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Not a week goes by without them making the news: the "woke", these new social justice activists, who claim to purge the West of its racist and patriarchal unconscious, are multiplying the outbursts. One day, it is books that are burned in Canada because they are considered offensive to minorities, the other, it is a British orchestra of classical music which sends 14 white musicians to make room for "diversity". But what are the ideological roots of this current? In a remarkable work, the American intellectuals James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose dissect the genealogy of a movement which, starting from universities, is colonizing the world of business, the arts and politics. According to them,these "intellectual deceptions" find their source in the "postmodernism" of the 1970s and its imperative of deconstruction. To read to understand everything in the jargon of "intersectionals" and other theorists
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