Professor Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian teaches politics at the University of Buckingham. He was appointed in October 2023, following his resignation from his post at Birkbeck, University of London, after two decades of service, citing political differences. Today, we discuss JK Rowling, the rise of the fascist scare, the origins of wokeness, what it actually is - and why it isn't what the woke say it is.

Eric's new book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taboo-Making... (titled in the US: The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism.

Eric's 15-week open online course on Woke: the Origins and Dynamics of an Elite Ideology which anyone can sign up to for a low cost: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/...

Eric's new countercultural social science research centre: https://www.heterodoxcentre.com

Eric's personal site: http://www.sneps.net and X @epkaufm

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Chapters:
0:00 Eric Kaufmann Highlights
0:50 What Woke Really Means
3:10 Woke is WORSE Than Religious Conservatism
5:50 Taboo: Making Race Sacred
8:20 Nazi Hate Speech Laws
9:50 Where Cancel Culture Comes From
12:40 The Left Turned Away From the Working Class
14:20 Micro-Aggressions
16:30 Virtue Signalling
17:50 The EVILS of Whiteness!
19:50 Ethnic Pride Doesn’t Equal Racism
22:50 The Advantages of Being a Minority
25:50 Asian, Hispanic, Black
28:50 Jonathan Haidt & Why We Have Tribes
31:50 Thomas Sowell & Victimhood
33:50 Science vs Politeness
34:50 Canadian Mass Graves “Hoax”
38:20 Every Country is Built on Stolen Land
40:05 JK Rowling & Women Being More Woke
43:50 Why Women Are Different to Men
46:50 Why Empathy is BAD
51:50 Robin DiAngelo Insanity
54:50 John McWhorter & Offence Culture
1:00:50 Fear of Being Racist / Jussie Smollett
1:03:50 Smollett Wanted Virtue
1:09:10 A Heretic Eric Kaufmann Admires