September 26, 2023

I ordered Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke back on August 9 when the far-left Huff Post was trying to cancel him for being far-right Richard Hoste twenty years ago.

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Hey Broadside Books at HarperCollins! Thanks for not canceling Hanania’s book; we far-right fascists will remember that, after the revolution.

Hanania’s book is a blow-by-blow account of how the whole civil rights/affirmative action/diversity racket works — at the Department of Labor, the EEOC, the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education — and how it makes complete sense that corporate America has signed on to the holy quest for “Justice!” It’s just too hard — and expensive — to push back.

He then goes on to show how it was government that prompted the creation of all the new races and genders, and how top-down “social engineering” causes all kinds of problems.

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Then there’s Chapter 7: What Is to Be Done, a blow-by-blow account of how the next Republican administration can excise the woke cancer in the body politic. “What is to be done:” that rings a bell, somehow.

Hanania ends up with a chapter on “Unleashing American Freedom and Creativity.” He writes:

Civil rights law is an extreme form of central planning in an area of life where centralization of power can do some of the least good and some of its worst damage.

“Central planning”: could you just check with social scientists Joe Stalin and Mao Zedong about the results of their central planning research, dear liberal friends?

Hanania doesn’t think that the woke equality operation is as strong as it looks. He thinks that when a Republican president starts issuing executive orders to take down Woke, that the “backlash will be limited.” After about ten years, people will just forget all about wokeness.

Hanania believes that Woke is the consequence of the government’s steady expansion of the civil rights racket. I go bigger, using Crane Brinton analysis in The Anatomy of Revolution and say that Woke is signaling the failure of the liberal project. Brinton says that when a revolution fails, it ends in the final frenzy of a Reign of Terror, a Great Purge as the revolutionaries confront the failure of their Holy Quest. Since he wrote his book, we’ve had Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the U.S. Woke Frenzy to prove his thesis.