What comes in the wake of Woke 1.0? | Letters
Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the shift away from US society’s progressive and inclusive zeitgeist Regarding Nesrine Malik’s article (Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong?, 18 August), the mistake of Woke 1.0 was to believe that a self-evident truth was, well, a self-evident truth. I grew up in a divided society in which it was crystal clear, at least t
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- The Guardian
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- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 17:33 UTC
- Source updated
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- Byline
- Guardian Staff
- Section
- Inequality
Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the shift away from US society’s progressive and inclusive zeitgeist Regarding Nesrine Malik’s article (Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong?, 18 August), the mistake of Woke 1.0 was to believe that a self-evident truth was, well, a self-evident truth. I grew up in a divided society in which it was crystal clear, at least t
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What comes in the wake of Woke 1.0? | Letters
Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the shift away from US society’s progressive and inclusive zeitgeist Regarding Nesrine Malik’s article (Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong?, 18 August), the mistake of Woke 1.0 was to believe that a self-evident truth was, well, a self-evident truth. I grew up in a divided society in which it was crystal clear, at least t
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Evidence layer
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- #2072
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 17:40 UTC
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- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt