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Then-United States Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018 Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT ...
A vast majority, or 78%, of Democrats surveyed said “woke” describes someone aware of injustices, while 56% of Republicans said it describes someone who is extremely politically correct ...
By the mid-20th century, woke "had been extended figuratively to refer to being ‘aware’ or ‘well informed’ in a political or cultural sense," and the dictionary credited Badu's use of the ...
In the wake of the killing of unarmed Black youths such as Trayvon Martin, Twitter users exhorted Americans to “stay woke,” meaning vigilant, about racism and police brutality.
Concerning the real-life political violence caused by the conspiracy theory, law professor Samuel Moyn wrote: "That 'cultural Marxism' is a crude slander, referring to something that does not exist, unfortunately does not mean actual people are not being set up to pay the price, as scapegoats, to appease a rising sense of anger and anxiety. And ...
The expression "cancel culture" has mostly negative connotations and is used in debates on free speech and censorship. [24] [45] Criticism of "cancel culture" In July 2020, former U.S. President Barack Obama criticized cancel culture and "woke" mentality on social media, saying: "People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are ...
OPINION: The people who co-opted, redefined and weaponized the 80-year-old Black expression have finally settled on a concise, standardized definition for "woke." The post ‘Woke’ is the ...
v. t. e. " Political correctness " (adjectivally " politically correct "; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, [ 1][ 2][ 3] policies, [ 4] or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe ...