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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 12 | White Liberals Now More WOKE than POC?

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that white liberals believe that systemic racism is a bigger problem for minorities in America than even the minorities themselves do. These liberals are also the most supportive of legislation to correct these "inequalities." Could their worldview be skewed by their comfortable lives in their gated communities? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:08.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:10.0

Today we're going to be talking about that strange, almost mysterious breed, the woke white progressive.

0:15.7

Now if we were to take progressives or social justice warriors, far left identitarians, whatever

0:21.5

you want to call them, and break them down by race, which I'm guessing they'd be okay with because they're always trying to break things down by race.

0:28.6

On one hand, you would have the non-white or person of color progressives who essentially resent white people because they see them as oppressors or colonizers or tools of the patriarchy, whatever you want to call it.

0:41.0

As someone who's had to deal with quite a few of them over the years

0:43.8

I feel completely comfortable saying that non-white progressives do feel bitter toward white people

0:49.2

because they see white people as making their lives worse. Problem problem X exists, well then it's probably the fault of white people.

0:56.7

And don't get me wrong, although I don't agree with that mentality, I just don't think

1:00.3

it's an accurate representation of what's happening and ultimately I don't think

1:04.0

victimhood helps anyone I can at least understand it right because racial tribalism is a very real thing and if there are

1:10.7

problems in your community like there are in the black and

1:13.3

Hispanic communities it almost makes sense to try and blame those problems on an

1:17.7

outgroup like white people especially when historically real oppression has

1:22.1

existed even though in my opinion it

1:24.1

doesn't really now and when white people continue to be more successful than you do.

1:28.6

It sucks but I get it you know why not just blame everything on white people, sure.

1:34.2

But then on the other hand you have the white self-hating progressive and they're just a little

1:38.9

bit harder to figure out.

1:40.7

Because while non-white progressives may be looking for someone to blame for their or their

1:44.5

communities lack of success, white progressives tend to come from backgrounds of affluence or at least relative

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