{"id":13345,"date":"2021-05-09T20:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13345"},"modified":"2021-05-09T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:38:45","slug":"tuning-out-wokism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/tuning-out-wokism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Out Wokism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If wokeness should continue and \u201cwin,\u201d by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke, Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion, and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/05\/09\/tuning-out-wokeism\/\">READ MORE&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness If wokeness should continue and \u201cwin,\u201d by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking [&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-3tf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11921,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/100-years-of-the-hoover-institution\/","url_meta":{"origin":13345,"position":0},"title":"100 Years of the Hoover Institution","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review This year marks the centennial anniversary of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 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