A columnist of The Press said on Saturday that the word woke was “invented from scratch by conservative nationalism” and that this “moral panic” was “mainly fueled by columnists from Quebecor”.
What’s funny is that the - hosts say the same thing: Wokism doesn’t exist, only Quebecor columnists talk about it.
Um… if we talk about it, it’s maybe because we frequent bookstores…
Here is a non-exhaustive list of books on wokism written in Quebec, France, England, and the United States by people who are not columnists for Quebecor.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
–The left against the Enlightenment?Stéphanie Roza (2020)
–The triumph of intellectual impostures: how theories on identity, gender, race corrupt the university and harm societyHelen Pluckrose, James Lindsay (2021)
–La religion wokeJean-François Braunstein (Grasset) (2022)
–Woke thinking: critical analysis of an ideologyDavid Santarossa (2022)
–The new inquisitors: the investigation of an infiltrator in woke landsNora Bussigny (2023)
–Understanding the woke revolutionPierre Valentin (2023)
–Woke fiction – How ideology changes our films and seriesSamuel Fitoussi (2023)
–Wokism: will France be contaminated?Anne Toulouse (2022). The banner asks: “Should we fear the rise of theories about gender, race, identity, intersectionality or decolonialism?”
–The courage of dissent: the French spirit against wokismBérénice Levet (2023)
–At the heart of Wokism: a new cultural paradigm?Maxime Stone (2023)
–A brief history of Wokism from the Enlightenment to the present dayBruno Viard (2024)
–Would Wokism be totalitarianism?Nathalie Heinich (2023), with its subtitle: “Woke hell is paved with good intentions”. The author asserts that “the criticism of wokism is not a matter of conservative or reactionary thinking but of the defense of the republican model”.
–Wokism, new morality of Good?Bettina Flores (2024)
-The Revue des Deux Mondes even published in July-August 2023 The bloopers of wokism: pearls and analyses.
in English
–Cynical TheoriesHelen Pluckrose, James Lindsay (2020)
–Woke racism: How a new religion has betrayed Black AmericaJohn Mc Worther (2021)
–The Madness of CrowdsDouglas Murray (2021) (An investigation into the dangers of woke culture)
–Left is not wokeSusan Neiman (2023)
–We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New EliteMusa Al-Gharbi (2024)
–Unfit to Fight: How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our MilitaryAmber Smith (2024)
–War on Woke: Why the New McCarthyism Is More Dangerous Than the OldAlan Dershowitz (2024)
CANCEL CULTURE
What are these books about?
Because this social justice movement, full of good intentions, threatens freedom of expression, the presumption of innocence, and respect for different opinions.
It denounces “the delusions of American academic activism” or the “identity and intersectionalist, decolonial and racialist hoaxes”.
Several of these authors are from the left and rightly deplore the fact that wokism has caused the left to deviate from its original values of justice and equity.
It was not Quebecor who invented wokism. Many Western intellectuals are concerned about the rise of this movement which embraces cancel culture.
Those who pretend not to see should perhaps go to bookstores more often.
