My happy life, spoiled by "abolish whiteness" prof

Monday, September 7, 2026

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There are a lot of things a person can do to bring himself peace: admire a lovely view, enjoy beautiful music, read quietly on a rainy day -- many things indeed.

Scrolling on Twitter/X is not one of those things.

I had been living quite a happy life before coming across Priyamvada Gopal, who is going to teach whites at Cambridge University (yes, that place again) how oppressive and awful they are:
No normal society would tolerate this for a second, and no normal person would perpetrate it in the first place: can you imagine moving to another country and then specializing in lecturing the majority population about their sins?

The thought would never cross your mind, because you're not completely self-absorbed and tone-deaf, and because it shows extreme ingratitude toward people who welcomed you in -- ingratitude being one of the most unsung defects of the savage.

She's a "professor of postcolonial studies" (oh, great). And she has a habit of saying "abolish whiteness," and then insisting that it doesn't mean what it sure sounds like it means.

"They apparently can't see the distinction between 'abolish whiteness' (ideology) and 'kill all white people' (which no one said)."

Oh, I get it! "Whiteness" is an ideology, and white people shouldn't complain when people move to their countries and say "abolish whiteness!"

I replied: "So no problem at all if I say 'abolish blackness' then. I'm just talking about the ideology."

You may remember, from the Covid fiasco, Professor Vinay Prasad -- he probably isn't politically aligned with you and me, but he sure was a thorn in the side of the hysterics, and I came to appreciate him.

He's recently been looking at the soft sciences, like sociology, and even he has been horrified at what he's found:

Out of curiosity: I randomly picked 5 universities, and looked up their sociology department faculty. I randomly picked papers written by the faculty. Wow, my mind was blown. At least 60% was similar gibberish.

Constant politically charged assertions -- no underlying data. Anti-colonialism -- everything is somehow a legacy of racial injustice and colonialism. Never mind -- no actual data to support that claim. The climate catastrophe -- Immigration injustice -- the department looks like a Democrat think tank.

So I remind you: becoming an effective communicator is a skill you owe it to your ideas to acquire.

Unless for some reason we want only the bad guys to have that skill.

Now most of you reading this don't give public speeches against the Fed, or wokery, or any of the other social madness we endure.

But there are plenty of professionals among you who absolutely do need to persuade a room, and you often find that people who -- let's be frank -- are your inferiors in every other way are doing a better job of it.

It's time for that to stop. The glib jerk who's used to getting what he wants should at last be put in his place, so you can get what you want.

I'm talking about people like this (but by no means limited to these examples):
  • The surgeon who can't get the hospital board to fund the thing that would save lives, because the finance people out-talked him.
  • The founder whose product is genuinely better but keeps losing deals to a rival with a slicker pitch.
  • The person raising money for a venture who has the numbers but can't make the room feel the opportunity.
  • The researcher sitting on important work that never gets attention because the paper is impenetrable and the talk is worse.
  • The person with unpopular-but-correct views who gets dismissed not because the argument is weak but because the delivery is.
  • The author with a finished book and no ability to talk about it, watching lesser books outsell it on the strength of the author's charisma.
  • The financial advisor whose advice is sound but who can't get clients to actually act on it.
  • The expert consultant who loses the pitch to someone half as competent but twice as clear.

I've spent 30 years learning to make ideas land, in front of audiences both hostile and friendly. Many people reading this right now first came across me via a YouTube video of one of my speeches.

Tomorrow in a free presentation I'm going to show you how I do it, with examples drawn from my own speeches.

This is the kind of presentation you would see being sold for $497. I'm delivering it for free.

The catch: no recording. Reserve your spot to be there live -- you will not be disappointed:
 
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