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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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    Trump Puts Fed Wokeness to Sleep
    President Donald Trump took another step toward fulfilling his promise to “drain the swamp” on Friday when he authorized Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to ensure that federal agencies no longer hold “woke” reeducation trainings. The memo directs agency heads to “cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive,…
    Tony Perkins
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    The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America
    If much of the dire rhetoric behind America’s moment of racial reckoning seems from an oppressive world of a half-century ago, that’s because it comes from “critical race theory,” a decades-old philosophy deeply skeptical about the possibility of racial progress. It turns up in the best-selling book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White…
    John Murawski
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    Cancel Culture Comes for America’s National Monuments
    The nation’s monuments are under fire from the progressive left. A new report commissioned by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the federal government “remove, relocate, or contextualize” the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and six other statues and monuments. Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal and author of “The War on History:…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Need Not Apply in Basketball, Physics, and Fighter Pilots
    Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation’s social justice warriors. Both professional and college coaches have ignored and threw out…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Activists Reenact Communist ‘Struggle Sessions’ for the Insufficiently Woke
    Silence is violence. That’s the attitude of radical “woke” activists, who increasingly demand that fellow Americans not only agree with them, but publicly demonstrate their support at all times. Several viral videos from Washington, D.C., on Monday show groups marching around the city, shouting slogans, and yelling things like “white silence is violence.” In the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Radical Left’s Ideas Could Destroy America for Generations
    Rioting. Vandalism. Bullying opponents into silence. Calls to defund the police, abolish the Electoral College, and remake America as a socialist country. It’s hard to believe what we’re now seeing. For months, the forces of Marxism, socialism, and anarchy have terrorized our streets and threatened the values that make America the greatest nation in the world. They have…
    Kay C. James
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    How the Media Drives Radical ‘Wokeness’
    “Fake news” isn’t the only media problem in 2020. An important analysis in media trends of the past decade shows how activist journalism is promoting radical racial “wokeness.” There was a time when the woke ideology was firmly ensconced in the ivory tower and limited to radical corners of our university system. But now it’s…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Philadelphia Statement’ Defends Free Speech From Cancel Culture
    Asserting that cancel culture has put freedom of expression in crisis, a statement initially signed by 45 prominent individuals from universities, think tanks, and other organizations asserts that expressing “ideas we find offensive is not an act of ‘violence.’” Called the Philadelphia Statement, the 845-word document says in part: If we seek to change our…
    Fred Lucas
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    3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe
    In our summer of discontent, of protests and then riots in what many view as a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, we’ve seen previously radical ideas such as defunding the police become the norm. Not only that, we’ve seen liberal institutions such as The New York Times…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Newest Demon in the Left’s Sights: Woke White Women
    Torch-carrying neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, were the face of white supremacy in 2017. Today, it’s “Nice White Parents.” That’s the title of a new podcast distributed by The New York Times, which argues that many black and brown children are not excelling in our public schools because of “what is arguably the most powerful force in our…
    J. Peder Zane
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    How ‘Wokeness’ Is a Product of Marxism
    “Wokeness” has become the nomenclature for the ideology or mentality of radical leftist activists on college campuses, at protests, and on social media. But wokeness has not been limited to just a handful of activists. It’s becoming a dominant mindset in the American workplace, in both the public and private sectors, as a method to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Peaceful Riots’? Journalism Bows to the Woke Mob
    Just a few weeks ago the idea of “peaceful riots” would have seemed absurd, but the American media is nothing if not inventive these days. Earlier this week, ABC News reported, “Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.” Legal scholar Eugene Volokh…
    Mark Hemingway
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    Republicans and Democrats Agree on Need to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’
    Seeing the rise of “cancel culture” can lead one to despair. But don’t believe the hype. Virtue is not being canceled. Most Americans, in fact, believe forgiveness is an essential part of a just society. Consider a recent survey by the Cato Institute. It revealed that 49% of all Americans say cancel culture is negative….
    Angela Sailor
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    7 Woke Rebellions in America’s Newsrooms
    After more than 280 reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal signed a stinging letter to the publisher last week criticizing the newspaper’s conservative opinion pages, the editorial board fired back: “We are not The New York Times.” The previous month, the Times had its own staff revolt via Twitter after its opinion editors…
    Fred Lucas
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    Standing Up to ‘Wokeness’ and the Intolerance of the Mob
    From around the country, we are hearing stories about companies, schools, universities, and others that are making public confessions and flagellating themselves for America’s supposed “systemic racism.” What is most concerning about that is not only the falsehood of their claims and the denial of history that’s required to make those claims (such as Princeton…
    Katharine Gorka
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    Cancel Culture Comes for Pentagon. Latest ‘Woke’ Proposal Would Hurt National Security.
    The radical left demanded that we defund the police, then upped the ante by calling for them to be disarmed. It started with toppling Confederate statues, then started in on most any cast or carved image—from Christopher Columbus to abolitionists to Mount Rushmore. Last week, it howled for a boycott of Goya food products after…
    James Carafano
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    Attorney General Says Hollywood ‘Kowtowing’ to China, Warns US Executives Against Acting as Chinese Foreign Agents
    Attorney General William Barr said Thursday the Chinese government has achieved a “massive propaganda coup” by shaping the content coming out of Hollywood, while warning U.S. business executives against acting as agents of the communist regime in possible violation of foreign lobbying laws. Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Barr offered a sober…
    Chuck Ross
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    A New York Times Columnist Falls to the Cancel Culture
    New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss is the latest victim of the cancel culture, resigning after what she calls bullying by more liberal colleagues at the newspaper. Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast, joins today’s show to talk about Weiss’ resignation,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Problematic Women: Cancel Culture Comes for Goya Foods and Ronald Reagan
    Canned beans and frozen maduros are the left’s latest victims of so-called cancel culture. Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, offered remarks at the White House for the June 10 signing of the Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, a project meant to improve Hispanic Americans’ access to education.  Unanue complimented President Donald Trump, calling him “a builder,” and…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    Cancel Culture Tries to Cow Goya Foods’ Bob Unanue
    It looks like Bob Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods Inc., may be the first American corporate leader to stand up to cancel culture and tell the mob he’s not scared. But he has fulfilled an even more important role. The farcical attempt by liberal politicians and celebrities to boycott Goya products because Unanue visited…
    Mike Gonzalez
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