Sohrab Ahmari is the op-ed editor of the New York Post. Writing at UnHerd.com, he makes keen observations about the pestilential phenomenon of "wokeness."
It’s hard to deny the religious characteristics of wokeness. The woke have their own liturgies .... They believe in original sin (slavery, colonialism) and exalt themselves as a sort of secular Elect and excommunicate heretics (cancel culture). They’ve built a hieratic structure, composed of high priests (the UCLA critical theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, say), popular preachers (Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo) and ordinary pastors (your workplace diversity consultants). And because theirs is a messianic faith, they are hellbent on imposing it on the rest of us.
A famous New Yorker cartoon caption captures my view of wokeness, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
