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Stop pandering to woke mobs: comedian Andrew Doyle

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Comedian and playwright Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice. https://reason.com/video/2022/11/02/h... -------------- Over the past decade, no social critic has been more withering toward identity politics and cancel culture than Andrew Doyle, the playwright, comedian, and journalist from Northern Ireland. Whether it's creating the parodic Twitter personality Titania McGrath or penning a best-selling defense of free speech, the Oxford-educated and openly gay Doyle has never missed an opportunity to show the folly of the political correctness currently eating its way through our universities, corporations, and politics like termites through soft wood. His new book is The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World, and he spoke with Reason's Nick Gillespie about the sources of and solutions to what he calls the "frenzy of conformity" that characterizes so much of conte …...more
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Stop pandering to woke mobs: comedian Andrew Doyle
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2022Nov 2
Comedian and playwright Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice. https://reason.com/video/2022/11/02/h... -------------- Over the past decade, no social critic has been more withering toward identity politics and cancel culture than Andrew Doyle, the playwright, comedian, and journalist from Northern Ireland. Whether it's creating the parodic Twitter personality Titania McGrath or penning a best-selling defense of free speech, the Oxford-educated and openly gay Doyle has never missed an opportunity to show the folly of the political correctness currently eating its way through our universities, corporations, and politics like termites through soft wood. His new book is The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World, and he spoke with Reason's Nick Gillespie about the sources of and solutions to what he calls the "frenzy of conformity" that characterizes so much of contemporary media, academia, and policy. 0:00 Intro 0:37 New Puritans 4:56 Personal Ideology 7:27 The Enlightenment 16:15 History of the Puritans 21:55 Power and Fear 28:37 Legitimacy Crisis in Science 34:27 Roots of Critical Social Justice 41:20 Post-Modernism 47:01 Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism 58:45 An Upperclass Movement 1:03:18 The Ways Out 1:10:48 Art and Critical Thinking 1:22:24 Apology for Wokeism 1:29:45 Modern Day Ipswich Bridge Produced by Nick Gillespie; Edited by Justin Zuckerman and Adam Czarnecki
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