Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."
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We all recognize them in the street.
There's no need to parse subtleties. We don't need to worry about nuances, anymore.
Motherfucker is a fascist motherfucker or they ain't.
So what do they want?
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1990s: “Politically Correct”
2010s: “Snowflake”
2020s: “Woke”
Derisive labels for the ethos that people who aren’t like you are also entitled to the respect, dignity and rights you enjoy.
I have surely missed some.
If you aren't woke, your unaware, uninformed, apathetic.
I instantly question the intelligence of anyone who uses it as a put down.
Very reminiscent of the language surrounding pronouns and trans rights. It's almost like they've been doing this for a LONG time now and people still fall for it.
Anyway, wake tf up sheeple 😂
#horseshoeTheory
*Except when it results in advancement of society, like via things known as “the 40 hour work week” and “the weekend”.
Important context: chattel slavery’s a lucrative economic model. The labor is free, and slaves reproduce, so the longer you hold them the richer you get. For the same reason, victualers were never going to reform on their own.
Ha, ha, of course not
There are no Dem victories, just levels and layers of defeat.
There were always “dopes”
Seems like China (and India) will then be better positioned to speak to that global demographic majority and their markets.
Conservatives can’t argue for limiting personal freedoms so instead they make the argument that progressives effectively are, by limiting what you’re allowed to say.
Just call it what it is
I woke up this morning.
No, but this is true. Woke has become synonymous with shit conservatives don't like. When they censor people on their own platforms or attempt to "cancel" progressives, that's fine.
The original meaning of the word is gone.
To the right, "deplorable" is a compliment.
These are not the same.
1) Conscious of and sympathetic to the plight of those suffering social injustice.
2) Insufficiently bigoted.
— Lionel Trilling, “The Liberal Imagination,” 1950
Antiwoke is code for sociopath.
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