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Needed: A New Word For "Wokeness"

"Woke" doesn't get close to telling the full story

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Ben Domenech
Mar 15, 2023
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On the language challenge of the culture war:

As use of “woke” exploded, its effectiveness as a descriptor diminished. Once the word served as a substitute for a particular form of political correctness, particularly with a focus on racial reckoning. Now, as author Chad Felix Greene has suggested, the word effectively means “Whatever the left currently t…

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