August 6, 2020 Featured, Opinion, Wokeism 0

How ‘Wokeness’ Is a Product of Marxism

Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / August 02, 2020 / 261 Comments

“Anti-racism training is a con,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez. “These consultants get paid exorbitant amounts of money. Often these fees come from taxpayer funds.” (Photo: Luis Alvarez/Getty Images)

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“Wokeness” has become the nomenclature for the ideology or mentality of radical leftist activists on college campuses, at protests, and on social media.

But wokeness has not been limited to just a handful of activists. It’s becoming a dominant mindset in the American workplace, in both the public and private sectors, as a method to promote “anti-racism.”

A Heritage Foundation panel on July 24 addressed first what wokeness actually is, but also how it has crept into corporate boardrooms and why it’s such a problem.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6mwDvEqpI0%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Angela Sailor, vice president of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation, said that “pervasive trends under the guise of equality makes diversity training in government, and corporate America, and schools, destructive, divisive, and harmful.”

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James Lindsay, the co-author of a forthcoming book, “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody,” says wokeness is actually a combination of many different ideas.

“Wokeness is a fusion of the critical theory school of neo-Marxism, which is a form of identity politics, and radical activism that has a very particular worldview that separates the world into liberationists versus oppressors or oppressed versus oppressors,” said Lindsay, whose book is set for release Aug. 25.