Michael Hiltzik: Right-wing culture warriors say wokeness is dead. They can't even define it
Across the intellectual heavens, the cry is heard: "Wokeness is dead."
The story is that the movement for diversity, equality and inclusion in American society and workplaces has shot its bolt.
Corporations are downplaying their diversity programs, and some are even telling employees who pressed them for inclusive policies to go find work elsewhere.
Teachers and school librarians are on the run, forced to screen schoolbooks for any hint that America hasn't reached perfection in its race relations, lest they be subject to arrest.
The outcome is school bookshelves devoid of books, because those that used to be there have been found wanting, or merely because no one has time to page through them in quest of textual nonconformities with white privilege.
Keep your eye on this trend. It won't be long before culture warriors like Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., start taking credit for killing "wokeness."
At the moment, however, they're still riding the anti-woke hobbyhorse. On Presidents Day, when we honor Presidents Lincoln and Washington (go figure), Which issues are those? She didn't say.
