Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics
Julie Burchill, "Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics"
English | ISBN: 1680532332 | 2021 | 266 pages | EPUB | 1142 KB
English | ISBN: 1680532332 | 2021 | 266 pages | EPUB | 1142 KB
In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between then and now, as the regiments of Woke took over; an irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon. Raised in a Communist household and a lifelong Labour voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and visions - rather than a childish world of villains and victims.
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