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The Ben Shapiro Show

James Lindsay | The Rise of Wokeness In Schools

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Become a Daily Wire member to access the full conversation with James Lindsay: bit.ly/3kZl51c Dr. James Lindsay is an author, mathematician, cultural critic and founder of New Discourses, a site dedicating to “pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.” In today’s episode, we discuss Lindsay’s new book “The Marxification of Education," the cult of critical theory and the “long slow march through institutions'' that corrupted the educational system by political activists masquerading as teachers, and how we can ultimately reclaim our schools. - - -  Today’s Sponsors: Genucel - 70% off the Most Popular Package + FREE SHIPPING + Free Spa Essentials at https://genucel.com/Sunday ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/ben ZipRecruiter - Try it ZipRecruiter for FREE: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/benguest - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Critical theory is not a bunch of ideas. It is a cult. It is critical pedagogy is cult indoctrination.

0:06.8

There's no other way to see it. We're worried about K through 12. This is a very different situation.

0:11.9

These are children. Children do not think the same way as adults. You may forget that when you get older, but they don't.

0:17.9

They have an authority figure telling them these things. We're not operating

0:21.9

in a field of open debate. The marketplace of ideas doesn't exist for seven-year-olds. It just

0:27.3

doesn't. Mathematician, writer, and Twitter provocateur James Lindsay has his sights set on

0:33.4

woke academia. He's going toe-to-to-to with the organizations coming after your kids.

0:37.6

A former liberal, Lindsay started his career writing books in support of atheism.

0:41.4

Then, in 2017, his writing veered in another direction entirely.

0:44.9

He, with two others, wrote 20 fake papers for submission to peer-reviewed scientific journals.

0:49.2

The papers featured purposely absurd topics, woke topics, like rewritten passages of mind-comf in support

0:55.1

of feminism, and rape culture amongst dogs at public parks.

0:58.5

The reviewers are worried that we didn't respect the dog's privacy.

1:04.1

Six of the papers were rejected, but a surprising seven were accepted.

1:07.1

Seven more were held up under review until the ruse was discovered.

1:10.2

The stunt became international news, demonstrating how willing today's scientific community is to accept false narratives

1:15.5

so long as they are politically fashionable, matter how absurd the premise. After that experiment,

1:20.2

James Lindsay co-authored the best-selling book, Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship

1:23.9

Made Everything About Race, Gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody,

1:32.6

as well as race-marxism, the truth about critical race theory and praxis. His latest book zeroes in on children's education, as he details exactly how the sector has been injected

1:36.7

with Marxist thinking throughout the last 70 years. The book, The Marxification of Education,

1:42.2

Paulo Frere's Critical Marxism and The Thests of Education,

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