To imply, without the subtelty that might justify such hubris, that they are the ones who are truly above this, because they are just so damned woke. It remind

To imply, without the subtelty that might justify such hubris, that they are the ones who are truly above this, because they are just so damned woke. It reminds me of George Orwell's classic observation (one of many, let's give credit to those who really deserve it) in The Lion and the Unicorn[1]: > England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. No longer is it only an English disease, millenarianism has spread worldwide and become (ostensibly) a distaste for whiteness and masculinity. There was at least some justification in being against nationalism in Orwell's time, none I can see in this irrational racism-and-sexism-as-self-flagellation for this period. [1] http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye