An excellent article. On a side-note, in regard to the way in which some writers try and dismiss 'woke' as an 'Americanism', even if we restrict discussion about 'wokeness' to the movement that emerged in the 2010's, Rakib Ehsan surely should know better than to just dismiss it as an 'Americanism'. At the time in which he was an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, there was a wave of student feminist societies being founded across the country by students who had dipped into far left politics during the student protests of 2010/2011. The Royal Holloway Feminism Society was founded in February 2011 and was already proto-'woke', with there being discussions of 'intersectionality' (a key theory in the early 'woke' movement) already in 2011, if not earlier during the student occupations in November 2010. None of this should have escaped Ehsan's attention. Whilst some ideas came from the US, the student feminist resurgence in the UK started independently, as far as I am aware, and was the origin point of the UK 'woke' movement of the 2010's. Combine that with your pertinent points about the pre-existing legal and political structure that could be described as 'woke' or proto-'woke' and the entire argument is shown to be obfuscation. I am sorry if I have gone on an irrelevant digression.
>This has achieved mixed, though perhaps not quite non-existent, results.
What the hell is this sentence? Why would you need the qualification of "not quite non-existent" after you already specified "mixed", a much higher standard of results?
An excellent article. On a side-note, in regard to the way in which some writers try and dismiss 'woke' as an 'Americanism', even if we restrict discussion about 'wokeness' to the movement that emerged in the 2010's, Rakib Ehsan surely should know better than to just dismiss it as an 'Americanism'. At the time in which he was an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, there was a wave of student feminist societies being founded across the country by students who had dipped into far left politics during the student protests of 2010/2011. The Royal Holloway Feminism Society was founded in February 2011 and was already proto-'woke', with there being discussions of 'intersectionality' (a key theory in the early 'woke' movement) already in 2011, if not earlier during the student occupations in November 2010. None of this should have escaped Ehsan's attention. Whilst some ideas came from the US, the student feminist resurgence in the UK started independently, as far as I am aware, and was the origin point of the UK 'woke' movement of the 2010's. Combine that with your pertinent points about the pre-existing legal and political structure that could be described as 'woke' or proto-'woke' and the entire argument is shown to be obfuscation. I am sorry if I have gone on an irrelevant digression.
>This has achieved mixed, though perhaps not quite non-existent, results.
What the hell is this sentence? Why would you need the qualification of "not quite non-existent" after you already specified "mixed", a much higher standard of results?
Perceptive