“Our country will be woke no longer.” Trump’s rally against wokeness is just the latest way this four-letter word has been co-opted by Republicans to mean the worst of humanity and to ...
As President Trump once memorably put it, “Everything woke turns to s—t.” That even includes attempts to remake a movie classic like “Snow White.” This week saw one of the strangest ...
Quickly after its embrace, however, “woke” underwent what linguists call pejoration, by which a positive or neutral word takes on a negative meaning. In this case, it went from referring to ...
President Trump uses the word "woke" to include issues and associated policies that touch on the lives of minority groups, including women, immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals. LGBTQ rights ...
President Trump uses the word "woke" to include issues and associated policies that touch on the lives of minority groups, including women, immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals. LGBTQ rights ...
West Virginia lawmakers on Monday introduced a bill that bans "woke words" and agendas from state government content, citing concerns about the terms being "sexist" and "exclusionary." The changes ...
If I had 5¢ every time I heard or saw an attack on woke in the past week, well, I’d probably have about $7.85. If limited to commentators who knew what the word actually meant, I’d be lucky ...
The word “woke” gets thrown around the political arena without much thought put toward its historical and social context. As Elaine Richardson, a professor of literacy studies, explained ...
But a few consistent defenders of free speech have not gone along with what they see as the new “woke right ... not avoiding the word entirely.
said another user. 'It is an insult to anyone who is a Wisconsinite. As for mothers, Webster will need to invent a new word, as 'insulting' is a gross understatement,' added another. ' ...
By Lee Siegel Donald Trump’s relentless attempt to erase the slightest trace of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) – it used to be called “woke” – from American institutions has pushed DEI to the ...