All babyboomer leftists have this way of talking.
It's such a bad era for counterculture. At least in the 2000s-2010s I had enough subcultures to choose from that I only internalised edgelord shit and millennial irony as negative influences. The 1950s-80s US would have been suffocating. They all came out of it a little bit hippie and a little bit postmodernist and a little bit civility fetishist and a little bit narrowly focused on one isolated issue.
*who also doesn't consider himself an activist because he synthesised his theory of praxis with his Buddhism in a really neat way.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Podcast recommendations, episode discussions, and struggle sessions about which shows need to be cancelled.
Rest In Power, Michael Brooks.