Konstantin Kisin: Woke Culture HAS Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union

Foreigner Mr. President, I would like to thank you for that preview of the 2024 US elections that we witnessed earlier, and if you are not convinced to vote for the proposal tonight with that speech by James, I don't know what will convince you. I don't know, but he was supposed to be the first non-student speaker in the proposal. I have now been the fourth, which means I now have to thank all the previous speakers for expressing myself to the best of my ability and I think the main reason now that I left to support the motion is that I am so tired of talking about

culture

world, so it has

gone

too far more than anything else and I thanked the other speakers for making the points for me. because it means I don't have to reiterate the point that no, there is no freedom of speech, it is not a right-wing rethinking of whatever the foundation of Western civilization is, this civilization is built upon and the enlightenment values ​​that led to it.

To her, I don't have them. to highlight the point that much better people have made in the past that the only way to deal with the problem of racism is to treat people based on the content of their character and nothing else, and the fact that

woke

culture

seeks reverse that. a new form of racism that we must all oppose also means that I will not take this opportunity to say I told you so as someone who spent the last five years warning people in the West that if we continue to erode our culture, if we continue to undermine our trust in Western values ​​that our enemies like Vladimir Putin will seek to take advantage of.

I will not address any of those points tonight at all. Instead, I'm not going to talk to those of you who already agree with me, which I imagine. like most of you um I'm not going to talk to you because I imagine that after everything you've heard tonight you're going to vote for the proposal. I'm going to confess that I'll take your vote for granted tonight. I am the Labor party and you are the red wall now I want to speak to those of you who are

woke

and open to rational arguments. A small minority. I accept it because one of the principles of weaknesses, of course, is that your feelings matter more than the truth, but I believe in you.

I think there are some of you here who work and who are open to rational arguments, so let me make one: you tell us that your generation cares more than any other about a particular issue and that the issues of climate change we are told. that many of you suffer from climate anxiety, you want to save the planet and for tonight and tonight only I will join you, I will join you in worshiping at the feet of Saint Greta from climate change, let us all accept here and now that we are living in a climate emergency and our polar bear populations are becoming extremely depleted.

I join you in this opinion. I really know now. What are we going to do about this enormous problem facing humanity? What can we do in Britain? We can only do one thing. You know why this country is responsible for two per cent of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain sank into the sea right now, it would make no difference to the issue of climate change, you know why, because the future of climate is going to change. It will be decided in Asia and Latin America by the poor who care nothing about saving the planet.

No, thanks, no, thanks. It will be decided by the poor people of Asia and Latin America who don't care about saving the planet. I know why because they are poor because they are poor I come from Russia, which is not a poor country, it is a middle-income country. 20 of the homes in Russia don't have an indoor bathroom, what they have is an outdoor bathroom and I don't. I'm not talking about one of those poor, nice ones we have here. I'm not even talking about a Glastonbury portal. I mean a wooden shack with a hole in the ground.

The holes are collected. Fermented memory of the last 10,000 visits. How many of you are there? I'm going to go home tonight and say, let's take out our bathroom and build a Siberian in the backyard, and if not, why should 120 million people in China not have enough food? I don't want to say that they don't have it. dessert I mean they suffer from malnutrition that means their immune system is breaking down because they don't have enough food you're not going to keep them poor imagine Yoshi Jinping the leader of China when you were 10 years old there was a revolution a cultural revolution in your country and the people came and they put your father in prison your mother had to report him your sister committed suicide and you no longer enjoyed the protection of your once powerful father they sent you to a town where you lived in a cave house and here you are, decades later , you've fought your way through the bloody, greasy pole of Chinese politics to be the undisputed supreme leader of the same Communist Party that destroyed your family, and you know that the main thing you have to do to survive and stay in power is to achieve the only thing what the people of China want: prosperity, economic growth, where do you think climate change falls on XI Jinping's list of priorities?

One third of all children living in extreme poverty in the world live in India. It means they are now dying of hunger and preventable diseases about 15 months ago my wife got pregnant, not me because we are old school and for nine months we talked about what a boy would be like and what he could do when he is older. baby scans and videos on YouTube of what the fetus looks like at nine months, at 12 months and at 20 months and finally it was born and it's this cute little bundle of joy, it's cuter than about eighty percent of the puppies right now, if you told me. that I had a choice: either my son was at serious risk of starving or dying of a preventable disease over the next year or I could push a button and he would live, go to school, bring home his first girlfriend, you would you go. go to college and graduate and become a woke idiot and then I'd get a job and get married and have kids and become a man, but all I have to do is press this button and for every day of my life son a giant column of CO2.

It's going to be released into the atmosphere now that you are all very young and most of you are not parents, let me tell you something, there is not a parent in the world that won't push that button so hard to bleed it out, you are not going. To keep these people poor, you won't even keep them from wanting to be richer, so I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change and that is to make scientific advances and technological that will create clean energy that is not only clean but also cheap and the No, thank you and the only thing I want everyone to get home on time today, which is not going to happen and the only thing that has the awakening. to offer in return is to brainwash Bright Young Minds like you to believe that you are a victim to believe that you have no agency to believe that what you should do to improve the world is to complain is to protest is to throw soup on the paintings and we on this side of the house We are not on this side of the house because we do not want to improve the world, we sit on this side of the house because we know that the way to improve the world is to work, to create it, to build it, and the problem with the work culture is that it has trained too many people. young minds like yours to forget about that, thank you very much.