Objections to “cancel culture” and “wokeness” often underline apparent similarities between the ideas and tactics of 20th-century communism and today’s anti-racism. Both movements seem to deny the possibility of neutrality. From either perspective, all of us appear to be caught up in a long-running historical conflict, and our slightest acts, even of speech and thought, strengthen one side against the other. In the midst of a mortal struggle that divides the world, it hardly seems possible to insist on one’s right to the enjoyments of private life, in which pleasures do not have to justify...…Objections to “cancel culture” and “wokeness” often underline apparent similarities between the ideas and tactics of 20th-century communism and today’s anti-racism. Both movements seem to deny the possibility of neutrality. From either perspective, all of us appear to be caught up in a long-running historical conflict, and our slightest acts, even of speech and thought, strengthen one side against the other. In the midst of a mortal struggle that divides the world, it hardly seems possible to insist on one’s right to the enjoyments of private life, in which pleasures do not have to justify...WW…