s05e112 | Why Woke Won't Work, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance
Calmversations
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The Role of Language in the Creation of the World
The social constructivist will push back on that, but ironically, they have to keep talking. Because that's what we're doing. We're not creating the world. We're describing it. The idea that the language determines how the world is created is completely wrong. They hold us to a set of standards about language which couldn't possibly be met in order to give themselves room to come in and say, ah, you didn't really understand.
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