You’d have to be a true asshole to not be woke by the first definition. You’d have to be pretty gutless patsy not to resist and reject woke by the second definition. The semantic drift from woke (2014) to woke (2019) is so extreme we shouldn’t use the same word for both.
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Non-white, non-black Americans hold the future in their hands, but don't know it yet. I know enough of these Americans to suspect where they will take it -- and so do those who are working tirelessly to try to prevent it.
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The substantive core of the idea of microaggression is actually easy enough to stick to if you're basically kind, without using the enforcement language. That construct is expansive, but hard to enforce as well, since it relies on installing hi-res radars in designated victims.
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agreed. It's a perfectly fine thing, and caught on because everyone has experienced them. It's when it hardens into an ideological weapon -- as it has -- that it becomes a problem.
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> non-whites gosh, it’s such a shame that this very useful phrase centers and normalizes the experiences of white people... if only there were some other term you could use that encompasses the majority of the world....
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nah, snark aside, this is an assertion that does in fact require centering white the point isn't to have rigid defaults, but center what is in fact the center in any given situation
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