The Consequences of a Wounded Activist

John Avlon: The broad brush characterizations about the woke activists traffic and eotypes are an example of the overly sensitive, sour mind set that the complainers are attributing to woke colleagues. Most of the people challenging institutional leaders these days are doing so on behalf of broadly desirable objectives, not because they have contempt for institutions, but because they are committed to them. "I would just like to remind, take this opportunyy to remind everyone, almost every bad thing that has happened in human history has been a result of good tentions," he says.