"They have you busy fighting a gender war to keep you from fighting a class war."

[CousinIT]

WORTH LISTENING TO: Reshma Saujani's Commencement Speech

The greatest challenge facing today's graduates is not what you think.
It's not climate or AI ethics or healthcare — it's disconnection.
This is my message to Harvey Mudd College's graduating class of 2025.
In this moment of commencement speeches being silenced and censored, I was really scared to give this speech. But it is the most important I've ever given

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[FalloutShelter]

1. THIS!

Hit the nail right on the head.

[sop]

2. "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set." - Lin Yutang.

That's a great quote.

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[Collimator]

4. Grew up on Classic Trek. . .

. . . And all I can think about is the Star Trek, TOS episode, "I, Mudd". But, I am working on it, I promise.

Thank you for sharing this video.

[IronLionZion]

6. GOP loves recessions because of the scarcity thinking, zero sum game

that's when it's easiest for them to control people through divisive hate, rising up by stepping on someone else.

They love telling people "they're stealing your jobs" instead of telling "job creators" to hire more workers.

[Beastly Boy]

7. The list of petty fights to keep us from fighting the only one that counts

is too extensive to fit in a single post.

This is why Democrats keep losing elections.

[JI7]

8. Who is they ?

[William Seger]

12. The propaganda machinery controlled by America's oligarchy?

[Cirsium]

15. Who?

The people who have us busy fighting a gender war to keep us from fighting a class war.

[JI7]

16. But who are they ? How is it being done ?

Is someone forcing people to vote based on their hatred of some gender ?

[Cirsium]

17. Not sure if you are serious

Forcing people to vote? Did someone claim that was happening?

[swong19104]

18. No, they're not forcing

but by constantly barraging the red-hatted simpletons, they get them focused on hating various things besides the main one.

And to properly spell out everything here, the main one is class differences. The super wealthy wants the rest of the population to fight amongst themselves rather than recognizing that the super wealthy are the sole cause of everyone’s troubles.

[Martin68]

9. "They have you busy fighting a gender war to keep you from fighting a class war." That's exactly what they are doing.

With anti-immigration hysteria thrown in for good measure.

[sop]

11. They've been distracting Americans with all their left-vs-right culture war bullshit for decades.

As Molly Ivins noted years ago: "It's not a left-against-right issue, it’s a top-versus-bottom issue.”

[Magoo48]

10. Gender war, race, war, religious war,...

Just watched the dancing Bear and don’t look at us while we rob you blind.

[JT45242]

13. One of the top engineering schools in America (without a PHD program) --

Rose Hulman Institute of Technology and Harvey Mudd are likely the two most prestigious places to get an engineering degree that you do not know if you are not in the STEM world. Great to see this speech from a STEM school.

Great specific example of how this impacts real people.

The numbers there dwarf other strong STEM schools like Purdue, Rose, MIT.

"Illusion of meritocracy" is a great line.

[CrispyQ]

14. Outstanding!!

I don't watch many vids but this one was so worth it!! At 1.5 speed, it's still easy to listen to.

[jalan48]

19. It's too bad it's taken this long for us to wake up.