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The role of Tumblr is under-appreciated. A lot of the online techniques and patterns come out of fandom.

But the ideological content has a much longer history, going back to the evolution of Critical Theory in the 1920s and 1930s, the postmodern/post-structuralist turn in the late 1960s, the progressive conquest of Teacher education: particularly the adoption of Freirian Critical Pedagogy. “Wokery” can be reasonably described as Critical Constructivism (James Lindsay says this) or the popularisation of Critical Theory (Bishop Barron).

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Yes, you have to be careful about that. The views of French postmodern/post-structuralist thinkers were definitely adapted, but the adaptations do not necessarily directly reflect what the thinker said. But such adaptations are definitely an important part of the story.

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