ilovemypiano 100% agree. The musical accompaniment is fucking brilliant too

Thanks. I'm not as confident though, man. It's difficult to get industry buy-in for this subject matter and films blow up when distribution networks and festivals get behind them. I'm going to need a lot of audience help to prove there's public interest and support around the project before anything will happen.

​@@MikeNayna The IDW audience is large and we're here to help you! I think the documentary would really hit a nerve with a lot of people around the world. At my university I have personally experienced that the tides are turning and more and more people both inside and outside academia are getting upset at the grievance studies cult. I believe we're at a turning point in history and your movie would come at the perfect time. I'm really looking forward to hearing from your project!

Circumvent the industry.

@@ILoveMagic15 Oh man, I hope you're right! We really need a robust Left in America that cares about workers and the twin abilities to speak and to listen to difficult ideas, and is suspicious of technocracy and mob rule.

It is hard to do that if people treat themselves as a collective.

That's racist "anti" racist 2018.

Multiple collectives. And collectives treating other collectives as collectives. Identity politics is about dividing people into groups and treating them differently based on collective assumptions and grievances.

Sometimes it's best to treat people as individuals, sometimes you have to take group dynamics into account.

@Danny M This is why we treat politics like alchohol: Moderation is key.

The Grievance studies peer-reviewed papers aren't reviewed for science and truth, they're reviewed for the correct religious terms and for absence of heresy.

@@condew6103 ^^^^^^^^ This

@Nika D Sadly, in grievance studies it is distressingly easy to get a PhD. It's not about the research, it's about knowing the correct terminology and buzzwords.

Humanism.

@@aa_edwards It's a long read, & I read it! Thank you for stating it here!

I'm of a similar background. I actually became an atheist at around the age of 7 in large part because I kept challenging my Baptist church and my own parents about homosexuality and ultimately my own faith. They were doing things like organizing protests in the late 80s against Disney for hiring homosexuals, and I only saw hatred and nothing moral about that even within a Christian framework. The church wasn't as bad as Westboro but it was similar, just less extreme. Questioning the church's actions led the members to find me blasphemous, and my own parents kept questioning if I was homosexual simply for constantly challenging the church members (I wasn't and very much heterosexual). My parents gave up even trying to bring me to the church by the age of 10 or so. I identified proudly as a liberal and a democrat as a teenager. I thought the democratic party was the party of empathy, and I always seemed wired to feel things more when I see people suffering or being bullied for some reason. I couldn't understand why people could walk by homeless people as though they were invisible without a second thought, or point fingers and laugh when someone trips and falls down instead of rushing to help them. I'd bounce between a sense of empathy and anger at those who seemed to lack it. Yet by the time I attended university in the early 2000s, a sociology course exposed me to these anti-modernist ideas with a feminist professor teaching ideology masquerading as science while constantly contradicting what I was simultaneously learning in biology, psychology, economics, and even history. So I became a blasphemer once more in challenging the ideology and its members and found myself at a strange point where I was being called a conservative even though I thought I was very much liberal, and very much inspired by the founding fathers (especially James Madison). I also found many of these so-called left-wing liberals appearing to be driven more by hatred rather than empathy for those who suffer, like people who hate the rich more than they care about the poor, or people who hate white people or men more than they care about combatting discrimination. It was a similar type of hypocrisy in righteousness that I witnessed in the very church that found me a heretic.

lol. Might be my official new chant around these people

Oh, the irony within the comment section!

Wokey dokey!

Do you know what you did ? , your cunting comment !.

Brilliant comment

Yeah I saw that, it was definitely disturbing. What set me back on it was how he usurped the theology of a faith and a doctrine that he doesn't adhere to, understand nor believe yet uses to make a caricature of those he disagrees with.

you DARE to question the wordeth of the COOKED APPLE ? ! ? Be Gone !

Yea I don’t know if Tim Cook is an ideologue or if he is just trying to appease his millennial staff.

@Jim P wow. I must read this speech. Woke millennials are terrible.

Jim P with no redemption or salvation. That’s the problem with their religion, no way to forgiveness.

you have to pause and look closely to even spot the difference.

@@martinpedersen2650 There is no difference.

The difference is that traditional religion is subject to separation of church and state, while there seem to be no well-defined barriers blocking the religion of social justice from infiltrating the state.

Or eradicate ANY people. The emotionality is the same but that is all. @behind you

Or any people. All people from every nation are loved by God as His creation, His children. The war against evil is not the war against people. It is a war against Satan. A spiritual war. To be a slave of Jesus the Christ. To please God as our Father. Is carried out in the heart of all individuals who believe the eyewitness accounts and the teachings of the Apostles of Jesus Christ. Faith is a gift from God so that no one is able to feel superior for being a believer. Saved by God's mercy alone. Not by our works.

it has been this creepy for a while now...

We humans are creepy.

we are not a cult … We Are Not A Cult … WE ARE NOT A CULT ...

Dictating the conversations is more like it

Unfortunately it's not a conversation.

They're not.

PC master race!

@@AwareViewer See? They even ruined PC... fucking SJWs, I tell ya...

Guys we're going to create the PC Inquisition, but it might be expected

For most of Christianity’s and Islam’s history it has been socially mandated.

Catholic here. I agree with you. I do believe what is happening in our society is proof that humans cannot exist without religion. They will create their own because it is a requirement like food and water. My opinion is that god put this need in us. It is healthy but like all healthy things can be twisted and disordered.

Exactly what I thought about this. I'm a Christian myself and also see these problems manifest in our community. The interesting part is the bible itself confronts many of these very issues directly. Quite frankly I would say one of the main reasons why God gave us his word is to help us avoid these very issues endemic within humanity in the first place; hence why you see the same problems existing in spheres outside of Christ and church as well as within it. I personally find the similarities both interesting and staggering at the same time.

@@detrean Indeed. I actually think Romans Chapter 8 speaks on this a bit; among other passages both in the old and new testaments. It's truly fascinating to watch how humanity must worship something or someone.

"Trust me, we didn't all end up like Steve." What? Happily married with lots of great, beautiful children? Glad you dodged that bullet.

@@bigfan1041 No, I meant with a poor grasp of hermeneutics.

Just unbelievable.

That's why trade schools and self education are better than universities.

Marcus Anark why? You can learn a lot of crap every where and not all studies at universities are infected by this post modern virus. And who’s to say that you are capable of choosing the right material for your self study? Besides self study won’t impress on your curriculum vitae and is worthless on the job market.

@@carmenismyname Your first point is very valid, the second one is not and third one depends where you live and what area you work.

Can there be a blackness scholar?

You're the second person in as many days that I've encountered who has said that. In another forum, I wrote: This social justice virus had been spreading for decades. I think it really began to explode around the end of 2012 and it actually balkanized an entire online secular movement in less than a year. In Europe and the United States atheism was on the rise after Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris published their respective books, but the whole thing blew apart after it got hijacked by feminists. The same feminists that embrace...Islam...for some incomprehensible reason. After Hitchens died there was this bizarre shift (that might have just been coincidental) and we saw things like "Atheism +" emerge because somehow women were threatened...somehow...maybe...? I dunno. I never understood it. Then, I started hearing about people urinating in ball pits and "fake jewelry" (no clue what that was about), and then - boom - infighting. It appeared to me the entire apparatus fractured because a group of narcissistic feminists grabbed the wheel and made everything about them. It was nauseating to witness. By the way, many of those same narcissists are still on the march making the same idiotic claims and demands.

@Ribb Rotgut I turned from being a Dem around 2013-2014. Obama's presidency early on made me rethink and reconsider many of my positions on things. I can safely say I'm an independent conservative now. I think they have nearly demonic, sycophantic, cultish behavior on both sides, as well as general incompetence, cowardice, and hypocrisy on boths sides of our political leadership class in government.

@Ribb Rotgut From my perspective it seemed to be a result of Gamergate. Before then there was little but fringe talk of these crazies and isolated incidents of abuse. Afterwards things just progressively got more and more insane.

​@@caca0caca0 I think Gamergate was the canary in the coal mine and it was going to happen regardless

If you think about it, how they're infiltrating and politicizing art, entertainment, and fandoms; they're turning all that into a form religious fanaticism. The stories from the Bible were supposed to be parables; stories that were an early form of entertainment. The different parables or myths were told around the world, some of them changing when it reached a different region. The stories drew a legion of fans together. The storytellers who told them were doing it for the sake of entertaining and teaching, some probably took them too literally and told them as if they were the real thing. When that happened, in order to protect their version of the truth, they turned the ideas based around these stories into a religion. Soon, the religion started making crazy people; alienating the followers who had common sense. They soon became heretics. Crazy people started to politicize the religion. So on so forth. Today, look at what people are doing to comics, Star Wars, video games, etc.

Unfortunately it wont . Not a hope . It would be labelled racist, sexist , white supremacy etc etc etc

LOL Was about to comment that, too.

jesus fucking christ, I didn't need to pay attention to that. It was like a mangina crease in the jeans. I think im actually offended

Spreading the white male patriarchy for all to see.

offensive levels of male grotesqueness

BWAHAHAHAHAHA overtly aggressive

Thanks. I'm actually working on a feature doc now. If you'd like to help me with post production you can do it here - www.patreon.com/mikenayna - or here - paypal.me/mikenayna .

It’s more of a cult actually

Big Thank you also to Helen, James and Peter.

Gaslighting!?