How The Left Turned On Woke
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In a new interview, singer songwriter Sam Fender claimed he understood why young white men from Northern towns are being radicalised by misogynist social media influencers like Andrew Tate - it's because they're being accused of having privilege. In similarly convoluted language, Novara Media has rage baited the nation by releasing content claiming Woke Is Dead to promote Ash Sarkar's new book that includes questions on the effectiveness of identity politics.
All in all, it feels like the left is turning its back on being societally progressive in order to win click bait points in the culture war and in this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina ask why leftist figureheads are so happy to sell out their marginalised comrades in favour of media attention.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, if you're a fan of this podcast, please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you really love us, you can sign up for a podcast membership. |
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| 1:48.6 | What are we talking about today? |
| 1:50.0 | Today we are talking about how woke's gone mad, leftist edition. |
| 1:53.7 | Joke! |
| 1:55.5 | I would never think that woke forever. |
| 1:57.9 | We are talking about how the left is turning on woke politics. |
| 2:03.8 | Well, parts of the left. It's not fair to say all of the people. So this is sped on by two things |
| 2:10.0 | that have happened this week. First things first is Sam Fender. Who is Sam Fender, Gina? |
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