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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity with Douglas Murray

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Murray, the author of The Madness of Crowds, joins Hank to discuss the most defining and divisive issues of our era—sexuality, gender, technology and race—revealing the culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and intersectionality.

Topics discussed include: What is social justice? Is social justice a religious movement? (6:45); the rise of identity politics (8:45); why intersectionality is the ugliest word in the English language according to Douglas Murray (10:00); how the views on gay marriage have shifted so quickly (12:30); why Murray began his book by addressing the gay agenda (16:30); is being gay a choice or are you born that way? (18:50); the myth of harmony in the LGBTQ “community” and the reductionism of identity groupings (23:45); have we reversed the dream of Martin Luther King Jr? (26:00); the order of the LGBTQ alphabet (28:50); the complexity of identity (32:40); why viewing life through the lens of power struggles exposes the Marxist foundations of identity politics and intersectionality (37:30); the Ponzi scheme of American Universities and how academia has ceased to be exploration of ideas and turned into activism, especially in American Universities (44:45); evolving views on sexuality and the deeply dishonest state of double standards in society (47:40); the dangerous overcorrection of equality (51:20); the impossible demands and contradictions of society today (54:05); the irony of social justice warriors (1:01:00); the danger of a society that has forgotten about forgiveness (1:04:45); the role of technology in the madness of crowds and how Silicon Valley is deranging us faster than anything else (1:10:50); the dangerous agenda of identity politics (1:12:40); the issue with whiteness studies (1:16:40); the reception of The Madness of Crowds (1:19:45); why has society failed to critically think through the transgender issue? (1:22:10); how can we combat the madness of crowds? (1:31:25).
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0:00.0

And welcome to another Hank Unplugged podcast, the podcast that's dedicated to bringing you the most interesting, informative, inspirational people on the planet, and also promoting books that I feel are absolutely must

0:40.5

reading. And let me say at the outset, if you're enjoying Hank Unplugged, make sure to leave

0:47.1

a review wherever you listen to the podcast. When you do that, it really helps spread the popularity of the podcast.

0:59.6

I want to say at the outset of this podcast that Western civilization is in the midst of a massive crowd derangement crisis.

1:12.1

The grand metaneratives of religious truth and political order are, well, I would say

1:18.7

they're in an utter state of collapse.

1:22.9

And filling the void is a new religious dogma of social justice, identity politics, and intersectionality.

1:36.1

Truth itself is routinely sacrificed on the altars of this on Holy Trinity.

1:45.4

And one quick example before we get to our guest, it's an illustration of how students in the

1:53.8

West increasingly perceive truth.

1:58.9

And here's how some of the students talk about it. This is a quote that comes

2:03.3

directly from the madness of crowds in which students write this. The idea that there is a

2:11.7

single truth or the truth is a construct of the Euro West, a construct that is deeply rooted in the

2:24.1

Enlightenment. Of course, the Enlightenment was a movement that also described black and brown

2:30.8

people as both subhuman and impervious to pain.

2:37.2

This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and the United States

2:46.7

of America are all its progeny.

2:49.8

The idea that truth is an entity for which we must search

2:54.7

in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces is an attempt to silence

3:03.9

oppressed people. In other words, truth is a fabrication by white people constructed for

3:11.0

the subjugation of black and brown people. And this idea has become so entrenched that white

3:18.6

professors now often begin their lectures by asking forgiveness for the very fact that they are white.

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