When I was young, “woke” meant being aware of the excessive greed of the banking system, of injustices against the lower class, the treatment of minorities, and

When I was young, “woke” meant being aware of the excessive greed of the banking system, of injustices against the lower class, the treatment of minorities, and the crimes of the military industrial complex. Today woke means counting how many black people a VP collected on last month’s corporate hiring spree. It means a movie studio race swapping a classic movie character and applauding themselves for “diversity”, instead of taking the time and effort to actually write an original with a diverse cast. It means a university reducing the number of Asian student admissions. The list of cringey, obviously racist and condescending behavior goes on and on. The point is the term “woke” has changed. This happened some time after the Occupy movement, when corporations decided to co-opt this rhetoric.