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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    that’s because “wokeism” has become a right wing dogwhistle for basically ‘anything that forces us to confront our shitty and outdated ideas’.

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      They did the same thing with “social justice” before that and “political correctness” before that. Words don’t mean the same thing to conservatives.