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Is China Behind the Woke Right? | Interview with James Lindsay

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    woke woke woke how much of this is
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    backed by China and what is China's
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    ultimate
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    goal welcome to China uncensored I'm
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    Chris Chapel in the 20th century the
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    Soviet Union directed its agents to
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    subvert America by dumbing down
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    education by turning peaceful protests
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    violent and adding fuel to already
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    divisive issues like the Vietnam war in
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    the 21st century the Chinese Communist
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    party has taken up the mantle on one
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    hand they're supporting things we in
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    America might call a progressive agenda
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    or woke on the other hand they pretend
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    to be based like when they released the
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    popular video game black myth Wukong and
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    demanded that content creators don't
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    promote
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    feminism it might seem like that makes
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    no sense why support both sides well
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    it's because their purpose is something
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    else entirely Matt Shelly and I sat down
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    to talk about this with Dr James Lindsay
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    he's an author political commentator and
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    founder of the website and podcast new
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    discourses and he joined us on the
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    latest episode of our China unscripted
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    podcast I think you guys saw the other
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    day on Twitter that for whatever reason
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    a Chinese bot troll whatever it is
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    definitely a a pro-china account started
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    putting out Pro woke right stuff and
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    then I called the account out on putting
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    out Pro like oh my God this you know
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    blatantly pro-china account is putting
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    out Pro wok right so the the account is
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    like saying all this Pro white woke
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    right stuff and so what I do is I go
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    over and look at its bio and it's like I
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    am friend to China with a Chinese flag
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    like China is great and then I'm like
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    why is this woke right account pushing
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    China uh or sorry why is this pro-china
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    account pushing woke right so I say that
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    and he's like five reasons Number One
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    China is pro- family number two China
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    doesn't do cuck leftwing stuff you know
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    and it's like written like a Chinese to
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    English so the Chinese why do I bring
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    that up because that's one dude on
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    Twitter one one troll account on Twitter
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    right one propaganda account I really
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    shouldn't call it a troll it's a
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    propaganda account from the Chinese
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    government why why would what is that
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    what is that signal that signals that
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    the Chinese have an interest in running
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    these influence operations and have had
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    this interest now you can combine that
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    with the fact so that's one guy on
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    Twitter or one bot account or whatever
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    it is one troll account probably some
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    dude in prison trying to work off a
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    sentence in China actually um so what
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    because that's how cool the CCP is so
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    and that's OB obviously uh sarcasm on
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    the word cool um they're evil so what
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    what does that signal well the Chinese
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    have a $16 billion a year military
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    budget to do influence campaigns on
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    Western speak and Western countries and
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    English-speaking countries $16 billion
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    dollars a year primarily the United
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    States of America so if you think that
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    there's just one of those accounts
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    you're out of your mind they're all over
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    the place so the Chinese basically have
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    figured out the CCP has figured out how
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    to pour gasoline on all of this now the
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    question is how much of this is
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    maoism well some um these are maist
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    techniques that they're using that kind
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    of divide the population you know
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    there's the right side of the issue
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    wrong side of the issue and the only
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    valid people are on the right side of
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    the issue and everybody else it's like
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    they are trash they don't have a soul
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    that was actually a Mal quote to have
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    the wrong political orientations like
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    not having a soul we do the whole um
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    politics of compliance divide and
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    conquer game that the maoists did so
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    these are maist techniques but the fact
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    of the matter is that there is an
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    overarching goal as well
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    and this is going to ENT play on both
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    sides that overarching goal is that the
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    system you see in China which I will
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    refer to henceforth as the China model
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    which is derived from not maai dong
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    thought but dong sha ping Theory so dung
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    shaing wasn't the immediate successor
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    but the ultimate successor to mauo after
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    he died in the 70s and um he had a
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    completely different model which
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    literally hybridized communism and
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    fascism in order to have productivity in
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    China be Unleashed and that's the model
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    that he helped get built out with Henry
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    Kissinger as it turns out and David
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    Rockefeller and lots of bad Americans um
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    but this model has become the it was
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    beta tested in China following Mao's
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    death with the intention of making it
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    the model for the whole world now we
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    copy this with our ESG proposals so what
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    you'll find is that these Fellas on the
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    woke right are always talking about
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    stupid cultural issues and wanting to
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    clamp down on power to have stupid
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    cultural
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    agendas but they don't talk about ESG
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    they don't actually talk about the real
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    problems that are actually causing this
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    ESG was developed at the United Nations
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    was picked up in conjunction with the
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    world economic forum and obviously Black
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    Rock has become the point runner on that
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    with the with also Vanguard State Street
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    and the other huge uh passive investment
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    firms and what they are doing is forcing
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    the Chinese economic model onto the west
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    but they're doing so in a way that
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    actually hamstrings the West in its
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    ability to compete with China while uh
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    advantaging China and actually pouring
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    money into CH so we have these woke
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    right guys running around blathering
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    about cultural issues that mostly would
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    go away if we just turn the propaganda
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    machine off in other words repeal the
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    Smith month modernization act they're
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    running around blathering about these
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    cultural issues as though that's the you
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    know the root of the problem when the
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    root of the problem is actually that
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    there's a CCP un World economic Forum
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    Alliance to try to destroy our freaking
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    country it's a completely different
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    problem and the goal is to install the
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    Chinese system throughout the world and
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    also to crash the Western model and
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    who's going to rise to through that
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    bricks and which trolls are the ones
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    that are out on the internet defending
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    the woke right stuff bricks trolls it's
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    almost all bricks stuff it's almost all
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    pro bricks well bricks is funny because
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    the Chinese aren't stupid they're the
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    most conniving people on the planet the
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    CCP people are awfully strategic they're
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    cunning like Mar what like ma was
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    cunning do you think Russia is going to
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    be allowed to come out on top in bricks
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    no bricks breaks the west and then once
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    once the west through breaking the US
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    dollar and once the West is broken china
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    betrays every one of them and becomes
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    the global hedgemon this is actually a
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    very very simple model to see how it's
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    going to work it won't be
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    Brazil yeah right yeah South Africa
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    maybe maybe South Africa is gonna like
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    Run the World um or India yeah right um
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    I wonder which country is actually I
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    mean there's there would be a showdown
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    between China and Russia but Chinese are
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    more numerous the Chinese are more
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    advanced chinesee have a far far bigger
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    economy uh that's not really that tricky
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    to see how that goes unless it just goes
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    to nuclear war um in which case you know
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    game over um so not a pretty picture
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    here right and those are the trolls
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    supporting the woke right and the goal
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    is to install this Chinese system that
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    the woke right don't even oppose and
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    they distract us from dealing with by
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    blathering on about whether or not
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    people have like strong enough
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    eschatological views about Christianity
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    in the right way it's like holy crap
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    what are you doing what are we doing why
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    is this such a huge issue and it's it's
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    not just uh like these these troll
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    accounts on Twitter I think a great
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    example of this is uh black myth Wukong
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    the the video game made in China by
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    funded by tens Cent lots of State
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    connections there and they pushed that
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    and you had so many people online saying
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    this message that oh this game isn't
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    woke this game like they put out
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    messages saying don't talk about
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    feminism when you're playing this game
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    and it just feeds into this anti-woke
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    left messaging and people suddenly
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    people are like hey you know at least
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    China isn't uh you know drag queen Story
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    Hour oh I see those arguments all the
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    time I see them Pro Russia and I see in
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    Pro China and then we come back to the
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    to the Crux of that bricks right so I'm
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    watching like right-wing accounts on
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    Instagram like big influencers on
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    Instagram with hundreds of thousands
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    which is a lot on Instagram hundreds of
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    thousands of followers post in videos of
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    like Russian women talking about how the
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    state pays all of their bills the state
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    pays you know they three years or five
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    years or three years I think of full
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    maternity leave and how the state pays
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    for it the state pays you to have
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    children the state does this the state
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    does that the state does this I'm like
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    that's friend family-friendly socialism
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    why are you sharing pro-russian
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    socialist propaganda to an American
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    based conservative audience that's
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    appealing to this like pro-natalist view
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    that goes against the anti-natalist view
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    like holy crap what is going on right so
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    that's blatant Russian propaganda that
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    I'm seeing almost every day if I open my
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    freaking Instagram they don't see as
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    much of that specifically on Twitter but
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    I see tons of pro Putin stuff I see tons
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    of pro- Russia stuff um people are not
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    as eager to be pro-china explicitly but
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    they will jump in and say things like
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    what you said you know that at least
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    they are you know against the woke left
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    at least they understand that the woke
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    left is the problem and it's like
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    gentlemen
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    they are playing you they are playing
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    you that is called playing both ends
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    against the middle that is an old tactic
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    and um they are playing you hard and so
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    yeah this is I mean I don't know how
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    much of this is propped up by China
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    influ Chinese influence money but I
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    would best bet it's a a fair amount I
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    know that there are American funders I
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    am virtually certain there were Russian
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    funders given how much of it's anti-jew
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    I would be shocked if they're not qari
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    funders and other Middle Eastern funders
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    this stinks of gigantic foreign
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    influence off to split the right at an
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    extremely important and also very
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    vulnerable moment given we all know
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    they're going to make the Trump
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    Administration as hard for Trump as
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    possible with if they can't create
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    domestic crises they're going to create
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    World crises so he's constantly busy
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    can't deliver on his domestic agenda and
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    meanwhile we have this problem going on
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    that was just one piece of our almost
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    2hour long interview with Dr James
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    Lindsay we've made the whole thing
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    next time
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Is China Behind the Woke Right? | Interview with James Lindsay
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