Apostasy is spreading in the Church of Woke. From Tim Hartnett at lewrockwell.com:
Perry Bacon junior’s Thursday, June 8 opinion piece in The Washington Post, “Before his ouster, Chris Licht showed the problem with anti-woke centrism,” wastes no time getting off course. He goes astray in the very first sentence and circles in a whirlpool of oblivion from that point on.
“In a roughly 15,000 word profile published last week by the Atlantic, CNN chief executive Chris Licht, who has complained that the network’s journalists were too opinionated when Donald Trump was president, gave a lot of, well, opinions.”
Tim Alberta wrote the article, not the ousted CNN capo. The personal views of its subject are the primary things being profiled. It would have been mighty vapid without coverage of Licht’s slant on things. Beyond that, does Mssr. Bacon really not know the difference between holding opinions and reporting what happened? Whatever Licht thinks about say BLM, it’s a completely separate matter from demanding less bun and more burger from reporters on a network. CNN was long known to fill whole hours with people talking about controversies without one material fact at stake ever surfacing in discussion.
Bacon’s whipping boy isn’t Republicans. They don’t even really come up until the 16th of 18 paragraphs. The trouble is with “White men in Democratic politics.” People like him have “to nod along … even if you don’t agree with them, to signal that you are a reasonable person worth talking to.”
“Licht’s comments,” we are told, “embody an anti-woke centrism that is increasingly prominent in American politics today, particularly among powerful White men who live on the coasts and don’t identify as Republicans or conservatives.”
By “anti-woke,” what he means is, “skepticism of progressive causes and ideas, especially on issues of gender, race and sexuality.”
American Maoism will be just as disastrous as the Great Leap Forward.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.