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
shown this week, all of the new footage that we ve never seen before. and? and you would be shocked, alex, that s how little time that takes [laughter] you would be, uhm i m going to be right here! it s right in the middle of what i have to say here, but i just want to give it away right here. the entirety, the entirety of the new video that we ve never seen before, attacker caution has shown, is less than four minutes. [laughter] less than four minutes. i do the work! i do the hard worker watching at. all you do the big left for all of us! watch all of it! in fact i water more than once. just [laughter] just to be sure. yeah, four minutes! okay lawrence, i m going to learn about what was in those precious four minutes on your television program this evening. yeah we ll all over more to say about. it i m sure you do. thank you. alex have greater! thank you. on january six, late tonight, after they trump violent mob attacked the capitol, tucker carlso