When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/brief-history-wokeness...

    “I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn’t actually mean anything,” Tony Thorne, the author of “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang ...

  3. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

    www.aol.com/basic-boujee-29-gen-z-181052761.html

    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...

  4. Woke - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

    [34] [15] The American Dialect Society voted woke the slang word of the year in 2017. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In the same year, the term was included as an entry in Oxford English Dictionary . [ 38 ] [ 7 ] By 2019, the term woke was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, as reflected in the books Woke by comedian Andrew Doyle (using the pen ...

  5. What does 'woke' mean in politics? How the term is used now ...

    www.aol.com/does-woke-mean-politics-term...

    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 ...

  6. Go woke, go broke - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_woke,_go_broke

    Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...

  7. William Melvin Kelley - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Melvin_Kelley

    Kelley is credited [4] with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 op-ed for The New York Timeson the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It". [5] [10] For Kathryn Schulz, writing in The New Yorker in 2018, Kelley is "the lost giant of American literature". [3]

  8. ‘Woke’ is the opposite of whiteness - AOL

    www.aol.com/woke-opposite-whiteness-211041494.html

    The post ‘Woke’ is the opposite of whiteness appeared first on TheGrio. ... SEL [Social Emotional Learning], woke agenda and grooming our little ones.” But that sentence has dogged me for ...

  9. Corporate sociopolitical activism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_sociopolitical...

    Helen Lewis held the opinion that cancel culture is the result of what she calls "the iron law of woke capitalism", and believes that it is used for inexpensive messaging as a substitute for genuine reform. [8] Will Hutton wrote that he believed woke capitalism is "the only way forward", citing principles of corporate responsibility. [6]