A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke

Helen Pluckrose

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO WE HAVE Never Been Woke, having used some of the data Musa al-Gharbi had gathered for it in my last book. An empirical sociologist providing measurements of the rise and — hopefully — the beginning of the fall of “wokeness”, as well as wider societal attitudes and reactions to the phenomenon, would be very useful. Unfortunately, large sections of the book do not seem to have been written by an empirical sociologist, but are primarily a polemic against almost all cultural commentators, as well as seemingly the entirety of To this end, al-Gharbi develops the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu on italists are people, including al-Gharbi himself, who make a living in the realm of ideas, rhetoric, data, images, narratives and symbols, and who take these very…

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