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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Batya Ungar-Sargon | Podcast 782

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

Documentary, Personal Journals, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.31.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0

Twas a night in November at your pal's Christmas party when an elf arrives.

0:08.0

Oh, with a toffee night latte!

0:10.0

Hey everyone, who wants a Starbucks?

0:14.0

Ooy! Same one for me!

0:16.0

Get the group together for Starbucks festive favorites. It's IRL season.

0:22.0

At a Starbucks, the EU.

0:25.0

A. A.

0:28.0

Subject of availability while stocks last.

0:29.0

But you thank you very much of Joy, you know, how you doing?

0:32.0

Oh, thank God, I'm great. How are you?

0:34.0

Thank you so much for having me.

0:36.0

What a pleasure. Yeah, it's highly my pleasure, in fact, and I suspect we are going to agree on almost everything to do with wokness.

0:45.0

So I mean, it might just be worth maybe thinking about in positive terms to start with.

0:49.3

So I suppose the term woke when at its inception, I think it was just earnestly meant to describe

0:55.4

someone I was supposed I suppose socially aware you know awake to the

0:59.0

injustices of racism things like that and now whenever I see that word used, it almost always seems like it's being used as a pejorative, as a smear as an insult. So in a way, are the anti-wwalk winning the war?

1:13.4

Yeah, you're totally right.

1:16.1

I mean the word started as black slang to describe being aware

1:20.6

to the systemic injustices that are still perpetuated against black Americans.

1:25.8

I believe there are still some, I mean vanishingly few, but there are still some areas of

1:31.2

course where black Americans are treated differently and it's very bad and it's a huge problem.

1:36.0

The problem is there's been a huge mission creep in the civil rights movement away from saying,

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