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

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The Three Blocks of Wokeness

I think it's much more important right now to get behind the ideas that are fueling woke excess. There is a danger in relation to wokeness where we sit around lamenting extreme manifestations of it, rather than thinking about the philosophical underpinnings of the shift on the left. The book is also incredibly accessible and very readable for someone who wants an introduction to what wokeness means. I want to ask you about all three of those and just get a bit more of a sense of why you thought they were important.

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