Last year, Republicans were bewailing, almost from a script, the idea of “wokeness,” which according to the dictionary is a “state of being aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality.”
Of course, the definition of “woke” is in the eye of the beholder. The GOP version of the term was not an earnest person trying to right wrongs or understand societal inequities. It was more a caricature of a shrill, hectoring, humorless lib nattering on about some perceived slight.
This year, the going outrage was “cancel culture,” of wokesters publicly calling out someone to enforce the emerging social norms.
Now, the conservative indignation machine has shifted to “critical race theory,” which is seemingly everywhere all the time.
CRT is an academic theory that says race is baked into all aspects of our existence, be it social life or in legal, business and political frameworks.