By JOHN ZMIRAK | STREAM
I just got back from a conference of African-American pastors. I have arrived. I’m now an “ally.” That’s a word from Woke-speak, the language of social justice warriors. It’s a weird dialect. Kind of constricting, really. Like Orwell’s Newspeak, it conveys only a narrow range of concepts. By design. In Woke-speak, you can only really say the following things:
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I feel guilty.
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Even guiltier than you.
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Which means I’m a better person, because I feel like an even worse one.
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But you and I can agree, at least: THAT guy over there is even worse than we are.
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Want to have some sterile, depressing sex? I’ve printed out our consent forms. …