The Ideology of Antisemitism

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It could be psychologically disinhibiting or dysfunctional for the individual to sort of go through life always assuming the worst of everyone at all times. There's an intersubjective process at work here where you help to create your own realities and so many of the people who are most insistently committed to this ideology ended up committed to the ideology precisely because they did follow this cascade that I described. We're able to consistently exploit the basic asymmetry that is that worked behind the ideological succession which is that some people care a lot more about this than other people.

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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