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Neiman and Rieff on the land acknowledgment
"there are many things short of giving back the continent that could be done to improve the lives of Native Americans. Solemnly reciting a land acknowledgement is not one of them. . . . 'The performative guilt of today's professional managerial class bears the same relationship to real shame and real guilt as Astro Turf does to grass.'"
The philosopher Susan Neiman quoting David Rieff's Desire and fate (2024), in her review of that book entitled "Where wokeness went wrong," The New York review of books 72, no. 19 (December 4, 2025), 26 (26-28), an article eminently quotable throughout. Neiman is, of course, the author of Left is not woke (Polity Press, 2023).
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