In her latest blog post Helen Plucrose spends some time analyzing the current state of criticsl social justice ideology known as “woke”. She notes that the term itself has multiple meanings and that we are seeing equally noxoious ill-liberalism on the right, and thus must be careful that our criticsm of left wing illerbalism does not empower or be seen as supportive of right wing illerbalism.
She writes ” The priority for liberals on both the left and the right should not be simply to react to the illiberalism of the other side. That is certainly important, but we cannot build a more truth-centred, liberal society merely by pointing out what makes our opponents bad. We must also confront what prevents our own side from being as principled, persuasive and worthy of support as it could be. A healthy society is one in which both sides strive not only to expose the failings of their opponents but to make themselves more liberal, more trustworthy and more deserving of public confidence.”
