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I was a victim of ‘Woke 1’ — and I refuse to let AOC laugh off the harm she caused

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“Woke 1 was crazy,” grinned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday as she sought to brush off a question about ideas she endorsed very recently — like “defund the police.”

She’s letting herself and her allies off far too easy.

The excesses of the toxic hyper-leftism that metastasized in so many American institutions — academia, media, sports, law, government, education, entertainment and the corporate world — were a form of illiberal authoritarianism that did deep damage to individuals and to the fabric of American society.

I know, because Woke 1 came for me.

My crime? Advocating for meritocracy in New York City’s public schools.

I was an attorney with the Legal Aid Society during Woke 1’s peak in the summer of 2020.

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In my off-hours I was also involved in my children’s public schools, and I’d recently been re-elected by fellow parents to sit on the local Community Education Council.

In that capacity I disagreed with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to scrap the color-blind SHSAT, the single........

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