Opinion | ‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy

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Opinion | ‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy
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From WSJopinion: Destroying the mechanisms of democracy to preserve democracy won’t work. We can’t promote marginalized voices by telling them what is acceptable to say, writes Kasparov63

Wonder Land : When progressives single out threats to"our democracy," what they mean is their democracy. Images: Everett Collection/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused, part of a struggle to define one’s political opponents in the harshest possible way, to dismiss ideas as not only wrong or harmful, but intolerable.

As a nonnative English speaker, I am content to avoid rhetorical fashion and use older phrases. Call it the mob mentality, groupthink, or punitive neo-Puritan orthodoxy. It is the abuse of power—mostly social, not yet governmental—to silence debate and paralyze the spread of any ideas that challenge the prevailing ideological dogma. It is the coordinated, coercive attempt to win a debate by ending debate—to punish, not to educate.

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