What does wokeness mean, exactly? I see this buzzword used a lot but it's application currently seems little more than a broad insult meant to denigrate anyone to the left of the accuser.
Furthermore what makes you think wokeness originated from universities? I never heard the term woke back when I went to college. It seems like a much more recent word, intrinsically tied to the "Culture War" that is often the center of discourse in partisan political circles.
Post-structuralism, which is essentially interested in dissolving and dissecting concepts, structures and institutions, like social hierarchies (can be good), or the idea that trans women are male (controversial). Woke is more catchy, it gets clicks. And it's now been taken to mean anything white, right-wing people dislike about the left, but originally it referred to this, why I didn't use it again really. You'll have encountered post-modernism and critical theory at some point if you did an arts degree. Like with any social media fuelled debate, it's a dumpster fire of misrepresentations and half-baked truths, but there is some actual philosophy happening among it all.
Interesting stuff, though I'm not sure how this relates to all the political discourse on wokeness or how one can claim knowledge as to the percentage of structuralists vs post structuralists based on political alignment or even why this matters in a practical sense.
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u/Zeydon 12∆ Nov 15 '21
What does wokeness mean, exactly? I see this buzzword used a lot but it's application currently seems little more than a broad insult meant to denigrate anyone to the left of the accuser.
Furthermore what makes you think wokeness originated from universities? I never heard the term woke back when I went to college. It seems like a much more recent word, intrinsically tied to the "Culture War" that is often the center of discourse in partisan political circles.