Woke privilege | Musa al-Gharbi

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Woke privilege | Musa al-Gharbi The woke love to pose as the voice of the marginalised. All their activism, they say, is for the benefit of those who face oppression and discrimination. Here, Musa al-Gharbi – author of We Have Never Been Woke – explains why the real base for woke is the elite. The professional middle class and above use ‘progressive’ ideology to both compete among themselves and to justify their position above the masses. They pass off their own personal interests, he argues, as the interests of those at the bottom. This is a class war disguised as a culture war. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.3	There was this kind of rapid spike in talking about all forms of prejudice and discrimination.
1:19.0	The word woke is being used almost daily.
1:21.8	A black trans lives matter march.
1:24.1	Racism, police brutality, inequality.
1:27.1	Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia,
1:29.5	Islamophobia. It's just all at once. They say they're speaking on behalf of racial minorities.
1:35.2	The people who work in the knowledge professions, we think that our perspective should count more
1:39.8	than the people checking us out at the grocery store.
1:44.0	Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spikes,
1:46.9	and I am delighted to be joined by Musa Al Garby.
1:50.3	Musa, you're the author of A Brilliant Book.
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