"Dear Black People.. Stop introducing words to yt ppl! What happens is, they take the word and blend in BullSh!t with it and change the meaning! Now yt ppl have the world associating being 'Woke' with LGBTQ and other Shit that ain't got Nothing to do with Being 'Woke'! But See Black Ppl In America So Multicultural and so inclusive with yt ppl and other races, WE allow them to take Words derived from Afrikan Spirituality and Twist it for A european/white agenda! I HATE all this weak ass Shit yall got going on! Str8 Up!" #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #IdentityLGBTQIA #PhenomnMulticulturalism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #IdentityWhiteYT ^[dictionary]

#MetaphorSpatialLinearContinuumTimeline #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

https://www.afrowomanonline.com/why-staying-woke-is-the-only-choice-black-women-have/ #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression

"Woke means awakened to the needs of others. To be well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, humble, and kind. Eager to make the world a better place for all people." #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

"The term 'woke' originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and has its roots in African American culture. While the exact origin of the term is difficult to pinpoint, it gained popularity and entered mainstream usage in the early 2010s. The word 'woke' is derived from the African American phrase 'stay woke,' which means to be aware, knowledgeable, and socially conscious, particularly about issues of racial and social justice. The phrase can be traced back to African American communities, where it was used as a call to remain vigilant and awake to the systemic injustices and inequalities faced by marginalized groups. Over time, the term 'woke' spread beyond its original cultural context and entered mainstream conversations, especially through social media platforms. It has come to symbolize an individual's awareness and activism regarding various social issues, including racism, discrimination, and inequality. Being 'woke' implies being informed and actively engaged in promoting social justice and challenging systemic biases. The term has evolved and been used in different ways, and its meaning can vary depending on the context and the individuals using it. It has been embraced by some as a way to promote awareness and progress, while others have criticized its usage as performative or lacking in substantive action. It is worth noting that the term 'woke' has faced some criticism and backlash, with detractors arguing that it is overused or misused, and that it has become more of a trend or buzzword than a meaningful indicator of genuine activism. Nonetheless, the word 'woke' remains a significant part of contemporary discourse around social justice and awareness." #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #TheorySociologySocialJustice

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Supplementary #MagazineUSTheAtlanticYaschaMounk "Right-wing polemicists deride these ideas as a form of 'cultural Marxism,' which has substituted identity categories such as race for the economic category of class but still aims at the same old goal of communist revolution. They invoke wokeness to oppose anything they dislike, such as sex ed and insufficiently patriotic versions of American history. On the other side, many people in media and politics claim that wokeness is simply a matter of justice and decency: a willingness to acknowledge the cruelties of America's past and a recognition of the ways they still shape the country. 'Being woke,' Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who became a vocal critic of Donald Trump, has said, 'just means being empathetic'" (26 September 2023). ^{[digital archives]} #ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJoeWalsh ^[Wikipedia]

#PoliticallyCorrectPC #ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #TauntIndoctrination #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984

"WHAT IS WOKE? Has the current 'woke culture' been explained or defined yet? That is, aside from its original meaning in the black community. Here's one attempt: it's the natural extension of political correctness which includes hijacking and deforming language to purposefully obfuscate and confuse the average person into feeling guilt for oppressing or indignation over being oppressed by unicorn winds whose existence everyone must acknowledge and agree to eradicate. The tools for achieving this are unclear but appear to include censoring long-standing truths, rejecting standard moral values and denying evident biological facts. It also purports to give more importance to societal constructs over actual skills and experience when it comes to hiring. Essentially, it's communism trying to make a comeback by masquerading as caring and compassion for 'minorities' and aims to convince that by plucking out your two eyes, the blind will be able to see." #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #PoliticsCommunism

#VlogAmericanPopCulture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDqqcLVRIY&t=468s #OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety #VlogTRIGGERnometryKonstantinKisin #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #MetaphorUnWokenSleepingAsleep

#OtheringHateAntisemitism #WebsiteJewBelong https://www.jewbelong.com/about/

#IRLSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDKqKfXLxg #2008_MasterTeacher #OrgSyndicateMusicRUPussyRiot #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #IRLPresenterJillCaseyDeSantis

#SlurWhiteSupremacy #PhenomnColonialism

#MagazineNewsweekBethanyMandel https://www.newsweek.com/define-woke-bethany-mandel-conservative-book-1788538 And her follow-up #TauntWokeRadicals definition: "A radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination, and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination. It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint, enforced by an angry mob." ^[tweet] #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHill #PhenomnHomeSchooling #TauntLeftist

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Context #NMUSCNNAbbyPhillip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-G50bhldQo #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHillBriahnaJoyGray #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesZolanKannoYoungs https://www.nytimes.com/by/zolan-kanno-youngs #MagazineNationalReviewRameshPonnuru https://www.nationalreview.com/author/ramesh-ponnuru/ #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPNikkiHaley #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPSarahHuckabeeSanders #NMUSCNNMJLee https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/mj-lee

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPNikkiHaley #PleaMAGA #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJimJordan #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMikePence

#IRLBusinesspersonVivekRamaswamy #IRLLawyerJennaEllis #OrgUSFedWhiteHousePressSecretaryJenPsaki #AdvocacyUSMisesInstituteForAustrianEconomics #IRLAuthorMichaelRectenwald https://mises.org/profile/michael-rectenwald

"According to the social justice creed, being 'woke' is the political awakening that stems from the emergence of consciousness and conscientiousness regarding social and political injustice. Wokeness is the indelible inscription of the awareness of social injustice on the conscious mind, eliciting the sting of conscience, which compels the newly woke to change their beliefs and behaviors." #TheorySociologySocialJustice #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Supplementary #AdvocacyUSSouthernPovertyLawCenterSPLCMichaelHayden "Former Donald Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis hosted on her podcast the self-described ethno-nationalist and antisemite Keith Woods, who collaborates openly with white power extremists. Ellis's podcast streams on radio stations across the country. Woods, who is Irish, sympathizes with the anti-immigrant rioters who unleashed chaos last week in Dublin, following news that a man of Algerian origin had stabbed multiple children in a grisly attack. Ellis hosted him in that context" (28 November #2023_ ). ^{[The Southern Poverty Law Center]} #IRLEthnonationalistKeithWoods #PhenomnImmigration #ToponymEuropeIrelandDublin #ToponymAfricaNorthAlgeria #PowerCrimeKnife

"When this term became popularized, initially the meaning of this term was when an individual become more aware of the social injustice. Or basically, any current affairs related like biased, discrimination, or double-standards. However, as time passed by, people started using this term recklessly, assigning this term to themselves or someone they know to boost their confidence and reassure them that they have the moral high grounds and are fighting for the better world. And sometimes even using it as a way to protect themselves from other people's opinion, by considering the 'outsider' as non-woke. While people that are in line with their belief as woke. Meaning that those 'outsiders' have been brainwash by the society and couldn't see the truth. Thus, filtering everything that the 'outsider' gives regardless whether it is rationale or not. And as of now, the original meaning is slowly fading and instead, is used more often to term someone as hypocritical and think they are the 'enlightened' despite the fact that they are extremely close-minded and are unable to accept other people's criticism or different perspective. Especially considering the existence of echo chamber(media) that helped them to find other like-minded individuals, thus, further solidifying their 'progressive' opinion." #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPGeorgeSantos #ConditionMunchausensSyndrome https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/munchausens-syndrome

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPEliseStefanik #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJimJordan #PleaMAGA #TheoryGrievancePolitics #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight

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Supplementary #OrgIntlEuropeanConsortiumForPoliticalResearchECPRTheLoop #EDUUKQueenMaryUniversityOfLondonTimBale "'Hard right' is a neologism that, unless I'm missing something, has little or no currency whatsoever among academic experts. Those experts like to call things exactly what they are - namely (following Cas Mudde) far right (the umbrella term) or one of its two variants: extreme right or (populist) radical right. In their defence, journalists will talk about language evolving to cover new phenomena. This argument, however, seems to ignore the fact that both the extreme and populist radical-right variants of the far right have been around for decades. If this is the case, then why is it only recently that the new term has crept into media output? Journalists have even suggested that 'populist radical right' is just too complex a term for their readers to understand. Why use three words when two will do? This is understandable in a headline, perhaps, but in an 800-word report or op-ed? I don't think so. In reality, 'hard right' is less an evolution than a euphemism, effectively sanitising and normalising what it purports to describe. And the recent increase in its use doesn't seem to correlate with any deradicalisation among the parties that journalists are referring to. Instead, it correlates with growth in those parties' electoral support and their proximity to or entry into government. This all suggests that what's driving journalists' use of 'hard right' is their fear of losing access to precious sources were they to call it what it actually is. Or, given that Reform UK (successfully) threatened the BBC with legal action if it were to label the party 'far right', maybe journalists fear an even worse fate than that." https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-we-need-to-halt-hard-right-in-its-tracks/ #IRLScientistPoliticalCasMudde #LiteralNeologism #PhenomnPopulism #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUK #NMUKBBC

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift 

#PleaMAGA #2020_CapitolSiege #TauntGaslighting #PhenomnMisinformation #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #CharacterisationDeplorables

"FD interview SylvanaSimons / In which woke is trivialized: 'a certain kind of white people makes off with words that black people have coined: the word woke, for example. With that, black people said: 'be alert'. White people give a negative one connotation to'" #OrgClassifPPNLBIJ1SylvanaSimons #NewspaperNLBerlinerHetFinancieeleDagblad ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift 

#IRLMusicianHuddieLedbetterAKALeadBelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrXfkPViFIE #1938_ScottsboroBoys

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRishiSunak #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLAuthorAbelStevenPoole #TheoryPerformativeActivism #IRLScholarJohnMcWhorter

#SlurWhiteSupremacy #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #PhenomnGenderNeutralNeutralityFolx

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Context "Folks is already a gender-neutral term, but changing the spelling of the word brings a visible sign of inclusion of Black, Asian, Latine, Indigenous, Queer, Trans and other minoritized communities that have been historically excluded from mainstream usage of folks." https://www.queerspacecollective.org/post/challenging-the-norms-for-radical-inclusivity-unpacking-folks-and-folx-from-a-queer-intersectional

#PowerControlChattelSlavery #ConditionDrapetomania ^[Wikipedia] #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAbduction

#CauseStopFundingHate #NMUKGBNews #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #WebsiteTheDailyScepticWillJones "Disruptor current affairs broadcaster GB News continues to suffer under an advertising boycott spearheaded by woke activist organisation Stop Funding Hate as big corporations go along with the bigoted campaign that plays to the prejudices of their staff."

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Context https://stopfundinghate.info/2022/05/07/gb-news-admits-advertiser-boycott-is-having-an-impact/

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Addendum according to it's About page, The Daily Sceptic "includes sceptical articles by disaffected journalists and academics". The site was created by Young as an evolution of his #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 pandemic Lockdown Sceptics site.

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Addendum this clip shows a (self-declared) conservative listing-off a series of clichés to define #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism.s What is surprising is how consistent his definition is, it's like he's reading from a hymn sheet...

#HandleTikTokCalgaryMayorElect: ^{[video clip]} #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #OrgClassifPPCAConservativePartyCPCMichelleRempelGarner

#HandleTikTokCalgaryMayorElect: ^{[video clip]} #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #OrgClassifPPCAConservativePartyCPCMichelleRempelGarner

"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."

#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianSteveRose https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #PoliticallyCorrectPC #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Context https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/

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Supplementary #AdvocacyUSLegalDefenseFundLDF "'We must fight 'the woke' in our schools. We must fight 'the woke' in our businesses. We must fight 'the woke' in government agencies,' Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently declared from the stage at a campaign event. 'We can never, ever surrender to woke ideology. And I'll tell you this, the state of Florida is where woke goes to die.'... But don't just take our word for it. Ask yourself: What exactly is 'the woke?' Where did 'woke' come from? And how did it become apparently worthy of gag orders instituted by politicians and administered with the might of the government? When did it transform from its roots in Black American vernacular to a supposedly all-encompassing, terrifying force emblazoned across increasingly fear-mongering headlines in the United States and even now in parts of Europe?" https://www.naacpldf.org/woke-black-bad/ #AdvocacyUSAmericanCivilLibertiesUnionACLU #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #TheoryPoliticsOfFear

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Addendum I'm reminded here of #IRLScholarDeandreMilesHercules' linguistic analysis of 'woke' in the #WebsiteBrut: "Brut vocab: Why we say 'woke'" presentation.

#ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PoliticsStatusQuo

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Context #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift of #TauntWoke

^[tweet] #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS speaking at #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction event as per #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHill report dated 19 August 2022.

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Supplementary #OrgUSLegalDefenseFundLDFIshenaRobinson "Ask yourself: What exactly is 'the woke?' Where did 'woke' come from? And how did it become apparently worthy of gag orders instituted by politicians and administered with the might of the government? When did it transform from its roots in Black American vernacular to a supposedly all-encompassing, terrifying force emblazoned across increasingly fear-mongering headlines in the United States and even now in parts of Europe? Put simpler: How did woke go from meaning 'Black' to 'Bad?'" https://www.naacpldf.org/woke-black-bad/ #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE 

"Oh yes, I'm 'woke' I hear that among other things I'm now being called 'Miss Woke'. They sneer because: I'm awake to cruelty and unfairness; I'm awake to how we mistreat the earth; I'm awake to inequality for women and girls; I'm awake to poverty and lack of opportunity for young people; I'm awake to inhumanity; I'm awake to online bullying and hostility; I'm awake to climate change; I'm awake to sustainability and development; I'm awake to the education of girls; I'm awake to the need for clean water; I'm awake to racism and injustice. I'm proudly 'woke'. It's time you wake up too." #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHMeghanMarkle

#TauntRedditor ^[dictionary] #BrandTechReddit

"Sexism against men doesn't exist. Sexism is men oppressing women. Just like how racism is white people oppressing people of colour, racism against white people doesn't exist. Also, I'm a man, so I can be sexist. Towards women. Not towards other men." #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift criticising efforts to reframe #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation as supposed #CatchcryRacismWhite / #SlurBlackSupremacyBlackSupremacism and #OtheringHateMisandry

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#WebsiteHuffPost "'Reverse Racism' Is A Giant Lie - Here's Why" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w0LFYhedo0 #CatchcryRacismReverse #BrandBlackEntertainmentTelevisionBET ^[Wikipedia] #BrandBlackGirlsRock! ^[Wikipedia] #EventBlackHistoryMonth ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryExnominationWhiteness #ReasoningFallacyZeroSumThinking

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Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfIllinois https://today.uic.edu/white-grievance-election-skepticism/ #TheoryGrievancePolitics Filindra A, Kaplan NJ, Manning A. Who Buys the "Big Lie"? White Racial Grievance and Confidence in the Fairness of American Elections. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2024;9(1):182-203. doi:10.1017/rep.2023.33 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/who-buys-the-big-lie-white-racial-grievance-and-confidence-in-the-fairness-of-american-elections/4BB3B6F641B41D8B63D152F9779C64CE #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie

#CatchcryCancelCulture #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostClydeMcGrady "The song, 'Your Love Is Cancelled,' which appeared on Chic's 1981 album, 'Take It Off,' was not a hit. But the metaphor Rodgers had invented -- the idea of 'canceling' a person for unacceptable behavior, such as a network executive pulling the plug on an unsuccessful TV show -- has taken its own journey. Recently it turned up in Central Florida, in the mouth of a 57-year-old White Republican from Ohio. 'All right, who's next?' asked Rep. Jim Jordan. 'Who's the cancel culture going to attack next?'" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/cancel-culture-background-black-culture-white-grievance/2021/04/01/2e42e4fe-8b24-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJimJordan #IRLMusicianNileRodgers #OrgSyndicateMusicUSChic #1981_YourLoveIsCancelled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSc41Sh3_2w&t=120s #IRLActorWesleySnipes #IRLFilmmakerBarryMichaelCooper #1991_NewJackCity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV6xgXXd51E&t=18s

#WebsiteEveProgramme https://www.eveprogramme.com/50201/en-debat-qui-a-peur-du-woke-et-pourquoi/ #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #PhenomnMatildaEffect ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary (and companion #PhenomnMatthewEffect) ^{[academic source]} And ^[Wikipedia]

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #AdvocacyUSIntercollegiateStudiesInstituteISGeneCallahan https://isi.org/modern-age/woke-is-the-new-sorcery/ #JournalModernAge ^[Wikipedia]

#NMUKBBCJackFenwick https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58281576 #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/31186-why-any-literate-person-should-never-use-the-word-woke-ungrammatically.html #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#PleaStayWoke https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woke-meaning-origin

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Addendum transposition of #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM visual identity e.g. https://dpglaw.co.uk/blacklivesmatter/ used to conflate this cause with the poster's pejorative interpretation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCc27_NQq_E #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2021/04/word-of-the-week-tfg.html "While inside the truck, Roseberry broadcast live video and audio through Facebook. He stated that he was upset about the 2020 election results and demanded that President Biden resign from office. Roseberry demanded to speak to President Biden about several grievances. He claimed to have an ammonium nitrate and/or a Tannerite bomb in the toolbox of this truck." ^[Government] #IRLPrivateCitizenFloydRayRoseberry #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie

#VlogBeauOfTheFifthColumnJustinKingBeauTFC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HSd3MflmTc #IRLMusicianGarthBrooks is woke! #PhenomnMaskWearing #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional video effectively alludes to #OrgIntlUNSDG

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Context https://www.digitaljournal.com/social-media/profile-of-a-digital-journalist-activism-fuels-justin-king/article/398161

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/07/30/how-has-the-meaning-of-the-word-woke-evolved (30 July 2021). #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

"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_

#MagazineSlateRachelleHampton and #MagazineSlateMadisonKircher https://slate.com/culture/2021/06/woke-critical-race-theory-definition-history-meaningless.html #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift And https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

#IRLActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino and #IRLSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu

"So our journalists, no longer knowing what to invent to say anything, leave us the woke .... What's wrong with realizing that our world is unequal? Islamowokism soon?" #PoliticsFascismReligiousIslamo #TheorySociologySocialInertia

Le terme anglo-américain « woke » (« éveillé » en français) désigne le fait d'être conscient des problèmes liés à la justice sociale et à l'égalité raciale (en). Par extension, le mot « woke » s'applique à toute personne qui serait consciente des injustices de l'oppression qui pèse sur les minorités. Translated via Google Translate: "The Anglo-American term 'woke' refers to being aware of issues related to social justice and racial equality. By extension, the word 'woke' applies to anyone who is aware of the injustices of oppression against minorities." #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

"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

#PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #TauntWokeSymbolism #MetaphorWeaponisation ?

"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

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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]}

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPAnthonyBouchard ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMarkGordon ^[Wikipedia]

^{[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

#IRLJournalistSoniaSeymourMikich ^[Wikipedia] #2018_TheOverlyWokeSupportGroup ^{[Wikipedia] [imdb]} #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression

#MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #WebsiteWokeTemple

#NMAUNineNetworkRadio2GBJohnStanley ^[Wikipedia]

#WebsiteInstantlyModern "The word woke was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017, and it's more than clear that it has both history and meaning." https://instantlymodern.com/brain-food/woke-added-oxford-dictionary/ #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #2017_

#ToponymOceaniaAntipodean #BrandNewsCorpRupertMurdoch #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Context response to article: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesKatieRobertson https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/business/media/rupert-murdoch-josh-hawley-woke.html #AdvocacyUKTheAustraliaDayFoundationTrust ^[Government]

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Supplementary #WebsiteDingoNewsRonniSalt "The 2021 board/committee/award-gifters has now shrunk to four. The committee that bestowed this year's invented award upon Rupert Murdoch, partly paid for with your Australian tax dollars are: - well known Australian tourism-travel advocate, Richard Porter (appointed by Abbott). ... So it comes as no surprise this year's committee bestowed an 'award' on Rupert Murdoch. I say the committee, because other than the listing of the 4 board members there is no other open documentation on the entire process of the Australian Day Foundation UK Awards. Nothing exists. On the australiaday.co.uk website, a small scant form asks who you'd like to nominate. No additional information is provided. There is no published judging criteria for these awards partly supported by the Australian govt. No mention of a panel. No mention of judging. ... Perhaps it's just coincidence. But no matter, the financial co-sponsors of the Australia Day Foundation UK 'award' to Rupert Murdoch will no doubt see it as money well spent. And not just any sponsors, but a very specific group of sponsors. The Australia Day 'Lifetime Achievement Award' invented for Rupert Murdoch was financed by money provided by: the fossil fuel multi-national, Woodside Petroleum; and the mining multi-national, Rio Tinto; and the mining multi-national, Anglo American; and the energy multi-national, Worley Resources; as well as Sir Michael Hintze's own asset management fund, CQS; Previous sponsors of the unknown judging criteria Australia Day Foundation UK awards have also included BHP Billiton - which I'm sure you'll agree helps round out a cosy little group. By now you're probably gasping in shock to discover Rupert Murdoch's 'award' was paid for by the very same fossil fuel multi-nationals his media outlets help survive. You're also probably shocked to discover the current Morrison government helped fund Murdoch's 'award'. Which brings us back to inbreeding - and hybrid vigour. These awards are a selective boy's club, gifted to insiders by insiders. Nobody from outside the club is allowed in. Largely conservative in nature, these farcical awards exist to prop up existing power structures. Murdoch's fossil fuel sponsored Australia Day 'award' is a fabricated piece of performance frippery. It's that long forgotten party hat left under the stairs given to that extra birthday party guest at the last minute It was dug out purely to help Rupert Murdoch feel supported. The entire pantomime that masquerades as the Australia Day Foundation UK awards is a farce. The awards mean nothing. They are representative of nobody. It is shallow pool of conservative inbreeding. It insults ordinary Australians. The sooner it is abandoned, the better." https://dingo.news/voice/australia-day-foundation-uk-australia-day-foundation-uk-bludgers-in-britain-bestowing-bogus-bequests-by-ronni-salt/ #BrandAustraliaDayFoundationLtdRichardPorter ^[Government] #BrandWoodsideEnergyGroupLtd ^[Wikipedia] #BrandRioTinto ^[Wikipedia] #BrandAngloAmericanPLC ^[Wikipedia] #BrandWorleyLtd https://www.globaldata.com/company-profile/worleyparsons-ltd/ #IRLBusinesspersonMichaelHintze #BrandCQS ^[Wikipedia] #BrandBHPGroupLimited ^{[Wikipedia] [DeSmog]}

#IRLMusicianHuddieLedbetterAKALeadBelly #PleaStayWoke #CharacterisationWokeAsCompliment #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM

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Supplementary #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE i.e. "African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community. While some features of AAVE are apparently unique to this variety, in its structure it also shows many commonalties with other varieties including a number of standard and nonstandard English varieties spoken in the US and the Caribbean. AAVE has been at the heart of several public debates and the analysis of this variety has also sparked and sustained debates among sociolinguists." https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/aave.html

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift The quote appears to be from the supplementary information included within this entry: ^[dictionary] #MagazineUSTheAtlantic

#TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic at tweet by UK conservative commentator #NMUKGBNewsDarrenGrimes who was responding to a #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/22/churchills-home-national-trusts-blm-list-shame/ article about #IRLHistoricalFigureWinstonChurchill's connection to "colonialism and slavery" i.e. "The National Trust has included Winston Churchill's family home in a dossier of sites linked to "colonialism and slavery", citing the former prime minister's role in the Bengal famine and his opposition to Indian independence..." #OrgUKNationalTrustChartwellHouse #PhenomnBengalFamine #1943_

#CharacterisationRightWing #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #CauseFeminism #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#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

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #HandleTumblrJayKyuvee.tumblr #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism

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Context #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/explainer-intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters

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#WebsiteHeyIris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrYUOBshcE&t=78s #CatchcryYasQueenAKAYassKween #TVBroadCity ^[imdb] #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Supplementary #TheorySociologyIntersectionality ^{[academic source]}

"Stand up for what you believe in even if it means you'll be standing alone."

#CatchcryTrumpTrain #PoliticsSocialism #PoliticsPatriotism identity #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSABlexit ?

pejorative characterisation #MetaphorWarfareTraitorRace ^[Wikipedia] used to argue that #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC people should support #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump. #NarrativeAbortion #OrgUSPlannedParenthood #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #LiteralImpartialityDualLoyalty ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #NMUSNationalPublicRadioNPRGeneDemby "People invent new words for emotionally charged referents, but soon the euphemism becomes tainted by association, and a new word must be found, which soon acquires its own connotations, and so on. [...] Even the word 'minority' -- the most neutral word label conceivable, referring only to relative numbers -- was banned in 2001 by the San Diego City Council ... because it was deemed disparaging to nonwhites. ... The euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are primary in people's minds. Give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name, at least not for long. Names for minorities will continue to change as long as people have negative attitudes toward them. We will know that they have achieved mutual respect when the names stay put." https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/07/362273449/why-we-have-so-many-terms-for-people-of-color #IRLScholarStevenPinker #2002_TheBlankSlateTheModernDenialOfHumanNature ^[Wikipedia]