The Woke Strategy Explained

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

If you've been alive for more than 30 years, you probably remember a time, when people generally believed that America was a good place, communism was bad and no one was confused about whether or not men could get pregnant.

But now, you're probably a little stunned by how quickly all of that seemed to change. How did “woke progressivism” manage to achieve so many drastic changes to American culture in such a short time, and what, if anything, can we do?

I'm joined by James Lindsay as we attempt to answer these questions.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to making the argument. I'm your host, Nick Fratus. We got a special
0:04.3	episode today, and I want to start off by putting it out this way, explaining it this way.
0:08.8	If you've been alive for at least 30 years, you probably remember a time that no matter where
0:14.8	you were on the political spectrum, there were certain things that we all kind of agreed on.
0:18.4	Like we agreed that America with all of its flaws was fundamentally a good place, right?
0:24.3	And our history with all of its flaws was fundamentally a history that we could be proud of
0:29.3	on the aggregate.
0:30.5	You also probably lived in a world where we all kind of agreed that communism had a
0:34.9	pretty bad track record that Karl Marx got it wrong and we
0:38.0	probably don't want to replicate the things that he had done because it led to mass starvation,
0:43.3	gulogs, and murder. And you especially never conceived of a world where anybody would be
0:49.8	confused about whether or not a man could get pregnant. And yet the world we live in today seems to be
0:57.4	saying, and again, this is roughly, gosh, at this point, it feels like half the country. It's probably
1:02.3	not bad bad, but it feels like half the country. And especially a lot of the youth fundamentally
1:07.7	believe that America is kind of a bad place, that Carl Marx pretty much got it
1:11.7	right on a fundamental level. And it's all about just kind of, you know, I don't know,
1:14.9	rounding off the edges a little bit in order to get it right. And of course, men can get pregnant.
1:20.0	And if you don't think so, you're a bigot. What the hell happened and how did it happen so
1:26.3	quickly? Well, our guest today is the guy that I believe
1:30.3	has probably done the best job in explaining a lot of the origins of these concepts, how they
1:37.5	actually operate, why they've been so effective. And our guest today is James Lindsay. James,
1:43.6	thank you very much for being on.
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