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July 16, 2020 By Joan Smith

The Tyranny of Groupthink

“Call it ‘Wokeness’ or ‘Groupthink'”, what we are seeing the spread of a “virus of ideological conformity”, says Josef Joffe.

“Goodthink,” to recall Orwell, is the project of a passionate minority privileged not by birth and station, but by achievement, acquired status, and job security afforded by their place in the knowledge economy and the public sector. The task of “Goodthink,” Orwell explained, was “to make all other modes of thought impossible.”

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Filed Under: Article Tagged With: cancel culture, free speech

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