Pro: Is Woke Dead?
To adequately answer the question “Is woke dead?,” it should first be asked, “What was woke?” Maybe more important, “Was it ever alive?” As a Gen Zer, I’m observing the cadaver, my pathologist’s scalpel in hand. I wasn’t there, in 1930, when the Pittsburgh Courier proclaimed “The Negro is Woke” in response to the Jim […]
Con: Is Woke Dead?
When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him,” he didn’t mean that God had literally perished. He meant that society’s turn away from Christianity as the great moral authority left a vacuum where a shared value system had once lived. Without a creator of meaning, we were headed […]