‘Be offended’: How to shut down the woke mob with two words

Published July 29, 2022 12:00am ET



The woke Left has a talent for taking anything and everything and turning it into something by which they can be offended.

Take, for example, a recent online interaction following President Joe Biden’s COVID diagnosis last week. After announcing that Biden had tested positive for the virus, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre clarified that Biden is “still putting in 8-plus hours of work a day.” To the average person, the most offensive part of this statement is the pretense that Biden puts in “8-plus hours of work” on any typical day, whether he has COVID-19 or not. But to Yale Medical School professor Dr. Kimberly Sue, Jean-Pierre’s statement wasn’t just unbelievable, it was … racist.

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