Progressive Anti-Wokery

[Jim Rutt]

This is a vein I've been working:

I recently did two episodes of my podcast where authors critiqued Wokery from a progressive perspective.  Philosopher  Susan Neumann is from an American perspective, quite “left”.  A full on socialist.  She makes a strong case in her book Left Is Not Woke that Wokery is a gross betrayal of the left’s basis in universal humanism, while pointing out that the right that has historically defended particularism and ethnic chauvinism.

https://www.jimruttshow.com/susan-neiman/


Next up was Yascha Mounk.

I interviewed him last week on his new book (published yesterday) The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power.

https://www.jimruttshow.com/yascha-mounk/

Both guests, not surprisingly, are advocates for The Enlightenment.  

While their perspectives on the roots of Wokery differ a bit, it is rejection of Enlightenment values that strikes me as the unifying principle of Wokery.