What about the word "Woke"? Like pivot, it seems to be everywhere.
Wikipedia says the phrase stay woke had emerged in African-American Vernacular English by the 1930s, referring to awareness of the social and political issues affecting African Americans.
The Black Lives Matter movement brought this expression into the foreground. It has since been seized by politicians. It seems now that its most frequent usage is as an accusation, as irony, a pejorative or a derogatory label. That's the position of the political right in how Republicans attack Democrats, centrist Democrats attack more liberal ones and supporters of the British monarchy use the term to criticize people more sympathetic to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
I wondered if there is a "woke List". Yes, there are lots of these - a 2019 Woke 100 list from Essence.com that shows people serving society. There's the Anti-woke list from the crisis magazine.com - this is a conservative Catholic website that is against these organizations. There are lots of Woke Lists - we like to create lists..
It has gotten around everywhere: Why are India's Young Going Woke? The Woke Chinese Community Party. In Germany there's Woke and Voke.
That means there must be Woke Jokes? I found the anti-woke jokes as this is the prevalent view these days. These come from Keeplaughingforever.com:
"A woke joke or more correctly an anti-woke joke is a joke that makes fun of how sensitive and overly politically correct society has become. Many people are keen to have anything that may be deemed slightly offensive to someone cancelled immediately and this has provided us with some hilarious jokes! Enjoy."
At the rate we are travelling, shampoo is going to be cancelled soon so that bald people do not get offended.
What do you call a woke droid from star wars? R2-Me2
An amazing new movie was released about a disabled seagull with a broken wing that learned to fly. Unfortunately the woke public ensured that it was immediately cancelled.
They were upset that a movie about a right wing extremist was in the public eye.
Here's one joke on the 'for-side' of Woke:
I was walking down the street and when I punched a white guy I was arrested for assault. The next day I got out, I punched a black guy and I was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
This California coast tree trunk image brought to mind the Honsberger Road tree. Tere are a lot of images of the Honsberger Road tree - and maybe worth doing a series.
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