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Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and reparations for slavery in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The phrase stay woke was uttered in recordings from the mid-20th century by Lead Belly and, post-millennium, by Erykah Badu.
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...
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 OED traced the origin of woke's newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time ...
They obviously made a convincing case to a president with very limited national security and foreign policy experience, who keenly felt the burden of leading the nation in the wake of the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil.
Toe the line – Meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand in formation along a line; Trigger warnings – Warnings that a work may cause distress; Truthiness – Quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than actual truth; Woke – Political slang
Guest columnist James Hart argues America was the child of a 'woke' generation.
A contemporary revival of the Nazi propaganda term "Cultural Bolshevism", the contemporary version of the conspiracy theory originated in the United States during the 1990s. [6] [1] [7] [note 2] Originally found only on the far-right political fringe, the term began to enter mainstream discourse in the 2010s and is now found globally. [7]