but it’s the new form of insult about the young, the media’s 21st-century version of ‘political correctness gone mad’”. “I have never heard a teenager proclaim ‘I’m woke’. “The term the older generation say they hate is ‘woke’, although the word is only ever used by anyone over 30,” she wrote. The term gained wider prominence through its use in popular culture such as the song Redbone by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover.Ĭolumnist Alice Thomson in The Times agreed. Through the use of the hashtag #staywoke, activists issued a call to arms against the various racial injustices occurring across the globe. Since then, the term has been widely used among black Americans, but it took on particular prominence during the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement. The term is most frequently traced to an essay called “If you’re woke you dig it” by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley that was published in The New York Times in 1962, though some have traced its use as far back as the 1940s. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice”.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines woke as “originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Though the term has origins as far back as the 1940s, it has “become a way to silence and shame people into staying quiet about issues that actively put people at harm when not addressed”, she said. The Evening Standard’s Natasha Mwansa agreed, writing that over the past couple of years the word woke “has fallen under the same umbrella as terms like snowflake and social justice warrior”.
She added that it ultimately comes down to being kind, and asked: “Isn't that what we all want our toddlers to be?” Turning to the much-disputed definition of the term, she said that “this so-called ‘woke’ generation are actually simply young people who care about things: about causes, about the planet, about people”. Are university free speech laws necessary - or a ‘war on the woke’?.What is cultural appropriation - and how can you spot it?.
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