"I don't know of any German-speaking leftists who call themselves the Woken. Sensitized to questions of social justice, mindful, alert, that's what leftists learn. Yes and? Conservatives appropriate the term woke in order to reinterpret it to the opposite."

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#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. Laurence Fox nailed his colours to the latter mast this weekend, doubling down on his defence of the privileged white male on last week's Question Time to a Sunday Times article under the banner 'Why I won't date 'woke' women'. Toby Young piled in, applauding how Fox was 'terrorising the Wokerati', while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan 'the oppressive King and Queen of Woke'." https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLActorLaurenceFox #NMUKBBCQTQuestionTime #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimes #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #TauntWokerati #BrandNewsCorpUKTheSun #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHPrinceHarry #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHMeghanMarkle

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#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

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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