297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

<p>Shermer and Doyle discuss: terminology of: PC, identity politics, woken, social justice, antifa, BLM, TERF, intersectionality • Critical Social Justice as a witch craze • Satanic Panic (1980s) • Recovered Memory Movement (1990s) • How widespread is the problem: minor skirmishes on social media or mainstream? • Hill-Harris 2021 poll: 32% voters ID as woke and 31% said they don’t know what the term means • new puritanism as a secular religion • Whiteness and White fragility • Implicit Association Test • Postmodernism • Neo-Marxism • Cancel Culture • hate speech • J.K. Rowling • pluralistic ignorance.</p> <p>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’s <em>Moral Maze</em>. He has written for a number of publications, including the <em>Telegraph</em>, <em>Sun</em>, <em>Daily Mail</em>, <em>Mail on Sunday</em>, <em>Standpoint</em>, <em>Spectator</em>, and <em>Sunday Times</em>. He is the creator of satirical character Titania McGrath, under whose name he has written two books: <em>Woke: A Guide to Social Justice</em> and <em>My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism</em>, both published by Little, Brown. Titania McGrath has over half a million followers on Twitter. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, and a lecturer at Oxford University where he completed his doctorate. His previous book was <em>Free Speech and Why it Matters</em>. His new book is <em>The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World</em>.</p>