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!
There's nothing like wonderful blue skies, artistic clouds and a blossoming orchard.
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.
