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But the Army says that on average, only 5% of the respondents in the surveys listed “wokeness” as an issue, compared with 13% who say they believe that women and minorities will face ...
Then-United States Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018 Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT ...
The term is often invoked as a pejorative by opinion writers and cable news pundits, and it’s even the subject of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, a law in Florida that says it aims to “put an end to ...
“It’s always good to be more woke. It’s always good to see injustice in maximalist terms. … The problem with wokeness is that it doesn’t inspire action; it freezes it.
Democracy Dies in Darkness. " Democracy Dies in Darkness " is the official slogan of the American newspaper The Washington Post, adopted in 2017. The slogan was introduced on the newspaper's website on February 22, 2017, [ 1] and was added to print copies a week later. [ 2] Upon its announcement, the slogan generated significant reaction ...
Horseshoe theory. Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the debunked horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the ...
"I think the wokeness is overreacting to a lot of issues," he said. "I think that most Americans, the super-majority of Americans, are not racist, and people were overreacting here." Yet some were ...
1243909867. Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy is a 2021 nonfiction book by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Ungar-Sargon argues in the book that race-conscious wokeness provided by print media consumed by upper-class, educated readers has replaced the class-conscious reporting for a wider readership that dominated U.S. media in earlier ...