He’s ‘dark and divisive’, the Treasurer told the ABC. [...] Kaufmann locates a first ‘culture war’ in the 1960s - the rise of liberal mores around sex and sexuality. [...] The woke ‘left’ swamps the right, in academia and media, though that ‘doesn’t reflect’ wider society. [...] It represents, a gulf between elite thought and governance, and the reasonable needs and concerns of voters. [...] In the US, there’s black scholar Musa Al-Gharbi’s upcoming We have never been woke: ‘How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalised and disadvantaged.’ The Trudeau-Albanese climate bromance highlights another aspect of wokeness.
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Table of Contents
- Kaufmanns Taboo argues that wokeness or progressive extremism is no joke but a dangerous cultural schism between elite governance and ordinary voters. 1
- Kaufmann and wokeness 1
- Whiteshift 1
- Taboo 1
- Woke across wealthy nations 2
- Taboo 2
- Woke consequences and remedies 3
- Taboo 3
- Free Speech Political Neutrality Equivalent Action People are the Policy Federalist Society for the Bureaucracy NRA for the Culture War 3
- The wrap climate woke 4
- Taboo 4
- We have never been woke 4
- Pace 4
- Taboo How making race sacred produced a cultural revolution The Third Awokening A 12-point plan for rolling back progressive extremism 5
