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What is the opposite of woke6/4/2023 Perhaps, it followed, the real goal of literary studies should be to combat white supremacy perhaps, for that matter, literary studies’ focus on the value of literature was itself a symptom of white supremacy, and the discipline needed to be abolished altogether, or at least reimagined entirely. Many of the things said by professors supposedly in favor of racial justice turned out, when examined closely, to mean the opposite. A little while later, the notion took hold that literary studies was not only insufficiently concerned with racial justice, but was actually white supremacist in its outlook and operations. All of these have some explanatory relevance, but none fully accounts for the parallel developments that have occurred in seemingly disparate settings.Ĭonsider two examples, different in their scale and impact, but betraying a certain formal similarity.Īround 2014, one began to hear that the uniformly progressive inhabitants of the academic humanities-people who thought, wrote, and spoke as much about racial justice as perhaps anyone in human history-were insufficiently concerned with the problem of race. Woke discourse is confusing because so many of its goals are indeed shared by progressives everywhere. Debate has raged over what is driving it prime suspects include technology, economics, and racial resentment. It’s a bitter piece of irony that today’s Right-wing tribalists today find it easier to make common cause than those on the Left whose commitments traditionally stemmed from universalism, whether they recognise it or not. This process has affected both the left and the right. Over the past eight or so years, a process of political radicalization has occurred that is perhaps unique in the history of the nation in its speed, scale, and scope.
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