#NMUKGBNewsDanWootton #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMail OtheringDiscriminationRacism

"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]

#ToponymEuropeNordicVikings #ToponymEuropeGreeceSparta ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorWarfareHeroHighlander #MetaphorWarfareHeroMusketeer

#BrandMashable #PhenomnDictionaryMerriamWebsterKoryStamper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMwx--J2uHg&t=6s #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #OrgClassifPPUSBlackPantherPartyBPP

#PowerControlExclusionWhitewashing #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #PhenomnClimateChange #IdentityLGBTQIA #PowerControlExclusionWhitewashing

#PhenomnWatchwordWoke #TVWheelOfFortune #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostDamonYoung https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/09/26/damon-young-woke-is-now-dog-whistle-black-whats-next/ #MetaphorDogWhistle

#NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostPerryBaconJr https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/19/decoding-political-phrases-midterms-perry-bacon/ #OtheringElitesGlobal

#IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel

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Context https://unherd.com/newsroom/peter-thiel-wokeness-is-like-wahhabism/ #BeliefTheismIslamismSunniWahhabism ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #EventLibertopiaConference2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH7Lv2gQdk&t=290s "I think um technology is this incredible alternative to politics and uh and you know there are a number of different technologies we can outline but the the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it it's not a way to fix it is a way to escape and uh there are you know a number of different options I think the uh the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality uh questions of course is still how does it intersect with the real world there are I think escaping to outer space um is a promise uh although I think the space technology is not quite there so I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century I think we can try to uh you know create autonomous countries on oceans underwater all sorts of other spaces but I think technology is the vehicle for how we should um we should be looking to uh to escape and move beyond uh beyond politics as we find it today um I want to uh offer two quick thought two basic thoughts and then open it a little bit of discussion and debate on um the limits of this so I sort of one thought on um a caveat to this technology as an alternative and then end with the caveat to the caveat so the big caveat to uh technology as a standalone autonomous force is that politics is going to try to stop it and I think we should not underestimate the degree to which there is a race in our society between politics and technology and it's an very open question whether technology is going to succeed on its own in escaping from the black hole of politics or whether uh somehow the system will collapse in on itself and I think you know I think actually the correct in a sense attitude... " #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorSpatialTrapEscape #1968_2001ASpaceOdyssey #PoliticsAnarchy #PowerControlRegulation #PoliticsSovereignty #TheoryAccelerationism ?

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkOConnell "If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be 'the Future'. Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine... ...he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his public musings about the incompatibility of freedom and democracy, and for expressing interest - as though enthusiastically pursuing the clunkiest possible metaphor for capitalism at its most vampiric - in a therapy involving transfusions of blood from young people as a potential means of reversing the ageing process. But in another, deeper sense, he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future, a human emblem of the moral vortex at the centre of the market. And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse. Because this is the role that New Zealand now plays in our unfurling cultural fever dream: an island haven amid a rising tide of apocalyptic unease." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand #OtheringOutGroupPrepperSurvivalist #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #BrandOpenAISamAltman ^[skeet] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #NarrativeUtopia

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#VlogTheMajorityReportSamSeder ^{[channel] [Wikipedia]} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNOMjH-3gfU #AdvocacyUSTheRevolvingDoorProjectRDPDylanGyauchLewis #MagazineUSTheAmericanProspect "According to Zack Rosen, founder of California YIMBY and the Abundance Network, the problem with politics is Americans being too involved. Bemoaning the rise of small-dollar political donations in fundraising documents leaked to the Prospect, Rosen is blunt: 'Small dollar internet fundraising makes politics dumber.' Rosen misses what he considers to be a bygone era of elite dominance. Lamenting the current state of democratized influence, Rosen says 'the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines.'" https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesEzraKlein ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSAbundanceNetworkZackRosen https://www.abundancenetwork.com/who-we-are/ #OtheringElitesBourgeois #OrgUSPoliticalActionCommitteePACDemocraticPartyActBlue #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracy / #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy ? #AdvocacyUSCaliforniaYIMBY https://cayimby.org/about-us/ #PhenomnYesInMyBackyardYIMBY ^[Wikipedia] #2025_Abundance ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley

#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianArwaMahdawi "It's a new conservative dating app that promises to let you 'view profiles without pronouns' and 'connect with people who aren't offended by everything'. Despite this all being very predictable stuff, the app has been getting a lot of attention for three reasons: 1) the ads are unintentionally hilarious, 2) it was co-founded by former Trump administration officials and Ryann McEnany, the sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is the app's spokesperson; 3) creepy Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, who has been called 'the most important person in Silicon Valley', has invested $1.5m into the project." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/want-to-date-a-hot-rightwinger-sick-of-all-that-woke-nonsense-ive-just-the-app-for-you #BrandTechRightStuffApp ^[Wikipedia] #PleaPronouns #IRLPersonalityInternetRyannMcEnany #IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany

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Context #WebsiteTheRightStuff

#TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #PowerControlExclusionWhitewashing

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Addendum "a broken, incorrect, lazy form of English spoken amongst uneducated Blacks"! i.e. overt #OtheringDiscriminationRacism 

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyZacGoldsmith #MagazineUSMotherJonesFionaHarvey "Rightwing Tory MPs should stop portraying concerns over the climate and nature as 'woke', and understand that voters are deeply concerned about the crisis, the Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith has warned. 'What I'm trying to persuade people is that this stuff is not remote, it's not trendy, it's not woke, it's not nice to have and it's not a waste of UK taxpayers' money,' he said. 'This is fundamental.'" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/uk-environment-minister-zac-goldsmith-climate-wokeness-stupid-cop27/

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRishiSunak #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLAuthorAbelStevenPoole #TheoryPerformativeActivism #IRLScholarJohnMcWhorter

#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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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 

#IRLHistoricalFigureEdwardColston #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandSouthWestEnglandBristol #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #NMUKBBC #NMUKSkyNews

#OrgUKFathers4justice https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/about-f4j/our-story/

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Context https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-59727161

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Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianGabyHinsliff "Trying to clarify what the UK public understands by the perennially slippery term 'woke', in 2022 the pollsters YouGov asked respondents how well it fitted various contemporary causes. The highest match - above trans rights, no-platforming people whose opinions you dislike, stronger action on climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement itself - was with removing historical statues associated with slavery, like that of Colston. Something about this combination of direct action against a highly symbolic target, and revisiting history through a modern social justice lens, meant that 61% considered it woke. For some, that was perhaps a compliment. But by 2022, a word briefly synonymous with enlightened liberal consciousness - borrowed from a phrase used as far back as the 1930s by black Americans, urging each other to 'stay woke'' to the threat of racial violence - was already becoming what the then Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon called 'a pejorative term of abuse'. The narrative that woke ultimately ate itself, becoming so shrill, sanctimonious and yet simultaneously brittle that a backlash was almost inevitable, has been building ever since it became clear Donald Trump was on course to win a second presidential term. Britain, with its newly elected Labour government, initially seemed sheltered from the prevailing winds. While corporate America scrambled to ditch diversity policies following Trump's victory, only 11% of British firms surveyed by the Institute of Directors planned similar changes." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/10/how-does-woke-start-winning-again #2025_ #BrandYouGov #2022_ #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #OrgClassifPPUKScottishNationalPartySNPNicolaSturgeon #TauntSelfRighteousnessSanctimoniousness #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump47thPresident #OrgClassifPPUKLabour #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI

#ToponymEuropeNordicFinland "If woke means awareness of social inequality, then wokecriticism seems to be basically just a synonym for ignorance." #EpistemologyAgnotologyIgnorance

"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

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

#NMAUNineNetworkRadio2GBJohnStanley ^[Wikipedia]

#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

#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