We explore the origins and societal impact of "woke" ideology and how to dismantle it with Eric Kaufmann, author of The Third Awokening. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.Birch Gold: Text WIRE to 989898 for your free copy of the Ultimate Guide for Gold in the Trump Era. There is no obligation, only information from Birch Gold.Visit GoodRanchers.com and use code WIRE today. Good Ranchers: American meat delivered.
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What is today called woke ideology is a complex and polarizing topic with origins tracing back decades. After expanding during the political correctness of the 80s and 90s, it's culminated in cancel culture and various protest movements that have swept across the U.S.
In this episode, we speak to the author of The Third Awokening on how this woke ideology intersects with religion, culture, and education, and how he says the U.S. can reduce its influence. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's December 28th, and this is a special edition of Morning Wire.
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The following is an interview conducted earlier this year. Joining us now to discuss so-called woke ideology and efforts to dismantle it is Eric Kaufman, author of the book, The Third Awakening. Eric, thank you so much for joining us. So first, the title of your book is interesting. It's obviously loaded and suggests a pattern going back decades. The Third Awakening, what does that mean? Right.
Well, the book is a critical analysis of the woke phenomenon. I should say I have an analytical definition of woke. You know, I know it is used as a political epithet, but the definition of woke I use is the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender and sexual identity groups. That's the one sentence definition of woke. Hmm.
You know, from that flows a fuzzy ideology, which says that any inequality of outcome in desired social, you know, income, social status, et cetera, between racial groups, between men and women is an outrage in a way. It's a violation of a sacred value. And the second proposition is anything that harms women.
whether physically or psychologically, members of these historically marginalized groups is also an outrage. So any speech which offends members of such sacralized groups constitutes a kind of blasphemy, and you therefore are liable to excommunication or being canceled, in other words. So that is basically what woke is. You know, what I argue in the book is that we've had
three waves of this ideology. It's not just post-2015. Post-2015 is the third of these waves. So the first wave, I trace this back to the late 60s, where you did actually have cancellations occurred. Perhaps the first one was the Moynihan Report of 1965 on the Black Family, which was shelved by the Johnson administration. And we then had affirmative action, of course, in the late 60s.
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