354 - The Real Reason Behind the Olympic Controversy in Women’s Boxing

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This is a complement to my previous video where I explained the symbolism of the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony (linked below). This time I discuss the latest Olympic controversy in the women's boxing division where the gender of boxers was called into question. It's related to the same message of the opening ceremony; I argue that gender ambiguity is being weaponized against the public to challenge societal boundaries, gaslight, win a supposed moral upper hand, and thereby perpetuate the culture war. It's important to be able to see these patterns in public discourse and not to get carried away in our opposing camps.

Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/KR0Wf6ukgHY

Symbolism Explained: The Olympics Opening Ceremony is Worse than You Thought: https://youtu.be/rckBhO23cIA?si=5Yew13kVoDsyhgI4

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0:00.0	That has been the tool of the left wing since the post-war era that is push against what
0:07.9	people find acceptable.
0:10.4	Push as hard as you can.
0:12.1	And if people don't react, keep pushing.
0:14.5	Keep provoking.
0:15.4	Keep provoking the categories.
0:16.9	Keep pushing against people's standards.
0:19.2	And then when people react too strongly, then say, no, no, no, it's ambiguous.
0:24.6	Then open up the ambiguity.
0:25.6	Say, that's not what we meant.
0:27.6	That's not what we're actually referencing.
0:29.6	You know, open up the space so that you don't have an enemy to punch, and it's all very fluid and all very, very ambiguous.
0:38.3	And then, but what you want is to find just enough reaction
0:42.3	to be able to wedge.
0:43.3	And if you can wedge and gaslight at the same time, it's even better.
0:47.3	So then you can wedge and you can create two sides
0:50.3	and you can force people to take your side
0:52.3	and then force people to be against you and then
0:55.6	like I said if you can gaslight at the same time it's even better because then you can say they have
1:00.5	no reason to attack us look at how defenseless we are look at how we're victims you know this they
1:06.2	misunderstood us and although they misunderstood us they're attacking us anyways and, you know, we feel morally justified to continue to push.
1:15.6	And so this is exactly what we're seeing, you know, when. Welcome to the symbolic world. Hello everyone.
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