Is the Great Awokening really over?
Professor David Rozado has been demonstrating that you can quantitatively measure how obsessed Establishment elites are with a particular topic by counting how often, say, the New York Times or academic papers use a particular tendentious term.
Words associated with the Great Awokening began turning upward in usage around a dozen years ago, and skyrocketed after George Floyd’s demise, as you could guess from, say, the public statements of Kamala Harris over the decades. For example, on November 1, 2020, Kamala tweeted out this hilariously lame cartoon about how Equity is better than Equality:
Yeah, but 2020 was a different eon than 2024. Right?
Rozado finds some evidence for the idea that the Great Awokening is fading slightly in his latest analysis of how often DEI jargon has been used in academic papers from 1900 into 2024. A half dozen terms, such as “racism” have become less obsessive concerns after peaking around the crazed year of 2021:
On the other hand, lots of other terms, such as “diversity” and “inclusion” remain up-up-up:
Kamala’s 2020 fave “equity” fell slightly in 2023, but is up in early 2024.
Steve, is there any way you can make these substack emails go out at sometime other than 3:17 AM PST?
Sort of (more or less) ties in with Gato's recent column that wokeness is a self-perpetuating refuge for the incompetent to avoid being judged on merit.