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1. jrm4+en1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 19:24:18
>>crbela+(OP)
Black person here.

Like most discussions of "woke" and "wokeness," this one too fails HARD by not fully and directly addressing the origins of the term -- and by "fails hard" I do mean will almost certainly do more obscuring than clarifying by starting from an information-deficient premise.

Including, e.g. "The term 'woke' has its origins in the Black American community as a signifier of awareness about ones political and social situation..." is a bare minimum.

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2. precio+Ut4[view] [source] 2025-01-14 16:33:17
>>jrm4+en1
It is actually insane how far I had to scroll to see the first comment mentioning this. He has merits in his comparison to religion but this essay is a huge miss.

Edit: in this thread, the actual origin of “woke” is only mentioned 3 times, the thread has 1942 comments as I type

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3. Manuel+1C4[view] [source] 2025-01-14 16:59:45
>>precio+Ut4
https://x.com/seunosewa/status/1878835480424513903

"Usage is usage. I don't make the rules."

He also clarifies he's referring to the contemporary meaning in the linked essay:

> Wokeness is a second, more aggressive wave of political correctness, which started in the late 1980s, died down in the late 1990s, and then returned with a vengeance in the early 2010s, finally peaking after the riots of 2020.

> This was not the original meaning of woke, but it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one. What does it mean now?

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4. precio+Fm5[view] [source] 2025-01-14 19:56:39
>>Manuel+1C4
He doesn’t even attempt to touch on the actual origins in the essay however. There are a lot of loose ends in it and this is a glaring one.

He also uses “political correctness”, which is a more precise way to describe the phenomenon he talks about. But that buzzword died a long time ago, so “the origins of woke” without actually touching on the origin of “woke” will do.

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