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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 ...
People who you are fighting may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you." [ 46 ] Former U.S. President Donald Trump criticized cancel culture in a speech in July 2020, comparing it to totalitarianism and saying that it is a political weapon used to punish and shame dissenters by driving them from their jobs and demanding ...
Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context. [1] [2] [3] The effort of including a token individual in ...
Kamala Harris’ efforts to shut down “lock him up” chants targeting Donald Trump at rallies may be an effort to avoid further delays in his Jan. 6 election interference trial.
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.
In his 2021 bestseller 'Woke, Inc.', Ramaswamy decries decisions by some big companies to base business strategy around social justice and climate change concerns, and lambastes "wokeism" as an ...
Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as next president, two hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. A newly elected or re-elected president of the United States begins their four-year term of office at noon on the twentieth day of January following the election, and, by tradition, takes the oath of office during an inauguration on that date; prior to 1937 the president's term of office ...
Concerning the real-life political violence caused by the conspiracy theory, law professor Samuel Moyn wrote: "That 'cultural Marxism' is a crude slander, referring to something that does not exist, unfortunately does not mean actual people are not being set up to pay the price, as scapegoats, to appease a rising sense of anger and anxiety. And ...