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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For example, there is really never any reason to use aggregate-solidarity terms like PoC, WoC, and LBGTQ if you're not trying to promote an active solidarity-based tactical agenda. You can just be more specific, and use unloaded situation-specific language.
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The expansive and labile construction of the micro-aggression was invented in order to catch out those deft enough to adopt your strategy. So one must also be swift in anticipating and updating one's algorithm to avoid those.
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