As the brief, but intense “woke” mania recedes in American history (though not quite yet in Europe), the historical examination of what it was should commence.
Periodically in American history, the nation falls into social hysterias. American culture, for whatever reason, seems particularly hard wired towards such movements. Likely, the Puritan influence accounts for this. These periodic hysterias are frequently called “witch hunts” because the first of them happened in Salem, Massachusetts and the authorities did indeed, on the word of (likely) mentally ill teenaged girls, hunt down mistresses of the dark arts for identification and purification.
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