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@TerranceSciarrotta [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Is it just me? Or is the word #Woke being yet again #reappropriated by not just by #whitepeople in general, but NOW the #politicians are using it in their #ideological phrasing! I'm #whiteish hehe I'm an 8th #boricua so not totally hehe but getting off topic... I'm #offended [URL redacted]
"Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, uses the phrase near the end of the recording of his 1938 song 'Scottsboro Boys', which tells the story of nine black teenagers accused of raping two white women, saying: 'I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there-best stay woke, keep their eyes open'. [14][15] Aja Romano writes in Vox that this represents 'Black Americans' need to be aware of racially motivated threats and the potential dangers of white America.'[16] J, Saunders Redding recorded a comment from an African American United Mine Workers official in 1940, stating: 'Let me tell you buddy. Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we'll stay woke up longer.'[17]
By the mid-20th century, woke had come to mean 'well-informed' or 'aware', [18] especially in a political or cultural sense. [9] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled 'If You're Woke You Dig It' [19] by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of African American slang by white beatniks. [9]
Woke had gained more political connotations by..."
#IRLMusicianHuddieLedbetterAKALeadBelly
#1938_ScottsboroBoys
#WebsiteVoxAjaRomano
#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift
Context #WebsiteSnopes "The word 'woke' is broadly used to describe a state of being 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice' according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. While it originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early part of the 20th century, the term has become a common part of American slang. Its usage has evolved and grown so much that conservatives now use it as a pejorative to refer to progressives or left-leaning liberals." [fact-checked]
Context #WebsiteSnopes "The word 'woke' is broadly used to describe a state of being 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice' according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. While it originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early part of the 20th century, the term has become a common part of American slang. Its usage has evolved and grown so much that conservatives now use it as a pejorative to refer to progressives or left-leaning liberals." [fact-checked]
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#TauntWokeMob used by
#NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPost
#CaricaturistMichaelDeAdder https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/06/grand-old-cancel-culture/ to foreground the irony of
#PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon.s protesting a supposed
#CatchcryCancelCulture, which is
#PhenomnCensorship.ing (seemingly) much-loved characters, including:
#BrandDrSeuss
#1957_TheCatInTheHat
#FictionalCharacterMrPotatoHead
#FictionalCharacterPepeLePew
While at the same time advocating
#PleaBoycott.s of these barands:
#BrandDeltaAirlines
#BrandCokeCocaCola
#OrgUSMajorLeagueBaseballMLB
#BrandTheHomeDepot
In their protest over the
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP passing the contentious
#LegislationUS2021GeorgiaElectionIntegrityAct (Election Integrity Act of 202). The boycott
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/georgia-voting-laws-trump-republicans-urge-boycott-of-woke-companies-7zzhjkhn2
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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: Please reproach your MPs for the tacit acceptance of the #woke #cancelling culture of #leftwaffe #Fascism. My example (sent to @jamesowild MP) shown with the attachments I added. Retweet virally, God Save the Queen @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily [URL redacted]
"The publishing purges
Kate Clanchy has been forced to rewrite her Orwell Prize-winning book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, on the grounds that it features 'racial tropes', e.g. describing a child of colour as having 'almond eyes'. After a social media storm, she apologised and said she was 'grateful' to those who'd attacked her for showing her the error of her ways. The publisher has also apologised for 'the hurt we have caused' and thanked the book's critics. The Orwell Foundation has said it acknowledges the 'concerns and hurt expressed' about the book, which it lauded just a year ago. Anthony Brett tells the full story of the 'ugliest cancellation in recent history' in the Telegraph - and it seems to be metastasizing. Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, has been condemned by the Society of Authors, of which he is President, after he came to Clanchy's defence and compared her critics to members of the Taliban. The Society has issued a statement telling its members 'to be mindful of their privilege'. Our General Secretary, Toby Young, was interviewed about the controversy for talkRADIO.
Sarah Ditum has written an article for the Times about the battle between ideological purity and literature and concluded that purity is winning. Tom Slater says in the Spectator that what has happened to Clanchy is 'faintly Stalinist, with a grovelling apology following the howling denunciation'.
Meanwhile, Mills & Boon has asked its authors to write novels with more socially progressive heroes, says FSU Advisory Council member Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, while Ben Lawrence makes a plea in the Telegraph to keep the cancel culture mob away from musicals."
#AdvocacyUKFreeSpeechUnionFSUBenjaminJones
https://freespeechunion.org/weekly-news-round-up-25/
#IRLAuthorKateClanchy
#2019_SomeKidsITaughtAndWhatTheyTaughtMe
#OtheringStereotypeCulturalEthnic
#OrgUKTheOrwellFoundation [Wikipedia]
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAnthonyBrett
#IRLAuthorPhilipPullman [Wikipedia]
#ConditionCancerMetastatic [Wikipedia]
#OrgUKSocietyOfAuthorsSoA https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/11/society-of-authors-philip-pullman-tweets-kate-clanchy
#MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray
#NMUKGBNews
#OrgClassifPPUKReformUKPartyLtdFKATheBrexitPartyLtdNigelFarage
#NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil
#OrgAFTaliban
#BrandNewsCorpUKTalkKevinOSullivan
#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesSarahDitum [Wikipedia]
#MagazineAUTheSpectatorTomSlater
#IRLDictatorJosephStalin
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson
#BrandMillsAndBoon
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphBenLawrence
"Dear Mr Wild,
We depend on Parliament as the instrument by which our democracy is defended, yet by silence you and other MPS show tacit acceptance of the Woke 'culture' which has seen authors rewrite and publishers reprint books, charities 'reappraise' statues and artwork. You allow ongoing illegal immigration risking everything from new COVID19 variants to Marburg disease and ebola, ISIS infiltration and child-rape grooming gangs. In short you are as effete as any Roman senators during their decline.
Vernon Moyse"
#IRLAuthorVernonMoyse [digital archives]
#TauntWokeCulture
#PhenomnImmigrationRefugee
#ConditionVirusCOVID19
#ConditionVirusMarburgMARV [Wikipedia]
#ConditionDiseaseEbola [Government]
#OrgSyndicateTerrorismISISDaeshISIL
#PowerControlViolationRape /
#PowerControlViolationPaedophilia
#ConspiracyTheory_CabalGroomingGang
#CharacterisationWeaknessEffete https://thesaurus.plus/related/effeminate/effete
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