[synchron]

I think it was Camille Paglia who pointed out that before she latched on to feminism, Gloria’s career consisted of writing something like a House and Garden column in the Sunday Slimes Magazine.

Then her “consciousness was raised”.

[The_Reader_David]

I think it more appropriate to describe the occurrence when someone joins the ranks of the left which operate on emotion rather than thought as his or her consciousness having been razed.