Iam not only politically active, but often, as they say, also perceived as politically radioactive. Witness the critical reactions to my writing in these pages. Yet too often, critics of my anti- “woke” stances replicate precisely the ideological structures that are the target of my polemics. Along the way, they disclose, inadvertently or otherwise, the bankruptcy of the woke left.
The fundamental upshot of these critiques—whether they aim to vindicate #MeToo, woke-ism, or contemporary gender ideology—is that criticizing the repressive norms associated with these movements represents a sort of regression, an effort to suppress recent progressive achievements that we neither can nor should wish to “go back behind of.” I disagree—fiercely.
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