The Microaggression Account

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There are very few Asian Americans who fit uneasily within the sort of American racial imaginary. They're subject to certain stereotypes and also subject to this thing that I ended up writing about in a Harper's piece. The microvition is an attempt to kind of theorize and above all operational lines and intervention into the sphere of like daily intimate life into the racially inflected status politics of everyday life by creating this penalty where you can intervene or you can punish people for their underlying psychological propensities.

Wesley Yang is one of the America’s leading essayists. From “Paper Tigers,” his examination of why Asian-Americans remain underrepresented in leaderships positions, to “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” his meditation on the shooter who killed 33 people at Virginia Tech, he has traced America’s shifting understanding of race.

But over the past years, the focus of Yang’s work has subtly shifted. He is now trying to chronicle and explain what he calls the “successor ideology,” the constellation of ideas that seek to usurp liberalism, and which others have called by such names as “wokeness” or “social justice.”

In the latest episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Wesley Yang discuss the precise definition of the successor ideology; the need for genuine empathy when exchanging ideas; and what forms of cultural sensitivity are truly inclusive as opposed to alienating

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