This was so bad. I would have stopped, but it was Peter Boghossian, who I first encountered in atheist circles. He does “street epistemology” which is kinda interesting, it gets people to think. It’s all over YouTube. But this was painful. This poor young woman grew up Southern Baptist, then got all liberalized at university, and got a job in Hollywood. She started getting these nagging feelings that she was selling a culture that wasn’t real, she calls it the “woke” culture, but I would call it Hollywood.
I’ve watched other anti-woke podcasts, and as yet, I have not seen one that says what’s wrong with being woke. Everything they describe are the same types of psychology that I see in the MAGA world. People have feelings about things that are repeated to them and they can’t hear the other side. They even reference Jonathan Haidt’s Righteous Mind, a liberal who studied this and saw a few things about conservatism that he adopted in his own life. But he didn’t turn around and talk about some cult he had been indoctrinated into.
They use the example of the “woke” definition of racism, that it is about some difference like skin, but the important part is the power difference. Then make some horrid assumptions about what that means and claim its woke ideology. They never really say racism is bad or how racism could be addressed, only wokism. Alright, end of rant for now.
