Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
@TuckerSterrenberg [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @Weaponization @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson #Woke is the fictitious @GOP boogieman. The joke is on #Republicans. [URL redacted]
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@AshlynnFehner [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [04]: Democrats debunk Jim Jordan’s FBI ‘whistleblower’ charade [URL redacted] via @YouTube #GOPLies #weaponization #woke [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJimJordan
#OrgUSFedFBI
#CharacterisationWhistleblower
#NMUSMSNBCChrisHayes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQBqy6HwYg
#MetaphorWeaponisation
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostJosephMenn "The Stanford Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis of the spread of false information on social media during elections, has shed most of its staff and may shut down amid political and legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study online misinformation. Just three staffers remain at the Observatory, and they will either leave or find roles at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, which is absorbing what remains of the program, according to eight people familiar with the developments, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. The Election Integrity Partnership, a prominent consortium run by the Observatory and a University of Washington team to identify viral falsehoods about election procedures and outcomes in real time, has updated its webpage to say its work has concluded. Two ongoing lawsuits and two congressional inquiries into the Observatory have cost Stanford millions of dollars in legal fees, one of the people told The Washington Post. Students and scholars affiliated with the program say they have been worn down by online attacks and harassment amid the heated political climate for misinformation research, as legislators threaten to cut federal funding to universities studying propaganda. ... 'Stanford remains deeply concerned about efforts, including lawsuits and congressional investigations, that chill freedom of inquiry and undermine legitimate and much needed academic research -- both at Stanford and across academia,' Mostofi added. The study of misinformation has become increasingly controversial, and Stamos, DiResta and Starbird have been besieged by lawsuits, document requests and threats of physical harm. Leading the charge has been Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whose House subcommittee alleges that the Observatory improperly worked with federal officials and social media companies to violate the free-speech rights of conservatives. Jordan has demanded reams of documents from Stanford, including records of students discussing social media posts as they volunteered to help the Observatory, and Stamos testified before the House Judiciary Committee for eight hours. 'Free speech wins again!' Jordan posted on X on Friday, calling the Observatory part of a 'censorship regime.'" (14 June #2024_). https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/ #EDUUSStanfordUniversityStanfordInternetObservatory #NarrativeTruthFalsehood
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostJosephMenn "The Stanford Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis of the spread of false information on social media during elections, has shed most of its staff and may shut down amid political and legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study online misinformation. Just three staffers remain at the Observatory, and they will either leave or find roles at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, which is absorbing what remains of the program, according to eight people familiar with the developments, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. The Election Integrity Partnership, a prominent consortium run by the Observatory and a University of Washington team to identify viral falsehoods about election procedures and outcomes in real time, has updated its webpage to say its work has concluded. Two ongoing lawsuits and two congressional inquiries into the Observatory have cost Stanford millions of dollars in legal fees, one of the people told The Washington Post. Students and scholars affiliated with the program say they have been worn down by online attacks and harassment amid the heated political climate for misinformation research, as legislators threaten to cut federal funding to universities studying propaganda. ... 'Stanford remains deeply concerned about efforts, including lawsuits and congressional investigations, that chill freedom of inquiry and undermine legitimate and much needed academic research -- both at Stanford and across academia,' Mostofi added. The study of misinformation has become increasingly controversial, and Stamos, DiResta and Starbird have been besieged by lawsuits, document requests and threats of physical harm. Leading the charge has been Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whose House subcommittee alleges that the Observatory improperly worked with federal officials and social media companies to violate the free-speech rights of conservatives. Jordan has demanded reams of documents from Stanford, including records of students discussing social media posts as they volunteered to help the Observatory, and Stamos testified before the House Judiciary Committee for eight hours. 'Free speech wins again!' Jordan posted on X on Friday, calling the Observatory part of a 'censorship regime.'" (14 June #2024_). https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/ #EDUUSStanfordUniversityStanfordInternetObservatory #NarrativeTruthFalsehood
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@TristanOsoy [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [08]: Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48) announced appointment to House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government, a plague that now pits 100-man SWAT teams against innocent American families in furtherance of #Woke agenda. SEE: [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#WebsiteZenithNews
Context #2013_NSASpyingScandal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned #OrgUSFedDptOfDefenseDODNationalSecurityAgencyNSA #BrandVerizonCommunications #PhenomnMiningData #TechDataAnalysisBoundlessInformant [Wikipedia] #OrgUKGovCommunicationsHeadquartersGCHQ [Wikipedia] #IRLWhistleblowerEdwardSnowden
Context #2013_NSASpyingScandal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned #OrgUSFedDptOfDefenseDODNationalSecurityAgencyNSA #BrandVerizonCommunications #PhenomnMiningData #TechDataAnalysisBoundlessInformant [Wikipedia] #OrgUKGovCommunicationsHeadquartersGCHQ [Wikipedia] #IRLWhistleblowerEdwardSnowden
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"Reminder: Nazi propaganda from 1932 predicted that the French people would be replaced by Africans within 100 years.
Caption: 'The last non-colorful French people the main attraction of the Paris Zoo'"
#HandleTwitter_demog #PhenomnDemography
#1932_DieBernegerungFrankreichsIn100Jahren
#2032_
#ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacement [Wikipedia]
#PoliticsFascismNaziPropaganda
#PoliticsNationalismEthno
#PhenomnColonialism
#PoliticsNationalismWhite
#OtheringDenialDehumanizationSchwarzeSchmach [Wikipedia] ? https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/schwarze-schmach/
#MetaphorPeriodizationInterbellum [Wikipedia]
#PoliticsNationalismFrench
#PleaNostalgia
#TheoryDeclinism
#TheoryAffectiveEconomies
#TheoryHauntology ?
#_Etymology: "Demography is Destiny" [blog]
Context "Die Vernegerung Frankreichs in 100 Jahren [The Negrification of France in 100 Years]; DÉFENSE DE DONNER À MANGER [NO FOOD ALLOWED]; Die lekten nicht farbigen Franzosen bilden die große Attraktion des Pariser Zoo [The literate non-coloured French are the great attraction of the Paris Zoo]" [jpg] #CaricaturistOskarTheodorGarvens [Wikipedia] #MagazineDEKladderadatsch i.e. Garvens, O. (1932). 'Die Vernegerung Frankreichs in 100 Jahren'. Kladderadatsch. Berlin. [academic source] And https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/digi/kladderadatsch.html #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism ? The concept of a #MetaphorSpatialZooHuman [Wikipedia] #SymbolHeadgearHelmetDragoon [Wikipedia]
#HandleRedditPropagandaPosters [commentary] #OtheringElitesBourgeois + #CharacterisationEmasculationAmbiguityAndrogyny versus #TheoryCodedFemininityOver & #CharacterisationWeaknessEffete versus #TheoryCodedMasculinity_
Supplementary #IRLScholarBharathGanesh "The article, which focuses on American and British audiences of the radical right, shows that this transatlantic subculture synthesizes the sense that white identity is under attack by documenting purportedly 'anti-white' discourse and repeating the trope of protecting white women from allegedly sexually deviant men of colour. White thymos describes a complex of pride, rage, resentment, and anger that is created through informational and affective circuits that create the perception of a loss of white entitlement. The flows of white thymos that this article uncovers amongst the audiences of the alt-right are consistent with the history of white rage, from concerns about miscegenation between black slaves and white settlers in the late eighteenth century to protect the white race (Jordan 2013) to the contemporary backlash against equality, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism in the United States and Western Europe (Hewitt 2005, Hughey and Parks 2014, Anderson 2016, Zúquete 2018)." [academic source] #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen #MetaphorWeaponisation #OrgSyndicateHateGroupDEPatriotischeEuropaerGegenDieIslamisierungDesAbendlandesPEGIDA [Wikipedia] [pdf] + #OrgIntlEuropeanConsortiumForPoliticalResearchECPR: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/54151 And [digital archives]
#OrgSyndicateMusicDERammstein [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONj9cvHCado #2022_Angst [Wikipedia] #TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety
Context "Die Vernegerung Frankreichs in 100 Jahren [The Negrification of France in 100 Years]; DÉFENSE DE DONNER À MANGER [NO FOOD ALLOWED]; Die lekten nicht farbigen Franzosen bilden die große Attraktion des Pariser Zoo [The literate non-coloured French are the great attraction of the Paris Zoo]" [jpg] #CaricaturistOskarTheodorGarvens [Wikipedia] #MagazineDEKladderadatsch i.e. Garvens, O. (1932). 'Die Vernegerung Frankreichs in 100 Jahren'. Kladderadatsch. Berlin. [academic source] And https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/digi/kladderadatsch.html #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism ? The concept of a #MetaphorSpatialZooHuman [Wikipedia] #SymbolHeadgearHelmetDragoon [Wikipedia]
#HandleRedditPropagandaPosters [commentary] #OtheringElitesBourgeois + #CharacterisationEmasculationAmbiguityAndrogyny versus #TheoryCodedFemininityOver & #CharacterisationWeaknessEffete versus #TheoryCodedMasculinity_
Supplementary #IRLScholarBharathGanesh "The article, which focuses on American and British audiences of the radical right, shows that this transatlantic subculture synthesizes the sense that white identity is under attack by documenting purportedly 'anti-white' discourse and repeating the trope of protecting white women from allegedly sexually deviant men of colour. White thymos describes a complex of pride, rage, resentment, and anger that is created through informational and affective circuits that create the perception of a loss of white entitlement. The flows of white thymos that this article uncovers amongst the audiences of the alt-right are consistent with the history of white rage, from concerns about miscegenation between black slaves and white settlers in the late eighteenth century to protect the white race (Jordan 2013) to the contemporary backlash against equality, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism in the United States and Western Europe (Hewitt 2005, Hughey and Parks 2014, Anderson 2016, Zúquete 2018)." [academic source] #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen #MetaphorWeaponisation #OrgSyndicateHateGroupDEPatriotischeEuropaerGegenDieIslamisierungDesAbendlandesPEGIDA [Wikipedia] [pdf] + #OrgIntlEuropeanConsortiumForPoliticalResearchECPR: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/54151 And [digital archives]
#OrgSyndicateMusicDERammstein [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONj9cvHCado #2022_Angst [Wikipedia] #TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety
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@MiriamPulst [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #woke
HT. @russJackson [URL redacted]
#IRLScholarRuthWodak "Far-right populist parties thrive whenever there is a crisis. They either construct or exaggerate a crisis or instrumentalize existing crises. They create unreal scenarios of threat and danger, and then they position themselves as the only party and the only politicians who can save 'us' from this crisis and danger. In this way, they first create fear and then hope. This is an interdependent pattern. Which is, of course, not new, which has existed for many, many centuries; but they are very clever at employing this pattern." https://www.populismstudies.org/prof-ruth-wodak-i-am-very-worried-about-the-future-of-europe/
#PhenomnPopulism
#TheoryPoliticsOfFearInstrumentalisingCrisis
#MetaphorWeaponisation
Context #AdvocacyBEEuropeanCenterForPopulismStudiesECPSSelcukGultasli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzVPpNdEjI&t=18s #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateXenophobia #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #OrgClassifPPATFreiheitlicheParteiOsterreichsFPOJorgHaider [Wikipedia] #1989_ #PhenomnImmigrationEconomicMigrant #2015_ #ToponymAfghanistan #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymEastMiddleIran #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymAfrica_ #ToponymAfricaEastSomalia #ToponymAfricaNorthSudan #PowerControlExclusion #PoliticsTechnocracy
Supplementary #AdvocacyNLClingendaelInstituteMarkElchardus "The causes of the contemporary wave of populist successes? These can be largely explained by declinism, the feeling, shared by many, that their society is in decline, that many of the valued things are being lost or even wilfully destroyed. Many people hold the 'political establishment' responsible for the supposed decline, and therefore become susceptible for populism. Using the example of the inaugural speeches of American presidents, this article also illustrates how declinism is concretely used to argue in favour of the main populist propositions." https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2017/3/declinism-and-populism/ #TheoryDeclinism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Context #AdvocacyBEEuropeanCenterForPopulismStudiesECPSSelcukGultasli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzVPpNdEjI&t=18s #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateXenophobia #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #OrgClassifPPATFreiheitlicheParteiOsterreichsFPOJorgHaider [Wikipedia] #1989_ #PhenomnImmigrationEconomicMigrant #2015_ #ToponymAfghanistan #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymEastMiddleIran #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymAfrica_ #ToponymAfricaEastSomalia #ToponymAfricaNorthSudan #PowerControlExclusion #PoliticsTechnocracy
Supplementary #AdvocacyNLClingendaelInstituteMarkElchardus "The causes of the contemporary wave of populist successes? These can be largely explained by declinism, the feeling, shared by many, that their society is in decline, that many of the valued things are being lost or even wilfully destroyed. Many people hold the 'political establishment' responsible for the supposed decline, and therefore become susceptible for populism. Using the example of the inaugural speeches of American presidents, this article also illustrates how declinism is concretely used to argue in favour of the main populist propositions." https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2017/3/declinism-and-populism/ #TheoryDeclinism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
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@ShaunKlepac [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: Brian, the word “Woke” was “Weaponised” by that #Fascist piece of garbage in the USA #SteveBannon & #morons over here have just slavishly followed his play book, not even knowing why they’re repeating it. Let’s just say being #woke tends to mean that you have a shred of #decency. [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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@MandyNalbandyan [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [05]: Good luck #EugeneRobinson & #morningJoe trying 2 get white people not 2 weaponize words like #woke they weaponize words all the time like #Jesus a man born raised & originated on the North East corner of "Africa" as I said "good luck"a man who happens not 2 resemble them n no way [URL redacted]
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@JosephRauert [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [25]: Ben Shapiro makes bold prediction about the left's woke agenda ⚠️ [URL redacted] via @YouTube @benshapiro #BidenHarris #military #socialmedia #schools #crt #woke #aoc #Agenda21 #GreatReset #BigTech #trump #BacktoSchool #BuildTheWall #silentmajority #draintheswamp #maga
#NMUSFOXFNCLauraIngraham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oAhmQCLNsE
#BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro
#2021_TheAuthoritarianMomentHowTheLeftWeaponizedAmerica'sInstitutionsAgainstDissent
#PoliticsAuthoritarianism
#MetaphorWeaponisation
#MetaphorDissenterRebelOutsider
#TauntLeftRadical
#TauntLeftThe #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #OrgIntlUNAgenda21 #OrgIntlWEFGreatReset #TauntBigTech #MetaphorSpatialTerritoryBorderThresholdBoundaryWall #CatchcrySilentMajority #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp #PleaMAGA
#TauntLeftThe #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #OrgIntlUNAgenda21 #OrgIntlWEFGreatReset #TauntBigTech #MetaphorSpatialTerritoryBorderThresholdBoundaryWall #CatchcrySilentMajority #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp #PleaMAGA
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#OtheringOutGroupGangMob #CauseActivismSocial #IdentityLGBTQIA #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandBerkshireGreenhamCommon #CauseNuclearDisarmament #TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety
Context https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-women-who-took-on-the-british-governments-nuclear-programme
Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerMichaelMoore #2007_Sicko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zxxrw7PwVQ&t=46s #OrgClassifPPUKLabourTonyBenn #PowerControlRegulation #MetaphorWeaponisation #TheoryPoliticsOfFearInstrumentalisingCrisis
Context https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-women-who-took-on-the-british-governments-nuclear-programme
Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerMichaelMoore #2007_Sicko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zxxrw7PwVQ&t=46s #OrgClassifPPUKLabourTonyBenn #PowerControlRegulation #MetaphorWeaponisation #TheoryPoliticsOfFearInstrumentalisingCrisis
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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]
[academic source]
#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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@DoraShawen [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : I really wish people would stop using the word #woke as a negative to express being overly sensitive. Its just another positive culture influence being thrown under the bas. I f*cking hate it. Do better. @billmaher [URL redacted]
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@ShawnKukreja [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Earlier I have only seen tbe RWs who were using the #woke to denote ‘Woke liberals’, ‘Woke feminists’ e.t.c. Now, people from progressive circles are also increasingly using it neglecting the history and politics of langauge. [URL redacted]
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianSteveRose "Like 'politically correct' before it, the word 'woke' has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary's definition, woke means 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)', but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don't recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact ... as [Laurence] Fox and others [e.g. Toby Young] have shown, it is as much to do with the issues of racial and social justice. Criticising 'woke culture' has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status. It has gone from a virtue signal to a dog whistle. The language has been successfully co-opted - but as long as the underlying injustices remain, new words will emerge to describe them." (Steve Rose, 21 January 2020, The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right
#PoliticallyCorrectPC
#PhenomnDictionaryMerriamWebster
#TheorySociologySocialJustice
#IRLActorLaurenceFox
#IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
#TauntWokeCulture
#CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality
#TauntVirtueSignalling
#MetaphorDogWhistle
#MetaphorWeaponisation
Supplementary #MagazineNZTheSpinoffAliceNeville [Wikipedia] "The term political correctness as we know it emerged in the mid-80s - this Aussie social work lecturer at Victoria University was an early adopter - but didn't enter the mainstream consciousness in New Zealand until the 90s, ascending slowly but surely until it was absolutely everywhere by the turn of the millennium. With Helen Clark's government securing a second term in 2002, the war against PC hit its stride: National's shadow education minister Nick Smith was railing against the 'political correctness gone mad' of kapa haka being recognised in the NCEA, and for the next few years 'PC gone mad' went a bit, well, mad. According to Hansard, there were 250 mentions of 'politically correct', 139 mentions of 'political correctness' and 82 for 'PC' during parliamentary debates in the 2002-2005 term, which is as far back as online Hansard goes. (It's possible, I concede, that some of those 82 PCs were referencing the family computer.) 'Politically correct nonsense' was a phrase uttered 18 times and 'PC nonsense' 19 times during those three years, mainly, it would seem, by Nick Smith (social workers being required to learn about the Treaty, councils consulting with iwi, kava ceremonies for public servants, resource management reform and changes to the law around guardianship arrangements for kids were just a handful of his targets)." https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-05-2025/how-wokeism-cancelled-political-correctness #MetaphorPeriodization1980s #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #EDUNZVictoriaUniversityOfWellington #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandLabourPartyHelenClark #2002_ #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandNationalPartyNickSmith #1840_TeTiritiOWaitangi [Wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriKinshipWhakapapa [Wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriIwi [Wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANewZealandQualificationsAuthorityManaTohuMataurangaOAotearoa [Wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANationalCertificateOfEducationalAchievementNCEA [Wikipedia] #OrgUKGovHansard
Supplementary #MagazineNZTheSpinoffAliceNeville [Wikipedia] "The term political correctness as we know it emerged in the mid-80s - this Aussie social work lecturer at Victoria University was an early adopter - but didn't enter the mainstream consciousness in New Zealand until the 90s, ascending slowly but surely until it was absolutely everywhere by the turn of the millennium. With Helen Clark's government securing a second term in 2002, the war against PC hit its stride: National's shadow education minister Nick Smith was railing against the 'political correctness gone mad' of kapa haka being recognised in the NCEA, and for the next few years 'PC gone mad' went a bit, well, mad. According to Hansard, there were 250 mentions of 'politically correct', 139 mentions of 'political correctness' and 82 for 'PC' during parliamentary debates in the 2002-2005 term, which is as far back as online Hansard goes. (It's possible, I concede, that some of those 82 PCs were referencing the family computer.) 'Politically correct nonsense' was a phrase uttered 18 times and 'PC nonsense' 19 times during those three years, mainly, it would seem, by Nick Smith (social workers being required to learn about the Treaty, councils consulting with iwi, kava ceremonies for public servants, resource management reform and changes to the law around guardianship arrangements for kids were just a handful of his targets)." https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-05-2025/how-wokeism-cancelled-political-correctness #MetaphorPeriodization1980s #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #EDUNZVictoriaUniversityOfWellington #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandLabourPartyHelenClark #2002_ #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandNationalPartyNickSmith #1840_TeTiritiOWaitangi [Wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriKinshipWhakapapa [Wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriIwi [Wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANewZealandQualificationsAuthorityManaTohuMataurangaOAotearoa [Wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANationalCertificateOfEducationalAchievementNCEA [Wikipedia] #OrgUKGovHansard
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