Liberal critique of wokism

The Liber-thé media recently invited me to take part in a video interview on the subject of wokism and how it can be criticized from a classical liberal point of view. The Ligue vaudoise also invited me to speak on the subject on a Wednesday in March. Here's what I had to say.

Debunking statues on moral grounds, warning readers at the beginning of books that might offend them, cancelling lectures because they might offend certain audiences... All these social phenomena, reflexes and practices have in common that they've been labelled «woke».

This adjective is above all a self-designation. Coming from the English word «awake», it refers to an awakening, an attention, in the face of all that is perceived as discrimination - or more generally, injustice - towards minorities.

As Pierre Valentin reminds us in a p