The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 4 Critical Social Justice operates like a virus. I’ve said it about them; they say it about themselves; we’re all in agreement. It infects liberal institutions and liberal-minded people (philosophically speaking, whether on the left, right, or center), perverts “critical” as in “critical thinking” into “critical” as in “critical theory,” which means something completely different. It then turns those institutions and individuals into woke cells that produce more Critical Social Justice and spread it to others, hollowing out the institutions and organizations it infects as it goes. Support New Discourses: https://patreon.com/newdiscourses Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: https://facebook.com/newdiscourses https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses https://instagram.com/newdiscourses https://linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses https://minds.com/newdiscourses https://reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 https://play.google.com/music/m/Ipc3rvw36…?t=New_Discourses https://open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp https://stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2020 New Discourses. All rights reserved. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITh5fuFg2I

Surely you'll have noticed that it's not just difficult but legitimately impossible to have a productive conversation with someone once they get into Woke ideological territory. You're not misperceiving the situation, and it's not you who is the problem. It is nearly impossible to talk productively about Woke topics with the Woke. There are a number of reasons (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/) for this, and among them is a little-known truth about the psychology of conversation. If you've ever heard a Woke person saying that disagreeing with them causes "harm," "trauma," or "literally erases their identity," you'll know what I'm getting at. When I was doing the research to write 'How to Have Impossible Conversations' (https://amzn.to/3bW8p3M) with Peter Boghossian back in 2018, I was lucky enough to read a wonderful book that was produced from within the Harvard Negotiations Project, a book called 'Difficult Conversations' (https://amzn.to/3eQTnhC) (Stone, Patton, and Heen, 2010). In that book, we learn that conversations take place on (at least) three psychological levels at once while we tend to believe they're completely logical and operating just on the most superficial of those levels, which is the factual level. In reality, there are emotional and, importantly, identity-based levels to our conversations as well, and the deeper into that stack you go, the less likely you are to be able to have productive dialogue. This is where Wokeness is particularly insidious because it places all conversations deeply into the emotional and especially identity levels, guaranteeing that they cannot go productively across disagreement or connect with facts. Join me in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to understand more about this psychological reality to conversations, especially with the Woke, and what you might be able to do about it. -James Lindsay Support New Discourses: https://www.paypal.me/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com/support https://patreon.com/newdiscourses https://subscribestar.com/newdiscourses https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: https://facebook.com/newdiscourses https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses https://instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com/ https://pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ https://linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses https://minds.com/newdiscourses https://reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/newdiscourses https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-discourses/id1499880546 http://bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp https://stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.