Is the Successor Ideology the New Dispensation That Controls Our Political Intellectual Life?

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The successor ideology implies that the successor will in fact win and succeed by definition if it succeeds onto what came before that means that it's going to triumph. I've always said that cancel culture sort of represents an as yet unconsemitable to power right like what they ultimately seek is law reform. What they ultimately sought is the kind of policing of thought that the Title IX regime within universities ended up moving into. There are a lot of people who actually have a commitment to racial equality and so on who are pushing against it. But I do think that the counter reaction will come precisely because I don't think a pure instantiation of a success ideology is workable.

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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