{"id":12477,"date":"2020-07-09T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2020-07-09T23:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:22:03","slug":"the-fragility-of-the-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fragility-of-the-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fragility of the Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said \u201call lives matter.\u201d In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She won a huge audience, as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn\u2019t want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wouldn\u2019t have been much of a story. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video \u2014 one that showed her weeping in a near-fetal position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She fought back tears while complaining about how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social-media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harvard grad instantly became an unwitting poster girl for the current protest movement and the violence that has accompanied it. What turns off millions of Americans about the statue toppling, the looting, the threats, and the screaming in the face of police is the schizophrenic behavior of so many of the would-be revolutionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/07\/woke-protesters-historys-ingredients-riot-revolution\/#slide-1\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said \u201call lives matter.\u201d In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics. She won a huge audience, as she intended. But her video also came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ff","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3525,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-university-madhouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":12477,"position":0},"title":"The University Madhouse","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Have American academics lost their collective minds? 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They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.\" I have not watched the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;September 2009&quot;","block_context":{"text":"September 2009","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2009\/september-2009\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":943,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/achievement-trumps-identity-politics\/","url_meta":{"origin":12477,"position":5},"title":"Achievement Trumps Identity Politics","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Jeremy Lin\u2019s so-far-brief but amazing performance for the New York Knicks has set the world on fire in a mere month. Most NBA superstars are not 23-year-old Harvard graduates. And they are rarely devout Christians and second-generation Taiwanese-Americans. 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