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Office Hours with Georgia Howe

Tackling Woke Sports

Office Hours with Georgia Howe

The Daily Wire

Politics, News

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Sports Journalist and host of Fearless on The Blaze, Jason Whitlock joins to discuss the infiltration of wokeness in American sports. Sports that, for years, have been the great American Unifier have recently been transformed into the marketing arm for wokeness. Whether they be foreign powers or giant multinational corporations, Jason tackles the unexpected influences encouraging these transformations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're about to listen to Office Hours with me, Georgia Howe.

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This is a weekly companion series to Prager You's popular five-minute videos,

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where I explore various political and cultural topics with Prager You experts,

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asking questions and digging deeper to bring you perspectives that you may not hear in a traditional college classroom. To watch the video version of this series, click on the link in the description, or go to

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Dailywire.com.

0:32.1

Welcome to office hours. I'm Georgia Howe with the Daily Wire. Today, we sit down with sports

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journalist and host of the new podcast podcast Fearless, Jason Whitlock.

0:40.3

His new Prager You video is titled Get Politics Out of Sports, where he makes the case that sports has served as a cultural unifier and equalizer in America for decades.

0:50.3

Yet, with the rise of a few vocal radicals, an attempt to fundamentally change sports

0:55.5

into a tool for political division is underway. Let's jump right in.

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Jason, nice to see you. Good to see you, Georgia. So I understand you just made a prayer

1:10.5

you video about woke sports. So I have to say,

1:15.9

this is almost like one of the most tedious manifestations of wokeness there is, like it just

1:21.6

might be, only because of the whole point that sports are supposed to be a unifier.

1:26.8

So how did this happen? How did it get into

1:29.4

sports? Well, I think it's part of a larger attack on American culture by our adversaries, China in

1:39.7

particular, they have been corrupting American culture and, you know, the same way they've corrupted Hollywood and the movie industry and have great influence over the types of movies that are produced and shown here in America, they figured out that if they really want to influence American

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culture and promote division and chaos, promoted within sports, which other than religion,

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to me, has been one of the greatest unifiers in American history over the last 120 years is, you know,

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we've put aside our differences and come together and root for teams. And it doesn't matter

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what your politics are, what your race is, how much money you make. We put those differences

2:32.4

aside during sporting events and rooting for our

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