This another superbly written and well-reasoned, relevant essay.
There was a time when my students called me “woke” and I considered it a compliment – that was a decade ago. Since then, the term seems to have been turned inside-out. On the Left, those who claim the term assert an elevated awareness (and moral superiority that is refuted by both evidence and reason.
Recently, Representative Jasmine Crockett asserted that “only mediocre white boys” need be concerned with the cancel culture that has emerged as an extension of wokeness and its more formal manifestation, DEl.
For more than a score of well-documented counter examples, please see Nick Wolfinger's Professors Speak Out; The Truth about Campus lnvestigations.
This another superbly written and well-reasoned, relevant essay.
There was a time when my students called me “woke” and I considered it a compliment – that was a decade ago. Since then, the term seems to have been turned inside-out. On the Left, those who claim the term assert an elevated awareness (and moral superiority that is refuted by both evidence and reason.
Recently, Representative Jasmine Crockett asserted that “only mediocre white boys” need be concerned with the cancel culture that has emerged as an extension of wokeness and its more formal manifestation, DEl.
For more than a score of well-documented counter examples, please see Nick Wolfinger's Professors Speak Out; The Truth about Campus lnvestigations.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nicholas+wolfinger&crid=2UMVFN6MQT1FS&sprefix=Nicholas+Wolf%2Caps%2C102&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_13_mvt-t3-ranker
I didn't realize it's been in use since the forties