Thomas Chatterton Williams
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah, no, not at all.
The policing of language is one element of it because one of the, you know, wokeness is this nebulous kind of word that I don't love.
I never loved it when it was applied to the kind of social justice orthodoxy that really defined the 2010s, peaked in the summer of 2020, and then fizzled out by 2023 or so.
But that's the term that we have.
And one of the defining features of it is this kind of need to politicize all aspects of life.
So what type of books you read, what words you use, language becomes very important and the control of language, the assertion of authority.
overlanguage becomes a very important exercise of power.
The guiding way of seeing all politics and social interaction is of power relations in that there are two different classes of people.
There is the oppressor and the oppressed.
Victimization, the victim status becomes a kind of
an entitlement to do away with the norms of polite society, to stop business as usual.
We're in a state of emergency.
Society must be remade.
There's no time for being neutral.
That only reinforces the status quo.
So this sense of aggrievement really fuels wokeness and the self-righteous need to dispense with due process and things like this.
And so then there's always a power relation perceived in every aspect of our collective lives.
Language is, of course, how we mediate our collective lives.
Yeah, no, I actually don't think so.
It became cult-like and even religious in its fervor.
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