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I think the term "woke" has been hijacked by some people to refer to anything minorities do in a disparaging manner, so I would need more concrete examples of w

• gnicholas 5y ago
  Linguist (and heterodox thinker) John McWhorter has written about this shifting usage: > For example, it’s only recently that he noticed the term “woke” being used beyond black Americans in just the way that “politically correct” was used before it was a pejorative. And already, he observed, it is beginning to take on the same baggage as PC once did. from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-futility-of-standing-athwart-language-yelling-stop/563612/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-futili...