Category: Wokery
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Down with Tobacco, Up with Marijuana
Why down with the first (I allude to the menthol cigarette ban) and up with the second? Why the differential treatment and the misplaced moral enthusiasm? The locoweed I smoked with band members in the late '60s was tame stuff, poor in tetrahydrocannabinol as compared to the potent THC-rich product on the market today. Since…
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Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism
Here are some half-baked thoughts that perhaps Vito C. and Ed B. can help me formulate. The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (which I take to include both the Old Left and the New Left). I want to understand the similarities and the differences. GCWL versus SHL…
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The Ersatz Religion of ‘Wokery’: What is to be done?
The short answer is that the cure for an ersatz religion is genuine religion. Colin Dueck in a review of Joshua Mitchell: So, what is to be done? Mitchell’s answer in American Awakening is the observation that an essentially theological problem requires a theological solution. If the destructive ersatz religion of left-wing identity politics rests…