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Office Hours with Georgia Howe

Diversity of the Woke

Office Hours with Georgia Howe

The Daily Wire

Politics, News

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Is wokeness a predominantly white phenomenon? Wilfred Rielly is an assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State, and the author of Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War and he thinks the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Let's find out.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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