Bret Weinstein Warns of Wokeism’s Impact on Academic Freedom How it Stems from Systemic Betrayal

Dr. Bret Weinstein argues that the rise of wokeism and the “woke revolution” is rooted in educational institutions’ systemic betrayal of students.

“The woke revolution, I think, is a tragic story… I was chased out of a job that I loved by a bunch of people who accused me of things that I wasn’t guilty of… how did they end up there? They ended up there because they were betrayed.”

He contends that universities and colleges have failed to deliver on their promise of providing students with the skills and knowledge necessary for success in the real world, instead offering programs and ideologies that leave them ill-equipped.

“Where is the American university that stood up and said, I’m sorry, but men can’t become women, right? They can live as women. They can dress as women. There are surgeries, there are pharmaceuticals. There’s nothing you can do that takes your birth sex and changes it to the opposite one. Not a single university said that anywhere. This is bizarre.”

According to Dr. Weinstein, this systemic betrayal has created a generation of students who are more adept at demanding things from the system rather than contributing to it, fundamentally altering the relationship between education and societal progress.