gaining political traction. but is he stoking a dangerous culture war? peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word woke . it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, that s a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity why? it s not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity. it s that it s become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pluckrose from the author of cynical theories called it. a british writer and academic. exactly, exactly. ..called it critical socialjustice, people maajid nawaz, also from here, has called it regressive leftism, wesley yang calls it the successor ideology. so it s an ideology that goes by different names, but it basically means the same thing. there s a suite of conclusions around which it cohers. so, for example, the author
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resistance to that message. all right, well, we re out of time, but we will continue the beit. i m sure it was walking the great. all right. thanks a lot. battle. thank you for joining us. i m on a rodgers cnn news central starts right now uncontrolled and dangerous rather across the country in the west, wildfires turned deadly and very destructive buildings going up in flames as thousand because if people fleeing for their lives at the same time, a brutal heatwave is hitting tens of millions of americans as the atlantic seasons first potential tropical storm is brewing in the gulf. just 342 votes. that is, don t razor thin margin in a bruising report public and congressional primary, one of the most conservative members in the country be punished for not endorsing donald trump. brand new surveillance video of the time surrounding justin timberlake s dwi arrest with new details are emerging about how officers say he was behaving. kate is out. i m john berman was sarah sid