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The American Mind

Imaginary Martyrdom

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A religion of fantasy requires imaginary martyrs. So this week we were treated to the spectacle of AOC and other members of Congress pretending to be handcuffed for the cameras. But that’s just the beginning of the rabbit hole. Wikipedia is being edited to conform with woke piety, and Merriam-Webster has added a new definition to “woman.” Plus: at least 163 billion dollars of COVID relief money (your tax dollars, that is) was stolen, but elites are betting on the public to just forget about it. Our editors peer through the smokescreen.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

When I was in grad school,

0:04.6

there used to be actual sort of Wikipedia sit-ins,

0:08.1

like women edit Wikipedia,

0:09.6

where we all kind of change the Wikipedia entries

0:12.5

to be more favorable toward women

0:13.9

or to increase the role of women in history,

0:17.7

because this is seizing control of the narrative

0:19.9

if you can just sort of invisibly inject your ideology

0:24.1

under the skin of one of the major sources

0:27.9

of information that people use.

0:29.2

Now, of course, right in school,

0:31.5

we were all taught to double check Wikipedia,

0:33.4

but like, again, just like how many lefties

0:35.6

are gonna really sort of remember whether or not

0:38.3

AOC was truly handcuffed,

0:39.4

like how many people are really gonna look into

0:42.4

the background of what they discover on Wikipedia.

0:44.8

Hello, and welcome, once again, to The Round Table.

1:11.1

You're weekly publishers and editors' podcasts

1:14.1

from The American Mind.

1:15.6

I'm your host, Spencer Klavin,

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