DeBoer: Of Course You Know What Woke Means
Excellent substack column by Freddie deBoer, and a great rebuke to those who tendentiously claim that “woke” is a racially tinged slur:
[I]t’s absurd that so many people pretend not to know what woke means, and the problem could be easily solved if people who support woke politics would adopt a name for others to use. No to woke, no to identity politics, no to political correctness, fine: PICK SOMETHING…
Woke is defined by several consistent attributes. Woke is
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Academic—the terminology of woke politics is an academic terminology, which is unsurprising given its origins in humanities departments of elite universities. Central to woke discourse is the substitution of older and less complicated versions of socially liberal perspectives with more willfully complex academic versions. So civi
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