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Context "In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary credited Kelley with coining the political term 'woke,' in a 1962 New York Times article titled 'If You're Woke You Dig It; No mickey mouse can be expected to follow today's Negro idiom without a hip assist. If You're Woke You Dig It.'" https://www.publicbooks.org/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-william-melvin-kelley/ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley i.e. ^{[digital archives]} #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt

"New study Fondapol The woke ideology by Valent1Pierre. This study aims to analyse the growing influence of this belief system on our Western societies." #AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitique ^[Wikipedia] #TauntWokeAgendaIdeologyIdeologue

#AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitiquePierreValentin https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-1-anatomie-du-wokisme/ And https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-2-face-au-wokisme/ #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #EDUUSEvergreenStateCollegeBretWeinstein #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu / #IRLSingerGeorgiaAnneMuldrow ^[Wikipedia] #2008_MasterTeacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieo6bp4zQw #IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose #WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay #IRLScholarPeterBoghossian #2018_SokalSquaredHoax ^[Wikipedia] And https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion (Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears, 30 October 2018). #IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault #IRLPhilosopherJacquesDerrida #IRLPhilosopherMartinHeidegger #TheoryRelativismCultural ^{[encyclopædia]} #PhenomnColonialism / #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #IdentityFirstNations #IRLScholarPierreAndreTaguieff #PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenment #PhenomnSkepticismRadical #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #IRLScholarMaryPoovey #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #IdentityLGBTQIA #IRLAuthorDavidHalperin #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT ('race' translated as 'breed' here, which I assume is a language/translation discrepancy, rather than semantic one). "Fox News has mentioned critical breed theory nearly 1,300 times over a three-and-a-half-month period" (23 June 2021). https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/trumpworld-bets-big-on-critical-race-theory.html #TheoryRacialColourBlindness e.g. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41856 #TheoryMarginalisation #IRLScholarEveKosofskySedgwick #IRLScholarGayatriChakravortySpivak #PhenomnUnityStrategicEssentialism ^[Wikipedia] #IRLActivistHouriaBouteldja #OrgFRIndigenesDeLaRepubliqueIR Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. ^{[academic source]} #IRLScholarBradleyCampbell & #IRLScholarJasonManning #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #IRLAuthorDeraldWingSue https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/exeter-university-students-racist-whatsapp-suspended-facebook-law-society-investigation-a8264756.html #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #CatchcryCancelCulture #TheoryTocquevilleEffect ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScholarJonathanHaidt & #AdvocacyUSFoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpressionFIREGregLukianoff LUKIANOFF, G., & HAIDT, J. (2018). The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. #IRLScholarStevenHorwitz #TheoryStockholmSyndrome #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #IRLCommentatorAllyHenny #WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath

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Supplementary #IRLScholarDeandreMilesHercules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06C9fgtbNQ&t=17s "Woke in its initial inception meant political consciousness for Black people about the histories of anti-Blackness in this [USA] country and globally rather than this kind of more generalised political consciousness that it came to take up. One thing that I think is a very common misunderstanding about woke is the idea that it was derived from this phrase 'stay woke'. Woke itself is a standalone word. It's a word that conforms to the syntactic and phonological, which is to say that the sound system and grammatical principles, of African American English which has its origins in the South. 'Awake' is synonymous with 'woke' right, so one might say, 'I was woke about, let's say 7am'. The idea of 'wakefulness' as a concept referring to political consciousness stretches as far back as 1923, and then we see it going all the way up through the 1980s. Marcus Garvey in 'The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey' in the frame of what we might think of as black nationalist tradition where he says, 'wake up Ethiopia, wake up Africa, let us work towards the one end of a glorious and redeemed and mighty nation', he's talking about political consciousness in the same way as Laurence Fishburne's character at the end of 'School Daze' in the 1980s film. In 1962, a New York Times article by a guy named [William] Melvin Kelley 'If You're Woke You Dig It' writing about cultural appropriation and linguistic appropriation of Black language and culture by white people, specifically. As early as the 1990s or the late 1980s, you see it more attached to the idea of 'political correctness'. This is the point of which white people I would suggest, begin using it reflexively. And so it doesn't now just have the meaning of thinking about anti-Blackness from the perspective of someone who experiences it. More now it refers to this more general sense of awareness, as a marker of general political consciousness attention to such issues as those environmental, feminists, regarding ability and so on. Childish Gambino's song 'Redbone', canonised the phrase 'stay woke' for a popular audience. While Childish Gambino might understand that 'wokeness', at least in its original inception, has a lot to do with our awareness of anti-Black oppression. Listeners to the song from a variety of demographics all over the world aren't abreast of that history and now are using it, the phrase, in a way that destroys its meaning. But it has also been taken up more recently by conservatives. And it became used in a negative or pejorative fashion, right or at least one that is mocking or sarcastic. In fact, it's a well-known and popular tactic of conservatives to pick up and shift the meanings of individual terms, to then weaponize them. Mark Milley and Matt Gaetz arguing about what's woke and what isn't, whether it's good or whether it's bad, where that has nothing to do with the case of the Scottsboro Boys or Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin or Sandra Bland or Rodney King or Ahmaud Arbery or Breonna Taylor or George Floyd. I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a conscious process, but it's the result of the kind of consumption of Black culture, which has always had a lot of capital purchase in the United States and pop culture globally." (5 August 2021, #WebsiteBrut). https://www.brut.media/us/news/brut-vocab-why-we-say-woke--ccd9916d-c0e0-42a8-98c2-615d05ad8895 #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #MetaphorWokeWakefulnessAwake #IRLActivistMarcusGarvey #ToponymAfricaEastEthiopia #IRLActorLaurenceFishburne #1988_SchoolDaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSvkZ0vLQ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt #IRLActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino #2016_Redbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJnZsB52Es&t=73s #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMattGaetz #1938_ScottsboroBoys #IRLDeceasedEmmettTill #OrgUSEqualJusticeInitiativeEJI ^[Wikipedia] "Emmett Till Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi Delta" https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/28 #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin #IRLDeceasedSandraBland #IRLPrivateCitizenRodneyKing #IRLDeceasedAhmaudArbery #IRLDeceasedBreonnaTaylor https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/stay-woke-history-georgia-anne-muldrow-erykah-badu-master-teacher.html #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009839021/uncovering-who-is-driving-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-in-schools?t=1627328036978 #PowerControlSegregationJimCrowLaws #_Focal

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And #WebsiteVoxAjaRomano: "Before 2014, the call to 'stay woke' was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point -- the notion that staying 'woke' and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 'stay woke' suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context : keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics." (9 October 2020). https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy #IRLDeceasedMichaelBrown #IRLPoliceDarrenWilson #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMissouriStLouisCountyFerguson #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2014_

"Woke people are against cultural appropriation But that's exactly what 'white people' are doing here... 'White' culture is defined as racism by woke people... BTW: To stick with the wording, 'wise' woke people are beatniks!" #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #PhenomnWhiteness #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #CharacterisationBeatnik

#MagazineDerSpiegel "früheste Verwendung findet man in einen Artikel aus dem Jahre 1962, in dem ein Wortverzeichnis afroamerikanischer Slangausdrücke aufgelistet wurde. Der Artikel stammte von dem schwarzen Autor William Melvin Kelley. Das Thema: Weiße Beatniks, die sich schwarzen Slang aneignen. [The earliest use of the term can be found in a 1962 article listing a dictionary of African-American slang expressions. The article was written by Black author William Melvin Kelley. The topic: White beatniks appropriating Black slang.]" #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #1962_ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE

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