19 Feb 2025

Feature interview: the problem with 'wokeness'

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 19 February 2025

Talk is cheap. And nowhere is that more corrosive and more disturbing than when well-meaning people talk about social justice and inequality but actually make problems worse says sociologist Musa al-Gharbi .  

He takes aim at people who talk about being "woke" to the suffering of others but actually benefit from and even perpetuate the inequality they condemn. His new book calls out the cheap talk in favour of doing things that are more useful to people who really need help. It's called We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite.