#MagazineUSTheAtlanticThomasChattertonWilliams "An important further complication to this debate is that as the word woke migrated from Black American slang to common usage, the critics of the social-justice ideologues the term denotes came to rely on their own esoteric jargon. Now they can barely communicate what, precisely, they find problematic about 'wokeness' and wish to correct. Hence, they end up using this word as an epithet to refer--vaguely--to seemingly anything changing in the culture that they don't like. That is the critique they open themselves up to, in any event."
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