Fighting Back Against Wokism

For John, BLUF:  The author of this piece is former NYT Editor Bari Weiss.  She offers us 10 ways to fight woke culture, which I leave to you to look up at the URL.  I do provide her opening argument.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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10 ways to fight back against woke culture

From The New York Post, by Writer Bari Weiss, 31 January 2021, 10:05pm.

Here is the lede plus four:

I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization.  It’s utter nonsense.

I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life:  Can I wear a tank top in public?  Can I walk down the street holding the hand of my partner, a (beautiful) woman, in many places in America without getting a second glance?  Can I wear a Jewish star without fear?

I do not take those things for granted.  I know very well that in many other places, the answers would be different, and my life wouldn’t be possible at all.

America is imperfect.  (Does it even need to be said?)  There is bigotry toward blacks and gays and Jews and immigrants; there is intense polarization; political violence is becoming more regular; elected representatives believe conspiracy theories.  All true here as in many other countries being torn apart by the dislocations of the 21st century.

But there is no gulag in America.  There are no laws permitting honor killings.  There is no formal social credit system of the kind that exists right now in China.  By any measure, we have achieved incredible progress and enjoy extraordinary freedoms.  And yet people aren’t acting that way.  They are acting, increasingly, like subjects in a totalitarian country.

No gulag, no sanctioned honor killings, no social credit system.  Considering what is happening in the rest of the world, life in these United States is pretty good.  Not perfect.  But, relatively, pretty good.

The problem is we could lose it all if we don't stand up to the tyranny of the woke left, the politically correct, who would suppress our liberal freedoms, such as free speech and an open economy.  We don't need to fight, but we do need to stand fast, and support others who are standing fast and being canceled, being fired, being beaten up in mostly peaceful demoonstrations.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff