‘Woke’: roots and fruits
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Why woke is the ruling ideology, by Aris Roussinos, unherd
Revolt against coerced conformity, by Melanie Phillips: Up to 40 Conservative MPs refuse to accept “unconscious bias training”.
Nietzsche Was Right: In his review of Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’, Tim Keller argues that Holland’s final question in the book, whether society can stay committed to values after abandoning the beliefs about the world on which the values were based, was answered by Nietzsche: if God is dead, then “there can be no moral absolutes, and life must be, if anything, about power and the mastery of others, not about love.”
How ‘Diversity’ Became Its Own Pagan Religion, by William S Smith, The American Conservative
Kulturkampf: Britain’s capitulation to cultural Marxism, by Ben Harris-Quinney, Bournbrook:
Confessions of a student Marxist, by Tobias Phibbs, UnHerd
Do ‘white privilege’ and ‘critical race theory’ policies reduce racism? by Richard D Land, Christian Post
The ‘sympathetic magic’ of identity politics has cast an awful spell, by Daniel Hannon, CapX
Christian girls are the wrong kind of victims, by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, The Conservative Woman
Standing up to the Mob, by Gavin Ashenden
The self-flagellating CofE’s inexplicable obsession with race, by Jeffrey Williams, The Conservative Woman:
The Return of Fascism to the West, by David Robertson, The Wee Flea
Woke Repentance, by Carl R Trueman, First Things: “The church does need to repent. But repentances that are oriented toward the world rather than God—and reflective not of the whole counsel of God but of the immediate moral priorities of this present age—seem designed to enhance our status in the world rather than truly abase us before a holy God.”
Switching the code for social harmony, by Melanie Phillips
How wokeness conquered the academy, by Joanna Williams, spiked
‘Woke US churches’ decline while African brethren boom by William Huang, MercatorNet:
The Philosophy Of Wokeness: Tracing The Intellectual Heritage Of The Modern Left, The Federalist
Why is the BBC promoting identity politics? by Calvin Robinson, spiked
Woke revisionism would make our history a rubble-pile by Wallace B Henley, Christian Post
Wokeness As Post-Protestantism by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Has the Church’s Shocking Response to Black Lives Matter & Covid Shown It’s No Longer Fit for Purpose? from the New Culture Forum Channel
The Roots Of Wokeness, by Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish
Identity politics is Christianity without redemption, by Antonia Senior, UnHerd: “Identity politics has become a secular religion, and “white privilege” is one of its shibboleths.”
Why it’s time to take ‘wokeness’ seriously, by Mary Harrington, UnHerd
Deconstructing Creation and the Better Story of the Creator, by David Ould
The culture war against the past, by Frank Furedi, spiked
Don’t Divide Us – new initiatives,
From ‘Don’t Divide Us – We are Speaking Out’ – a coalition of teachers, academics, artists and other professionals from different racial backgrounds who are concerned about how a “toxic, radicalised agenda” is increasing racial division and cultural conflict.
The Left’s long march through literature, by Dr Kevin Donnelly, The Conservative Woman
‘Wokeness is being pushed on everyone’: Interview with Helen Pluckrose, spiked
On critics and bullies, by Robert P George, MercatorNet:
A critic wants to discuss an issue—to try to persuade you to change your mind or see things in a different light; a bully wants to shut down discussion.
A critic appeals to reason—your mind and conscience; a bully tries to induce fear–resorting to threats and shaming to frighten you into submission.
What Plagues the West, by Ryan T Anderson and Mary Eberstadt, Public Discourse
Book review of That Hideous Strength (new edition) by Melvin Tinker, 10ofthose.com
How LGBT Nonprofits and Their Billionaire Patrons Are Reshaping the World, by Jennifer Bilek, The American Conservative
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