The other day, in a bar in London frequented by students of the infamously ‘woke’ Goldsmiths University, I met a young white cis-male who said that the English were to blame for his inherited trauma because of their historic oppression of the Irish. The only problem was, he wasn’t Irish – he was American and so were his parents and probably grandparents.
Panda La Terriere
Why Gen Z is turning against woke culture
We made it into a cultural revolution – and traumatised ourselves

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