The Reckoning is not an organization, a motto, or even a defined objective dictionaries tell us that the word itself only means “the settlement of an account” or, more ominously, that a “day of reckoning” is “a time when something must be atoned for or avenged.” Today’s Reckoning is a multifaceted effort by educators, journalists, and political figures to re-evaluate the entire sweep of the Western narrative according to novel considerations of how deeply the story has been tainted by hitherto overlooked forms of discrimination and oppression. But one term may sum up the entire range of modern advocacy around anti-racism, feminism, and gender more broadly than any other, and that term is the Reckoning. Some have tagged these campaigns with the dismissive labels of “Identity Politics” or the “Woke Left,” while more analytical observers have used the umbrella description of “the Successor Ideology,” to characterize a new set of progressive values espoused by younger generations of activists.
There are many designations lately applied to social justice movements on behalf of women, non-white people, the LGBTQ community, and other groups: #MeToo.
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