The Origin of Woke

And how Woke took over academia. From The Other McCain: ‘There Is No Truth … Only Power’

Any argument must stand or fall on its own merits. As every educated person knows, attempting to refute an argument by attacking the personality of its proponent is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem. Nonetheless, it has been my observation that advocates of unusual arguments — ideas that seem destructive or counter-factual — generally have something in their biography which helps explain their motives.

tl:dr on that - "Bad causes attract bad people."

The 3 people (that this article attributes) that formed the basis of woke:

1. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, only power exists. (Your truth)
2. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning (redone for a "modern audience")
3. Deleuze taught that we should prefer desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity. (feelings)

From three philosophers imported from France, we get the state of higher education today, which for the most part doesn't educate, but indoctrinates. We get a generation of "writers" who have no idea how to write a story that anyone is interested in; they can only write for themselves.

There is much more, and if you start following links, the rabbit hole is pretty deep. Still, I think it is worth a bit of your time.