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successor ideology

successor ideology noun: a proposed emergent ideology within liberal or left-wing political movements in the West, centered around intersectionality, social justice and identity politics, and potentially supplanting the conventional liberal values of pluralism, freedom of speech, and color blindness.

Noun

successor ideology

  1. A proposed emergent ideology within liberal or left-wing political movements in the West, centered around intersectionality, social justice and identity politics, and potentially supplanting the conventional liberal values of pluralism, freedom of speech, and color blindness.
    • Many political liberals have traded in classical liberal values for what writer Wesley Yang calls the "successor ideology," commonly known as woke ideology. It's an ideology that claims to have the absolute truth about why there's disparity in the world and, hence, overrides the need for societal...2022, David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews
    • Variously identified as "woke," as an applied form of "critical race theory," or as a likely "successor ideology" to liberalism, this movement vows to remake society in a radical manner. To do so, many of its most vocal advocates are willing to rethink fundamental principles, like the focus on...2022, Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work

Examples of successor ideology in a sentence

  • Many political liberals have traded in classical liberal values for what writer Wesley Yang calls the "successor ideology," commonly known as woke ideology.2022, David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews:
  • Variously identified as "woke," as an applied form of "critical race theory," or as a likely "successor ideology" to liberalism, this movement vows to remake society in a radical manner.2022, Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work:
  • An alternative term to 'woke' that has utility as a historical place marker is 'the successor ideology'.2023, Rafael Behr, Politics: A Survivor's Guide:

Origin of successor ideology

Coined by essayist Wesley Yang.

Questions about successor ideology

What does successor ideology mean?
Successor ideology means a proposed emergent ideology within liberal or left-wing political movements in the West, centered around intersectionality, social justice and identity politics, and potentially supplanting the conventional liberal values of pluralism, freedom of speech, and color blindness.
How do you use successor ideology in a sentence?
Many political liberals have traded in classical liberal values for what writer Wesley Yang calls the "successor ideology," commonly known as woke ideology.
What part of speech is successor ideology?
Successor ideology is a noun.

Words near successor ideology in the dictionary

  1. successivity
  2. successless
  3. successlessly
  4. successlessness
  5. successor
  6. successor ideology
  7. successoral
  8. successorial
  9. successors
  10. successorship
  11. successorships

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