The “ideas“ of the woke Left are not new. Orwell understood the danger they posed 75 years ago.

Wokeness is a leap back into dark times

A British and German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as 'the truth' exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as "Science". There is only "German Science," "Jewish Science," etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past.
George Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, 1943

The targets and the terms of dismissal have changed. So has mainstream acceptance. Someone who ranted about “Jewish science” could never have a show on MSNBC. Rachel Maddow, however, is celebrated when she dismisses Nobel laureates and pioneers in medicine as just a bunch of dudes.

Leftists Wage War on 'Dude Walls' in Pursuit of Socialist Utopia

The good folks at NPR don’t really have a problem with Maddow’s superficial dismissal of those men and their achievements.

Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White 'Dude Walls' Of Honor

Makes you wonder: who are the real heirs of the Nazis?

Theodore Dalrymple understands the real goal of the SJWs and their war on history and science. For the “woke”, he notes,

history is nothing but the backward projection of current grievances, real or imagined, used to justify and inflame resentment.

The object of such historiography is to disconnect everyone from a real sense of a living past and a living culture.
Our Culture, What’s Left of It

After cutting ourselves off from the living past and the real people who lived there, what do we have left?

At Yale Medical School, they draw life lessons from mediocre children’s literature:

He grew up reading Harry Potter books, and in that fictional world, portraits can talk to the characters. "If this was Harry Potter," he muses, "if they could speak, what would they even say to me? Everywhere you study, there's a big portrait somewhere of someone kind of staring you down."

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