the places and the person who will likely decide the most consequential until election of our time. that s tonight on these lines good evening i m abby phillip in new york and welcome to the official start of the general election is shaping up to be a rematch for the history books. in the red corner is donald trump twice impeached, indicted insurrectionist, depending on who you ask. and the blue corner, joe biden, older, unpopular and beset by questions about his ability to do the job for four more years but there is a third man in the ring to robert f. kennedy jr. more on him in a moment. but first, a reminder, this election will be close and it will be decided by a few thousand votes in roughly a handful of states. six to be exact. so here is where it could all come to a head. this november six states where let s face it, each ballot might make a bigger impact than in the rest of the country. nevada, arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. these are the s
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
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