Our 10th Episode!!! - Political Correctness and Wokeness: Wherein we discuss what political correctness and wokeness are and how they are affecting policy decisions in our country today.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:23 - Definitions
00:08:52 - "New" terms and who defines them?
00:14:17 - Is wokeism just virtue signaling?
00:16:42 - Don't just let yourself be asleep
00:19:43 - Don't come at me, bro
00:24:22 - White privilege
00:30:27 - Plug for Thomas Sowell's book Discrimination and Disparities
00:32:32 - How is wokeism affecting our politics?
00:34:18 - Anti-woke laws, cat litter, and book bans
00:40:43 - Government compelled speech?
00:47:18 - Anti-woke arguments sound a lot like segregationist arguments from the past
00:51:42 - What is the complaint against Critical Race Theory (CRT)?
00:59:06 - Viewing the past through today's moral lens
01:06:12 - Closing arguments
01:07:30 - What's been making us happy this week
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