Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
@KurtPatchen [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @TallRedhead1014 @marklevinshow Didn't liberals cancel Dr. Seuss?
Oh, and Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
#Woke #CancelCulture #DrSeuss #ACharlieBrownChristmas [URL redacted]
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@MarvinRotondo [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #toploon #shitposting #stolenmeme #meme #stoopid #woke #cringe #ididitforthelulz #pageincomedygold [URL redacted]
#PowerControlMicrofascismShitposting ? i.e. "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality" [Wikipedia]
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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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#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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@CorneliusSeidemann [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Pinkerton: Dr. Seuss Sales Bonanza Shows Why Wokeness Will Lose - Breitbart [URL redacted] #DrSeuss #Woke #wokeness [URL redacted]
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@NicoleSmajic [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : You can buy Mein Kampf on eBay but not the 6 Dr. Seuss books deemed so offensive. Good job woke folk. 👍 Thank goodness I was so worried about those children’s books in comparison. 🤦🏻♀️#woketwitter #woke #parenting #mommyshamed [URL redacted]
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@LarryMohror [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @afbranco @realDrSuess_
☭ancel ☭ulture a.k.a. #WOKE [URL redacted]
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@RebeccaJewsbury [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #CancelCulture #ControlledOpposition #HoneyPot #Usefullidiots #Shills #woke #DrSuess [URL redacted]
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@HannaTrifilio [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : JS #woke [URL redacted]
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#BrandDrSeuss #1957_TheCatInTheHat #1947_McElligotsPool #1953_TheSneetches #1955_HortonHearsAWho #1960_GreenEggsAndHam
#ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #OrgIntlUNWHO #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #NarrativeAntiMasker #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR i.e. #PoliticsCommunism
#CaricaturistBenGarrison
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@BobbieMacculloch [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #cancelculture #DrSeuss #woke is stupid. Grow some balls, ya whiny, daft cunts.
This is still funny. [URL redacted]
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#BrandDrSeuss
#1957_TheCatInTheHat
#1947_McElligotsPool
#1953_TheSneetches
#1955_HortonHearsAWho
#1960_GreenEggsAndHam
#ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #OrgIntlUNWHO #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #NarrativeAntiMasker #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR i.e. #PoliticsCommunism
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@TonyaLauren [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @towhey Woke as in empathy for all humans. #woke
The estate decided not to continue to publish the early works of Dr. Suess depicting Black Folks as monkeys
I know you #MAGA Republicans love that stuff but Black Families don't need to have that convo about white assholery to TODDLERS! [URL redacted]
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@DonKarschner [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Just like Trumptard were emboldened after his win #woke #sjw are now going to try and #CancelCulture anything that hurts their “feels” like #GinaCarano #DrSeuss #MrPotatoHead Its all a goddamn joke. Anyways rant done @edmontonpolice made the right call on this protest 3/3 [URL redacted]
#MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #CatchcryCancelCulture #IRLActorGinaCarano #FictionalCharacterMrPotatoHead #ToponymAmericaNorthCanadaAlbertaEdmontonYEG
"Hundreds of protesters - not wearing masks or social distancing - convened at the Alberta legislature to denounce public-health restrictions." https://www.660citynews.com/2021/02/20/large-anti-mask-and-anti-restriction-protest-underway-soon-in-edmonton/ #PhenomnMaskWearing #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM
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@ClintBuffey [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #DrSeuss #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder #LiberalHypocrisy #Sjw #woke #CancelCulture [URL redacted]
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@ElsieZensen [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Where exactly do I unsubscribe from this ‘new’ #woke mad world?
#DrSeuss #wokemadness #WritingCommunity what’s up??? [URL redacted]
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@JuliannaGoon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @MichelleObama - nothing but a racist #hypocrite. Being #woke?? What a joke!! #DrSeuss [URL redacted]
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@GaylaDantona [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #DrSeuss #DrSeussDay #drseussbirthday #woke #catinthehat [URL redacted]
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@TinaWayton [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: Now the #woke call Dr. Seuss & The Cat In The Hat wholesale purveyors of White Supremacy. Damn those Whites anyway! Cancel Dr. Seuss for his wartime cartoons defending Negros & Jews, and tearing into Jim Crow... Oh... wait... [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#BrandDrSeuss
#1957_TheCatInTheHat
#PoliticsNationalismWhiteSupremacy
#CatchcryCancelCulture
#IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC
#IdentityJewish
#PowerControlSegregationJimCrowLaws
#WebsiteOutKickBobbyBurack https://www.outkick.com/readers-pass/educators-organization-calls-for-dr-seuss-books-to-be-canceled-for-anti-blackness-white-supremacy
#OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSKetanjiBrownJackson
#OtheringDiscriminationRacism
Supplementary #MetaphorPaternalismEpistemic Kitsik, E. (2023). 'Epistemic Paternalism via Conceptual Engineering'. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9(4), 616-635. doi:10.1017/apa.2022.22 [academic source]
Supplementary #MetaphorPaternalismEpistemic Kitsik, E. (2023). 'Epistemic Paternalism via Conceptual Engineering'. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9(4), 616-635. doi:10.1017/apa.2022.22 [academic source]
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