It's great to hear words that fight ideological subversion that threatens the fabric of American values. Thank you Bari!!!!

Excellent talk that cuts across political divides. It's important to recognize when the level of our discussions drop - it disables proper thinking.

Great speech, love how you took both wings of our current political climate to task. Its also great to see a person who clearly as rethought her beliefs and allowed new information to change your mind regarding certain political dogmas. I am in the same boat and sometimes feel like I am on an island in that regard.

11:06 if you want to hear the words right away or revisit them.

It’s time for Bari to speak again so we can all listen with open hearts & minds, perhaps she can give us great insights on seven more words or seventy times seven - I would suggest beginning with Forgiveness!

What does the word Toady mean Bari?

Wonderful speech. Spot on. Great diagnosis of what plagues our present times. Thoughtful prescriptions on moving forward. (And please get over the fact that this was delivered to an audience of mostly retired people.)

Thank you, Bari Weiss!

Bari’s address is a terrific expression of the problem of public discourse. It is especially terrifying to hear about the lack of integrity of our colleges in upholding the fundamental values articulated by our founding fathers.

Can someone tell me why it is that I can't load this video at 144 without waiting for 30 second buffers but I can watch a music video at 1080 no problem?

What a succinct speech.

33:54 , exactly... being objective is now a super human power

What a pertinent theme for high-profile and thought-provoking, featured remarks. This assertion (delivered during the 19th Minute) is quite interesting: "The antidote to identity politics is imagination--a moral and political imagination...." Freedom of Speech entails--and sometimes obligates--the freedom to offend; otherwise, speech is not free. An "upside" to hateful &or bigoted speech is that, sometimes, it facilitates identifying who, exactly, is hateful &or bigoted.

Great Speech

I'm pretty sure the 90 year-olds in that audience didn't understand half of the references she made. The Chautauqua institute is the Florida of NY.

"The Antidote to Identity Politics is Imagination" 18:37 Hurrah! I could not agree more. Given that I'm a very imaginative, creative person, this comment helps me understand why I find Identity Politics so disturbing. "It is a given that literature and art will offend: that is in its nature." 23:17 BRAVO! Bari, congratulations, this is a superb talk you gave. Had I come across your talk a few days ago, I'd have wanted to include parts of it or reference to it in my film on Identity Politics. (Identity Politics and Mass Delusion, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdaqYM2kybrYYX0.html ) You make so many excellent points with great examples, showing the increasingly ludicrous claims that issue from this divisive, intolerant, racist and delusional worldview.

Superior speech and experience. Your viewpoint is a model for those who want to eschew tribalism in favor of actual rational thought.

30:05 We found her! The young one! Get her! Precious youth!

Finland mentioned!

I knew I followed you on twitter for a reason. I may disagree with you but at least you're sane.

Bravo

Yay!

Curious how Bari now reflects on this speech, about the tension between Liberal and Illiberal, given her recent resignation from that Illiberal editorial context, the New York Times.

This is so important. Sadly, I think people won’t wake up to the dangers she is identifying here until a couple of generations from now, when intersectional activism has escalated to a dystopian degree that no one can deny.

she puts it out there. each of us have to figure it out. but whats her views on gluten and dairy free.....

#centrism

I didn't get the dog whistle bit at the beginning. Have you ever heard Maxine Waters? If her IQ is over 85 I'll eat my car.

That's near me. Sorry I missed it.

my grandma lives there and she wants chris hedges to visit

imagination, humility, proportion, empathy, judgment, reason, doubt

Empathy increases in-group bias and the whole point of thinking is to Remove doubt.

Can somebody just list what the seven fucking words are?

As Gomer says 'surprise surprise'. What the hell did she say...

This the ultimate hellworld synthesises: Barrack Obama and Paul Joseph Watson, Ted talks and Breitbart. She serves up real strudel of capitalist capitalist realism which manages to to be perl clutching, soft edgy, and dare I say a dirty the word "thoughty" at the same time. chills.

So many fellow "blondes."

America us a Republic and In God we Trust

Watch for the ageist commenters, here, mocking her audience lose their jobs in 20 years when ageist jokes stops being socially acceptable

20:25 average age: 78

at 4:21 you can see Bari casting some pretty powerful necromancy

“A space for violence” - I think of a MMA ring not a friggen email.

Bari, Thank you for saying all of this as someone who thinks both sides have completely lost their respective minds; this needs to be heard. Unfortunately I fear this will again fall on deaf ears or be drowned out by the constant screaming, but hopefully this can make an impact.

Ms Toth, thank you for your consideration of this submission. The central theme of Bari Weiss’s well-crafted and well-delivered July 26 talk addressed not letting political identity color one’s pronouncements on current issues. In my opinion though, she herself seriously violated this admonition. Her pro-Israel leanings led her to condemn the culture of Gaza relative to Israel. This she did claiming that Gaza treats gays more poorly than Israel. I would not deny that the quality of life of gays probably does suffer in Gaza. But a much more serious issue is how a country’s security forces treat those under its control. Israeli forces have killed over 300 and injured many thousands of unarmed Palestinians protestors in Gaza since this March. Gaza is wrong in its treatment of gays. Israel’s offenses against Palestinians are egregiously worse. Gaza may mistreat gays. Israel kills Palestinians. Both transgressions are to be condemned. But Israel’s transgressions are disproportionate. No, Ms Weiss, it is extremely hypocritical to say that Israel’s culture is better than Gaza’s at this time. Sam Bryan, Chapel Hill, NC. 919-428-8554

Why is everybody elder?

Wouldn't it be amazing to get a standing ovation from an audience of 20-30 year olds? This audience looks to be 60-80 years old. They get it already. Preaching to the choir. A great lecture, I just wonder how a younger audience would respond. (Maybe they would protest and shut it down)

The "f-word" bothers me a lot more than the word fuck for some reason.

i'm glad to hear the sentiments coming out loudly … it would've been more timeless without the shots at trump.

These are only offensive to some when you used to oppose progressive politics.

Ehh idk “doubt” could be a reference to genitalia, I.e. ED

"Between Gaza and Israel on gay rights" this is where cultural absolutism gets tricky because sure, Israeli culture is superior to Gazan on that one criteria, heck probably on many criteria, but what response does that permit? Gazans are being blockaded, starved to death and occasionally gunned down by Israelis and it is hard not to hear that jab against their gay rights a justification, though a carefully worded and indirect justification that can be easily denied. If you have vocal opposition to a cultural practice on one end of the spectrum, progressing to various pressures, sanctions, threats and ultimately forced assimilation on the other end, where do we draw the line? Most would agree it should be somewhere in the middle, but without a clear guiding principal I think a culture that stays more towards vocal opposition is better then one that intervenes.

Now that she had resigned from the NY Times, I wonder if she feels the same way?

I don't like the implication that we might one day accept or approve of child sexualization. That's my only complaint with Weiss's speech.

I don't mind they Idea that you can't speak about understanding someone's experiences as long as it isn't used hypocritically by disingenuous or deluded feminists who speak about men's experiences with complete confidence. That's one reason the word empathy should be abandoned, because it's mostly used by arrogant ignorant self-serving self-deluded people.

She's clearly reading her entire speech ...word for word. She isn't speaking naturally, but it's as though she is reading to a group of children.

An hour of babbling to deliver a simplistic message of common sense. Nope, 'Fake it till you make it' doesn't work in real life. It will work in poli-ticks though.

IMO Bari is intelligent and really means well, but she's pretty naive. She reminds me of Dave Rubin and similar moderates, where she wants to be seen as extremely reasonable and fair, but in truth she's better at interviewing than formulating ideas. She truly believes that just listening to people with an open mind will solve all ills, but that relies on Western Enlightenment values that have been abandoned by the very powerful and visible radicals on the left, and she will be rolled over by them as she pleads for understanding. Sorry Bari, the people who matter (bike lock man, black lives matter, antifa etc) aren't listening to you and have already rejected what you're trying to say.

median audience age here is 104

Really, Bari quotes Barry Obama on his South African speech against identity politics? What about the 8 years he was President and his 2 elections which were all about identity politics? Seriously, Obama's speech was like watching patient zero looking at carnage his caused walking through town and saying, "My bad."

Wow, look at that audience. You are truly the voice of a generation. The generation that knew Taft would clean things up and aeroplanes are the future of travel.

Weiss needs a dictionary.

4:21 check out that audience, this looks like bari is trying to sell timeshares in Florida.

I'm not sure which is worse, that this person thinks her vapid attacks of marginalized minorities is enlightened, or the people who think she is worthy of subjecting the rest of us to. Make no mistake, if you pay attention she is making a straw man argument around gender and sex. No serious person claims their are no difference. But its an easy applause line to virtue signal to those she sees as allies. Just like her empty claims attacking identity. She has absolutely no problem with identity, as long as its one she supports. If this is supposed to represent what constitutes intelligent civil discourse we are lost as a society. She seeks to pervert free speech to silence anyone who doesn't share her worldview, while pretending to be the victim of an all powerful liberal media that never was. The media buy-in-large is corporate. Simple as that. They make more money everytime they increase viewership. So they put out "edgy" content, they don't care as long as it increases add sales. Only in that very narrow way is there anything liberal about the media. So much of that content tends to be seen as liberal, look at punk or rock-n-roll. The right would never have the creativity to birth such movements. The ideologies of the right are reactionary. They are defined by what they are against. They are not prescriptive, rather they are stagnant and known for their desperate need of conformity.

What garbage. I thought I'd listen because I am a "Chautauquan" from way back. Where did they dig her up from?

TOADY !!!!

She's severely biased. Ben Shapiro harbors some strong anti-gay and anti-Palestinian opinions, that merit criticism of Dupleiss. He was made aware of them, and he distanced himself from Shapiro. That's how discussion and debate works. Weiss only speaks of empathy for a very particular group of people - critics of Islam, supporters of Israel. That's fine, but don't masquerade as doing so out of a love of hearing "other sides". She uses the word "litmus test" as judgement of liberals who fail to condemn Muslim "cultures". Again, that's fine. But that contradicts her core message here of empathizing with an opposing side. We all are stubborn with our views. We all are combative against the people whose views we oppose. She is no different. She merely wants to silence those people who speak out against the likes of Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, etc. She's exactly the thing she's condemning.

Probably could have managed this without leaning so hard on Orange Man Bad.

It's a morning lecture. For retired people.

She's such a hypocrite lol

lol she cancelled herself. Massive own.

Bari is a clown