{"id":13537,"date":"2021-06-14T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:46:25","slug":"anatomy-of-the-woke-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/anatomy-of-the-woke-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of the Woke Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion\u2014at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between \u201cwhites\u201d and \u201cnon-whites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history\u2014whether by The 1619 Project<\/a> and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling and Trotskyization of names and places. Wokeism becomes a child\u2019s morality tale of noble non-white victims versus villainous white victimizers. Erasing the past and its language supposedly fuels a recalibration of the future, all in the here and now, a holy Year Zero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the process, wokeism has done a lot of damage to America, and will do even more if left unchecked. Here are its chief characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion\u2014at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between \u201cwhites\u201d and \u201cnon-whites.\u201d Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history\u2014whether by The 1619 Project and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling […]<\/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-3wl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13605,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-are-they-woke\/","url_meta":{"origin":13537,"position":0},"title":"Why Are They Woke?","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.\u00a0 Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. 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