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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.
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People who are not woke: blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, gays, trans people. People who are woke: a small minority of college-educated, disproportionately white, disproportionately wealthy people + educated, professional middle class minority rent-seekers
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Back then, to me it meant “being alive to structural iniquities that lead to black kids getting arbitrarily executed by cops” Now it means “power-tripping sociopaths trying to leverage mob-control powers to take over sclerotic institutions”
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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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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."