Lance Morrow’s “Dawn of the Woke” (op-ed, Aug. 3) is as insightful as it is harrowing. The current climate of the “cancel culture” is indeed evocative of McCarthyism, but it is more frightful and destructive. Where the threshold for condemnation in the McCarthy era was alleged affiliation with “communist sympathizers,” sufficient unto today is the mere failure to publicly join in the denunciation of the latest societal construct or historical figure to be branded as racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Joe McCarthy...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 12, 2020 18:22 UTC