Episode 1415 • • 2:19:45 - 2:23:45
1415: Equity Hotel
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Origins of Woke Media
Author Batya Ungar-Sargon discussed her book "Bad News," explaining how the term "woke" was appropriated from black slang to describe an affluent white liberal phenomenon. She cited a Yale study finding that white liberals "dumb down" their vocabulary when speaking to minorities, a behavior she described as paternalistic racism. Ungar-Sargon argues that "wokeness" serves as an alibi for economic inequality among the elite.