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Why Wokeness Refuses to be Named

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Why Wokeness Refuses to be Named

How do you criticize something that doesn’t exist?

Shadi Hamid
Feb 14, 2022
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Why Wokeness Refuses to be Named

What we name political movements—particularly the ones we don't like—has always intrigued me. Should Islamists be called "Islamists"? After all, it's a made-up word, and it has that "-ism" at the end, which makes it sound like one is accusing the people in question of making Islam into an ideological project. But that's precisely what they're doing, and…

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