Overview: I offer a critical examination of On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. While I assume his account of Christian (and beyond that, objective) morality fails, I argue Nietzsche’s work is not without its usefulness, and, in fact, provides a plausible psychological framework for understanding how many people are drawn to contemporary issues of political correctness, in particular “wokeism.” In the end, I propose whatever else the status of Nietzsche’s moral ontology or epistemology may be, he nevertheless pinpoints something very deep and true (and unsettling!) about human psychology that continues to motivate contemporary political behavior.