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John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt – I Feel, Therefore I Am

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The Problem With Wokeism

Wokeism is the idea that subjective belief. trumps, whatever objective verifiable evidence may be brought against it. For these social justice warriors, if you sincerely and passionately believe in injustice as being done, any effort to determine whether that belief corresponds with reality is a further injustice. The first time I heard it referred to that way, I think was Andrew Sullivan talking about the great awakening, which I think sets it in its past well. But fundamentally, the methodology employed by the Woke,. it is a direct assault on enlightenment values of rational inquiry, socio-religious tolerance, and individual rights.

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