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Then-United States Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018 Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT ...
According to the Washington Post, “woke” originated in the 1930s among Black nationalists in groups such as the Nation of Islam, who urged African Americans to wake up, metaphorically, from ...
"Woke," a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track "Master Teacher," has since taken on "a life of its own," and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.
Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by some political pundits to refer to the actual or perceived stock value drops or loss in sales ("going broke") of companies or corporations that publicly support progressive causes, such as the empowering of women, LGBT people and critical race theory (termed as going woke by its opponents).
The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the supposed Christian values [note 1] of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values.
While there was some agreement on the definition of “woke,” Americans are more sharply divided over whether the word is a compliment or an insult, pollsters said. Forty percent said it is an ...
v. t. e. " Political correctness " (adjectivally " politically correct "; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, [ 1][ 2][ 3] policies, [ 4] or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe ...
Luckily, there is a phrase that describes this belief system that favors “too much white history” and the effort to preserve it. Thanks to Bama’s own anti-Black Becky, we can now understand ...