Kady M.
1 min readAug 22, 2021

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"You do know what “woke” means, right? Woke (adj) - alert to injustice in society, especially racism"

That may be how the term started, but it's certainly not what it is today.

Virtually everyone in the USA, other than a few aging folks in Southern nursing homes and a few well documented misfit groups with hundreds (not thousands) of members who get more run in the press than they deserve, are opposed to racism. Its impossible to find a social survey that doesn't show racism in the US declining precipitously since the 1970's.

So, by your definition, about 90% of the US is "woke".

But you'd reject that documentable fact, because the vast majority of those opposed to racism in this country are *NOT* control freaks who are willing to use social pressure to force people into compliance.

Which brings us to the practical definition of "woke" as we find it used today:

a person who is anti-discriminatory in their beliefs, but rigid in the way they believe anti-discrimination should manifest itself in society, and willing to discriminate against even those who agree with them in order to force compliance to a set of social behaviors that they have unilaterally and without debate declared to be preferable.

If you think history is going to treat this "woke" phenomenon with anything other than derisive laughter 20 years hence, you'll be sorely disappointed.

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Kady M.
Kady M.

Written by Kady M.

Free markets/free minds. Question all narratives. If you think one political party is perfect and the other party is evil, the problem with our politics is you.

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