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 ibram x kendi, says that any disparity in outcome is due to a system.
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
so i m not saying that. in fact, i will say there s something in psychology called the replication crisis where 50%, half of papers and studies can t be replicated. the problem is that there s a corruption in scholarship in certain fields of literature, and that corruption is not only affecting institutional policy in the united states, but it s getting out into public policies. so we re making public policies around morally fashionable nonfalsifiable conclusions. but isn t there another problem with the way you are trying to expose it? that is, you are saying that these woke people who are running our universities, particularly our humanities departments right now, they have a preconceived set of ideas, and all they want from research is for it to reinforce their ideas. but don t you also now have a set of pre formed ideas? you hate this woke culture and you launched this project of yours specifically to undermine the woke culture. you, therefore, had your own
the problem is that there s a corruption in scholarship in certain fields of literature, and that corruption is not only affecting institutional policy in the united states, but it s getting out into public policies. so we re making public policies around morally fashionable nonfalsifiable conclusions. but isn t there another problem with the way you are trying to expose it? that is you are saying that these woke people who are running our universities, particularly our humanities departments right now, they have a preconceived set of ideas, and all they want from research is for it to reinforce their ideas. but don t you also now have a set of preformed ideas? you hate this woke culture and you launched this project of yours specifically to undermine the woke culture. you, therefore, had your own set of preordained conclusions that you were going to reach come what may. well, first of all, that s demonstrably false because we released