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About This Book
Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both sides are colluding in a reactionary politics that is as self-defeating as it is divisive. Can the Left escape this extremism and stay true to the progressive ideals it once professed?
In this provocative book, Umut ĂzkĂ˝rĂ˝mlĂ˝ reveals how the Left has been sucked into a spiral of toxic hatred and outrage-mongering, retreating from the democratic ideals of freedom and pluralism that it purports to represent. Exploring the similarities between right-wing populism and radical identity politics, he sets out an alternative vision. It is only by focusing on our common humanity and working across differences that the Left will find a constructive and consensual way back from "woke".
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. A Rude Awakening
- 2. Identity Politics on the Right
- 3. Identity Politics on the Left
- 4. The Left Meets the Right
- 5. Toward a New Progressive Left
- Epilogue
- Index
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