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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 ...
"Democrats want to get you in an argument where if you have to define 'wokeism' as if the Webster's Dictionary is defining it. That's not what it is," she said. That's not what it is," she said ...
The discord threatens gridlock on bills affecting how doctors practice and how much they are paid.
'Stay woke', 'being woke' and 'wokeism' have become popular phrases on social media, but what do they actually mean?
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.
Dalvin Brown, writing in USA Today, has described an open letter signed by 153 public figures and published in Harper's Magazine as marking a "high point" in the debate on the topic. [24] The letter set out arguments against "an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy ...
United States portal. v. t. e. Occupy Wall Street ( OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City 's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011.
He drew a distinction between “old-school liberalism,” which he ascribes to, and wokeism. His most striking examples of the differences were on the topic of homelessness and race relations.