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In Reply to: I'm certainly not a liberal of the "bleeding heart" variety. posted by Feanor on March 14, 2023 at 18:37:21:
It depends on which definition of Woke you are using. I suspect some people mistake "politically correct" with Woke.
"in 2017, the new meaning of the word woke was officially added to the dictionary."
According to Webster - as "chiefly US slang", the dictionary defines the word as: "Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)."
Woke nowadays refers to being aware or well-informed in a political or cultural sense, especially regarding issues surrounding marginalized communities - it describes someone who has "woken up" to issues of social injustice.
It's not new - it goes back to the 1960s.
It can be traced back to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article written by William Melvin Kelley, titled 'If You're Woke You Dig It.'
Furthermore, in 1971, the play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham reads: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."
Erykah Badu's 2008 song Master Teacher also featured the phrase "I stay woke", which helped popularise the word.
In 2012 when Russian feminist group Pussy Riot were imprisioned for a protest intended to shine a light on the oppression of women, Badu Tweeted: "Truth requires no belief. Stay woke. Watch closely. #FreePussyRiot."
"The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement; instead of just being a word that signalled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action. Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke," Merriam-Webster explains.
Hirsch explains: "In reality, the only thing that unites the woke is an intellectual curiosity about identity and how complex, how nuanced, how rooted in disparate histories it can be. The real groupthink, the genuinely cohesive crowd, it's increasingly clear, is that of the anti-woke, the most weaponised identity of all."
Hirsch points out the irony of "the rightwing culture warriors [who] claim to support free speech" but "they seem to want minorities to shut up and stop complaining".
In the end, it is called empathy - you try and see things from the perspective of others. It's that simple. And you just put your own self to the side for a moment and say "look THIS really bothers this person"
What is the "This" - the this can be their pronoun or their identity and maybe you and I don't GET why it bothers them or even agree with what bothers them but it does. Then we decide whether we can accommodate their desire pronoun or feelings into our lives. Some people can't because maybe it goes against their religious beliefs.
Take the hockey players who would not wear a rainbow jersey or whatever due to their religious beliefs - that's fine.
Someone wants to be called They instead of him - meh - who cares - I'll call you they if you like.
A black man who has been wrongfully beaten by police and you see it over and over and over again - you want to kneel for the flag to protest bad cops - then do it. People making a big deal over nothing. Taking a knee isn't as bad as wrongfully shooting people. People are getting madder about taking a knee than cops killing innocent people? How about some perspective?
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Follow Ups
- RE: I'm certainly not a liberal of the "bleeding heart" variety. - RGA 23:43:22 03/14/23 (4)
- I guess I just don't "put my own self aside" often enough or long enough - Feanor 05:05:22 03/15/23 (1)
- No self-flagellation required, but it could... - MWE 08:32:20 03/16/23 (0)
- Apparently some of the knuckleheads jumping on the woke catchphrase blamed yhe SVB... - musetap 00:08:59 03/15/23 (1)
- RE: Apparently some of the knuckleheads jumping on the woke catchphrase blamed yhe SVB... - RGA 07:33:31 03/16/23 (0)
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