The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign.
It’s a convenient excuse that allows them to reject any social progress without having to examine or defend any of their own views. It doesn’t matter that the ideas of the “leftist revolution” may in fact be correct and completely justifiable, because introducing it through a “revolution” is inherently bad.
It’s a convenient excuse that allows them to reject any social progress without having to examine or defend any of their own views. It doesn’t matter that the ideas of the “leftist revolution” may in fact be correct and completely justifiable, because introducing it through a “revolution” is inherently bad.