Hypocrisy of the Woke Dons

American Thinker ^ | 15 Jun, 2021 | Michael Curtis

[MtnClimber]

If a thing goes without saying it goes even better when being said. First, it should be said that the main, indeed usually the only real, target of the woke brigade is the democratic western world, primarily the U.S., the UK, and Israel. The woke brigade claim to be attacking past and present manifestations of colonialism and slavery, but their accusations never extend to the slave trade of the Ottoman Empire, or to the oppression of the Rohingya by Burma, or Chinese crimes against humanity involving the Uyghur.

The woke attack is not only a diminution of the positive contributions of the West but has also affected the self-confidence of the West. For example, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the UN since February 2021, has stated she had seen for herself how the “original sin of slavery weaved [sic] white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.” The U.S., she holds, is an imperfect union and has been since the beginning.

Britain has its dissenters. About 100 people who received honors, such as the OBE (Order of the British Empire) have campaigned in June 2021 to replace “Empire” with “Excellence.” The very latest target of the woke followers is the engineer James Watt, a key figure in the industrial revolution, the man who developed the idea of the steam engines and horsepower. Watt and his partner Matthew Boulton are held responsible for selling steam trains for slave plantations in the Caribbean. He is being reevaluated by the Birmingham City Council, but Glasgow University in 2019 condemned Watt for links to the slave trade. In contrast, King’s College, London in June 2021 has endorsed Teresa Cheng, a former graduate and Justice Minister in Hong Kong as a university fellow, though she has been sanctioned in the U.S.

[MtnClimber]

The woke culture is a leftist attempt to duplicate the Chinese struggle sessions that happened under Mao.

[ClearCase_guy]

We are in an age of great psychological derangement. People are upset about past events, and wish to change them. They are obsessed with fixing the past. But it doesn’t work that way. You have to be crazy to think it does.

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