The Micro-Virgin Account

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I think the micro-virgin accounts and the idea conforms to many people's experience. It helps them understand aspects of their experience that they feel was denied to them under the sort of previous dispensation. So I don't think we've worked out in this conversation yet what it is that's appealing to them about this intellectual movement or this way of seeing the world. But you know one thing that I'm missing in all of this discussion which is in philosophy we have a term of rationality construction right where you're trying to give the most systematic and coherent version of somebody's thought rather than before does it actually presents itself.

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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