The Ascendant Right and Wokeness
Wokeness is, of course, simply ‘radical leftism’ with its roots in African-American liberation theology and Marxist critical theory. It is not possible to apply the label woke to anything that is not radically left.
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Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
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