I Repeat

More about being woke or wokery. In his article ‘Over het gevaar van de woke-inquisitie en de cancel culture’ (English: About the danger of the woke inquisition and the cancel culture) Floris van den Berg discusses these books:

• Haidt and Lukianoff, ‘The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure’ (2018).
• Scruton, ‘Fools, Frauds and Firebrands. Thinkers of the Left’ (2019).
• Pluckrose and Lindsay, ‘Cynical Theories. How universities made everything about race, gender, and indentity – and why this harms everybody’  (2020).
  

A reflection on the differences between science and wokery: 

How to deal with people with a woke mindset? See if you can learn something from them, reflect on history, historical heritage, the moral presuppositions in language and what science is and why it works. Be open to rational criticism and substantiated arguments. I repeat: be open, reflect and use arguments.

P.S. Source article: here.