#1280 Rafael Ruiz: Is "Woke" Good, Actually?

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Rafael Ruiz. He's a philosophy PhD student at the London School of Economics, and today we're focusing mostly on his sub-stack post titled Being Woke is Good, actually, and we're also going to talk about moral progress. So, Rafael, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much. I'm a really big fan of of your of your podcast. I've been watching for years, so I'm really excited to be here. Well, thank you.

So let's start with the definition here. What does the term woke really mean? How would you characterize it? I mean, I'll also because I wanted to ask you this question also, and I think this is also something you were end up addressing in your Substack post, but uh, I mean, the way we hear the term woke used particularly by people on the right nowadays, I mean, it's almost meaningless or it means something like, oh, anything that is progressive or leftist, something like that.

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