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The War on Humanity How Big Tech and big government are driving society apart and pushing cruelty over tolerance
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t isn’t just the virus or the vaccine,” says columnist and author Naomi Wolf, regarding the growth of tyranny in America. “It’s a little bit of cruelty, a little bit of inequality, a little bit of discrimination.”
In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and Wolf discussed Big Tech’s role in the pandemic, the erosion of American freedoms, and ways to counter these attacks on our Constitution and on our way of life. Her latest book is titled “The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19, and the War Against the Human.” JAN JEKIELEK: A major
thesis in your book is that we in free societies have started behaving more like people in unfree societies. NAOMI WOLF: A year ago,
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stage of the closing down of a democratic civil society. The pandemic provided cover and a pretext for a handful of bad actors such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the World Economic Forum, and tech companies to exploit the crisis to reengineer our democracies, especially the United States. This is a targeting, not just of our Western freedoms, but also of our culture, specifically our families and our children. I wanted to tell that story as well—the human side. My husband and I, for example, were excluded from gatherings because we aren’t vaccinated. Friends of mine who would never discriminate against someone on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, or race were happily embracing a discrimination which labeled some people as clean, valuable members of society, while ostracizing the unvaccinated.
Naomi Wolf, author of “The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human.”
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we were in a freer America than we are now. President Joe Biden in April declared an extension of emergency law, and, for the first time, his declaration is without an ending date. At least 22 states are under emergency law. In another of my books, this is what I call step 10, the last
“America is now divided based on what news you consume.”
