"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]

#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

#TheorySociologySocialJustice #TauntWokeAF #IdentityLGBTQIATransTranny #PhenomnCorruption #TauntMindControl #WebsiteAcademyOfIdeas & #VlogAfterSkoolMarkWooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M #ConspiracyTheory_MassFormationPsychosis

#OrgAUAustraliaAndNewZealandBankingGroupANZ

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Context #PhenomnOppressionMatrix https://defendinged.org/incidents/san-mateo-foster-city-schools-distributes-oppression-matrix-and-social-justice-books/ #AdvocacyUSParentsDefendingEducationPDE ^{[SourceWatch]} #TheorySociologySocialJustice #AdvocacyUSTeachingForChangeSocialJusticeBooks https://socialjusticebooks.org/ #AdvocacyUSSouthernPovertyLawCenterSPLC https://www.learningforjustice.org/

#IdentityLGBTQIA / #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #TheorySociologySocialJustice #2022_InvasionOfUkraine

#TheorySociologyCriticalPedagogy #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntIndoctrination #TheorySociologyCriticalConsciousness ^[Wikipedia]

#TheorySociologySocialJustice Versus #PoliticsLibertarianism #MetaphorDeceitImpostureTrojanHorse #TheoryGlobalisation #PoliticsFascismWoke #PhenomnPropagandaUsefulIdiot

#VlogEdify #WebsiteRealLifeCatholicChrisStefanick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqzEBGQNaI #TheoryPostmodern #TheoryDeconstruction #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #TheorySociologyCriticalQueer #TheorySociologySocialJustice #PowerControlOppression #PowerControlSubjugation #TheorySociologyConflictTheory #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #NarrativeHistoricalInjustice #IdentityLGBTQIA #NarrativeValuesFamilyNuclear / #NarrativeValuesFamily #PoliticsCapitalism

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Supplementary Edify https://edify.us/about/ is part of #AdvocacyUSCatholicVote https://catholicvote.org/christianity-vs-wokeism-with-edify-presenter-chris-stefanick/ And https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/catholicvote-education-fund-launches-new-educational-initiative-edify-301389086.html

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Addendum while this presentation positions #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicism in opposition to #TauntWokeism, to a larger extend, its argument is actually an affirmation of the values of #PleaWokeAffirmation. Its central thesis is actually a criticism of #TheoryPostmodernGrandNarrativeMetanarrative.s ^[Wikipedia] - such as #PoliticsCommunism / #PoliticsFascismNazi / #PhenomnRevolution (where it bizarrely frames the movements in terms of the French Revolution's #SloganLibertyEqualityFraternity). The presentation seems to take umbrage with the fact that the same metanarrative which is critical of communism and naziism also brings into question the value of #BeliefTheismChristianity (because, as the presenter makes clear, belief is also an overarching, grand theory/philosophy). #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence

#IRLScholarPeterBoghossian https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/peter-boghossian-s-reverse-q-a-university-tour#/ #TheorySociologySocialJustice #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation

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Supplementary so let's see, Boghossian is planning to use students to further his political cause in the guise of giving them a 'platform'...

#IRLHistoricalFigureEmileDurkheim #TauntLeftist #PoliticsSocialism #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#IRLActivistShaunKing #SlurWhiteSupremacy #IRLActivistRachelDolezal ? #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#BrandHSBCBank #_CondemnationGender

framed as: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheorySociologySocialJustice >Encourages debate, allows disagreement, and allows for the right to offend. >Views us as individuals with autonomy. >Values scientific enquiry, rigorous empiricism, and feedback that highlights possible errors i.e. #PhenomnScientificMethod / #EpistemologyPositivism #TheorySociologyCriticalSocialJustice ^[Wikipedia] >See's opposing views as dangerous and accepts nothing less than idealogical conformity. >Views us as a collection of group identities. >Mistrusts science, credits certain identity groups with unequivocal access to truths, and places subjective experience over objectivity. evoking: #PoliticsCollectivism #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple

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Context feels like classic #OrgSyndicateAccordProtectionismDisciplinary to me.

#PhenomnSexualityFetishPetplay #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant

#2016_ScienceVsEverythingElse https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2016/01/20 #MetaphorVersusSimpleComplexAnswers

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Context #CaricaturistWileyMillerNonSequitur ^[Wikipedia] https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/about

#IRLBusinesspersonVivekRamaswamy #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM 'fist symbol' ^{[stock image]}

#TheorySociologySocialJustice #TauntWokeAF #IdentityLGBTQIATransTranny #PhenomnCorruption #TauntMindControl #WebsiteAcademyOfIdeas & #VlogAfterSkoolMarkWooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M #IRLHistoricalFigureCarlJung #ConspiracyTheory_MassFormationPsychosis #OtheringElitesGlobal #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQMARP4-tCg #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #IRLScholarPeterBoghossian #EDUUSPortlandStateUniversitySusanJeffords #TheorySociologySocialJustice #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TheorySociologySocialJustice #WebsitePragerU #2021_WhatRadicalIslamAndTheWokeHaveInCommon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tkGEFhHM5I&t=2s #CharacterisationRadicalFundamentalismIslamic

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Context #AdvocacyUSHooverInstitutionAyaanHirsiAli https://www.hoover.org/profiles/ayaan-hirsi-ali #2001_September11Attacks911 #MetaphorWarfareHero #TheoryModelBinary #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence #IRLHistoricalFigurePatrickHenry ^[Wikipedia] #EDUUSBrandeisUniversity #CatchcryCancelCulture #TheoryPhysicalismOrMaterialism "But materialism as traditionally construed is not a linguistic thesis at all; rather it is a metaphysical thesis in the sense that it tells us about the nature of the world. At least for the positivists, therefore, there was a clear reason for distinguishing physicalism (a linguistic thesis) from materialism (a metaphysical thesis)." ^{[encyclopædia]} #TauntLeftist #TauntLunaticFringe the #CharacterisationWeaknessLoony #TauntLeftThe #MetaphorCultReligious i.e. #MetaphorCultWoke #PhenomnSecularism #EDUNLUniversiteitLeiden #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #TauntWokeism #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #TheoryMarxism #TauntIndoctrination #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple #BeliefTheismIslamismAllahuAkbar #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #PleaBlasphemy #OtheringHateSpeech #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #SloganDefundThePolice #ToponymEastMiddleSyriaArRaqqah #PoliticsCollectivism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutality i.e. #PleaLawAndOrder #PowerControlSubjugation #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #PoliticsNationalismConservative i.e. #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #OrgClassifPPNLVolkspartijVoorVrijheidEnDemocratieVVD #EDUUSStanfordUniversity

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Supplementary "The Hoover Institution is a unit of Stanford University but has its own board of overseers". https://www.hoover.org/about

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TheorySociologySocialJustice #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #PoliticsFascismNazi #PoliticsCommunism #PhenomnClimateChange #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #TauntClimateAlarmists #NarrativeAuthorityOfExperts #TauntArrogance #WebsiteAcademyOfIdeas & #VlogAfterSkoolMarkWooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M&t=18s #IRLPhysicianGustaveLeBon ^[Wikipedia] #EDUUSMichiganStateUniversityMSUArthurVersluis ^[Wikipedia] #IRLHistoricalFigureCarlJung https://academyofideas.com/about/ #ConspiracyTheory_MassFormationPsychosis #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism #OtheringElitesGlobal

#IRLReligiousLeaderJohnMacArthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMU7f0Bdw4 #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#VlogBoilerRoomAlternateCurrentRadioHesher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCoPkKYa1J4 #2021_TheWokeReformation #IRLFilmmakerTravisBrown #IRLFilmmakerCoreyDrayton #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #PhenomnVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationSocialDistancing #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#TheorySociologySocialJustice #AdvocacyUSOregonAssociationOfScholarsOAS #IRLScholarBruceGilley #IRLScholarPeterBoghossian #WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #TheoryPoliticsOfFearPersecutionComplex

response to #PhenomnSatire.ical post by @WokeTemple about a supposed official statement by the #EDUUSUniversityOfTennessee's "Salem Branch" - from their "The UT Department of Tolerance, Diversity, Inclusion & Equity" about a fictional incident involving a fictional 'Mildred Chestnut'.

#MetaphorSalemWitchTrials #CauseFeminism #TheorySociologySocialJustice #HandleTwitterAntiFemComics ^[Twitter] / ^{[hashtag timeline]} / https://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/antifemcomics/038-pitchforks-r.html #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://dangerousintersection.org/2020/09/12/the-eight-stages-of-critical-race-theory/ And https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15OKP203G0 And https://www.edweek.org/race #OtheringOutGroup #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence #OtheringHateMisogyny

#NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil and #WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath https://rumble.com/vjd96z-jun-2021.-andrew-neil-on-cancel-culture.html #BrandTechSocialMediaAltRumble #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #IRLCraftspersonJessDeWahls https://www.jessdewahls.com/about #OrgUKRoyalAcademyOfArts

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Context https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/23/royal-academy-of-arts-apologises-to-jess-de-wahls-in-transphobia-row #OtheringHateTransphobia

#TauntProgressivesRespond #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TheorySociologySocialJustice #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC "Being 'woke' simply means that you have become aware of this reality. The purpose is not to make people feel guilty or bad about themselves. I didn't ask to be born white or female. I didn't ask for the privileges the former afforded me any more than I asked for the benefits or difficulties the latter created for me. But if one is not aware of the institutional inequalities in our society, how can one take action to remedy them? That is the point of critical race theory, and of being 'woke." It means that if we do not wake up, not only will our society continue to be unequal, but it will also be riven with racial, gender and class conflict." #IRLScholarGayleBrunelle http://hist.fullerton.edu/faculty_staff/profiles/Gayle%20Brunelle.aspx Via #IRLScholarHeatherCoxRichardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-23-2021/comments And https://reading-writing-revolution.tumblr.com/post/655068769986772992/before-i-commented-on-the-controversy-about

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Context #AdvocacyUSPeopleForTheAmericanWayPFAWRightWingWatchKyleMantyla https://www.pfaw.org/ https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pat-robertson-says-critical-race-theory-is-a-monstrous-evil/ #IRLTelevangelistPatRobertson

#WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBqDmllQQIg #NMUKGBNews #TauntWokeCulture #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #MetaphorWarfareCulture #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#IRLFilmmakerTravisBrown #2021_TheWokeReformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyG8MukuCY #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #TheorySociologyCriticalQueer #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #IRLScholarRichardDelgado #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #TheoryCulturalImperialism #TheoryExnominationHeteronormativity ^[Wikipedia] https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1237 #PhenomnThePatriarchy #SlurWhiteSupremacy #IRLScholarPauloFreire #TheorySociologyCriticalConsciousness ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorBlindnessDeafnessVsSeeingHearingTheTruth #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #TheorySociologySocialJustice #CauseEquality #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #TechICTSocialMedia DIANGELO, R. J., & DYSON, M. E. (2018). 'White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism'. #2018_WhiteFragility #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo and #IRLAuthorMichaelEricDyson KENDI, I. X. (2019). 'How to be an Antiracist'. #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #InvectiveAllCopsAreBastardsACAB https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/02/colorblindness-adds-to-racism/ #WebsiteEverydayFeminismJonGreenberg #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #TheoryCultural

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Context "Believing Is Seeing: The 'Lens' Metaphor in Critical Theory": https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/21/3/289/5539500

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Supplementary "Conflict theorists view social structure as inherently unequal, based on power differentials related to issues like class, gender, race, and age. For a conflict theorist, culture is seen as reinforcing issues of 'privilege' for certain groups based upon race, sex, class, and so on. Women strive for equality in a male-dominated society. Senior citizens struggle to protect their rights, their health care, and their independence from a younger generation of lawmakers. ... Conflict theorists believe that a society's system of material production has an effect on the rest of culture. People who have less power also have less ability to adapt to cultural change. This view contrasts with the perspective of functionalism. In the U.S. culture of capitalism, to illustrate, we continue to strive toward the promise of the American dream, which perpetuates the belief that the wealthy deserve their privileges." https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/theoretical-perspectives-on-culture/ i.e. #PhenomnProsperityWealthInequality #TheorySociologyConflictTheory #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #_Focal

#IRLReligiousLeaderVoddieBauchamJr https://www.voddiebaucham.org/about/ cites #BeliefTheismChristianityBible as ultimate source of meaning. I wonder how such people explain concepts and phenomena, which simply didn't exist 2000 years ago e.g. how do they explain sharing this #PhenomnPlatitudeThoughtTerminatingCliche on the Internet? #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#TheorySociologySocialJustice #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael "Judea and Samaria Area" i.e #ToponymEastMiddlePalestineOPTWestBank ^[Wikipedia]

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Context https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/

#NMRURussiaTodayRTLaurenChen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beFuX5nBZMw #OrgUSAcademyAwardsOscars #OrgUSHollywood #TheorySociologySocialJustice

#IRLAuthorAleksandrSolzhenitsyn #1973_TheGulagArchipelago ^[Wikipedia] https://theconversation.com/why-is-jordan-peterson-writing-about-the-gulag-120941 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/solzhenitsyn.russia

#IRLDogmatistColonelKurtz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8g9g_CytoU #EDUUSTheBrearleySchool #EDUUSGraceChurchSchoolGeorgeDavison (head) and #EDUUSGraceChurchSchoolPaulRossi (maths teacher) #EDUUSTheDaltonSchool #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TauntIndoctrination #TheorySociologySocialJustice Anti #OtheringDiscriminationRacism

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Context https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/faculty-at-nycs-dalton-school-issues-8-page-anti-racism-manifesto/

#IRLSingerDrake #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TVMisterRogersNeighborhoodFredRogers ^{[digital archives]}

#IRLCommentatorBillMaher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pabbzNjZ2s #NMUSFOXFNCMegynKelly #TauntLeftist #TheorySociologySocialJustice

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Context https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/megyn-kelly-nbc-fired-blackface-747389/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvB_iidWNc #IRLDogmatistGlennBeck i.e. conservative political commentator https://get.blazetv.com/glenn/ #TheorySociologySocialJustice #TauntLeftHardFar

#WebsiteKotaku https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222 #GameVideoHogwartsLegacy #IRLSoftwareDeveloperTroyLeavitt #TheorySociologySocialJustice #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984 #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #BrandPixarAnimationStudiosJohnLasseter #BrandAtariNolanBushnell #CampaignHashtagGamerGate #VlogFeministFrequencyAnitaSarkeesian

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Context http://thegg.net/interviews/interview-with-video-game-veteran-troy-leavitt-gamergate-the-games-industry-and-old-memories/

clip produced by "Enemies Within: The Church" group ^[forum] which reports on supposed 'false' #BeliefTheismChristianityGospel spread through #TheorySociologySocialJustice agendas.

#TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #TheorySociologySocialJustice

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Addendum #ReasoningFallacyStrawman i.e. evoking #CatchcryRacismReverse

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/oct/23/children-are-brought-here-by-coyotes-trump-and-biden-square-off-on-immigration-video "A 'coyote,' also known as 'el coyote' is a term for people who smuggle others across borders in exchange for payment." ^{[fact-checked]} #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

#AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchColemanHughes ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CMaxEqaccM #WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay #IRLScholarPeterBoghossian #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TheorySociologySocialJustice #CauseMeTwo ^[Wikipedia]

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Context Hughes has written for both #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes and #MagazineAUQuillette

#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

"...item they don't want to afford. And that's entirely their prerogative. They seem to believe, and this is increasingly the orthodoxy in mainstream media, that any writer not actively committed to critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically..." #TheorySociologyCriticalTheory #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM