{"id":1888,"date":"2021-11-29T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/opinion-long-live-wokeness-or-is-it-doomed-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:14:28","slug":"opinion-long-live-wokeness-or-is-it-doomed-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/opinion-long-live-wokeness-or-is-it-doomed-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | \u2018Long Live \u201cWokeness\u201d!\u2019 Or Is It Doomed? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Advertisement<br \/>Supported by<br \/>letters<br \/><strong>Send any friend a story<\/strong><br \/>As a subscriber, you have <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">10 gift articles<\/strong> to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/16\/opinion\/woke-progressive-liberal.html\" title=\"\">It\u2019s Time for a New Term<\/a>,\u201d by John McWhorter (Opinion, Nov. 19):<br \/>\u201cWoke\u201d is too important to let go of without a replacement. What better way to say actively aware \u2014 not asleep, or closing one\u2019s eyes to plain facts or just ignorant?<br \/>The idea of wokeness has become politically charged only because one major party has made it its business to ignore facts about climate change, gun violence, etc., and now promotes violence in place of debate. In today\u2019s political climate we need an uplifting alternative to ignorance. Long live \u201cwokeness\u201d!<br \/>John Pitkin<br \/>Cambridge, Mass.<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Looking for a new term for \u201cwoke,\u201d John McWhorter is talking about people who favor programs and policies that strive to achieve social justice and equity. I\u2019m used to calling those people \u201cthoughtful,\u201d \u201cjust\u201d or even, simply, \u201ckind.\u201d<br \/>Deborah Cabaniss<br \/>New York<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Any new term designating progressive thinking and action is going to suffer an \u201coverlay of snark\u201d by those inclined to attack or belittle \u201cleft-leaning enlightenment.\u201d<br \/>I suggest we go back to \u201cliberal,\u201d which has a far more distinguished historical pedigree than \u201cwoke\u201d anyway. Wear the label with pride, and remind naysayers that it is liberalism that has improved America in more substantive ways than I have room to list here. Let us not traffic in cowardly, hand-wringing euphemisms.<br \/>David English<br \/>Acton, Mass.<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/09\/opinion\/social-justice-america.html\" title=\"\">Why Wokeness Will Fail,<\/a>\u201d by Bret Stephens (column, Nov. 10):<br \/>Mr. Stephens argues that unlike the civil rights movement, \u201cwokeness\u201d is doomed to fail because it alleges that \u201cracism is a defining feature, not a flaw, of nearly every aspect of American life.\u201d<br \/>Why can\u2019t it be both? Our country is defined not just by our achievements and values, but our failures to live up to them as well. Today\u2019s Americans shouldn\u2019t feel guilty for the injustices of their ancestors. But if we see those injustices as just hiccups that aren\u2019t worth our attention, we may miss how they live on in the present \u2014 in patterns of policing, housing or education, say \u2014 in ways that we can still work to fix.<br \/>To take that aspirational, always improving character out of our national life would be un-American indeed.<br \/>Joshua Edelman<br \/>London<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Bret Stephens brings clarity and a rational perspective to this issue, and it is long overdue. While loud, angry and sanctimonious progressives on Twitter and in the media have commandeered the microphones, there has been, until recently, a dearth of voices exposing the underpinnings of those who basically require that others bow to \u201coath taking\u201d to save themselves from being canceled.<br \/>Thank you, Mr. Stephens, for exposing the cultlike nature of the woke ideologues and for opening the road for a return to sanity.<br \/>Albert Repicci<br \/>Riverside, Conn.<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/opinion\/paid-family-leave-biden.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">Without Parental Leave I Might Be Dead<\/a>,\u201d by Bess Kalb (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 15):<br \/>I am not sure how Ms. Kalb arrives at her dubious conclusion \u2014 that had she not had maternity leave, she might have died of her postpartum complication \u2014 and that women who don\u2019t have a generous leave policy are at greater risk of dying.<br \/>I can assure you that women don\u2019t hide symptoms of dangerous problems because they\u2019re back at work, and they will get the same care whether or not they\u2019ve already ended their maternity leave. One can head over to an emergency room or the doctor\u2019s office just as readily from the workplace as from home.<br \/>As an obstetrician, I have yet to have had a patient fail to notify me of troubling symptoms after birth, whether or not she\u2019s had to go back to work or school. The unreasonably and tragically high maternal mortality and morbidity rate in the United States is absolutely unrelated to whether or not a patient has had to go back to work too soon.<br \/>Believe me, when the blood is pouring out after a birth-related complication, such as what Ms. Kalb is alluding to, one would rush to the emergency room from anywhere \u2014 and get the proper care.<br \/>Jessica Jacob<br \/>Great Neck, N.Y.<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/11\/17\/opinion\/maternal-pregnancy-health.html\" title=\"\">What We See in the Shameful Trends on U.S. Maternal Health<\/a>\u201d (Opinion, Nov. 17):<br \/>I am sick and tired of American exceptionalism and all the sins that it justifies. Lousy health statistics, high gun deaths, gridlocked government, gerrymandered electoral districts, crooked politicians with a free rein, a half-baked response to Covid, repeated failures in foreign policy, a politicized Supreme Court and a mediocre response to global warming. The list could go on.<br \/>It is time for the United States to look elsewhere, learn from others and develop a lot more humility. The alternative increasingly looks like movement toward a failed state.<br \/>Carl Meilicke<br \/>Vancouver, British Columbia<br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">To the Editor:<\/strong><br \/>Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/12\/opinion\/facebook-privacy.html\" title=\"\">Facebook Is Targeting You<\/a>,\u201d by Shoshana Zuboff (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, Nov. 14):<br \/>Facebook and other companies are providing a service in exchange for the information they gather. If people don\u2019t like the terms of this deal they should not use the service.<br \/>I don\u2019t use Facebook; I don\u2019t find it useful. I do use Google, as I do find it useful. The outrage seems absurd since most of the \u201cvictims\u201d of this \u201cweaponization\u201d seem happy with the situation.<br \/>Matt Noel<br \/>Boulder Creek, Calif.<br \/>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/28\/opinion\/letters\/woke-politics.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AdvertisementSupported bylettersSend any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.To the Editor:Re \u201cIt\u2019s Time for a New Term,\u201d by John McWhorter (Opinion, Nov. 19):\u201cWoke\u201d is too important to let go of without a replacement. 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