Is Wokeism Civil Religion?

Is Wokeism Civil Religion? A response to @carefreewandering s take of Wokeism as civil religion + German-style guilt-pride. I look at Robert Bellah s article Civil Religion in America and take a look at free-speech, dogmatism, cancel culture, and more. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Sources R. Bellah, Civil Religion in America Eric Berhowisz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West From the Ancients to Fake News James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 Jeffrey Adam Sachs, “There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence,” Niskanen Center, April 27, 2018, https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speechcrisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2018/06/27/are-students-really-more-hostile-free-speech Credits Unite the Right Photo, Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Westboro Baptist Church Photo, David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons