#050 - Eric Kaufmann - How Wokeness Hijacked the West

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Peter McCormack

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist, professor, and author specialising in cultural politics, demographics, and the rise of woke ideology, advocating for post-progressivism and free speech in academia and society.

In this interview we discuss how woke ideology, cultural overreach, and progressive dominance have reshaped the Western world. From the suppression of free speech to the radical transformation of institutions, Kaufmann reveals how an elite ruling class has manipulated the system to silence dissent and enforce ideological conformity. He also explains how the education system has become a breeding ground for ideological indoctrination, manufacturing an entire generation that sees dissent as dangerous rather than necessary.

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0:00.0	So there is this trend kind of in the elite culture that's been building.
0:03.2	And what's happened partly is that the Republican Party used to be just the party of low taxes
0:07.3	and more money in your pockets.
0:09.7	So if you're rich, you know, if you're educated, you tend to be rich, you vote for them.
0:13.2	But so that's been changing now.
0:14.9	The Republican Party stands for the cultural right more than the economic right.
0:20.1	And so what you have with these
0:22.2	elites is people are economically to the right. They want low tax, but they're culturally to the
0:26.2	left. They believe in maybe open borders. They believe in, you know, low-cost labor. They
0:32.3	believe in woke because they think that's how you're a good person.
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