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PREVIEW: Contemplations #145 | Right-wing Wokeism: Part II

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Stelios discuss right-wing wokeism. They identify how sections of the right mirror the behaviour of the woke left.

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0:00.0

Hello and today we're going to be talking about right-wing wokism and this is part

0:06.6

too so we're going to be picking up where we left off and sorry that we had to cut it short

0:10.9

I just normally record in the afternoon and so I didn't want to keep the

0:14.6

production staff behind whilst we finished talking about because we only got about halfway

0:18.8

through but we've got a decent amount of things to cover today and we don't have a time limit so we're definitely going to finish today in all the things we wanted to cover and we are going to be going over some perhaps more controversial stuff but with all of that out of the way I am of

0:35.9

course joined by Stelios once again hello and I suppose we may as well just get

0:41.3

started yes we may as well just get started. Yes. I must say also that I really like recording in the

0:47.1

morning because I'm fresh and in the afternoon I'm usually tired and in the

0:52.3

symposium that is going to come out today

0:54.0

it's symposium 38 I think on zam yatens we that we did with Connor I was incredibly tired during the shooting and yeah I'm happy that we're doing it in the morning right now.

1:07.5

I'm normally the other way around I'm like a reptile I've got a warm up slowly throughout the day to be functional by about the afternoon.

1:14.8

So yeah, I might be a bit groggyer than normal, but it should be fine.

1:20.0

So I wanted to start off by addressing a potential point. I suppose it might as well be worth

1:25.4

reiterating first though what our notion of right-wing wokism is just so everyone's on board.

1:31.8

We're not talking about the ideological aspects of wokism, but just the

1:35.4

behaviors that the people who hold those ideological positions exhibit because it's not just

1:41.8

that ideology that is frustrating and annoying, it's the

1:45.8

behaviors as well I think.

1:47.9

And so when it's mirrored on the right, I think that this is adopting the progressive left's framing or the woke left, whatever you want to call them.

1:58.0

But it's a problem for us for multiple different reasons.

2:04.0

One, it sort of poisons the well of discourse.

2:08.0

Two, it puts people off from engaging with us

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