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232: Susan Neiman: There’s nothing left-wing about wokeness

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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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