Why It’s Wrong to Write of a Woke Right by Russell Blackford
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Why It’s Wrong to Write of a Woke Right by Russell Blackford
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Russell Blackford critiques the term “woke right,” arguing that while it draws a superficial analogy between progressive “wokeness” and certain right-wing behaviors, it obscures the Right’s long-standing history of intolerance, censorship, and identity-based politics.
Read this article and find accompanying references at:
https://secularhumanism.org/2025/07/why-its-wrong-to-write-of-a-woke-right/
About the Author: Russell Blackford is a conjoint senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and a regular columnist for Free Inquiry. His latest book, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (2019), is published by Bloomsbury Academic.
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