E30. Andrew Doyle Discusses the Dangers of Well-Intentioned Authoritarianism

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Andrew Doyle is the man behind satirical Twitter account Titania McGrath – a radical intersectionalist, feminist, and slam poet, who is constantly telling people how oppressed she is – and author of Woke: A Guide to Social Justice. He and Bridget have a fascinating and important conversation about the dangers of taking art and comedy literally, how smart people are becoming stupid because of woke ideology, why self-censorship is a slippery slope, and they wonder when the left became such pearl-clutchers. They discuss winning the culture war by winning people over, rather than locking them up or making certain types of speech illegal, the fact that there’s nothing more likely to help the far right to grow than the way the far left are behaving, the dangers of eroding the distinction between right wing and alt right, and the problems with The Faith of Intersectionality. Should the word “douchebag” be considered ableist? Where did the idea that “speech is violence” come from? What is it like being tribeless in an increasingly tribal world? What is the path forward? Find out on this not-to-be-missed episode.

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1:28.3	drifting off to Dreamland in no time. This week our guest is Andrew Doyle, the comedian behind satirical
1:35.6	Twitter account Titania McGrath, a radical intersectionalist, feminist, and
1:40.8	slam poet who is constantly telling people how oppress she is.
1:45.0	He's the author of Woke, a guide to social justice, and absolutely brilliant.
1:50.0	So hang on, sit back and enjoy this dissection of the Culture Wars.
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