NARRATIVE – The woke fever has subsided. The great cultural revolution that attempted to transform American society in the name of a radical vision of racial and sexual justice has lost its vigor. The election of Donald Trump marked an end to his domination.
The signs of decline of the woke movement began with that of its vocabulary. This social and cultural revolution was largely driven by its language, which had spread in recent years from sociology faculties and via social networks into public discourse.
Systemic racism, critical race theory, LGBTQ+ rights, diversity and inclusion, affirmative action and unconscious bias, identity and intersectionality, fluid gender, and safe spaces for vulnerable minorities , microaggressions and neutral toilets open to people of non-conforming genders, cisgender and racialized people, the male gaze and white fragility, the pronouns that we attach to our name or that we wear as badges, genuflection in front of the American flag as a sign of protest against a country founded on racism, genocide and oppression, the denunciation of white privilege and…
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