Shaking Up The World (at Least Temporarily)

I like this article by Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman: A political reawakening? A mass emergence from the woke slumber.

"Call it a realignment, call it a political awakening, call it a vibe shift. Something has changed since the attacks on Israel. 

"Here’s an example of what we mean: a friend, appalled at the equivocation and apologia in the West after the brutal Hamas killings, told one of us that he used to consider himself a  'conscientious objector' in the culture wars. 'Not anymore,' he said. October 7 changed that.

"Liberal friends were suddenly talking about buying guns. Progressive friends were texting about topics like border security and immigration. In a whisper, one even admitted to watching Fox News.

"If it’s clear that the last two weeks have been a wake-up call, the next question is: Why? 

"Part of the answer is the sheer depravity of Hamas’s terrorism. That depravity has made the justification and celebration of their acts by those who police pronouns that much starker. The contradictions and moral bankruptcy of a worldview that spends years worrying about microaggressions and tone policing, but can’t decide what side it is on after the beheading of babies, aren’t exactly difficult to spot.

"To put it another way: when Black Lives Matter organizations are lionizing Islamist terrorists by posting a paraglider logo, you’d be a fool not to reassess things. 

"As Konstantin Kisin writes in his powerful essay today in The Free Press: 'The events of the last week have shattered the illusion that wokeness is about protecting victims and standing up for persecuted minorities. This ideology is and has always been about the one thing many of us have told you it is about for years: power. And after the last two weeks, there can be no doubt about how these people will use any power they seize: they will seek to destroy, in any way they can, those who disagree.'

"The other aspect of it, we think, is the sense of how thin the line is between civilization and barbarism. And how the West, which so many take for granted, is more vulnerable than we ever imagined."

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It'd be nice if the woke woke up permanently, but I haven't personally seen any evidence of that.  We Jews have always been awake. Any liberals who have temporarily woken up will soon be sleeping again when they no longer are forced to think about antisemitism.  And the comatose DEI crowd will continue with its usual politically correct obsessions as if nothing at all has happened.