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76: The woke war on the working class, with Batya Ungar-Sargon

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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The Relationship Between Wakefulness and Capitalism

I want to talk a little bit about the interplay between wokeness and capitalism, or why corporations in particular seem to warm very much to work politics. Do you think capitalism has bought into wokeness that it's seen that it recognizes that it's not actually a threat to its power? Or does it actively see wokeness as something that could be beneficial in terms of allowing the capitalist elites themselves to create a new sense of moral authority and moral superiority? I would say that what we have today is with the news media, there really is,. so you know, they are all catering to the same 6% of Americans who call themselves progressives but make above $150,000 per

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