What does ‘woke’ mean?—
Aug 5, 2021 16:18:51 #
The word was first printed in a 1962 New York Times essay by the author William Melvin Kelley &By Michael Ruiz | Fox News
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What is woke? Aside from being the past participle of wake, for decades, it meant conscious and aware – but the slang word has come to represent an embrace of progressive activism, as well. Merriam-Webster added the word to its dictionary in 2017, defining it as, "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." The Oxford dictionary adopted it the same year, defining it as "originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice."
"Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE)," according to Merriam-Webster. "In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, ‘I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.’"
The meaning appears to have shifted sometime after Erykah Badu repeatedly used the line "I stay woke" in her 2008 song, "Master Teacher," which begins, "I am known to stay awake."
After the song came out, "’Stay woke’ became a watch word in parts of the Black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better," according to Merriam-Webster. REP. CREWNSHAW, SEN. COTTON LAUNCH WHISTLEBLOWER EFFORT AGAINST MILITARY "WOKE IDEOLOGY" Rep. Crenshaw, Sen. Cotton launch whistleblower effort against military 'woke ideology' Military service members are being urged to submit their complaints.
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News
‘Wokeness’ the most dangerous thing for our military: Brian Mast
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Friday launched a whistleblower form for military service members so that the armed forces don't "fall to woke ideology."
The form is available on a new webpage on Crenshaw's website, which states that submissions will be shared with Cotton's office. "Enough is enough. We won’t let our military fall to woke ideology," Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, said in a Friday tweet. "We have just launched a whistleblower webpage where you can submit your story. Your complaint will be legally protected, and go to my office and @SenTomCotton."
Crenshaw added that "with written permission," he and Cotton, a former Army captain, "will anonymously publish egregious complaints on social media and tell the country what’s happening in our military." "For too long, progressive Pentagon staffers have been calling the shots for our warfighters, and spineless military commanders have let it happen. Now we are going to expose you," he said. The form notes that whistleblowers take "serious risks" when reporting "allegations of wrongdoing" and recommends military members "consult an attorney experienced in whistleblower law for further guidance."
The Defense Department has come under heavy fire recently from conservatives after Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was removed from his post after speaking out against Marxism in the military. Conservatives came to the aid of Lohmeier after his sacking, and Republican lawmakers demanded he be reinstated. Last week, House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., decried cancel culture as "getting out of hand" and told Fox News that she was supporting legislation to ensure that American troops aren’t being indoctrinated into woke culture, which is more intolerant of conservative beliefs and values.
In addition, HASC ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said in a news release that "the United States Armed Forces should be focused on preparing to face and win any battles against the threats posed by China and other foreign adversaries and not imposing political beliefs on those who chose to serve in uniform."
The Navy also came under criticism in March after leaked slides from the military’s "extremism" training said sailors could not discuss "politically partisan" subjects on duty but that it was OK to advocate for Black Lives Matter while on duty.
The Navy revised their slides after multiple reports came out highlighting the political bias in the military branch’s training.
Fox News' Houston Keane, Kelly Laco and Brittany De Lea contributed to this report.
Then in 2013 and 2014, after Florida man George Zimmerman was acquitted in Trayvon Martin’s slaying and the police-involved death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a wave of Black Lives Matter activism emerged around the country. The phrase went from Twitter hashtag to rallying cry.
"The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement; instead of just being a word that signaled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action," according to Merriam-Webster. "Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke."
In 2018, the rapper Meek Mill took the phrase as the top single on his album "Legends of the Summer."
The BLM-themed "Stay Woke" was his first song since getting out of prison in April of that year.
DEMOCRATS GETTING INCREASINGLY NERVOUS ABOUT WOKE CULTURE
Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about 'woke' culture, analysts say
James Carville: 'Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it'
By Cortney O'Brien | Fox News
A New York Times opinion writer wondered in a new op-ed on Wednesday if the progressive cancel culture push will backfire on Democrats at the polls, and he isn't the only analyst asking the question.
"Is Wokeness ‘Kryptonite for Democrats?’" Times contributor Thomas Edsall's headline asked.
Edsall quoted several surveys finding most people are against the more radical campaigns, such as efforts to defund the police and upend traditional gender norms. And yet, he said, Republicans can still point to the extreme minority that is pushing these ideas to argue that the Democratic Party is increasingly beholden to the radicals.
"Although centrist Democrats make up the majority of the party in the polls I cited above, the fact that a substantial minority of Democrats takes the more extreme stance allows Republicans to portray the Democratic Party as very much in thrall to its more ‘radical’ wing," Edsall wrote. Edsall shared an email he received from social psychologist Jonathan Haidt arguing that the left-wing policies will only serve to drag down the party. "Wokeness is kryptonite for Democrats," Haidt wrote. "Most people hate it, other than the progressive activists. If you just look at Americans' policy preferences, Dems should be winning big majorities. But we have strong negative partisanship, and when people are faced with a party that seems to want to defund the police and rename schools, rather than open them, all while crime is rising and kids' welfare is falling, the left flank of the party is just so easy for Republicans to run against."
That belief is shared by Democratic strategist James Carville, who made perhaps an even bolder statement on how cancel culture will impact the party last month.
"Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it," he said. "It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud." Andrew Guttmann, a New York City parent who has been speaking out against schools' push for critical race theory, said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" on Wednesday that the cancel culture curriculum "is going to destroy our country" if it's not reversed. In a new piece for The Hill, he argued that the campaign for wokeness will only hurt the progressives spearheading it.
"There appears to be widespread belief that opposition to critical race theory is a view held solely by the political right," he wrote. "This perception is wrong. It is certainly true that the conservative media has almost exclusively embraced viewpoints unfavorable to critical race theory while the liberal-oriented media has been overwhelmingly approving. But our polarized media does not seem to accurately reflect the view of most Americans."
Cortney O'Brien is an Editor at Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @obrienc2.
"How can I pledge allegiance to the flag," he raps in the final verse. "When they killin' all our sons, all our dads?" But the meaning of woke evolved again with the rise of "cancel culture" -- as the two terms saw increased use, they became intertwined in the public consciousness. Often, someone gets canceled after they say something insensitive – something not woke. So an addition to meaning aware and progressive, many people now interpret woke to be a way to describe people who would rather silence their critics than listen to them. That’s entirely different than what the word meant when it first appeared in print.
That was in a 1962 New York Times article about beatniks and pop culture absorbing jazz music and African American slang from Harlem, Oxford revealed in a June 2017 article about new words heading into the dictionary. That article, written by the Black New York City novelist William Melvin Kelley was titled, "If you’re woke, you dig it" – meaning if you’re in the know, you understand.
As he noted at the time, a lot of jazz-era idioms became mainstream speech, and words like cool and hip. But the slang was already evolving in meaning back then. "At one time, the connotations of ‘jive’ were all good," Kelley wrote. "Now they are bad, or at least questionable." A decade later, in Barry Beckham’s "Garvey Lives!" play about the Black Nationalist leader and publisher Marcus Garvey, a character named Strong vows that he "won’t go to sleep" but instead will "stay woke." "I been sleeping all my life," he says. "And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake up other Black folk." Now it’s not so much a racial term as an ideological one.
Fox News Flash top headlines for May 29
What is woke? Aside from being the past participle of wake, for decades, it meant conscious and aware – but the slang word has come to represent an embrace of progressive activism, as well. Merriam-Webster added the word to its dictionary in 2017, defining it as, "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." The Oxford dictionary adopted it the same year, defining it as "originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice."
"Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE)," according to Merriam-Webster. "In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, ‘I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.’"
The meaning appears to have shifted sometime after Erykah Badu repeatedly used the line "I stay woke" in her 2008 song, "Master Teacher," which begins, "I am known to stay awake."
After the song came out, "’Stay woke’ became a watch word in parts of the Black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better," according to Merriam-Webster. REP. CREWNSHAW, SEN. COTTON LAUNCH WHISTLEBLOWER EFFORT AGAINST MILITARY "WOKE IDEOLOGY" Rep. Crenshaw, Sen. Cotton launch whistleblower effort against military 'woke ideology' Military service members are being urged to submit their complaints.
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News
‘Wokeness’ the most dangerous thing for our military: Brian Mast
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Friday launched a whistleblower form for military service members so that the armed forces don't "fall to woke ideology."
The form is available on a new webpage on Crenshaw's website, which states that submissions will be shared with Cotton's office. "Enough is enough. We won’t let our military fall to woke ideology," Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, said in a Friday tweet. "We have just launched a whistleblower webpage where you can submit your story. Your complaint will be legally protected, and go to my office and @SenTomCotton."
Crenshaw added that "with written permission," he and Cotton, a former Army captain, "will anonymously publish egregious complaints on social media and tell the country what’s happening in our military." "For too long, progressive Pentagon staffers have been calling the shots for our warfighters, and spineless military commanders have let it happen. Now we are going to expose you," he said. The form notes that whistleblowers take "serious risks" when reporting "allegations of wrongdoing" and recommends military members "consult an attorney experienced in whistleblower law for further guidance."
The Defense Department has come under heavy fire recently from conservatives after Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was removed from his post after speaking out against Marxism in the military. Conservatives came to the aid of Lohmeier after his sacking, and Republican lawmakers demanded he be reinstated. Last week, House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., decried cancel culture as "getting out of hand" and told Fox News that she was supporting legislation to ensure that American troops aren’t being indoctrinated into woke culture, which is more intolerant of conservative beliefs and values.
In addition, HASC ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said in a news release that "the United States Armed Forces should be focused on preparing to face and win any battles against the threats posed by China and other foreign adversaries and not imposing political beliefs on those who chose to serve in uniform."
The Navy also came under criticism in March after leaked slides from the military’s "extremism" training said sailors could not discuss "politically partisan" subjects on duty but that it was OK to advocate for Black Lives Matter while on duty.
The Navy revised their slides after multiple reports came out highlighting the political bias in the military branch’s training.
Fox News' Houston Keane, Kelly Laco and Brittany De Lea contributed to this report.
Then in 2013 and 2014, after Florida man George Zimmerman was acquitted in Trayvon Martin’s slaying and the police-involved death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a wave of Black Lives Matter activism emerged around the country. The phrase went from Twitter hashtag to rallying cry.
"The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement; instead of just being a word that signaled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action," according to Merriam-Webster. "Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke."
In 2018, the rapper Meek Mill took the phrase as the top single on his album "Legends of the Summer."
The BLM-themed "Stay Woke" was his first song since getting out of prison in April of that year.
DEMOCRATS GETTING INCREASINGLY NERVOUS ABOUT WOKE CULTURE
Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about 'woke' culture, analysts say
James Carville: 'Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it'
By Cortney O'Brien | Fox News
A New York Times opinion writer wondered in a new op-ed on Wednesday if the progressive cancel culture push will backfire on Democrats at the polls, and he isn't the only analyst asking the question.
"Is Wokeness ‘Kryptonite for Democrats?’" Times contributor Thomas Edsall's headline asked.
Edsall quoted several surveys finding most people are against the more radical campaigns, such as efforts to defund the police and upend traditional gender norms. And yet, he said, Republicans can still point to the extreme minority that is pushing these ideas to argue that the Democratic Party is increasingly beholden to the radicals.
"Although centrist Democrats make up the majority of the party in the polls I cited above, the fact that a substantial minority of Democrats takes the more extreme stance allows Republicans to portray the Democratic Party as very much in thrall to its more ‘radical’ wing," Edsall wrote. Edsall shared an email he received from social psychologist Jonathan Haidt arguing that the left-wing policies will only serve to drag down the party. "Wokeness is kryptonite for Democrats," Haidt wrote. "Most people hate it, other than the progressive activists. If you just look at Americans' policy preferences, Dems should be winning big majorities. But we have strong negative partisanship, and when people are faced with a party that seems to want to defund the police and rename schools, rather than open them, all while crime is rising and kids' welfare is falling, the left flank of the party is just so easy for Republicans to run against."
That belief is shared by Democratic strategist James Carville, who made perhaps an even bolder statement on how cancel culture will impact the party last month.
"Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it," he said. "It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud." Andrew Guttmann, a New York City parent who has been speaking out against schools' push for critical race theory, said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" on Wednesday that the cancel culture curriculum "is going to destroy our country" if it's not reversed. In a new piece for The Hill, he argued that the campaign for wokeness will only hurt the progressives spearheading it.
"There appears to be widespread belief that opposition to critical race theory is a view held solely by the political right," he wrote. "This perception is wrong. It is certainly true that the conservative media has almost exclusively embraced viewpoints unfavorable to critical race theory while the liberal-oriented media has been overwhelmingly approving. But our polarized media does not seem to accurately reflect the view of most Americans."
Cortney O'Brien is an Editor at Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @obrienc2.
"How can I pledge allegiance to the flag," he raps in the final verse. "When they killin' all our sons, all our dads?" But the meaning of woke evolved again with the rise of "cancel culture" -- as the two terms saw increased use, they became intertwined in the public consciousness. Often, someone gets canceled after they say something insensitive – something not woke. So an addition to meaning aware and progressive, many people now interpret woke to be a way to describe people who would rather silence their critics than listen to them. That’s entirely different than what the word meant when it first appeared in print.
That was in a 1962 New York Times article about beatniks and pop culture absorbing jazz music and African American slang from Harlem, Oxford revealed in a June 2017 article about new words heading into the dictionary. That article, written by the Black New York City novelist William Melvin Kelley was titled, "If you’re woke, you dig it" – meaning if you’re in the know, you understand.
As he noted at the time, a lot of jazz-era idioms became mainstream speech, and words like cool and hip. But the slang was already evolving in meaning back then. "At one time, the connotations of ‘jive’ were all good," Kelley wrote. "Now they are bad, or at least questionable." A decade later, in Barry Beckham’s "Garvey Lives!" play about the Black Nationalist leader and publisher Marcus Garvey, a character named Strong vows that he "won’t go to sleep" but instead will "stay woke." "I been sleeping all my life," he says. "And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake up other Black folk." Now it’s not so much a racial term as an ideological one.
Aug 5, 2021 16:24:33 #
Aug 5, 2021 16:40:48 #
WEBCO wrote:
It means a racist stupid bigot
Woke is much easier for Progressives to spell than "vacuous, chuckleheaded nitwit."
Aug 5, 2021 17:10:30 #
thebigp wrote:
The word was first printed in a 1962 New York Time... (show quote)
According to Mr Trump....woke means......you lose.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/donaldtrump-uswnt-soccer-olympics/2021/08/05/id/1031289/
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