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America’s Navy Is Leaving Readiness and Morale in Its Wake to Be More Woke
Proponents of wokeness have pulled a fast one on all of us. They say they want the same things we want, such as ending racism and extremism. What they don’t say out loud is that they hope to get there not by building some beautiful new society, but by destroying everything in its path. The…Jason Beardsley -
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We Hear You: Woke Employees, Race in Schools, and Defunded Police
Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience appreciates the commentary by a nonprofit leader about countering wokeism on her staff. Here's a sampling of the response on this and our coverage of related issues, from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Grace Daniel's article on resisting a mutiny by employees of her…Ken McIntyre -
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My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit.
By now there are enough “cancel culture” stories to fill volumes. After my own story about standing up to a woke mob—and succeeding—went viral on Twitter, I decided to speak out, because I am convinced that Americans need more encouraging stories about standing up to cancel culture, and information on how they can do it…Grace Daniel -
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The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting
In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group, and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other…Mark Hemingway -
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Finished Before He Started: One Techie’s Canceling by Woke Apple
A San Francisco Bay Area-based entrepreneur might have broken the record for the quickest cancellation in history, with Reuters reporting his firing less than 48 hours after he was hired by Apple to work on its fledging advertising program. Like seemingly every other large company these days, Apple bent the knee to a vocal minority…Douglas Blair -
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What Conservatives Can Do to Fight Corporate Wokeness
Corporate wokeness increasingly is part of American society. Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, argues that Americans can and should stand up to woke ideology. “The shareholder base of even large companies that are woke, like Facebook, Alphabet, Nike, they’re not monolithically left, but that’s what the vote looks…Rachel del Guidice -
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The Woke Mob Comes for Lincoln
The Department of Veterans Affairs was born of war. In the most biblically righteous inaugural address ever delivered by an American president, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln called upon his countrymen to care for those who had taken up arms in defense of the nation—risking their all in battles that raged from Pennsylvania farm fields and the desert brush of the New…Robert Wilkie -
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Woke Takeover of US Military Endangers Us All
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was fired this month as commander of a U.S. Space Force unit. His “offense”? Speaking the truth about critical race theory’s rapid inroads among America’s armed forces. The woke left views the military as a crucial ideological battlefield. And much of the brass and civilian leadership at the Pentagon are prepared to…Mike Gonzalez -
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Biden Administration Appeals to Woke, Shuts Down Garden of American Heroes Project
Can Americans find no shared history or heroes to celebrate now? On Friday, the Biden administration very quietly canceled the Garden of American Heroes project that President Donald Trump created via executive order on Jan. 18. Trump first announced the project in a Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore. Among other things, President Joe…Jarrett Stepman -
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Diversity in Cybersecurity Tools a National Security Issue
As a former head of the third-largest department in the federal government, I know the critical importance of being able to communicate with key staff quickly and clearly to make operational decisions. But what if your communications have been disabled or compromised? As a leader or manager, what would you do in that situation? Do…Chad Wolf -
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Woke Companies Fail in Efforts to Hurt States Passing Conservative Legislation
Corporate America: heavy on threats, light on action. After the big blow-up in Georgia, most businesses probably thought they’d scared the daylights out of Republicans by going on MSNBC and ranting against the state’s election law. Turns out, the people who should be scared are the woke CEOs. Not only did Major League Baseball’s All-Star…Tony Perkins -
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Woke Corporations Adopt Hypocritical Playbook on China
It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale…Jarrett Stepman -
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We Hear You: Georgia Elections, Baseball, and Woke Corporations
Editor's note: The misrepresentation of Georgia's new election law by politicians and activists on the left is a serious matter to The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling of your reaction from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you for the many well-researched and incisive articles covering the lies and hypocrisy in…Ken McIntyre -
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The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites
Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Woke Capitalism Strikes Again in Georgia
If the problem of “woke capitalism” wasn’t apparent before, the battle over Georgia’s new election integrity law has drawn it out into the open. The law, which adds voter ID requirements to absentee voting, extends some early voting, and places some restrictions on activist activities at polling places, has been billed by Democrats and President…Jarrett Stepman -
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We Hear You: Awake or Woke in America
Editor's note: Judging from your emails, many in The Daily Signal's audience don't recognize the "woke" country around them and long for a return to normal. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I awoke at 5 one recent morning like something had hit me in the head. It was…Ken McIntyre -
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Woke Educators’ War on Tests
Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores. There are seemingly legitimate reasons to oppose the tests….John Stossel -
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The History Behind the ‘Woke’ Invasion of Big Business
Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to…Jarrett Stepman -
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Here Are Some Books the Woke Left Would Replace Dr. Seuss With
As you likely have heard, the latest casualty of cancel culture is Dr. Seuss. And because nature abhors a vacuum, the woke left has a list of books as ready replacements it would prefer that children read instead. The late children’s author Dr. Seuss, aka Theodor Seuss Geisel, has come under fire for drawing a…Jarrett Stepman -
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Woke Math Spreads to Oregon
“Woke” education is not just coming to history, social studies, and the humanities. A recent report by Fox News explained how the Oregon Department of Education encouraged teachers to take “ethnomathematics” training to aid in “dismantling racism in mathematics.” Oregon educators did the training, called the “Pathway to Math Equity Micro Course,” in partnership with…Jarrett Stepman