297. Andrew Doyle How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
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Shermer and Doyle discuss: terminology of: PC, identity politics, woken, social justice, antifa, BLM, TERF, intersectionality \\u2022 Critical Social Justice as a witch craze \\u2022 Satanic Panic (1980s) \\u2022 Recovered Memory Movement (1990s) \\u2022 How widespread is the problem: minor skirmishes on social media or mainstream? \\u2022 Hill-Harris 2021 poll: 32% voters ID as woke and 31% said they don\\u2019t know what the term means \\u2022 new puritanism as a secular religion \\u2022 Whiteness and White fragility \\u2022 Implicit Association Test \\u2022 Postmodernism \\u2022 Neo-Marxism \\u2022 Cancel Culture \\u2022 hate speech \\u2022 J.K. Rowling \\u2022 pluralistic ignorance.
Andrew Doyle is a writer, satirist and political commentator. He regularly appears on television to discuss current affairs, and is a panelist on the BBC\\u2019s Moral Maze. He has written for a number of publications, including the Telegraph, Sun, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Standpoint, Spectator, and Sunday Times. He is the creator of satirical character Titania McGrath, under whose name he has written two books: Woke: A Guide to Social Justice and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism, both published by Little, Brown. Titania McGrath has over half a million followers on Twitter. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen\\u2019s University Belfast, and a lecturer at Oxford University where he completed his doctorate. His previous book was Free Speech and Why it Matters. His new book is The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World.
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