Breaking the World

But at least there will be no more foie gras.

They want foie gras, oysters,

and so-called gender freedoms!

It still stuns me to think a confection called “wokism” bothered people so much that they’d break the world rather than endure it.

Gender fluidity, anger at sexual harassers, and tweets condemning the police—sure, many people find wokism (né political correctness) a nuisance.

And, come on, they have a point if you’re inclined to irritation with your fellows, as many of us are. There are indeed people who affect fancy or punctilious or righteous language. People who come home from college indignant about stuff they grew up with—from religion to fried food to everyday racism. And people who broadly seem snooty and disdainful of their perceived social inferiors, and, more galling still, who condemn them all as racist morons.

But jerking the ship of state to the the far right? That’s a full-blown tragedy.