The History of WOKE. There’s nothing new to this cultural nonsense.
Dr Kevin Donnelley is an educator, author and social commentator who has written extensively about the origins of the cultural phenomena known as “woke” and its earlier incarnation, “political correctness”. These seemingly ‘nice and harmless’ trends are actually very unpleasant and dangerous. And they haven’t appeared out of nowhere - they have been deliberately driven for decades by political activists seeking to fundamentally change the values that made the west free and prosperous.