Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“One of the more maddening aspects of the rise of wokeness in the last decade was how some of the younger advocates for ‘social justice’ responded to criticism. ‘Read a book,’ they’d tell me, and roll their eyes. I was twice their age, had relevant degrees from Oxford and Harvard, but I could obviously only believe what I believed because I had never ‘read a book.’ No discussion was possible until I had ‘educated’ myself — a task they refused to expend any ’emotional labor’ on. … It wasn’t the differing opinion that upset me. One of my queerest character traits is that I love differing opinions. It was the assumption that none of this was opinion at all, but merely established empirical fact — of which I was blissfully unaware, probably because I was a bad-faith bigot, or had never picked up a book.” (10/31/25)