial profiling, brutality, etc. there is also far more cops who are also minorities. The problem with racism today is people like you pushing false narratives and being pitiful just like Emp talked about, you're as bad as Buzzfeed. Grow up and be thankful you live in a country where you aren't imprisoned for your sexuality or enslaved, now that's unfair. You and all the other whiny racebaiters are a disgrace to every impoverished, enslaved and abused person who is actually a victim in some war and poverty stricken country, grow up, be thankful for what you have, and if you don't like it change it
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0 likesLol, nothing at all!
0 likeswhy did this video show up under NBA Topic?
0 likesHas not aged well...
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it has aged as well as other ytp
7 likesi need that clip of fuck you buzzfeed
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0 likesWhat's that song that played during the FUCKING MAO segment? I've heard it in a filthy frank video but i can't seem to find it anywhere, help pls. (6:48)
0 likesIt’s such a privilege being white 🥰
2 likesYour newer videos are so good! These older ones I can't really blame you for though lol. I am so glad I don't have any videos out there of my bitchy, smug, ill-formed worldview from my early 20s
9 likesWho is that guy in the left side of the thumbnail?
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Tell me please
0 likesIs that fucking Shaq giving birth to a fucking Pizza??? I thought I have seen it all
0 likesWho let BuzzFeed exist?
0 likesImagine being as out of touch as this video and most of the comments. 😹😹 But sure, blame everybody else.
5 likesThen again, this is part of the downward spiral, I suppose. 🤔
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9 likesIs the Sumer-Akkaddian in your profile name supposed to be impressive or something? Asking for a friend.
0 likesYou called it tbh... But he’s from Florida, what did you expect? He’s talking to his people. xD
4 likesNothin at all!
1 likeCanada's trending tab is worse
0 likesWhat's worse than a dead baby?
0 likesNot having sex
I had a Wii U
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How is the OG video not a yikes?
1 like@Hi Darling Because privilege exists and it's nothing to be ashamed of, but it definitely is something you should be aware of if you don't want to hurt anyone unintentionally by playing into systemic inequalities. A huge component of privilege is ignorance towards the fact that you even have privilege to begin with. Again, ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, but it is something you should confront if you're aware of it, if you don't want to do anything unintentionally
0 likes@Lyra Black Okay.... well in that case, how do you feel about affirmative action?
1 like@Hi Darling There's no quick fix to systemic problems. Affirmative action is a starting point, but there's still tons of problems to address
0 likes@Lyra Black ...of course you'd like affirmative action. It's literally a form of racial discrimination, but I guess that doesn't matter when the race is "marginalized" (ya know, a marginalized race that's in every advertisement, corporations treat better than others, and pioneered the most popular musical genre around right now).
1 like@Hi Darling Black and otherwise marginalized people have literally pioneered nearly every form of popular media to date, only to be excluded from the very art forms they created once those forms became "mainstream". Movies as an art medium weren't taken seriously until white (using the historical definition of whiteness here, not just the current definition) men brought it into the public view.
0 likesIt's entirely different for a person with more privilege to punch down at a more marginalized person than it is for a marginalized person to throw off their historical oppressors. As I said in a previous reply to you, ignorance is a key facet to privilege, so I understand that you are probably unaware of the struggles of marginalized peoples throughout history, including Black struggles in the United States. As a person who passes as a straight cis white able bodied woman myself, I am constantly finding out how much I don't know about the struggles more marginalized people face, and how every single person's intersectionalities overlap to produce vastly different perspectives (some people take the side of their oppressors, some people actively beat them back, some don't have the energy to expend at all for such things).
It's incredibly interesting and enlightening to view this kind of thing through a dialectical materialistic approach and see exactly what material conditions produce which outcomes. Ignorance really is nothing to be ashamed of; there's so much to learn and unlearn, and it's a lifelong process
@Lyra Black Yeah, you're talking about events that happened literally 100 years ago with the movies example. Of course back then when racism was actually still the norm, people didn't want to support an black-majority medium.
2 likesHowever, things are kinda different now and I doubt we'll get another artform created by black people that nobody watches until white people take over. Hell, with anime as an example, it wasn't really taken seriously until black people really showed their love for it. When it was japanese people, it stayed in japan. When white people and other races besides black started messing with it, it stayed a nerdy little niche for a decade.
Actually, rap music is typically said to have been popularized by white people despite being black-created... however how true is that really? Vanilla Ice had the first #1 rap hit I believe, but everyone saw him as a fake and a regrettable mistake and white rappers were seen with this horrible stigma until Eminem and Mack Miller came along. It wasn't until Snoop Dogg and Gangsta's Paradise that rap really exploded and was seen as legitimate.
Also, the funny thing about movies is I looked up who was credited with inventing it and according to Google (a very liberal company), it was a french-man named Louis Le Prince.
@Hi Darling When I think of people who like anime, I don't think of people of color (despite the fact that they are usually the most passionate about it), I think of white people who are not only not the target audience, but also misinterpret and over sexualize the characters as the tradition of doing so goes, with "foreign others"; men emasculated, and women fetishized.
0 likesSaying that Google is a "liberal" company is just saying that it appeals to the masses rather than being overtly racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, etc (which it very much is, covertly, hidden behind algorithms and without tracking the data, therefore without any proof available. This isn't to say that more overtly fascist content isn't likewise concealed by the algorithm, but as history has shown time and time again, the moderate will always bend to the fascist (to their own and everyone's detriment) rather than to concede to the demands of the working class and other more marginalized groups, which will benefit the masses, yet at the cost of the precious hierarchy the moderate enjoys being near the top of).
I wasn't talking about who invented movies in the sense of who patented it (as the answer will always be, "whoever had the money and connections to do so first"; source: Benjamin Franklin, notably racist against the Irish and Germans alike, stealing the credit for numerous inventions by taking it to the bank first), but rather who showed that movies as a medium were a viable art form.
As far as "these events happened 100 years ago", that's true, but it's also literally happening right now, and has been this entire time. The easiest example is the gentrification of the "blaccent", or African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Ebonics.
Nothing* Black people (or indeed any person of color) originates is beneficial to them and is instead detrimental in the fact that a Black person with acrylics or box braids or who doesn't speak "proper" English will literally risk their job and therefore their livelihood just to express themselves in a way that they themselves created, while white celebrities are praised for tanning their skin, getting more "racially ambiguous" features through plastic surgery, speaking in AAVE, wearing fashion that Black people originated (including acrylic nails), wearing box braids and indigenous headdresses, etc, etc. Elvis Presley, Ariana Grande, the Jenners, Billie Eilish, the list goes on and on of white people appropriating Black art forms for their own profit.
*"Never say never", my point is that this is the rule, and anything else is a notable exception to this rule and should be further looked into; for example, predatory record companies taking credit for Black artists' work while forcing them to create art through their contracts with the label (Doja Cat would be a recent example; which isn't to say this only affects Black creators, Taylor Swift also recently bought the rights to her own music; I could go on about how capitalism is terrible for art, but I digress).
If the length of this comment hasn't made it clear already, this has an incredible amount of nuance to it, and I highly encourage you to do your own research and educate yourself about this by listening to Black and otherwise marginalized voices
Edit: About what you said about rap… I'm just gonna link a video because white people such as Mack Miller and Eminem consistently win awards for their mediocre (in comparison) rap over other more qualified artists, simply because of the fact that their skin has a lower melanin content: https://youtu.be/V7prxvu_GiQ (and to save you from wasting time and get to the point, specifically 8:16)
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0 likesI hate what buzzfeed has done with commodification and oversimplification of some pretty complex and nuanced topics like privilege theory. This was something I studied in college, and done right, it IS a great framework for understanding how circumstances throughout america differ and effect each of us at many levels.
3 likesbut presented out of full context, it DOES sound stupid. Pop media takes on it are always too shallow and leave people with logical holes that are frustrating to them. The worst part is those logical holes ARE filled in my opinion by the full and in-depth theory. But bastardized buzzfeed takes on it just leave out too much.
For example, any privilege is meant to be analyzed as a small independent facet of a persons entire life. Race in analyzed on its own axis, gender on its own, class and income on ifs own as well.
If you analyze being white, we’re only saying the person is privileged in terms of race alone and protected from certain cruelties that black people are targeted for. That’s it though. It doesn’t mean you have gender privilege, or money privilege. It certainly doesn’t mean you have wealth or any easy life. It just means, on top of anything else good or bad, you aren’t dealing with the hatred of black people that still manifests in our society today.
When you start to look at how many elements of a persons life are actually pretty privileged, and how many are stacked against them, you get a better more sympathetic picture of what they’re dealing with, for what you yourself are dealing with, and some perspective on stuff that you’re lucky to have, each in their own right.
It comes from a scholarly essay which is pretty intellectually and historically sound. It’s a huge problem how dumbed down this concept has been presented to mass audiences, because skeptics think it’s all bullshit, and they’re kinda right, because the simple version does not hold water. But really, they’re often not shown the full theory, which holds water quite well in my opinion. And has less drastic conclusions than “how privileged are you” and more nuanced reflections that help you understand others a little better and how little things stacked against someone can build up to a anyone’s breaking point. https://vetvoicenational.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/exploringinvisibleknapsack.pdf
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It's because of his voice, roight?
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i respect your opinion
0 likesIt is like winning the birth lottery, because not everyone is fortunate enough to have the chance to be born into a wealthy family or a middle class family. Does genetic law make Donald Trump's kids any less fortunate to have been born into a billionaire's family and having the resources to do practically anything they want whereas children in working class families, well, just have less priviledges? You could've skipped the video.
0 likesPrivilege is absolutely a real sociological concept. Problem is, people exaggerated and misrepresented it to such a point that they attacked individuals rather than the systemic problems which the term was meant to address.
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Only national privilege matters enough to even be a topic worth discussing tbh. (The country in which you are born/raised)
2 likesyou're mean i do have a wii u
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You're kidding right?
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0 likesyou don't get privileged if you aren't above the age of at least 23
0 likesAround 2:30 you jokingly ask if you should check your "human" privilege. You're not a bee. You're not going through their problems. Go ahead and make fun of me, but tell me I'm wrong.
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Bruh, every joke misses the point. This video aged poorly. You're triggering my delicate sensibilities.
0 likes@starwarsfreak999 perhaps it was you who didn't age well. Just an idea
2 likes@Boreo yup 6 months later and he still aged poorly
0 likesIdk man, I think you're splitting hairs on a topic that most of the people who voted for Trump refuse to believe
3 likesI had a wiiu
0 likesAtleast Buzzfeed blue is alright
0 likesDo you like the nba?
0 likesWhat your Asian awesome
0 likesWhile his points aren't exactly wrong, he does act like "just make your situation better" is just as easy or hard for everyone. That's what privilege is. Some people don't get hired or accepted to college because they have a black-sounding name. Just because it shouldn't happen, and you don't do it, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
7 likesI'm hoping that someone so usually well informed as EmpLemon has learned better since this video.
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He never said it was easy or the same for everyone. His point was that instead of wallowing in shame you actually hold yourself accountable and make something meaningful in your life regardless of the circumstances of your birth. Not actively seeking to have people accept you in every facet of life. The less you expect from others, the less likely you are to be disappointed.
3 likesThe starvation of China was caused by bad agricultural conditions
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...caused by agricultural quotas implemented by Mao.
0 likes"Quoting someone who said something that flows nicely off the tongue proves you are right on Youtube" ~George Washington~
0 likesSeriously though, Idk who is telling you to dislike yourself because you have privilege, but the reality is that whether or not your realize it, you in fact did.
Should you hate yourself because of it? No, but the reason people are telling you this (If they even actually are and you didn't just read it from someone stupid on the left) is because you are making claims that you got to where you were without any sort systematic oppression built into the culture you grew up in; then you go around saying things like "I got where I am solely because of my hardwork and me and my dad never had any help, we just did it all by ourselves!"
Really dude, grow up, not a single person on earth can claim they haven't had some help from outside resource; so either you don't understand the actual argument that is being made, or you are distorting your opponents arguments in an attempt to discredit them. I seriously hope it's the former, because based on the few things you described in this video, I can point out how your father was able to find a job in a culture that did not despise his existence, where as had he been gay, black, trans, or any other marginalized group he would have had a much more difficult time and might not have had the capacity to ensure you had a better existence.
Are there some people who manage to overcome even more diversity? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean that the deck wasn't more stacked against them from the start.
I’m a white male who’s parents were the definition of “poor white trash” but those are the only 2 boxes I check. I’m The first person in my family To graduate college..but that isn’t because I worked 2-3 jobs while
2 likesGoing.
EmpLemon's content has gotten better. Thank christ the anti-SJW era is mostly over.
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Anti-sjw?
2 likes@Help! I am stuck on this Man's head!! NO
0 likesIs the OP implying that the SJW phase, by proxy, is also almost over? Because most "anti-SJWs" are simply people who've had a gut-full of being lectured and preached to.
0 likes1:46 what is that vid
0 likesRaphsody No. 2 Franz Liszt
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0 likesI'm legit autistic. I'm 38. in the 90s autistic kids were very mistreated.
4 likesAre you saying the reason I am poor and under-educated and not successful is because I didn't work as hard as the person who wasn't born with a neurological disorder and it has nothing to do with my birth defect?
Are you saying the THOUSANDS of kids stuck in the foster system and either run away or age out without an education any money family or self worth just need to work harder?
Are you saying babies addicted to crack just need to work hard and they can be billionaires?
You mean, I don't need a "small loan" of $1,000,000 from my father to start a business like Trump had?
Are you honestly saying Trump born into a billion dollar empire didn't help him at all? Just took at Trump JR and tell me that make just worked hard for what he has and his success had NOTHING to do with being Donald Trump JR!
The idea that rich people are rich because they work harder has been 100% disproved over and over again! How hard you work has nothing to do with how much money you have or your place in economical society and you fucking know it!
You know DAMNIT WELL even YOU didn't have the same options and privileges and opportunities Trump had or even GW Bush had! You are implying that everyone starts at the same level physically mentally socially and financially and only poor choices make the difference and you are fucking RETARDED for this idea!
I'm "high functioning" but I am extremely limited, was it just my poor choices that landed me where I am now?
Some people ARE born into a better life and with going for them than others, if you can't admit this fact you lose every argument 100%
IF you think all people start at the same level in life you are fucking blind and stupid!
I sure bet your daddy isn't rich and isn't a millionaire and THAT is why you do youtube!
My trash man works harder than ANY CEO of a tobacco company but the trash collector will NEVER be a millionaire doing that job, but we NEED someone doing that job. So someone has to go without success so others can be lazy and have someone ELSE take out their trash!
You will NEVER be a millionaire from hard work, doesn't happen. Even Steve Jobs bought other people's ideas and branded them as his own to be successful!
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You're right about working hard not being the key, it's working smart..... or specifically, working smarter and possibly backstabbing others to get ahead.
9 likesAt some point though, you're only hurting yourself by not taking responsibility for your own life. Being autistic can be a challenge, but it's not impossible to overcome or overcome psychological trauma from abuse and mistreatment. Gordon Ramsay's dad legit beat the shit out of him and he still got successful. I think that one song by a former Linkin Park Member nailed it: "10% Luck, 20% Skill, 15% concentrated power of will"
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0 likesHey Buzzfeed! NOBODY CARES!
0 likesB4nny!
0 likesbuzzfeed says all races are equal then say your privileged if your white or straight or something else
0 likesI forgot EmpLemon had an edgy right wing phase too. Sad
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@Masked_Gopnik Man I’m glad I’m not on that shitty site anyomore
0 likesOk and what’s your point about my original comment?
0 likes@Masked_Gopnik I'm not whining. I just said it's strange to look back at an era when these views were so mainstream
2 likesI have a Wii U
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0 likesHuh!
0 likesReal privlage is green
2 likesBuzzfeed stupid but like also privilege real
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1 like@Shark Wrestler Yes.
0 likesHey that hello darkness my old friend with the black guy crying face and trumpet...cant find it, need to know it
0 likesEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER
0 likesI mean, I can't blame em buzzfeed haters, its so obvious why buzzfeed is so fucking bad
0 likesinfant brained analysis
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@Birdo I hate buzzfeed
6 likesSong name?
0 likesI had a wii u
0 likesAnyone in 2020?
1 likethis video makes buzzfeed look good. ur takes on every point are pretty terrible here.
6 likesHey I have a wii u : l
0 likesChocolate raiiiiiiin
0 likesNothing at all
0 likessuper cringe to watch in 2021, u kinda missed on this one
3 likesLemon is a Chinese!?
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Face reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yQ7SZUI7w
0 likesEmperor Lemon is on the left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LVD1sNfNE
Edit: He's half-chinese.
Where is the mariachi music soundbite from?
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It's from Arrested Development
0 likesOriginal scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLmA3GihOk
Music only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzA6kMTbUQI
Chocolate Rain
0 likes"WAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAA YOU LIKE THAT YOU LKKE THAT WAAAAAAAAAAAA"
0 likesKinda funny that as a biracial person (white dad, black mother) I never saw privilege or was never discriminated against (saw a lil racism tho). Both grew up poor. Now I’ve grown up on a weird financial rollercoaster, but never was my dad ever privileged because of his race or gender, and neither was my mom.
3 likesIts not so polerized. All white males dont have it easy, but they can exercise wd40 in some cases... While others rust out... But we all have that advantage in our own ways. The idea of who controls what who built becomes the issue when you take part of things you didnt build. Laying bricks dont equate to owning a building. the workers demand shelter they didn't check the contract. What on earth am i saying? Its a white males world. Everyone who is in search for power is doing their best white male impression. They didn't reap the benefits. So now they want to tax those who benefited... But the problem is. Normies are normies even if its white guy mode. And we all know how out of it normies are. Its too early to make logical statements... Lol hope reading this is as fun as it was not paying attention to what i was saying
0 likesREEEEE
0 likesBuzzfeed is garbage. I always look for AP stamp and if it is someones personal view vs actual research<------this one this one is rare now a days.
0 likesI never use the trending tab. Mostly garbage
0 likesHmm yes today I will discard the rational claim that people being born into wealthier and more prosperous households tend to succeed in life over others who struggle to live paycheck to paycheck because a bad news site did a stupid video misunderstanding the actual arguement.
4 likesIm sorry but identify as an amish. Dont ask how im online
1 likeOmg haha b4nny
0 likesSorry to dislike but I was the 666 dislike
1 likeI like Liszt
0 likesI wonder if emp still holds these opinions 5 years later bc he for sure sounds like a very pretentious white suburban teenager who tries to use “logic” to rant about “privilege”, but looking at these comments I’m probably not gonna be liked with this opinion
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Ngl, if his logic is debatable, your "logic" is hardly even perceivable. You're basically saying he should stfu cause he's a white suburban teenager (which he's asian btw).
7 likesB4NNY
0 likesby pathetic existence is about to end in a hurricane am I privilaged
0 likesThis type of "anti-SJW" video is way over done. Even back in 2016, it was oversaturated and I don't think anyone could add anything new to the discussion. I would not make another video like this again. It's also really a non-issue anymore. At least you made your video pretty damn hilarious
0 likesEL Punk
1 likeClickbait
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Oh shit, waddup.
5 likesDamn I fell for it
2 likesCISUUUUKKKE!!!! trigger-sengan (its a cis joke)
0 likesSasuke Uchiha
0 likesSonic says:
"If your profile pic is from an anime, your oppinion doesn't matter"
(I know your comment was sarcasm...at least I think it was)
Buzzfeed is the normiest thing in existance
0 likesI have a Wii u
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You play ssb4
0 likesYeah
0 likesI watched this because I liked your video about monday night raw, and didn't like it as much, and I am aware it's 5 years old so you might not think identically now, but it made me think/write so here is the tl;dr.
1 likeI think the reason people talk about 'luckiness' with regard to the social group someone is born into but don't do so with regard to cows, bumblebees, or trees, is that 1) human society is a thing that doesn't extend into cows, bees, trees and 2) nations/societies of humans frequently attempt to represent themselves as meritocratic (with all members having a fair chance at success). It's capitalism's own "anything can happen in the royal rumble" but in parallel, there's more than a hint of pre-determination about winners.
Fair statistical arguments can be made to say that this meritocracy doesn't bear out in reality - salaries, rates of inprisonment, college admission, etc vary in a measurable way between groups, so it's relevant to talk about what characteristics (out of the control of the individual) potentially modify one's chance of success, why these patterns exist, and what can be done to make society more meritocratic if that is indeed a good goal.
I don't expect buzzfeed to express this in the best way with personal anecdotal stuff in a 6 minute video or in a clickbait quiz but that doesn't invalidate the whole concept.
There are going to be occasions where high level patterns don't apply for everyone in a group at all times. You mention Michael Jordan & Morgan Freeman are wealthy and perhaps now experience less opression than some other people - yes, but is their experience now typical of the group they are from? is this their experience throughout their lives? and do relatively uncommon exceptions to a general pattern completely undermine that pattern?
You reference having a good childhood because your parents worked hard, and you nail the missing piece in a lot of conversations about privelige and intersectionality - wealth. I'd say this was an important factor in determining your range of options as a person, the likely floor and ceiling on your success. So it's relevant to talk about when talking about privelige - it's probably not talked about as often as race, gender & sexuality because it's the toughest bit to talk about while preserving that ideal of meritocracy - you can't really create a wholly level playing field with wealth redistribution (to remove inhereted wealth/parental investment as a factor in someone's future success) without reducing the degree to which parents feel society is meritocratic (i.e. why should I be taxed more if i work hard, and why should i work hard if my kids get the same as everyone else?). Instead it's a balancing act politicians attempt while usually pleasing neither side particularly.
Identity politics between those other methods of categorising people (the ones the united colours of buzzfeed denote in the vid) does not have this problem so it's an easier direction for discussion to take (certainly a less thorny one for politicians). Even if we ignore wealth, it's still a mess to talk about how all the different characteristics define that floor and ceiling for one individual person (the whole intersectionality thing), there's just more going on than a 100 question quiz is going to summarise, but this is where statistics are more useful than anecdotes, where understanding the big picture matters way more than understanding our individual place in it does. If there are clear differences in outcomes for people when you generalise (rather than cherry picking examples) then there's probably still a problem worth thinking/talking about.
Could there be a bit of survival bias in your interpretation of success being completely individual & meritocratic for your parents - imagine some external circumstance had gone against your parents slightly worse in their lives - an injury, some beaurocratic problem when your mother moved, a market/industry they worked in crashing at the wrong time - you don't get the same childhood; do you still grow up to believe that the route to success is entirely down to the individual? Do you then decide that your parents failed you, or that 'luck' failed them? Reasonable to believe that others very like you, dealt a slightly different hand, take a very different opinion on this, again maybe the bigger picture means more than the individual example.
Framing the whole thing as being about things as abstract as 'pity' - seeking or wallowing in it - and 'shame' is a bit disengenous given that the impact of systemic racism/sexism can be much more tangible than those feelings. Nobody who wants to make a meaningful difference to systemic biases, to make society more meritocratic and make privilege matter less would ask you to feel ashamed, or for pity, when it's much more consequential that people recognise where imbalances exist that prevent society from being meritocratic, and do their part to change them when they can.
And I almost agree that a lot of this stuff is completely outside your control because none of us are that individually influential, but there are instances where we can probably do slightly better when dealing with people, there are cases where individually we might have disproportionate influence (hiring managers etc) and can do more, and for what slim progress it seems to offer most of the time, there's always voting/trying to sway politics at a local or party level. I wouldn't feel ashamed because I can't make the world substantially better, I wouldn't dwell on pitying the people it's not completely fair to currently, but I would try and do my bit where I can.
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I'd say most of your points are fair. Yes, some things are out of your control in life, beyond identity and wealth as well (I.E having loving parents), and yes it is not absurd to say something like "If you are black, you most likely will have it harder than most whites in specific situations," but it is entirely another thing to say "Because you are a minority, you are guaranteed to have it harder than almost all/all nonminorities in most/all situations and context". Yes, there are things you can't help, but you also have to work hard, try to stay optimistic, and be your own best friend. That's the best way to try to have a happy and productive life, even if you fail and can't get there, you can still at least live decently most of the time, but if you don't try, then you will never get anywhere and can't blame anyone but yourself.
0 likesman, i like your newer content, but I disagree with this video. like I feel is the point of privilege is that having an advantage over somebody else because of things like gender, sexual orientation, race, class, and ability.. being privileged is not having to deal with having to deal with questioning if a officer is questioning you because of your race, be sexually harassed, be discriminated against, around a medical condition you have to center change your life about, or having to work in a gas station they're whole life to get by. its not someone's fault to be born with the advantages of not having to deal with those things, and you shouldn't feel guilty for it. However, people should acknowledge how they have the advantage of not having to deal with those things. Basically i am just trying to say that being privileged is having a benefit over someone else by as i have said, not having to deal with and be a victim of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, classism, ableism. Yes, they can still achieve things, however it can be harder because of factors outside of they're control. Privilege is not dealing with those factors that are out of someone's control. i am still kinda formulating my thoughts about what i've been talking about , but hopefully whatever stuff I write at least kind of makes sense.
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Exactly! Finally this video and all the top comments are so upsetting
3 likesSnowflake: Check your privilege.
1 likeMe: No.
what you seemed to not notice is theyre saying we should feel sorry for black people just because theyre black...
1 likethis is the best video ive ever seen
1 likelol b4nny
0 likesHow triggered were you to make this damn video? lol
7 likesOof
0 likesI hada wiiu ):
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OOF
0 likesSummer camp is meant for poor kids... wtf.
0 likesI Like learning. but like in idiocracy I Like money
0 likesI mean, buzzfeed is literally garbage. But objectively your race takes are wrong here, you don't get it my guy
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Yeah, I hate seeing youtubers who somehow got into the edgy-redpill propaganda
3 likesYa'll are making this political, he's literally just criticizing generalization of races and the assumption that someone is automatically privileged because of their race
5 likes@Linus his race takes are absolute garbage
3 likes@Linus that comment doesn't make sense. Were criticizing his take and saying that its unfounded. There's nothing political about call out a bad take: That itself is based on political leanings from the right, that being said its so separated from everyone else comments that it has no bearing here.
2 likes@Linus i agree
2 likes@PR Jackal So saying "you shouldn't assume my privilege and struggles in life based on my skin color" is a bad race take?? That shouldn't even be controversial, much less "red pill propaganda". You sound exactly like the people you're lumping this guy with
2 likesU r razaas and homeozovic an Zaxiz
0 likesYeh this shit ain’t age well chief
2 likesUNDER FUCKING MAO
0 likesI love Emplemon but this isn’t it. Nobody is telling you to feel bad for Michael Jordan. But recognize the problem when racist housing policies that lasted until the late 60s caused the net worth of white families to be 10x more than black families. Not every black person doesn’t have privilege, not every white person does have privilege. But this country especially has a history of trying to make it that way so respect that
6 likesReason number 1,000,000,000,000 why I don't like Buzzfeed.
0 likesYou know people can make good decisions and still not make rent, right?
2 likesI love the way Emp says nothin at ah.
0 likesCheck this out: An ex girlfriend of mine would always say I'm crazy privileged because I'm a guy and white. *However*, she's been working jobs paying much higher salaries than me, and ALMOST ALL of my bosses at work have been women.
1 likeAre women still discriminated against? Probably. Does that mean being a white male is some magical gift that guarantees wealth and success? FUCK no! And I see enumerable women Online suggesting that's not possible.
...as a side note, I've been single for like 6 months now, and it's GREAT! I may never have another relationship again!
I truly used to be in long-term relationships out of insecurity; feeling like I was unattractive solely due to not having a reliable sex partner. Now I'm putting my own needs ahead of relationships with the opposite sex, and it is AWESOME. Highly recommend it. And bonus; I don't need to worry about getting into a huge argument because I refuse to go sleep on the couch when the girl decides she's gonna stay pissed at me all night.
Some of the takes on this video are awful, I never liked Buzzfeed, but the counter points just entirely miss the mark. For example he says that a rich person like Michael Jordan is priviliged because he's rich, and his race is unrelated, but forgets about systematic opression and racism in general. Yeah, of course some black people will be successful like him, but the amount of opportunities they get in America relative to white people, in general, is much lower. You could make the same argument for any other topic, it's called cherry picking. He also keeps pointing out that gender has nothing to do with privilege, even though women get much lower wages than men, working the exact same job with the exact same status. I'm not saying white males should burden themselves with the responsibility of repaying every person in the world that has ever been opressed, that's bullshit buzzfeed shoves down your mouth. My point is, we should at the very least aknowledge that variables like race and gender can influence your life in meaningful ways, good and bad, even thougn those things are completely out of your control.
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Fair enough, but remember this was made back when Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder started to get big, and Buzzfeed, Vox, and other news articles started to attract attention with their awful, pathetic takes, so Ben and Steven seemed like rational, intelligent people in comparison, and although most now have realized all they did was take the worst arguments from the most smoothed brained people they debated with so all they had to do was have basic competence and be calm to win.
3 likesAlso, this is a bit nit-picky, but your wage comment was very generalized and vague. Are women paid less on average? Yes. But is that true in all areas at all levels for each female worker? No. Some of the wage gap can be connected to sexism and frat-boy culture, but it also has many more variables, like men and women on average choose different types of jobs, women on average work fewer hours in some fields, etc. Like most problems, it's a complicated issue that involves "privilege" but "privilege" is only one factor, and Buzzfeed saying it can only be the "Patriarchy" is oversimplifying the issue and ultimately just counterproductive and divisive.
bruh what fucking systemic racism
5 likesAmazing that you bring up racism and are surprised a man is successful because he's black.
1 likeWait wat you are half chinese unsubscribing
0 likes9th grade is 9th gay
0 likesTrending is normie cancer
0 likesEMPLEMON hear me out:
0 likesall that privelige implies is that your consciousness is fortunate for having a white ethnicity or born in the middle class because you can't choose whether you are born from a white or black, or poor or rich family. Not everybody has the same opportunities because workplaces, realtors, etc. inherently choose certain types of people. This is something you have no control over. It's not an excuse or a "race card" or whatever, it just means a societal system favors certain traits.
Is this really the direction you are heading with your channel? That is some YTP talent wasted for mindless rant videos...
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Agreed but hey plenty more YTPers out there. I think he might be trying to copy Bible Reloaded and Armoured Skeptic.
1 likeWow, such entitlement. Much cancer.
28 likes+Nexon Bomber I bet you like to use that word because Emp does it too, but all I'm saying is that I find it a shame that he is heading in this direction, no longer expanding his skills as a YTP maker, but instead become another fish in the rant-sea.
4 likesActually love this style. Entertaining, yet points out a very relevant "issue" in society today.
12 likesOmg did you even watch the video? A lot of stuff in there was edited and was hilarious.
6 likes+ภ๏t 229_ђคzคг๔ Does not negate the fact that this new video style does not interest me in the slightest. This ranting (complaining) trend on YouTube is dreadful. And before you point it out, don't worry, I will be off this channel after my comment loses its popularity.
3 likesYTP is low on demand these days.
12 likes@Tirgo You can reply without throwing a fit. Everything indicates he is heading this way, so I am out.
2 likes@G. Sap
6 likesbye
Pretty sure he's gonna do both lol
1 likeWaxonator is back
0 likesYou complain about someone giving their opinion, in a creative manner too, while you make shitty TF2 jump stunt videos, surely this man knows about quality.
3 likes+Yami6692 My video history has nothing to do with what I like to watch and what not.
1 likeThere's enough people on YouTube making videos about giving their opinions and ranting over literally every tiny thing, putting people in categories in the process. It's despicable at best.
@G. Sap
3 likesgo already
He still makes YTPs, though. He just also makes these other kinds of videos as well. It's his channel after all, he can do what he wants with it.
11 likesI thought he did a pretty good job at this. He was genuinely interested in making a response to Buzzfeed's ludicrous claims, and it showed. I found his commentary to be informative, well written, and very funny. Just just opinion, though...
11 likesDid you unsubscribe??
1 like+ZwartLiska news flash, he is still doing ytps so your comments are even more invalid
0 likesNot mindless, YTP are mindless,
0 likesBuzzfeed bro I hate them
0 likesIs this a leafy video?
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God I fucking hope so, at least leafy videos have character
1 likeThe problem with videos like this, is that the only people watching them already agree with them. People who disagree can always surround themselves with information already matching their beliefs. Confirmation bias, in some sense.
0 likesThis video has aged like fine wine
4 likesPersonally I like the new content you're putting out, also, I love how you infused YTP memes to keep the rant from being dull. It keeps the video interesting and entertaining while still keeping the message of the video: that buzzfeed is absolute cancer. TBH I give this new theme a 10/10
0 likesGlad you're trying new things, I really enjoyed this video. Hope good things come to this channel
0 likesHey, Emp, long-time fan here. As much as I love YTPs, I fully support the direction your channel is going and hope that your other fans feel the same. It's not even like your content is shifting too drastically. You're basically pooping your own rant, which I found hysterical (it kind of reminds me of a less fiery version of Naked Ape's content). Keep doing what makes you happy, and I hope you continue mocking the regressives.
0 likesAmazing man and straight on thank you for posting I'm so tired of seeing this privilege bs
0 likesYou're one of the best YouTube Poopers I have found, and even though you're turning to the rant side of Dank I'll follow you.
0 likesYou said it dude! Great vid. Let's see how well those PC jerks survive in a world where identity does not matter.
0 likesThis is easily one of your funniest videos. I subscribed to you shortly after you released the Uncredibles, and I never once considered unsubscribing. Honestly, your new fast paced uploads have made me enjoy this channel even more, and I really hope you keep doing videos like this, cause this was incredible.
0 likesThank yo u so so much for making this video. I am having to fight in court with my dad against a crazy lady who is using all of the, for lack of better words, "Tumbler Feminists" who are just engulfed with anger and irrational hatred towards all men. I'm 1/4 black and my dads half black! It doesn't matter what your race is, these people hate you no matter what! I am loosing my sister to these fucked up people, have had my life threatened, and police officers break into my house with semi-auto firearms and steal most of my things. Keep speaking up!
0 likesThis has been the most insightful video on this topic I have ever seen honestly. This is a very good video Emp! Keep em coming!
0 likesthis is a great video emp lem, I was born to a broken drug torn family that moved up a little bit and fell to divorce and now it is at good standing and I am an extremely well regarded child, I'm smart and disciplined and I'm apart of my areas racial majority, Hispanic, this is a good video because it points out that brown doesn't automatically mean down
0 likes1600s: "That person is black so lets make rash assumptions about their personality and life."
2 likes2016: "That person is white so lets make rash assumptions about their personality and life"
I fucking love you EmpLemon. Keep preaching to the logical choir.
0 likesI actually thought this was going to be terrible but was actually very entertaining with all the clips in there, huzzah! I don't think my minimum wage white male self gets any privilege except having a damn job.
2 likesI have a whole new respect for you and your channel
0 likesOMG, HE LOST SOO MANY SUBS!!! but that doesnt really matter... as long as he loves what hes doing! Keep it up dude and always do what you love!
0 likesFinally, a reaction video worth watching for once.
0 likesI wouldn't expect you of all people to be reasonable... but you are. This vid won you back a subscriber, Lemon.
1 likeI like this new, more mature content, but still has some memes mixed in. Masterfully done.
0 likesYou can have my privilege when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
2 likesI really like these kinds of videos. Keep it up!
0 likesHilarious. I really look forward to you making more videos like this.
0 likesmake more of these, i like your view on the topic.
0 likesalso, the editing 11/9 "it was ok"
Damn, and I thought the Fine Bros.'s decision to trademark the word "react" was stupid...
0 likeswow. this video wasnt a poop I expected. but man I got to say, it couldnt have been more true or better. definetly one of my fav vids
0 likes6:49 Gotta love your input, there. Hilarious and spot on.
0 likesYay a comedian I like affirmed my opinion!
0 likesThis moment while interesting and mildly self concerning is nonetheless a happy one.
Rule dem lemons boi.
Rule dem.
I actually enjoyed the video and love the wrestling memes. Keep up the good work man
1 likeYeah... Pretty much all of buzzfeeds videos/articles are about as idiotic as the one in this video. Proceed with caution when entering the pit of idiots. That aside, it was cool to see a different type of video from you. Keep up the good work!
0 likesi would love to see more vids like emp. pretty cool
0 likesMan, I'm so privileged because of my genes making me an Apache attack helicopter (<3 much love Emp Lem, preach bby preach)
0 likesThe "Shrek your privilege" at the end was funny hahahah lol
0 likesPlease keep making these videos.
0 likes2:59 made me laugh so hard xD
0 likesNeeds to be shown throughout the country
0 likesHoly shit, I took the test and it was by far the most offensive shit I have ever witnessed. They classed Greece as the "shit" part of Europe,😂 to think it is one of the happiest places in Europe
0 likesYou earned your self a sub my dude
0 likesYou know, you might be insane, but your the good and smart type of insane.
0 likesKeep this up
0 likesBecome one of the big boys on Youtube
I wanna see "Shrek your Privilege" become a meme
0 likesi like this, do more of it!
0 likesI love this new content. Keep it up
0 likesI checked my privilege and it turns out that everyone owes me free pancakes :V
0 likesWhat those people who say 'check your privilege' should know is that, at least in the Western countries, privileges based on race, gender, sexuality, etc. are, as a matter of FACT, non-exisistent currently.
0 likesCan you please, get more subscribers than Buzzfeed, now? You definitely deserve it!!!
0 likesI know I shrekd my privilege at the door and It says "get out my swamp!!!!!"
0 likesI laughed my ass off on the Rick and Morty part
0 likesdude this is good. keep it up
0 likesThis is my favorite video on the entire internet.
0 likesThat part at 0:44 cracked me up pretty good.
0 likesMake more vids like these. They are pretty cool
0 likesI'm hispanic, and scored a 78/100 on the dumb buzzfeed quizz. Godamnit i'm a priviledged straight hispanic male
0 likesReminds me of how Steve Harvey's story was part of the "that's effed up" on my radio station. So Steve Harvey grew up in the hood then made a life for himself later on is somehow "effed up"? I think that's amazing and congratulate the guy.
0 likesWell said, Your Lemony-ness.
1 likeI like this kinda content dude, pretty original.
0 likesOkay. That's it. America has officially become the most sensitive country ever now. There has been fair debates on things, but now, it's gone too far. I mean the privilege thing is just now ridiculous. America, please stop being stupid, and let's just be smart and, uh...NOT CARE IF YOU'RE A DIFFERENT RACE, OR GENDER, OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU ARE! Thank you.
2 likes4:35-4:52 I am dying of laughter!
0 likesJust took that quiz and i got a 39 out of 100. I'm a straight white kid i didnt expect this at all
0 likesthank you for making this video, thank you
0 likesRant + ytp... thats pretty damn genius
0 likesHoly shit man. This was fucking awesome!
0 likesTime for me to Shrek my privilege
0 likesIf anyone tells me to check my privilege in person, I will not hesitate to punch them in the face.
0 likesI think the music kinda drowned out your voice at some points. Great video though!
0 likesI took the test and I got a 40% even though I'm white....I don't think it's accurate....
0 likesI took the test and I got a 40% even though I'm white....I don't think it's accurate....
0 likesPlease stop being normal and bless us with your poop again
0 likes5:09 couldn't be more true.
0 likesI took the test and got a 49/100
0 likesSo people who are under 18 or something are not priveledged?
Awesome video man!
0 likesThat was kind of beautiful
0 likesThis new video style is pretty great.
0 likesRants with elements of ytp. I like it.
0 likesWhy is your voice literally the best thing ever
0 likesI needed someone to say this
0 likesThis video is still so fucking relevant it should be shared EVERYWHERE.
0 likesThis video gives us light in the dark
0 likesGonna spam the shit outta my "sjw"-friends with this video
0 likes4:34-4:53 best part of the video.
0 likesmodern titanic be like. "Women and children first" did you just assume my gender?!
0 likesthis is hilarious
0 likesMan I actually like "The sound of silence" by Simon & Garfunkle. It's ruined forever!
0 likesThis was really good
0 likes"Checking my privilege" DansGame 4Head
0 likesemporer lemon. the new king of youtube commentary
0 likesemporer lemon. the new king of youtube commentary
0 likesThis video changed my view on buzzfeed thanks emplemon for realize how they are evil 😡😡😡😡😡😡💔💔💔💔😵😵😵😵😵😵😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️💀💀💀💀💀💀😡😡😡😡😡👿👿👿👿👿😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶. . . . . Wat
0 likesGreat video!
0 likesThis was great! love to see more. Am gonna czech mai privlyg
0 likesKeep these videos up
0 likesAt what point does this begin to count as discrimination against white males?
0 likes6:25 Ahh that poop, I remember that poop.
0 likesthat spongebob bit fucking killed me
0 likesChocalate rain is a dead meme,I went to chocalates funeral a year ago.
1 like0:45 when I see fnaf boobs on my reccomended videos when watching sfms or fnaf related content.
0 likeshas buzzfeed always been this bad?
0 likesbecuase its been awful this week
Awesome video I like where this channel is going like a much funnier IHE. But IHE is still funny.
0 likesWell, let's see the suggested videos to the right of me. WTF? The how privileged video? You really think suggesting that now YouTube?
0 likesYou the Real MVP
0 likesI love all my 0 white male privilege
0 likesoh, but don't you dare insinuate that communism can't work, because "muh super specific brand of communism has never been tried!"
0 likesHungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor by Franz Liszt <3
0 likesAre you Ricepirate, Emp?
0 likesProtip - background music plays in the background. Turn it down, bro.
0 likesH3H3 copied your Gaben Newell meme lmao
1 likeWhos the "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER" dude?
0 likesDude, Buzzfeed doesn't "think like this". They think like this: "How can we piss people off so hard that they will keep coming back to our channel to dislike our videos, giving us views?"
0 likesOh look, the video showed up in my recommendations.
0 likesA bee movie ytp would be good
0 likesI love this video
0 likesTfw this video explains all this shit better than anything else on the web
0 likesEmp stop with all this smart stuff I'm YouTube poop level smart
0 likesWhere can I find that version of Sound of Silence?
0 likesYou should have mentioned the use of the word nigga
0 likesYOU NEED TO MAKE FRYING DORY!
0 likesEmpLemon you shud watch shoe on head video about privileges
0 likeswtf why does that yugioh kid have such a deep voice.
0 likesme and this guy share the same views :D
0 likesDid you just assume my gender?
0 likesAMEN BROTHER!!!
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You are hulk hogan
0 likesgood use of the Hungarian Rhapsody
0 likesIm White. Male. Sixteen. And I'm fed off food stamps.
0 likesClickbait titles? Controversial topics? Is this Pyro?
0 likes6:00 Awww don't do this to me
0 likesholy shit that was guud
0 likesnice jericho reference in description
0 likesMore commentaries please =O
0 likesInsightful.
0 likesAll the labeling of this "privilege" is not very progressive. In fact as EmpLem said "if I'm so underprivileged, then why should I better myself?" That mentality exists, and actually allows those who are supposedly "privileged" to gain a stronger stance in society because that mentality doesn't exist for them.
0 likesBuzzfeed is literally the catalyst for the problems they wish to address with hopes of solving. (Or at least making money off of)
The Wishing Star!
0 likesEmperorLemon identify as akabarkin.
0 likesI'm dead
0 likes5:08 TRIGGERED
0 likesNothin' at A-a-A-a-A-a-A-LLLL.
0 likesunsubscribe cuz you dissed my Wii u privilege
1 likeYou sound exactly like a mix between RebelTaxi and Balenaproductions
0 likescrap now my in box just got contaminated by the title its so bad. not the video tho
0 likesTIL emplemons part Chinese.
0 likesWhat's the Valve thing at 3:28?
0 likesIf you are going to do a video game review, please check out LISA THE PAINFUL. You will not regret it.
0 likesahh buzzfeed again. The Amazing Atheist bashes them good for their stupidity.
0 likes🙏 amen
0 likesI like the music in the background
1 likeI love you.
0 likesNot enough harambe
0 likesemplemon could you make frying dory
0 likesnice pipebomb cm emp
0 likesuhh...Emp...You...Are...Holy!!!
0 likesalso I didn't want to say this...9 11 comments
:(
Ok. I gave it a shot. And it was terrific.
0 likesDo a YouTube poop of supernatural.
0 likesmore plz
0 likesDoes anyone else hear the Destiny music?
0 likesI can't even look at the trending anymore, it jut produces disgust and rage.
0 likesSo this new type of videos are like Leafy's
0 likesBut good
im guilty of doing all of those things they say are bad. I said a girl is cute for her race, but she is half white and half black so im hoping i didn't offend anyone cause im white and you know how blacks are to whites.
0 likesis mayonese a gender and am i a gender
0 likesemplemon is happa
0 likesI fucking love thi
0 likesWAIT YOU CLICKED ON A BUZZFEED VIDEO, YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GOING TO BE FLOODED!NI actually abandoned my old account because I clicked on one.
0 likesI don't think you get it my dude...
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Ok queen 💅
8 likesyou don't get it
0 likes@Seth TALK THAT TAAAAALK!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
0 likes6:25 Is this clip from iCarly?
0 likesYour logic of "rich POC exist, therfore white privilege doesn't" is quite the fallacy to me
4 likesbro you posted cringe
6 likesWas that Rick and Mort season 3, I never saw that clip?
0 likesCringe
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cope
12 likes@Cloudzrip420 seethe
3 likesChecking a description is better than checking a privalege
0 likesguess who just unsubscribed from Buzzfeed
0 likesSRHEK UR PrivilegE
0 likesb4nny reference :D
0 likestired of the shitposting
0 likesWhat song is it at 3:15?
0 likesHappy 100 Videos
0 likesIdea: Everyone spam this in the Buzzfeed comment section. Better idea: Don't actually do that.
0 likes7th Grade Biology
0 likesWhat do you think about Nascar Heat Evolution?
0 likesI got TheLegend27 ad lolololololvdnsjskskskdkdkdkdkd oh look a whale 🐳 haha yay
0 likesyo what is that icarly Ytp?
0 likesim a vegan feminist
0 likesLeafy confirmed
0 likesReplies (1)
Leafy meets YouTube poop
0 likeslol idgaf about shitty youtube videos where are my shitty youtube poops
0 likesThis is YOUtube! Not a bunch of 'popular humans' tube! UGH! EMPEROR, PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE! Instead in my youtuber Undertale, you have to be Napstablook! Misunderstood, doesn't believe in himself a lot! It's sad.
0 likesThe dislikes are 42 buzzfeed fans
0 likes9/11
0 likesWho would win 1,000,000 feminists or 1 biology textbook?
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The Syrian refugees
1 likea thin corridor
0 likesShrek
0 likesThe textbook but the feminists would would deny it and call it "oppression"
1 likemy nigga
0 likesBasically
0 likesdislike is the new like
0 likesO hai b4nny
0 likesthis is about as funny as a leafy video and a 2010 youtube poop combined. There's definitely a reason people watch your videos but don't subscribe.
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yea clearly your videos are the pinochle of comedy
0 likesBuzzfeed is total clickbait and that. Survey is absolute shit. But this brings little nuance to the conversation. It's basically "I don't get it" the video. Maybe it's buzzfeed that failed to educate you properly on the subject. I'm going to chalk it up to that.
0 likesNohtseeh
1 likeBuzzFeed is the worst enemy of an oncologist
0 likesDude,
0 likesYTP's aren't Bringing in Enough Revenue?
So u Turn ur Platform into a Political Channel?
Ok then...
Stop talking about “privilege”
0 likesEven if in America, all this stuff was true it’s not privilege, it’s rights that are easier for straight whites people to have, and that is assuming all of these claims are true. In my opinion the most true candidate for not having privilege is homosexuals because they are still widely unaccepted, but for women it’s not that bad and the only thing that should change is improving social behaviors by a small amount. Now when it comes to race there to an extent is privilege whites have that blacks don’t. Many blacks are born into a family in which their father leaves. This unfortunately is a cycle that appears to continue. Slavery crippled blacks abilities to create a good economic foundation, but by now, blacks are often engaging in a gang culture which only leads to death destruction and more gang culture. Many claim they have to to make a living, but to be honest that’s just idiotic gibberish or an excuse because here in America, while it may be harder to get a job with a poor background and black skin, if one works hard, they can definitely, definitely make a living.
No part of my comment here was meant to be racist or accusing of black or white people just for being black or white, but what usually needs to change when problems get to the point that people start saying “well racism is true” is that cultures need to change and stop going on a DoWnwArd SpiRaL so that the same stupid problems keep arising.
I hate BuzzFeed so much
0 likesI to also waned a wii U
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Too
0 likesBuzzFeed’s definition of privilege isn’t a good representative of what privilege means.
0 likesI think you sorta knows this, but choose not to discuss it seriously as your audience is filled with ppl who live in eco-chambers and only picking low fruit like this.
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0 likesHey
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That's pretty good
0 likescu
0 likesThis aged like fine wine
2 likesI always love how Emp can turn LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO YTP. EVEN A GODDAMN RANT.
0 likesYou have become one of my favorite youtubers Emp. I have been watching and subbed for years, but now that I know your political position I appreciate you so much more. Stay sensible.
0 likesThis was very enjoyable. Honestly I had more fun watching this than just straight up ytp. Nice job Emp
0 likes10/10 love it, this was hilarious and was able to make a point WHILE being hilarious. fantastic job.
0 likesThis down to earth commentary coupled with random intervals of YTP silliness is just delightful.
1 likeWell, being a first time viewer of your work, I enjoy what you do. If you believe change needs to happen, do what you need to.
0 likesgg lemon. you've successfully morphed a leafy-style rant and YTP into one video.
1 likeonly a select few can pull this kinda shit off. congrats.
I actually like this content, especially with the added YouTube poop you added in to help entertain us.
2 likesI have been around with your channel for quite some time, I think I've been subscribed for roughly through most of my high school. I am sure, us fans will follow wherever you go with this channel, without poking and nagging at your decisions. Personally, I think my subscription won't be ogre for quite a while. Your YTP-styled ranting is actually funny after all.
0 likesSince the disease of idiocy is quite powerful this day and age, you'll find a lot to rant about.
I always thought check your privilege is just something to say after you put some one in their place for being wrong
0 likesHonestly, I love these even more than your YTPs, which I didn't think was possible. Keep making points as excellent as these with the brilliant edits, and holy crap you're bound to grow. Nice job, Emp.
0 likesI wish the "montage parody" giants (that left the community) would do editing over their videos like this, I love hearing them talk and such but a more engaging video like this instead of boring game play is always welcomed
1 likeJust when I thought your channel couldn't get better I come across this gem. Way to take the fight to the hipsters, Emp.
0 likesThis was funny and thought-provoking. I loved it.
0 likesthank you lemon. Tjank you for getting the truth out about this. I am genuine when i say all of the privilege shit being thrown around now is actually used as an excuse.
0 likesLove the video man. Honestly in this day and age everyone is getting to focused on petty things and racist ideas. Its nice to know that the fun loving Emperor is as sick as it as i am. Also quick question, any poops on our way, and how have you been?
0 likesA Fan of yours
Nice job, EmpLemon. I'd love to see more vids like this from you in the future.
0 likesAlso: I own a Wii U and I feel great, thank you very much.
i love you man, you always bring a smile to my face, even if the topic is serous or if you make a short video, i always look forward to watching it :D
0 likesMORE PLZ! Your ytpooping skills go fantastic with this kind of content!
2 likesgood mix of logical talking and hilarious editing. I like it... but is this the total end of YTP? I hope not, I wouldn't mind seeing more of these but I hope we still get YTPs once in a while
0 likesI honestly like the way your channel is going Lemon! I fully support your drastic-and-probably-channel-threatening change if content, full support pal!
0 likesHey this was a great video and you made a bunch of good points. Thanks for this. Hope to see more of this sorta stuff!
0 likesI like where this goes, keep it up. Also, props for "content with the content."
0 likesThis is a very cool turn in your channel, Emp. It would be funny to have a sort of YTP/rant hybrid like this video. And many new styles of videos that still include the wonders of YTP. Keep it up!
0 likesI came here to laugh, not to feel. DAMN YOU EMPLEMON!
0 likesReal talk though, good message. Made my day.
That's it you're my new favorite Chanel. You do rants on current topics, your funny in the process, and you make ytps. What else could anyone ask for?
0 likesI was really worried that this change in direction would turn your channel into pyrocynical 2.0, but this is actually really hilarious and relatively pretty unique. Keep it up
0 likesi like this type of content. a ytp twist while being real on controversial issues
0 likesI saw the buzzfeed video too before I saw this. All I can say is that adding Brian right before the end is how I feel about the situation too. Just when I felt annoyed about the video, I found this and have to say it made my day. Stay you Emp. YTP or not, your content always puts a smile on my face.
0 likesI really like these kinds of videos, please keep doing them!
0 likesAs sick and tired as I am of seeing anything related to SJWs, be it for or against them, I'm honestly astounded by how genuinely I laughed and contemplated at this video! It seriously amazes me how thoughtful and entertaining you're able to make your content, Emp, especially with as young as you are. You're extremely talented in just about any form of YouTube content you create, and even if you do decide to retire from YTP altogether, I'll happily stick around to watch your content evolve and grow.
0 likesThis video is a glorious cocktail of a rant video, YouTube Poop, and dank memes- all mixed together in a rusty bucket with the chopped up remains of a Dutch prostitute and an old gym sock...Beginning to think that Emp's downward mental spiral isn't the worst thing in the world.
0 likesWelcome to the dark side, Emp. We've been expecting you.
0 likesI really liked this video. The cobination of rant and memes strangely fits.
0 likes"check your privilege" means enjoy your rights while you can
0 likesWhat a beautiful video.
0 likesI love the message, to not let others judge your life because of something you were born with and you can't control (race, gender, parents, etc.) But it is YOUR CHOICE, DECISION, YOU HAVE THE CONTROL to not let that be in your way. Live your life fully, be proud of who you are. Nobody is "youer" that you!
Your life relies on your decisions.
Thanks Emplemon for this beautiful video. I can't wait to see the new content of your channel.
Oh and thumbs up for the Rick and Morty parts. This show's awesome!
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*than you
0 likesSorry for the typo.
get thy fine wine for this video
0 likesok, this type of commentary is actually funny in comparison to the others. there should be more of these.
0 likesI actually really like this video format. Hilarious and infotaining.
0 likesVERY well put. Loving this
0 likesNow THIS is something I like better than the YouTube ranting, more of these would be awesome!!
0 likesi mean it, these are fucking awesome. please keep doing them
0 likesI like this, a mix of rant and YTP, it's like chocolate and peanut butter, you should make more of these, it presents a serious issue but riffs on it as well!
0 likesCan we have more videos like this? Because this was beautiful
0 likesPBS also made a biased-ass "Are You Sexist?" quiz. Killed my respect for them.
1 likeI like this man, especially when he poops his own speech.
0 likesEmp is half asian?!! Holy shit i never EVER ever EVEERRRRRR would have guessed.
2 likesFucking finally someone said it on the internet. Thanks emp
0 likesThank you so much for making this video! Political correctness is the worst thing in America to this day. Also thank you for making fun of the Donald trump joke. They are so over done. Thank God someone else thought those were overdone. Just because someone brings up a problem that involves a group doesn't make them racist, sexist, or stupid. This pc stuff is just cancer on this country.
0 likesI thought first this was going to be a "Boring Vlog", but this was both a smart and funny way to tell you opinion on something and also give good entertainment. More like these please! :-)
0 likesThat was really well said mate
0 likeskeep making quality content
0 likesI too dip my head forcefully into a bowl of bleach every time I see a buzzfeed video. Then again, who doesn't?
0 likesemplemon you just gained so much respect from me
0 likesI love the trumpet "sound of silence", but I disagree to *most * of your points. I agree the barista is a bit far fetched, but we must, no matter what
0 likesor wherewe are born into, try to understand the factors in the lives of others and how this might lead to inequality to increase the efficacy of our societal communication. That is, of course, only if you want to live in a functioning society.It is a tightrope we must walk, and it is our responsibility to constantly check that we aren't leaning to far to one side or another. For if we ignore others, we become alien to one another and tear our society apart. Likewise on the other side, if we become jaded and careless in condemning others and helping ourselves to much, we have devolved to pointless shouting and are then tearing our society apart as well.
i love this. keep it up
0 likesfuck yea im liking where this channel is going, keep it up dude
0 likesThe editing is good. I will miss the YTPs, but I do like rants. It's a fair trade.
0 likesI'm really not a fan of rant videos, except for alphaomegasin, so I wasn't feeling this one. But I love your poops so I'll stick by you for the time being and see where this goes.
0 likesCombining poop and commentary. I love it.
0 likesOooh, I like this new "chains are off" EmpLemon. Good shit, dude.
0 likesoh my god 4:50 I'm dying! But seriously, fair points made in this vid
0 likesI just never got why these videos try to make people feel bad about who they are. All it does is just further this circle of people hating groups of people for the actions of a few individuals within it or because of deep-rooted bigotry over the generations.
0 likesWhy not just encourage people to be more empathetic and understanding, rather than just make everyone feel bad, even when lots of people haven't done anything wrong?
This is my new favorite YouTube series.
1 like45 seconds in and I love you for making this
0 likesThis...
0 likesThis is ok.
Keep it up.
The Emperor is swallowing the red-pill. Don't choke, it's good for you.
0 likes7:00
0 likesWe need a standalone reaction clip of this scene.
Please make more like this.
1 like"It's almost as if I'm wearing, nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all!"
0 likes"Stupid sexy Flanders!"
I can't wait to see you go savage on prank channels.
0 likesSJWs are getting dunked on by YTP now, what a wonderful day.
0 likesthis kinda motivated me, thanks. And well choice of music
0 likesRants about triggers and muh privilege with slight YTP elements?
0 likesSign me the fuck up!
Lemon. Make the videos you wanna make. If people unsub because they aren't YTP enough, fuck 'em. They aren't worthy of the Gift of Lemon ("Drink it in, maaaaan.") anyways. Keep doing what you do, and enjoy the gap between high school and college as long as you can. Take it from a humble sub: college life is fraught with ups and downs, and you just gotta make the best of it all.
0 likes31/100 BTW. BuzzFeed is a strange place.
I love you for making this
0 likesLoving your new videos Emp
0 likesI laughed at the Clorox joke, but what was that supposed to represent?
0 likesDude this whole privilege thing literally sounds like the whole übermensche and üntermensche thing. What the actual fuck.
0 likesYo dude some ppl can't become better just by "trying" that's the entire idea of "systemic oppression" do you think slavery kept going because they didn't "try hard enough" to escape it?
0 likesYou should call this "The Emp's Pipebomb"
0 likesI like theses kinds of videos... Gives a point but has some funny jokes
0 likesThe test considers actual discrimination equal to being called a fairy, kek.
0 likesnow this content i can watch ears bleed
0 likesAs much as i agree with the points made, I think that you shouldn't go into politics. I've been thinking about doing a political channel but separate on a different channel, I do youtube poops on my main channel. You are probably going to lose some viewers because of this, but it's not my decision, go ahead and make these videos if you want to, just a recommendation.
0 likesOh boy, someone arguing about the stupidity of buzzfeed and socially-awkward, race-warrior democratic online americans... That has editing skills! :3
0 likesDude, Emp, you're half Chinese? Cool!
0 likesI love this editing tbh
0 likesIt'll be interesting to see what other Trending videos worth ranting about like whatever stupid moments happened on Family Feud!
0 likesJust follow the Treylosophy: Just. Be. Nice.
0 likesIT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO!
0 likesmore of this pls
0 likesGreat video, but dat Wii U shaming Single tear comes down my face
0 likesY'know who's a white male?
0 likes...
earrape mode engaged
MAH FAWTHEH
EmpLemona got the privilige to own a youtube channel with over 12 sucbrisbers i feel insulted
0 likesThis is like what would happen if you crossed YTP and H3H3 Productions.
0 likesI have a Wii U. I love it!
0 likesIt's great for little kids, too.
im more privledged than you because i watched a squirrel murder a hamster
0 likesThis is genius.
0 likesNever knew Lemon was an Elliot Rodger-American.
0 likesLovely video :))
0 likesCome on guys, it's [Current Year]!
0 likesI fucking love insane emplemon
0 likesAnyone who tries to argue with this is automatically wrong. :)
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shrek your provilege
0 likesHolier-than-thou fallacy.
0 likes"Fat Chocolate Women" XD
0 likesthis is great
0 likesi... i... i love this this is funny as fuck and true
0 likesMr. Lemos for president!!!! (I'm kinda serious)
0 likesi never really watch buzzfeed anyway
0 likesWhats the difference between tumblr and the human race? One has more triggers
0 likespraise it man. welcome to my issues bud
0 likeslmao at woody and the bleach
0 likesthe b4nny reference 10/10
0 likescheck your memeliage
0 likesThis video should be reposted everywhere
0 likesThis video gave me a seizure...
0 likesThank you
0 likesnow all the recommended videos are ear cancer. thanks
0 likesthe countdown begins until buzzfeed drops the DMCA hammer
0 likes10/10 Would get triggered again! Err- I mean- KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS! KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS! KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF OF CAMPUS!
0 likeswhy did you break kayfabe you're supposed to make Roman look strong
0 likes8:11 Mike Jordan chocolate conspiracy?
0 likesI tend to type stuff into the search engine e.g. marjoram drying led me to a muppet with a really bad French accent I am not making that up. Public domain movie can be a bit hit and miss and Science Fiction short film is good but that is because I love Science Fiction also recommend Philip K. Dick interview.
0 likesmost people take Biology in 10th grade nowadays, at least in my state
0 likesEmpLemon. Holy Crusader
0 likesI didn't know anyone else had the same opinions as me... Holy shit...
0 likesthese are great
0 likeslemon that was awsome
0 likesEmpLemons pipe bomb!!!!
0 likesYou should make YTP's every now and then, you fuccboi.
0 likescan you just poop cartoons again instead of getting all political?
0 likeswell, time to unsub crib buzzfeed due to their idiocy.
1 likeHahahahaha! Big lol!
0 likesEmpLemon and Sargon stream when?
0 likes#shrekyourprivilege
0 likesHey! What's your opinion on charmx? The guy who's been reacting to all those poops
0 likesWho else checked the trending tab after this video
0 likesLast time I was this early, I was early.
0 likesThis is basically Leafy but with sense and YTP... Am I in heaven?
0 likesI don't know why. But I'm happy that your a fan of WWE
0 likesThis is fucking brilliant.
0 likesit's PC principle
0 likesI am the best pooper in the room. I mean I like you Poops 4 the World, I like you a lot more than a lot of the guys in the back but you are not the best pooper in the world. Because I am
0 likesfunnily enough that buzzfeed video had more likes than disl ikes
0 likesytp rants
0 likesbest thing since leafy was over
there
Are you making panfrying dory?
0 likesLeafy + YTP = EmpLemon
0 likesI totaly agree about the trending tab also buzfeed sucs
0 likes❤️
0 likesHey man I have a Wii u and I'm fine
1 likeChairman 'meow" :3
0 likesMEDAL
0 likesYOU
NOW
:( I like YouTube Poops
0 likesif anyone disliked this video.... u really need to rethink your whole life.....
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I disliked it
0 likesI LOVE YOU
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Emplemon, you are now up there with Milo, Gavin and many others. If you weren't my favorite channel already, you are now
0 likesU got Jokes. You as an elite are privileged both as a YouTube icon and a white dude... with or without being rich. Don't be sad that you like wrestling.
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what?
1 like@Legatus Lanius ave true to Caesar
1 likeIt's never ogre
0 likesCinco de Quatro Sound of Silence. Good.
0 likesCM Lemon XD
0 likesYes emp
0 likesWrestling... Wrestling everywhere
0 likesbest video about this topkek
0 likesHaahha the Wii U hahahaha
0 likesLEARN HOW TO FUCKING AUDIO BALANCE MY EARS
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thatsthejoke.jpg
7 likes+Evan C. Please don't make me laughter that hard ever again! Lmfao
1 likeNice background music
0 likesFunkE is that you?
0 likesYouTube promotes buzzfeed and moar clickbait.
0 likesWhat song is that called in the background?
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In the beginning
0 likes+Jurassic MaxX shrek Storm
0 likes+Legatus Lanius oh ok 😂
0 likes+Legatus Lanius oh ok 😂
0 likesSHIA LABOUF
0 likesWatch hunter avallones vid on this
0 likesDat mariachi
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Ariba
0 likesUSA? why do you have problems with race and the past? because Canada needs to know.
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Because the US had slavery and a civil rights movement and Syrup Land did not. Pretty much the gist of it.
0 likes+RetroicDescent Canada enslaved the natives in the 1800s boi. Every country has seen slavery in their pasts
0 likesUh, pretty sure that Canada has a pretty healthy population of SJWs, least last I checked.
0 likes+RetroicDescent XDDD I was not expecting syrup land in place of canada, that made my day.
0 likesCompared to some places in the world we're freaking saints.
0 likesi like the wii u......
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No it doesn't
0 likesmexico
0 likesyou sound like funke
0 likesare we toying with the thought of voting Trump? you are expressing some of the frustrations that many Trump voters have been expressing. we would welcome your vote in November! the hypocrisy of liberals is astounding. they proclaim to be "anti-racist" or "anti-sexist" while judging people's standing within society based solely on their race or gender. do not let leftist bullies sway your vote!
0 likesBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Are you PC, bro?
12 likescheck yur privilege
5 likes+Gabriel Castaneda OMF I'M USING THAT EVERYWHERE
0 likesBig chocolate women
0 likesAren't you hispanic? donde esta la biblioteca, EmpLemon?
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Why are you speaking Martian?
2 likesI am a straight white male with european ancestors.
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Good for you.
0 likes@midders73 Yes, good for me, it's so great to be a white cis male.
0 likesthis video is just emp having a stroke
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@Kyle Kern its just his boomer side trying to cope with his edgy ways
0 likesAllahu Akbar
2 likesnuance must be a daily struggle if this one is hard to understand
0 likesbuzzfeed still fucked up explaining it but ig that’s not on you for not trying to understand why people think this is an important concept
libtarss regsiend
0 likesHa ha communist
0 likesYou're smart, but I think you're misunderstanding some things here.
0 likesFirst of all, it's BuzzFeed, they don't really take anything very seriously, so I totally get them being annoying. But I don't think that's a good enough reason to write off the entire idea of "privilege."
I know it's really easy to feel attacked in this context. It's the internet, after all, the craziest people tend to get the loudest voice here, everybody's seen at least one crazy SJW freak out video. But you have to understand that these people are the minority.
While the angry man-hating pseudo-feminists that people love to hate so much may be saying otherwise, the idea of "checking your privilege" is not about writing you off if you don't meet a weirdly specific "suffering criteria." Really, it's about asking people to think about things they normally wouldn't have thought of, and hopefully inspiring more empathy and compassion. It's a conversation, not a high-score. It's not asking you to change who you are because you've never had to worry about not having rent, or that you've never been stopped on your way out of a store and asked if you payed for everything you're holding. All it's asking is that you think about these things and maybe learn a little about other people's point of view. It isn't about pity. It isn't about guilt. It's about empathy and thoughtfulness.
Daily reminder: hierarchy is good, tradition is good.
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0 likesthat bit around the 2:27 mark is wholly confusing to me, I'm not sure what's so false about saying that you basically win the birth lottery when you really do not get to choose the life you were born into and some people got dealt better hands than others? Maybe a philosophical difference in how we view our sense of self relative to our physical bodies, but that's a question that is literally impossible to answer so there is room to disagree.
0 likesAlso, a person's race and gender identification affect their life experiences, including issues of class and social standing. This is true for everyone, but the people who need to deal with the least amount of negative social stigmas are the ones who notice it the least and are the quickest to dismiss its viability. I recommend spending time talking to some people from those marginalized groups about their experiences, it might help with your perspective.
And contrary to popular belief among people of your demographic, no, most of the people who deal with social pressure more than you do are not going to go out of their way to make you feel like a piece of shit unless you deliberately provoke a fight by, say, claiming their problems aren't real. Most people who actually know what that feels like aren't going to push it on someone else, and the people you do see doing it are a mix of loud fringe extremists and clickbait websites looking for views.
i wonder how people would look at this now
0 likesI got wii u for smash bros.
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Ok
0 likesWhy didn't you take the test?
0 likesEver heard of a "straw man argument"? There's a valid point in your video somewhere, but it's shrouded in all of these fallacies that render it moot. I don't understand why people actually like all of these "Buzzfeed hates ______" videos or "Buzzfeed is ______" videos; they're all the same and they don't make many good points. Yes, Buzzfeed makes low-quality, uninspired content, but so are the majority of the 5,000 different videos on YouTube that I could find about Buzzfeed and the concept of privilege. It's a shame, too, because I actually liked some of your other content.
0 likesDude, I love your videos, but can you please consider not having such a huge discrepancy in volumes? I understand you want to make a loud noise cause it's funny top kek etc. but it's just unpleasant to watch and I really like listening to you :(
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@Joshua Graham Hello. Don't you think it's going to get really cramped up if we wait for others? I think we should try to get something asap. I tried a bait with legit comment, but I see that I only found another lost soul in this dimension... If this keeps on happening, I'm afraid we will need to come up with something more elaborate, or we will end up commenting on "Evolution of Dance"
0 likes@ashrasmun ok
0 likeshe doesn't want to
0 likesPeople that say "check your privilege" are annoying as hell. That said, your argument is strange and flawed:
2 likes1. A lucky person is someone who has benefited from inputs to his life that are outside of his control.
2. You say a person with beneficial circumstances is not lucky.
3. Given 1 and 2, it's implied that each person is in complete control of his life and thus was not affected by outside inputs.
4. In order for there to be no inputs, the definition of a person must be expanded to include both his environment and his genes, as well as whatever caused that environment and those genes to arise.
5. It follows that the definition of a person must grow to include the entire universe and its first cause (i.e. God or otherwise).
6. At this point, the definition of the person has become, "all of existence," which is absurd and useless.
Here's a more reasonable line of thought, which is the way most people intuitively think about the issue:
1. A lucky person is someone who has benefited from inputs to his life that were outside of his control.
2. Barring time travel and other fantasies, someone cannot possibly be in complete control of his environment and genes.
3. Therefore, it is unjustified for a person with a desirable life to deny that luck played any role.
this guy is so triggered
0 likes2.06 hate to do this to you but Wikipedia is the worst shit you could ever use. You said it was ninth-grade biology right? Use a freaking .edu or .org. This is basic!
0 likesCheck your hypocrisy. If someone tells you ro Check your privilege tell them to check their own, then suggest the formwr is better.
0 likesI love your videos and Buzzfeed is the worst, but I really don't agree with you on this at all, which really sucks. It sucks disagreeing with my current favorite youtuber.
0 likesthe audio cranking on this is pure garbage. unwatchable.
1 likethis video didn't age well
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How so? I think it still stands pretty well.
0 likes@Yoshidude64 he won't bother explaining, I think he left his notifications off or somehting.
0 likes@Densester that's a shame. I'd like to know. it's probably something about how SJW culture has expanded or whatever. it still seems pretty topical, if you just change the themes slightly
0 likeshey yeah you were right i never get notifications when people respond to my stuff for some reason but by chance i came across these comments again.
2 likesit's hard to exactly explain, but it's very much a product of its time. there was a lot of content in 2015-2016 basically just picking at the low hanging fruit of dumb "SJWs" and buzzfeed or whatever and it's very much an overdone and even parodied idea now. not only that though but i feel like he didn't really do that good of job actually understanding and refuting the arguments presented, like of course nobody should pity Michael Jordan and of course not every white person is privileged, but on average white people will be better off than black people, that's just how it works in society.
the whole "check your privilege" shit was dumb though, but he seemed to not understand it very well, or at least the arguments he gave were pretty poor.
This aged very badly
1 likeYou make a really good point. On a non-related topic, I like how your rants and reviews are serious while also having YTP moments.
0 likesWho has ever said "you look attractive for your race"
2 likesI like how you put a ytp feel in this! XD please keep doing videos like these
0 likesI like these videos Emp! You should do more! :-D
0 likesBtw, since we're on the topic of Buzzfeed, you should do a YTP of them!
Just about anyone can do well in school, get a useful degree on scholarship (or work hard to pay for college), and have children that can be raised comfortably aka "privileged"
0 likesBro make more of these, one day you'll be up there with the big guys!
0 likesI like your new content a lot, I think that just about anything you make I will enjoy.
0 likesI check my privilege all the fucking time,
0 likesI have running water, That's a pretty big deal.
Holy shit, I have a reason to watch you now.
0 likes8:32 SCREW YOU IT'S NEVER OGRE! Wait, what!?
0 likesTHE CHAINS ARE OFF!!!
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also SHOUT OUT TO MAH BOY KAGGYFILMS!
0 likesMy parents didn't go to college, and they both have jobs. SO WHAT BUZZTWAT?
0 likesthis was spicy
0 likesNice Video. i like the less Ear rape
0 likesYour parents are badass.
0 likesHow do youtube poopers do that editing?
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Magic
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0 likesPro vegas
0 likesUh, so are you saying you're gonna stop making YTPs and that if I don't like vids like this I should unsubscribe?
0 likesHello Emplemon
0 likeslast time I was thi- oh who gives a damn
0 likesyou really put the blinders on for this one, hope u can take em off again
0 likesChecking privilege is about recognizing things like how having a "white name" has been shown to increase your chances of getting interviews when using the exact same resumes with "black names". It's not about shaming, it's about awareness and understanding that not everyone has the same experiences. You aren't a bad person if you have privilege, but you are pretty ignorant if you ignore those systemic benefits everyone has to some extent.
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Umm, im white with a white ass name. I'm still poor and with nobody wanting to hire me. What privilege do I have? Being alive? Because this is the type of talk rich people love to say so they don't want to think privilege is about class.
0 likes@Bruh Sound Effect You have white privilege? I'm not sure how you got the impression that I was implying there is only one type of privilege or all privileges "matter" the same amount. And when talking about societal issues you really have to focus more on the aggregate, so one anecdote about how you as a complex individual with many attributes can't get a job doesn't disprove anything or even contribute to the discussion much.
0 likes"It's about awareness and understanding that not everyone has the same experience." You literally said it yourself. I don't have the same experiences that every white person has. I used to get questioned by law enforcement for no reason other than me being lower class in a high class area. I'm saying privilege was never about race, just class.
0 likes@Bruh Sound Effect It doesn't have to be one or the other. Race was just an example. Class, race, sexuality, disabilites, etc. All of them matter and have societal biases associated with them.
0 likeswtf??? why are your old videos nonsense I'm so confused
0 likesAmericans amaright?
1 likeEveryone better spread this shit like fuckin butter
0 likesI'm a half white half Hispanic 17 year old and I find it ironic how these ppl accuse ppl of racism when the white privilege bs is racist bc they're divided by religion, race, gender, and sexuality.
2 likesThought some of your in depth vids were cool, your edgy opinion pieces are cringe though.
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> cringe
0 likesPrivileges is something that we should be aware of but it isn't a bad thing. And no race isn't inherently related to priviledge. There are many types of "priviledge " which simply refers to the opportunity you've had over others that you have no control over. In your video "making poor economic choices" isn't what it is referring to. Race and gender play a role in who has the best opportunities on average. Beijg white and male doesn't automatically mean your privileged and the point of the video isn't making you feel guilty about anything . Its simply about acknowledging our privileges in trying to understand the oppression of those less fortunate than ourselves.
1 likeYou had lockers in your school and I never did. You have privelege. ✔ it.
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@SoftBleach r/WA WA WA WOOOSH😂
0 likes@sadgoy how? Where was the joke here?
2 likes@SoftBleach The joke was to tell this guy to check his privelege in the first place. I used this as a joke because I consider all the leftist/SJW divisive terminology and ideology to be a joke. But it is true that I never got to use a locker ever in any school I was ever in though...
0 likes@sadgoy people do this all the time though. they'll say "check your privilege" in a non joking manner on a video like this. Hell I assume there's probably some on this video. The way you wrote your comment does not imply it was a joke, especially if you say it's true you never had lockers(which I didn't either). Sorry not woosh worthy
1 like@SoftBleach I would argue that it does imply that it's a joke simply due to the absurdity of checking someone's privelege for something as trivial as having access to a locker. I emphasize heavily on the "checking your privelege" part because there are people out there who take all this leftist ideology very very seriously. If anything, it was a sarcastic jab the leftists. Maybe I should've added a funny emoji to further clarify that it was a joke but I felt that wasn't necessary. Maybe my message is lost to people who haven't fully entrenched themselves in watching videos on the ridiculousness of the radical fourth wave feminist agenda. I would argue that it is woosh material even though most wouldn't understand the political implications and message of the joke.
0 likesSure, you could argue that I could've made a joke of a different style that would be more appealing and understood to a wider audience, thereby making it more wooshy since it can be understood by more people, but I feel that that would detract from the narrow focusing on mocking the origins of such a ridiculous statement as "check your privelege."
TL;DR : If you don't watch and understand anti-radical 4th wave feminist videos, you won't get my joke. Sorry, bud. 😮
Sorry EMP most of the internet has began turning on conservatism because of Trump, Charlottesville, and the alt right.
0 likesGotta say though, your critique on people feeling scared to address their gender is backwards. It's one thing to tell someone "not to care" about what other people think. It's another thing entirely to feel like the way you dress, the way you act, the way you lead your life is a bad thing. Something you can't tell your parents or peers. Wear a dress to school as a guy and watch you get isolated from everyone, beat up, outcast. Over something as simple as clothing. I've felt unsafe leaving my house wearing lipstick because if my parents saw me they'd beat me. And fuck your comparison of fat people or skinny people to trans people. You don't choose to feel like your gender isn't yours, but fat fucks can work up some motivation and diet. One of those is indulgence, the other is an immovable state of existing. You can eat less to get skinny, but people with gender issues can't just work out to feel better.
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:) i agree
0 likesYou’re points weren’t even points just jokes
0 likesA Liberal is not the same as a Leftist. But the Left seems to think they are Liberals themselves. Liberal and Leftist ideologies are actually quite different and actually oppose each other in some areas.
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It really depends. In the United States, liberal and leftist are mostly synonymous, whereas in Europe, liberal means something more like centrist-libertarian.
5 likesHere in Australia, the Liberals are actually right-wing, lmfao.
0 likesNo one said anything about being ashamed of your identity. No one ever said anything about pity either.
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I would dare say they have
3 likesAaaand no. Buzzfeed was not trying to shame you. Goodnight.
0 likesthis one didnt age well
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This aged perfectly. what is the problem here?
5 likes1:55 “this is a shitty analogy because it implies anyone born into a prosperous life had a random chance of being born with rich parents”. Dude. This is literally true lmfao. Everyone born anywhere literally has a certain, definite chance of being born in to rich parents depending on how you define rich. Again, this is just statistics and probability that point to a larger picture, but those born to rich parents are overwhelmingly likely chances of maintaining or succeeding that wealth. This is called social mobility (moving up) and it’s just a statistical fact that more wealth you’re born into the more likely you are to then make more wealth. It is simply easier to go to college and get certified for a well paid, professional job than it is for you and your parents to work to pay that tuition. College was just an example, but it’s not even limited to just education. Consider if one of your parents is an experience lawyer who could afford law school, resources to pass the bar exam, etc. Say it was this kids dad. That child will be able to spend exponentially more time with his mother than a child whose parents simply cannot afford to be with their children in the daytime so he stays at daycare. Again this is literally just proven statistics, but there’s a good chance that kid will learn faster and better than kids raised in daycares. Why are you purposefully misunderstanding this? Your weird misunderstanding of thinking the concept of privilege implies genetic disposition is completely wrong. And I think you know that. You actually think “white privilege” means white people’s European ancestry predisposes them to accumulate wealth at a rate faster than other races in the US? Nobody thinks that retard.
2 likesTrump isn’t white. He is orange.
0 likesEmpLemon I feel you're kinda missing the point. Buzzfeed is cancer, yes, but the "privilege" thing is just acknowledging some people are systematically discriminated imo. Which is true.
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Insisting people identify themselves primarily through their skin color is a remarkably awful idea tho, and will backfire in the end by creating more racist white people than it converts to anti-racism.
1 likeI know this video is 5 years old, but, I’ve been a fan of Emp for 6 years at this point, and I just found out his dad is white and his mom is a Chinese immigrant WHICH IS MY LINEAGE TOO so that’s cool. No wonder I sensed relatability lol
0 likesAs an SJW myself, I gotta say, just because you're privileged, doesn't mean your life can't be hard, and that has never been the intended message. Most of us suffer in this world, and it's what makes us stronger for it. It's what makes us into who we are. All that privilege means, is that your life sucks, but not because you're Cisgender/Caucasian/male/heterosexual. Your struggles are still valid, and so are most other people's.
0 likesAll that us SJW types want is to level the playing field for people that are unfairly treated over how they were born. Nothing else. Don't believe the slanderous propaganda from the alt right, and please ignore some of our more "special" members, they're but a loud, vocal minority.
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bruh
0 likesthis channel is exactly like buzzfeed tho
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How
11 likesI wonder how many other teenagers were radicalised by videos like these back in 2016. It’s embarrassing looking back at this and realising that I actually used to believe the shit you say.
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Another fatherless child
15 likes"Radicalized" lmao
12 likesthis one didnt age well did it
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how so
2 likes@Krle Gulaš its all cringe
0 likes@lumilaura still dont understand how this didnt age well
2 likesThis is a really flawed video. I hope you’ve educated yourself since then since I like your other videos
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how is it flawed? i'm not saying it's not, but i'd like to know how.
13 likes@ddrewy it disregards the reality of systemic bias and racism that has been proven statistically
0 likes@Nate G. Well a realistic way of solving racism is segregation. Its natural for humans to see humans that differ from them as less human. At heart all humans are murderous chimpanzees.
1 likeOh no, I just found out EMP-Lemon had this phase, please...
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I hope it’s a ohase
0 likes@hppvitor I don't know if you're being ironic or not
2 likes@hppvitor who hurted you, this video is really old, probabbly he grew
1 like@ariana "who hurt you"
10 likesYou lefties are really parodies of yourselves huh
@hppvitor but like, you are just angry and mean by what? My comment? I'm not hurted neither triggered but I can see it in your comments, I don't know if you had a bad day or somethinf
0 likes@hppvitor Chill out, you really just came out swinging at us when we did nothing to hurt you. As in, it’s a sign of insecurity when you insult people out of the blue online.
2 likes@hppvitor Damn oh no you got me, guess I’ll go back to the rest of a corporate funded and censored website which is definitely almost all catered to getting rid of capitalism and there’s ALMOST nO ConServAtiVes
2 likes@hppvitor it's a free world man, if I want I'll go and talk about this kind of behavior because no one stops me, like you're trying to segregate me or something, I know I could talk about your behavior too, really inmature lol
1 likeI feel bad for you.
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I feel worse for anyone who didn't watch this whole video. His mom fled Mao's China and now her son is successful on youtube
0 likesThis video didn't really age that well.
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This video keeps getting more relevant with each passing day.
7 likesThe thing that didn't really age well is your mindset.
@KEK LORD Explain...?
1 like@rinkyrosey what is there to explain?
0 likesah yes aged like a fine milk
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How
15 likesMore like wine
13 likesLooks like someone has some strong feelings about the concept of privilege.
1 likeHaving privilege doesn't mean you are exempt from all problems in life. It means in certain situations (interacting with the cops, store clerks, banks, potential employere, etc.), white people are given the benefit of the doubt.
Taking the Michael Jordan example, if he was pulled over by a cop who didn't recognize him as a celebrity but harbored certain assumptions about black men (i.e., they're criminal by nature), the encounter may go differently than if the guy being pulled over was Joe McAverageWhiteMan.
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That's more of a case of tribalism than legal privilege. When people refer to privilege, they often talk about things that are supposedly written text in lawbooks that give caucasians advantages in life.
0 likesNow, I don't doubt that tribalism exists. On the contrary, I think it is a strongly present aspect in the human mind. Everyone has at least a little tribalistic feeling when encountering strangers for the first time, as it is part of our natural instinct.
This reply isn't to say you're wrong, but instead to bring up that what you may call privilege is more like tribalism/racism.
Thomas Murrell White privilege is more de facto than de jure.
0 likesMrfox aos ok
0 likesI agree with you, but you are waaay too salty and waaay too aggressive, it makes me kind of ashamed of agreeing with you
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Just because of the person that has commented sense doesn't sound chill doesn't mean you should feel bad about your opinion
10 likesbruh
0 likesThis is just bad faith arguments. That's it
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10 likesThere great
7 likesThe audio mixing qwas terrible
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qwas
0 likesYou have gone full clickbait and mental.
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downward mental spiral intensifies
29 likesoh, and check ur clickbait privileges
Clickbait? Where's the clickbait?
18 likes@Megumin lemon is the clickbait.
1 likeEven though he's right, and also how's someone who makes videos like this clickbait?
5 likesa year later still hasnt explained how this is clickbait
5 likesI love how everyone turned on you for saying that this is clickbait. Because you deserve it
4 likesThe Merchant That's probably because many of the people on this video are bigots and came here for the click bait as I said in my last comment. I am not turning on him.
0 likesOooof, this is really cringy now
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13 likesHow come
1 likeAre you talking about Buzzfeed? Well, it always has been cringe
9 likesShame that we have to part ways like this..... always got a racist vibe from you, just never thought you’d prove it... and to think I was actually starting to like these videos 🤦🏽♂️
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you can dislike the artist, but like the art.
2 likes@Grapestation you are completely correct just because someone doesn’t agree me doesn’t make them racist, but failing to recognize minority hardships and mocking them kinda is lol but I didn’t comment for you I commented for EmpLemon, I do appreciate your input definitely worth thinking about :) <3 .
4 likes@moonlitee I definitely agree with you but the art here is not extraordinary enough to excuse racism lol
0 likes@Neji Hyuga not trying to be condescending, but when was he racist? like could you time-stamp some parts you thought were "too far"
8 likesOOF same here! I loved the simpson homer’s enemy video but god I’m so sad and disappointed that this creator is racist and other things.
1 like@moonlitee at 5 he starts playing into the bootstrapping narrative, that every one starts at the same playing field. He then downplays the impact of racial slurs.
1 likeHe doesn’t look at the broader implications and looks at the exceptions. He points at Michael Jordan as someone Who you shouldn’t pity, but the fact how lucky he was isn’t factored in.
Yes people work hard, but that’s not what “privilege” is, he makes the semantic argument that it isn’t luck, they you were inevitable, but this is stupid. So what? the lottery isn’t you, it’s your starting point.
He also thinks that “checking you’re privilege” means you should be ashamed. No, it just means you should see how your position benefits you, not to make you feel bad, no, it’s to make it so you can fight against it. So you can work hard to destroy a system that selectively benefits people based on arbitrary metrics that even emplemon finds unavoidable, you can’t choose your starting point, but the starting point shouldn’t matter.
I don’t think he’s racist, I just think he’s ignorant. Either way he plays into the idea that you are where you are solely because of how hard you work, which isn’t the rule. That’s the same argument that racists make, that if black people really wanted to they wouldn’t be in their position. Bootstrapping or the American dream would be great if everyone was on the same playing field, but we’re not.
He also ends with a rick and morty refrence. :) to be fair.....
@ars0ondid you listen to any of his points in the video, or did you go into the video knowing you would find him racist at the end because you wouldn't dare let a white man have his own opinion on social issues?
8 likes@Dylan Nixon I listened of course. But what do you mean? I listened and what I heard was just a bunch of racism from a privileged person
0 likes@ars0on like i said, you don't really care that he was born in to a middle class family, that his points are logical, or that his mom is NOT WHITE AS HE SAYS SHE IS ASIAN, you just mark him off as priveliged because thats what you decided to think of him before you even watched the video.
7 likes@ars0on Obviously you didn't pay attention to the video at all if you still want to throw "privileged" around lmao
3 likes@GreenComet34 what? cishet white men have privilege wym
0 likes@Dylan Nixon if he is not black he cannot relate to any of my social problems bud ... asian or not??
0 likes@Guy Person Thank you, Im just now seeing all the replies
0 likesYou need to go back to school.
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i detect someone disconnected from reality here
22 likes@KEK LORD dude you named yourself "KEK LORD", you're in that stuff too
1 like@iLB "KEK LORD" is not the main name i go by online, i just randomly gave this account that name
7 likes@iLB IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!!!!
5 likes@Big C obviously it does because the person he was replying to literally commented about his name
0 likes@NetherWarlock Clearly you didn't watch the video.
0 likes@John Gardner my bad for missing that reference i get it now
0 likesthis is such a terribly argued video
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Ansuz Laguz Fehu that wouldn’t be very productive
0 likes@Eddy you are both acting immaturity.
1 like@Eddy please consider that tone and delivery can not be delivered through text.
1 likeHowever ~~ ~~ can be used to imply such things.
An 8 strength kobold N God this comment chain makes me want to cry about it. You should too my guy.
0 likes@ItsRequiems Me too
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