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Woke Subjectivism: Feelings Over Facts | Peter Boghossian & Mark Goldblatt

Conversations with Peter Boghossian

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The Differences Between Religion and Woke Ideology

It's unhealthy that that would be the dividing line. I completely agree with John McQuarter that woke ideology is absolutely a religion in that it has a set of basic tenets. Most of the important ones come from postmodernism, which sort of escaped academia and now is flung around in ways that even Derrida wouldn't recognize. But the religion element, the religious metaphor, you can almost take it too far because a lot of the European enlightenment is actuated by articles of faith. So out of that kind of religion which actuated the enlightenment, you get liberal democracy.

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