How "Woke Right" Beats the Dialectic

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 121 There are a lot of names we could give the obvious problem on the radical Right that has infiltrated and is threatening MAGA today. It used to be called the "Alt Right," and the Left used that term to mount a successful defense and even recruitment campaign for their causes (remember: Joe Biden ran for president and "won" based on Leftist reaction to the Alt Right). Another, better, term for the phenomenon is the "Woke Right." It is not just more accurate and true, it is also strategic. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains why the Woke Left cannot use the framing "Woke Right" the way it uses other labels, like "Alt Right" or "Neo-Fascist Right," in effect short circuiting the dialectic they depend on to drive their activism. (This episode, as I note, points to a subscribers-only episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs https://newdiscourses.com/2025/05/the-surprising-genius-of-woke-right/, paywalled, I did on this subject previously. Please check it out and consider subscribing!) Latest book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #wokeright

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is James Lindsay, and you are listening to New Discourses
0:14.4	Bullets, where I have a short bullet point like summary of a single topic from woke
0:18.7	Marxism or wokeness overall that we need to understand so that we can defeat it.
0:23.6	And I had this, I didn't only subs.
0:26.0	If you don't know what only subs is, this is my subscribers only podcast.
0:29.4	Most of them are fairly short like this.
0:31.5	Some of them, I've started experimenting with doing long ones,
0:34.6	but they're more personal, they're more experimental.
0:39.0	Some of them are,
0:46.7	I'm just trying to give a, you know, thank you, something exclusive to the people who actually pay to support new discourses, which might be you, and if it is, thank you. And if it's not,
0:51.0	you know, consider signing up because I put out these podcasts and then I end up
0:55.4	in situations like this. My goal with new discourses, not that this is the point of the podcast,
1:00.1	has always been to operate like I'm a 501c3 that is not a 501c3. I am an LLC. I'm a for-profit
1:07.7	company, but I put out basically everything I do for free.
1:12.0	The James Lindsay only subs podcast is my only paywalled content at all. And subscribers can get it
1:18.7	for however small the smallest subscription is, which is pretty small. I don't want to quote it
1:23.7	in case I get it wrong, but it's not very much money. If you want to be that,
1:27.6	that's fantastic. It keeps us going. But I'm not going to do a commercial for myself here.
1:32.0	This is the situation I ended up in. I did a podcast. I put it out on only subs.
1:37.5	James Lindsay only subs platform behind a paywall a couple of weeks ago. And I got like a million
1:43.3	messages, probably like 12 honestly
1:46.1	taking the hyperbole out saying this podcast is incredible more people need to hear it are you going
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