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Behind the News: Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberals

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The Lesson 68 for Neo Liberals Was That if the Left Speaks a Language of Equality, They Would Rediscover the Language of Difference

The lesson 68 for neo liberals was that if the left speaks a language of equality, they would rediscover the language of difference. And any attempt to become sort of post racial or color blind is like, you know, just the road to another kind of redistributive socialism. The human difference is deeply rooted, not just in our traditions or our values, but in our very in our very genes and the make up of our bodies. Thatsis an extremely dangerous kind of reactionary s that's happening, i think, in the last couple of decades.

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