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Why read the musings of a former critical social justice adherent?

Deprogramming myself after being a warden of woke.

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Anuradha Pandey
Dec 29, 2023
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Why I write for a hitherto non-existent audience

I’m not anyone of public import. I’m simply a former adherent of identity leftism who’s self-deprogramming and wishes to do it through writing. I wish to explore the effects of millennial ideological culture on the political and individual expression of those under forty-five. These are the people who drive cultural production and, therefore, exert an outsize influence on social order, even as they proclaim to dismantle old structures and replace them with restrictions on speech and behavior that are sold as ‘liberation’. What is old is always new again. I hope that this public introspection on the culture among the knowledge worker class gives more regular people intellectual ammunition to resist what I see as a worldview riddled with illogic and illiberalism, and I’m especially speaking to those whom this paradigm considers marginalized.

To be sure, my conclusions (and writing) are rather incendiary, and they are not for those who won’t…

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