Wesley Yang on Weaponized Fragility, Policing Debate Out of Existence, and The Successor Ideology | Ep. 150

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Wesley Yang, author and editor of the "Year Zero" Substack, to talk about The Successor Ideology and how the way the left has evolved in our culture, the push to police debate out of existence, the rise of "weaponized fragility" in today's society, what real diversity is like, how we got to this perilous cultural moment and what happens next, political correctness, the state of the Democratic party and the GOP, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.7	Today, Wesley Yang.
0:18.7	If you don't know him, you're going to love him in about two minutes and I hope you
0:23.8	spend the entire time listening to what for us was a longer interview.
0:28.7	It was almost two hours, but pick, choose any part of it, listen to all of it, you will
0:33.4	love it and you will love him because this is the guy at the end of our interview.
0:37.6	I called him the doctor house of woke ism.
0:40.5	He's the guy who can diagnose it.
0:42.2	He's the guy who will explain to you how we got here.
0:45.4	He says he's not an activist.
0:46.7	So he's not the guy who's actually going to fight it or show us how he's not as he says
0:50.8	a Chris Rufo, but he's the guy who shows us how they see these institutions, how they've
0:56.3	shamed the majority, which includes black people, brown people, white people.
1:02.6	There's very few people who are on board with this crazy woke ideology, how they've shamed
1:06.4	all of those other groups into silence.
1:09.4	It was a fascinating discussion.
1:10.9	I said to my husband, Doug last night, I'm like, you know the thing about Wesley Yang is,
1:14.7	when he talks, you can never accurately anticipate the end of his sentence.
1:19.7	There's very few people you can say that about.
1:22.1	He's just got different ideas.
1:24.1	He goes to different places.
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