> Veganism, exercise, obsession with health etc, it hasn't really percolated down much.
They aren't pushing exercise and health, just the opposite. "Stay inside. Obesity is beautiful. Drink coca cola."
'Wokeism' (or at least significant parts of it) is, contrary to popular opinion, not an elite project. The reason why it has actual pull in society is because it to a large degree comes out of fairly old-school, activist organizing.
> 'Wokeism' (or at least significant parts of it) is, contrary to popular opinion, not an elite project. The reason why it has actual pull in society is because it to a large degree comes out of fairly old-school, activist organizing.
I think it's both, and the activist aspect is why it's so effective and embraced by the Twitter slacktivist crowd.
Identity politics was pushed by the elite to divide the underclass into small pieces. After Occupy Wall Street, they shifted the national discussion and focus away from class to identity.
"Wokeism" isn't a religion, it isn't new and it "percolated" up from Black activism to white liberalism to the elites, not down.
"John McWhorter: The Neoracists": https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neorac...
"The New Religion Of Anti-Racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHUu9sAGKo
"Wokeness: old religion in a new bottle": https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/14/wokeness-old-religi...