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"The New Puritans" | Peter Boghossian Interviews Andrew Doyle (Titania McGrath) about Social Justice

Conversations with Peter Boghossian

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Is It Spreading So Much in the English Speaking World?

In Hungary, they don't translate the words. That's interesting because I wrote a book under the pseudonym Tittani McGrath which is a satirical character. And that book was called Woke, a guide to social justice. The Hungarian translation of that, which I think is isn't out yet, but will be is called woke. They just use the same word because those words don't translate. So in that sense, there is a kind of linguistic war about language,. In a sense, you've already got a shield if you're not an English speaking country, there's already an end. But that doesn't mean that shield can't be penetrated and won’t be penetrated

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