"... The essence of wokeness is self-centeredness based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. It stems from the postmodern idea that those attributes determine everyone's perspective. Originally it held that every perspective is equally valid, but now it privileges [sic] the perspectives of oppressed groups, since oppressors--straight white males--supposedly never think about anything but maintaining themselves in power. It thus denies the very idea of universal principles such as those reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It also denies the relevance, really of any history before the great awakening of the late 1960s, except as a record of what we should not be. In so doing, it threatens to sweep away the whole legal and political basis on which modern society--including the idea of equality--was built. This is a huge risk for all of us, and particularly for the less powerful. All our major intellectual and artistic institutions are now contributing to that risk...." DK
It would be difficult, however, to lump the revisionism of J C D Clark in with Woke radical negro ideology.
I go with Clark.
You do not have to be a racist woke negro, or a liberal Whig white Stokely, to reject Israels' and DK's enlightenment equalitarian universalism drivel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQin6KDobhI&t=712s
Clark lands on Paine like a ton of bricks without straw, pounded flat as Thomas L Friedman's world.
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