Remember the Scrabble Story? Who is that Woke Generation that is being ridiculed?
"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights." - Wikipedia
One article says this: "Gen Z is also (arguably) one of the most “woke” generations since the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s. Many members are outspoken advocates of social injustice, and are interested in topics including racism, homophobia, misogyny, poverty and climate change."
But it didn't end there. It has evolved or maybe it has been hijacked. Mirriam Webster Dictionary says: "By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning."
Poor Gen Zers - from self aware to commie cult zombie. Woke, wokeness, woke culture, woke capitalism, woke washing. What about "woke mind virus?" It has its own acronym - WMV.
Now woke lives in the land of insult and has spread all over the planet. In New Zealand, one politician used the phrase "woke guilt industry" - doesn't this all get so complicated in the Global Village!
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