Hey everybody. This is James Lindsay and you're're listening to the New Discourse's podcast,

where we talk about all things woke. And I've been trying to figure out ways to kind of connect

with people on a more basic level, in addition to keeping up with all of the kind of more

advanced stuff that I'm always putting out.

And I thought, you know, why don't I record the handful of pages from the first book that actually

made it clear to me what was going on with Woke? Now, when I say this, this is before I realized that

woke was Marxist. This is probably going back to 2019, maybe earlier. I knew that woke was

a problem. I knew that woke had something to do with the postmodern theory from academia.

I knew that woke had something to do with critical theory, but was much less clear on what

that was.

This was probably early on in 2019 or late in 2018 when it was recommended to me that I get

this book, which I went and bought, which is called Is Everyone Really Equal, an introduction to key concepts in social justice education.

This book is written by two authors, one of whom you have surely heard of, the other of whom you probably haven't, but you will have noticed if you've paid attention in the new

discourses, translations from the wokeish where I had been, and I guess in theory could

continue to give definitions or explanations of woke terminology, that I cite this book a lot.

This was the first book that opened up woke to me.

So I thought, well, if I'm trying to connect with people on a more basic level to give people kind of a starting place,

maybe it would help if I just read the thing that made me aware of woke in the first place.

And to actually understand that it was deeper than just the kind of craziness that I was seeing

in the academic literature from the grievance studies affair and from my own kind of investigations

into that for the few years before that.

And what I was seeing in college campuses and activism, the rising BLM movement and so on.

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