Which is kind of funny, since if you asked me 10 years ago about the cultural associations of “woke,” they’d be, uh, more scattered. Black nationalists of the w

Which is kind of funny, since if you asked me 10 years ago about the cultural associations of “woke,” they’d be, uh, more scattered. Black nationalists of the wacky “Beethoven? Oh yeah, he was black” sort, but at the time I also saw a neo-nazi using the term. Almost always in the “woke to” formulation. Nazis were “woke to the JQ”, but maybe some special type of weirdo would be “woke to big foot” or “woke to the templars”. So basically I think it was appropriated from a specific black culture to general extremist/conspiracy culture, if such a thing truly exists, and maybe was re-appropriated into modern discourse. And now I find my self using the term occasionally to describe a set of views without really engaging with them. Such as when someone showed me some pictures from their cruise (which was neat, they’re an engineering nerd and carefully detailed some elements of the ship) but had to give me a cruises are evil disclaimer before uh, saying well I went on one anyway, family, and so on. “the typical woke reasons.”