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s05e44 | Live with James Lindsay: Woke Gnosticism and the Oxford Debate

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Drag Queen Story Hour Is an Initiation Right Into Alternate Modes of Kinship and Living Clearly

Drag queen story hour is a preparatory introduction to alternate modes of kinship and living clearly. Sounds like an initiation right into what queer Gnosticism, the idea that you could be other than the body that you live in. And by the way, you're super oppressed. That's the motivator. If you can get kids to believe it doesn't matter, they don't have to know a word about Gnosticism. It would probably be counterproductive for them to know about any of the religious aspects of this.

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