THE ORIGINS OF WOKE. With Richard Hanania- #635
THE SAVAGE NATION
Michael Savage
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Author Richard Hanania joins Savage to discuss his new book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. In a nation nearly evenly split between conservatives and liberals, the left dominates nearly all major institutions, including universities, the government, and corporate America. Hanania argues that this is as much a legal requirement as it is an issue of one side triumphing in the marketplace of ideas. Culture has its own independent force, but the state has, since the 1960s, been putting its thumb on the scale. In their conversation, Savage and Hanania dive into the roots of "wokeness" and its deep-seated origins in American society and government; Savage's experience with affirmative action; the abuse of diversity programs; why universities have worked to make men and women more similar; how math has become 'racist'; how the federal government destroyed education. Is there a way to save America from this madness? How do we deconstruct this cultural and political assault on our nation?
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| 0:00.0 | And now the world's most exciting podcast, The Savage Nation, home of borders, language, culture. |
| 0:14.8 | Here he is Michael Savage. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome to the Michael Savage podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Today we have a remarkable discussion and guest. Richard |
| 0:25.2 | Hanania, the origins of woke is the book, the origins of woke, go and buy it, |
| 0:31.8 | it's an important book, put it on your coffee table, so people learn something. Corporate America and a triumph of identity politics. That sounds very sad. Mr. Hanania is a research fellow at the University of Texas, the president and founder of the |
| 0:44.0 | center of the study of partisanship and ideology. Well that fits. Previously a |
| 0:48.8 | research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University is the |
| 0:55.8 | author of public choice theory and the illusion of grand strategy. |
| 1:00.1 | Hanania earned his PhD in Polysai from UCLA and as a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, |
| 1:06.6 | very impressive, Richard, very impressive indeed and the subject of woke, you know, the word woke has been used so much, it's lost its meaning. |
| 1:14.0 | We used to call it politically correct and we would go PC. |
| 1:18.2 | Remember those days? Of course. Then it became woke. Where did the word woke originate from? I originally heard it came out of the |
| 1:26.8 | African American community. And correct me if I'm mistaken, you're the scholar on this. |
| 1:37.1 | Where the if I'm mistaken you're the scholar on this where the black folks when a white person would come like into town one guy would say to the other just be woke to what he's doing or something like that. |
| 1:44.7 | What is the origin of the word woke? |
| 1:47.1 | Yeah, the way I've heard of the etymology of it is basically that in the 2000, |
| 1:52.1 | early 2010s that sort of black activists and black liberals used that as a way to sort of, you know, unironically, they would say, well, if someone is like awakened, they can see, you know, the the social all social injustice and all the |
| 2:04.0 | racism in American society. Eventually I think conservative sort of culturally |
| 2:08.8 | appropriated to use their lingo and now it's sort of used derisively just to mean what you know political correctness once meant you |
| 2:17.0 | know 20 or 30 years ago in the book you know I define it because you always have to define your terms and they think |
| 2:22.1 | you know they can the left things they think, you know, they can, the left |
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