SIO303: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? AKA Debunking a Garbage Quillette Article About a Garbage Study
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Holy both sides, Batman! Yeah no suspense on this one, Quillette is garbage and the study this article references is garbage. But how garbage and why exactly? Is there any truth to it? As usual, Lindsey is here to give us the breakdown! This is a part 1. In order to grab part 2 early, make sure to pledge on patreon!
Links: Moss & O'Connor (2020b; origin of White Identitarianism Scale), Pew Poll, Political Polarization in the American Public, Master's thesis (origin of the PC scales)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiry's only this is episode 303. I'm Thomas and I'm on the |
| 0:18.1 | far left and that's Lindsay and she's on the far right and we're alike. |
| 0:24.1 | More alike than either of us realize. |
| 0:26.4 | Okay yeah you're right for the joke to work I guess and I don't realize we're alike |
| 0:32.0 | and then from there now that's not true we're both we're both far right anyway um yeah we're gonna |
| 0:39.6 | we're gonna find out we're gonna take some scales on air I think and see if uh see if we're far |
| 0:45.0 | far left or far right. |
| 0:46.0 | That's gonna be fun anyway the esteemed Dr. Lindsay Osterman how you doing? |
| 0:50.7 | Not bad uh and mad though I'm pretty mad there's gonna be some yelling here folks you know someone |
| 0:57.2 | did a bad science thingy when Lindsay's voice does not at all indicate that she's mad but |
| 1:03.4 | her words indicate that she's mad about it that's how you know someone someone did a bad science |
| 1:11.1 | well it must relate to this article I sent you from Quillette which I you know I can't imagine |
| 1:19.2 | that anybody doesn't know this that listens to the show but Quillette is obviously the uh |
| 1:23.6 | I wonder what what would you call it exactly it's sort of the IDW rag you know and and they |
| 1:30.3 | let they do a few things for one they do outright just kind of right wing race science-y type stuff |
| 1:36.4 | and then they out sometimes they do an act where they're like well we're really on the left but |
| 1:41.7 | here's why the left sucks you know like they do some of that content mm-hmm it's like it's like |
| 1:46.9 | Dave Rubin the publication basically except that's right so I don't think Dave Rubin reads a |
| 1:53.6 | whole lot and I feel like these people who write these articles they at least read to try to make |
| 1:58.8 | their racist and you know right wing points often mm-hmm so I'll give it that yeah no I think |
| 2:04.0 | they're in that camp that's like uh you know both the ref the left and the right are wrong the |
| 2:08.6 | real answer is always in the middle that kind of attitude yeah which they say it's the middle but |
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