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Taylor Mali Totally like whatever, you know

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So amazing! I haven't heard your conviction in a decade yet it feels like yesterday
Comment from : @iniwebdesign

The only thing I disagree with him on is that most people just lack string convictions in what they're saying The only reason there is a bandwagon of uncertainty is because there's that many uncertain people
Comment from : @MelancholyRequiem

VHS on top
Comment from : @malcolmlovesnaruto447

This has been going on since 1982! Hardly new even 13 years ago!
Comment from : @80sChannel-ij6gi

"say it like you mean it" always reminds me of my homophobic uncle and the way he would say it in his policing the femininity out of my (now out of the closet) little cousin
Comment from : @bubblezbucket

Ok boomer💀
Comment from : @v0id_d3m0n

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:brbr00:00 🎙️ bIntroduction and Observation/bbr- The speaker introduces the topic of the uncoolness of sounding certain and observes the prevalence of uncertain language in communicationbr01:10 🤷‍♂️ bSociety's Inarticulation/bbr- Reflects on the societal shift towards uncertainty and the decline of conviction in expressionbr- Questions the loss of conviction and the impact on societal discoursebr02:20 🗣️ bCall to Action/bbr- Urges the audience to speak with convictionbr- Emphasizes the importance of expressing beliefs with determinationbr- Highlights the need to go beyond questioning authority and actively assert one's perspectivebrbrMade with HARPA AI
Comment from : @amishtyagi8636

One of my favorite def poetry slam poems
Comment from : @JeffHarryPlays

Seems that a lot of folks failed to understand the poembrI adore Taylor Mali, and this is one of my favorites of his poems
Comment from : @dianabauer9965

This brother sounding like Jack Black out here
Comment from : @_msg3180

This, like, sucks, like, you know? Like, totally, whatever
Comment from : @palomaaraya2310

this is cringe
Comment from : @Gund_u

When you assign guilt or blame a specific identity of the demographic landscape for a societal "injustice" that's just intentional ignorancebrWillful and intellectual laziness A blame game to justify failures Failures that EVERYONE of us have experienced Failure is a normal and expected by-product of every persons struggle to succeed brStop looking for the shadowy "group" whose goal is to make sure certain people fail and realize that each one of us are ultimately responsible for our individual journey to happinessbrAs a member of the "white men" I find it clownish and immaturebrI guess these folks think "we" get together and plot out how we can keep people down and offend In my 56 years of life, not once has the thought crossed my mind (That's not to say I've never unintentionally offended Certainty I have We all have) brDay-to-day life is exhausting, challenging and time consuming enough brSh*t, it's difficult to find time to cut my grass
Comment from : @OldIrishFan1966

People hating on this guy in the comments don't have the faintest idea of what they are talking about
Comment from : @Wackaz

Why tf do ppl get mad when ppl use the word like? It's a damn word get over it, like it's not like I'm giving a very important speech or something I'm just like trying to talk?
Comment from : @unfunnymonarch8913

Everyone pointed at Millennials when this came out, as though that would help the Zoomers and Alphas Oooooh boy were they wrongbrbrBut this issue has a deeper worldview implication It’s only a symptom of a more culturally septic problem brbrJust look at the “don’t tell me how to talk good” responses in the comments It’s an offense, because the root is not addressed And that’s the issue of meaning/purpose and the understanding of what a self is
Comment from : @Dan-ch8kv

2:40
Comment from : @clark2265

maybe, like, gross old white men shouldn’t like tell me how to speak?
Comment from : @ella-lt3oh

I feel like people misunderstand this poem entirely Mail isn’t wholly disregarding the informal use of the words ‘like,’ ‘totally,’ and ‘whatever,’ or the upturned way people end their sentences He’s encouraging people to think about their convictions and put that conviction behind their words There’s a time and place to be lax and a time and place to take yourself seriously so others will toobrI also believe the poem made in response to this proves his point The woman didn’t like what Mail was saying, and she expressed that with conviction behind her words And what to you know? People listened
Comment from : @allysonbrackett2146

why are they laughing
Comment from : @kristenkot

He never directs this at women In the 90s, when this poem was written, this was the way people talked Watch a teen movie from 94 brThis poem is what helped me find my voice and it’s disappointing how many people find fault with a man encouraging a generation to say what they mean Maybe it means a generation did, i hope
Comment from : @abikaboom

i will never let a man in a tucked in scrabble shirt tell me how to talk-
Comment from : @splash2849

straight up this sucks lollll
Comment from : @zoeedwards8055

Men, like, can't write poetry or whatever
Comment from : @kaylielewis4871

Great speech, nothing to add, he said enough
Comment from : @Foxspinsdiscs

oh, a white man, totally like shocking
Comment from : @elijahjamesborres5667

this dude majorly inspired me in high school Much love
Comment from : @yateswebb

I didn’t want to watch this in class
Comment from : @derekgetz5826

May I ask for permission to use this particular video as an example in a video I'm trying to describe about tone?
Comment from : @KRLCstudio

this guy is so full of it
Comment from : @A2Z83

I see you’re all here for school as well
Comment from : @naughtymelon6712

hey csulb ling students
Comment from : @cambriaanderson1918

School gang
Comment from : @supporteason6949

Greatness
Comment from : @pheonixoutthe2278

I might be drunk!
Comment from : @ScottandAlyssa

Melissa Lozada-Oliva has entered the chat
Comment from : @beepboopblorp

The most stupidest assignment I’ve had to do for school bro
Comment from : @xquexx8322

biHELLO NIGGA/i/b
Comment from : @unrandomcualquiera4185

I highly recommend Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s poem by the name Like Totally Whatever For anyone doing homework on this, it’s an excellent counter point
Comment from : @LLivLLaffLLuv

This is my school work today
Comment from : @povqueen626

So this is kinda ridiculous All these tag questions and interjections and stuff are there for the communicative purpose of a conversation/speech "You know" and "okay" have the purpose of asking input of your audience, a bit like saying "do you still understand, are you following what I'm saying?"; "like" is partly for saying "I'm still talking, keep listening", etc etc
Comment from : @robmic8180

White men can say anything and it'll be the most hilarious joke I watched this all with a straight face
Comment from : @jramos833

Fuck this dude
Comment from : @LoisAGrimm

Great Quentin Tarantino impression
Comment from : @cooperparson7030

we are all here for class but what class are u here for? i’m in public speaking
Comment from : @andriyianalalousis9630

I'm watching it right now
Comment from : @dangeroussports3079

like, whatever, i know how to speak
Comment from : @dylanwilliams3918

Ah yes, schoolwork moment
Comment from : @pinkiecatorsa8729

Bish this was my online work I'm suddenly not fluent in English anymore
Comment from : @alicewang5398

"Join me on the bandwaggon of my own uncertainty" I might need to get that printed on a t-shirt
Comment from : @zoewoodhead8393

WHY WE HAVE TO WATCHING THIS
Comment from : @nj_brickbuilder7907

If "you hate this guy" you don't get it
Comment from : @brianmahoney6490

This should have millions of views
Comment from : @finaljamm

lookup "like totally whatever" by Melissa Lozada-Olivia she completely destroys this guy
Comment from : @mckellanwelzbacher769

That’s deep dude
Comment from : @madelynstarr5875

poetry sucks
Comment from : @luv1116

Hey, what's up
Comment from : @pengavin7250

okay, boomer(but actually this is really good, I just wanted to say boomer)
Comment from : @sergioflores895

brilliant
Comment from : @haditube

Unlike what most think I think this poem is about not having confidence in what your saying, and how when we do somehow, suddenly we've become uncool
Comment from : @pinkdoughnutproductions2517

This is a poem for people who think having an attitude is more important than backing it up with facts and knowledge Another good one is "Day Two" by Kevin Burke
Comment from : @Tereb1

Take everyone's utterly worthless opinions and amp them up with a pushy deluded certainty Great Gussying up your opinions with the trappings of conviction doesn't mean your opinion is any less tentative or that you are expressing yourself honestly or that what you saying might be true br brOn the other hand, most people are persuaded by displays of confidence and certainty, however, this is actually a function of human frailty as truth does NOT correlate with conviction So, the video's distilled message really is, "you can sell your claims to people by seeming to believe certainly in them" Indeed, this is a fundamental method for the manipulation of others
Comment from : @49metal

I hate this guy cuz he is my homework
Comment from : @HY-ti4bh

maybe saying "um" or "like" is a way of thinking what they're going to say nextbrmaybe speaking in questions is, like, us using our voices
Comment from : @nc435

I want? to die?
Comment from : @Clippyspcc

was shit
Comment from : @Tewpi

Melissa Lozada-Oliva totally took this the wrong way So odd that she directly attacks him, calls him an "old white man" and such, when all he ever wanted was people to become more aware of *how they speak and to take pride in how they communicate #victimmindset
Comment from : @willburton490

he was later flamed by a woman named melissa lozada-olivia in her response to this rip taylor rip
Comment from : @pee-flavoredvapegotojail1149

Tell you one North American who doesn't speak like that, I've noticed: Tom Cruse Can't figure out what might be behind that
Comment from : @tomsdottir

our girl melissa got 865k views taylor no ones listening
Comment from : @roxyredrose1

This is brilliant
Comment from : @asiamarie4

Melissa Oliva-Lozada smoked him in her response
Comment from : @Kitsune_Kai

STOP ATTACKING MEEEEEE
Comment from : @zahamakhdoom8864

Is he talking about My So Called Life? Lol
Comment from : @infpseduction5710

To me, he sounds like I used to talk as a Canadian Kid Inflection at the end of all my sentences
Comment from : @mwestaway211

whatever
Comment from : @greychee4786

i just want him to just, like totally SHUT UP
Comment from : @greychee4786

The response poem to this poem proves his entire point wrong lol
Comment from : @madisonzardiackas4734

Ah this is pure judgemental bullshit Uptalking is a perfectly normal part of many American dialects and people over 35 need to get used to it It’s hard to say why we speak this way, but know, it’s not that we lack conviction Maybe it’s because we are more concerned with engaging with our listener, maybe it’s that we are more openminded to criticism Whatever the reason, Language changes, and there are plenty of languages with much more uncertain common speech forms than this They seem to get along fine Stop being prescriptivist regressives and move on Youth control language This is American English now
Comment from : @crazwizardlizard

i think you may like this googl/jCYRij
Comment from : @stelladeltergo4349

The next poem on your list: brMelissa Lozada-Oliva - "Like Totally Whatever"
Comment from : @jacobevers7414

Well you can, like maybe go fuck yourself?
Comment from : @OhMyLucia

meme
Comment from : @nuran4469

Not even fucking funny
Comment from : @nuran4469

This speech literally made me develop stage 24 autism
Comment from : @nuran4469

I wish I could "like" this a million more times I've had the same frustrations he's voicing for so long Changing linguistics frankly has nothing to do with it: he's talking about values, conviction, how it's become "uncool" to really believe in things, to be passionate, to CARE I've experienced it so many times -- younger people, and even those my own age sometimes, react with fear or offense when I speak passionately about anything (it doesn't matter what the topic is, how important, or how viscerally emotional it is in itself -- even getting "excited" about basic human rights is now seen as "crazy" by younger people) They immediately distance themselves, and try to pass off their reprehensible apathy with "maturity" Well, that's bullshit, and Taylor Mali brings up some excellent points This "aggressively inarticulate" uncertainty (great phrase) is really about making it acceptable to be apathetic and morally neutral about EVERYTHING, no matter how much real human beings are suffering as a result of both active evil AND its passive counterpart, which is indifference/apathy Being a white man has nothing to do with it: he's RIGHT (And also, to my knowledge, a very liberal public school teacher) I'm far from being a conservative myself, but that has nothing to do with it, either: Truth is true no matter who says it
Comment from : @FloppityFlopFlop777