At the heart of democratic theory is the idea that the people rule; that in the end, their wishes become codified in law and public policies. Put somewhat less flatteringly by H.L. Mencken, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
If most of the world has read George Orwell as a cautionary tale, our woke folk apparently read him as a how-to kit; hence the recent news that Puffin Books, with the assistance of "sensitivity readers" (a euphemism that even Orwell couldn t match), redid the books of Roald Dahl in order to make them consistent with woke standards.
Lots of people these days claim to be offended or even "traumatized" by lots of things. The hunch is that the vast majority are lying about it. And lots of the people who claim to believe those lies are likely lying too.
The most remarkable thing about our "woke revolution" (for lack of a better phrase) is the extent to which it has spread so far so rapidly with so little resistance. Companies and institutions have fallen in rapid succession, "captured" as the result of pre-emptive surrender attributable to fear and lack of backbone.
The central problem with race relations in America is that we can t have an honest debate about race relations in America. Honest debate can t be permitted because only one narrative is: Every problem afflicting Black Americans is the fault of white Americans.