The first mention of the term "woke" in Le Figaro was in 2019. The American intellectual Matthew Crawford explained in an interview what "wokeness" meant: "Being woke is what distinguishes upper-class whites from lower-class whites." We were halfway through Donald Trump's term, the populist president having both exacerbated and surfed on the societal radicalization of the Democratic left. Four years later, "wokisme" made its entrance in the Larousse, and there are countless books devoted to this ideology.
So, are we doing too much with wokism? This is what a whole section of the left-wing intelligentsia thinks, which denounces a debate dramatized and driven by the "far right" (the latter starting with Jean-Michel Blanquer). "Anti-wokism is infinitely more threatening than wokism," wrote 200 academics in Le Monde on May 2. In the Woke panic. Anatomy...
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