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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
Social justice. They are insulated from all criticism. If you persist in bothering them about their incompetence, they will have you arrested for hate crimes. So revolution is the best thing that ever happened to our political class. You see that with perfect clarity in new york city. A few months ago, bill de blasio was a national joke, not anymore. Is hisblasio generations al sharpton. He is a protest leader fighting in the streets for civil rights. The good news is, de blasio no longer has even to pretend to run new york city. And hes not. His Public Schools, for example, are failing. In new york, which is the Biggest School system in the country, fewer than half the students are proficient in english and math. That is a disaster, most of all for the students themselves. Why is that happening . Why are the schools failing . City officials dont want to have that conversation. Acknowledging that there is a icmassive problem might require them to do something to fix it. Their donors in
Social Media Companies banned their users from sharing the New York Posts reporting. Others News Organization simply ignored it. On october 22nd, 11 days before the president ial election, National Public radio, the organization that is literally state media, funded against your will buy your tax dollars, issued the following statement mbr explained they would not say anything negative about the bidens come in here is why, we do not want to waste our time on stories that are not rey stories. We do not want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distraction. You are probably thinking, that is the single dumbest, most dishonest, highhanded, infuriatingly arrogant thing i have ever heard. But if you feel that way, obviously you dont watch cnn. On that same day, october 22nd, and rnc spokesperson, Liz Harrington, made the mistake of submitting to an interview with christiane amanpour. Harrington had hoped to talk about the bidens business deals. Amanpour is,