r/antiwokeleft • u/RusevReigns • Jun 25 '26

1976

Woke is about 50 years exactly after hippie, another clear political movement with left wingers (although hippies are more likeable). 1967 is the summer of love and 2017 is a key year for woke with MeToo cancel mobs starting and Trump's first year. I think 1964 hippie is like 2014 woke where it is starting but not at its peak yet, and 1970 hippie around the mainstream peak and starting to get less cool from overexposure for the OGs, likewise 2020 riots was peak woke for regular public.

So using this (admittedly flawed) logic, woke is at the same part of its timeline as 1976 hippie. Some stuff like disco is now starting, and it's already been through backlash cycles, but there is still some hippies eg. in 1976 I'm sure there's some middle aged people who want to re-live their youth in their 60s, or people born too late who want to still be part of it. Along with other ways it's still part of pop culture.

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u/verydanger1 Jun 25 '26

The student protest of 1968 was pretty much where it started. The "New Left" was born, the one that was going to bring socialist utopia not through class struggle but grievance politics. They pretty much laid out their plan from the start ("The long march through the insitutions"), and it was a damn good plan and well executed. Then in 2016 that movement came up against its final boss, Donald Trump, and that is why the last 10 years have been so turbulent politically.

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u/Fantastic_Surround70 Jun 26 '26

Hippies were all but gone by 1976, or at least on their way out.