Diversity of the Woke
Office Hours with Georgia Howe
The Daily Wire
4.8 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The answer to why minorities have generally voted for the Democratic Party hyper-consistently, |
| 0:05.7 | especially African Americans, is very simple. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, we've been told over and over that the Republicans are racist slave owners. |
| 0:11.1 | And I mean, you have quite prominent candidates like Mr. Biden openly saying, well, if you |
| 0:14.5 | elect a very mainstream Republican, it'll put you back in chains. |
| 0:17.3 | Many people believe this. |
| 0:26.4 | Is Wokeness a predominantly white phenomenon? |
| 0:31.9 | My guest today claimed that the data says yes. In this episode, we break down a series of surprising opinion polls that show just how popular or unpopular progressive initiatives are |
| 0:36.9 | among minority voters. |
| 0:38.5 | Today, we talk to Wilfred Riley. Wilfred is an author and assistant professor of political |
| 0:43.2 | science at Kentucky State. Wilfred, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:47.3 | Great to be here. So very recently, you did a video for Prager You where you talked about |
| 0:53.7 | how wokeness is a predominantly white phenomenon. |
| 0:57.0 | That might be surprising for some people. |
| 0:59.0 | What evidence do you have to support that claim? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, there's, I mean, there's a pretty considerable amount. |
| 1:06.0 | I think the most obvious evidence is that when you do sort of broad-scale national polling, |
| 1:11.8 | like Pew, for example, there's very specifically one category of people that tends to support, |
| 1:18.1 | for example, politically correct restrictions on speech, restrictions on policing, a lot of the |
| 1:25.7 | other things that are associated with the quote unquote woke movement, |
| 1:28.3 | and that happens to be upper middle class white liberal women. When you actually run a lot of |
| 1:35.1 | these questions by ordinary taxpayers in the black and Hispanic communities, and of course |
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