Mastodawn

Some connected concepts :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

Reactance (psychology) - Wikipedia

7/ Result? A mess where “woke” means nothing and everything. We’re stuck yelling past each other instead of talking facts. Let’s do better: start with reality, not labels. 🛑 #Wokism #ThinkFirst

6/ Anti-woke crusaders flipped the script. Instead of starting with facts and naming patterns, they took “woke” and hunted for anything to justify their outrage. That’s backward. It’s not reasoning—it’s just slapping a bad label on anything that bugs them.

5/ The irony? The original “woke” folks were calling out specific wrongs, not waging war on a group. Sure, some were loud or extreme—every movement has its clowns—but their fight was against issues, not “you.”

4/ That personal defensiveness? It morphed into a tribal “us.” Then an “us vs. them.” Suddenly, it’s not about fixing problems but fighting an imagined enemy camp.

3/ Others, feeling uneasy or defensive, grabbed the term “woke” and turned it into a catch-all for anything they dislike. It’s no longer about specific issues—it’s a vague label for whatever triggers their critique of “themselves.”

2/ Some folks called themselves “woke” to point out real or perceived flaws in humanity—old or new injustices. It was about awareness, not a unified agenda.

About Wokism🧵

1/ It’s sad how we got here. Normally, you’d observe phenomena, spot a coherent pattern, then give it a name (like “wokism”). That’s how reasoning works. But that’s not what happened.