Joe Rogan Experience #1767 - James Lindsay

James Lindsay is an author, mathematician, podcaster, and founder of New Discourses: an online resource for educating the public on the dangers of the "Critical Social Justice" movement. His latest book, co-authored with Charles Pincourt, is "Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond."

Joe RoganhostJames Lindsayguest

Jun 27, 20243h 12mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 27, 2024
Duration: 3h 12m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

James Lindsay is an author, mathematician, podcaster, and founder of New Discourses: an online resource for educating the public on the dangers of the "Critical Social Justice" movement. His latest book, co-authored with Charles Pincourt, is "Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond."

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1767 - James Lindsay explores rogan, Lindsay dissect ‘woke Marxism,’ COVID power, and media decay Joe Rogan and James Lindsay spend the episode arguing that modern ‘wokeness’—especially critical race and gender theories—is a rebranded form of Marxism used to gain institutional power by labeling opponents racist or extremist. They connect this to COVID policies, ESG investing, the World Economic Forum, and media narratives, claiming elites exploit crises like the pandemic to centralize control economically and culturally. They criticize government overreach, FBI provocations, censorship by tech platforms, and the erosion of trust in institutions like CNN, academia, and public health authorities. Throughout, they frame independent media, open debate, and parental pushback in schools as the main counterforce to what they see as a creeping soft totalitarianism.

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