After years of embracing it, the Left is now trying to separate itself from “woke,” now that normal people are recognizing its toxicity.
They always have to relabel when their terrible ideas catch up with them, just as they stole the word “liberal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Quit pretending you don’t know what “woke” means.
Are we them?
The parallels are disturbing.
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
…are literally driving students crazy.
[Update a few minutes later]
The diversity dean is just a symptom of a much bigger problem at Stanford, and other law schools.
People who weren’t elected.
I used to subscribe to it, decades ago. Apparently, it’s good that I no longer do.
Thoughts on the January 6th injustice, from Jeff Goldstein.
A long but interesting discussion of the mental health crisis among youth.
Or, rather, don’t expect me to eff you, if you have the wrong genitalia. These people are lunatics.
“Dear conservatives, I am sorry.”