Another State University Overrun by Wokeness

Originally Published on The National Review

Nearly all American colleges and universities are now run by people who are sympathetic to the “woke” agenda and eagerly push it at every opportunity. True believers never let up and never say, “That would be going too far.”

East Carolina University is a mid-tier school in the UNC system, and its recent beginning-of-the-year faculty convocation was revealing. In today’s Martin Center article, Ashlynn Warta describes the thorough politicization of the event.

The first thing on the agenda was a discussion of “land acknowledgement,” meaning that ECU sits on land that was wrongfully taken from the original inhabitants. That’s a fad among the woke these days. Not that ECU is going to give the land back, but it’s important to make people feel guilty…