Woke Religion: A Taxonomy
By Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian
Michael Shellenberger and I wrote “Woke Religion: A Taxonomy” to help people understand the woke religion.
I want to be crystal clear about something: bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end. The woke religion, however, is not the way to stop these moral horrors. It is making our shared problems more difficult to solve.
This is the spirit in which we offer this taxonomy.
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This is well done. Would love to see you add a row for Israel and Jews.
This is excellent. I’d recommend some additions to the crime section: Michel Foucault as an elect (Discipline and Punish is all about the oppressive nature of modern prisons), data on # of unarmed black people killed per year as taboo, and saying defunding the police makes black peoples less safe as taboo. Woke crime views exploit the emotion of every tragic interaction with cops to the point where any contextual statistics are triggering.