On this stream: Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein documents, gives unbelievable defense - Tariq Habash resigns in protest from Biden administration - Norm Finkelstein defends Harvard President Claudine Gay - and more.Due Dissidence is a reader-supported publication.
"Wokism is not populist: it is elite gatekeeping. It is a new way to establish very arcane rituals, phrases and secret handshakes to separate the elect from the unwashed masses. It is not a popular movement: it’s an elitist movement. It’s simply a way for a new generation to establish its entitlement to its position. It’s a new form of aristocratic virtue-signalling.”
"Wokism is not populist: it is elite gatekeeping. It is a new way to establish very arcane rituals, phrases and secret handshakes to separate the elect from the unwashed masses. It is not a popular movement: it’s an elitist movement. It’s simply a way for a new generation to establish its entitlement to its position. It’s a new form of aristocratic virtue-signalling.”
"There's nothing of substance beneath the shiny veneer of American capitalism, or even of Western liberalism, for that matter."