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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 ...
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 ...
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the slang term’s primary meaning as being “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social ...
Look up snowflake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. The term gained prominence in the 2010s, and was declared by ...
The newer meaning of the word has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which now defines it as being "aware of and actively attentive to important facts ...
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.
The expression "cancel culture" has mostly negative connotations and is used in debates on free speech and censorship. [24] [45] Criticism of "cancel culture" In July 2020, former U.S. President Barack Obama criticized cancel culture and "woke" mentality on social media, saying: "People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are ...
'Stay woke', 'being woke' and 'wokeism' have become popular phrases on social media, but what do they actually mean?