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Pill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek vs Wokeness

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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I Don't Think That's the Argument.

I don't think that his claim is they're not experiencing real racism. I'm pretty sure he would say they are. The woke awaken us to racism and sexism precisely to enable us to go on sleeping. They show us certain realities so that we can go on ignoring the true roots and depth of our racial and sexual traumas. It's exactly the same with much of the ongoing woke movement. Anti-wokeness focuses on its exceptional images and its cherry-picked examples, says Zhejak.

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