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Wake up, Woke People
White progressives must stop worshipping at the altars of false gods when it comes to race
As a subscriber to The New Yorker, I get daily dispatches from the magazine’s humor section, “Daily Shouts.”
Yesterday, I read a piece called “A Day at the Church of White Guilt” by Randall Otis and Josh Johnson, both writers for “The Daily Show.”
I couldn’t believe it. The so-called “liberal media” — my media — was finally, finally poking fun at what’s going on with so many white people.
To give you just a taste of the brilliance:
Thank you to Otis and Johnson for writing this, and thank you to The New Yorker for publishing it. For having the courage to overcome the fear of being cancelled and to call out the cult of “White Fragility.”
I can only hope other publications grow a sense of humor and follow their lead. While it is hilarious to watch all the white people who have become Charles…
