Belin, Soisic (March 29, 2021). "Huit mots pour comprendre la génération Z"[Eight words to understand Generation Z]. Les Echos Start (in French). Companies aren’t always in the best position to price the true cost of their goods. He mentions negative externalities once in the book. Yet I don’t get the impression he agrees with pricing and taxing polluters. And there’s no way this guy doesn’t get that. He’s smart, well educated, and wrote well through this book. The decision not to engage with these ideas honestly and at their core is deliberate and in my opinion after reading, so willfully misconstruing of the points that it undermines the validity of the rest of his arguments. Tavoillot, Pierre-Henri, "Le wokisme ou le progressisme devenu fou", Administration, 2022/1 (N° 273), pp. 63–66. doi: 10.3917/admi.273.0063. Read Online King, Georgia Frances (January 7, 2017). "The American Dialect Society's word of the year is 'dumpster fire' ". Quartz.

Brooks, David (July 25, 2017). "Opinion | How Cool Works in America Today". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Quoted in Morgan (2020), p.277 Corporations use progressive sloganeering and diversity hires to deflect from their shitty behaviour.Songwriter Georgia Anne Muldrow, who composed "Master Teacher" in 2005, told Okayplayer news and culture editor Elijah Watson that while she was studying jazz at New York University, she learned the invocation Stay woke from Harlem alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, who used the expression in the meaning of trying to "stay woke" because of tiredness or boredom, "talking about how she was trying to stay up – like literally not pass out". In homage, Muldrow wrote stay woke in marker on a T-shirt, which over time became suggestive of engaging in the process of the search for herself (as distinct from, for example, merely personal productivity). [18] "#StayWoke" hashtag on a placard during a December 2015 protest in Minneapolis This usage was popularized by soul singer Erykah Badu's 2008 song " Master Teacher", [9] [13] via the song's refrain, "I stay woke". [14] Merriam-Webster defines the expression stay woke in Badu's song as meaning, "self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better"; and, although within the context of the song, it did not yet have a specific connection to justice issues, Merriam-Webster credits the phrase's use in the song with its later connection to these issues. [9] [17] Parker, Suzi (September 14, 2012). "Pussy Riot should continue their mission even if freed". The Washington Post.

Linguist and social critic John McWhorter argues that the history of woke is similar to that of politically correct, another term once used self-descriptively by the left which was appropriated by the right as an insult, in a process similar to the euphemism treadmill. [47] a b c d "Stay Woke: The new sense of 'woke' is gaining popularity". Words We're Watching. Merriam-Webster. n.d. By 2020, many on the political right and some in the center in several Western countries began using the term sarcastically as a pejorative for various leftist and progressive movements and ideologies. In turn, some commentators came to consider woke an offensive term that disparages persons who promote progressive ideas involving identity and race. Since then, derivative terms such as woke-washing and woke capitalism were coined to describe the conduct of persons or entities who signal support for progressive causes rather than working toward genuine change.Mosleh, Omar (January 31, 2023). "Alberta lawyers launch petition against mandatory course on Indigenous history". Toronto Star . Retrieved February 5, 2023. Such high stakes might seem unthinkable in the UK, where censorship technically ended with the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s role as theatre censor in 1968. “Banning for swearwords – as in the Maus case – is a peculiarly US thing, as is banning books for sex, like Judy Blume’s Forever was from some US state libraries for a long time,” says Julia Eccleshare, the director of the Hay children’s festival. “There are two reasons for that. One, the US still has a very active children’s library service, so a collective of easy-to-rouse gatekeepers. Two, the religious right remains very powerful, so fundamentalist Bible teaching is still brought into arguments.” Arya, Shishir (October 25, 2023). "Cultural Marxists, 'Woke People' Spoiling India's Ethos: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat". The Times of India . Retrieved October 25, 2023.

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Rose, Steve (January 21, 2020). "How the word 'woke' was weaponised by the right". The Guardian . Retrieved October 21, 2022. In this pejorative sense, woke means "following an intolerant and moralising ideology". [19] United States [ edit ] Texas sensitivities about The Handmaid’s Tale are not new for Atwood, who directs me to an open letter she wrote in 2006 to a school authority after learning that it had decided to remove the novel because of sexual explicitness and offence to Christians (a decision that was overturned after impassioned representations from students). “First,” she wrote, “the remark: ‘Offensive to Christians’ amazes me. Nowhere in the book is the regime identified as Christian. As for sexual explicitness, The Handmaid’s Tale is a lot less interested in sex than is much of the Bible.” Here’s what Ramaswamy is doing with this book: he’s taking an age-old phenomenon, tokenism, and rebranding as a new left-wing authoritarian Orwellian nightmare and repurposing that as wokeism. Both companies and public entities use the politics of inclusion and tokenism to gain popular support and then go and do whatever they want. We all know this. But Ramaswamy is trying to act like it’s a new left wing phenomenon that is subverting democracy. The point he’s missing is that it is big business, monopolization and state-corporate collusion by any social and political means that is destroying democracy. It’s not just “the woke industrial complex”. By compartmentalizing it as a left-wing phenomenon, he has HUGE blinders on that become evident as the book goes on with mountains of confirmation bias. Trudon, Taylor (January 5, 2016). "Say Goodbye To 'On Fleek,' 'Basic' And 'Squad' In 2016 And Learn These 10 Words Instead". MTV News.