Self reservations: The problem with identity politics – Ros Taylor talks to Yascha Mounk

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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How important is your identity to your political beliefs? Yascha Mounk, the author of The Identity Trap argues that over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture has transformed into an obsession. He joins Ros Taylor in the Bunker to explain why he thinks we need to move beyond individuality for the collective good. “I don’t think woke is a useful term.” - Yascha Mounk “There's a set of new ideas that are largely untested, but have taken on tremendous power very quickly,” - Yascha Mounk “There have been some very prominent stories of people paying high and unfair prices for speaking their mind.” - Yascha Mounk BOOK LINK https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456408/the-identity-trap-by-mounk-yascha/9780241638293 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	I'm Ros Taylor.
1:11.0	We hear a lot of criticism these days of what's often called identity politics and a lot of it comes from the right.
1:17.0	Highly controversial ideas are presented to the workforce and to the public as if their motherhood and apple pie.
1:25.0	Gender ideology, white privilege, anti British history.
1:30.0	And the evidence demonstrates that if you don't challenge this poison, things just get worse.
1:38.0	Whole institutions become captured.
1:42.0	And of course, as always happens when the left gets the upper hand,
1:46.2	those who fail to conform are persecuted. as the key to political activism is being criticized.
2:03.4	Yeshamunk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University who has written extensively about
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