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#248: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part I

Philipp Kneis

I have been agonizing about what the anti-wokeness complaints and critiques are all about. What about “woke” is offensive or problematic? To be “woke” means to be “awake” to the danger of racist discrimination, that is all. That is how the word has functioned since at least the 1920s, until it became more popularized in… Continue reading #248: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part I

#19: “Believe all Women”

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Here we go again. A leading public figure is accused of untoward behavior towards a woman, but it seems politically expedient by some to not look into that behavior too closely for obviously political considerations. Where the rallying cry used to be "Believe all Women", this call seems muted now, somehow less relevant. Now, in… Continue reading #19: “Believe all Women”