#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
#TheoryLiberalSocialJustice
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). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/woke-ideology-history-origins-flaws/675454/ #ConspiracyTheoryCulturalMarxism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJoeWalsh i.e. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Walsh_(Illinois_politician)
#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 #TechServiceRightStuffApp i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(app) #PleaPronouns #IndivPersonalityInternetRyannMcEnany #IndivUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany
Context: #WebsiteTheRightStuff
#TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #TauntWhitewashing
Addendum: "a broken, incorrect, lazy form of English spoken amongst uneducated Blacks"! i.e. overt #OtheringDiscriminationRacism
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesZacGoldsmith
#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/
#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift
Context: https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/
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
Addendum: I'm reminded here of #IndivScholarDeandreMilesHercules' linguistic analysis of 'woke' in the #WebsiteBrut: "Brut vocab: Why we say 'woke'" presentation.
https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1561261920266616832 #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS speaking at #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction event as per #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHill report dated 19 August 2022.
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
#NoREuropeNordicFinland
"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."
#AdvocacyFRFondapolPierreValentin https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-1-anatomie-du-wokisme/ And https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-2-face-au-wokisme/ #TheoryModernPost i.e. #TheoryModernPostConservatism #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #EDUUSEvergreenStateCollegeBretWeinstein #IndivDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IndivSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu / #IndivSingerGeorgiaAnneMuldrow #2008_MasterTeacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieo6bp4zQw
#IndivAuthorHelenPluckrose
#WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay
#IndivScholarPeterBoghossian
#2018_SokalSquaredHoax i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair 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).
#IndivPhilosopherMichelFoucault
#IndivPhilosopherJacquesDerrida
#IndivPhilosopherMartinHeidegger
#TheoryRelativismCultural i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/
#PhenomnColonialism / #TheoryCriticalPostcolonialism #IdentityFirstNations #IndivScholarPierreAndreTaguieff
#PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenment
#PhenomnSkepticismRadical
#IndivScholarKimberleCrenshaw
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality
#IndivScholarMaryPoovey
#OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
#IndivPhilosopherJudithButler
#IdentityLGBTQIA
#IndivAuthorDavidHalperin
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT ('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
#IndivScholarEveKosofskySedgwick
#IndivScholarGayatriChakravortySpivak
#PhenomnUnityStrategicEssentialism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_essentialism
#IndivActivistHouriaBouteldja
#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. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2016.1683
#IndivScholarBradleyCampbell & #IndivScholarJasonManning
#PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression
#IndivAuthorDeraldWingSue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/exeter-university-students-racist-whatsapp-suspended-facebook-law-society-investigation-a8264756.html
#EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi
#TauntCultureCancel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocqueville_effect
#IndivScholarJonathanHaidt &
#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.
#IndivScholarStevenHorwitz
#TheoryStockholmSyndrome
#IndivAuthorRobinDiAngelo
#IndivUltracrepidarianAllyHenny
#WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath
Supplementary: #IndivScholarDeandreMilesHercules
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
#IndivActivistMarcusGarvey
#NoRAfricaEastEthiopia
#IndivActorLaurenceFishburne
#1988_SchoolDaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSvkZ0vLQ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt #IndivActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino #2016_Redbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJnZsB52Es&t=73s
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMattGaetz
#1938_ScottsboroBoys
#IndivDeceasedEmmettTill
#IndivDeceasedTrayvonMartin
#IndivDeceasedSandraBland
#IndivPrivateCitizenRodneyKing
#IndivDeceasedAhmaudArbery
#IndivDeceasedBreonnaTaylor
https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/stay-woke-history-georgia-anne-muldrow-erykah-badu-master-teacher.html
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009839021/uncovering-who-is-driving-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-in-schools?t=1627328036978 #_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
#IndivDeceasedMichaelBrown
#IndivPoliceDarrenWilson #NoRAmericaNorthUSMissouriStLouisCountyFerguson
#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2014_
#IndivMusicianLeadBelly #PleaStayWoke #CharacterisationWokeAsCompliment #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM
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
