https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/10/us/woke-race-deconstructed-newsletter-reaj/index.html
By using the term “woke” however they want, conservatives have muddied its meaning, have obfuscated it to refer to anything having to do with progressivism they don’t like. The same goes for “critical race theory.” They’ve done it with so many terms. “Identity politics” is another one. One of the earliest usages of “identity politics” is in the Combahee River Collective Statement from 1977. It was a way of describing working to end Black women’s oppression – it was a political movement on the basis of identity. Really straightforward. Now, though, “identity politics” is often seen as this negative thing that people don’t want to participate in.
One of the things that gets paired with semantic pejoration is what’s called semantic bleaching. Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away. I think that “critical race theory” is a good example of that, along with “woke.” Once a word gets semantically bleached, it can come to mean anything. “Woke” has come to mean anything having to do with race or, more broadly, progressivism.
Bovine faeces. Conservatives know very well what "woke", "critical race theory" and "identity politics" mean when liberals use them. Liberals are cowardly bullies. When they invented the terms they shoved them in conservative faces. When the conservatives shoved back , suddenly it was "We didn't invent that term!" and "You're trying to ruin us!"
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ReplyDeleteOn the contrary. The Woke Folk are professional victims. They're the bully who beats you with a bat while screaming "I"m the victim! I'm oppressed!" But they know their whole philosophy is crap without substance and can only be sustained by attacking opponents.
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