>>22084498Occupy wall street. The establishment realized the kind of punk rebel ethos of the 90s and 00s might not be the best way to indoctrinate youth. Atheists were encouraged to target Christians, but with the internet you had atheists saying "hey, Islam is a problem too, a bigger problem in fact" and gaining traction, remember this was during the war on terror with 9/11 still fresh in memory.
They basically pulled the plug and decided it was time to give weather underground postmodern poststructuralist critical theory a crack, something that had been curdling under the surface since the 60s which might be known more as "identity politics" or "woke". During OWS all sorts of special interest groups showed up, they funded stages and microphones, and they all had an obsession with demographics and "diversity". They were going to give the stand not to white boys to talk about economics in the wake of the housing bubble and recession, as you would expect with literal "occupy wall street", but to minorities to talk about racism, gays to talk about homophobia, women to talk about feminism and so on.. This was the "progressive stack". They would make the call for change, and corporations would gladly abide by their demands while ignoring any kind of push for real economic reform.
The wind was taken out of the sails of the atheist movement. You can't have heckin' privileged white males criticizing islamarino, what about the millions of doctor and scientist refugees, reporting on muslim rape gangs and 9 year old aisha and 50 year old muhammad would spread heckin' islamophobia.
