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The War on Woke is Killing Social Justice Terms
In African American Vernacular English, words can take on layers of meaning. "Woke" is but one example. Every group has the ...
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Trump Said He's Going To 'End' Woke — But Experts Point Out This Embarrassing Mistake
In Tuesday’s joint address of Congress, President Donald Trump said there was one bogeyman he wanted America to stand against: Being “woke.” “We’ve ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and ...
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How ‘Woke’ Became the ‘Woke Right’ (and Why It Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone)
Quickly after its embrace, however, “woke” underwent what linguists call pejoration, by which a positive or neutral word takes on a negative meaning. In this case, it went from referring to ...
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Trump Said He's Going To 'End' Woke — But Experts Point Out This Embarrassing Mistake
“‘Woke’ has definitely been co-opted and stripped of its Black cultural roots and meaning,” Richardson told HuffPost. “It has been used to manipulate white fear and to promote ...