Race allows humanity to keep inventing, in language that can bend the most rational minds, groups of people whose supposed characteristics justify wh… - Adam Serwer

Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery. (p20 "The Myth of Kindly General Lee")

the anti-political correctness types are really just trying to enforce their own standards of acceptable discourse and are furious at their inability to do so

If editors made writers define what they mean by "woke" in pieces before using it derisively I suspect we wouldn't see it used very much.