That's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying that Boomers, as you correctly pointed out, watched the show growing up. And that for many of them, the "woke" stuff just sailed right over their heads at warp factor 14.1 (a joke that works because TOS didn't have the TNG and after warp 10=infinite speed convention).

If Boomers understood the presence of often heavy-handed social critique on TOS the first time around, facebook posts about "when did Star Trek get woke?" wouldn't really get very far. Of course, many Boomers were children at the time, focused on the scifi elements and not social issues in the plot. I watched TNG when I was a kid, and I'm sure I missed some of the less heavy-handed social critique. However, Boomers in general are vocal about things like this, and how their remembrances of things from the hallowed era of the 1960's are undeniable, even though factually incomplete.