Huh! I had heard it in passing before the past 6 years, but over the past 6 years is when I started hearing it enough to get a binding for “wokism”, which I think is a keyword that had a strong binding for me. My intuition wants to round it off to “I hadn’t heard it until the recent definition”, which I think is technically wrong, but still matches my perceptual data fairly well. Shrug, it’s not actually that important; one could add some connecting words that would make it clearly a description of something bad, even as someone who strongly approves of large swaths of what the right would label “woke” I do think that there’s a kind of performative wokeness that fails to be actually awake in the ways I care about and thereby fails to implement the coprotection of beings that I’d want people to wake up to in the first place.
Huh! I had heard it in passing before the past 6 years, but over the past 6 years is when I started hearing it enough to get a binding for “wokism”, which I think is a keyword that had a strong binding for me. My intuition wants to round it off to “I hadn’t heard it until the recent definition”, which I think is technically wrong, but still matches my perceptual data fairly well. Shrug, it’s not actually that important; one could add some connecting words that would make it clearly a description of something bad, even as someone who strongly approves of large swaths of what the right would label “woke” I do think that there’s a kind of performative wokeness that fails to be actually awake in the ways I care about and thereby fails to implement the coprotection of beings that I’d want people to wake up to in the first place.