![]() ![]() So you have to be scientific about evaluating this, even as you have to encourage it in a positive way. But, a) sometimes people unleash their legitimate fury and other emotions in wrong ways-like revenge and destructive violence among oppressed people. Early on, a young woman appreciated Taylor's emphasis on science, but asked: Isn't there a role for people's emotions as motivators for fighting for revolution? Sunsara said yes, it is incredibly important that people's fury at how they and others are oppressed and degraded be unleashed as a driving force in revolution. Should the goal be to guard ourselves with trigger warnings and safe spaces within this monstrous system? Or do we all need to get out of our comfort zones and put it on the line to make a real revolution and bring about a world that is actually safe for the masses of oppressed humanity here and all over the world?Īfter the speech Sunsara and Rafael Kadaris fielded a very lively Q&A. Is cancel culture a tool that empowers the powerless? Or, is it a grotesque expression of the values of this dog-eat-dog capitalist system and the profoundly lowered sights of those who cannot see beyond it? ![]() Is the problem in society and the world “marginalization” or is it oppression? And why does this matter? Does each different “identity” group-and even each individual-have their “own truth”? Or, is there one unified objective reality that anyone can discover using the tools of science? After a warm introduction from a professor, in which he pointed out that University of California San Diego (UCSD) has a lot of “woke politics” but doesn’t have any “real revolution,” Sunsara Taylor got right into her speech. Some students came in clearly itching to debate. The students were a mix of different races and genders, undergrad and grad students. Real Revolution at a university in southern California last week. A very engaged audience of 24 people, including 20 students and a professor, showed up for Sunsara Taylor’s speech on “Woke” Lunacy vs. ![]()
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