The profusion of rhetorical and logical fallacies exhibited in these articles would cause a rhetorician, such as my wife, major heartburn. One simple example from the second paragraph suffices: Francisco refers to Antonio Gramsci, the well-known Italian Marxist theoretician, "whose work was translated into English by Notre Dame professor John Buttigieg (father of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg)". We have here several errors of rhetoric or logic: guilt by association, sweeping generalizations, missing the point, ad hominem. Gramsci has been translated by many scholars, including the elder Buttigieg, but Francisco attempts to connect Gramsci directly with the homosexual Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, John's son, who has nothing whatever to do with Gramsci. It is a cheap smear and an attempt, as seen throughout these articles, to build a bandwagon reaction against "Wokeism" (to which he applies a cartoon-like definition) based on emotion, aspersions, tenuous links to those with which we disagree. We expect better from the Lutheran Witness. Christian charity and intellectual rigor demand that the writers and editors use honesty and discipline, not splenetic outbursts or emotional attacks, to argue their points. There are many serious criticisms of various brands or aspects of "wokeism" but this screed is not among them.