The word “woke” means different things to different people. Let’s start with what woke is not. Some people use the term interchangeably with “political correctness”. That is a mistake. Political correctness is and was firmly from the tradition of political liberalism. It is about taking every human being as an individual and trying to prevent any preconceived notions about that person’s identity sway how one listens to and evaluates the individual. Political correctness is a good thing. The term “woke”, or what I prefer to call 21st-century illiberal leftism, is entirely different, not least in that it treats people first…

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