Non -fed in the West

The Dutch journalist and writer Jen Burum writes in Harper ' S Magazine about what makes up the core of modern left -wing progressiveism in the West:

“There is no consent about the fact that the movement of Woke ( non -your) is also represented by itself. The right accuse them of everything, starting with the growth of outbreaks of mass executions in schools, ending with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank ; Those who are usually attributed to non -fed, that is, the lion M , believe that they are conducting a long -navigated struggle for social and racial justice. The root of these disagreements lies by no means in politics. In fact, they sometimes even seem anti -political. The debate around the “non -fed”, which is shown by the term itself, have more relation to moral and spiritual enlightenment.

That is why John Makvoter, the author of the book “ Racism of Seeing ”, decided to abandon this term, since he relates to the movement of the Evangelists-antirasists, in favor of the term “ chosen ” ( The Electes ), which has religious and class connotations. Selected, as he says, are people who consider themselves elect, because they understand what remains inaccessible to most other people. Like the Christians of the pre -modern era, and the sought must either turn to their faith, or punish those who could not see the light.

The religious roots of the non -burning movements are quite specific. What Makvoter calls “religion”, this is more likely a quasi -religious branch of Protestantism, which prompted the observer The New York Times Ross Dutat to come up with the term “ Great AWOKENING ”, which refers to the historical period of the explosion of religious fanaticism and ardor - Polit.ru), which covered the central states of America in the XVIII and XIX centuries. Dutat and Makvoter both rely on the Catholic writer Joseph Bottum, who, in his book “Announcement Age”, published in 2014, wrote that this moralizing fanaticism of modern progressists should be understood as a secularized heritage of social evangelism.

Understanding the phenomenon of non -you -eaters as mainly Protestant can help us understand the logic that stands behind some rituals that have become common in recent years, namely public apologies. There is one thing that distinguishes the tradition of Protestantism from other Abrahamic religions - this is an emphasis on the public statement of its opinion or position. Catholics usually confess to priests in private and they are allocated all sins until the time comes to crawl to confession and ask for forgiveness for new sins. Protestants, on the contrary, must publicly confirm their virtues through a public confession of faith. ”