{"id":12765,"date":"2021-01-06T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:30:39","slug":"a-guide-to-wokespeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-guide-to-wokespeak\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Wokespeak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;the rise of the Left inevitable over the next two years, the public should become acquainted with the Left\u2019s strange language of Wokespeak. Failure to do so could result in job termination and career cancellation. It is certainly a fluid tongue. Words often change their meanings as the political context demands. And what was yesterday\u2019s orthodoxy is today\u2019s heterodoxy and tomorrow\u2019s heresy. So here is some of the vocabulary of the woke lexicon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnti-racism.\u201d&nbsp;Espousing this generic compounded -ism is far preferable to accusing particular people of being \u201cracists\u201d \u2014 and then being expected to produce evidence of their concrete actions and words to prove such indictments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, one can pose as fighting for \u201canti-racism\u201d and thereby imply that all those whom one opposes, disagrees with, or finds distasteful, de facto, must be&nbsp;<em>for<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/a-guide-to-wokespeak\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review With&nbsp;the rise of the Left inevitable over the next two years, the public should become acquainted with the Left\u2019s strange language of Wokespeak. Failure to do so could result in job termination and career cancellation. It is certainly a fluid tongue. Words often change their meanings as the political [&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-3jT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13251,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/vdh-podcast-taking-on-the-racists-of-the-new-anti-racism\/","url_meta":{"origin":12765,"position":0},"title":"VDH Podcast: Taking on the Racists of the New Anti-Racism","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/vdh-podcast-taking-on-the-racists-of-the-new-anti-racism\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13038,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/thoughts-of-the-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":12765,"position":1},"title":"Thoughts of the week","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Week In Review We do not know when we hit peak wokeness\u2014only that no constitutional republic can long exist in a climate of McCarthyite fear and anti-racism racism. 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