Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor Eric Kaufmann, on his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Eric is Head of the Institute of Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham, a member of the advisory board of the Free Speech Union and a senior fellow at Policy Exchange.
Host Laurie Wastell speaks to Eric about the thesis of this book – that what we know today as wokeism stems from the emergence of the race taboo in the 60s; what people get wrong about woke; its origins in the West’s Christian heritage; its impact on the immigration debate; why Conservative politicians won’t talk about demographics; why younger generations are more woke, why that’s a problem, and the ‘Zoomer Right’ phenomenon; the culture war under a Labour Government and how to fight back; and the need for a counter-narrative to woke.
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Produced by Richard Eldred.
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.
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