On 2022-11-19 the Oxford Union Society held a debate on the motion “This House believes woke culture has gone too far.” Video of the eight speeches for and against the proposition was finally released on 2023-01-12 and are presented below. After the arguments, a vote was taken, whose results I have shown in a spoiler block after the last video in case you’d like to make up your own mind who won before seeing the outcome: click to display.
Introduction and Pro: Vedika Rastogi (Student)
Introduction and Against: Alex Jackson (Student)
Pro: Toby Young (Founder of the Free Speech Union and Associate Editor of the Spectator)
Against: Yasmin Benoit (Model and asexual activist)
Pro: Tommy Nguyen (Student)
Against: James Lindsay (Publisher, New Discourses, Author of The Marxification of Education)
Pro: Konstantin Kisin (Satirist and podcast host)
Against: Benjamin Butterworth (Journalist, the Independent)
Results: (Click to display.)
The Union voted 89–60 in favour of the motion “This House believes woke culture has gone too far.”