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Hippies were much more about social inclusion than environmental issues though at the time. So I think yes the woke movement is definitely a descent of the hipp

Hippies were much more about social inclusion than environmental issues though at the time. So I think yes the woke movement is definitely a descent of the hippy movement. Wokism has a stronger focus on racial elements, bit that was definitely present in the 60s too, just less militant in the hippy movement than it was in the black power movement. Possibly you could argue that wokism fuses black power and hippyism.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> Hippies were much more about social inclusion than environmental issues though at the time. I would argue that they weren't, as a movement, about either, but more inward-directed self-discovery. They were contemporaries with both movements for social inclusion (the civil rights movement) and the beginnings of environmentalism as a mass social movement, and were distinct from both of those kinds of activist movements. They had more in common and probably more overlap with the environmentalist movement (like the hippies, a predominantly white, middle-class movement.) “Wokism” isn’t an actual movement, its just a replacement name for “political correctness” used as a label for same right-wing general-purpose boogeyman that PC served as a label for from the late 1970s until the recent replacement with first and briefly “critical race theory” and, when that proved a bit cumbersome as a generic label, “wokism”.