Taboo

by Eric Kaufmann

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Woke is not a fad but a cultural revolution--a movement that can only be stopped by a drastic intervention in our institutions and culture.We in the West are in the third wave of cultural-left ideological enthusiasm. Each "Awokening" has crested, fallen a little, consolidated, then surged again to reach a higher level. The cumulative result is an elite creed which has produced a crime wave, a worsening education system, chaos at the border, and social division. Fired by a cultural socialism show more that puts equal results and emotional protection for minorities at the center of their moral universe, today's young people are twice as intolerant of conservative speech as older generations. These young people will be the median voters and employees of tomorrow, leading and controlling the country. Woke cultural socialism is not the classical liberalism of the American Constitution, but a modern "majorities bad, minorities good" Left-liberalism. It is powered by a set of 'liberal' emotional attachments rather than liberal principles. These underpin a moral panic about whites and males combined with a starry-eyed patronizing approach to minorities.Today's woke extremism is not a repudiation of liberalism, but a perverse extension of it. Our only way out is to use elected, constitutional, government power to break the grip of wokeness in our institutions and schools, steering them toward neutrality and classical liberalism. To do so, the conservative and moderate majority must place culture front and center and spare no effort to win the battle of ideas. Nothing less than the future of our civilization depends on it. show less

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Eric Kaufmann
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Eric Kaufmann has been researching immigration, religion, and national identity for more than twenty years. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, he was born in Hong Kong and spent eight years in Tokyo and is now professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. His previous books include Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? show more and The Rise and Fait of Anglo-America. show less

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Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy
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305.8 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups
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JC591 .K384 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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