What’s an anti-woke intellectual warrior to do these days?
There are two clear paths: the victory lap or the firm turn against MAGA. Each is, in its own way, intellectually honest. As the Trump administration egregiously violates the First Amendment and civil liberties broadly, pulling federal funding from universities that don’t properly obliterate DEI initiatives and suppress nonviolent pro-Palestinian activists (and attempts to deport legal residents who’ve committed no crimes), it’s obvious that the long battle against “woke” or social-justice ideology has a victor. There is little like a 2010s-style resistance movement in America today, and very few liberals are talking up “trigger warnings” or demanding Spanish-speaking people be referred to as “Latinx.” When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently told a New York Times reporter that she wouldn’t respond to inquiries from anyone who placed their pronouns in their email signatures, this reality was underscored: The official ideology of the United States government is anti-woke.
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