woke is just another way of saying unhappy, anxious, and depressed, and that's according to science,

but which is the cause and which is the effect. Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle

and Scott Ott. This is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

Gentlemen, there was a pair of studies done in Scandinavia. You've heard of that place,

haven't you, that showed that people who

describe themselves as woke or having these sort of these woke beliefs also suffer from

unhappiness, anxiousness, and depression at much higher rates than those of us who are unwoke

or based, as the kids say. This is courtesy of the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

The studies found that having critical social justice attitudes, being woke, meant seeing people foremost.

This is a quote, foremost as members of identity groups and as being witting or unwitting,

perpetrators or victims of oppression based on the group's perceived power

differentials. So, Scott, that isn't your beloved Aunt Mabel, who always has candy at her purse.

That's a victim of the patriarchy, and she doesn't even know it, and it's your duty to help her.

Is it any wonder these people who just report themselves as feeling anxious and depressed?

Yeah, I think you asked the right question at the beginning.

Is it the fact that holding these views about humanity drives you into depression, so to speak,

or is it that that kind of perspective on life that is a depressed or negative

perspective on life drives you to believe these things that people must be judged in the

aggregate, that they're trapped perpetually in the state, that they're born in, that, you know,

that the poor are the poor and they'll always be the same group of individuals all the

way through their lives.

It's not that people move in and out of poverty, you know, that whatever we may have done

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