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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 ...
A vast majority, or 78%, of Democrats surveyed said “woke” describes someone aware of injustices, while 56% of Republicans said it describes someone who is extremely politically correct ...
The novelty of wokeness as a concept lent an equal edginess, for a time, to anti-wokeness. It’s a familiar tale, really: The same thing happened with “political correctness” in the early ’90s.
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 ...
The Stop WOKE Act, also known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act and redubbed the Individual Freedom Act, is a Florida state law which prohibited schools and businesses from teaching certain concepts related to race, racism, and privilege. Penalties would include disciplinary action, including job termination, and loss of public ...
Censure is a formal, public, group condemnation of an individual, often a group member, whose actions run counter to the group's acceptable standards for individual behavior. [1] In the United States, governmental censure is done when a body's members wish to publicly reprimand the president of the United States, a member of Congress, a judge ...
“Nationalism” and “wokeness” are relatively vague terms with multiple meanings, so it’s important to define them from the outset. Nationalists believe the main purpose of government is ...
Political efficacy. Graph of public trust in Government in the United States of America. In political science, political efficacy is the citizens ' trust in their ability to change the government and belief that they can understand and influence political affairs. It is commonly measured by surveys and is used as an indicator for the broader ...