I think woke was a cool word with important meaning for a while, and it has some great historical context behind it that made it work. Reactionary media did what they always do though and I think it's safe to say the word has completely lost all meaning outside of those aforementioned historical contexts. These days everything is "woke" and the new reactionary concept of "woke" is so far from what woke actually means as to render the term useless.
What word are they going to ruin next? How will they ruin it? Am I being the reactionary by thinking that woke has been ruined as a word? Place your bets below
I've never seen reactionaries latch onto a word quite like woke, so it'll be around for a while. This is the first time I'm seeing the two major camps of American reactionaries collide, as in, the online freaks and your peepaw who lives in the suburbs. Normally they'll share an outlook, but aren't communicating in the same terms.
The fact that old people use woke tells me it's gonna be stuck in the consciousness for a while. They're the same people still who call anyone younger than them a millennial.
You're right that it doesn't mean anything anymore. It vaguely means anything promoting queer or non-white people. It's just a consumer brand now
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I'm going off the scale of words my 90 year old grandmother has heard of
To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality.
It refers to a school of social and cultural liberalism that has become the dominant discourse in left-of-center spaces in American intellectual life. "Wokeness” centers “the personal is political” at the heart of all politics and treats political action as inherently a matter of personal moral hygiene - woke isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. See: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.