Actually it was merely a meandering thought, and on looking at this early article again just now it looks that idea of mine is, as you suggest, off the mark. I say that because of just being reminded the word has experienced a bipartisan evolution. I totally had forgotten that bit.
A history of “wokeness” Absolute clarification of what "woke" originally meant. Step right up! If you have any minuscule of doubt about wokeness this is the article for you!! LOL Seriously, you'll understand how the right has dishonestly mutilated the original meaning of the word to distract from an important social concern. Toss the social in the trash . It's all political man!!!
A history of “wokeness”
Stay woke: How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.
By Aja Romano @ajaromano Oct 9, 2020, 10:00am EDT
Before 2014, the call to “stay woke” was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point — the notion that staying “woke” and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, “stay woke” suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context: keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics.
In the six years since Brown’s death, “woke” has evolved into a single-word summation of leftist political ideology, centered on social justice politics and critical race theory. This framing of “woke” is bipartisan: It’s used as a shorthand for political progressiveness by the left, and as a denigration of leftist culture by the right.
On the right, “woke” — like its cousin “canceled” — bespeaks “political correctness” gone awry, and the term itself is usually used sarcastically. At the Republican National Convention in August, right-wing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) scolded “woketopians,” grouping them together with socialists and Biden supporters, as though the definition of a “woketopian” was self-evident.
So i'll adjust to saying i wouldn't be surprised if - even if only subconsciously - some rabid conservatives cherish the word "woke" because it originally represented a caring comfort zone for the black community. So to use it negatively now may give then a warm fuzzy arrogance of racial superiority.
I realize it's a shot in the dark, still it feels like it could be a fair comment on some thinking woke (awake) racists. The individual would have to know what the word originally meant. Will have to consider it more. Thanks for the check.
Conservative have definitely converted a positive to a negative. Nothing new there. So that bit sticks.
Fun clip. Martin's right elbow slipping off the bench arm rest a couple of times is a pure Martin touch. For some reason i never got around to watching it earlier.
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