Comedy and satire are based on exaggeration of reality and it helps to have this crowd embarrassed as often as possible. Konstantin Kisin is a free speech activist whose debate speech went viral for making the woke crowd look stupid. The Oxford Union debate was on the “Woke Culture has Gone Too Far”. None of the speeches got as many views as Kisin’s who received over five million views over all platforms.
Kisin told it like it is
His speech focused on the short sighted and inhumane proposals being put forth as “solutions”. There was no need to go into the politics of it. That horse has been beat to death.
He spoke of the human side of it. It would make the poor, who really don’t care about climate change, even worse.
Kisin agreed
He said that maybe yes, we are facing a catastrophe. But what will your proposals actually do?
“For tonight, and tonight only, I will join you. I will join you in worshiping at the feet of Saint Greta of climate change. Let us all except right here that we are living through a climate emergency and our stocks of polar bears are running extremely low. I join you in this view. I truly do. Now, what are we to do about this huge problem facing humanity. What can we in Britain do? We can only do one thing. Do you know why? This country is responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain were to sink into the sea right now, it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change. Do you know why? Because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and in Latin America. By poor people. Who couldn’t give a shit about serving the planet. Do you know why? Because they’re poor.”
My speech at the Oxford Union is finally available. The debate was "This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far".
As promised, I didn't hold back 🤣 pic.twitter.com/yV0bAPqAQB
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) January 13, 2023
No double standard with Kisin
He mentioned about 20% of Russian households don’t have an indoor toilet. He was point blank about it, they don’t even have a “wooden shack with a hole in the ground that holds a collected fermented memory of the last 10,000 visits.”
He then challenged the culture to put their money where their mouth is instead of just talking about it. “How many of you are going to go home tonight and say, ‘Let’s rip out our bathroom and erect a Siberian shithouse in the back garden?’ If you’re not, why should they?”
Kisin is a parent
To combat climate change, poor people would have to give up technological advances that would pull them out of their circumstances. They’d have to stay poor. That’s cruel and unrealistic.
Kisin then went for the jugular and spoke of reality for families.
“About 15 months ago my wife got pregnant, and for nine months, we talked about what our boy would look like, what he might do when he grows up. We looked at baby scans and videos on YouTube about what the fetus looks like at nine months and 12 months and 20 months. Eventually, he was born and he has this cute little bundle of joy. He’s cuter than about 80% of puppies. Now, if you said to me that I had a choice: either my son had a serious risk of starving or dying from a preventable disease in the next year or I could press a button and he would live, he would go to school, he would bring his first girlfriend home, he would go to university and graduate and become a woke idiot and get a job and get married and have children and become a man. But all I have to do is press this button and for every day of my son’s life, a giant plume of CO2 is going to get released into the atmosphere. You’re all very young and most of you are not parents, let me tell you something, there is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so hard their hand bled. You are not going to get these people to stay poor. You are not even going to get them to not want to not be richer. So, I put it to you ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change and that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean but also cheap.”
