The Origins of Woke
(Courtesy of the author)
A forgotten satirical book from the nineties predicted cancel culture.
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At a church book sale in my Toronto neighborhood, I found The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, a bestseller by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf first published 30 years ago. I always gravitate to books like this—first to see whether there is anything new in this world, and then to remind myself that the overly simplistic answer is n…
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