Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled.
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..
Exploring the similarities between right-wing populism and radical identity politics, he sets out an alternative vision.
Can the Left escape this extremism and stay true to the progressive ideals it once professed? In this provocative book, Umut Özkırımlı 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.
In reality, both sides are colluding in a reactionary politics that is as self-defeating as it is divisive.
The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness.
The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites.
Off-the-cuff tweets or harmless office banter have the potential to wreck lives.
Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled