According to a recent USA Today/Ipsos Poll, 56% of Americans surveyed say they think that being woke means “to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices”. Americans who aren’t suffering from Fox News-induced brain worms still understand that to be its meaning. The term comes from African American Vernacular English and, originally, was broadly defined as being “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination”. So I have a cunning plan: let’s establish a moratorium on people throwing around the word “woke”, one of the most used and abused terms in recent memory, until we have all agreed on a precise definition of it.īefore the right co-opted the term and used it to describe everything from BlackRock to Disney World, “woke” had an actual meaning. T ired of hearing conservatives go on and on about “wokeness”? Me too.
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