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peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word �*woke�*. it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, thats a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity — why? its not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity. its that its become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pl...

gaining political traction. but is he stoking a dangerous culture war? peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word �*woke. it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, thats a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity — why? its not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity...

Its that its become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pluckrose from — the author of cynical theories called it... a british writer and academic. exactly, exactly. ..called it "critical socialjustice," people — maajid nawaz, also from here, has called it regressive leftism, wesley yang calls it the successor ideology. so its an ideology that goes by different names, but it basically means the same thing. theres a suite of conclusions around which it cohers. so, for example, the auth...