I think these are closer examples than you think. ‘Don’t Say Gay’, ‘Junk bonds’, and ‘Unicorns’ aren’t movements, but neither is ‘FOOM’ - in each case they are a cute name for a thing that people want to draw attention to and have other people take seriously. Similarly, I think you have the woke example backwards—the term has been successfully developed by anti-woke people to draw attention to the dangers of the woke movement and have people take the threat seriously (not just a silly thing on college campuses) and gather a coalition to oppose it, in the same way that we are trying to draw attention to the dangers of FOOM as a serious thing (not just a silly science fiction thing).
True, foom is not the movement but it’s the serious outcome they are trying to get ppl to bw concerned about.
But I think “woke” was in fact a term developed by the ppl espousing it, not by the anti-woke. So I think this might be evidence that flippability of a silly name might be an argument against using it.
I think these are closer examples than you think. ‘Don’t Say Gay’, ‘Junk bonds’, and ‘Unicorns’ aren’t movements, but neither is ‘FOOM’ - in each case they are a cute name for a thing that people want to draw attention to and have other people take seriously. Similarly, I think you have the woke example backwards—the term has been successfully developed by anti-woke people to draw attention to the dangers of the woke movement and have people take the threat seriously (not just a silly thing on college campuses) and gather a coalition to oppose it, in the same way that we are trying to draw attention to the dangers of FOOM as a serious thing (not just a silly science fiction thing).
True, foom is not the movement but it’s the serious outcome they are trying to get ppl to bw concerned about.
But I think “woke” was in fact a term developed by the ppl espousing it, not by the anti-woke. So I think this might be evidence that flippability of a silly name might be an argument against using it.