How Keri Smith ESCAPED the Woke Cult | Conversations with Peter Boghossian
Keri Smith says she was in a cult for twenty years. It wasn’t NXIVM, Peoples Temple, or Heaven’s Gate, but something more widespread and insidious. Keri was a self-described Social Justice Warrior.
Peter Boghossian talks to Keri about how Women’s Studies classes at Duke University provided the gateway to her conversion through new words, new definitions, and exposure to oft-repeated axioms. Keri describes her former self as a “woke evangelist,” spreading newfound truths about the patriarchy and righteous censorship. She became a Wikipedia editor to “correct history” and limited her media consumption to news, books, and speakers approved by the ideology.
Keri lost friends and job opportunities when she left the Social Justice tribe, but she emerged with valuable experience. She shares advice about how to help others obtain freedom from illiberal dogma. Spoiler Alert: Facts aren’t enough to break the spell.
Keri Smith is the host of Deprogrammed with Keri Smith where she interviews notable thinkers like Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, William Allen, Samuel Sey, Charles Murray, Barbara Kay, and Dr. Bret Weinstein You can find her writing in Human Events, Fee.org, and The Dissenters Project, a collection of essays on the price of dissent in the current cultural climate. Keri has been a guest on many podcasts including Timcast, Nerdrotic, Triggernometry, and Real Talk with Zuby. She recently hosted Mindsfest 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Deprogrammed with Keri Smith: @RealKeriSmith / https://rss.com/podcasts/kerismith/
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:17 Keri's previous beliefs
9:05 How Keri escaped Social Justice Ideology
18:03 Wikipedia editing
21:05 How Keri is different now
26:34 How to "wake the woke" on a mass scale
40:25 Keri role-plays as her former woke self (& debrief)
47:10 Commonalities of people who escape woke
51:42 Keri's journey to Christianity
1:00:00 "The wrong side of history"
1:06:30 Civility Dinners / Book Club
1:13:03 Keri's message to the woke
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