![]() His solution is not to go after specific examples of wokeness (as I do!) in an effort to get people to reform their movement. Stifling of opposing speech has been another consistent feature of this transformation.įinally, he says that “wokeness” isn’t under the control of any one person or a cabal, is a “runaway idea” expressing “the will of the people”, with “people” construed as “the people who need to be listened to the most.” To Chapman, this explains why the vehicles of wokeness (media, films) don’t care if they’re unpopular, and why there is virtually no dissent within the movement. ![]() The common thread of all of this is oppression what’s changed is who is the oppressor and who the oppressed. You should read it.)Īt any rate, Chapman explains how Marxism became combined with culture and then that mix became the identity politics underlying Wokeness. (The book is not a polemic, but a largely dispassionate analysis of identity politics, yet is written in an approachable way. Thrown into the mix is postmodernism, and when you add that, you see that Chapman is pretty much on the same page as Pluckrose and Lindsay in their book Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity. ![]() ![]() Speaking of Critical Race Theory, here’s freelance scholar Ryan Chapman explaining his theory (which is not his, but shared with others) that today’s Wokeism, part of which is CRT, originally arose as an outgrowth of Marxism, and then neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School. ![]()
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