Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) | How Woke Is It?

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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed2008

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What We Think

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is about as far from 'woke' as you can get. It favors traditional viewpoints, defends free academic speech, and ignores modern identity politics entirely. If anything, it critiques a lack of viewpoint diversity in mainstream academia.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

This film focuses on the debate over intelligent design versus evolution, prioritizing argument over identity themes. Identity factors like race, gender, or sexuality aren’t central, and character portrayal is mostly about their academic roles. This keeps narrative integrity mostly intact from a non-woke perspective.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Rather than undermining traditional institutions, the film is supportive of faith, free inquiry, and dissenting voices. Religion, family, or morality are treated with respect, and the film pushes back against the dismissal of non-mainstream beliefs.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

While promoting intelligent design, it heavily critiques a perceived ideological monoculture within academia. The film portrays dissenters as silenced, but does focus mainly on its preferred perspective rather than robustly exploring all sides.

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