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I’m not sure about the prevalence of woke in society or the definition of it, but i think it’s one of those things of which you can say, ‘I know it when I see it ‘. For instance, my niece recently walked out on a discussion with…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think that, in my example, the woke ideologues are actually worthy of the treatment that they are unjustly meting out on others. For they are being morally blind and perverse — I mean to set this bar high, but not too…

According to me: for an action to be a wronging of a person is for it to be an action worthy of victim resentment. And similarly: for an action (at least usually a wronging of a person) to be morally wrong is for it to be an action worthy of observer indignation. So I take…

In reply to mlyoung57. I guess I don’t really see how that connects with my argument. Suppose someone defines “being cool” as “hating work on principle.” He then seizes on the fact that lots of people are quitting their jo…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The vice of motivated moral certainty (in a context of moral contestability) and of tending to settle public moral disputes with moral-psychological incentives (or outright bullying) at the expense of mutual respect and reaso…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I can’t help adding one more thing. Collier gives the impression that her experiences at U Michigan Med School were representative, so that all hospitals are as woke as the one she worked at. That claim is absolute nons…