In 1968, UC Berkeley hired Eldridge Cleaver, a convicted felon and Black Panther leader who called raping white women "an insurrectionary act," to teach a course as part of its inaugural Black Studies program.
The left-wing revolution has always been subsidized by taxpayers.
The left-wing revolution has always been subsidized by taxpayers.
The "coddling of the American mind" thesis is dead-wrong. The precursors to "wokeness" were already in place during the 1960s. They simply adapted the language of "white privilege," etc., as a method of social manipulation. It's feigned weakness as a strategy to accumulate power.
In a sense, Cleaver and the other antecedents of "wokeness" were at least honest about their intentions and their methods. They advocated pure revolution, which has now been passed through the language of HR and psychotherapy.
The frustrating part of our debate now is that our language is comprised almost exclusively of euphemisms. They have filtered the ideology of the Black Panthers through the vocabulary of the hyper-empathetic bureaucracy: "equity, inclusion, belonging, compassion." Utterly fake.
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