The contradictions of wokeness
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:55.8 | Hey, it's Sean. Today we're running one of my favorite episodes. It's with Musa Al Garby. He's a professor at Stony Brook University and the author of We Have Never Been Woke. The book, Like the Convers conversation, isn't really about the ideology of |
| 1:13.2 | wokeness, whatever that is. It's more about the language and the symbols around the movement |
| 1:19.1 | and how elites have co-opted them, which, as you say, this is much more than a superficial |
| 1:25.7 | critique of woke politics. Anyway, it's terrific, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:31.3 | There are several terms in our political vocabulary that have been stretched to the point of incoherence. |
| 1:40.3 | Marxist and Orwellian spring immediately to mind. But at this moment, I'm not sure any term can |
| 1:48.9 | compete with woke. Whether you're on the left or the right, whether you're pro or anti-woke, |
| 1:58.7 | or even if you're not especially political and don't follow this stuff. |
| 2:02.7 | Woke is a word you simply cannot escape. The problem is that woke has become a catch-all term, |
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