Commentary
It’s one of the more ludicrous ironies of the Woke Movement that its members believe that they have a better grasp of history than do their non-woke adversaries, the ones who, we are to assume, are still “asleep.”
Our woke scolds see the past that’s represented by the Jefferson Memorial, Columbus Day, and “Ozzie and Harriet” as a big lie, and hence they see present-day worshippers of those things as big liars. What old-fashioned Americans and pre-21st-century textbooks taught them goes by the names whiteness, colonialism, and patriarchy. People who ate it up in former times and still embrace the bias just don’t get it, or maybe they do but profit from it too much to let it go. Wokesters despise them….