Identity TrapYascha Mounk
Identity Trap
by Yascha Mounk · first published 2023
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The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk, a mostly even handed, sensible and necessary read for right now.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗For the race-essentialist practices described by the original poster, Yascha Mounk's "The Identity Trap," published in 2023, and interviews with Coleman Hughes regarding his college experience at Columbia are insightful resources. To delve into the philosophical roots that lead to the type of absurd reasoning…
The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk does a really good job of tracing the history of "woke". In particular he does a good job of not lumping woke in with all left ideas.
on “The Origins of Wokeness” ↗FWIW, the book The Identity Trap by Yasha Mounk attributes the popularisation of what it calls the Identity Synthesis to social media such as Tumblr, then later Reddit, Twitter, Instagram; and web sites such as Thought Catalog, later…
on “Blue Ball Machine” ↗