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I'm 33, but the reason I chose 2005 was because it was the latest year that I was sure was before "wokeness" was a thing. I also live in the rural Midwest, so

I'm 33, but the reason I chose 2005 was because it was the latest year that I was sure was before "wokeness" was a thing. I also live in the rural Midwest, so I figured that was about how far in the past you on the coast think we are with this sort of thing - and you'd be right, to an extent.

slg 5y ago
Which means you were 17 in 2005 which fits my theory perfectly. "Wokeness" might not be a term that existed in 2005, but like I said, there were multiple waves of the same ideal going back before 2005. Maybe you should examine why you are ok with the "political correctness" wave of the 90s and not the "wokeness" wave of the last decade plus. Is it potentially because you didn't see the earlier waves in real-time as a mature adult?