
232: Susan Neiman: There’s nothing left-wing about wokeness
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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The Wake Diverges From the Left
The idea that you're only really going to deeply connect with somebody from your tribe is a nassima to what it's always meant to be on the left. Foucault, like Schmidt, who don't recognize a real distinction between justice and power. And the third way in which I think that the woke diverges from the left is it's despair, really, or cynicism about the possibility of making progress.
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