The woke left’s highest aim is to inject divisive politics into everything — especially into the few remaining things that unite us.
a moment of reckoning for the woke left who went so crazy on Bezos’ dime while giving readers none of the content they wanted to read. When he bought the newspaper, the Amazon billionaire was hailed as the savior of a grand old institution that had fallen on hard times.
He offered not just a lifeline, but a huge amount of investment to expand the role and reach of the paper, which had been lapped by newer competitors in covering the nation’s capital. Instead of seeing this opportunity as a kick in the pants, motivating better coverage of the things that interest Washington readers, the Post leaned hard into woke, race-focused, pro-transgender,The death of DEI: Med schools’ racial preferences degrade all doctorsWoke California school board member loses it when staff uses word ‘homeless’ instead of ‘unhoused’ No section was safe from the absurdity: Consider, for example, 2021’s ridiculous deep-dive feature story on the racist implications ofWashington, the name of both the city and the paper, is problematic, the Woke Post told us. So are the many local monuments and statues built to honor America’s greatest historic figures — the very thing that brings tourists our way. Perhaps jealous of The New York Times’ 1619 project, The Post pursued its own TEMU version for years. Its staffers covered such deeply important questions as whether it was sexist to dislike the all-female “Ghostbusters” reboot, or racist to like Dungeons & Dragons. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the sections that had nothing at all to do with politics — particularly the sports pages. The Post’s sports section was once legendary, with names like Shirley Povich, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon, Sally Jenkins and Tom Boswell drawing readers with their lively coverage. Yet the very paper that sold millions of copies on the back of Kornheiser’s cocky “bandwagon” columns boosting the ’90s-era Washington Redskins became a chiding, lecturing nag in the hands of a younger generation.historic goal performance for the Capitals, the big question for the Post was: Is it problematic to root for a Russian, given the war in Ukraine?Maybe that’s why the crowds stopped subscribing. There’s a reason the sports staff’s most glowing coverage was reserved for trans athletes and for Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe. It’s because the woke left’s highest aim is to inject divisive politics into everything — especially into the few remaining things that unite us. In the run-up to the Super Bowl, the Post was doing its normal schtick: ignoring the storylines people care about to instead cover things that non-sports fans think youBut one area in which that chestnut does apply is the case of a newspaper that’s supposed to appeal to a wide audience in a major city, and instead only speaks to those who want constant lectures on the new thing that’s racist, sexist or problematic.But that’s ignoring the truth. As acid-tongued social critic David Burge puts it, the aim of the woke left is to “target a respected institution, kill & clean it,” and “wear it as a skin suit, while demanding respect.”And not even one of the world’s biggest billionaires was willing to keep lighting cash on fire to support this amount of crazy.But there’s no great market for the wokeness The Washington Post was selling.The tiny detail in the Nancy Guthrie ransom note that makes FBI experts think the writers aren't even in USThe tiny detail in the Nancy Guthrie ransom note that makes FBI experts think the writers aren't even in US
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