Woke Rising

The young are creating a woke emergency:

Woke may not be able to triumph just yet, but, one funeral and one hire at a time, it is on course to prevail. Consider that a Harvard-Harris poll finds nearly half of Zoomers support Hamas over Israel while a Skeptic Research Center survey finds that a similar share believe “the Israeli government advocates for white supremacy.” Among older people, the share who agree is in low single digits, exposing a massive generational canyon. This youthquake is taking place across the West. I find that British 18-25-year-olds split evenly over whether J.K. Rowling — who thinks a biological male is not a woman — should be dropped by her publisher while fewer than five percent of those over 50 do. Progressive illiberalism may be less fashionable in the boardrooms of 2024 than it was in 2020, but its writ will likely run through them in 2044. As Kaufman sees it, conservative priorities must reorient away from economics and foreign policy toward the reform of cultural institutions. We should not lull ourselves into the comforting conceit that the kids will grow out of woke. If the rise of secularism is any indication, the young can readily serve as the shock troops of a new order, leading society toward transformative value change. Detailed analysis of five decades of survey data by Dennis Chong and his California political-science colleagues shows that young people as recently as the early 2000s were much more tolerant of speech that might offend a sensitive member of a minority group than their Gen-Z counterparts are today. College-educated youth, the leaders of tomorrow, are now more likely than young people with just a high school diploma to believe in moral absolutism, overturning decades of prior research.

They're so right, they won't admit when they're wrong...