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#Wokeism, #Illiberalism and the #China model: How the West has lost its way @nfergus

Niall Ferguson on the cultural despair in American institutions [as they] "increasingly succumb to the plague of 'wokeism' — an illiberal ideology that originated on elite campuses but is now prevalent everywhere from Californian public schools to the Central Intelligence Agency."

He continues, "I am not so gloomy, because I believe that woke ideas are profoundly unpopular with the electorate as a whole and that the Democrats' adoption of slogans such as 'anti-racism' and 'diversity, equity and inclusion' will ultimately backfire when it becomes clear to more people what they mean in practice."

"There is a kind of low-level totalitarianism detectable in many institutions today — from elite universities to newspapers, publishers and technology companies — which reveals that practices such as informing, denunciation and defamation can all flourish even in the absence of a one-party dictatorship."

The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?

Niall Ferguson