Attention Economy


Friday, April 9, 2021

The Battle over “Wokeness”

The U.S. and British right ramp up the war on ‘wokeness’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/09/woke-wars-united-states-britain/
Grievance over “wokeness” and “cancel culture” — two amorphous terms, with the former now often invoked as a pejorative for overzealous left-wing dogmatism, usually around issues of identity, and the latter as a condemnation of liberal censoriousness and intolerance — is now the coin of the realm on right-wing U.S. media. It’s also driving a slate of Republican legislative initiatives, including bills to ban the teaching of critical race theory in certain public institutions and control the way schools instruct American history”.