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Episode Description
Helen Pluckrose joins me to discuss how liberalism was lost and why free speech, individual liberty and viewpoint diversity need to be defended from both the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right.
Helen explains why liberalism does not mean “left wing”, why it is better understood as the opposite of authoritarianism, and how critical social justice, identity politics and language policing have changed the way people think, speak and behave. We discuss woke ideology, DEI, equality vs equity, trans rights, queer theory, free speech, institutional capture and why suppressing ideas usually makes them more powerful.
We also get into whether Britain needs a liberal revolution, how the anti-woke movement can become authoritarian itself, and why the future may depend on liberals on the left and right defending freedom within their own tribes.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - What Liberalism Really Means
00:00:48 - How Did We Lose the 90s?
00:03:13 - Phones, Algorithms and Anxiety
00:08:11 - What Has Changed?
00:11:16 - Woke and Language Policing
00:13:57 - Liberalism vs Authoritarianism
00:20:57 - How Liberalism Was Lost
00:23:39 - Why Freedom Must Be Maintained
00:25:33 - Can Institutions Stay Liberal?
00:28:43 - Who Represents Liberalism Today?
00:31:28 - DEI and Discrimination
00:35:10 - Equality vs Equity
00:39:29 - Is Pro-Trans Misogynistic?
00:41:38 - Reality, Safety and Liberalism
00:46:03 - Queer Theory and Biological Reality
00:49:26 - How Civil Rights Became Language Policing
00:55:06 - A Radical Defence of Freedom
00:58:51 - Woke Corporatism
01:03:21 - The Problem With Anti-Woke
01:10:48 - Why Suppressing Speech Backfires
01:13:37 - Do We Need a Liberal Revolution?
01:18:03 - Can Sanity Return?
01:21:00 - The Liberal Case on Immigration
01:24:17 - Liberalism as the Higher Value
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