The Importance of Input Versus Intent in the Success Ideology

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A fight against any element of it is part of a good fight and should be encouraged. It's because reason itself within this ideology is portrayed as one of those incentive structures, norms, customs and precedents that are fatally integrated into these forms of white domination. And you know this all proceeds from the experiences that people have had in the past where there was a monopoly on reason held upon a certain group of people. The story is legitimacy and imposes silence upon those who are unable to speak in its language.

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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