Has Woke Taken Over Everything? - Dr Joanna Williams | Modern Wisdom Podcast 483

Dr Joanna Williams is the Founder of Cieo, associate editor of Spiked, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and an author.

The last few years has seen progressive ideas capture institutions, academics and headlines. But how much has this ideology actually trickled down to making a real impact in the world? Is it just a moral panic about a moral panic or is there something to really be concerned about?

Expect to learn why police officers are being told to actively refer to themselves as woke, how 3 month old babies can be racist, why air conditioning is misogynistic, whether the people pushing these narratives actually believe this stuff, what the future of progressive messaging has in store and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:23 Woke Policing
05:52 What Minorities Really Want
14:36 Origin of ‘Woke’
20:05 How the Left is Demonised
26:22 The Shift from Class to Identity
36:52 Does the Woke Movement Impact Women’s Rights?
52:06 Adversarial Nature of Current Society
59:28 The Right’s Moral Panic
1:07:04 Is the Panic Justified?
1:12:50 Where to Find Dr Williams

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