#522 - Andrew Doyle - Is Social Justice A Religion?

<p>Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, host of GB News, a comedian and a writer.</p> <p>There are some new puritans in town. They have their own sacred texts, their own high priests, blasphemy, unspeakable words, rites of passage, heathens and practises of sacrilege. So much so that the behaviour of many social justice activists in 2022 seems to echo very closely the behaviour of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.</p> <p>Expect to learn why Ben Shapiro is a terrifying man, whether not calling me hot makes you a bigot, why social justice captures smart people just as much as stupid people, why tyrannies are particularly dangerous when they claim to help the oppressed, whether it's accurate to characterise the culture war as left vs right and much more...</p> <p><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Sponsors:</strong></p> <p class="p1">Get 15% discount on all VERSO’s products at <a href= "https://ver.so/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://ver.so/modernwisdom</span></a> (use code: MW15)</p> <p class="p1">Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at <a href= "https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM"><span class= "s1">https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM</span></a> (use code MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Get 10% discount on your first month from BetterHelp at <a href="https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (discount automatically applied)</p> <p class="p1"><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Extra Stuff:</strong></p> <p>Buy The New Puritans - <a href= "https://amzn.to/3B1SqgW">https://amzn.to/3B1SqgW</a> </p> <p>Follow Andrew on Twitter - <a href= "https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com">https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com</a> </p> <p><a href="https://chriswillx.com/books/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Get my free R