The new, dystopian novel Wokelynd
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and fellow podcaster, Andrew Yang, to talk about identity politics and identity politics in general. We talk about what identity politics is, how identity politics came about, and why identity politics should be the driving force of every conversation.
Transcript
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Wokeland came from the idea that California is so off the rails, let's give the rest of
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it to the people who are currently running the government so that we can go full-on identitarian
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and make your identity the driving force of really every conversation and every claim
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One of the things that I think a lot of people are catching on to the DEI discussion these
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days is that it's really a backdoor to a sort of identitarian Marxism, to make each
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group the same became the overarching goal of San Francisco and the West Coast and identity
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politics and therefore broke in all of our American freedoms, rights of individualism
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and so forth that allowed our country to be this great.
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San Francisco also is a great place to set the novel because there's really no idea that's
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As you said earlier, San Francisco and Vancouver do have certain overlaps in terms of permissible
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drug policy and I think the outcomes speak for themselves.
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Not everyone realizes that San Francisco has a bigger budget than New York with the outcomes
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