The term “Woke Right” doesn’t make any sense! - Rod Martin DMW#226

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Same kind of criticism of woke right. I understand why it's being used.

00:05

I'm not entirely sure that some of the people using it understand why they're using it. It's entirely pejorative from my point of view.

00:13

It doesn't really criticize an ideology. So the woke part is wrong to the degree that its users are claiming that Christian nationalists are monarchists and so forth.

00:26

Well, some of them are. Historically, in the European context, that monarchism is on the right.

00:33

In the American context, it absolutely is not. So the right part of it isn't terribly useful.

00:41

The woke part of it isn't right. Woke designates very specific beliefs derived from critical theory on the left.

00:49

So what's really being criticized is methodology. Well, okay, so you don't like your opponents and you think they're not being fair to you on Twitter.

00:59

Calling them woke isn't helpful. So I think both of these terms are muddying the water and we're not really getting where we ought to.