We’ve semantic-drifted a long way. ‘Woke’ first hit my radar as a black activist term around Ferguson/BLM in 2014. Feels like yesterday. It’s gone from a brain-dead obvious thing to be to a brain dead obvious thing to avoid being.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1174327999287742465 …
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I think "semantic drift" implies a passivity to the transformation that doesn't capture the way the right, comprised of folks in yours and OP's latter definition, deliberately coopt terms and attempt to render them useless to the former set of folks. e.g. "identity politics."
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Yeah, I mean no. 2. We don't have good terminology for the amorphous, shape-shifting set of claims that this ideology makes use of it in pursuit of institutional, in large part because the effort manipulates terms such as "diversity" to disguise its character.
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True. I'm beginning to conclude that the weakest point, and the one worth attacking is the "approved language" layer.
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Huh when you put it like that, that IS pretty crazy
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