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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-12-28 · 90 min · 16,107 words

The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions

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I need to define what I mean by woke, which is actually something quite discreet, which is the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender, and sexual identity groups. That's woke. I don't think making a group sacred is a good idea. What we are facing now is a problem of political discrimination. People in filter bubbles who don't ever encounter the other opinion.

Now, where are those filter bubbles most extreme now? I think I would argue that highly educated liberals live in some of the most politically homogenous environments. Erin Burton, we've had, you know, there was a woman who was a mother, a young mother who got thr has been thrown in jail for 31 months for a tweet, which she later deleted and apologized for. Am I a denier? Am I a genocide denier?

I mean, Canada is the place that's lost its mind the most on this. There was this claim, uh, oh, there's 215 indigenous children buried in the graveyard in this school, this mass grave. Somebody claimed through some ground penetrating radar to have seen these disturbances or whatever. The long and the short of it is There are no bodies there.

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