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I think it was amplified in 2020. I hear many cite 2015 as the year things got woke. Terms like "preferred pronoun" started entering the mainstream around 2015,
by xdennis 3y ago
I think it was amplified in 2020. I hear many cite 2015 as the year things got woke. Terms like "preferred pronoun" started entering the mainstream around 2015, one year after GamerGate (not that that was the cause).
- felipeerias 3y agoPicking a starting point is always going to be somewhat arbitrary, but the moment it became mainstream was probably when Hillary Clinton won the nomination in 2016 by explicitly moving away from economic issues: “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line-that-may-have-won-hillary-clinton-the-nomination-40504/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line...