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Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman

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The Connection Between Vocation and Nationhood

I wonder if in this context, I wonder why is nationhood even on your radar? Why are you thinking about that in terms of vocation? I mean, I talk about tribalism. And nationalism is, I suppose, the political form of tribalism. The reductio-out absurdism of the tribalism of the woke, including basing tribalism on victimhood, is Benjamin Netanyahu. Anyone who denies that is simply contributing to our victimhood by being anti-Semitic. Obviously, my guess is that anybody who could be called woke is not going to explicitly support the government of Israel in any way, shape or form.

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