I feel like that's basically what you're saying, except that what I'm (ignorantly) ascribing to Hanania here and what you're saying disagree on the cause. I guess in Hanania's framing, wokeness was inevitable once affirmative action existed in the legal framework; whereas in Dee's faming, wokeness was not inevitable once affirmative action existed, but is a separate phenomenon that then seized upon the tool. I'm probably doing both of them an injustice with that, mind.
(To be clear, I'm not in the US and avoid most social media, so I don't particularly have opinions on this either way, I just immediately thought 'the internet' when Scott referred to the cultural turn between 2010 and 2015 and asked "Why would 1964 and 1991 laws turn wokeness into a huge deal in 2015?".)
The pseudonymous Internet of the time had a social flattening effect - as the saying went no one on the internet knows you're a dog, or a polyamorous asexual demiboy - and all that was needed to accelerate a new, expansionist ideology to overwhelm the established order was a lot of immature people with time on their hands and an unsupervised net connection.
Interestingly, I was going to say Hanania's missing element could just be graphs like these: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-internet-users-in-the-United-States-from-2000-to-2019-Internet-World-Stats_fig3_348660091 - i.e. affirmative action laid the groundwork for this, then people connected, coordinated, and used it much more aggressively.
I feel like that's basically what you're saying, except that what I'm (ignorantly) ascribing to Hanania here and what you're saying disagree on the cause. I guess in Hanania's framing, wokeness was inevitable once affirmative action existed in the legal framework; whereas in Dee's faming, wokeness was not inevitable once affirmative action existed, but is a separate phenomenon that then seized upon the tool. I'm probably doing both of them an injustice with that, mind.
(To be clear, I'm not in the US and avoid most social media, so I don't particularly have opinions on this either way, I just immediately thought 'the internet' when Scott referred to the cultural turn between 2010 and 2015 and asked "Why would 1964 and 1991 laws turn wokeness into a huge deal in 2015?".)
The pseudonymous Internet of the time had a social flattening effect - as the saying went no one on the internet knows you're a dog, or a polyamorous asexual demiboy - and all that was needed to accelerate a new, expansionist ideology to overwhelm the established order was a lot of immature people with time on their hands and an unsupervised net connection.