Does being "woke" do any good?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be "woke"? It's become a catchall term to smear or dismiss anything that has any vague association with progressive politics. As a result, anytime you venture into an argument about “wokeness,” it becomes hopelessly entangled in a broader cultural battle. Today’s guest, journalist and professor Musa al-Gharbi, helps us untangle "wokeness" from its fraught political context. The author of a new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, al-Gharbi explains what effects the movement is and isn’t having on our society. Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Musa al-Gharbi (@Musa_alGharbi), author, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:10.7	And in our new miniseries, we're talking about voter fraud. For years now, former President Donald Trump has made it a key talking point despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud.
0:22.8	But what impact do claims like these have on ordinary voters?
0:27.5	People like Olivia Coley Pearson, a civil servant in Douglas, Georgia, who was arrested for voter
0:33.4	fraud because she showed a first-time voter how the voting machines worked.
0:38.0	Hear how she fought back on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
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1:22.1	anthropic.com slash Claude. There are several terms in our political vocabulary that have been stretched to the point of
1:33.9	incoherence.
1:35.8	Marxist and Orwellian spring immediately to mind.
1:40.0	But at this moment, I'm not sure any term can compete with woke.
1:47.7	Whether you're on the left or the right, whether you're pro or anti-woke, or even if you're not
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