Today, 09:11 PM
Critical Theory threads]
This is a long one, but it provides a broad overview of how things developed to get us where we are now.
The Rise of the Woke Cultural Revolution
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/rise-woke-cultural-revolution/
James Lindsay (14 April 2021)
For at least three or four years now, I have, together with my closest colleagues, been recognized as something of an authority of the ideology most of us just refer to now as “Wokeness.” Spanning that time, certainly at least as far back as early 2018, I have frequently faced the challenging question of “how did this Woke stuff escape the university and go mainstream?” While we were doing the Grievance Studies Affair, in fact, we ended up in an epic argument about the issue that led to us giving a kind of quirky name to the difficulty we had in answering this question. We called it “crossing the Tim Pool Gap.”
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