Thread by @thomaschattwill

Is there anyone working on a kind of sociology of knowledge of wokeness?

For those asking: I simply mean an analysis or genealogy of the relationship between the constellation of ideas gathered under the umbrella of “wokeness”/“successor ideology” and the social contexts in which they’ve arisen. I don’t mean an argument for it against them.

Ask and you shall receive. This is getting at what I meant:

“Cancel culture is the product of this transposition of moral rhetoric from class conflict to cultural conflicts around ethnicity and race.”

americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/11/libera…

Though it’s not his purpose, @epkaufm helps illustrate why this kind of movement is so American and a particularly difficult fit in a society like France.

“Fundamentalist innovators like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin D’Angelo [sic], or keyboard social justice warriors like Alyssa Milano, are left-modernism’s Sayyid Qutbs and Jerry Falwells.”