Citations:wokelash

Noun: "(neologism) a backlash against media, speech, etc. deemed inconsistent with social justice principles, or viewed as perpetuating unwoke or reactionary ideas"

 * 2019, Kyle Smith, "The Mob vs. Joker’s Director", National Review, 4 October 2019:
 * His unguarded remarks about the state of comedy inspired a huge wokelash.
 * I don’t want to overstate what’s happening to [director Todd] Phillips, but his detractors are a bit ridiculous, and calling out people who are being a bit ridiculous is part of my job description (along with scolding David French for loving Aquaman). In the High Court of Social-Media Justice, Phillips stands in the dock charged with two crimes. First, he has claimed without cause that cancel culture exists and is detrimental to the comedy business. Second, in Joker he has made an irresponsible movie that is going to warm the hearts of incel lunatics, maybe even nudge them toward violence.
 * I don’t want to overstate what’s happening to [director Todd] Phillips, but his detractors are a bit ridiculous, and calling out people who are being a bit ridiculous is part of my job description (along with scolding David French for loving Aquaman). In the High Court of Social-Media Justice, Phillips stands in the dock charged with two crimes. First, he has claimed without cause that cancel culture exists and is detrimental to the comedy business. Second, in Joker he has made an irresponsible movie that is going to warm the hearts of incel lunatics, maybe even nudge them toward violence.
 * I don’t want to overstate what’s happening to [director Todd] Phillips, but his detractors are a bit ridiculous, and calling out people who are being a bit ridiculous is part of my job description (along with scolding David French for loving Aquaman). In the High Court of Social-Media Justice, Phillips stands in the dock charged with two crimes. First, he has claimed without cause that cancel culture exists and is detrimental to the comedy business. Second, in Joker he has made an irresponsible movie that is going to warm the hearts of incel lunatics, maybe even nudge them toward violence.

Noun: "(neologism) a backlash against or mass rejection of wokeness, or of media, policies, etc. deemed woke or politically correct"

 * 2021, Celia Walden, "Are we finally seeing an establishment 'wokelash ' ?", The Telegraph (UK), 15 November 2021 (only used in title):
 * If there’s one sentence I hear more often than any other from Telegraph readers, it’s that “the pendulum will swing back”.
 * Actually, sometimes it’s a “dial” that “will right itself”, or the more generalised assertion that “good sense will prevail” – but the point is that throughout the darkest, wokeist years, you have remained largely optimistic. Certainly, you’ve never been hell-in-a-handcarters – even when I was face-down on my keyboard over the shameful lack of “womanholes” in the streets of Britain, and the “ode to statutory rape” that is Baby It’s Cold Outside.
 * 2021, Ibram X. Kendi, "The Mantra of White Supremacy", The Atlantic, 30 November 2021:
 * Some centrist Democrats today say “woke” politics have gone too far and provoked the “wokelash” (causing Democrats to lose elections in 2021).
 * 2021, Ibram X. Kendi, "The Mantra of White Supremacy", The Atlantic, 30 November 2021:
 * Some centrist Democrats today say “woke” politics have gone too far and provoked the “wokelash” (causing Democrats to lose elections in 2021).