"The habit of mind I term 'asymmetrical multiculturalism', which combines white intellectuals' hostility to their own group with a romantic celebration of minorities, began not in the 2010s, but in the years following the First World War. Likewise what we call wokeness is a sensibility rooted in a set of ideas I term 'Left-modernism', a hybrid ideology of liberal cosmopolitanism and cultural egalitarianism. This blend crystallised before the War, but spread within US high culture in response to nativist populism in America and nationalism in Europe."
Eric Kaufmann at Unherd compares the 2020s to the 1920s.
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