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Beware the hate-launderers

Beware the hate-launderers

A cottage industry has emerged to make bigotry seem reasonable.

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Rod Graham
Dec 29, 2021
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Earlier this year, I asked my sister what a “woke” and “anti-woke” person was. She had some vague sense of what it meant to be “woke” and tried in vain to derive “anti-woke” from that starting point: “Is it … not being woke?” 

Of course, I knew what the terms meant. I had been raving like a madman about the problem of “anti-wokes” – people who are agains…

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