The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 48

You've probably heard of the "slippery slope" and heard it described as a fallacy. In fact, usually, it is fallacious thinking to believe that taking a step in a particular direction will necessarily imply taking more steps in that direction. Some slopes are Woke, though, and I think that all Woke slopes are slippery. In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the reasons why I think critical, deconstructive, and dialectical slopes are always slippery slopes. Another way to put this is that Wokeness (or, the various Theories of Critical Social Justice) has no brakes. There's nothing to stop a Woke train once it starts running. The reasons are not bugs of the Theoretical worldview but are, in fact, features of how Theory operates methodologically. All the way back to Hegel, any idea that could still be hit with the dialectic must be hit with the dialectic; any problematic that isn't critiqued leaves the status quo intact; any social construction that isn't deconstructed maintains the possibility for oppressive systems of power. As a result, the operating system of Leftism over the last two hundred years always engenders a slippery slope. Join me to understand how and why this works.

-James Lindsay

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