Behind the News: The “Anti-Woke” Culture War w/ Jodi Dean
Update: 2025-08-11
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Jodi Dean, author of a recent article about the “classism of defeat,” makes a case for why going anti-woke is very wrong. Emily Jashinsky analyzes Marjorie Taylor Greene’s use of the word “genocide” and other curious developments on the Right.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html
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I'm not finishing this episode but out of curiosity: do we actually think black and brown working class men are woke, for the most part? Neither of you are working class by any reasonable metric.
Being "woke" means different things to different people and doesn't really merit discussion.