# Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past?

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**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287 "2024-11-15T15:14:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287/43 "2024-11-15T16:47:55Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Again: it doesn’t take a few fringe leftist radicals. There are zero Haitians eating people’s pet cats, and there are zero schools performing genital surgeries. _When people are lying about you, stop focusing on getting them not to lie about you_. There is no way to get them to stop shouting about the Woke Left, so don’t bother trying. **Try something else instead.**

What is that proposed something-else? Everything that could be tried, has been tried.

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