Wall Street Journal editor at large Gerard Baker is far more likely to poke the silly woke than is Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. But kudos were offered to the latter yesterday for his surprisingly brave critique of corporate America’s hypocritical blindness to Communist China’s human rights atrocities, and fairness dictates comparable kudos for the former today as he expands the theme.
Mr. Baker’s “The C-Suite Converts to the New Political Religion” [A15, Apr. 6] notes that even though the middle-aged white dudes running “Major League Baseball, Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola and other [corporate] giants” have enjoyed “long careers in which they seemed happy to let their talents propel them to unimaginable wealth, they’ve now discovered that the society that elevated them was founded in evil” racism that we’re to believe is still all around us.
“But instead of doing the honorable thing, and stepping down in favor of some less-privileged underling” of color, these phonies, as J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield might have called them 70 years ago, explain: “I’m not to blame. . . ; it’s all those other white folk” who are the problem.
Unlike the Post’s Mr. Hiatt, who’d almost certainly lose his job were he even to think about criticizing that paper’s thin-skinned gazillionaire owner Jeff Bezos, the Archbishop of Amazon, Mr. Baker cites bitter unionization efforts at the colossal online retailer to show that even the woke-ist of corporate titans should never believe for a moment that “appeasing the religious tyrants will win [them] a reprieve. . . .” Because it won’t, and we’re all going to hell if we don’t soon stand against these decidedly unenlightened Maoists.