04-04-2024, 09:59 PM
Nowadays “woke” is a rebranding of PC/political correctness from the 80s and 90s. Originally it was used in borderline conspiracy sense by the black community. Just the “wake up, sheeple” thing conspiracy theorists do when they tell you about lizard people running the new world order. But grammatically convoluted. So “stay woke”, as in “awake” and perceptive to alternative facts.
It’s stupid, actually. Similar thing happened with DEI. Where it’s a term coined by the left, use derogatorily by the right, and now the left also see it as a derogatory term. Whether it’s seen as the right having the power to change language, or the left playing victim, that’s up to interpretation.
It’s stupid, actually. Similar thing happened with DEI. Where it’s a term coined by the left, use derogatorily by the right, and now the left also see it as a derogatory term. Whether it’s seen as the right having the power to change language, or the left playing victim, that’s up to interpretation.