Oxford Union Debate: “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far”

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.”

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