I'd be interested in your take on "wokeism," and a term I recently learned, "presentism," the practice of judging the conduct of the past by the standards of the present. I see a lot of this here in VA, where Jefferson is currently so reviled for being a slave owner that the Thomas Jefferson Regional Health District was renamed the Blue Ridge Regional Health System just so his name didn't have to appear.
I'd be interested in your take on "wokeism," and a term I recently learned, "presentism," the practice of judging the conduct of the past by the standards of the present. I see a lot of this here in VA, where Jefferson is currently so reviled for being a slave owner that the Thomas Jefferson Regional Health District was renamed the Blue Ridge Regional Health System just so his name didn't have to appear.