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What you're about to watch is a speech from the UK's strictest head mistress. She's a principal of a school, and she refuses to be bullied by woke ideology. She does not care one bit about political correctness. And a few years ago, there was a scandal. There was national headline news because she refused to be bullied by these Islamic students who demanded that she put an Islamic prayer room in the school. Now, it's one of the best schools in the country. She's getting the best results from her students. And this is what she had to say about why it is the UK and Western civilization is falling apart. Now sit up, pay attention, because this is going to be a class you won't want to miss. Let's watch it. Let's go.
Hi everyone.
Well, I am Britain's strictest head mistress. So I need sitting up straight and all eyes on me.
A few weeks ago, we all say saw the same footage. A young man called Henry Novak, barely out of childhood, handcuffed on the ground, begging the police for help. And what followed was the confusion of our commentators as they struggled to explain how our young police officers, sworn to protect the public, could behave in such a way.
No one seemed to have a convincing answer. But when you spend a lifetime in schools, it's pretty clear what's going on.
Those young police officers are not a special case. They're collateral damage. And the pattern runs far further afield than policing.
Last September, Charlie Kirk was shot, and within hours, young people were celebrating all over the internet. Despite the fact that his two little children would have to grow up without their father, many of us looked on in disbelief. What has happened to the moral core of our young people? Something has changed profoundly in how our young people see the world.
Those police officers were not evil. They were not incompetent. They were terrified. Terrified of being seen as racist. Charlie Kirk held views young people find objectionable. And so his death was cause for celebration. Henry Novak's attacker was a brown man. So, the police's deepest instinct to protect the victim was overridden by their most powerful fear: being accused of racism.
The police are not special. They're what some of our young people have become so consumed by white guilt that they will do crazy, irrational, and inhumane things rather than risk being seen as racist. Unless we try to explain this change in our moral core and the moral core of our young people and why we are witnessing this culture change across many Western countries, we cannot pretend to care about the West. Our profound lack of interest in the moral values surrounding our children has caused our civilizational collapse.
The reason the younger generation see things as they do is because they have been taught to view people in two camps: those who are oppressed and those who are oppressors. And in their eyes, Charlie Kirk was an oppressor. So his death did not warrant grief. The man who killed Henry Novak belonged to the oppressed class. So the police's job was to protect him, not the dying man on the ground. This is not cruelty or incompetence. This is white guilt. And we are the ones who have taught this to our children.
We, the boomers, the Gen Xers, the older millennials, we are responsible for not teaching our children the difference between right and wrong. We ones who immersed our children in a culture of victimhood which is at odds with the culture of personal responsibility we all grew up in, a culture we've very stupidly taken for granted.
As little as 40 or 50 years ago, the bedrock of traditional, small-c conservative values that built the West were commonplace in our schools and in our general culture. One of my teachers at my school always tells me about his grandfather, a man who, no matter how ill he was, never missed a single day at work, yet always had time to teach his grandson how to be a better version of himself. No quiet quitting for him. When he retired after 50 years—50 years with the same company—he was so proud of his company letter thanking him for his service that he gave it to his grandson.
Once upon a time, we all knew that traditional values gave us a chance at a meaningful life. All the grandmothers knew it. All the pastors knew it. Even the teachers knew it. So why don't our young people know it now?
We boomers, Gen Xers, and older millennials think school is just about teaching algebra. Your kids science teacher not so good? No big deal. Just get the kid a tutor. And sure, they're on social media, but we had TV and we assume they're the same. Parents are busy working, and well, your own parents didn't war game your upbringing. It just sort of happened somehow. You grew up without too much effort and you turned out just fine. You know the difference between right and wrong. So why would you war game the upbringing of your own children?
Because raising a kid in the 21st century is a different order of magnitude of task. We have taken for granted the values from our elders, and we have missed the fact that we are the elders now. The only reason the Sex and the City liberalism of the 1990s was fine was because we were anchored by the small-c conservatism of our parents and our grandparents.
Do you ever wonder why Gen Zed behaves so differently in the workplace? Not all of them, sure, but we all know they tend to be more performative than older generations, tend to value feelings more, and don't really embody the small-c conservative values of duty to others or real sacrifice instead of the performative kind.
Instead, young people swim in a culture of instant gratification and 'live your best life.' 'You do you,' 'be who you want to be.' And if you think Gen Zed is bad, just you wait till you see Gen Alpha.
The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school and they'll tell you Hitler. Ask them what else. Slavery. Ask them what else. American civil rights.
In fact, what little they know of history will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man. Women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man. Out with Dickens, Shakespeare, Kipling, and Worth. History is taught through an oppressor lens.
The triangular slave trade: white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? M. No. What of the Arab slave trade that lasted three times as long as the triangular slave trade? M. No.
Okay. So, GCSE history in Britain is often taught as 'migration through time.' So the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children's heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of black people who existed in Tutor England over a thorough analysis of England's break from Rome.
Medieval history becomes 'her story' and is told through the eyes of Eleanor of Aquitane because, after all, she was a woman. Not to mention weeks on King Mansam Musa of Mali because he was a black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is non-existent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach.
But it isn't just our schools.
It's our general culture, too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country and you'll find the same narrative. As an example, when learning about aviation in London's Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military.
Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain's complicity in the slave trade. They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.
She is so right. Every single art gallery and museum I've been to over the last like 5 to 10 years, it's just the same story.
How can children feel that they belong to their country when they are immersed in an educational culture that teaches that their country is merely an evil oppressor? Children are the future. And yet we are teaching them to have contempt for their elders whose oppressive world needs overthrowing by a new world of young, arrogant, anti-racists who know better than we do.
We older Westerners are cutting off the branches upon which we sit because of the guilt some of us feel for being white and privileged. We look at Mandami, the mayor of New York, and Zach Palansky, the very popular leader of the Green Party amongst the under-30s in the UK, and we wonder what on earth is going on. Why are our young people voting for and cheerleading these Marxist and really quite extreme politicians?
Few of us understand how much the online world reinforces this culture of the oppressor versus the oppressed. Victimhood saturates every video. Whether it's about a foreign war, transphobia, or racism, and white guilt lingers everywhere.
It should not come as a surprise that our young people's moral core does not recognize complexity or nuance. They have been formed by school and the online world to make one judgment only: oppressor or oppressed, good or bad. And they are desperate not to be seen as racist. We see this most starkly with our young police officers.
Well, I'm here to tell you that's on us. We don't care about childhood. And then we wonder why our children have embied the wrong values.
At my school, Michaela, developing traditional moral character and defending our inherited tradition is at the center of what we do. Now, being a teacher, I've got some homework for you. I want you to live your lives by the small-c conservative values that were instinctive to our grandparents. Be brave and put away your lifestyles of 'anything goes.' Saving the West ain't easy, you know.
And then you need to narrate those traditional values openly with your children, your grandchildren, your nephews, your nieces as if we're going to war. We need to inoculate our children against the seductive ideas of victimhood and hold them to account so that they can see that they are morally responsible beings with agency, whatever their race, whatever their religion.
So yes, Henry Novak's police officers were trained with the wrong priorities, but that training was only fuel on a fire that has been burning their whole entire lives. A young man lay dying on the ground, and their most powerful instinct was not to help him, but to manage their own terror of being seen as racist. This is not a policing failure. This is a civilizational failure, and it belongs to us because of what we have done and are doing to our children.
She is on the money. This is a really great speech. My goodness, it's like absolute mic drop.
I talk about all of this and more on my new podcast coming out in August. It's called 'Strictly Education' for parents, for teachers out there, and you can find me on YouTube.
We all need to be brave enough to teach children a sense of duty and service, love of country, gratitude over entitlement, hard work over laziness, forgiveness over vengeance, and our children will reject the oppressor and oppressed narrative instinctively.
They will know in their hearts that dignity comes through owning one's moral agency, through being responsible and sacrificing for the betterment of the whole.
Schools matter, families matter, children matter. Save our children and we'll save the West. Thank you.
All right, that was an absolutely phenomenal speech, but don't go away. I want to explain something to you which she touched on in the video, but I don't think it was quite appropriate for her to extrapolate on because this is a little bit controversial what I'm about to explain.
When it comes to the downfall of Western civilization, there are many factors, and I cover it a lot on the show. But recently we've really been addressing the problem of mass migration in the West, and that has come along with a massive amount of Islam and Islamism and Sharia law, as well as this alliance with the far-lefties like the Marxists and the communists.
Now, deeply seated in those groups is an inferiority complex that they themselves are often in denial of. When it comes to communism and the Marxists, they've run that experiment, and each time it ends in absolute genocide and famine and starvation and tyrannical dictatorships and goolags, and it's the worst system ever, if it wasn't also for Islam, which is basically probably far, far worse, especially the 1400-year history of this. And again, each time it destroys society: output goes down, freedom goes down, intellectual capabilities drop down, freedom—a whole host of factors mean that Islamic countries are just terrible to live in.
And yet the Islamic doctrines say that the Muslims are Allah's favor favored nations, and they have the solution to all the world's problems with Sharia law. Now, what happens is instead of admitting defeat after they look at the West and they see how much better the West is, they decide to actually just try and destroy the West, and that's been the way for them to try to get the upper hand. Well, we may be at the bottom, but if we destroy you, then we'll be at the top by proxy.
As a result of this, you've had the Marxists infiltrate Western institutions with something called 'the the the Long March,' which is gradually, over the course of a generation or two, subvert the minds of young people in the West. I may have to do a whole video talking about this, but also the the Muslims, the the the Islam arriving in Europe, is doing the same thing. It's destroying the country.
Now, once upon a time, Westerners understood the superiority of their civilization. So you could say you have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Now that has sometimes gone along with some pretty terrible things. But we have to recognize that the West just is a better place to live on almost every factor. It's not perfect, but as far as world, you know, world systems go, most people would rather live in the West, which is why millions of people are pouring in from the developing world into the West for that very reason.
Now, once upon a time, the West knew that it was superior, and it was going around the world and it was trying to share the knowledge and the culture and the education and language and science and tons of things along with the West. But all of a sudden, as a result of the subversion tactics by the Marxists who went through the institutions and been raising the next generations to not believe in themselves, you had all of the critical faculties that were able to point out, 'yes, voodoo, child sacrifice in Africa is a terrible thing.' And you know, 'burning widows in India is a terrible thing,' and 'cannibalism in Australia and New Zealand are terrible things by the Aboriginals.' And what the Muslims are doing with beheadings and stonings, these are terrible things.
Instead of being able to say that, we started to absorb this moral relativist framework which the Marxists introduced, which then turned all of our critical faculties on the West itself because it was almost too racist. It would be immoral to point out the problems of these other people groups and societies. And so this has meant that for decades now, white people have only been learning about the problems of white history, right? Slavery or the Nazis and things like that. They don't learn that there are thousands of other Hitlers from other groups, right? Like the long list of Islamic like caliphate rulers are all Hitlers amongst themselves that massacred the Jews and the Christians and like the Middle East and Africa, and all around the world are many, many, many different Hitlers. We just don't know their names because we don't get taught about them.
And the same is true with the slave trade. Like we're not learning about how every country in the world participated in slavery. Sometimes way, way worse forms of slavery, really worse forms of slavery, but we just don't learn about it.
And so I wanted to explain this to you because no one is pointing this out: the kind of inferiority complex and the subversion tactics and the asymmetric warfare and all this kind of stuff, as well as the way the Marxists, as well as like the Islamophobic kind of terminology, is being used to attack the West's ability to see what's in front of them. So anyway, I thought that was important to talk about.
This is a phenomenal speech. Please share this video on with someone you know, whether they're in school, higher education, or if they're a teacher, because this goes from kindergarten all the way up to higher education and universities. This was a really important video to address the reasons why the West is dying.
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