On: How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

[angelzen]

Occupy Wall Street died when infected with identitarians.

Unions, as weak and pathetic as they are, become a whole lot more interested in pronouns, systemic racism and illegal immigration than fighting for a decent wage and decent working conditions for their paying members.

Politically, there is no more discourse on behalf of the poor or working classes, only for identitarian version thereof. With the obvious effect that the shunned identities naturally don't support erst left wing policies that exclude them on identity marker basis.

Wokeness is a huge win for the ruling class. Divide and conquer at its best.

[ww_wpg → angelzen]

Unions have been on the decline for decades going back to the deregulatory and anti-labor policies of Neo liberal governments and that probably has a lot more to do with the problem than pronouns

[angelzen → ww_wpg]

You've got cancer and then died of pneumonia. These are both deadly.