For me it was Evergreen College. (I hope I'm getting that right). I remember watching the videos and thinking "Man they are in for a major wake up call", but then that didn't happen. Instead the faculty just caved and acquiesced to absolute imbeciles.
I remember thinking "What the hell are the faculty doing?!" They need to expel these morons!
Then I saw this Jordan Peterson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM7jpTJWPkg (can't find the original, but this is the video) And thought "wow, a voice of reason!" but instead he was attacked.
I was asleep a long time, I just didn't care about politics. I was entirely unaware of the lying media.
Politics to me was "boring and irrelevant". Every politician that came to power never really affected me. I'd see cries of "The economy is doing horrible" and I did not see any difference whatsoever. The economy is doing great vs the economy is doing horrible looked identical to me.
The first time a politician actually had an affect on my life was Obama, with "Obama Care". Suddenly my insurance shot up in price and absolutely sucked. I'm off on a tangent and this is before I noticed "Wokeness", but I have seen it infect everything now. My job, my kid's school, the job's of everyone I know, and the nation as a whole.
When did you start to notice it?
1973, had a woman bitch me out for holding a door open for her. You could tell it would go downhill from there.
Well, I find that men always hold doors open for me and I always thank them sincerely and let them know I appreciate their gentlemanliness.
Yes
I started noticing it about 10 years ago, but i didn't call it woke, i called it delusional f'n people.
political correctness.
yes that is when it started obama
"I am now a lot more selective in who I allow to be my friend" This is the way!
Pre-woke phase. Princess Diana. Her ex-husband. Not so much the causes they supported as the opportunities for photo ops.
Noticed a distinct anti-Republican bias in movies and literature decades ago (even early Stephen King, long before he went completely off the rails); remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978.
Dick Van Dyke's show Diagnosis Murder has some wokiness to some of its scripts. (1990's)
I noticed in 2008 voters tripping over their feet to get to the polls to vote for Obama to prove they weren't racist.
Conversation around 2014 with my late sister, who hated the oil companies and aspired to own a Tesla, when I mentioned the lithium mining to make EV batteries and the devastating impact on the environment, it went completely over her head.
Political correctness accelerated around 1989 and it partly morphed into wokeness around 2012 when obama would’ve had a son who looked like trayvon
The guy in the pink shirt saying "It's Ma'am!" followed by the video of the employee in the vape shop screaming like a child because a customer was wearing a MAGA hat.
These people have always existed but this is about when I realized they are being encouraged and protected.
Mid 80s, we had a black football player in our school... one of 3 black kids... he was pretty awesome and everyone like him cuz he was just a redneck like the rest of us... one was a black girl and we all loved her cuz she was one of the nicest kids at school and was very pretty... nothin' woke about them at all...
THEN
There was one scrawny gay black dude that was just a straight up faggot and talked about it all the fuckin' time.
At the time, we just ignored / stayed away from him as much as possible but the some of the dipshit little white girls liked being friends with him for whatever reason...
That was kinda the start that I first noticed.
45 years ago in elementary school, when they told us we couldn't line up in Boys' Lines and Girls' Lines anymore.
Never heard of such a thing before that.
Apparently Bennie never heard of XX and XY chromosomes.
I noticed it when I had my first 'awakening' and got shunned and cancelled for questioning the 'official' story of the Boston Marathon....followed by my then questioning of 9/11....not being allowed to question Islam/Muslims, followed by Obama's nationality and classrooms of school children singing songs praising him, followed by Sandy Hook...followed by global warming, etc.
No tangent at all, the Affordable Care Act was a key turning point in American tyranny. If you previously didn’t pay attention to politics, your instincts were good that obamacare was a big deal in a very bad way. The health insurance corporations wrote the bill and bribed the politicians to pass it, and the bill mandated citizens to be forced to purchase the products of the health insurance corporations. It was a new level of brazen corruption. It resulted in the main about seven health insurance corporations consolidating down to about four so that they could engage in oligopolistic practices such as price fixing. Then citizens got high premiums, deductibles, and copays, but for low coverage.
Props for oligopolistic.
"Politically correct is politically incorrect."
Me
20 years + ~{°¡°}~
Ten years ago. I was too distracted with school, work, and ex girlfriends before that. Went out with this hot med student, when I told her my dad was the stay at home parent while I was growing up, she still tried to twist what I said as being misogynistic, like the idea that I thought that was different meant they hadn’t come far enough?
She also got mega offended by a beer event specifically aimed towards women, something I’ve seen other women clamor for. Oh, and she said she quote, “never had a boyfriend” but I’m pretty sure both she and her friend were trying to bang me at first…
They’re both outspoken, leftist activist abortion doctors now. I matrix dodged many bullets then.
2011
Early to mid 90s - All started when "Everyone gets a trophy"
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do we keep score?" Vince Lombardi