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The Daily Signal covers how woke left ideology drives cultural and political division across education, media, and public life. Featuring investigative reporting, analysis, and commentary, this section highlights the consequences of identity-driven activism and the left’s progressive agenda in America.
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    Cancel Culture Comes for Junipero Serra. Here’s His Real Legacy.

    Finally, the mob has realized the need to be inclusive: now they’ve torn down a statue of one of America’s great Hispanics. In San Francisco (no one let the mob know the city itself is named after another Catholic saint!) Friday night, a group of activists tore down a statue of St. Junipero Serra, a…
    Katrina Trinko
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    ‘The Diversity We Have Is Our Strength,’ Says Pastor Miles McPherson

    America needs a way forward after the unjust killing of George Floyd. Miles McPherson, pastor and author of “The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation,” joins the podcast to share his personal story of experiencing racism and how we all can move past an “us versus them” mentality to build relationships with those…
    Virginia Allen
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    Woke Chaos and Naked Power

    With the death of George Floyd—a heinous atrocity virtually every American decries—unity should have prevailed. Americans hate police brutality; Americans care about black lives; Americans despise looting and rioting; Americans want to protect citizens but preserve the ability of the police to stop crime. Instead, the country seems to be falling apart. That’s because of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    J.K. Rowling Doubles Down, Exposes Misogyny of the Woke

    The woke activists have all but told J.K. Rowling to shut up and go back to being barefoot in the kitchen. The “Harry Potter” series author, long known for her liberal views, has been under attack for several days. Her crime? Tweeting that women is the right term, not “people who menstruate.” And then, to…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Sen. Cruz Seeks to Flip the SCRIPT on Hollywood’s Kowtowing to Chinese Censors

    A bill proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that seeks to dissuade Hollywood studios from submitting their movies to the censorship of the People’s Republic of China seems to strike the right policy balance. It would limit government interference in businesses decisions, but exposes an outrage that most Americans likely are unaware of. The Stopping…
    Helle Dale
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    Problematic Women: Young, Woke, and Depressed

    The folks at Teen Vogue are at it again, and this time they’re talking specifically about The Heritage Foundation. We discuss the magazine’s most recent article about transgenderism with Emilie Kao, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. We also address why millennials are the most depressed…
    Virginia Allen
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    Diversity Makes Us Stronger as a Nation, Army Lieutenant General Says

    Roslyn Clark Artis, president of Benedict College, and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham, retired chief of staff for installation management at the U.S. Department of the Army, join today’s podcast. They share their personal stories and how they have shattered glass ceilings in their respective careers, as well as their ideas for reform for higher education and…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    ‘Cowed Into Silence’: Dave Rubin Warns of Cancel Culture, Mob Mentality

    Dave Rubin, who hosts “The Rubin Report” talk show, joins the podcast to discuss the differences between political liberalism and classical liberalism, his recent encounter with Antifa, and the “cancel culture” phenomenon. Read the lightly edited interview below or listen to the podcast: We also cover these stories: The Senate impeachment trial continues, with senators…
    Virginia Allen
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    Diversity Isn’t Always the Answer

    It’s nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician, or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping from their lips. Diversity and inclusion appear to be the end-all and be-all of their existence. So, I thought I’d begin this discussion by first looking up the definition of diversity….
    Walter E. Williams
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    The Perpetual Intersectional Revolution Eats Its Own

    In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive heir apparent to the Democratic leadership, Hillary Clinton. Obama was, of course, the first black Democratic nominee, and he would be the first black president.  Yet in 2020, 12 years…
    Ben Shapiro
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    This Legendary Civil Rights Advocate Is Taking on School Diversity Quotas

    When a school system draws racial boundary lines and denies entry to qualified students on the basis of race, it doesn’t matter if it’s done in the name of segregation or so-called diversity—it is still wrong, according to one prominent civil rights advocate. Terrence Roberts, a member of the original “Little Rock Nine” who entered…
    Kenny Xu
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    At the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Exposes Hollywood’s ‘Woke’ Culture

    Hollywood can’t take a joke. At the annual Golden Globes, an awards show for both movies and television, on Sunday night, host comedian Ricky Gervais was actually funny, lampooning Hollywood in general and its “woke” culture in particular. “Let’s have a laugh at your expense,” Gervais said in opening his monologue at the Globes’ 77th awards…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hollywood Socialism

    Hollywood is now obsessing about increasing ethnic and gender diversity. Good. There’s been nasty racial and gender discrimination in the movie business. Unfortunately, Hollywood has no interest in one type of diversity: diversity of thought. In most every movie, capitalism is evil. Greedy miners want to kill nature-loving aliens in “Avatar.” Director James Cameron says:…
    John Stossel
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    Obama Rejected Race-Based Politics. The Woke Left Demands It.

    In November 2008, the American people elected the country’s first black president. I remember the night clearly—or as clearly as one can given the copious consumption of cabernet sauvignon that night. As I watched the returns at my small Manhattan apartment, Fox News’ Brit Hume called the presidential election for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of…
    Craig Trainor
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    A Gen X Liberal’s Take on the New Woke Left

    “I consider myself a liberal. I still consider myself a feminist,” says writer Meghan Daum. But the past few years have left her shaken. “I did not feel that the new left was necessarily representing my values all the time. There was a sort of purity-policing that interestingly we used to associate with the right.”…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Woke Math Aims to Teach Seattle Kids That ‘Western’ Math Is Racist

    The culture war is coming for you, whether you like it or not. It’s no secret that American history is under attack. The ethos of leftist historian Howard Zinn has made inroads into classrooms across the country, as I explain in my book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” But, lest…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How Wokeness Is Turning Back the Clock

    If you need an accurate update on some of the madness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, check out Minding the Campus, a nonprofit independent organization. John Leo, its editor-in-chief, says that the organization’s prime mission is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education at America’s colleges…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Woke History Is Making Big Inroads in America’s High Schools

    This article was originally published Sept. 17 in RealClearInvestigations. Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power, and privilege. They are taught about colonialism, state violence, racism, intergenerational trauma, heteropatriarchy, and…
    John Murawski
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    How China Finally ‘Woke’ America

    In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China. For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities and political dissidents. Almost every assumption…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Planned Parenthood Advised Hollywood Over 150 Movies, Shows Since 2014, Director Says

    Planned Parenthood advised Hollywood on more than 150 productions since 2014 as part of an effort to influence the abortion dialogue, a director at the nonprofit said. The nation’s largest abortion provider is losing the abortion battle in Washington but is upping its game through Hollywood, freelance journalist Nora Caplan-Bricker wrote Monday in The Washington Post…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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