{"id":146648,"date":"2021-01-04T04:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T01:15:54","slug":"wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wokeness is no mere\u00a0academic threat and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368d8f39fd9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368d8f39fd9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/#Liberal_Wokeness_Is_No_Mere_Academic_Threat\" >Liberal: Wokeness Is No Mere Academic Threat<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/#Health_beat_Our_Ancestors_Werent_Ripped\" >Health beat: Our Ancestors Weren\u2019t Ripped<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/#Pandemic_journal_Please_Ditch_Failed_Strategies\" >Pandemic journal: Please, Ditch Failed Strategies<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_The_Worst_Elites_%E2%80%94_Lousy_and_Mighty\" >Iconoclast: The Worst Elites \u2014 Lousy and Mighty<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-is-no-mere-academic-threat-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_Bring_Back_the_Coffee_Date\" >Culture critic: Bring Back the Coffee Date<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Wokeness is no mere\u00a0academic threat and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/cdc-sign.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Liberal_Wokeness_Is_No_Mere_Academic_Threat\"><\/span>Liberal: Wokeness Is No Mere Academic Threat<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYou may have assumed that woke activism was a sideshow\u201d affecting academe and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wokeism-should-terrify-liberals-opinion-1557871\">writes Mickey Kaus at Newsweek<\/a>. But we learned recently that \u201cit had penetrated an important, once-revered government scientific agency,\u201d touching \u201cbasic questions of life and death for millions.\u201d Data suggest\u00a0vaccinating the elderly would save the most lives, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s advisory committee noted \u201cracial and ethnic minority groups are under-represented among\u201d that group, with one expert saying that since white people \u201clive longer,\u201d it\u2019s time to \u201clevel the playing field a bit.\u201d What\u2019s next with this madness? \u201cDo I have to worry that in the future, when I\u2019m wheeled into the ER, some Ivy League bioethicist will have decided I\u2019m too white to get care?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Health_beat_Our_Ancestors_Werent_Ripped\"><\/span>Health beat: Our Ancestors Weren\u2019t Ripped<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Feel \u201cbad about skipping a workout? Blame evolution,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-caveman-would-never-do-crossfit-why-theres-nothing-natural-about-exercise-11609171200\">advises The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Ellen Gamerman<\/a>. \u201cOne of the biggest myths about exercise is that it\u2019s natural.\u201d Yet as Daniel E. Lieberman explains in his new book \u201cExercised: Why Something We Never Evolved To Do Is Healthy and Rewarding,\u201d human beings evolved to save \u201cenergy only for what is necessary or recreational\u201d \u2014 but not\u00a0burning calories for its own sake. Lieberman, a Harvard professor who \u201chelped popularize barefoot running,\u201d dismisses \u201cthis CrossFit mystique that your inner primal macho ripped hunter-gatherer ancestor is who you were meant to be,\u201d adding that \u201cintense crazy workouts\u201d are \u201cnot necessary.\u201d Indeed, there is \u201cnothing wrong\u201d with people who struggle to exercise, but they can beat \u00adnature\u2019s \u201canti-exercise instinct by working out with friends and making commitments like registering for a race.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pandemic_journal_Please_Ditch_Failed_Strategies\"><\/span>Pandemic journal: Please, Ditch Failed Strategies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWith months left to go before vaccination can curtail the pandemic, 2020\u2019s regrets should be 2021\u2019s lessons,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-12-29\/what-went-wrong-in-2020-pandemic-mistakes-top-the-list\">argues Bloomberg Opinion\u2019s Faye Flam<\/a>. The top lesson? Don\u2019t stick to COVID-19 strategies that don\u2019t work, such as the lockdown-and-testing routine adopted across the West. Lockdowns, we learned, are \u201ctoo blunt,\u201d while our testing regimes are \u201ctoo slow.\u201d Indeed, health experts acknowledged early on that \u201clockdowns were never going to eradicate the virus.\u201d And yet businesses and schools remained shut down to \u201cbuy time to get a good testing strategy in place. But that didn\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.\u201d The experts, in other words, \u201cdon\u2019t know how to control a coronavirus pandemic,\u201d and, instead, \u201cthey\u2019re making recommendations as they go along.\u201d This year, we have to be willing to quit their failed methods.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_The_Worst_Elites_%E2%80%94_Lousy_and_Mighty\"><\/span>Iconoclast: The Worst Elites \u2014 Lousy and Mighty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/12\/why-americas-elites-keep-on-winning\/\">Jacob Siegel at Unherd laments<\/a> how \u201celite institutional authority is everywhere collapsing .\u2009.\u2009. even as elite institutions become ever more powerful.\u201d The mask mandates are emblematic. \u201cAfter months of declaring face masks ineffective,\u201d medical gurus like Dr. Anthony Fauci suddenly\u00a0\u00ad\u201cendorsed face covering.\u201d Yet despite this\u00a0failure, Fauci is set to become President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser. Likewise,\u00a0epidemiologists went from decrying all\u00a0gatherings to declaring summer\u2019s race riots \u201cpractically mandatory as a matter of public moral hygiene.\u201d They got away with it, thanks to \u201cthe combined effort of ideological enforcers in the press and on social media, brute intimidation by people with hiring and firing power and the constant appearance of a new crisis to distract from the last.\u201d The \u00adresult: \u201cHalf the country now rejects the legitimacy of America\u2019s nominally non-political institutions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_Bring_Back_the_Coffee_Date\"><\/span>Culture critic: Bring Back the Coffee Date<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At First Things, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/12\/bring-back-the-coffee-date\">Anna Bonta Moreland observes<\/a> that when it comes to romance on college campuses, students seem to only have the options of \u201cquasi-marital relationships, hooking up or opting out,\u201d and \u201cmost choose the third.\u201d Yet \u201cboth hooking up and opting out attempt to control a desire that is at the heart of who we are as human beings\u201d \u2014 the Eros that for philosophers like Plato is essential for drawing us out of our narcissistic selves, \u00adtoward an other. Tinder and porn achieve the opposite. College students can \u201crehabilitate\u201d Eros by learning \u201cto get to know each other with the lights on, in real and not digital relationships.\u201d In other words: \u201cAsk someone to go out for coffee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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